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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Through the Year With Famous Authors - -Author: Mabel Patterson - -Release Date: January 5, 2013 [EBook #40412] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THROUGH THE YEAR WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS *** - - - - -Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - Transcriber's Notes: Obvious errors in punctuation have been silently - corrected. - - - - - THROUGH THE YEAR - WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS - - BY - - MABEL PATTERSON - - - WALTER NEALE - PUBLISHER OF GENERAL LITERATURE - 118 EAST 28TH STREET - NEW YORK - - - - - Copyright, 1925 - BY - MABEL PATTERSON - - - - -JANUARY - - - - -JANUARY - - - There is no moment like the present; not only so, but, moreover, - there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force and energy, - but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions - when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them - afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry - and skurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. - - --_Maria Edgeworth_. - -MARIA EDGEWORTH, a noted English novelist, was born in Black Bourton, -Oxfordshire, January 1, 1767, and died in Edgeworthstown, Ireland, May, -1849. She wrote: "Early Lessons," "Castle Rackrent," "Tales of -Fashionable Life," "Belinda," "Leonora," "Moral Tales," "The Modern -Griselda," "Helen," "Ormond," and "Patronage." - - - 'Tis always morning somewhere in the world. - - "Orion," Book iii, Canto ii (1843).--_Richard Henry Horne_. - -RICHARD HENRY HORNE, a famous English miscellaneous writer, was born -January 1, 1803, and died March 13, 1884. His principal works are: "The -Dreamer and the Worker," "Cosmo de' Medici," "Orion," "A New Spirit of -the Age," "The Death of Marlowe," "Judas Iscariot, A Miracle Play," -"Australian Facts and Prospects," and "Exposition of the False Medium, -and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public." - - - Ah, the key of your life, that passes all wards, opens all locks, - Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must,--and I do it. - - --_A. H. Clough_. - -ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, an English poet of great renown, was born in -Liverpool, January 1, 1819; and died at Florence, Italy, November 13, -1861. Among his noted works may be mentioned: "Ambarvalia: Poems by -Thomas Burbidge and A. H. Clough," "Poems and Prose Remains," -"Plutarch's Lives: the Translation called Dryden's Corrected," etc. - - - And what is sorrow? 'Tis a boundless sea. - And what is joy? - A little pearl in that deep ocean's bed; - I sought it--found it--held it o'er my head, - And to my soul's annoy, - It fell into the ocean's depth again, - And now I look and long for it in vain. - - "Sorrow and Joy,"--_Alexander Petöfi_. - -ALEXANDER PETÖFI, a celebrated Hungarian poet, was born at Kis-Koros, -near Pesth, January 1, 1823, and died July 31, 1849. His chief works -are: "The Wine-Bibbers," "Coriolanus" (a drama), and his famous song -"Talpra Magyar" (Up, Magyar), the Hungarian _Marseillaise_. - - - I think, ofttimes, that lives of men may be - Likened to wandering winds that come and go - Not knowing whence they rise, whither they blow - O'er the vast globe, voiceful of grief or glee. - - "A Comparison,"--_Paul Hamilton Hayne_. - -PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE, a distinguished American poet, was born in -Charleston, S. C., January 1, 1830, and died at Augusta, Ga., July 6, -1886. He has written: "Sonnets and Other Poems," "Avolio, a Legend of -the Island of Cos," "Legends and Lyrics," "The Mountain of the Lovers," -etc. - - - Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; - They took the spear, but left the shield. - - "To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw,"--_Philip - Freneau_. - -PHILIP FRENEAU, a noted American poet, was born in New York City, -January 2, 1752, and died near Freehold, N. J., December 18, 1832. He -wrote: "Eutaw Springs," "The College Examination," "The Home of Night," -"The Indian Student," and "Lines to a Wild Honeysuckle." - - - Men of letters and great artists are the lights of a nation; they - are what make it great; they are what give it a place in history. - - "Advance of the English Novel,"--_William Lyon Phelps_. - -WILLIAM LYON PHELPS, a celebrated university professor and literary -critic, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, January 2, 1865. He has -written "Selections from the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Gray," "Irving's -Sketch Book," "The Best Plays of Chapman," "The Novels of Samuel -Richardson," (20 vols.), "The Works of Jane Austen" (12 vols.), -"Stevenson's Essays," "The Pure Gold of Nineteenth Century Literature," -"Essays on Modern Novelists," "Essays on Russian Novelists," "Essays on -Books," "The Advance of the English Novel," "The Advance of English -Poetry," "Reading the Bible," "Essays on Modern Dramatists." - - - He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine - would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - - --_Douglas Jerrold_. - -DOUGLAS WILLIAM JERROLD, a noted English humorist, was born in London, -England, January 3, 1803, and died there June 8, 1857. Some of his -well-known works are: "The Rent Day," "Retired from Business," "Story of -a Feather," "Nell Gwynne," "The Bubbles of the Day." - - - You can't expect anything from a pig but a grunt. - - "Fairy Tales,"--_Grimm_. - -JACOB GRIMM, a famous philologist, archæologist, and folklorist, was -born at Hanau, January 4, 1785, and died at Berlin, September 20, 1863. -He wrote: "The Poetry of the Meistersingers," "German Mythology," -"History of the German Language," "German Grammar," etc. His fame -rests, however, upon his celebrated work, "Fables for Children," written -in collaboration with his brother Wilhelm, and best-known as, "Grimm's -Fairy Tales." - - - I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem - to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and - diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a - prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay - all undiscovered before me. - - Brewster's "Memoirs of Newton," Vol. ii, Chap. xxvii.--_Isaac - Newton_. - -SIR ISAAC NEWTON, the renowned English philosopher and mathematician, -was born at Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, January 5, 1643, and died at -Kensington, March 31, 1727. Among his works are: "Principia," "Theory of -Light and Colors," "Optical Readings," "On Motion," "Opticks," etc. - - - The phrase, "public office is a public trust," has of late become - common property. - - --_Charles Sumner_ (May 31, 1872). - -CHARLES SUMNER, a distinguished American statesman, was born in Boston, -January 6, 1811, and died in Washington, D. C., March 11, 1874. His -speeches, orations, etc., were collected and published (1870-83) in a -15-vol. edition. - - - There are many moments in friendship as in love, when silence is - beyond words. The faults of our friends may be clear to us, but it - is well to seem to shut our eyes to them. - - --_Ouida_. - -LOUISE DE LA RAMÉE (OUIDA), a famous English novelist of French -extraction, was born at Bury St. Edmunds, January 7, 1839, and died -January 25, 1908. Among her numerous works are: "Held in Bondage," -"Strathmore," "Chandos," "Idalia," "Under Two Flags," "A Leaf in the -Storm," "Pascarel," "In a Winter City," "Friendship," "A Village -Commune," "Wanda," "A House Party," "Guilderoy," "Moths," "A Rainy -June," "Views and Opinions," etc. - - - The Darwinian theory, even when carried out to its extreme logical - conclusion, not only does not oppose, but lends a decided support - to, a belief in the spiritual nature of man. It shows us how man's - body may have been developed from that of a lower animal form - under the law of natural selection; but it also teaches us that we - possess intellectual and moral faculties which could not have been - so developed, but must have had another origin; and for this - origin we can only find an adequate cause in the unseen universe - of Spirit. - - "Darwinism,"--_A. R. Wallace_. - -ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, a renowned English naturalist, was born at Usk in -Monmouthshire, January 8, 1822, and died November 7, 1913. He wrote: -"Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro," "The Malay Archipelago," "On the -Geographical Distribution of Animals," "Tropical Nature," "Darwinism: An -Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection," "Man's Place in the -Universe," "My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions," "Is Mars -Habitable?" "The World of Life," "Social Environment and Moral -Progress," "The Revolt of Democracy," etc. - - - I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary - object of a work of fiction should be to tell a story. - - --_William Wilkie Collins_. - -WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS, a celebrated English novelist, was born in -London, January 8, 1824, and died there September 23, 1889. He wrote: -"The New Magdalen," "No Name," "Antonia," "Basil," "The Dead Secret," -"Armadale," "Man and Wife," "Poor Miss Finch," "Miss or Mrs.?" "The Law -and the Lady," "The Two Destinies," "Heart and Science," "I Say No," -"The Legacy of Cain," "The Moonstone," and "The Woman in White," his -greatest novel. - - - The all-pervading greatness of Shakespeare lies in his - comprehension of the ethical order of the world; [his dramas are] - the truest literary product of the time, because the most perfect - and concrete presentation of realized rationality. - - --_D. J. Snider_. - -DENTON JAQUES SNIDER, a distinguished American author, was born in Mt. -Gilead, Ohio, January 9, 1841. He is best known by his famous work, "A -Walk in Hellas." His other works include: "Homer in Chios," "Johnny -Appleseed's Rhymes," "Ancient European Philosophy," "Modern European -Philosophy," "Architecture," "World's Fair Studies," "Commentaries on -Froebel's Play Songs," "The Will and Its World," "The Life of Frederick -Froebel," "The Father of History," "Herodotus," "Social Institutions," -"The State," "A Tour in Europe," "Cosmos and Diacosmos," etc. - - - Softly, O midnight hours, - Move softly o'er the bowers - Where lies in happy sleep a girl so fair: - For ye have power, men say, - Our hearts in sleep to sway - And cage cold fancies in a moonlight snare. - - "Softly, O Midnight Hours,"--_Aubrey Thomas de Vere_. - -AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE, a famous Irish poet and descriptive and political -essayist, son of Sir Aubrey De Vere, was born January 10, 1814, and died -in 1902. Among his works are: "Poems," "Irish Odes," "Alexander the -Great," "Picturesque Sketches of Greece and Turkey," "Constitutional and -Unconstitutional Political Action," "The Foray of Queen Meave and Other -Legends of Ireland's Heroic Age," "The Sisters," "Legends of the Saxon -Saints," "St. Peter's Chains," "Essays Chiefly on Poetry," "Essays -Chiefly Literary and Ethical," "Recollections," etc. - - - I know of no other English-speaking poet of the day who can turn a - song so gracefully and easily as Mr. Stoddard can. Certain of his - lyrics are, to my mind, unsurpassed for haunting charm of cadence. - He has also written several odes of admirable nobility and - stateliness. - - "Poems of Wild Life,"--_Charles G. D. Roberts_. - -CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS, a celebrated Canadian poet, was born in -Douglas, N. B., January 10, 1860. Among his publications are: "Orion and -Other Poems," "In Divers Tones," "Canterbury Poets," "History of -Canada," "A Sister to Evangeline," "The Heart of the Ancient Wood," "The -Kindred of the Wild," "Barbara Ladd," "The Watchers of the Trails," "The -Heart that Knows," "The House in the Water," "Neighbours Unknown," "The -Feet of the Furtive," "Babes of the Wild," "The Ledge on Bald Face," "In -the Morning of Time," etc. - - - A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national - blessing. - - --_Alexander Hamilton_. - -ALEXANDER HAMILTON, an illustrious American statesman, was born in the -Island of Nevis, West Indies, January 11, 1757, and died near New York, -July 12, 1804. His "Collected Works," appeared in 1851. - - - The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and - when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, - it feels as though it had wings. - - --_Eugénie de Guérin_. - -EUGÉNIE DE GUÉRIN, a famous French diarist and prose-writer, was born -January 11, 1805, and died May 31, 1848. Jointly with her brother -Maurice, she wrote the "Journals," and "Letters." - - - I feel the rush of waves that round me rise, - The tossing of my boat upon the sea; - Few sunbeams linger in the stormy skies, - And youth's bright shore is lessening on the lee! - - --_Bayard Taylor_. - -BAYARD TAYLOR, an eminent American poet, and novelist, was born at -Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1825, and died at Berlin, -Germany, December 19, 1878. His noted works are: "Views Afoot," "The -American Legend," "Poems and Ballads," "Poems of the Orient," "Travels -in Greece and Russia," "Poems of Home and Travel," "At Home and Abroad," -"Hannah Thurston," "The Story of Kennett," "By-Ways of Europe," "The -Masque of the Gods," "Egypt and Iceland," "Home Pastorals, Ballads, and -Lyrics," "Dramatic Works," "Critical Essays and Literary Notes," etc. - - - A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest. - - "Life and Letters," Vol. ii, p. 341,--_John Winthrop_. - -GOVERNOR JOHN WINTHROP, first Colonial governor of Massachusetts, and a -distinguished writer, was born near Groton, Suffolk, England, January -12, 1587, and died at Boston, March 26, 1649. He wrote: "A Modell of -Christian Charity," "Arbitrary Government Described," and a "History of -New England from 1630 to 1649," which was left by him in MS., and found -in his "Life and Letters," by Robert C. Winthrop. - - - People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward - to their ancestors. - - "Reflections on the Revolution in France," Vol. iii, - p. 274--_Edmund Burke_. - -EDMUND BURKE, an eminent British statesman and orator, was born in -Dublin, January 12, 1729, and died in Beaconsfield, England, July 9, -1797. He wrote: "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas -of the Sublime and Beautiful," "Reflections on the French Revolution," -"Letters on a Regicide Peace," "Works and Correspondence." - - - La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.[1] - - --_Crébillon_. - -PROSPER JOLYOT DE CRÉBILLON, a celebrated French dramatist, was born at -Dijon, January 13, 1674, and died at Paris, June 14, 1762. His plays -include; "The Death of Brutus's Children," "Idomeneus," "Atreus and -Thyestes," "Electra," "Rhadamistus and Zénobia," "Xerxes," "Semiramis," -"Pyrrhus," and "Catalina." - - - How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, - When fond recollection presents them to view. - - "The Old Oaken Bucket,"--_Samuel Woodworth_. - -SAMUEL WOODWORTH, a noted American poet and journalist, was born at -Scituate, Mass., January 13, 1785, and died in New York City, December -9, 1842. His poem, "The Old Oaken Bucket," won for him great fame. - - - All quiet along the Potomac to-night, - No sound save the rush of the river, - While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead-- - The picket's off duty forever. - - "All quiet along the Potomac,"--_Ethel L. Beers_. - -ETHEL LYNN BEERS, a well-known American poet, was born in Goshen, N. Y., -January 13, 1827, and died in Orange, N. J., October 10, 1879. She is -the author of "All Quiet Along the Potomac, and Other Poems." - - - Oh, meet is the reverence unto Bacchus paid! - We will praise him still in the songs of our fatherland, - We will pour the sacred wine, the chargers lade, - And the victim kid shall unresisting stand, - Led by his horns to the altar, where we turn - The hazel spits while the dripping entrails burn. - - "Georgics," Bk. ii, St. 17, L. 31 (H. W. Preston's - Translation).--_Vergil_. - -HARRIET WATERS PRESTON, a distinguished American scholar, translator, -and writer, was born in Danvers, Mass., January 14 (?), 1836, and died -in 1911. Besides her translations of Mistral's "Mireio," Virgil's -"Georgics," etc., she has published: "Aspendale," "Troubadours and -Trouvéres," "Love in the Nineteenth Century," "A Year in Eden," etc. - - - Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man. - - "Le Tartuffe," Act. iii, Scene 3,--_Molière_. - -JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN (MOLIÈRE), the greatest of French dramatists, was -born in Paris, January 15 (?), 1622, and died there, February 17, 1673. -Among his famous works are: "The Misanthrope," "The Learned Ladies," -"The School for Wives," "The Imaginary Invalid," "The Miser," "Don -Juan," "The School for Husbands," and "Tartuffe," which is considered by -many to be his masterpiece. - - - Die Thränen sind des Schmerzes heilig Recht![2] - - "Sappho, III, 5,"--_Fr. Grillparzer_. - -FRANZ GRILLPARZER, a renowned Austrian poet and dramatist, was born in -Vienna, January 15, 1791, and died there January 21, 1872. Among his -noted works are: "Blanche of Castile," "The Ancestress," "Sappho," "The -Jewess of Toledo," "The Poor Minstrel," etc., also two famous poems, -"Waves of Ocean; Thrills of Love," and "In Thy Camp is Austria." - - - The pure, the beautiful, the bright, - That stirred our hearts in youth, - The impulse to a wordless prayer, - The dreams of love and truth, - The longings after something lost, - The spirit's yearning cry, - The strivings after better hopes, - These things can never die. - - "Things that Never Die,"--_Sarah Doudney_. - -SARAH DOUDNEY, a noted English writer of fiction, was born near -Portsmouth, England, January 15, 1843. She has written: "Under Grey -Walls," "The Pilot's Daughters," "Nothing But Leaves," "Under False -Colours," "The Lesson of the Water Mill," "The Missing Rubies," "When We -Two Parted," "Through Pain to Peace," "Pilgrims of the Night," "A -Cluster of Roses," "Silent Strings," "One of the Few," "Shadow and -Shine," etc. - - - Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'epée.[3] - - "Mémoires," Vol. iii, p. 517 (1702), Ed. 1856.--_Saint-Simon_. - -LOUIS DE ROUVROY, DUC DE SAINT-SIMON, the great French annalist, was -born January 16, 1675, and died March 2, 1755. His notable works are: -His famous "Memoirs," published in twenty volumes. - - - Early to bed and early to rise, - Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - - --_Benjamin Franklin_. - -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, the renowned American philosopher and statesman, was -born in Boston, January 16, 1706, and died in Philadelphia, April 17, -1790. He wrote his own "Autobiography," and other important works. - - - Dicen, que el primer consejo - Ha de ser de la muger.[4] - - "El Medico de su. Houra," I, 2.--_Calderon_. - -PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA, the great Spanish dramatist, was born at -Madrid, January 17, 1600, and died May 25, 1681. Among his dramas may be -mentioned: "The Wonder-Working Magician," "The Schism of England," "The -Alcalde of Zalamea," "No Magic Like Love," "The Divine Orpheus." - - - Ove son leggi, - Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.[5] - - "Virginia," II., i.,--_Alfieri_. - -COUNT VITTORIO ALFIERI, a celebrated Italian dramatist, was born at Asti -in Piedmont, January 17, 1749, and died at Florence, October 8, 1803. -Among his many works may be mentioned: "Cleopatra," "Polinice," -"Antigone," "Agide," "Bruto," "Saul," "Filippo," etc. He also wrote: -"Tyranny," "Essays on Literature and Government," odes on "American -Independence," and "Memoirs of His Life." - - - A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. - - --_Montesquieu_. - -CHARLES DE SECONDANT, BARON DE MONTESQUIEU, a famous French historian -and political philosopher, was born near Bordeaux, January 18, 1689, and -died in Paris, February 10, 1755. He wrote: "Persian Letters," "The -Temple of Cnidus," "Causes of Roman Greatness and Decline," "Dialogue of -Sylla Eucrates and Lysimachus," "Works," etc. Also his renowned work, -"Spirit of Laws," his masterpiece. - - - Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. - - "Speech at Plymouth," Dec. 22, 1820. Vol. i, p. 44.