38. Q. What American author has James Russell Lowell called the greatest imaginative writer since Shakspere? A. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 39. Q. What work has had the greatest success of any American book? A. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” a novel directed against slavery. Between five and six hundred thousand copies have been sold in this country alone, and it has been forty times translated. 40. Q. Who is the most distinguished of American essayists? A. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 41. Q. Give the chief among standard editions of Shakspere that have been edited in this country. A. Those of Richard Grant White and Horace Howard Furness. 42. Q. Who are the authors of three notable histories of the late civil war? A. Horace Greeley, Alexander H. Stephens, and Dr. John W. Draper. 43. Q. What recent American author attained eminence as a writer of travels, of novels, and as a poet? A. Bayard Taylor. 44. Q. What two poets are the chief American kindred of the English pre-Raphaelites? A. Walt Whitman and Joaquin Miller; but their kinship is one of nature and not of imitation. 45. Q. Who was the originator of a popular dialect poetry of the time, which has found a troop of imitators? A. John Hay. 46. Q. What author has found a special field in novels of pioneer life in the uncivilized outposts of Western civilization? A. Edward Eggleston. 47. Q. Who is called the best of American writers of juveniles? A. Louisa May Alcott. 48. Q. Give the names of three prominent humorists. A. Charles Farrar Browne, Henry W. Shaw, and David R. Locke. 49. Q. What American writer has devoted the greater part of his literary life to the production of biographies? A. James Parton. 50. Q. Who has enjoyed the acquaintance of more English and American authors than any other of our writers? A. James T. Fields. EDITOR’S OUTLOOK. THE TENTH ASSEMBLY.