| KEY | |
| 1. Severe. | Sterne. |
| 2. Strong. | Hardy. |
| 3. Sombre. | Black. |
| 4. Jeweler. | Goldsmith. |
| 5. Crossing-place. | Ford. |
| 6. Rapid. | Swift. |
Contest No. 6
The answers to these questions are the names of authors
| KEY | |
| 1. When we leave here we go to our what? | Holmes. |
| 2. What dies only with life? | Hope. |
| 3. What does a maiden's heart crave? | Lover. |
| 4. What does an angry person often raise? | Caine. |
| 5. What should all literary people do? | Reade. |
| 6. If a young man would win what should he do? | Sue. |
Contest No. 7
Give the name of—
| KEY | |
| The most cheerful author. | Samuel Smiles. |
| The noisiest author. | Howells. |
| The tallest author. | Longfellow. |
| The most flowery author. | Hawthorne. |
| The holiest author. | Pope. |
| The happiest author. | Gay. |
| The most amusing author. | Thomas Tickell. |
| The most fiery author. | Burns. |
| The most talkative author. | Chatterton. |
| The most distressed author. | Akenside. |
Again, the hostess may prepare a certain number of blank cards, with the heading on each one "Who and What?" On a second lot of cards she can have pasted the pictures of some noted writers—Thackeray, Dickens, Scott, Dumas, Balzac, Tolstoi, Browning, George Eliot, Carlyle, Longfellow, Cooper, Emerson, Bryant, Holmes. The pictures of more recent writers will answer her purpose just as well. These pictures can be obtained from illustrated catalogues of books. Of these cards there should be as many as there are guests if the company be a small one, or as many cards as the hostess may desire; a dozen is a very good number.
Supply each guest with one of the blank cards and a pencil and then start into circulation the cards on which are pasted the pictures of the authors. Let the guests pass the cards from one to another, and write down, according to the number on the picture-card, and opposite the corresponding number on their own, the name of each author and some book he has written. This will be found a more difficult task than one imagines, and numerous guesses will doubtless go wide of the mark. The one whose card is filled out correctly, or the nearest to it, may be presented with a copy of some late popular book, and a toy book might be used as a booby prize.