--_Daniel - Webster_. - -DANIEL WEBSTER, the illustrious American statesman and orator, was born -in Salisbury, N. H., January 18, 1782, and died in Marshfield, Mass., -October 24, 1852. - - - Truth is like a pearl: he alone possesses it who has plunged into - the depths of life and torn his hands on the rocks of Time. - - --_Laboulaye_. - -EDOUARD RENÉ LEFÈBVRE DE LABOULAYE, a distinguished French jurist, -historian, and writer of tales, was born at Paris, January 18, 1811, and -died there May 25, 1883. His greatest work is a "Political History of -the United States, 1620-1789," (3 vols.) 1856-66. His other works are: -"The United States and France," "Paris in America," and a novel "Prince -Caniche." His best known works of fiction are the three series of "Blue -Stories." - - - The despot's heel is on thy shore, - Maryland! - His torch is at thy temple-door, - Maryland! - Avenge the patriotic gore - That flecked the streets of Baltimore, - And be the battle queen of yore, - Maryland, my Maryland! - - "My Maryland."--_James Rider Randall_. - -JAMES RYDER RANDALL, a celebrated American song-writer, was born in -Baltimore, Md., January 18, 1839, and died in 1908. His poems include: -"The Sole Entry," "Arlington," "The Cameo Bracelet," "The Battle Cry of -the South," and his famous poem, "My Maryland!" - - - "Why wait," he said, "why wait for May, - When love can warm a winter's day?" - - "Vignettes in Rhyme, Love in Winter."--_Austin Dobson_. - -HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON, a famous English poet and man of letters, was born -at Plymouth, January 18, 1840, and died April 1, 1921. He has written: -"Proverbs in Porcelain," "Old-World Idyls," "Eighteenth-Century -Vignettes," "Vignettes in Rhyme and Vers de Société," "Four French -Women," "The Paladin of Philanthropy," "Side-Walk Studies," "De Libris," -"Old Kensington Palace," "At Prior Park," "Rosalba's Journal and Other -Papers"; also "Lives of Fielding, Steele, Goldsmith," "William Hogarth," -"Horace Walpole," "Richardson," "Fanny Burney," etc. - - - Literature is the daughter of heaven, who has descended upon earth - to soften and charm all human ills. - - --_Bernardin de Saint-Pierre_. - -BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE, the renowned French author was born in Havre, -January 19, 1737, and died at Eragny-sur-Oise, January 21, 1814. His -works include: "Voyage to the Isle of France," "Studies of Nature," "The -Indian Cottage," "Vows of a Solitary," "Harmonies of Nature," "On Nature -and Morality," "Voyage to Silesia," "Stories of Travel," "The Death of -Socrates," and his most famous work, "Paul and Virginia." - - - Woman's mission is a striking illustration of the truth that - happiness consists in doing the work for which we are naturally - fitted. Their mission is always the same; it is summed up in one - word,--Love. - - "Positive Polity"--_Auguste Comte_. - -AUGUSTE COMTE, the great French philosopher, was born at Montpellier, -January 19, 1798, and died in Paris, September 5, 1857. His most -celebrated works are: "Positive Philosophy," and "Positive Polity." - - - All that we see or seem - Is but a dream within a dream. - - "A Dream within a Dream,"--_Edgar Allan Poe_. - -EDGAR ALLAN POE, a celebrated American poet and story-writer, was born -in Boston, January 19, 1809, and died in Baltimore, Maryland, October 7, -1849. His poems include: "The Raven, and Other Poems," "Tamerlane and -Other Poems," "Eureka, a Prose Poem," "Poems," etc. - - - It would hardly be safe to name Miss Austen, Miss Brontë, and - George Eliot as the three greatest women novelists the United - Kingdom can boast, and were one to go on and say that the - alphabetical order of their names is also their order of merit, it - would be necessary to seek police protection, and yet surely it is - so. - - "Life of C. Brontë,"--_Augustine Birrell_. - -RT. HON. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, a distinguished English essayist, was born -in Wavertree, near Liverpool, January 19, 1850. He has written: "Obiter -Dicta," "Res Judicatæ," "Life of Charlotte Brontë," "Men, Women and -Books," "Collected Essays," "William Hazlitt," "Andrew Marvell," -"Miscellanies," "In the Name of the Bodleian," "Frederick Locker -Lampson," etc. - - - For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, - And makes his pulses fly, - To catch the thrill of a happy voice, - And the light of a pleasant eye. - - "Saturday Afternoon,"--_Nathaniel P. Willis_. - -NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS, a celebrated American journalist and poet, was -born at Portland, Maine, January 20, 1806, and died at Idlewild on the -Hudson, New York, January 20, 1867. Some of his writings are: "People I -Have Met," "Inklings of Adventure," "Letters from Under a Bridge," -"Famous Persons and Places," "Poems," etc. - - - Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill. - - "Time Flies,"--_Richard Le Gallienne_. - -RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, a noted English author, was born in Liverpool, -January 20, 1866. He has written: "The Religion of a Literary Man," "My -Lady's Sonnets," "Prose Fancies," "Sleeping Beauty and other Prose -Fancies," "The Quest of the Golden Girl," "The Life Romantic," "Pieces -of Eight," etc. - - - Gray found very little gratification at Cambridge in the society - and manners of the young university men who were his - contemporaries. They ridiculed his sensitive temper and retired - habits, and gave him the nickname of "Miss Gray," for his supposed - effeminacy. Nor does Gray seem to have lived on much better terms - with his academic superiors. He abhorred mathematics, with the - same cordiality of hatred which Pope professed towards them, and - at that time concurred with Pope in thinking that the best recipe - for dullness was to - - "Full in the midst of Euclid plunge at once, - And petrify a genius to a dunce." - - "Memoirs of Eminent Etonians,"--_Sir Edward Creasy_. - -SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY, a famous English historian was born at -Bexley in Kent, January 21, 1812, and died January 27, 1878. He wrote: -"Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World," "The History of the Ottoman -Turks," "History of England," "Rise and Progress of the English -Constitution," "Historical and Critical Account of the Several Invasions -of England," etc. - - - The father's love is greater than the mother's, as his strength is - greater than hers. Christ, not Mary, is the embodiment of parental - love. - - "The Betrayal,"--_Walter Neale_. - -WALTER NEALE, a noted American author and man of letters, was born at -Eastville, Va., January 21, 1873. Among his works are: "The Betrayal" (a -novel), "The Sovereignty of the States," and numerous essays, poems, -addresses, etc. - - - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, - a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he - hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to - travel. - - "Of Travel,"--_Francis Bacon_. - -FRANCIS BACON, the great English philosopher, was born in London, -January 22, 1561, and died April 9, 1626. Some of his works are: "The -Advancement of Learning," "On the Colors of Good and Evil," "Novum -Organum," his immortal "Essays," and many histories, among them -"Elizabeth," "Henry VII" and "Henry VIII." - - - For the will and not the gift makes the giver. - - --_Lessing_. - -GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM VON LESSING, a famous German poet, was born at Kamenz, -in Upper Lusatia, January 22, 1729, and died at Brunswick, February 15, -1781. Among his writings are: "Letters on Literature," "Nathan the -Wise," "Philotas," "The Woman-Hater," "The Jews," "Trifles," (a -collection of poems), "The Free-Thinker," "Education of the Human Race," -etc. - - - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; - There is a rapture on the lonely shore; - There is society, where none intrudes, - By the deep sea, and music in its roar; - I love not man the less, but Nature more. - - "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Canto iv, Stanza 178.--_Byron_. - -GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON, the renowned English poet, was born in -London, January 22, 1788, and died at Missolonghi, Greece, April 19, -1824. Some of his celebrated works are: "English Bards and Scotch -Reviewers," "Hours of Idleness," "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," "The -Corsair," "Hebrew Melodies," "Lara," "Manfred," "The Prisoner of -Chillon," "The Lament of Tasso," "Don Juan," etc. - - - Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a - "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that - wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make - our exit, we will die free men. - - "Observations on the Boston Port Bill," 1774--_Josiah Quincy_. - -JOSIAH QUINCY, a distinguished American lawyer, was born in Boston, -January 23, 1744, and died April 26, 1775. His important works are: -"Observations on the Boston Port Bill," and "An Address of the -Merchants, Traders, and Freeholders of Boston." - - - We love because we get pleasure from loving. When the pleasure - palls, love dies a natural death; and the love that survives - should not hope for resurrection, but abide in patience a new - birth. - - "Love,"--_Marie Henri Beyle_. - -MARIE HENRI BEYLE, a famous French novelist and critic, was born in -Grenoble, January 23, 1783, and died in Paris, March 23, 1842. He has -written, "History of Painting in Italy," "Rome, Naples, and Florence in -1817," "About Love," and his celebrated work, "The Chartreuse -(Carthusian Nun) of Parma." - - - Tout finit par des chansons.[6] - - "Mariage de Figaro."--_Beaumarchais_. - -PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS, a renowned French dramatist, was -born in Paris, January 24, 1732, and died there, May 18, 1799. His -greatest plays are: "The Barber of Seville," and "The Marriage of -Figaro." - - - But pleasures are like poppies spread, - You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; - Or, like the snow-fall in the river, - A moment white, then melts forever. - - "Tam O'Shanter,"--_Robert Burns_. - -ROBERT BURNS, a Scotch poet of world-wide fame, was born in Alloway, -January 25, 1759, and died in Dumfries, July 21,1796. His most famous -poems are: "Hallowe'en," "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain -Daisy," "Twa Dogs," "Tam O'Shanter," and "Highland Mary." - - - 'Tis a little thing - To give a cup of water; yet its draught - Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, - May give a shock of pleasure to the frame - More exquisite than when nectarean juice - Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. - - "Ion," Act. i, Sc. 2,--_Thomas Noon Talfourd_. - -SIR THOMAS NOON TALFOURD, an eminent English author and statesman, was -born at Doxey, near Stafford, January 26, 1795, and died at Stafford, -March 13, 1854. His works include: "An Attempt to Estimate the Poetical -Talent of the Present Age," "Poems on Various Subjects," "History of the -Roman Republic," "History of Greece," "Final Memorials of Charles Lamb," -"Critical and Miscellaneous Essays," etc. - - - "Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as - anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens - not to like. - - "Declaration of Rights,"--_Richard Bentley_. - -RICHARD BENTLEY, a celebrated English critic and essayist, was born in -Oulton, Yorkshire, January 27, 1662, and died July, 1742. His important -works are: "Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris," and "Latin -Epistle to John Mill, Containing Critical Observations on the Chronicle -of Joannes Malala." - - - There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he - is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time. - - --_Schelling_. - -FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON SCHELLING, an eminent German thinker and -philosopher, was born at Leonberg, Wurtemberg, January 27, 1775, and -died at the Ragaz baths, Switzerland, August 28, 1854. Among his many -works are: "On the Possibility of a Form of philosophy," "Ideas for a -Philosophy of Nature," "On the Soul of the World," "Philosophy and -Religion," etc. Four posthumous volumes are: "Introduction to the -Philosophy of Mythology," "Philosophy of Mythology," and "Philosophy of -Revelation," in two separate volumes. - - - Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of - themselves. - - "Alice in Wonderland," Chap. ix.--_Lewis Carroll_. - -LEWIS CARROLL, nom de plume of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a distinguished -English clergyman and writer on mathematical subjects was born January -27, 1832, and died in January, 1898. His principal works are: "A -Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry," "Guide to the Mathematical -Student," etc. Also: "The Hunting of the Snark," "Rhyme and Reason," -"Euclid and His Modern Rivals," "Game of Logic," "Mathematica Curiosa," -and his two popular tales for children, entitled "Alice in Wonderland," -and "Through the Looking-Glass." - - - Morgen, Morgen, nur nicht heute; - Sprechen immer trage Leute.[7] - - "Der Aufschub,"--_Weisse_. - -CHRISTIAN FELIX WEISSE, a noted German poet and writer, was born at -Annaberg, January 28, 1726, and died at Leipsic, December 16, 1804. He -wrote: "Sportive Lays," "Lays of the Amazons," "Songs for Children," -etc. - - - Onward, Christian soldiers, - Marching as to war, - With the cross of Jesus - Going on before! - Christ the royal Master - Leads against the foe; - Forward into battle, - See, His banners go. - Onward, Christian soldiers, - Marching as to war, - With the cross of Jesus, - Going on before! - - "Onward, Christian Soldiers."--_S. Baring-Gould_. - -SABINE BARING-GOULD, a renowned English antiquary and novelist, was born -in Exeter, January 28, 1834; died January, 1924. Among his numerous -works may be mentioned: "Lives of the Saints," "Yorkshire Oddities," "In -the Roar of the Sea," "The Deserts of Southern France," "A Garland of -Country Song," "Old Fairy Tales Retold," "Napoleon Bonaparte," "A Study -of St. Paul," "A Book of the Riviera," "A Book of the Rhine," "A Book of -the Pyrenees," "Devonshire Characters," "Cornish Characters," "The Land -of Teck," "Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings," "The Church Revival," and -his most famous work, "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages." - - - A man after death is not a natural but a spiritual man; - nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. - - "Conjugal Love," Par. 31,--_Swedenborg_. - -EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, the famous Swedish mystic philosopher and author, -was born in Stockholm, January 29, 1688, and died there March 29, 1772. -His notable works include: "Principles of Chemistry," "Conjugal Love and -its Chaste Delights," "Opera Philosophica et Mineralia," "Domini Jesu -Christi Servus," etc. - - - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that - it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the - sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous - makes the sublime again. - - "Age of Reason," Part ii, note,--_Thomas Paine_. - -THOMAS PAINE, an eminent American publicist, was born at Thetford in -Norfolkshire, England, January 29, 1737, and died at New Rochelle, New -York, June 8, 1809. The most important of his Works are: "Decline and -Fall of the English System of Finance," "Common-Sense," "The Age of -Reason," "The Rights of Man." - - - A delicate thought is a flower of the mind. - - --_Charles Rollin_. - -CHARLES ROLLIN, a noted French historian and professor of -_belles-lettres_, was born at Paris, January 30, 1661, and died -September 14, 1741. His chief works are: "On the Study of -Belles-Lettres," "Ancient History" (12 vols. 1730-1738), and "History of -Rome." - - - Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's-- - Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, - Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, - No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps - So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue - So varied in discourse. - - "To Robert Browning,"--_Walter S. Landor_. - -WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, the celebrated English poet and prose writer, was -born at Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, January 30, 1775, and died at -Florence, September 17, 1864. His best known works are: "The -Pentameron," "The Hellenics," "Popery, British and Foreign," "Poems," -"Antony and Octavius: Scenes for the Study," "Heroic Idylls, with -Additional Poems," and his most famous work, "Imaginary Conversations of -Literary Men and Statesmen." - - - Nur eine Mutter weiss allein, was lieben heisst und glücklich - sein.[8] - - "Frauen Liebe und Leben," 7.--_A. von Chamisso_. - -ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO, a famous German lyrist, was born at the castle of -Boncourt Champagne, January 30, 1781, and died at Berlin, August 21, -1838. His most celebrated work is "Peter Schlemihl," which has been -translated into all the principal languages of Europe. - - - When thou a fast would'st keep, - Make not thy homage cheap, - By publishing its signs to every eye; - But let it be between - Thyself and the Unseen, - So shall it gain acceptance from on high. - - --_Bernard Barton_. - -BERNARD BARTON, a noted English poet, was born in Carlisle, January 31, -1784, and died in Woodbridge, February 19, 1849. He published: "Metrical -Effusions," "Devotional Verses," "Household Verses," etc. - - - Gather leaves and grasses, - Love, to-day; - For the Autumn passes - Soon away. - Chilling winds are blowing - It will soon be snowing. - - "Gather Leaves and Grasses,"--_John Henry Boner_. - -JOHN HENRY BONER, a well-known American poet and literary worker, was -born at Salem, N. C., January 31, 1845, and died in 1903. He is best -remembered for his volume of verse, "Whispering Pines." - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. - -[2] Tears are sorrow's sacred right. - -[3] So far had the pen under the king the superiority over the sword. - -[4] They say that the best counsel, is that of woman. - -[5] Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. - -[6] Everything ends with songs. - -[7] - - To-morrow, to-morrow, not to-day, - Hear the lazy people say. - -[8] "Only a mother knows what it is to love and be happy." - - - - -FEBRUARY - - - - -FEBRUARY - - - An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, - independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the - end to which the action leads. - - --_Whately_. - -RICHARD WHATELY, a distinguished English clergyman and educator, -archbishop of Dublin, was born in London, February 1, 1787, and died in -Dublin, October 8, 1863. His writings include: "Elements of Logic," "A -General View of the Rise, Progress, and Corruptions of Christianity," -"The Use and Abuse of Party Feeling in Matters of Religion," "Bacon's -Essays, with Annotations," "Miscellaneous Lectures and Reviews," etc. - - - Small habits well pursued betimes - May reach the dignity of crimes. - - "Florio," Part i--_Hannah More_. - -HANNAH MORE, a celebrated English religious writer, was born at -Stapleton, Gloucestershire, February 2, 1745, and died at Clifton, -September 7, 1833. She wrote: "Practical Piety," "Religion of the -Fashionable World," "Sacred Dramas," "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain," -etc. - - - Look up! the wide extended plain - Is billowy with its ripened grain, - And on the summer winds are rolled - Its waves of emerald and gold. - - "The Harvest," Call St. 5,--_Wm. Henry Burleigh_. - -WILLIAM HENRY BURLEIGH, a noted American poet and journalist was born in -Woodstock, Conn., February 2, 1812, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March -18, 1871. A collection of his poems was published in 1840. - - - The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, - has probably pervaded all ages. - - "The American Conflict,"--_Horace Greeley_. - -HORACE GREELEY, a famous American editor and controversial writer, was -born in Amherst, N. H., February 3, 1811, and died in New York, November -29, 1872. He wrote: "Glances at Europe," "The American Conflict," -"Recollections of a Busy Life," etc. - - - The strength of affection is a proof not of the worthiness of the - object, but of the largeness of the soul which loves. - - --_F. W. Robertson_. - -FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON, a distinguished English clergyman, was born -in London, February 3, 1816, and died at Brighton, August 15, 1853. His -works were collected and published after his death under the following -titles: "Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians," -"Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics," "Notes on -Genesis," "Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton." - - - Shelley had many merits and many defects. This is not the place - for a complete or indeed for any estimate of him. But one - excellence is most evident. His words are as flexible as any - words; the rhythm of some modulating air seems to move them into - their place without a struggle by the poet, and almost his - knowledge. This is the perfection of true art. - - "Literary Studies," Vol. II.