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ution._ WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS.--1. What is the subject of most of Simms' novels? 2. Who has written his life? _3. What is the usual form of Manneyto? (Manitou)_ _4. Who were the Yemassees and when was the Yemassee war?_ _5. Give a sketch of General Marion._ (_See also under Ramsay._) ROBERT EDWARD LEE.--1. Who have written the life of General Lee? 2. What is the present name of Washington College? _3. Where are there monuments to Lee?_ _4. When did the Civil War begin and end?_ _5. Learn more of General Lee._ JEFFERSON DAVIS.--1. When and where was he inaugurated president of the Confederacy? 2. What has his daughter Winnie written? _3. Who have written the life of President Davis?_ _4. When was Pierce president of the United States?_ _5. Where is Beauvoir?_ _6. Where is the Hermitage?_ _7. Where is Mr. Davis buried?_ EDGAR ALLAN POE.--1. What is said of the "Raven" in 1845? 2. Where are monuments to Poe? 3. Which are the best lives of him? _4. Who was John Pendleton Kennedy?_ _5. What is the Koran?_ _6. "The red levin"?_ ROBERT TOOMBS.--1. What two distinguished men besides Toombs were ordered to be captured after the war? 2. Why did he not sue for pardon? 3. Who have written his life? _4. Learn more of him._ OCTAVIA WALTON LE VERT.--1. What was the name of her father and grand father? 2. What did La Fayette say of her when a child? 3. What is said of her in Washington? _4. Trace her voyage to Spain from Mobile, Ala._ _5. Who were the Moors and when did they rule Spain?_ LOUISA SUSANNAH M'CORD.--1. Name of Mrs. M'Cord's father? 2. Learn the last paragraph on page 292. 3. When was this article published? 4. Where is Forte Motte? _5. For what is it noted?_ _6. Tell something of the Women's Rights Movement in Europe and America._ JOSEPH G. BALDWIN.--1. What do you think of this sketch of Virginians? _2. Translate the Latin._ _3. Who were Jefferson Hamilton Jackson, Clay John Randolph?_ ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS.--1. In what family did he teach? 2. Name of his home? 3. Tell the anecdotes of him. 4. When did Calhoun die? _5. Tell what you can of the Senators mentioned in the sketch._ _6. How did Fillmore afterwards become president of the United Stales?_ _7. When?_ ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK.--1. What system was established by him in Alabama? 2. Tell some of the characters in his writings 3. For whom is Montgomery named? _4. When was the Seminole war?_ _5. Who was the American general?_ _6. What river
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