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Show Authors One Should Know "If )ou vere naked to chnoao ten author, n lortlal knowledge of whose ... work you regarded na caaentlnl to I tho C(tilpniimt of a Bticccasful modern ninn. whnt author would )ou nnraoT" Thla qiievtlnn. recently put to five representative! men In New York, clio-acn clio-acn at random, produced tho following follow-ing rrsmlts: 1. Homer Plnto, Dante, (Soothe, Voltaire, Vol-taire, Ilnlrsc, Shnkesiicore, Carl)le, Matthew Arnold and Hmorson. 2. Jntnea llryce "American Com monuealth' . Dickens. Kipling. Mark Twain. Itebert I.oul 8levenson. Woodreiw V'llson, loiuInr History", Jille Verne. Howell II O Wella. "Anllclpntlcna" and llldpath' "Ilia-lor) "Ilia-lor) of Ihe World" 3 Shakiianeare. Plain. Cennnle Mollere O'bbon HiHthe nmorton, Motley, Thiickcrn), ToUlol, 4 8hakeieare lloawoll' "Joht nut. I'lutnrcln Uvea DtquomtlnR'l ' Hlatory of the Huccanncera." llnmlt-lona llnmlt-lona "ilcmolra of dramont," I'opy Dlar)', Ilourlenne Nniiotcon, Olhbon'l Itome, (Ireen'a HIMory of Kngland. John Kltkv'a Unltrnl Htalc HKtorlc. t. Bhnkeipeare, Kipling, Hnwolla Duma (iH-nlor), Mnrk Twnln, Itnikln, John Flake, Darwin, Tjnilal, Tenny aon or llobert Drowning Aa waa lo hae been expeclnd, Shnkenpeare figure In mot of thv IIM onl) one leaving hltn onL I'Inta (loethe, Htneraon, (llhbon and John Hnke are the choice In two Hat, nnd Howell Kipling and Mnrk Twain among the llilng writer, each hat two adherent Altogether, thirty eight author are mintloned In tin live IIM. |