--_Walter Bagehot_. - -WALTER BAGEHOT, a famous English writer on political economy and -government, was born in Langport, Somersetshire, February 3, 1826, and -died there March 24, 1877. He wrote: "The English Constitution," -"Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market," "Literary Studies," -etc. His complete works were published in 1889. - - - The incalculable Up and Down of Time, - - "Clover,"--_Sidney Lanier_. - -SIDNEY LANIER, a celebrated American poet, was born at Macon, Ga., -February 3, 1842, and died at Lynn, N. C., September 7, 1881. He wrote: -"The English Novel and the Principles of its Development," "The Science -of English Verse," etc. His poems were collected and published after his -death. - - - Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or - domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to - eternity. - - --_Mark Hopkins_. - -MARK HOPKINS, a distinguished American educator and religious and -ethical writer, was born at Stockbridge, Mass., February 4, 1802; and -died at Williamstown, Mass., June 17, 1887. Among his works are: -"Evidences of Christianity," "The Law of Love, and Love as a Law," "An -Outline Study of Man," etc. - - - In depth and variety of coloring, in richness of matter, - profundity of thought, and heedlessness of conventional canons, - "Cymbeline" has few rivals among Shakespeare's plays. Fascinating - as it is, however, this tragi-comedy has never been very popular - on the stage. The great public, indeed, has neither studied nor - understood it. - - "William Shakespeare, A Critical Study," Vol. II, - p. 323.--_George Brandes_. - -GEORGE MORRIS COHEN BRANDES, a distinguished Danish man of letters, was -born at Copenhagen, February 4, 1842. He wrote: "Critiques and -Portraits," "French Aesthetics in Our Day," "The Idea of Fate Among the -Ancients," and his masterpiece, "Main Currents of 19th Century -Literature." Also, "Men of the Modern Revival," "A Study of Ibsen," -"Goethe," "Poems," "English: Main Currents," "Eminent Authors," -"Poland," "Recollections of My Childhood and Youth," "Complete Works," -(21 vols.), "Voltaire," "Caesar," (2 vols.), "The World War," etc. - - - No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains - To tax our labours and excise our brains. - - "Night," Line 271,--_Charles Churchill_. - -CHARLES CHURCHILL, a famous English satirical poet, was born in -Westminster, February 5, 1731, and died at Boulogne, November 4, 1764. -He wrote: "The Farewell," "The Ghost," "The Conference," "The Author," -"The Prophecy of Famine," and "The Rosciad," the satire that won his -fame. - - - Up the River of Death - Sailed the Great Admiral! - - "The River Fight,"--_Henry H. Brownell_. - -HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL, a noted American poet and writer of historical -sketches, was born at Providence, R. I., February 6, 1820, and died at -East Hartford, Conn., October 31, 1872. He published his many verses in -"Lyrics of a Day, or Newspaper Poetry by a Volunteer in the U. S. -Service." In "The Bay Fight" he describes the battle of Mobile Bay. - - - Look when the clouds are blowing - And all the winds are free: - In fury of their going - They fall upon the sea. - But though the blast is frantic, - And though the tempest raves, - The deep immense Atlantic - Is still beneath the waves. - - "Wind, Moon and Tides,"--_Frederic William Henry Myers_. - -FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY MYERS, a distinguished English poet and critic, -was born at Duffield, England, February 6, 1843, and died January 17, -1901. He has written: "Science and a Future Life," "Renewal of Youth and -Other Poems," "Essays, Modern and Classical," "St. Paul," "English Men -of Letters," etc. Also a posthumous work called "Human Personality and -Its Survival of Bodily Death," (2 vols.), 1903. - - - Sir Thomas More advised an author, who had sent him his manuscript - to read, "to put it in rhyme." Which being done, Sir Thomas said, - "Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it - was neither rhyme nor reason." - - --_Sir Thomas More_. - -SIR THOMAS MORE, the great English statesman and miscellaneous writer, -was born in London, February 7, 1478, and was executed July 6, 1535. He -wrote: "History of Richard III," "Life of John Picus, Earl of -Mirandola," and "Utopia" (which was his most celebrated work), etc. - - - Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, - That creepeth o'er ruins old! - Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, - In his cell so lone and cold. - Creeping where no life is seen, - A rare old plant is the ivy green. - - "Pickwick Papers," Chap. vi,--_Charles Dickens_. - -CHARLES DICKENS, one of the most famous of English novelists, was born -at Landport, in Portsea, February 7, 1812, and died June 9, 1870. His -most famous works are: "Oliver Twist," "Pickwick Papers," "Sketches by -Boz," "Nicholas Nickleby," "Old Curiosity Shop," "A Christmas Carol," -"American Notes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Chimes," "Pictures -from Italy," "Dombey and Son," "The Battle of Life," "David -Copperfield," "The Haunted Man," "Bleak House," "Little Dorrit," "A -Child's History of England," "Great Expectations," "A Tale of Two -Cities," "Hard Times," "Our Mutual Friend," etc. - - - We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from - Homer.... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is - commonly best. - - "Democritus to the Reader,"--_Robert Burton_. - -ROBERT BURTON, a famous English writer, was born at Lindley, -Leicestershire, February 8, 1577, and died January 25, 1640. His -greatest work was: "Anatomy of Melancholy." - - - It is not written, blessed is he that feedeth the poor, but he - that considereth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness - are often worth more than a great deal of money. - - --_John Ruskin_. - -JOHN RUSKIN, the renowned English essayist and critic, was born in -London, February 8, 1819, and died January 20, 1900. His principal works -are: "The Seven Lamps of Architecture," "Modern Painters," "The Stones -of Venice," "Elements of Drawing," "The Two Paths," "Political Economy -of Art," "Lectures on Art," "The Art of England," "Verona and Other -Lectures," "Sesame and Lilies," "Munera Pulveris," "The Crown of Wild -Olive," "Love's Meinie," "The Eagle's Nest," "The Queen of the Air," -"Arrows of the Chace," "Proserpina," "The King of the Golden River," -etc. - - - Hold the fort! I am coming! - - Signalled to General Corse in Allatoona from the top of Kenesaw, - Oct. 5, 1864, - - --_William Tecumseh Sherman_. - -WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN, one of the greatest of American generals, was -born in Lancaster, O., February 8, 1820, and died in New York City, -February 14, 1891. He published: "Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman by -Himself" (2 vols.). - - - O white and midnight sky, O starry bath, - Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood: - Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath-- - Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood! - - "The Celestial Passion,"--_Richard Watson Gilder_. - -RICHARD WATSON GILDER, a distinguished American poet, was born in -Bordentown, N. J., February 8, 1844, and died in 1909. His works -include: "Two Worlds and Other Poems," "Five Books of Song," "Lyrics," -"The New Day," "The Great Remembrance and Other Poems," and "The -Celestial Passion." - - - What man supremely admires in man is manhood. The valiant man - alone has power to awaken the enthusiastic love of us all. - - "Life of Andrew Jackson,"--_James Parton_. - -JAMES PARTON, a famous American writer, was born at Canterbury, England, -February 9, 1822, and died at Newburyport, Mass., October 17, 1891. A -few of his works are: "Life and Times of Aaron Burr," "General Butler in -New Orleans," "Life of Thomas Jefferson," "Famous Americans of Recent -Times," "Life of Horace Greeley," "Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin," -"Life of Voltaire," "Humorous Poetry of the English Language," "Topics -of the Time," etc. - - - "Bourgeois," I observed, "is an epithet which the riff-raff apply - to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent." - - "Dolly Dialogues,"--_Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins_. - -SIR ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS ("Anthony Hope") a celebrated English author -was born February 9, 1863. Among his works are: "The Prisoner of Zenda," -"The Dolly Dialogues," "Rupert of Hentzau," "Double Harness," "The Great -Miss Driver," "A Young Man's Year," "Beaumaroy Home from the Wars," -"Lucinda," etc. Plays: "The Adventure of Lady Ursula," "Pilkerton's -Peerage," etc. - - - I have had playmates, I have had companions, - In my days of childhood, in my joyful schooldays. - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. - - "Old Familiar Faces,"--_Charles Lamb_. - -CHARLES LAMB, the great English essayist, was born in London, February -10, 1775, and died at Edmonton, December 27, 1834. Among his essays may -be mentioned: "Essays of Elia," "Last Essays of Elia," and his famous -work, "Tales from the Plays of Shakespeare" (Mary and Charles Lamb). - - - Too fair to worship, too divine to love. - - "The Belvedere Apollo,"--_Henry Hart Milman_. - -HENRY HART MILMAN, a celebrated English clergyman, historian, and poet, -was born in London, February 10, 1791, and died near Ascot, September -24, 1868. He wrote: "Fall of Jerusalem," "History of Christianity under -the Empire," "History of the Jews," and his most important work, "The -History of Latin Christianity down to the Death of Pope Nicholas V." - - - High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day. - - "The Shipwreck," Canto I, III; L. 3,--_Falconer_. - -WILLIAM FALCONER, a noted Scotch poet, was born February 11, 1732, and -died in 1769. He wrote: "The Demagogue," a "Universal Dictionary of the -Marine," and numerous odes, satires and poems; the most famous of his -poems being "The Shipwreck." - - - Genius hath electric power - Which earth can never tame, - Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower, - Its flash is still the same. - - "Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage,"--_Lydia M. Child_. - -LYDIA MARIA CHILD, a famous American prose-writer, was born in Medford, -Mass., February 11, 1802, and died in Wayland, Mass., October 20, 1880. -Among her numerous works may be mentioned, "Philothea," "Fact and -Fiction," "Looking Toward Sunset," "Miria: A Romance of the Republic," -"Hobomok," "Aspirations of the World," etc. - - - Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us - to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. - - "Address," Cooper Union, New York City, Feb. 27, 1860,--_Abraham - Lincoln_. - -ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the great "War President," was born in Hardin County, -Ky., February 12, 1809, and died at Washington, D. C., April 15, 1865. -His "Address," at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, -Pa., and his "Second Inaugural Address," won for him everlasting fame. - - - We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for - Existence. - - "The Origin of Species," Chap. iii,--_Charles Robert Darwin_. - -CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, the famous English naturalist and philosopher, -was born at Shrewsbury, February 12, 1809, and died April 19, 1882. He -wrote: "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex," "The -Expression of the Emotions in Men and Animals," "A Naturalist's Voyage," -"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," etc. - - - God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman. - - "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel,"--_George Meredith_. - -GEORGE MEREDITH, a noted British novelist and poet, was born at -Portsmouth, Hampshire, February 12, 1828, and died May 18, 1909. Some of -his famous works are: "Evan Harrington," "Harry Richmond," "Ordeal of -Richard Feverel," "Rhoda Fleming," "Vittoria," "The Adventures of Harry -Richmond," "Beauchamp's Career," "The Egoist," "The Tragic Comedians," -"Diana of the Crossways," "Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth," -"Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life," "A Reading of Earth," "One of Our -Conquerors," "The Amazing Marriage," etc. - - - Ils n'out rien appris, ni rien oublié.[1] - - --_Talleyrand_. - -CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD, a celebrated French diplomat, -was born at Paris, February 13, 1754, and died at Valencay, May 17, -1838. His "Memoirs" were first published in 1891-92 in (5 vols.); his -"Correspondence with Louis XVIII, during the Congress of Vienna," in -1881, his "Diplomatic Correspondence," in 1889-91 in (3 vols.) and -"Unpublished Letters of Talleyrand to Napoleon, 1800-1809," in 1889. - - - O golden Silence, bid our souls be still, - And on the foolish fretting of our care - Lay thy soft touch of healing unaware! - - "Silence,"--_Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr_. - -MRS. JULIA CAROLINE (RIPLEY) DORR, a noted American poet and novelist, -was born in Charleston, S. C., February 13, 1825, and died in 1913. Her -works include: "Afternoon Songs," "Daybreak, an Easter Poem," "Poems," -"Lanmere," "Expiation," "Farmingdale," "Bermuda," "Sibyl Huntington," -and "A Cathedral Pilgrimage." - - - Oh, for the simple life, - For tents and starry skies! - - "Aspiration,"--_Israel Zangwill_. - -ISRAEL ZANGWILL, a renowned English-Jewish novelist, was born in London, -February 14, 1864. He has published: "The Premier and the Painter," "The -Bachelors' Club," "The Big Bow Mystery," "The Old Maids' Club," -"Children of the Ghetto," "Merely Mary Ann," "Ghetto Tragedies," "The -Master," "The King of Schnorrers," "Without Prejudice," "The Mantle of -Elijah," "The Next Religion," "Plaster Saints." - - - Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign - masters--pain and pleasure. - - --_Jeremy Bentham_. - -JEREMY BENTHAM, a distinguished English writer on ethics and -jurisprudence, was born February 15, 1748, and died in 1832. His -collected works (11 volumes) were published in 1843, and include: "A -Fragment on Government," "View of the Hard Labor Bill," "Rationale of -Punishment and Rewards," "Introduction to the Principles of Morals and -Legislation," "The Panopticon, or the Inspection House," "Manual of -Political Economy," "Poor Laws and Pauper Management," "Constitutional -Code," etc. - - - A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the - world. - - --_R. W. Griswold_. - -RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD, a distinguished American journalist and -prose-writer, born in Benson, Vt., February 15, 1815, and died in New -York, August 27, 1857. His works include: "Poets and Poetry of America," -"Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century," "Prose Writers -of America," "Female Poets of America," etc. - - - Up anchor! Up anchor! - Set sail and away! - The ventures of dreamland - Are thine for a day. - - "Dreamland,"--_Silas Weir Mitchell_. - -SILAS WEIR MITCHELL, a distinguished American physician, poet and -novelist, was born in Philadelphia, February 15, 1829, and died January -4, 1914. He has written: "In War Time," "Poems," "Hephzibah Guinness, -and Other Stories," "Hugh Wynne," "The Adventures of François," "The Red -City," "Westways," "Complete Poems," etc. - - - Noth lehrt auch die Könige beten.[2] - - "Der Trompeter von Säkkingen, Drittes Stuck,"--_Scheffel_. - -JOSEPH VIKTOR VON SCHEFFEL, an eminent German poet and novelist, was -born at Karlsruhe, February 16, 1826, and died April 9, 1886. He wrote: -"Gaudeamus," "Ekkehard," "Mountain Psalms," and his famous epic poem, -"The Trumpeter of Säkkingen," which won for him great fame, and has -reached more than 250 editions. - - - It is probable that for many millions of years but one climate - prevailed over the whole earth, which very closely resembled, or - even surpassed the hottest tropical climate of the present day. - - "Change of Climate and its Influence on Life," from "History of - Creation."--_Ernst Heinrich Haeckel_. - -ERNST HAECKEL, a renowned German naturalist, was born at Potsdam, -February 16, 1834, and died in 1919. Among his most famous works are: -"On the Division of Labor in Nature and Human Life," "On the Origin and -Genealogy of the Human Race," "Life in the Great Marine Animals," "The -Arabian Corals," "The System of the Medusa," "A Visit to Ceylon," -"Riddle of the Universe," "Natural History of Creation," "Souvenirs of -Algeria," "Monoism as Connected with Religion and Science," etc. - - - Darlings of the forest! - Blossoming alone - When Earth's grief is sorest - For her jewels gone-- - Ere the last snow-drift melts, your tender buds are blown. - - "Trailing Arbutus,"--_Rose Terry Cooke_. - -MRS. ROSE (TERRY) COOKE, a noted American poet and short-story writer, -was born at West Hartford, Conn., February 17, 1827, and died at -Pittsfield, Mass., July 18, 1892. Her complete poems were published in -1888, and her stories were published in book form under the titles: -"Somebody's Neighbors," "Root-Bound," "The Sphinx's Children," "Happy -Dodd," "Huckleberries," "Steadfast," a novel, appeared in 1889. - - - He [Hampden] had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a - hand to execute any mischief. - - "History of the Rebellion," Vol. iii, Book vii,--_Edward Hyde - Clarendon_. - -EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON, a celebrated English historian and -statesman, was born at Dinton, Wiltshire, February 18, 1609, and died at -Rouen, France, December 9, 1674. His famous works are: "History of the -Civil War in Ireland," "History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in -England," "Essay on an Active and Contemplative Life." - - - The earth is not the center of the universe. - - --_Copernicus_. - -NICOLAS COPERNICUS, a famous Polish astronomer, was born at Thorn, -Poland, February 19, 1473, and died at Frauenburg, Prussia, May 24, -1543. He wrote: "Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs (De Orbium -Coelestium Revolutionibus)." - - - I'm growing old, I'm sixty years; - I've labored all my life in vain. - In all that time of hopes and fears, - I've failed my dearest wish to gain. - I see full well that here below - Bliss unalloyed there is for none - My prayer would else fulfilment know-- - Never have I seen Carcassonne! - - "Carcassonne," Translated by John Reuben Thompson, Stanza - i,--_Gustave Nadaud_. - -GUSTAVE NADAUD, a well-known French composer and song-writer, was born -in Roubaix, February 20, 1820, and died in Paris, April 28, 1893. He -wrote a novel, "An Idyll," and published "Songs," "More Songs," -"Unpublished Songs," and "New Songs." - - - Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, - Lead thou me on! - The night is dark, and I am far from home: - Lead thou me on: - Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see - The distant scene: one step enough for me. - - "The Pillar of the Cloud,"--_John Henry Newman_. - -JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, a celebrated religious writer, first in the Church of -England, and later in the Roman Catholic Church, was born in London, -February 21, 1801, and died at Birmingham, August 11, 1890. His -principal works are: "Five Letters on Church Reform," "St. Bartholomew's -Eve," "Plain and Parochial Sermons," "Loss and Gain," "Verses on -Religious Subjects," "Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent," "Lectures on -Justification," "The Arians of the Fourth Century," "Tracts for the -Times," "Hymns for the Use of the Birmingham Oratory," and "Apologia pro -Vita Sua," his most celebrated work. - - - John Smith was the most picturesque figure in the early history of - America; and his writings are like him--bold, free, highly - colored. - - "An Introduction to the Study of American Literature," - (1896),--_Brander Matthews_. - -(JAMES) BRANDER MATTHEWS, a famous American author, was born in New -Orleans, February 21, 1852. Among his works may be mentioned: "French -Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century," "With My Friends," "Studies of -the Stage," "Bookbindings, Old and New," "Introduction to the Study of -American Literature," "Aspects of Fiction," "A Confident To-morrow," -"The Historical Novel," "Parts of Speech," "Essays in English," -"Development of the Drama," "Recreations of an Anthologist," "Inquiries -and Opinions," "The American of the Future," "A Study of the Drama," -"Molière," "Shakespeare as a Playwright," "These Many Years," etc. - - - To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of - preserving peace. - - "Speech to both Houses of Congress," Jan. 8, 1790,--_George - Washington_. - -GEORGE WASHINGTON, the illustrious American statesman and first -President of the United States, was born at Pope's Creek, Westmoreland -County, Va., February 22, 1732, and died at Mt. Vernon, Va., December -14, 1799. - - - Natural ability can almost compensate for the want of every kind - of cultivation; but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the - want of natural ability. - - --_Schopenhauer_. - -ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, a renowned German philosopher, was born at Dantzic, -February 22, 1788, and died at Frankfort-on-the-Main, September, 1860. -He wrote: "The Fourfold Root of the Principle of the Sufficient Cause," -"The World as Will and Representation," "On Vision and Colors," "The Two -Fundamental Problems of Ethic," "Parerga and Paralipomena," etc. - - - And while the wicket falls behind - Her steps, I thought if I could find - A wife I need not blush to show - I've little further now to go. - - --_William Barnes_. - -WILLIAM BARNES, a celebrated English poet and philologist, was born in -Dorsetshire, February 22, 1800, and died in Winterbourne Came, in -October, 1886. He wrote many works on philology, and a series of "Poems -of Rural Life in Dorsetshire Dialect," "Poems of Rural Life," etc. - - - No man is born into the world whose work - Is not born with him. There is always work, - And tools to work withal, for those who will; - And blessed are the horny hands of toil. - - "A Glance behind the Curtain,"--_James Russell Lowell_. - -JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, the great American poet and critic, was born at -Cambridge, Mass., February 22, 1819, and died there August 12, 1891. -Some of his works are: "The Bigelow Papers," "A Year's Life," "Poems," -"Under the Willows and Other Poems," "My Study Windows," "Among My -Books," "Latest Literary Essays and Addresses," "Heartsease and Rue," -"Political Essays," "Democracy, and Other Addresses." - - - Nearer, my God, to Thee! - Nearer to Thee! - E'en though it be a cross - That raiseth me. - Still all my song shall be, - Nearer, my God, to Thee! - Nearer to Thee! - - "Nearer, my God, to Thee!"--_Sara Flower Adams_. - -SARA FLOWER ADAMS, a noted English hymn-writer, was born at Great -Harlow, Essex, February 22, 1805, and died August, 1848. She wrote many -lyrics and hymns, the most popular of which is "Nearer, My God, to -Thee!" - - - Never yet was a springtime - Late though lingered the snow, - That the sap stirred not at the whisper - Of the southwind, sweet and low; - Never yet was a springtime, - When the buds forgot to blow. - - "Awakening,"--_Margaret Elizabeth Sangster_. - -MARGARET ELIZABETH (MUNSON) SANGSTER, a celebrated American poet and -prose-writer, was born in New Rochelle, N. Y., February 22, 1838, and -died in 1912. Among her writings are: "May Stanhope and her Friend," -"Little Kingdom of Home," "Good Manners for all Occasions," "Radiant -Motherhood," "Easter Bells," "Little Knight and Ladies," "Lyrics of -Love," "Fairest Girlhood," "Eleanor Lee," "A Little Book of Homespun -Verse," "Women of the Bible," "The Story Bible," "From My Youth Up--an -Autobiography," "My Garden of Hearts," and her famous poems, "Our Own" -and "Are the Children at Home?" - - - To St. Paul's Church Yard to my book-sellers ... choose ... - "Hudibras," both parts, the book now in greatest fashion for - drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit - lies. - - "_Diary_," Dec. 10, 1663,--_Samuel Pepys_. - -SAMUEL PEPYS, a famous English diarist, was born in London, February 23, -1633, and died there May 26, 1703. His fame rests on the remarkable -"Diary" that bears his name. - - - Rocked in the cradle of the deep - I lay me down in peace to sleep; - Secure I rest upon the wave, - For Thou, O Lord! hast power to save. - I know Thou wilt not slight my call, - For Thou dost mark the sparrow's fall, - And calm and peaceful shall I sleep, - Rocked in the cradle of the deep. - - "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," Stanza I,--_Emma (Hart) - Willard_. - -EMMA (HART) WILLARD, a noted American educator, historian, and poet, was -born at New Berlin, Conn., February 23, 1787, and died at Troy, N. Y., -April 15, 1870. She has written: "A History of the United States," -"Universal History in Perspective," etc. She also wrote: "Rocked in the -Cradle of the Deep," and much other verse. - - - By one great Heart, the Universe is stirred: - By Its strong pulse, stars climb the darkening blue; - It throbs in each fresh sunset's changing hue, - And thrills through low sweet song of every bird. - - "Life,"--_Margaret Deland_. - -MARGARET WADE DELAND, a famous American author, was born at Allegheny, -Pa., February 23, 1857. She has written: "John Ward, Preacher," "The Old -Garden and Other Verses," "Old Chester Tales," "Dr. Lavendar's People," -"The Common Way," "The Awakening of Helena Richie," "An Encore," "The -Iron Woman," "The Voice," "Partners," "The Hands of Esau," "Around Old -Chester," "The Rising Tide," etc. - - - While we read history we make history. - - "The Call of Freedom,"--_George William Curtis_. - -GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, a distinguished American author, was born in -Providence, R. I., February 24, 1824, and died at Staten Island, August -31, 1892. His works include: "The Howadji in Syria," "Nile Notes of a -Howadji," "Manners upon the Road," "Lotus Eating," "Prue and I," -"Potiphar Papers," "Trumps," etc. - - - If Goldsmith had to struggle socially against the disadvantages of - poverty, intellectually it cannot be doubted that poverty very - amply compensated him. His circumstances forced him to be an - unwilling spectator of scenes, and the companion of men of whom - affluence or his laziness would have kept him ignorant. His - "Citizen of the World," indeed, is an epitome of London life as it - was exhibited to the observer of that age. - - "Goldsmith and La Bruyère," _The Argosy_, p. 265,--_William - Clark Russell_. - -WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL, a noted English-American novelist, was born in -New York City, February 24, 1844, and died in 1911. Among his numerous -sea stories and novels are: "The Wreck of the Grosvenor," "A Sailor's -Sweetheart," "My Watch Below," "A Sea Queen," "Jack's Courtship," "A -Strange Voyage," "The Frozen Pirate," "The Death Ship," "Marooned," "The -Romance of Jenny Harlowe," "The Good Ship Mohock," "Overdue," "The -Ship's Adventure," "Abandoned," "Voyage at Anchor," "Yarn of Old Harbor -Town," etc. - - - All flowers, it would seem, were in their earliest form yellow; - then some of them became white; after that a few of them grew to - be red or purple; and finally, a comparatively small number - acquired various shades of violet, mauve, lilac, or blue. - - "The Colors of Flowers,"--_Grant Allen_. - -GRANT ALLEN (CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIE ALLEN), a celebrated English -naturalist, essayist, and novelist, was born in Kingstone, Canada, -February 24, 1848, and died October 24, 1899. His most noted works are -"The Devil's Die," "Under Sealed Orders," "Recalled to Life," "The -Woman Who Did," "Strange Stories," "The British Barbarians," "Science in -Arcady," "Vignettes from Nature," "Colin Clout's Calendar," "The Color -Sense," "Colors of Flowers," "Flowers and Their Pedigrees," "Force and -Nature," etc. - - - Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta.[3] - - "Pamela," I, 3,--_Goldoni_. - -CARLO GOLDONI, a noted Italian comedy-writer, was born in Venice, -February 25, 1707, and died at Paris, January 6, 1793. He wrote: "The -Good Father," "The Singer," "Pamela," "Belisarius," "The Venetian -Gondolier," "Rosamond," and "The Coffee House." - - - Let us reckon upon the future. A time will come when the science - of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the - genius which multiplies our powers--which creates new - products--which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great - mass of the people--shall occupy in the general estimation of - mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it. - - "Eloge on James Watt."--_Arago_. - -DOMINIQUE FRANÇOIS ARAGO, an eminent French astronomer and physicist, -was born near Perpignan, February 26, 1786, and died in Paris, October -2, 1853. Among his publications are: "Popular Lectures on Astronomy," -"Meteorological Essays," "Biographies of Scientific Men," and his own -"Autobiography." - - - A queen devoid of beauty is not queen; - She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. - - "Eviradnus," V,--_Victor Hugo_. - -VICTOR HUGO, the great French novelist, was born at Besançon, February -26, 1802, and died at Paris, May 22, 1885. His most famous works are: -"Odes and Ballads," "New Odes," "The Orientals," "Various Odes and -Poems," "Twilight Songs," "Inner Voices," "Sunbeams and Shadows," -"Autumn Leaves," "Songs of the Streets and Woods," "The Four Winds of -the Spirit," "The Legend of the Ages," "Notre Dame de Paris," "The Last -Day of a Condemned Man," "Claude Gueux," "Napoleon the Little," "Les -Misérables," "The Man Who Laughs," "Acts and Words," "History of a -Crime," "The Toilers of the Sea," etc. Also numerous plays, among them, -"Amy Robsart," "Cromwell," "Hernani," "Lucretia Borgia," "Marie Tudor," -and "Esmeralda." - - - These deeper questions cannot be treated in this short appendix to - Descartes' life. They are mentioned here merely to show how he was - to modern thought what Socrates was to Greek philosophy. Far - greater, too, was he than Socrates, in the range of his influence. - In every department of his thinking--in his first philosophy, his - theology, his physics, his psychology, his physiology--he sowed - the dragon's teeth from which sprang hosts of armed men, to join - in an intellectual conflict, internecine, let us trust, to their - many errors and prejudices, but fraught with new life and energy - to the intellectual progress of Europe. - - "Descartes,"--_John Pentland Mahaffy_. - -JOHN PENTLAND MAHAFFY, a distinguished Irish classical scholar and -historian, was born at Chapponnaire, Switzerland, February 26, 1839, and -died in 1919. Among his publications are: "Social Life in Greece," -"Rambles and Studies in Greece," "Greek Life and Thought," "Greece Under -Roman Sway," "History of Classical Greek Literature," "The Silver Age of -the Greek World," "The Empire of the Ptolemies," etc. - - - Sail, on, O Ship of State! - Sail on, O Union, strong and great! - Humanity with all its fears, - With all the hopes of future years - Is hanging breathless on thy fate! - - "_The Building of the Ship_,"--_Longfellow_. - -HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, one of the greatest of American poets, was -born at Portland, Me., February 27, 1807, and died at Cambridge, Mass., -March 24, 1882. His celebrated works include: "Voices of the Night," -"Hyperion," "Poems on Slavery," "Ballads and Other Poems," "The Spanish -Student," "Poets and Poetry of Europe," "Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie," -"The Seaside and the Fireside," "The Golden Legend," "A Volume of -Poems," "Song of Hiawatha," "Poems," "Courtship of Miles Standish," -"Tales of a Wayside Inn," "A New England Tragedy," "Excelsior," "The -Skeleton in Armor," "The Building of a Ship," etc. - - - A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment - has come for the mountain to fall. - - --_Ernest Renan_. - -JOSEPH ERNEST RENAN, the renowned French Semitic-Orientalist; historian, -philologist, and essayist, was born at Treguier, Brittany, February 27, -1823, and died at Paris, October 2, 1892. Among his numerous works may -be mentioned: "General History of the Semitic Languages," "The Life of -Jesus," "Marcus Aurelius," "Studies in Religious History," "Questions of -the Day," "Recollections of My Youth," "New Studies in Religious -History," "Discourses and Conferences," "Dialogue of the Dead," "The -Song of Songs," and "Ecclesiastes." - - - Samuel Pepys stands at the head of the world's literature in his - own department.... Pepys' "_Diary_" has been frequently compared - with Boswell's "_Life of Johnson_," and with justice in so far as - the charm of each arises from the inimitable naïveté of the - author's self-revelations. Boswell had a much greater character - than his own to draw, but Pepys had to be his own Johnson. It is - giving him no excessive praise to say that he makes himself as - interesting as Johnson and Boswell together.... Another Milton is - more likely to appear than another Pepys. - - "The Age of Dryden,"--_Richard Garnett_. - -RICHARD GARNETT, a noted English librarian and author, was born at -Litchfield, February 27, 1835, and died April 13, 1906. He wrote: -"Primula," "Io in Egypt," "Idylls and Epigrams," "The Queen and Other -Poems," "Collected Poems," "The Twilight of the Gods," "A Short History -of Italian Literature," "Essays in Librarianship and Bibliophily," etc. - - - You hail from Dreamland, Dragon-fly? - A stranger hither? So am I - And (sooth to say) I wonder why - We either of us came! - - "To a Dragon-fly,"--_Agnes M. F. R. Darmesteter_. - -AGNES M. F. R. DARMESTETER, a distinguished English poet, was born in -Leamington, February 27, 1857. Her writings include: "A Handful of -Honeysuckle," "Lyrics," "Retrospect," "Arden," a novel, "Emily Brontë," -"The New Arcadia and Other Poems," "An Italian Garden, a Book of Songs," -"The End of the Middle Ages," "Essays and Questions in History," "Life -of Renan," "Collected Poems," "The Fields of France," "The Return to -Nature," "The French Ideal," "Twentieth Century French Writers," "Madame -de Sévigne," etc. - - - How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation! - - "Of Glory," Chap. xvi.--_Montaigne_. - -MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE, the illustrious French moral philosopher, -was born at Château Montaigne, Perigord, February 28, 1533, and died -September 13, 1592. His remarkable "Essays" won for him world-wide fame. - - - In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; - the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird--all is - there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a - relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise. - - --_Auerbach_. - -BERTHOLD AUERBACH, a renowned German novelist, was born at Nordstetten, -Wurtemberg, February 28, 1812, and died at Cannes, France, February 8, -1882. He wrote: "The Educated Citizen, a Book for the Thinking Human -Mind," "Poet and Merchant," "Spinoza," "The Professor's Lady," "Little -Barefoot," "Joseph in the Snow," "Edelweiss," "New Life," "The Head -Forester," "The Villa on the Rhine," "Waldfried, a Family History," -"Black Forest Village Stories," "After Thirty Years," and his most noted -work, "On the Heights." - - - The first, and perhaps the final impression we receive from the - work of Robert Browning is that of a great nature, an immense - personality. - - "Introduction to the Study of Browning,"--_Arthur Symons_. - -ARTHUR SYMONS, a celebrated writer of prose and verse, was born in -Wales, February 28, 1865. His publications include: "An Introduction to -the Study of Browning," "Days and Nights," "Silhouettes," "London -Nights," "Amoris Victima," "Studies in Two Literatures," "The Symbolist -Movement in Literature," "Images of Good and Evil," "Collected Poems," -"Plays, Acting, and Music," "Cities," "Studies in Prose and Verse," -"Spiritual Adventures," "A Book of Twenty Songs," "The Fool of the -World," "Studies in Seven Arts," "Cities of Italy," "The Romantic -Movement in English Poetry," "Knave of Hearts," "Figures of Several -Centuries," "Tragedies," etc. - - - Take time enough: all other graces - Will soon fill up their proper places. - - "Advice to Preach Slow,"--_John Byrom_. - -JOHN BYROM, a noted English poet, and writer of hymns, was born at -Kersel Cell, near Manchester, February 29, 1692, and died in 1763. He -wrote a famous poem "Colin and Phoebe." A collection of his poems was -published in 1773. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] They have learned nothing, and they have forgotten nothing. - -[2] Danger teaches even kings to pray. - -[3] The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient. - - - - -MARCH - - - - -MARCH - - - That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without - speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness - in being together. - - --_George Ebers_. - -GEORGE MORITZ EBERS, a famous German Egyptologist and novelist, was born -at Berlin, March 1, 1837, and died August 7, 1898. Among his noted works -are: "The Sisters," "The Emperor," "Serapis," "Joshua," "Cleopatra," -"Homo Sum," "Uarda," "The Bride of the Nile," and "An Egyptian -Princess," his most celebrated work. - - - Until after the war we had no real novels in this country, except - "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This is one of the great novels of the world, - and of all time. Even the fact that slavery was done away with - does not matter; the interest in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," never will - pass, because the book is really as well as ideally true to human - nature, and nobly true. It is the only great novel of ours before - the war that I can think of. - - "My Favorite Novelist,"--_Munsey's Magazine_, Vol. 17, p. 22, - 1897.--_William Dean Howells_. - -WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, a celebrated American novelist and poet, was born -at Martinsville, O., March 1, 1837, and died in 1921. Among his numerous -works are: "Italian Journeys," "Poets and Poetry of the West," "Poems," -"A Day's Pleasure," "A Little Girl Among the Old Masters," "Indian -Summer," "Modern Italian Poets," "The Shadow of a Dream," "A Little -Swiss Sojourn," "My Year in a Log Cabin," "My Literary Passions," -"Impressions and Experiences," "A Previous Engagement," "Certain -Delightful English Towns," "Through the Eye of the Needle," -"Fennel and Rue," "Imaginary Interviews," "The Seen and Unseen in -Stratford-on-Avon," "Years of My Youth," "A Modern Instance," "The Lady -of the Aristook," "The Rise of Silas Lapham." - - - Much like a subtle spider which doth sit - In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; - If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, - She feels it instantly on every side. - - "The Immortality of the Soul,"--_Sir John Davies_. - -SIR JOHN DAVIES, a noted English poet and judge, was bom in Tisbury, -Wiltshire, March 2, 1570, and died December 7 or 8, 1626. He wrote: -"Know Thyself," "The Orchestra," and "Hymns to Astraea." - - - Of the generations of American statesmen that followed those of - the Revolutionary period, few will live as long in the memory of - the people, and none as long in the literature of the country, as - Daniel Webster. - - "Library of the World's Best Literature," 1897, ed. Warner, - Vol. 38, p. 15725.--_Carl Schurz_. - -CARL SCHURZ, a famous German-American journalist and statesman, was born -near Cologne, Prussia, March 2, 1829, and died in 1906. His most -celebrated speeches are: "The Irrepressible Conflict," "The Doom of -Slavery," "The Abolition of Slavery as a War Measure," "Life of Henry -Clay," "Eulogy on Charles Sumner," etc. - - - Go, lovely rose! - Tell her that wastes her time and me - That now she knows, - When I resemble her to thee, - How sweet and fair she seems to be. - - "Go, Lovely Rose,"--_Edmund Waller_. - -EDMUND WALLER, a renowned English poet and parliamentarian, was born at -Coleshill, March 3, 1605, and died at Beaconsfield, October 21, 1687. He -published a volume of poems in 1645, and another in 1664. - - - O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee - To temper man: we had been brutes without you. - Angels are painted fair, to look like you: - There's in you all that we believe of heaven,-- - Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, - Eternal joy, and everlasting love. - - "Venice Preserved," Act i, Sc. 1,--_Thomas Otway_. - -THOMAS OTWAY, a noted English dramatist, was born at Trotton, near -Midhurst, Sussex, March 3, 1652, and died in April, 1685. His famous -plays include "Don Carlos, Prince of Spain," "The Orphan, or the Unhappy -Marriage," "The History and Fall of Caius Marius," "Venice Preserved, or -a Plot Discover'd," etc. - - - When money represents many things, not to love it would be to love - nearly nothing. To forget true needs can be only a feeble - moderation; but to know the value of money and to sacrifice it - always, maybe to duty, maybe even to delicacy,--that is real - virtue. - - --_De Sénancour_. - -ETIENNE PIVERT DE SÉNANCOUR, a distinguished French writer, born at -Paris, March 4 (?), 1770, and died at St. Cloud, January 10, 1846. He -wrote: "Reveries on the Primitive State of Man," "Love According to -Primordial Laws, and According to the Conventions of Society," "Free -Meditations of an Unknown Solitary on Detachment from the World," -"Isabella," and "Obermann," his most celebrated work. - - - I have always believed that success would be the inevitable result - if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if - we sent the right man to fill the right place. - - "Speech in Parliament," January 15, 1855,--_Sir Austen Henry - Layard_. - -SIR AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD, a celebrated English traveler, was born at -Paris, March 5, 1817, and died July 5, 1894. Among his publications are: -"Nineveh and Babylon," "Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and -Babylonia," "Nineveh and Its Remains." - - - Deep brown eyes running over with glee; - Blue eyes are pale, and gray eyes are sober; - Bonnie brown eyes are the eyes for me. - - "October's Song,"--_Constance F. Woolson_. - -CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON, a well-known American poet and novelist, was -born at Claremont, N. H., March 5, 1848, and died at Venice, January, -1894. Her principal works are: "Rodman the Keeper," "For the Major," -"Anne," "East Angels," "Horace Chase," "Jupiter Lights," and "Castle -Nowhere." - - - As when, O lady mine! - With chiselled touch - The stone unhewn and cold - Becomes a living mould. - The more the marble wastes, - The more the statue grows. - - "Sonnet," Translation by Mrs. Henry Roscoe,--_Michelangelo_. - -MICHAELANGELO BUONAROTTI, one of the greatest of Italian sculptors and -poets, was born at Caprese, March 6, 1475, and died at Rome, February -18, 1564. His "Poems" were published in 1863, and a volume of "Letters" -in 1865. - - - God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, - And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, - A gauntlet with a gift in't. - - "Aurora Leigh, Book II,"--_Elizabeth Browning_. - -ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, a famous English poetess, was born in -Durham, March 6, 1809, and died in Florence, June 30, 1861. Her -principal poems are: "The Drama of Exile," "A Vision of Poets," "The -Seraphim," "Romance of the Swan's Nest," "Aurora Leigh," "The Cry of the -Children," "Lady Geraldine's Courtship," and "Sonnets from the -Portuguese." - - - A little work, a little play - To keep us going--and so good day! - - A little warmth, a little light - Of love's bestowing--and so, good night. - - A little fun, to match the sorrow - Of each day's growing--and so, good morrow! - - A little trust that when we die - We reap our sowing--and so, good bye! - - "Trilby,"--_George Du Maurier_. - -GEORGE DU MAURIER, a celebrated illustrator, cartoonist, and novelist, -was born in Paris, March 6, 1834, and died in London, October 8, 1896. -He wrote and illustrated three noted stories, "Peter Ibbetson," -"Trilby," and "The Martian." - - - The people are gaining upon Nathaniel Hawthorne's works. A century - hence, when the most popular authors of to-day are forgotten, he - will probably be more widely read than ever. - - --_Edward P. Roe_, 1888. - -EDWARD PAYSON ROE, a noted American novelist, was born in Orange County, -N. Y., March 7, 1838, and died at Cornwall, N. Y., July 19, 1888. He -wrote: "Barriers Burned Away," "What Can She Do?" "The Opening of a -Chestnut Burr," "From Jest to Earnest," "Near to Nature's Heart," "A -Knight of the Nineteenth Century," "A Face Illumined," "A Day of Fate," -"Without a Home," "A Young Girl's Wooing," "Nature's Serial Story," -"Driven Back to Eden," "He Fell in Love with His Wife," "A Hornet's -Nest," "Miss Lou," "Taken Alive, and Other Stories," etc. - - - The Roman Epic abounds in moral and poetical defects; nevertheless - it remains the most complete picture of the national mind at its - highest elevation; the most precious document of national history, - if the history of an age is recorded in its ideas, no less than in - its events and incidents. - - "History of the Romans under the Empire," Ch. - xli,--_C. Merivale_. - -CHARLES MERIVALE, a famous English historian, was born March 8, 1808, -and died December 27, 1893. He wrote: "General History of Rome from the -Foundation of the City to the Fall of Augustulus," and in 1862 he very -successfully translated Keats' "Hyperion" into Latin verse. - - - O Light divine! we need no fuller test - That all is ordered well; - We know enough to trust that all is best - Where Love and Wisdom dwell. - - "Oh, Love Supreme,"--_Christopher P. Cranch_. - -CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH, a noted American poet and artist, was born in -Alexandria, Va., March 8, 1813, and died in Cambridge, Mass., January -20, 1892. His publications include: "Poems," "The Last of the -Huggermuggers," and "Ariel and Caliban, with Other Poems." - - - Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as - well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that - is good, is its own reward. - - --_Whipple_. - -EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE, a distinguished American literary critic, was born -at Gloucester, Mass., March 8, 1819, and died in Boston, June 16, 1886. -He published: "Essays and Reviews" (2 vols. 1848-49), "Lectures on -Subjects Connected with Literature and Life," "Character and -Characteristic Men," "The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth," "Success -and Its Conditions." He also wrote: "Recollections of Eminent Men," -"American Literature and Other Papers," and "Outlooks on Society, -Literature, and Politics." The latter works were published after his -death. - - - Public credit means the contracting of debts which nations never - can pay. - - "Advice to Young Men,"--_William Cobbett_. - -WILLIAM COBBETT, a distinguished English essayist and political writer, -was born in Farnham, March 9, 1762, and died at Normandy Farm, near -Farnham, June, 1835. He wrote: "The Political Proteus," "Legacy to -Laborers," "Advice to Young Men," etc. - - - The historian is a prophet looking backward. - - --_Schlegel_. - -FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL, a celebrated German critic and philologist, was -born at Hanover, March 10, 1772, and died at Dresden, January 12, 1829. -Among his publications are: "History of Greek and Roman Poetry," "The -Greeks and Romans," "Fragments," "Poems," "Alarcos," "Language and -Wisdom of the Indians," "On the Schools of Grecian Poetry," "Modern -History," "History of Ancient and Modern Literature," "Philosophy of -Life," etc. - - - Wem Gott will rechte Gunst erweisen, - Den schickt er in die weite Welt.[1] - - "Der Frohe Wandersmann,"--_J. V. Eichendorff_. - -BARON JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF, a distinguished German poet, was born at -the castle of Lubowitz in Silesia, March 10, 1788, and died at Neisse, -November 26, 1857. His famous works include: "Presage and Presence," -"War to the Philistines," "The Last Hero of Marienburg," etc. - - - I do not deem that Castiglione wrote for the men of his own day - only ... the beauty of his writings deserves that in all ages they - should be read and praised; and as long as courts shall endure, as - long as princes, ladies, and noble gentlemen shall meet together, - as long as valor and courtesy shall abide in our hearts, the name - of Castiglione will be valued. - - --_Tasso_. - -TORQUATO TASSO, a renowned Italian poet, was born at Sorrento, Italy, -March 11, 1544, and died at Rome, April 25, 1595. He published: -"Rinaldo," "Aminta," "Torismondo," and his masterpiece, "Jerusalem -Delivered." - - - Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate - speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice - of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these - means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any - other will generally become bankrupt. - - --_Wayland_. - -FRANCIS WAYLAND, a distinguished American clergyman, author, and -educator, was born in New York City, March 11, 1796, and died in -Providence, Rhode Island, September 30, 1865. Among his notable works -are: "Elements of Moral Science," "Elements of Political Economy," "The -Limitations of Human Responsibility," "Elements of Intellectual -Philosophy," "Sermons to Churches," etc., etc. - - - Our youth we can have but to-day, - We may always find time to grow old. - - "Can Love be controlled by Advice?"--_Bishop Berkeley_. - -BISHOP GEORGE BERKELEY, the eminent Irish clergyman and author, was born -near Kilkenny, March 12, 1685, and died at Oxford, England, January 14, -1753. His writings include: "Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision," "The -Analyst," "The Principles of Human Knowledge," his famous "Commonplace -Book, 1703-6," etc. - - - The terrible rumble, grumble and roar - Telling the battle was on once more-- - And Sheridan twenty miles away! - - "Sheridan's Ride,"--_Thomas Buchanan Read_. - -THOMAS BUCHANAN READ, a celebrated American portrait-painter and poet, -was born in Pennsylvania, March 12, 1822, and died in 1872. His most -famous works are: "The House by the Sea," "Poems," "Lays and Ballads," -"Poetical Works," "A Summer Story," "The New Pastoral," "The Pilgrims of -the Great St. Bernard," "The Good Samaritans," "A Voyage to Iceland," -"Sylvia; or The Lost Shepherd," "Drifting." - - - "I have heard frequent use," said the late Lord Sandwich, in a - debate on the Test Laws, "of the words 'orthodoxy' and - 'heterodoxy'; but I confess myself at a loss to know precisely - what they mean." "Orthodoxy, my Lord," said Bishop Warburton, in a - whisper,--"orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another man's - doxy." - - "Memoirs," Vol. i, p. 572,--_Priestley_. - -JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, an English theologian, physicist, and philosopher of -great fame, was born at Fieldhead, near Leeds, March 13, 1733, and died -near Philadelphia, February 6, 1804. His principal writings are: -"Observations on Different Kinds of Air," "History of Electricity," "The -Doctrine of Phlogiston Established," "History of the Corruptions of -Christianity," "Disquisitions on Matter and Spirit," and "Institutes of -Natural and Revealed Religion." - - - Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is - the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man - under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice - is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic - understanding. - - --_Hare_. - -AUGUSTUS JOHN CUTHBERT HARE, a noted English descriptive writer, was -born in Rome, March 13, 1834, and died in 1903. He wrote: "A Winter at -Mentone," "Walks in Rome," "Wanderings in Spain," "Walks in London," -"Days near Paris," "Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily," "Memorials of -a Quiet Life," "Story of My Life," etc. - - - This new page opened in the book of our public expenditures, and - this new departure taken, which leads into the bottomless gulf of - civil pensions and family gratuities. - - "Speech in the U. S. Senate against a Grant to President - Harrison's Widow," April, 1841,--_Thomas Hart Benton_. - -THOMAS HART BENTON, a distinguished American statesman and author, was -born near Hillsborough, Orange County, N. C., March 14, 1782, and died -in Washington, D. C., April 10, 1858. His chief publications are his -"Abridgment of the Debates of Congress" and his "Thirty Years' View." - - - His form was of the manliest beauty, - His heart was kind and soft; - Faithful below he did his duty, - But now he's gone aloft. - - "Tom Bowling,"--_Charles Dibdin_. - -CHARLES DIBDIN, a noted English lyric and dramatic poet, and actor, was -born at Southampton, March 15, 1745, and died July 25, 1814. He wrote: -"History of the Stage," "Sea Songs," and many plays and operettas. - - - Dulde, gedulde dich fein! - Uber ein Stundlein - Ist deine Kammer voll Sonne![2] - - "Gedichte," "Uber ein Stundlein,"--_P. Heyse_. - -PAUL LUDWIG HEYSE, a famous German poet and novelist, was born in -Berlin, March 15, 1830, and died in 1914. He has written: "The Sabines," -"The Brothers," "Ourika," "Rafael," "Children of the World," etc.; also -his celebrated tragedy "Francesca da Rimini." - - - The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is - that the union of the states be cherished and perpetuated. Let the - open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and - the disguised one as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles - into paradise. - - --_James Madison_. - -JAMES MADISON, the fourth President of the United States, was born at -Port Conway, Va., March 16, 1751, and died at Montpelier, Vt., June 28, -1836. His "Complete Works" have been published in six volumes. - - - O Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name. - - --_Madame Roland_. - -MADAME ROLAND, a noted French author and Republican politician, was born -in Paris, March 17, 1754, and died November 8, 1793. Her "Letters" and -"Memoirs," published after her death, have made her famous. - - - Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, - though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of - rectitude the voice of an undying testimony. - - --_Chalmers_. - -THOMAS CHALMERS, a famous Scottish theologian, was born in Anstruther, -Fifeshire, March 17, 1780, and died in Edinburgh, May 30, 1847. His -works were collected (23 vols., 1836-42), "Posthumous Works" (9 vols., -1847-49), "Select Works" (12 vols., 1854-79). - - - Man dwells apart, though not alone, - He walks among his peers unread; - The best of thoughts which he hath known - For lack of listeners are not said. - - "Afterthought,"--_Jean Ingelow_. - -JEAN INGELOW, a celebrated English poet and novelist was born in Boston, -Lincolnshire, March 17, 1830, and died in London, July 19, 1897. Among -her writings are: "A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings," "Home -Thoughts and Home Scenes," "Round of Days," "A Story of Doom and Other -Poems," "Mopsa the Fairy," "Little Wonder Horn," "Studies for Stories," -"A Sister's Bye Hours," "Quite Another Story," "A Motto Changed," "Songs -of Seven," etc. - - - We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them. - - --_Madame de Lafayette_. - -MADAME DE LAFAYETTE, a noted French novelist, was baptized at Paris, -March 18, 1634, and died there, May 25, 1693. She wrote: "The Princess -de Montpensier," "Zaide," "History of Henrietta of England," "Memoirs of -the Court of France for the Years 1688 and 1689," and "The Princess of -Cleves," her most celebrated work. - - - The very essence of a free government consists in considering - offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, - and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. - - "Speech," February 13, 1835.--_John C. Calhoun_. - -JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, an illustrious American statesman, was born in -Abbeville Dist., S. C., March 18, 1782, and died in Washington, March -31, 1850. His works include his famous treatise: "On the Constitution -and Government of the United States," and a "Discourse on Government." - - - Though the people support the government the government should not - support the people. - - "Veto of Texas Seed Bill," February 16, 1887.--_Grover - Cleveland_. - -GROVER STEPHEN CLEVELAND, a distinguished American diplomat and -President of the United States from 1885 to 1889, and again from 1893 to -1897, was born at Caldwell, Essex County, New Jersey, March 18, 1837, -and died in 1908. He published: "Presidential Problems," "Fishing and -Hunting Sketches." - - - Oh, bring again my heart's content, - Thou Spirit of the Summer-time! - - "Song,"--_William Allingham_. - -WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, a noted Irish poet, was born at Ballyshannon, March -19, 1828, and died at Hampstead, near London, November 18, 1889. His -most celebrated work is: "Lawrence Bloomfield in Ireland." - - - It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigor is in our - immortal soul. - - "Metamorphoses," xiii,--_Ovid_. - -OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO), the great Roman poet, was born at Sulmo, -March 20, 43 B.C., and died at Tomi, A.D. 17. He wrote: "Heroids," -"Metamorphoses," "Fasti," "Art of Love," "Epistles," "Amours," etc. - - - Only the spirit of rebellion craves for happiness in this life. - What right have we human beings to happiness? - - "Ghosts,"--_Henrik Ibsen_. - -HENRIK IBSEN, a famous Norwegian dramatist, was born in Skien, March 20, -1828, and died in 1906. His most noted plays are: "The Pillars of -Society," "The Warriors at Helgeland," "Love's Comedy," "The Wild Duck," -"An Enemy of the People," "Ghosts," "Hedda Gabler," and "A Doll's -House." - - - Try it for a day, I beseech you, to preserve yourself in an easy - and cheerful frame of mind. Compare the day in which you have - rooted out the weed of dissatisfaction with that on which you have - allowed it to grow up, and you will find your heart open to every - good motive, your life strengthened and your breast armed with a - panoply against every trick of fate, truly you will wonder at your - own improvement. - - --_Richter_. - -JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER, the celebrated German philosopher and -humorist, was born at Wunsiedel, Bavaria, March 21, 1763, and died at -Bayreuth, November 14, 1825. His noted works were: "The Country Valley," -"Titan," "Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces," "The Invisible Lodge," "The -Life of Quintus Fixlein," "The Jubilating Senior," "Introduction to -Aesthetics," "Hesperus," "Wild Oats," etc. - - - This is the charm, by sages often told, - Converting all it touches into gold: - Content can soothe, where 'er by fortune placed, - Can rear a garden in the desert waste. - - "Clifton Grove," L. 130,--_Henry Kirke White_. - -HENRY KIRKE WHITE, a noted English poet, was born at Nottingham, March -21, 1785, and died October 19, 1806. He published: "Clifton Grove, a -Sketch in Verse with Other Poems," which was dedicated to Georgiana, -Duchess of Devonshire. He also wrote numerous religious verses. - - - In George Sand's finest work there is a sweet spontaneity, almost - as if she were an oracle of Nature uttering automatically the - divine message. But, on the other hand, when the inspiration - forsakes her, she drifts along on a windy current of words, the - facility of her pen often beguiling the writer into vague - diffuseness and unsubstantial declamation. - - "Life of George Eliot,"--_Mathilde Blind_. - -MATHILDE BLIND, a celebrated German-English poet, was born in Mannheim, -March 21, 1847, and died in London, November 26, 1896. Among her -writings are: "Life of George Eliot," "Madame Roland," "The Heather on -Fire," "Ascent of Man," "Dramas in Miniature," "The Prophecy of St. -Oran, and Other Poems," "Songs and Sonnets," and "Birds of Passage." - - - Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, - And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. - - "The Happy Marriage,"--_Edward Moore_. - -EDWARD MOORE, a famous English dramatist and fabulist, was born at -Abingdon, March 22, 1712, and died in London, March 1, 1757. He wrote: -"Fables for the Female Sex," "Gil Blas," "Poems, Fables, and Plays," -"Dramatic Works," etc. - - - The Night has a thousand eyes, - And the Day but one; - Yet the light of the bright world dies - With the dying sun. - - The Mind has a thousand eyes, - And the Heart but one; - Yet the light of a whole life dies - When Love is done. - - "Light,"--_Francis W. Bourdillon_. - -FRANCIS W. BOURDILLON, a noted English poet, was born March 22, 1852. He -has published: "Among the Flowers and Other Poems," "Ailes d'Alouette," -"A Lost God," "Bedside Readings," "Sursom Corda," "Nephele," "Through -the Gateway," "Aucassin and Nicolette," "Prelude and Romances," etc. - - - Some shall reap that never sow - And some shall toil and not attain. - - "Success,"--_Madison Julius Cawein_. - -MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN, a distinguished American poet, was born in -Louisville, Ky., March 23, 1865, and died December 7, 1914. Among his -works are: "Blooms of the Berry," "The Triumph of Music," "Lyrics and -Idyls," "Days and Dreams," "Moods and Memories," "Accolon of Gaul," -"Intimations of the Beautiful," "Red Leaves and Roses," "Undertones," -and "Poems of Nature and Love." - - - I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, - My morning incense, and my evening meal, - The sweets of Hasty Pudding. - - "Hasty Pudding," Canto I,--_Joel Barlow_. - -JOEL BARLOW, a famous American poet and statesman, was born in Redding, -Conn., March 24, 1754, and died near Cracow, Poland, December 24, 1812. -He wrote: "The Vision of Columbus," "The Columbiad," "The Conspiracy of -Kings," and his celebrated poem, "Hasty Pudding." - - - O thrush, your song is passing sweet - But never a song that you have sung, - Is half so sweet as thrushes sang - When my dear Love and I were young. - - "Other Days,"--_William Morris_. - -WILLIAM MORRIS, a celebrated English poet and writer on socialism, was -born near London, March 24, 1834, and died at Hammersmith, October 3, -1896. His poetical writings include: "Defence of Guenevere and Other -Poems," "Life and Death of Jason," "The Earthly Paradise," "Love Is -Enough," "Poems by the Way," "The Story of Sigurd," etc. He also wrote: -"The House of the Wolfings," "The Roots of the Mountains," "Hopes and -Fears for Art," etc., and translated the "Æneid" in 1876, and the -"Odyssey" in 1887. - - - Oh, dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye: - Troth, I daurna tell! - Dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye,-- - Ask it o' yoursel'. - - "Dinna Ask Me,"--_John Dunlop_. - -JOHN DUNLOP, a noted Scottish song-writer, was born March 25 (?), 1755, -and died at Port Glasgow, September 4, 1820. His Most famous song is, -"Oh, Dinna Ask Me Gin I Lo'e Ye," which won for him great fame. - - - The stately ship is seen no more, - The fragile skiff attains the shore; - And while the great and wise decay, - And all their trophies pass away, - Some sudden thought, some careless rhyme, - Still floats above the wrecks of Time. - - "On an Old Song,"--_William Edward Hartpole Lecky_. - -WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY, a distinguished English historian, was -born in Dublin, Ireland, March 26, 1838, and died in 1903. Among his -works may be mentioned: "History of the Rise and Influence of the -Spirit of Rationalism in Europe," "The Leaders of Public Opinion in -Ireland," "A History of England in the 18th Century," "A History of -Ireland in the 18th Century," "Democracy and Liberty," "A History of -European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne." - - - When I was one and twenty - I heard a wise man say: - "Give crowns and pounds and guineas - But not your heart away." - - "A Shropshire Lad,"--_Alfred Edward Housman_. - -ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN, a noted English poet, was born March 26, 1859. -Among his poetical pieces are: "A Shropshire Lad," "The Recruit," "The -Street Sounds to the Soldiers' Tread," "The Day of Battle," "On the Idle -Hill of Summer," "Loveliest of Trees," etc. - - - The army is a good book to open to study human life. One learns - there to put his hand to everything, to the lowest and highest - things. The most delicate and rich are forced to see living nearly - everywhere poverty, and to live with it, and to measure his morsel - of bread and draught of water. - - --_Alfred de Vigny_. - -ALFRED VICTOR, COMTE DE VIGNY, a celebrated French writer, was born in -Loches, March 27, 1799, and died in Paris, September 17, 1863. His works -include: "Cinq-Mars," "Consultations of Dr. Noir," etc. He also wrote -several plays, "Chatterton" being the most famous. - - - But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, - As round and round we run; - And the truth shall ever come uppermost, - And justice shall be done. - - "Eternal Justice," Stanza 4,--_Charles Mackay_. - -CHARLES MACKAY, a noted Scottish poet, journalist, and miscellaneous -writer, was born at Perth, March 27, 1814, and died in London, December -24, 1889. He wrote: "Voices from the Mountains," "Voices from the -Crowd," "The Salamandrine, or Love and Immortality," etc. - - - The school is the manufactory of humanity. - - --_Comenius_. - -JOHANN AMOS COMENIUS, an illustrious theologian and educator, was born -at Nivnitz (?), Moravia, March 28, 1592, and died at Amsterdam, November -15, 1670. He has written: "Gate of Languages Unlocked," "World of Sense -Depicted," "Great Didactics, or the Whole Art of Teaching Everything," -etc. - - - We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we - have been. - - --_Sewall_. - -SAMUEL SEWALL, a distinguished American jurist, was born in Bishopstoke, -England, March 28, 1652, and died in Boston, January 1, 1730. He wrote: -"The Selling of Joseph," "The Accomplishment of Prophecies," "A Memorial -Relating to the Kennebec Indians," "A Description of the New Heaven," -His "Diary" was published in the "Collections of the Massachusetts -Historical Society." - - - I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time - believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor - without the sentiment of religion. - - --_La Place_. - -PIERRE SIMON, MARQUIS DE LAPLACE, a renowned French mathematician and -physical astronomer, was born at Beaumont-en-Auge, March 28, 1749, and -died at Paris, March 5, 1827. His works include: "Exposition of the -System of the Universe," "Mechanism of the Heavens," "Analytic Theory of -Probabilities," "Philosophical Essay on Probabilities," etc. - - - The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This - is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it - may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and - generous fruitage. - - --_Orville Dewey_. - -ORVILLE DEWEY, a noted American clergyman and man of letters, was born -in Sheffield, Mass., March 28, 1794, and died there, March 21, 1882. -Among his works are: "Discourses on Human Nature," "Discourses on the -Nature of Religion," "The Problem of Human Destiny," etc. - - - One thing only in this world is certain--duty. - - "Selected Essays,"--_James Darmesteter_. - -JAMES DARMESTETER, a distinguished French Orientalist, was born at -Château-Salins, March 28, 1849, and died October 19, 1894. Among his -writings may be mentioned: "Ormazd and Ahriman," "Iranian Studies," -"Origins of Persian Poetry," and "Selected Essays." - - - You'd scarce expect one of my age - To speak in public on the stage; - And if I chance to fall below - Demosthenes or Cicero, - Don't view me with a critic's eye, - But pass my imperfections by. - Large streams from little fountains flow, - Tall oaks from little acorns grow. - - "Lines written for a School Declamation,"--_David Everett_. - -DAVID EVERETT, a noted American journalist and miscellaneous writer, was -born at Princeton, Mass., March 29, 1770, and died at Marietta, Ohio, -December 21, 1813. He wrote: "Common Sense in Deshabille or the Farmer's -Monitor," "The Rights and Duties of Nations," and "Darenzel, or the -Persian Patriot." - - - I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. - - "Preface to the Elements of Architecture,"--_Sir Henry Wotton_. - -SIR HENRY WOTTON, a famous English diplomatist, poet, and miscellaneous -writer, was born at Boughton, Malherbe, Kent, March 30, 1568, and died -at Eton, December, 1639. He wrote: "State of Christendom," "Poems," -"Elements of Architecture," etc. - - - From the very beginning Freeman's historical studies were - characterized on the one hand by philosophical breadth of view, - and on the other hand by extreme accuracy of statement, and such - loving minuteness of detail as is apt to mark the local antiquary - whose life has been spent in studying only one thing. It was to - the combination of these two characteristics that the pre-eminent - greatness of his historical work was due. - - "A Century of Science and other Essays,"--_John Fiske_. - -JOHN FISKE, a renowned American historian, was born at Hartford, Conn., -March 30, 1842, and died at Gloucester, Mass., July 4, 1901. He has -written: "Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy," "The Unseen World," -"Darwinism," "American Political Ideas," "The Critical Period of -American History," "The Idea of God," "The American Revolution," "The -Beginnings of New England," "The Discovery of America," "Dutch and -Quaker Colonies in America" (1899), "Civil Government of the United -States," "The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War," "Old Virginia and -her Neighbors," 2 vols., etc. - - - (Et) le malheur est bien un trésor qu'on déterre.[3] - - "Amour,"--_Paul Verlaine_. - -PAUL VERLAINE, a celebrated French poet and story writer was born at -Metz, March 30, 1844, and died at Paris, January 8, 1896. He wrote: -"Saturnine Poems," "Gay Festivals," "Memoirs of a Widower," "Stories -Without Words," "Love," "Dedications," "Good Luck," "My Hospitals," etc. - - - When anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that - the offence cannot reach it. - - --_Descartes_. - -RENÉ DESCARTES, the illustrious French philosopher, was born at La Haye, -Touraine, March 31, 1596, and died at Stockholm, February 11, 1650. His -works include: "Discourse on Method," "Meditations in Elementary -Philosophy," "Philosophical Beginnings," "Dioptrique," "Meteors," -"Geometry," "Treatise on the Passions," and "Letters to the Princess -Elizabeth." - - - The world in all doth but two nations bear-- - The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere. - - "The Loyal Scot,"--_Andrew Marvell_. - -ANDREW MARVELL, a famous English poet and satirist, was born at -Winstead, Yorkshire, March 31, 1621, and died in London, August 18, -1678. He wrote: "The Nymph Complaining," "The Rehearsal Transposed," -"Horatian Ode on Cromwell's Return from Ireland," and his well-known -"Poems on Affairs of State." - - - Whether we wake or we sleep, - Whether we carol or weep, - The Sun with his Planets in chime, - Marketh the going of Time. - - "Chronomoros,"--_Edward Fitzgerald_. - -EDWARD FITZGERALD, a renowned English poet, was born at Bredfield House, -near Suffolk, March 31, 1809, and died June 14, 1883. Among his writings -are: "The Mighty Magician," "Six Dramas from Calderon," and "The -Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám." These are all translations of foreign poems. - - - There's a joy without canker or cark, - There's a pleasure eternally new, - 'Tis to gloat on the glaze and the mark - Of China that's ancient and blue. - - "Ballades in Blue China,"--_Andrew Lang_. - -ANDREW LANG, a noted English poet, story-teller and literary critic, was -born at Selkirk, Scotland, March 31, 1844, and died in 1912. Among his -works are: "Letters to Dead Authors," "Helen of Troy," "Ballads and -Lyrics of Old France," "Custom and Myth," "Myth, Ritual, and Religion," -"Ballades in Blue China," etc. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] - - God sends His highly favored ones - Into the wide, wide world to roam. - -[2] - - Bear ye! Bravely endure; - Just one short hour-- - And thy dark room with sunshine glows. - -[3] Misfortune is in truth a treasure we unearth. - - - - -APRIL - - - - -APRIL - - - Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.[1] - - "Physiologie du Goût,"--_Brillat-Savarin_. - -ANTHÈLME BRILLAT-SAVARIN, a distinguished French author, was born April -1, 1755, and died in 1826. His fame rests on the noted work: "Physiology -of Taste." - - - Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber nichts in der Welt.[2] - - "Speech in the Reichstag," 1887,--_Prince Bismarck_. - -OTTO EDWARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK, the renowned German statesman, was -born at Schonhausen, April 1, 1815, and died in 1898. "Bismarck's -Letters" won for him a place in literature. - - - Without doubt - I can teach crowing: for I gobble. - - "Chantecler," Act. i, Sc. 2,--_Edmond Rostand_. - -EDMOND ROSTAND, a noted French dramatist, was born in Marseilles, April -1, 1868, and died in 1918. His notable plays include: "Les Romanesques," -"La Princesse Lointaine," "La Samaritaine," "Cyrano de Bergerac," -"L'Aiglon," "Poems," "Les Musardises," "Pour la Grèce," "Un Soir à -Hernani," "Les Mots," "Chantecler," "Le Cantique de l'Aile," "Le -Printemps de l'Aile," etc. - - - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. - - "Summary View of the Rights of British America,"--_Thomas - Jefferson_. - -THOMAS JEFFERSON, a distinguished American statesman, was born at -Shadwell, Va., April 2, 1743, and died at Monticello, Va., July 4, 1826. -He wrote: "Notes on Virginia," "Autobiography," "Correspondence," etc. -The Declaration of Independence was also written by him. - - - Michael Angelo has expressed in colors what Dante saw and has sung - to the generations of the earth. - - (Miserere) "In the Sistine Chapel," from "The Improvisatore" - (Translation by Mary Howitt),--_Hans Christian Andersen_. - -HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, a renowned Danish poet and story writer, was -born at Odense, April 2, 1805, and died August 4, 1875. He wrote: "The -Poet's Bazar," "Only a Fiddler," "The Picture Book Without Pictures," -"The Improvisatore," and his celebrated "Wonder Tales" for children. -Among his dramatic compositions are: "Raphaella," "The Two Baronesses," -"The Flowers of Happiness," etc. - - - Genius and its rewards are briefly told: - A liberal nature and a niggard doom, - A difficult journey to a splendid tomb. - - "Dedication of the Life and Adventures of Oliver - Goldsmith,"--_John Forster_. - -JOHN FORSTER, a noted English biographer and historical writer, was born -in Newcastle-on-Tyne, April 2, 1812, and died in London, February 2, -1876. He wrote: "Life of Charles Dickens," "Statesmen of the -Commonwealth of England," "Life of Oliver Goldsmith," "Biographical and -Historical Essays," etc. - - - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, - The bridal of the earth and sky. - - "Virtue,"--_George Herbert_. - -GEORGE HERBERT, a celebrated English poet, was born in Montgomery -Castle, Montgomeryshire, April 3, 1593, and died at Bemerton, -Wiltshire, in 1633. His most noted poems are: "Sweet Day, So Cool, So -Calm, So Bright," "Virtue," "Life," "Love," "Discipline," "Holy -Baptism," etc. - - - The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion - throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these - peculiar villages. - - "The Creole Village,"--_Washington Irving_. - -WASHINGTON IRVING, the renowned American historian, biographer, and man -of letters, was born in New York, April 3, 1783, and died at -"Sunnyside," near Tarrytown, N. Y., November 28, 1859. His principal -works are: "The Alhambra," "Mahomet and His Successors," "Conquest of -Granada," "The Sketch Book," "Bracebridge Hall," "Life and Times of -Christopher Columbus," "Companions of Columbus," "Life of Washington," -"A Voyage to the Eastern Part of Terra Firma," a translation; "Life of -Oliver Goldsmith," "Astoria," "History of New York, by Diedrich -Knickerbocker," "The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell," "The Rocky -Mountains: Journal of Captain B. L. E. Bonneville," etc. - - - To look up and not down, - To look forward and not back, - To look out and not in, and - To lend a hand. - - Rule of the "Harry Wadsworth Club," from "Ten Times One - Is Ten," 1870,--_Edward Everett Hale_. - -EDWARD EVERETT HALE, a distinguished American divine and prose-writer, -was born in Boston, Mass., April 3, 1822, and died June 10, 1909. Among -his writings are: "The Man Without a Country," "My Double and How He -Undid Me," "Ten Times One is Ten," "The Skeleton in the Closet," "In His -Name," "Ups and Downs," "Philip Nolan's Friends," "The Kingdom of God," -"East and West," "Ralph Waldo Emerson," "Memories of a Hundred Years," -"We, the People," "Prayers in the Senate," "Foundations of the -Republic," etc. - - - Ah, happy world, where all things live - Creatures of one great law, indeed; - Bound by strong roots, the splendid flower,-- - Swept by great seas, the drifting seed! - - "The Story of the Flower,"--_Harriet P. Spofford_. - -HARRIET ELIZABETH (PRESCOTT) SPOFFORD, a noted American poet and -novelist, was born in Calais, Me., April 3, 1835, and died August 15, -1921. Among her noted works are: "New England Legends," "Poems," -"Ballads about Authors," "The Marquis of Carabas," "A Master Spirit," -"In Titian's Garden," "The Thief in the Night," "The Amber Gods, and -Other Stories," "In a Cellar," etc. - - - No surer does the Auldgarth bridge, that his father helped to - build, carry the traveller over the turbulent water beneath it, - than Carlyle's books convey the reader over chasms and confusions, - where before there was no way, or only an inadequate one. - - --_John Burroughs_. - -JOHN BURROUGHS, a famous American essayist, was born in Roxbury, N. Y., -April 3, 1837, and died in 1921. He has written: "Winter Sunshine," -"Fresh Fields," "Wake-Robin," "Birds and Poets," "Locusts and Wild -Honey," "Sharp Eyes," "Signs and Seasons," "Riverely," "The Light of -Day," "Ways of Nature," "Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt," "Under -the Apple Trees," etc. - - - There must always be, we presume, however age and experience may - modify nature, a certain inability on the part of a woman to - appreciate the more riotous forms of mirth, and that robust - freedom in morals which bolder minds admire. It is a disability - which nothing can abolish. - - --_Mrs. Oliphant_. - -MARGARET WILSON OLIPHANT, a well-known Scotch novelist, was born April -4, 1828, and died in 1897. Among her numerous works may be mentioned: -"Zaidee," "The Story of Valentine and His Brother," "In Trust," "A House -Divided Against Itself," "Sir Tom," "The Cuckoo in the Nest," "English -Literature at the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth -Century," "Victorian Age of English Literature," "Makers of Florence, -Venice, and Rome," "The Reign of Queen Anne," "The Makers of Modern -Rome," "William Blackwood and His Sons," etc. - - - For words are wise men's counters,--they do but reckon by them; - but they are the money of fools. - - "The Leviathan," Part i, Chap. iv,--_Thomas Hobbes_. - -THOMAS HOBBES, a renowned English philosopher, was born in Malmesbury, -April 5, 1588, and died at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, December 4, 1679. -A few of his many works are: "De Cive," "Human Nature," "De Corpore -Politico," and "Leviathan, or the Matter, Form, and Power of a -Commonwealth," considered his masterpiece. - - - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, - And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. - - "The Mourning Bride," Act V, Sc. xii.--_Congreve_. - -WILLIAM CONGREVE, an eminent English dramatist, was born in Bardsley, -near Leeds, April 5, 1670, and died at London, January 19, 1729. Among -his comedies are: "The Double Dealer," "The Mourning Bride," "The Old -Bachelor," and "Love for Love." - - - It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, - but builds no temple to the true. - - --_Sydney Dobell_. - -SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL, a famous English poet, was born at Cranbrook, in -Kent, April 5, 1824, and died in 1874. He wrote: "England in Time of -War," and two noted poems, "The Roman" and "Balder." "Thoughts on Art, -Philosophy and Religion," appeared after his death. - - - I think it will be generally conceded that, at the time of his - death, Mr. Lowell occupied the position of the foremost American - citizen. In public regard, at home and abroad, his name naturally - headed the list of prominent Americans. Looked upon as a man of - letters, as a representative of our country in foreign lands, or - in any of the various positions in which he appeared before the - public, there was no one to whom it was the custom to name James - Russell Lowell as second. Without occupying the highest rank in - any of his vocations, he stood in front of his fellow-citizens, - because he held so high a rank in so many of them. - - "Personal Tributes to Lowell, the Writer," Vol. 5, - p. 187,--_Frank R. Stockton_. - -FRANK RICHARD STOCKTON, a celebrated American author, was born in -Philadelphia, April 5, 1834, and died April 20, 1902. Among his popular -works may be mentioned: "Rudder Grange," "The Lady or the Tiger," "The -Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine," "The Dusantes," "Tales -Out of School," "Adventures of Captain Horn," "The Great Stone of -Sardis," "The Watchmaker's Wife and Other Stories," "Pomona's Travels," -"Mrs. Cliff's Yacht," "Kate Bonnett," etc. - - - Pleasure with pain for leaven, - Summer with flowers that fell, - Remembrance fallen from heaven, - And Madness risen from hell, - Strength without hands to smite, - Love that endures for a breath; - Night, the shadow of light, - And Life, the shadow of death. - - "Atalanta in Calydon," Chorus,--_Swinburne_. - -ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, an eminent English poet, was born in London, -April 5, 1837; and died April 10, 1909. His publications include: "Poems -and Ballads," "The Queen Mother and Rosamond," "Bothwell," "Songs of the -Springtides," "A Century of Roundels," "The Sisters," "Studies in Song," -"Songs of Two Nations," "Chastelard," "Ode on the Proclamation of the -French Republic," "Songs Before Sunrise," "Atalanta in Calydon," "Under -the Microscope," "Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems," "Marino -Faliero," "A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems," "Locrine," a tragedy, a -third series of "Poems and Ballads," "Astrophel and Other Poems," "The -Tale of Balen," "Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards," a tragedy, etc. - - - From every place below the skies - The grateful song, the fervent prayer,-- - The incense of the heart,--may rise - To heaven, and find acceptance there. - - "Every Place a Temple,"--_John Pierpont_. - -JOHN PIERPONT, a well-known American clergyman and poet, was born in -Litchfield, Conn., April 6, 1785, and died in Medford, Mass., August 27, -1866. He wrote: "Airs of Palestine, and Other Poems," also, his famous -poem "Warren's Address at the Battle of Bunker Hill." - - - It came upon the midnight clear, - That glorious song of old, - From angels bending near the earth - To touch their harps of gold: - "Peace on the earth, good-will to men, - From Heaven's all-gracious King!" - The world in solemn stillness lay - To hear the angels sing. - - "The Angels' Song,"--_Edmund Hamilton Sears_. - -EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS, a noted American clergyman, religious writer and -poet was born in Sandisfield, Mass., April 6, 1810, and died at Weston, -Mass., January 14, 1876. He wrote: "Regeneration," "Pictures of the -Olden Time," "Athanasia," "Christian Lyrics," "The Fourth Gospel: the -Heart of Christ," "Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life," "Christ in -the Life," etc. - - - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, - Are a substantial world, both pure and good. - Bound these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, - Our pastime and our happiness will grow. - - "Personal Talk," Stanza 3,--_William Wordsworth_. - -WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, the great English poet, was born at Cockermouth, -Cumberland, April 7, 1770, and died at Rydal Mount, April 23, 1850. -Among his noted works are: "The Excursion," "Lyrical Ballads," "The -Prelude," "Peter Bell," "The Waggoner," "Sonnets," "Yarrow Revisited and -Other Poems," "Poems," "An Evening Walk," etc. - - - I sing New England, as she lights her fire - In every Prairie's midst; and where the bright - Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night, - She still is there, the guardian on the tower, - To open for the world a purer hour. - - "New England,"--_William E. Channing_. - -WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, a distinguished American theologian, was born -at Newport, R. I.; April 7, 1780, and died at Bennington, Vt.; April, -1842. His works were published in 1848, and comprise the following: -"Youth of the Poet and Painter," "Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist," -"Conversation in Rome Between an Artist and Catholic, and a Critic," -etc. - - - There came a new poet who, to the science of rhythm, the resources - of expression, the gift of epic narration, the deep feeling for - nature, to all the caprices of a delightful fancy, to all the - favorite ideas, noble or morbid, of modern thought, knew how to - join the language of manly passion. Thus, as it were summing up in - himself all his forerunners, he touched all hearts; he linked - together all admirations; he has remained the true representative, - the last expression and final, of the poetic period to which he - belongs. Tennyson reigns to-day almost alone in increasing and - uncontested glory. - - "Taine's History of English Literature," _Essays on English - Literature_, tr. Saintsbury, p. 87,--_Edmond Scherer_. - -EDMOND SCHERER, a celebrated French essayist and critic, was born in -Paris, April 8, 1815, and died at Versailles, March 16, 1889. Among his -writings are: "Miscellanies of Religious Criticism," "Letters to my -Pastor," "Criticism and Belief," "Miscellanies of Religious History," -etc. - - - I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second - thought of the people shall be law. - - "On Biennial Elections," 1788,--_Fisher Ames_. - -FISHER AMES, a famous American statesman and orator, was born at Dedham, -Mass., April 9, 1758, and died there, July 4, 1808. He wrote many essays -and orations. - - - Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears - from the eyes of woman. - - --_Beethoven_. - -LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN, a renowned German composer, was born at Bonn, -April 9, 1770, and died at Vienna, in 1827. Besides his numerous musical -productions, he won literary fame by his "Correspondence" and "Brentano -Letters." - - - Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing - something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to - the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. - - --_Hazlitt_. - -WILLIAM HAZLITT, a celebrated English prose-writer and critic, was born -in Maidstone, Kent, April 10, 1778, and died in London, September 18, -1830. He wrote: "The Spirit of the Age," "Characters of Shakespeare's -Plays," "Lectures on English Poets," etc. - - - Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love - stays with us. Love is God. - - --_Lew Wallace_. - -LEWIS WALLACE ("LEW WALLACE"), a famous American general, lawyer, and -novelist, was born at Brookville, Ind., April 10, 1827, and died in -1905. Among his notable works are: "The Fair God," "Ben Hur," "The Life -of Gen. Benjamin Harrison," "Commodus: a Tragedy," "The Boyhood of -Christ," "The Prince of India," etc. - - - Bend low, O dusky Night, - And give my spirit rest, - Hold me to your deep breast, - And put old cares to flight. - Give back the lost delight - That once my soul possest, - When Love was loveliest. - - "To-night,"--_Louise Chandler Moulton_. - -LOUISE (CHANDLER) MOULTON, a noted American poet, story-writer, and -critic, was born in Pomfret, Conn., April 10, 1835, and died August 10, -1908. She wrote: "The True Flag," "This, That and the Other," "Juno -Clifford," "Bed-Time Stories," "Firelight Stories," "Stories Told at -Twilight," "In the Garden of Dreams," "Poems," etc.; also, "Miss Eyre -from Boston and Other Stories," "Lazy Tours in Spain," etc. - - - Thus, when a barber and a collier fight, the barber beats the - luckless collier-white; the dusty collier heaves his ponderous - sack, and big with vengeance, beats the barber-black. In comes the - brick dust man, with grime o'er spread, and beats the collier and - the barber-red; black, red, and white, in various clouds are tost, - and in the dust they raise the combatants are lost. - - "The Trip to Cambridge" in "Campbell's Specimens of the British - Poets," Vol. vi, p. 185,--_Christopher Smart_. - -CHRISTOPHER SMART, a famous English poet, was born at Shipbourne, Kent, -April 11, 1722, and died May 21, 1771. His works include: "Translation -of the Psalms of David," "The Hilliad: An Epic Poem," "Song to David," -"Power of the Supreme Being," "Poems," "Poems on Several Occasions," -etc. - - - Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, - Bold I can meet,--perhaps may turn his blow! - But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, - Save, save, oh save me from the _candid friend_! - - "New Morality,"--_George Canning_. - -GEORGE CANNING, an English statesman, orator, and writer of great -distinction, was born in London, April 11, 1770, and died at Chiswick, -August 8, 1827. He wrote: "The Needy Knife-Grinder," "The Rovers," etc. - - - When I am dead, no pageant train - Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, - Nor worthless pomp of homage vain. - Stain it with hypocritic tear. - - "Alaric the Visigoth,"--_Edward Everett_. - -EDWARD EVERETT, a famous American statesman, was born at Dorchester, -Mass., April 11, 1794, and died January 15, 1865. Among his writings -were: "Mount Vernon Papers," "Defense of Christianity," "Orations and -Speeches," etc. - - - The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own - sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if - we can, forcibly if we must." - - "Speech," Jan. 8, 1813.--_Henry Clay_. - -HENRY CLAY, an eminent American orator and statesman, was born in -Hanover, Va., April 12, 1777, and died at Washington, D. C., June 29, -1852. His "Complete Works," were edited in 1857. - - - Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is - the thorn that guards the rose,--easily trimmed off when once - plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them - hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy - waters. - - "Reveries of a Bachelor,"--_Ik Marvel_. - -DONALD GRANT MITCHELL ("IK MARVEL"), a famous American novelist and -essayist, was born at Norwich, Conn., April 12, 1822, and died in 1908. -He wrote: "Dream Life," "My Farm of Edgewood," "Doctor Johns," "Bound -Together," "Wet Days at Edgewood," "English Lands, Letters and Kings," -and his most noted work, "Reveries of a Bachelor." - - - Every white will have its blacke, - And every sweet its soure. - - "Sir Cauline," from "Reliques of Ancient Poetry,"--_Thomas - Percy_. - -THOMAS PERCY, a noted English poet, was born at Bridgenorth in -Shropshire, April 13, 1728 or 1729, and died at Dromore, Ireland, -September 30, 1811. He wrote: "The Hermit of Warkworth," the song, "O -Nanny, Wilt Thou Gang Wi' Me?" and published a collection of old ballads -and songs under the title "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry." - - - No creature lives that must not work and may not play. - - "Work and Play,"--_Horace Bushnell_. - -HORACE BUSHNELL, an eminent American clergyman, was born near -Litchfield, Connecticut, April 14, 1802, and died at Hartford, Conn., in -1876. Among his numerous works may be mentioned: "Christian Nurture," -"God in Christ," "Christ in Theology," "The Vicarious Sacrifice," -"Nature and the Supernatural," "Moral Uses of Dark Things," "The Age of -Homespun," "Forgiveness and Law," "Work and Play," "The Character of -Jesus," "Christ and His Salvation," etc. - - - Monuments! What are they? The very pyramids have forgotten their - builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are - the true monuments of the great. - - --_Motley_. - -JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, a famous American historian and diplomatist, was -born at Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814, and died in Dorsetshire, -England, May 29, 1877. Among his works are: "Rise of the Dutch -Republic," "History of the United Netherlands," "Causes of the Civil War -in America," "Life of John of Barneveld," etc. - - - Not much talk--a great, sweet silence. - - "A Bundle of Letters," Letter IV,--_Henry James_. - -HENRY JAMES, a distinguished American novelist and miscellaneous -prose-writer, was born in New York, April 15, 1843, and died in -February, 1916. Among his numerous works may be mentioned: "Roderick -Hudson," "A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales," "The American," "French -Poets and Novelists," "Daisy Miller: a Study," "A Bundle of Letters," -"The Diary of a Man of Fifty," "Washington Square," "A Little Tour in -France," "The Portrait of a Lady," "The Bostonians," "The Tragic Muse," -"Partial Portraits," "The Real Thing and Other Tales," "The Private -Life," "The Wheel of Time," "The Princess Casamassima," "Essays in -London and Elsewhere," etc. - - - There paused to shut the door, - A fellow called the Wind, - With mystery before, - And reticence behind. - - "At the Granite Gate,"--_Bliss Carman_. - -BLISS CARMAN, a celebrated Canadian poet, was born at Fredericton, N. -B., April 15, 1861. He has written: "Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of -Lyrics," "Songs from Vagabondia," "Behind the Arras: A Book of the -Unseen," "A Winter Holiday," "Christmas Eve at St. Kavin's," "Ode for -the Coronation," "Pipes of Pan No. I," "Pipes of Pan No. II," "The -Kinship of Nature," "The Friendship of Art," "The Poetry of Life," "The -Making of Personality," "Sappho," "Daughters of Dawn," "Oxford Book of -American Verse," "Earth Deities," "April Airs," etc. - - - Le roi règne et ne gouverne pas.[3] - - "In the National Newspaper," July 1st, 1830. - -LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS, a renowned French statesman and author, was born -at Marseilles, April 16, 1797, and died at St. Germain, September 3, -1877. He wrote: "History of John Law," "Man and Matter," "On Property," -"History of the Consulate and the Empire," and his most famous work, -"History of the French Revolution." - - - To be frank, the critics should say: "Gentlemen, I intend to speak - of myself apropos of Shakespeare, Racine, Pascal, or Goethe." - - --_Anatole France_. - -ANATOLE FRANCE (JACQUES ANATOLE THIBAULT), a celebrated French critic, -poet and novelist, was born at Paris, April 16, 1844. He has written: -"The Yule Log," "Our Children: Scenes in Town and in the Fields," "The -Garden of Epicurus," "Abeille," "Poems," "The Crime of Sylvester -Bonnard," "The Wishes of Jean Servien," "Balthazar," "Thais," "My -Friend's Book," "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame," "Histoire de Jeanne d'Arc," -"La Revolte des Anges," etc. - - - When that my mood is sad, and in the noise - And bustle of the crowd I feel rebuke, - I turn my footsteps from its hollow joys, - And sit me down beside the little brook; - The waters have a music to mine ear - It glads me much to hear. - - "The Shaded Water,"--_William Gilmore Simms_. - -WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, a distinguished American poet and novelist, was -born in Charleston, S. C., April 17, 1806, and died there June 11, 1870. -His publications include: "The Wigwam and the Cabin; or, Tales of the -South," "Atalantis: A Tale of the Sea," "Castle Dismal," "The Maroon, -and Other Tales," "The Yemassee," and "War Poetry of the South." - - - Many a genius has been slow of growth, - Oaks that flourish for a thousand years - Do not spring up into beauty like a reed. - - "The Spanish Drama: Life of Lope De Vega." Ch. II,--_Geo. - Henry Lewes_. - -GEORGE HENRY LEWES, a celebrated English historical and miscellaneous -writer, was born at London, April 18, 1817, and died there November 28, -1878. Among his writings are: "The Life and Works of Goethe," "History -of Philosophy from Thales to Comte," "The Physiology of Common Life," -"Seaside Studies," "Studies in Animal Life," "Aristotle: A Chapter from -the History of Science," "Problems of Life and Mind," "The Physical -Basis of Mind," "Ranthorpe," "The Noble Heart," etc. - - - Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! - Sweetener of life, and solder of society. - - "The Grave,"--_Robert Blair_. - -ROBERT BLAIR, a noted Scottish poet, was born at Edinburgh, April 19 -(?), 1699, and died February 4, 1746. His reputation as a poet rests -solely on his famous poem, "The Grave," written in blank verse. - - - If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not - think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after - truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who - abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. - - "Meditations," VI, 21,--_Marcus Aurelius_. - -MARCUS AURELIUS, the great Roman emperor, was born in Rome, April 20, -A.D., 121, and died in Pannonia, March 17, 180. His "Meditations" have -been handed down to posterity. - - - Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die. - - "Looking Death in the Face,"--_Dinah Maria Mulock Craik_. - -DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK, a famous English novelist, was born in -Stoke-upon-Trent, April 20, 1826, and died at London, October, 1887. The -best known of her works are: "The Ogilvies," "John Halifax, Gentleman," -"Two Marriages," "A Brave Lady," and "A Noble Life." - - - No maid is near, - I have no wife; - But here's my pipe - And, on my life; - With it to smoke, - And woo the Muse, - To be a king, - I would not choose. - - --_William H. Davies_. - -WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES, a noted Welsh poet, was born in Monmouthshire, -April 20, 1870. He has written: "The Soul's Destroyer," "New Poems," -"Nature Poems," "Farewell to Poesy," "Songs of Joy," "Foliage," "The -Bird of Paradise," "Child Lovers," "Collected Poems," "The Autobiography -of a Super-Tramp," "A Pilgrim in Wales," "A Poet's Pilgrimage." - - - The first groundwork of religious life is love--love to God and - man--in the bosom of the family. - - "Aphorisms,"--_Friedrich Froebel_. - -FRIEDRICH FROEBEL, an eminent German educator, was born at -Oberweissbach, April 21, 1782, and died at Marienthal, June 21, 1852. He -won fame by his celebrated work, "The Education of Man." - - - From Greenland's icy mountains, - From India's coral strand, - Where Afric's sunny fountains, - Roll down their golden sand. - - "Missionary Hymn."--_Reginald Heber_. - -REGINALD HEBER, a famous English hymn-writer and clergyman, was born in -Cheshire, April 21, 1783, and died at Trichinopoly, India, April 2, -1826. His prose writings include the Bampton lectures on "The -Personality and Office of the Christian Comforter," "Life of Jeremy -Taylor," "Journey Through India," etc. His fame rests, however, on his -hymns, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," and "Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God -Almighty!" - - - Life, believe, is not a dream, - So dark as sages say; - Oft a little morning rain - Foretells a pleasant day! - - "Life,"--_Charlotte Brontë_. - -CHARLOTTE BRONTË, a famous English novelist, was born in Thornton, April -21, 1816, and died in Haworth, March 31, 1855. She wrote: "Shirley," -"Villette," "The Professor," and "Jane Eyre," her most famous work. - - - There are four varieties in society,--the lovers, the ambitious, - observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. - - --_Taine_. - -ADOLPHE HIPPOLYTE TAINE, an illustrious French historian and critic, was -born at Vouziers (Ardennes), April 21, 1828, and died at Paris, March 5, -1893. Among his publications are: "Essay on La Fontaine's Fables," -"Essay on Livy," "Journey to the Pyrenees," "French Philosophers in the -Nineteenth Century," "Essays in Criticism and History," "Notes on -England," "Contemporary English Writers," "History of English -Literature," "English Idealism," "New Essays in Criticism and History," -"Philosophy of Art," "Philosophy of Art in Italy," "Tour in Italy, -Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice," "Notes on Paris," "The Ideal in -Art," "Philosophy of Art in Greece," "On the Understanding," "The Old -Régime," "The Revolutionary Governments," etc. - - - When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough; - I've done my duty, and I've done no more. - - "Tom Thumb the Great," Act. i, Sc. 3,--_Henry Fielding_. - -HENRY FIELDING, a celebrated English novelist, was born at Sharpham -Park, Somersetshire, April 22, 1707, and died at Lisbon, October 8, -1754. His most famous works are: "Tom Jones, or the History of a -Foundling," "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews," "Amelia," and "The -History of Jonathan Wild." - - - Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, - and by consequence of all heartfelt religion. - - --_Emmanuel Kant_. - -EMMANUEL KANT, an eminent German philosopher, was born at Königsberg, -April 22, 1724, and died there, February 12, 1804. His three famous -works are: "Critique of the Practical Reason," "Critique of Pure -Reason," and "Critique of the Power of Judgment." - - - And all the bustle of departure--sometimes sad, sometimes - intoxicating--just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new - chances of coming destiny. - - "Corinne," Book X, Chap. VI,--_Madame De Staël_. - -ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE (NECKER), BARONESS DE STAËL-HOLSTEIN, a celebrated -French writer, was born in Paris, April 22, 1766, and died there July -14, 1817. She wrote: "Letters on the Character and Writings of J. J. -Rousseau," "Corinne," "Delphine," "Literature in Relation to Social -Institutions," etc. - - - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; - In feelings, not in figures on a dial. - We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives - Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. - Life's but a means unto an end; that end - Beginning, mean, and end to all things,--God. - - "Festus," Scene V, A Country Town,--_Philip James Bailey_. - -PHILIP JAMES BAILEY, a noted English poet, was born in Basford, -Nottinghamshire, April 22, 1816, and died in 1902. He wrote: "The -Universal Hymn," "The Age," "The Mystic," "The Angel World," and his -great poem, "Festus." - - - Friendship is constant in all other things - Save in the office and affairs of love: - Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; - Let every eye negotiate for itself - And trust no agent. - - "Much Ado about Nothing," Act ii, Sc. i.--_William Shakespeare_. - -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, the great English poet, was born at -Stratford-on-Avon, April 23, 1564, and he died there April 23, 1616. -Among his famous works may be mentioned: "Henry VI," "Richard III," -"Taming of the Shrew," "Love's Labour's Lost," "Comedy of Errors," "Two -Gentlemen of Verona," "Romeo and Juliet," "The Merchant of Venice," "A -Midsummer Night's Dream," "Henry V," "All's Well That Ends Well," "The -Merry Wives of Windsor," "As You Like It," "Julius Cæsar," "Much Ado -About Nothing," "Twelfth Night," "Hamlet," "Othello," "King Lear," -"Macbeth," "Measure for Measure," "Antony and Cleopatra," "Cymbeline," -"A Winter's Tale," "The Tempest," etc., etc. - - - Our thoughts and our conduct are our own. - - "Short Studies on Great Subjects: Education,"--_James A. - Froude_. - -JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, a celebrated English historian, was born at -Dartington in Devonshire, April 23, 1818, and died in London, October -20, 1894. Among his works are: "Luther: A Short Biography," "Shadows of -a Cloud," "Nemesis of Faith," "History of England from the Fall of -Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth," "The English in Ireland in the -Eighteenth Century," "Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish -Character," "Thomas Carlyle," "Short Studies on Great Subjects," -"Spanish Story of the Armada," etc. - - - Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans - Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, - The emptiness of ages in his face, - And on his back the burden of the world. - - "The Man with the Hoe,"--_Edwin Markham_. - -EDWIN MARKHAM, a noted American poet, was born at Oregon City, Oregon, -April 23, 1852. He is best known by his famous poem, "The Man with the -Hoe." - - - But as some muskets so contrive it - As oft to miss the mark they drive at, - And though well aimed at duck or plover, - Bear wide, and kick their owners over. - - "McFingal," Canto i, Line 93,--_John Trumbull_. - -JOHN TRUMBULL, a famous American lawyer, poet, and wit, was born in -Westbury, Conn., April 24, 1750, and died at Detroit, Mich., May 10, -1831. He wrote: "The Progress of Dullness," "McFingal," which won for -him his greatest fame, and several other works. His "Poetical Works" -were published in 1820. - - - Whatever Thackeray says, the reader cannot fail to understand; and - whatever Thackeray attempts to communicate, he succeeds in - conveying. - - "Life of Thackeray,"--_Anthony Trollope_. - -ANTHONY TROLLOPE, an illustrious English novelist, was born in London, -April 24, 1815, and died there, December 6, 1882. Among his numerous -publications may be mentioned: "The Kellys and the O'Kellys," "La -Vendée," "The Warden," "Barchester Towers," "Doctor Thorne," "The -Bertrams," "Castle Richmond," "Orley Farm," "Tales of All Countries," -"The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson," "North America," "Rachel -Ray," "Hunting Sketches," "Traveling Sketches," "The Claverings," -"British Sports and Pastimes," "He Knew He Was Right," "Mary Gresley," -"Ralph the Heir," "The Golden Lion of Granpère," "Phineas Redux," "South -Australia and Western Australia," "Lady Anna," "The Prime Minister," -"The American Senator," "South Africa," "John Caldigate," "Cousin -Henry," "The Duke's Children," "Life of Cicero," "Ayala's Angel," -"Marion Fay," "The Fixed Period," "Kept in the Dark," etc. His -"Autobiography" appeared in 1883. - - - Come and see her as she stands. - Crimson roses in her hands; - And her eyes - Are as dark as Southern night, - Yet than Southern dawn more bright. - And a soft, alluring light, - In them lies. - - "Fanny, A Southern Blossom," St. I,--_Anne Reeve Aldrich_. - -ANNE REEVE ALDRICH, a noted American poet and novelist, was born in New -York, April 25, 1866, and died there June 22, 1892. She wrote: "The Rose -of Flame," "The Feet of Love," "Songs About Life, Love and Death," etc. - - - Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,-- - Take, I give it willingly; - For, invisible to thee, - Spirits twain have, crossed with me. - - "The Passage," _Edinburgh Review_, Oct., 1832,--_Johann L. - Uhland_. - -JOHANN L. UHLAND, an eminent German poet, was born at Tubingen, April -26, 1787, and died November 13, 1862. He wrote: "Walther von der -Vogelweide," "The Old French Epos," "The Myth of Thor, according to -Norse Tradition," etc. Also two dramas: "Ludwig the Bavarian," and -"Ernest, Duke of Suabia." His ballads and songs also won for him great -renown. - - - Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the - sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. - - "History of England," Vol. i, Chap. lxii,--_David Hume_. - -DAVID HUME, a famous British philosopher and historian, was born in -Edinburgh, April 26, 1711, and died there August 25, 1776. Among his -works may be mentioned: "Political Discourses," "An Inquiry Concerning -the Principles of Morals," "Four Dissertations," "A Treatise on Human -Nature," "History of England," "Two Essays," "Natural History of -Religion," "Essays, Moral and Political," etc. - - - Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to - borrow the money to do it with. - - "Natural History,"--_Charles Farrar Browne_. - -CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE ("ARTEMUS WARD"), a noted American humorist, was -born at Waterford, Me., April 26, 1834, and died at Southampton, -England, March 6, 1867. He wrote: "Artemus Ward, His Book," and "Artemus -Ward, His Travels." - - - On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the - noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and - dissipation without pleasure. - - "Memoirs," Vol. i, p. 116,--_Edward Gibbon_. - -EDWARD GIBBON, a renowned English historian, was born at Putney, Surrey, -April 27, 1737, and died at London, January 15, 1794. His notable works -are: "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," "Critical -Observations," "Essay on the Study of Literature," and "Miscellaneous -Works, with Memoir Composed by Himself." - - - Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. - - "First Principles,"--_Herbert Spencer_. - -HERBERT SPENCER, the celebrated English philosopher, was born at Derby, -April 27, 1820, and died December 8, 1903. Among his noted works are: -"Principles of Psychology," "Classification of the Sciences," -"Education," "Essays," "The Study of Sociology," "Data of Ethics," -"Principles of Sociology," "Political Institutions," etc. - - - Let us have peace. - - Accepting a Nomination for the Presidency, May 29, - 1868.--_Ulysses Simpson Grant_. - -ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT, the greatest of American generals, and eighteenth -President of the United States, was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, April -27, 1822, and died at Mt. McGregor near Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July -23, 1885. His "Personal Memoirs," won for him everlasting literary fame. - - - Have you sent to the apothecary for a sufficient quantity of cream - of tartar to make lemonade? You know I die if I have not - everything in the highest style. - - "Man and Wife," iii,--_Colman_. - -GEORGE COLMAN, the Elder, a celebrated English dramatist, was born in -Florence, Italy, April 28, 1733, and died in London, August 14, 1794. -Among his comedies are: "The Deuce Is in Him," "New Brooms," "Man and -Wife," "The Separate Maintenance." - - - Injuries from friends fret and gall more, and the memory of them - is not so easily obliterated. - - --_John Arbuthnot_. - -JOHN ARBUTHNOT, a famous Scottish humorist, was born near Arbuthnot -Castle, Kincardineshire, Scotland, April 29, 1667, and died in London, -February 27, 1735. His most celebrated work was, "The History of John -Bull." - - - Life is a game the soul can play - With fewer pieces than men say. - - "Field-Notes,"--_Edward Rowland Sill_. - -EDWARD ROWLAND SILL, a distinguished American poet, was born in Windsor, -Conn., April 29, 1841, and died in Cleveland, O., February 27, 1887. His -poetical works include: "The Venus of Milo, and Other Poems," "The -Hermitage, and Other Poems," and "Poems," published after his death. - - - To be bright and cheerful often requires an effort; there is a - certain art in keeping ourselves happy; in this respect, as in - others, we require to watch over and manage ourselves almost as if - we were somebody else. - - --_Sir John Lubbock_. - -SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, a renowned English naturalist and paleontologist, was -born in London, April 30, 1834, and died in 1913. Among his many works -are: "Prehistoric Times as Illustrated by Ancient Remains," "The Origin -of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man," "Origin and -Metamorphoses of Insects," "Ants, Bees, and Wasps," "On the Senses, -Instincts and Intelligence of Animals," "The Beauties of Nature and the -Wonders of the World," "Flowers, Fruits and Leaves," "The Pleasures of -Life," "The Use of Life," "The Scenery of Switzerland and the Causes to -Which It Is Due," "The Scenery of England," "Essays and Addresses," -"Free Trade," "Notes on the Life History of the British Flowering -Plants," "Marriage, Totemism, and Religion," "Peace and Happiness," etc. - - - From our Dominion never - Take thy protecting hand! - United, Lord, forever, - Keep thou our father's land! - - --_John Campbell, Duke of Argyll_. - -GEORGE JOHN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, eighth Duke of Argyll, a noted English -philosophical, scientific, and political writer, and statesman, was born -in Ardencaple, Castle Dumbartonshire, April 30, 1823, and died in 1900. -Among his notable works are: "The Reign of Law," "Primeval Man," "Iona," -"The Eastern Question," "The Unity of Nature," "The Unseen Foundations -of Society." - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. - -[2] We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. - -[3] The king reigns but does not govern. - - - - -MAY - - - - -MAY - - - It must be so,--Plato, thou reasonest well! - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, - This longing after immortality? - Or whence this secret dread and inward horror - Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul - Back on herself, and startles at destruction? - 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; - 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, - And intimates eternity to man. - Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. - - "Cato," Act V. Sc. I.--_Joseph Addison_. - -JOSEPH ADDISON, a famous English essayist and poet, was born at Milston, -Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, and died in London, June 17, 1719. He wrote 41 -original papers in the "Tattler," and 34 with Steele; 274 in the -"Spectator," 24 to a revived "Spectator," and 2 to Steele's "Lover." His -other works include: "Letters from Italy" (a poem), "The Campaign" (a -poem), "Fair Rosamond" (an opera), "Remarks on Several Parts of Italy," -and "Cato" (a tragedy). - - - As an orator, Webster has been compared in simplicity to - Demosthenes and in profundity to Burke. - - "Daniel Webster; History of the United States,"--_James Ford - Rhodes_. - -JAMES FORD RHODES, a distinguished American historian, was born in -Cleveland, Ohio, May 1, 1848. He is best known by his noted work in two -volumes, "History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850." His -other works include, "Historical Essays," "Lectures on the American -Civil War Delivered at Oxford," "History of the Civil War," "History of -the United States from Hayes to McKinley," etc. - - - All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff. - - --_Novalis_. - -NOVALIS, the _nom de plume_ of FRIEDRICH VON HARDENBURG, a noted German -philosopher and mystic, was born in Saxony, May 2, 1772, and died, 1801. -Among his writings are: "Hymns to the Night," "Disciples at Sais," and -"Heinrich von Ofterdingen." - - - The people of Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, like all - other Christian people at that time and later,--at least, with - extremely rare individual exceptions,--believed in the reality of - a hideous crime called witchcraft. They thought they had Scripture - for that belief, and they knew they had law for it, explicit and - abundant; and with them law and Scripture were absolute - authorities for the regulation of opinion and of conduct. - - "History of New England."--_J. G. Palfrey_. - -JOHN GORHAM PALFREY, a distinguished American clergyman and author, was -born in Boston, May 2, 1796, and died in Cambridge, Mass., April 26, -1881. He published numerous sermons, lectures, addresses, etc., but "The -History of New England," won for him world-wide fame. - - - I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly - breaks my heart. - - "Three Men in a Boat," Chap. 15,--_J. K. Jerome_. - -JEROME K. JEROME, a famous English writer, was born at Walsall, May 2, -1861. Among his works are: "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow," "Three Men -in a Boat," "Novel Notes," "John Ingerfield," "Fennel," "Ruth," "Passing -of the Third Floor Back," "Esther Castways," "Malvina of Brittany," "All -Roads Lead to Calvary," etc. - - - Bisogna che i giudici siano assai perché pochi sempre fanno a modo - de'pochi.[1] - - "Dei Discorsi," I, 7,--_Machiavelli_. - -NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, a renowned Italian statesman and political and -historical writer was born at Florence, May 3, 1469, and died there, -June 22, 1527. He wrote: "Mandragola," "The Prince," "Florentine -History," "Discourses," "Art of War," etc. - - - There is another and a better world. - - "The Stranger," Act. i, Sc. 1,--_A. F. Kotzebue_. - -AUGUST FRIEDRICH FERDINAND VON KOTZEBUE, a famous German dramatist, was -born at Weimar, May 3, 1761, and died at Mannheim, March 23, 1819. His -best known works are: "The Spaniards in Peru," "The Stranger," -"Misanthropy and Repentance," "German Provincials," "The Indians in -England," and his noted novel, "Sorrows of the Ortenberg Family." - - - The Doctrine of Stoicism modified by a doctrine of culture is - nobly preached in Matthew Arnold's verse. - - "New Studios in Literature," p. 37,--_Edward Dowden_. - -EDWARD DOWDEN, a distinguished Irish poet and historian of literature, -was born at Cork, May 3, 1843, and died in 1913. He has written: "Life -of Percy Bysshe Shelley," "Primer of French Literature," "Studies in -Literature," "Poems," "Southey," "Shakespeare, His Mind and Art," -"Introduction to Shakespeare," "Wordsworth," "New Studies in -Literature," "The French Revolution and English Literature," "A History -of French Literature," "Robert Browning," "Michel de Montaigne," -"Essays: Modern and Elizabethan," "Poetical Works" (2 vols.). His -"Letters" appeared in 1914. - - - The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of - his own age, but those of a Scott or a Shakespeare will be renewed - with greater luster in ages yet unborn, when the victorious - chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of - the minstrel and the page of the chronicler. - - --_Prescott_. - -WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, a famous American historian, was born at -Salem, Mass., May 4, 1796, and died in New York, January 28, 1859. He -wrote: "History of Ferdinand and Isabella," "History of the Conquest of -Mexico," "History of the Conquest of Peru," "Critical Essays," "History -of the Reign of Philip II of Spain," etc. - - - It is well to think well: it is divine to act well. - - --_Horace Mann_. - -HORACE MANN, a noted American educator and educational writer was born -in Franklin, Mass., May 4, 1796, and died in Yellow Springs, Ohio, -August 2, 1859. He published: "A Few Thoughts for a Young Man," -"Slavery: Letters and Speeches," "Powers and Duties of Woman," etc. - - - The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - - "Technical Education,"--_Thomas Henry Huxley_. - -THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, a renowned English scientist, was born in Ealing, -May 4, 1825, and died June 29, 1895. Among his famous works are: -"Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature," "On the Educational Value of the -Natural-History Sciences," "Lectures on the Elements of Comparative -Anatomy," "Lessons in Elementary Physiology," "On the Physical Basis of -Life," "Half Hours with Modern Scientists," "American Addresses," "An -Introduction to the Classification of Animals," "Science and Culture, -and Other Essays," etc., etc. - - - Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its - duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. - - --_John W. Draper_. - -JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER, a famous physiologist, historical and miscellaneous -prose-writer, was born near Liverpool, England, May 5, 1811, and died at -Hastings-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., January 4, 1882. He has written: "Human -Physiology," "History of the Intellectual Development of Europe," -"History of the American Civil War," and his most celebrated work, -"History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science." - - - In La Fontaine there is an affluence of poetry which is found in - no other French author. - - "Literary Judgments,"--_Joseph Joubert_. - -JOSEPH JOUBERT, an eminent French moralist and writer of aphorisms, was -born in Montignac, Périgord, May 6, 1754, and died at Paris in 1824. -Most of his epigrammatic work was published after his death, the titles -of the volumes being, "Thoughts," and "Thoughts, Essays, Maxims, and -Correspondence." - - - I feel the breath of the summer night, - Aromatic fire; - The trees, the vines the flowers are astir - With tender desire. - - "A Summer Night,"--_Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard_. - -ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD, a noted American novelist and poet, -was born in Mattapoisett, Mass., May 6, 1823, and died in 1902. Among -her works are: "Temple House," "Two Men," "The Morgesons," and "Poems," -collected and published in 1895, etc. - - - I trust in Nature for the stable laws - Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant - And Autumn garner to the end of time. - I trust in God,--the right shall be the right - And other than the wrong, while he endures. - I trust in my own soul, that can perceive - The outward and the inward,--Nature's good - And God's. - - "A Soul's Tragedy," Act i,--_Robert Browning_. - -ROBERT BROWNING, the renowned English poet, was born in Camberwell, May -7, 1812, and died in Venice, December 12, 1889. Among his poetical works -are: "A Soul's Tragedy," "The Return of the Druses," "Colombe's -Birthday," "Strafford," "Pauline," "Christmas Eve and Easter Day," -"Fifine at the Fair," "Men and Women," "King Victor and King Charles," -"Jocoseria," "Red-Cotton Nightcap Country," "Dramatic Idylls," "Pippa -Passes," etc. - - - Facts are stubborn things. - - "Gil Blas," Book x, Chap. i,--_Le Sage_. - -ALAIN RENÉ LE SAGE, a famous French novelist and dramatist, was born at -Sarzeau, near Cannes, May 8, 1668, and died at Boulogne-sur-Mer, -November 17, 1747. His greatest works were: "The Bachelor of Salamanca," -"Gil Blas," "The Life and Adventures of M. de Beauchène," "The Devil on -Two Sticks," and two well-known comedies, "Crispin His Master's Rival," -and "Turcaret." - - - Suffering is the surest means of making us truthful to ourselves. - - --_Sismondi_. - -JEAN CHARLES LÉONARD SIMON DE SISMONDI, an illustrious Swiss historian, -was born at Geneva, May 9, 1773, and died there, June 25, 1842. His most -noted works are: "History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages," -"History of the New Birth of Liberty in Italy," "History of the Fall of -the Roman Empire," "History of the French," "Julia Severa: or, the Year -492," and "Literature of the South of Europe." - - - Life is a long lesson in humility. - - "The Little Minister," Chap. 3,--_J. M. Barrie_. - -JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE, a noted Scottish author, was born in Kirriemuir, -Forfarshire, May 9, 1860. He has written: "When a Man's Single," "Better -Dead," "Auld Licht Idylls," "A Window in Thrums," "My Lady Nicotine," -"Sentimental Tommy," "Margaret Ogilvy," "The Little Minister," "Tommy -and Grizel," "The Little White Bird," "Peter Pan in Kensington -Gardens," "Peter and Wendy," Dramatic works are: "The Professor's Love -Story," "The Wedding Guest," "Little Mary," "Peter Pan," -"Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire," "What Every Woman Knows," "The Legend of -Leonora," "The Will," "The Adored One," "Half an Hour," "Der Tag," "Rosy -Rapture," "A Kiss for Cinderella," "Seven Women," "Dear Brutus," "Echoes -of the War," etc. - - - No country seems to owe more to its women than America does, nor - to owe to them so much of what is best in social institutions and - in the beliefs that govern conduct. - - "The American Commonwealth,"--_James Bryce_. - -JAMES BRYCE, a noted British statesman, diplomat, and historian, was -born in Belfast, May 10, 1838, and died Jan. 22, 1922. His most -important works are: "The Holy Roman Empire" and "The American -Commonwealth." - - - By the waters of Life we sat together, - Hand in hand, in the golden days - Of the beautiful early summer weather, - When skies were purple and breath was praise. - - "An Old Man's Idyll,"--_Thomas Noel_. - -THOMAS NOEL, a noted English poet, was born May 11, 1799, and died in -1861. Among his volumes of verse are: "Rhymes and Roundelayes," etc. - - - The congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances. - - --_Prince de Ligne_. - -CHARLES JOSEPH, PRINCE DE LIGNE, a distinguished Belgian soldier and -miscellaneous writer, was born at Brussels, May 12, 1735, and died -December 13, 1814. He wrote: "Military, Literary and Sentimental -Miscellanies," "Life of Prince Eugene of Savoy," etc. - - - