about the 9th century B. C: Seven cities contended for the honor of being his birth-place; among these were, Athens, Chios, Colophon, and Smyrna.

PHARAOH was the name of an Egyptian dynasty of kings, and was applied to all the rulers of that country before the Persian conquest.

DIDO, the reputed founder of Carthage, was a Phoenician princess.

SOLOMON, King of Israel, came to the throne about 1015 B. C., and has been ever since famous for his wisdom.

ROMULUS AND REMUS were the legendary founders of Rome. According to the story, they were for a time nourished by a wolf; but afterwards, becoming known as royal princes, they founded Rome.

CAMBYSES was a Persian king who conquered Egypt in the year 525 B. C. He destroyed many of the sacred monuments of the country and slew the god Apis, which was a bull worshiped by the Egyptians.

OSIRIS, ISIS, AND ORUS, were Egyptian deities. Osiris was represented as the husband of Isis and father of Orus.

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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE is pleasantly situated in Hanover, a post-village of New Hampshire, about 55 miles N. W. of Concord. It was founded in the year 1769, and received its name from William, Earl of Dartmouth. Some of our most eminent statesmen, among whom may be mentioned Daniel Webster, received their education at this college.

PINDUS is the name of a mountain chain of ancient Greece and of modern European Turkey.

ARAXES is a river of Armenia.

OLYMPUS is a mountain range of Thessaly, on the border of Macedonia. Homer and other poets have made the summit of this mountain famous as the abode of the gods.

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ROBINSON CRUSOE, the hero of De Foe's great novel, is a ship-wrecked sailor, who for many years leads a solitary life on an uninhabited island. The personal adventures of Alexander Selkirk, a ship-wrecked sailor, are supposed to have suggested the story.

DANIEL DE FOE, an English novelist and political writer, was born in London in 1661, and died in the same city in 1731. He was a very prolific and somewhat acrimonious writer. His

most noted work is Robinson Crusoe. It is a favorite with old and young, learned and unlearned. The characteristic of his novels is the air of reality which he gives to them. His style is simple and homely.

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EMILY C. JUDSON (Emily Chubbuck), third wife of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, was born in 1817, and died in 1854. Her early opportunities for culture were limited, but her progress was great. She became a teacher at the age of 14, and taught till she was 23, writing in the meantime for newspapers. She began her career as an author by writing Sabbath-school books, but soon, under the assumed name of Fanny Forrester, became a regular contributor to several magazines. In the year 1846 she became the wife of Dr. Judson, the missionary, and accompanied him to Burmah, where she remained till his death, and then returned to America. In Burmah she wrote some of her best poems, and also the memoir of Mrs. Sarah B. Judson. On her return to America she assisted Dr. Wayland in preparing the life of Dr. Judson. Her magazine articles were published, under the title of Alderbrook, before she left America.

AMHERST is a seaport town of the British territory in Farther India, founded in the year 1826.

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MOUNT CARMEL is a famous mountain of Palestine.

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GAIL HAMILTON is the assumed name of Miss Abigail Dodge, of Hamilton, Mass. She is a racy and instructive writer, whose productions have been largely published in the Atlantic Monthly, and also in separate volumes.

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T. B. ALDRICH is an American poet, and is the author of several pieces of much beauty.

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NATCHEZ is the name of a tribe of Indians, who once dwelt in the western part of the State of Mississippi. Each of their villages had a temple containing an altar upon which burned a perpetual fire. Near this temple lived the chief, who was supposed to be a descendant of the sun; and around it were the

cabins of the people, over whom he ruled with almost absolute authority. They were exterminated, about the year 1730, by the French and the Choctaw Indians.

T. B. THORPE, an American author and artist, was born in Massachusetts in 1815. Among his pictures is a full-length portrait of General Zachary Taylor, under whom he saw much of military life; also Niagara As It Is, in which, for the first time, the three falls were represented in one view on canvas. The lastnamed picture was exhibited in 1860. In 1853 he became a frequent contributor to Harper's New Monthly Magazine.

BABEL was a tower, said, in Scripture History, to have been commenced by the immediate descendants of Noah soon after the flood. The enterprise was arrested by a divine interference which confused the speech of the workmen. Babel is supposed to have been situated near the Euphrates River.

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THOMAS CAMPBELL, a British poet, was born in 1777, and died in 1844. The Pleasures of Hope, his first long poem, was published in his twenty-second year, and enjoyed a popularity unparalleled, perhaps, by a first effort. His poetry is characterized by a melodious and polished diction, and is full of humane and generous sentiment. He spent some time in traveling on the Continent, and witnessed the battle of Hohenlinden, which was fought in 1800, between the French and the Austrians, the former under Moreau, and the latter under the Archduke John.

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HANNAH MORE, an English author, was born in 1745, and died in 1843. In early life she wrote dramas for the stage, but her later writings are generally of a more serious character. Among them is a volume of Sacred Dramas. Cœlebs in Search of a Wife is her most popular work, ten editions of which were issued in one year.

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SCHILLER, a German poet, dramatist, and historian, was born in 1759, and died in 1805. He was a man of genius and indomitable industry. His compositions were mostly written for the stage, but his ballads and lyric poems are also of a high order. His most elaborate drama is entitled Wallenstein, though his last, called William Tell, is the most popular. Schiller shortened his life by excessive labor.

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CORNELIUS C. FELTON, an American author, and President of Harvard College, was born in 1807, and died in 1862. He was eminent for his attainments in the Greek language, and in the history of the Greek people. For many years he was Eliot Professor of the Greek language and literature in Harvard College, and he was the author of many works bearing upon that subject. He was held in high repute as a man, and filled many honorable positions. At the time of his death he was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, and one of the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

LEONIDAS, king of Sparta, was killed at the battle of Thermopyla, 480 B. C. When Athens and Sparta, alone of all the Greek confederacy, resolved to resist the invasion of Xerxes, Leonidas led the Spartan forces, and gained immortal glory, especially by the death of himself and a small number of his men, who, in a narrow pass, resisted the entire Persian army.

JUPITER, in the Roman mythology, was the king of the gods. He is said to have been armed with thunder and lightning, and at the shaking of his shield the tempest raged, and the rain and the hail descended.

PARNASSUS is a famous mountain of Greece. Its sides are well wooded and abound in caverns and picturesque ravines. It was celebrated in antiquity for its sacred character. Delphi, at its foot, was the seat of the famous oracle of Apollo. The muses had their haunts on its top.

ETA is the name of a mountain range of Greece. It extends westward from Thermopyla.

EUBA is the largest island of the kingdom of Greece. It is situated along the northern coast of Thebes and Attica. It is now called Negropont.

THERMOPYLÆ is the name of a famous pass in Greece. The pass is about five miles long and is hemmed in on one side by precipitous rock of from 400 to 600 feet in height, and on the other side by the sea and an impassable morass. It is here that Leonidas and his Spartans died in defending Greece against the invasion of Xerxes.

ISMENUS was a river of Boeotia in Greece.

HELICON is the name of a beautiful and fertile mountain near the gulf of Corinth in Greece. It was the favorite abode of the

muses.

AGANIPPE was a fountain, near Mount Helicon, whose waters

were believed to endow those who drank of them with poetic inspiration.

PITTACUS, one of the seven wise men of Greece, was born in Mytilene, about 652 B. C. It is said that at one time when the Mytileneans were engaged in a war with the Athenians, Pittacus slew the leader of the enemy, and that great rewards were therefore offered to him, but that he would take only as much land as he could throw his javelin over.

MITYLENE, or MYTILENE, is an island of the Grecian archipelago, belonging to Turkey.

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ABRAHAM was the ancestor of the Hebrew nation, and was eminent for his faith in God and his trust in the divine promises, and also for his obedience to the divine commands. See an account of him in the book of Genesis, from the 11th chapter to the 23d inclusive.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, a celebrated American philosopher and statesman, was born in Boston in 1706, and died in Philadelphia in 1790. He is famous for having proved the identity of electricity and lightning; for the important services he rendered the Americans in the war of Independence, by his negotiations in their behalf with the' French government, and by other civil services; and for the numerous maxims, useful and practical, which he published under the assumed name of Richard Saunders, or Poor Richard. Dr. Franklin stands at the head of the practical philosophers of modern time. His native city, Boston, has erected, near the City Hall, a bronze statue to his memory.

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SPRINGFIELD, a city of Massachusetts, is situated on the east bank of the Connecticut river. It is one of the handsomest and most flourishing inland towns in the State. The United States Arsenal, established at Springfield in 1795, is the most extensive in the Union. The arsenal furnishes employment to about 2,800 men, who make about 1,000 muskets per day.

CAIN was the oldest son of Adam and Eve. He killed his brother Abel, and, as a punishment, was condemned to be a fugitive and vagabond on the earth. See an account of him in the book of Genesis, 4th chapter. He is alluded to here because he was the first murderer.

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, an American poet, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1807. From 1835 to 1854, he was professor of modern languages and belles-lettres in Harvard College. Since