_Parlor; schoolroom._

Each player is given a piece of paper on which is written various
series or groups of words, each group descriptive of some author, and
each word beginning with one of his initials in regular order. The
player wins who guesses the largest number of authors. The following
are suggested; others may be devised:--

1. Juveniles firmly conquered (James Fenimore Cooper).
2. Name honored (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
3. Bright humor (Bret Harte).
4. One wholesome humorist (Oliver Wendell Holmes).
5. Really lasting stories (Robert Louis Stevenson).
6. Cheerful laborer (Charles Lamb).
7. Tender, brilliant author (Thomas Bailey Aldrich).
8. Heroism wisely lauded (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
9. Just, gentle writer (John Greenleaf Whittier).
10. Poetry bridged skyward (Percy Bysche Shelley).
11. Clever delineator (Charles Dickens).
12. Rare brain (Robert Browning).
13. Weird imagination (Washington Irving).

"B" GAME

_5 to 30 or more players._

_House party._

Each player is given a sheet of paper with numbered questions prepared
like the following list. The answer to each question is to be written
opposite it, and must consist of the letter B as an initial and added
to it the number of letters designated, the whole conforming to the
definition given. The following examples will illustrate:--

1. B and one letter, meaning to exist.--Be.
2. B and two letters forming a sack.--Bag.
3. B and three letters forming a storehouse.--Barn.
4. B and three letters, side of a stream.--Bank.
5. B and three letters, a young creature.--Baby.
6. B and three letters, a bag of goods.--Bale.
7. B and three letters, without hair.--Bald.
8. B and three letters, a surety.--Bond.
9. B and three letters, timber.--Beam.
10. B and three letters, a vegetable.--Beet.--Bean.
11. B and three letters, a poet.--Bard.
12. B and three letters, a drink.--Beer.
13. B and three letters, a globule.--Bead.
14. B and three letters, part of a bird.--Beak.
15. B and three letters, a vessel.--Boat.
16. B and four letters, an appendage.--Beard.
17. B and four letters, a tree.--Beech.
18. B and four letters, to commence.--Begin.
19. B and four letters, a strand.--Beach.
20. B and four letters, a receptacle.--Basin.
21. B and four letters, a kind of mea