LITERATURE 



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Camillo warns Polixenes, and flees with him to Bohemia. 



Leontes casts his queen. Hermi'one. into prison, where 



she gives birth to a daughter. Hermione is reported 



dead and the child is brought up by a shepherd, who 



calls it Perdita. Florizel sees Pcrdita and falls in love 



with her; but Polixenes, his father, tells her that she 



and the shepherd shall be put to death if she encourages 



the suit. Klorizel and Perdita flee to Sicily, and being 



.. ed to Leontes, it is soon discovered that Perdita 



i* his lost daughter. Polixenes tracks his son to Sicily, 



:i.sents to the union. The party are invited to 



a statue of Hermione, and the statife turns out 



to be the living queen. 



\Vorldl\-\\ i- man. M r. One of the characters in 

 Him van 's 'Pilgrim's Progress," who converses with 

 in by the way, and endeavors to deter him from 

 ding on his journey. 



\\iiNi.iirn. Kueene. Our Mutual Friend, 



lick.-ns. Barrister-at-law; an indolent, moody, whim- 



;im man, who loves Lizzie Hexam. After he is 



killed by Bradley Headstone, he reforms, and 



Lizzie, who saved his life. 



\ .1 hoo. A name given by Swift, in his satirical ro- 



f "(Julliver's Travels, ' to one of a race of brutes 



having the form and all the vices of man. The Yahoos 



resented as being subject to the Houyhnhnms, or 



horses endowed with reason. 



\.iiiin\iiiii. A romantic poem having for its hero 

 Philip, the celebrated Sachem of the Pequod Indians. 

 iior. Sands, published the poem between the 

 1S17 and 1819. 



\.irpe. The Gray Horse Troop, Hamlln Gar- 

 land. The resolute leader of the cowboy gang that 

 >k to drive the Tetongs from their reservation 

 he far West. The real hero of the story, Cap- 

 tain Curtis, is in charge, and his rational management 

 of the Indians, his fight against the political ring that 

 defraud his wards, and his C9urageous handling 

 of a serious crisis show him to be a different power from 

 that these cowboys generally met, when they shot up 

 towns and raced the Tetongs across the hills, making of 

 themselves a lynching party on federal territory. United 

 States soldiers appear on the scene and Yarpe and his 



part. 



feast. \ romance by Charles Kingsley, was the 

 outcome of his interest in the Chartist Ri9ts of that year, 

 and gives some of the most powerful delineations of the 

 sufferings of the poor which are to be found in English 

 literature. 



^< masse. An historical tale founded on personal 



knowledge of the American Indian character. Written 



in the first half of the Nineteenth Century by Simms. 



of whotn it has been said, "He has done for the historical 



is of the Carolinas what Cooper did for those of 



rth and West. 



\- >. \\i--i\\ard Ho! ('has. Klnnsley. A 



character in the novel prominent as a bold manner, a 



nl. a ,<-rnble foe. He was all his life a sailor, 



and made voyages to New Guinea for negro slaves which 



were sold in the West Indies. He joined in the search 



for hbolOtti wealth in New Spain, crossed the I.-thnn:- 



ia. was pursued and wandered in the woods of 



imUH for .some months. "Westward Ho!" is ail 



I novel, relating to Kli/al.ethan Kmrli-h history. 



1) The Kim; of Denmark's jester, men- 



Shakespere's " Hamlet " Hamlet pi< ks up his 



BkaD m the churchyard and apostrophizes it. (2) A 



humorous and careless parson in Sterne's "Tristram 



>h may " 



till.- < lou. The Yule clog is a great log of wood, 



'8 the root of a tree, l.roimht into the I,, 

 great ceremony "ii ' i.d in the tirej.lai .-. 



and lighted with the I, ran. I of last year's clog While 

 t lasted, there was great drinking, singing, and tellmr 

 of tale*. Sometimes it was accompanied by < 'Im-im.-i- 

 randies, but in the cottne> the .,.,lv Imht w : a- fro,,, the 

 ru.l.lv Ma/.e of the K n-:it 



lo bora all iiiK'ht ; if it went out. it w a* ron-.dered a sign 

 ->f ill ln.-k 



/in" in. i of a novel so called l>\ I <>n! 

