AUTHORS' GUESSING GAME

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  1. When we leave here we go to seek our what? (Author of "Elsie Venner.")
  2. What dies only with life? (Author of "Phroso.")
  3. What does a maid's heart crave? (Author of "Handy Andy.")
  4. What does an angry person often raise? (Author of "The Christian.")
  5. What should all literary people do? (Author of "Put Yourself in His Place.")
  6. If a young man would win, what must he do? (Author of "Wandering Jew.")
  7. How do we dislike to grow? (Authors of "Silence of Dean Maitland" and "Dawn.")
  8. What would we prefer to be? (Authors of "Book of Golden Deeds," "Man Without a Country," and "Under the Greenwood Tree.")
  9. What is a suitable adjective for the national library building? (Author of "The Heavenly Twins.")
  10. What would we consider the person who answers correctly all these questions? (Author of "From Post to Finish.")

The answers to the above questions are:

  1. Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Homes.)
  2. Anthony Hope. (Hope.)
  3. Samuel Lover. (Lover.)
  4. Hall Caine. (Cain.)
  5. Charles Reade. (Read.)
  6. Eugene Sue. (Sue.)
  7. Maxwell Grey and Rider Haggard. (Gray and haggard.)
  8. Charlotte Yonge, E. E. Hale, Thomas Hardy. (Young, hale and hardy.)
  9. Sarah Grande. (Grand.)
  10. Hawley Smart. (Smart.)

Give the most successful contestant a nicely bound copy of the latest popular book, and the least successful one a gaily colored copy of a child's primer, or a gaudy poster picture.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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