Questions and Answers.
The Priscilla Chapter can procure a copy of the handsome book we mentioned recently by applying to L. G. Price, 547 Union Street, Hudson, N. Y. The price is twenty-five cents, and four cents for postage. It is the record of a successful Chapter, neatly cloth bound, and a pretty souvenir for your library.—Harry C. Farrer, 559 Sixty-ninth Street, Englewood, Chicago, Ill., wants correspondents in foreign countries. He can get information of the Daughters of the Revolution by writing to the secretary, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York. There is no active Chapter near your Englewood home. You might form one perhaps.—C. B. Yardley, Jun., 332 William Street, East Orange, N. J., is much interested in boats, both small and large, and he wants to hear from you if you have the same fancy. He goes every summer to a New Hampshire lake, where he owns a sail and a row boat. He asks where he can see models of boats. Since he lives near New York, we think the best available collection is in the rooms of the New York Yacht Club, 71 Madison Avenue. If you write in advance for permission, we are quite sure you will be permitted to inspect these models as carefully as you may desire.
Three or four readers have lately asked questions directly in the line of what follows. That such jingles help one to remember facts is unquestioned. Still, if one can do so, it is better to remember the facts without the rhyme. Marion H. Cooke, who finds the lines in a newspaper, sends them to the Table just at a time when several readers are asking for them. The first one is:
A List or Presidents.
Come, young folks all, and learn my rhyme,
Writ like the one of olden time.
For linked together name to name,
The whole a surer place will claim;
And firmly in your mind shall stand
The names of those who've ruled our land.
A noble list: George Washington,
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison and James Monroe,
John Quincy Adams—and below
Comes Andrew Jackson in his turn;
Martin Van Buren next we learn;
Then William Henry Harrison,
Whom soon John Tyler followed on.
And after Tyler, James K. Polk,
Then Zachary Taylor ruled the folk
Till death. Then Millard Fillmore came;
And Franklin Pierce we next must name.
And James Buchanan then appears;
Then Abraham Lincoln through those years
Of war. And when his life was lost,
'Twas Andrew Johnson filled his post.
Then U. S. Grant and R. B. Hayes
And James A. Garfield each had place,
And Chester Arthur, and my rhyme
Ends now in Grover Cleveland's time.
And the other:
The Rulers of England.
First William the Norman, then William his son,
Henry, Stephen, and Henry, then Richard and John;
After Henry the third, Edwards one, two, and three,
After Richard the second, three Henrys we see.
Fourth Edward precedes the third Richard, then press
Two Henrys, Sixth Edward, Queen Mary, Queen Bess;
Then Jamie from Scotland and Charles must be reckoned,
Succeeded by Cromwell and then Charles the Second;
Then we had James, who relinquished the throne
To William and Mary, then William alone,
Till Anne, the Four Georges, Fourth William had passed;
Victoria now reigns—may she long be the last!
To Ames Ulmer.—The latest record at hand is December, 1895. On that date the President of Switzerland was Joseph Zemp. The official residence is at Berne.—F. S. Davis: Order Si Klegg and His Pard from any bookseller. If you have none, write to The Baker and Taylor Company, New York.—Janey Crowe, 13 Birch Crescent, Rochester, N. Y., plies us with a sheet full of questions, which we are glad to answer as fully as we are able: 1. Elvirton Wright is the author of Majoribanks, and, we presume, also of the book you mention. Write to the Congregational Publishing House, Boston, for fuller information. 2. The other author whom you name has written many books. L. F. Meade was her former name. Now it is Mrs. E. T. T. Smith. Her publishers are Lippincotts, Cassells, and half a dozen others. 3. Some information is wanted about these authors—where they live, and some interesting facts in their lives. Can any readers supply us with morsels containing such information? 4. There are to be Round Table prizes this year for puzzles, stories, and amateur photographs. The puzzle prizes are to be $40 each, and there are to be five contests. The story prizes are worth $75 for the first, $50 for the second, and $25 for the third, and the photograph prizes amount in all to $125. Full particulars with conditions will be announced very soon. 5. No Round Table reunion has been planned.