 posed to possess the power ..f .m 

 K wifi prolonging life, and producing gold. 



l>la. Itliilie.!..),. Koni. ,.,-. Hautliorne. \ 



N. led uonian. beautiful and intelligent, who 



rested m plaving out the pastoral of the life at 



preeejnted as disappointed m 



md at last 



/' plion. A "MroiiK nil tulitle -pint" in Milton'* 



with Ithunel 



' -el. In Milton's "Paradise Lost," an angelic 

 scout 



FAMOUS POEMS, AUTHOR, AND 

 FIRST LINE 



Abou Ben Adhen Leigh Hunt. 



" Abou Ben Adhen, may his tribe increase. 

 Address to Light John Milton. 



".Hail, holy light, offspring of Heaven, first- 

 born." 

 Address to a Mummy . . . . Horace Smith. 



"And thou hast walked about (how strange a 



story)." 

 Adonais Percy Bytthe Shelley. 



" I weep for Adonais he is dead I r> 

 Advice of Polonius to Laertes, . . William Shaketpere. 



"Give thy thoughts no tongue." 

 After the Curfew Oliver Wendell Holme*. 



"The play is over. While the light." 

 Afton Water Robert Burnt. 



"Flow gently, sweet Afton, among the green 



braes." 

 Alexander's Feast John Dryden. 



"Twas at the royal feast for Persia won." 

 Alexander Selkirk Wm. Cowper. 



"I'm monarch of all I survey." 

 Alfred Harper John Sterling. 



" Dark was the night, the watch was set." 

 Answer to Passionate Shepherd. . . Sir Walter Raleigh. 



"If all the world and love were young." 

 Angelus, Bret Harte. 



" Bells of the past, whose long-forgotten music." 

 American Flag Joteph Rodman Drake. 



"When Freedom from her mountain height." 

 Annabel Lee Edgar Allen Pot. 



"It was many and many a year ago." 

 Apostrophe to the Ocean Lord Byron. 



' 'There is a pleasure in the pathless wood." 

 Ariel's Song William Shaketpen. 



"Come unto these yellow sands." 

 At Forty-five Robert J. Burdette. 



" Halt! cry the bugles down the columns' length." 

 A Thing of Beauty John Keatt. 



" A thing of beauty is a joy forever." 

 Auf Wiedersehen Jam f Ruttell Lowell. 



"The little gate was reached at last." 

 Auld Lang Syne Robert Burnt. 



"Should auld acquaintance be forgot." 

 Baby. The Gtoroe Macdonald. 



" Where did you come from, baby dear?" 

 Baby Bye Theodore Tilton. 



" Baby Bye, here's a fly." 

 Ballad of Baby Hell T. B. Aldrich. 



" Have you heard the poets tell." 

 Ballad of the Tempest Jamtt T. r M U. 



"We were crowded in the cabin." 



Baiinockhurn Robert Burnt. 



-. wha hae wi* Wallace bled." 

 Barbara Fritrhie John C. Whittur. 



"Up from the meadows rich with 

 Harrf.x.t Hoy John G. Whittvr. 



"Blessings on thec. little man." 

 Battle Hynm of the Republic, . . . Julia Ward How. 



ave seen the glory of the coming of 

 the Lord." 



Blenheim Robt. South**. 



"It wan a Rummer'* evening, old Casper's work 



Auld Hob in Cray. . . Istdv Ann* Lindtu*. 



. P are . the fauld. and the kye 

 MM haoM 



Hattle of \um.oiirt. . . 



"Fair stood the u..i f.. r 1 



M. .>.,-.,: DM* 



Beggar. I . . Jamtt RutttU LowtU. 



"A beggar through the world am I." 

 I'.elN. The. . Kdoar Allen Poe. 



i r the sledges with the belU." 

 Brlnhniuir. . Barry Cornwall. 



i//ar ix king, HeMmnar is lord." 

 !'..- !'..' Thot. Dunn Engtith. 



"O. don't you remember i>" : >en Bolt?" 



Bingen on th< . Caroline Korton. 



"A soldier of the legion lay dying in Algiers." 



