QUEER QUESTIONS

AND

READY REPLIES.

A COLLECTION OF FOUR HUNDRED QUESTIONS IN HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY,
BIOGRAPHY, MYTHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, NATURAL HISTORY,
SCIENCE, PHILOLOGY, ETC., ETC., WITH
THEIR ANSWERS.

BY

S. GRANT OLIPHANT.

Fourth Edition.

BOSTON:
NEW ENGLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1888.

The design of this little work is to offer, in a convenient form, tothe reading public of the country, much quaint and curious as wellas interesting and instructive information in history, geography,biography, philosophy, science, philology, etc., to correct severalpopular fallacies, to promote accurate scholarship, and to tender anexplanation of many expressions which occur in daily conversation.

Considerable time and pains have been given to the selection of thematter herein contained, and to the verification of the same. Care hasbeen taken that no statement should be made which cannot be supportedby good authority.

The information covered by the questions and answers is not generallyknown, even by intelligent and educated readers, and much of it hasnever before been published in a form accessible to the great mass ofreaders.

With the hope that it may prove an acceptable and ready help toall intelligent readers, the author submits it to an appreciative andcritical public.

S. G. O.

Woodstown, N. J.