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present Longfellow's currency in Europe is almost unparalleled. Twenty-four publishing houses in England have issued the whole or a part of his works. Many of his poems have been translated into Russian and Hebrew. Evangeline" has been translated three times into German, and "Hiawatha " has not only gone into nearly all the modern languages, but can now be read in Latin. I have seen translations of all Longfellow's principal works, in prose and poetry, in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish. The Emperor of Brazil has himself translated and published Robert of Sicily," one of the poems in "Tales of a Wayside Inn," into his native tongue, and in China they use a fan which has become immensely popular on account of the "Psalm of Life" being printed on it in the language of the Celestial Empire. Professor Kneeland, who went to the national millennial celebration in Iceland, told me that when he was leaving that far-away land, on the verge almost of the Arctic Circle, the people said to him: "Tell Longfellow that we love him; tell him that we read and rejoice in his poems; tell him that Iceland knows him by heart." To-day there is no disputing the fact that Longfellow is more popular than any other living poet; that his books are more widely circulated, command greater attention, and bring more copyright money than those of any other author, not excepting Tennyson, now writing English verse.-JAMES T. FIELDS. Quoted by Mrs. James T. Fields, in " Authors and Friends" (Hou.).

LONGFELLOW'S IMMORTALITY SECURE.

In this country, by general consent, Longfellow is a pervading, purifying, beneficent agency. He is hardly less extensively read in England, where his death was pronounced a national loss. It is doubtful whether any singer of this generation has so wide a circle of present admirers. But we remember the most popular are not always the most enduring. Many who once stirred the hearts and touched the fancies of a day have disappeared in the night or are names only. Others who were disparaged in their own age have made the earth wholesome in a succeeding one, and men have travelled into foreign parts to find their works. The veneration of mankind has selected for the highest place one whom the influential of the contemporary world despised or ignored, if they knew him at all. The sentiments common to races and centuries are the most likely to live. Building upon these with consummate art, Longfellow has qualities which guarantee him against oblivion. His immortality is secure in the bosoms of the bereaved, the tired, the lonely, the desponding, the aspiring, the struggling.—A. H. WELSH, in "The Development of English Language and Literature" (Scott).

SOME LITERARY QUERIES AND ANSWERS.

BY HARRIET L. MASON,

Professor of English Literature, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia.

QUERIES.

1. What was the life motto of Longfellow as found in some miscellaneous notes of his?

2. What was Longfellow's demeanour toward his students at Harvard?

3. After the tragic death by fire of his wife to what occupation did Longfellow turn as solace?

4. What public memorials are there to Longfellow?

5. What appellation has been given to Longfellow from the fact that he is the most popular of American poets?

6. What poem of Longfellow's was never paid for by the magazine which Published it, and afterward, during the siege of Paris, saved a Frenchman from committing suicide?

7. What poem of Longfellow's contains exquisite descriptions of a country the poet had never seen?

8. What poem of Longfellow's may be ranked with such productions as the Anglo-Saxon epic of "Beowulf," or the old French song of Roland"?

9. What poem did Longfellow rise in the middle of the night to write and finish in less than an hour?

10. What work of Longfellow's is modelled after the plan of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales "?

II. What other famous rides in literature does " Paul Revere's

Ride" suggest?

12. What poem of Longfellow's furnished the title for Beatrice Harraden's popular story, "Ships that Pass in the Night"?

13. What poem of Longfellow's recalls a famous painting of the artist Gérôme?

14. What poem of Longfellow's did the New York Ledger pay $4,000 for, merely for the privilege of publishing it first, exclusive of the right to its publication in book form? This was at the rate of twenty dollars per line.

15. What is the rank of Longfellow's translation of Dante? 16. What remarkable evidence of the poet's kindness and patience is found in his private diary?

17. What great teacher sat down one day in Longfellow's study and wept like a child because he had lost the power to work? 18. What were the last lines Longfellow penned?

19. How was Longfellow once honoured by the public schools of the United States?

20. What lines from the poet's own poem were chanted as Longfellow's requiem?

ANSWERS.

I. "An early sorrow is often the truest benediction "-quoted from Irving, who largely influenced Longfellow.

2. Always courteous. "Let's hear Professor Longfellow, for he always treats us as gentlemen," was exclaimed at a time of uprising among the students.

3. To his translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy." In the same way Bryant turned to the translation of Homer's Iliad after the death of his wife.

4. (1) A monument in Portland. (2) A bust in Westminster Abbey (Longfellow is the first American so honoured). (3) The Longfellow Park in Cambridge, just opposite Craigie House and commanding his favourite view of the river Charles.

5. "Leader of the American Choir."

6. The "Psalm of Life."

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7. Evangeline." Longfellow never was in Nova Scotia. A similar instance might be noted: Scott's famous lines to Melrose Abbey were written before he had visited it.

8. "Hiawatha," which is destined to give to coming generations their idea of the race of red men.

9. "The Wreck of the Hesperus." Longfellow received twenty-five dollars for the poem.

10. The "Tales of a Wayside Inn." The Red Horse Inn at Sudbury, Massachusetts, twenty-three miles from Boston, which Longfellow describes, is still standing.

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II. Browning's How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix "; Read's "Sheridan's Ride "; Whittier's "Skipper Ireson's Ride."

12. "Elizabeth." See the first verse of Canto IV.

13. 'Morituri Salutamus "-"We who are about to die salute you”—written for the jubilee reunion of Bowdoin's class of 1825.

14. "The Hanging of the Crane," called forth by a visit of the poet to T. B. Aldrich and his newly married wife.

15. It is a literal and lineal rendering, placing it, on the whole, at the head of English translations. Longfellow's notes are invaluable.

16. “Yesterday [June 9, 1857] I wrote, sealed, and directed seventy autographs. One letter I shall not answer: 'Now, I want you to write me a few lines for a young lady's album, to be written in an acrostic to read My Dearest One." P. S.Send bill.'

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17. Agassiz. He rallied afterward for a little, but soon died. 18.

"Out of the shadow of night

The world rolls into light.

It is daybreak everywhere."

19. His seventy-fifth birthday was celebrated by all the schools in the country.