QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY.
By ALBERT M. MARTIN, General Secretary C. L. S. C.
1. What is the origin of the expression, “Possession is nine points in the law?” [Page 124, Wilkinson’s Preparatory Greek Course in English.]
2. What was the preying sadness that Cowper sought to escape from by the work of translating Homer? [Page 130.]
3. Where is the original to be found of the quotation, “From the center to the utmost pole?” [Page 135.]
4. Who was “Macedonia’s Madman,” and why so called?
5. Give some of the features of the Cathedral of Cologne that render it famous? [Page 159.]
6. With whom did the expression originate, “Perish the thought?” [Page 163.]
7. In what particulars are the lines of Pope, “false and contradictory,” in his paraphrase of the moonlight scene, given in the closing part of the eighth book of the Iliad? [Page 185.]
8. When and on what occasion was Webster’s famous seventh of March speech delivered? [Page 193.]