36. Q. What three names are eminent in the literature of Arctic travel? A. Elisha Kent Kane, Charles F. Hall, and Isaac I. Hayes.
37. Q. Who was the first writer of American fiction whose works were extensively read? A. James Fenimore Cooper.
38. Q. What American author has James Russell Lowell called the greatest imaginative writer since Shakspere? A. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
39. Q. What work has had the greatest success of any American book? A. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” a novel directed against slavery. Between five and six hundred thousand copies have been sold in this country alone, and it has been forty times translated.
40. Q. Who is the most distinguished of American essayists? A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
41. Q. Give the chief among standard editions of Shakspere that have been edited in this country. A. Those of Richard Grant White and Horace Howard Furness.
42. Q. Who are the authors of three notable histories of the late civil war? A. Horace Greeley, Alexander H. Stephens, and Dr. John W. Draper.
43. Q. What recent American author attained eminence as a writer of travels, of novels, and as a poet? A. Bayard Taylor.
44. Q. What two poets are the chief American kindred of the English pre-Raphaelites? A. Walt Whitman and Joaquin Miller; but their kinship is one of nature and not of imitation.
45. Q. Who was the originator of a popular dialect poetry of the time, which has found a troop of imitators? A. John Hay.
46. Q. What author has found a special field in novels of pioneer life in the uncivilized outposts of Western civilization? A. Edward Eggleston.
47. Q. Who is called the best of American writers of juveniles? A. Louisa May Alcott.
48. Q. Give the names of three prominent humorists. A. Charles Farrar Browne, Henry W. Shaw, and David R. Locke.
49. Q. What American writer has devoted the greater part of his literary life to the production of biographies? A. James Parton.
50. Q. Who has enjoyed the acquaintance of more English and American authors than any other of our writers? A. James T. Fields.
Ten years ago the First Assembly offered to the world the Chautauqua Idea. It promised an almost ideal summer life, where health and thought and brotherly love should abound. Ten years have passed, and now the question is, has the scheme been carried out? Is the Assembly a practical idea, and is it a permanency? The answers are most decided. The original plan has not only been put into practice, but, when enlarged an hundred fold, has been proven practicable. Is it a permanency may be a harder question, but the tenth Assembly has, we believe, in many ways proven it so. First, the character and growth of all departments of Chautauqua work show them to be needed institutions, and necessary institutions, as a rule, become permanent. The steady, healthy growth of the different branches of work shows how enduring is the Idea; the Normal department increased its alumni this year to over 1,200; its plans for future work are much more elaborate than ever before, its course of study much superior. The annual report from the School of Languages shows a steady increase. Over two hundred full tickets were sold in the school this year, and twenty-six different states were represented.