7. What favor does she ask?

8. How does she contemplate the wrecks that lie at the bottom

of the sea?

9. What is her final prayer?

FROM THE SERMON ON AUTUMN.

REV. ARCHIBALD ALISON.

1. How is evening described?

2. Why do the thoughtless fly from this hour?
3. Why has it in all ages been loved by the wise?
4. What is its first impression?

5. How does it do this?

6. What follows this first impression?

7. What causes this feeling of loneliness?

8. For what does this hour seem to have been fitted by him who made us?

9. What further scene is presented as the evening shades darken

upon our dwellings ?

10. What do the heavens thus open up to our eyes?

II. While our hearts thus follow up the splendors of the scene, what do we for a time forget?

12. What are we made to feel?

13. Describe the eventide of the year.

14. What is said in general of this season?

15. What are the writer's feelings concerning this scene?

16. What changes do we note as we go out into the field?

17. What effect does this apparent desolation of nature have upon our feelings?

18. What suggestions does it afford concerning our own condition? 19. How do we rise from such meditations?

20. How are we then prepared to look upon life?

21. What evidence do we find in ourselves that our hearts have

been made better, and especially more forgiving?

THE FLOOD OF YEARS.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

1. How does the Flood of Years originate ? 2. What do its winds bear before them?

3. Where, and where alone, does life exist?

4. What tosses and foams on the foremost edge of the flood, filling the air with mingled noises ?

5. Who are seen on this foaming crest?
6. Enumerate some who are found there?
7. What is their almost immediate fate?

8. Describe the groups of revelers.

9. What warlike sounds and scenes are presented?

10. What is the fate of the combatants?

11. What is said of the funeral train, and of those who gather by the bed of the dying?

12. What becomes of the loud-voiced orator and the multitude

who applaud him?

13. What view is given of a company kneeling in prayer?

14. How are the sculptor, the painter, and the poet brought upon the scene?

15. When and how are they swept away ?

16. Portray the scene of the mother and her babe.

17. Describe that of the two lovers. That of the white-haired

man.

18. As the flood grows wider, what effect has it upon the proud works of man?

19. What is presented to the poet as he turns his eyes backward?

20. What wrecks of former greatness does he behold upon this silent ocean of the past?

21. Of what can he see dim glimmerings in the depths of the sleeping waters ?

22. What does he see floating upon the surface of the silent sea?

23. What does he behold in every one of these?

24. What sad thought is suggested to him?

25. As he looks before, to where the flood must pass, what does

he see?

26. What changes does he observe in this fair brood of Hope? 27. To what hateful forms do they often give place?

28. Further on, what seems to bar the way?

29. Between what states is this the boundary?

30. According to what the wise and good have said, how do the years roll on beyond that dismal barrier?

31. What do they gather up and bear softly?

32. Where does the tide bear them?

33. How is the river described, now that it is presenting scenes of joy rather than grief?

34. Describe some of these scenes?

35. Describe the glorious present that shall succeed the griefshadowed one of earthly toil and sorrow.

CHAPTER NINE.

Miscellaneous.

TRAVELS IN PALESTINE.

BAYARD TAYLOR.

I. How does the road lead out of Beirut, the one that runs southward along the coast ?

2. How does the writer describe the morning on which he started out on this route?

3. Give the author's description of the country which he passed through after leaving the mulberry orchards behind?

4. What was pointed out on the heights, just before the party crossed the little river Damoor?

5. What did they cross during the afternoon ? 6. What place did they reach toward evening? 7. Where is the town built?

8. How does the writer describe the town?

9. How does he describe this first night under his tent pitched

on the grass?

10. What peculiar feature had the meadows and the fields of barley which they passed the next morning?

11. What indications of ancient power and prosperity were continually met with ?

12. What does he say of the soil and the crops?

13. What two charming pictures did he notice during the day ? 14. What partly accounts for the wealth of ancient Tyre? 15. Describe the approach to the ruins of that once proud city. 16. What kind of picture does the present town present?

17. How did the breakers sound?

18. What evidences did he see of the fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy?

19. How does he describe the sea which they beheld on setting out the next morning?

20. What did the beating waves seem to be saying?

21. Describe the country into which they soon entered.

22. Describe the Ladder of Tyre, and the mountain spur which it ascends.

THE WORLD WAS MADE WITH A BENEVOLENT DESIGN.

DR. PALEY.

1. How does Dr. Paley show that this is rather a happy world after all?

2. How does he look upon a bee among the flowers in spring? 3. Of what is it only a specimen ?

4.

What does he think about the whole winged insect tribe ?

5. What evidences of happiness does he note among very small

insects ?

6. How do the shoals of little fishes appear to him?

7.

What evidences does he see of their happiness?

8. What remarkable appearance has he observed in walking by the seaside on a calm evening?

9. What did this cloud turn out to be?

10. What conclusions does he draw concerning the sum of happiness enjoyed by such a vast number of creatures ?

11. What other evidences does he find of the happiness of young animals, and especially of children?

QUACK ADVERTISEMENTS.

SIR RICHARD STEele.

1. What gives Steele much despair in his design of reforming

the world?

2. What ought every man to know?

3. What enables these impostors to go on with their work?

5. Who are especially successful in deceiving ignorant people, both those of quality and those of a lower order?

6. How do both classes pay dearly for their foolish admiration? 7. What specimen does he give of ridiculous advertisements? 8. In what does the art of managing mankind seem to consist? 9. What example does he give of the magical influence of an occasional foreign word?

SECURITY OF OUR BEST BLESSINGS.

BOLINGBROKE.

1. How have those things which are of the greatest value to us been made secure, so that no one can have the power to withhold them from us?

2. What are among the most important of these?

3. Why can we not find ourselves absolute strangers anywhere? 4. What will be the same to us, no matter where we go?

THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD

E. B. BROWNING.

1. Paraphrase the poem, and write such inferences as it suggests

to you.

ON REVENGE.

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.

1. Why will a wise man make haste to forgive?

2. What may be said of him who willingly suffers the corrosions of hatred, or gives up his days and nights to the gloom and malice of stratagem?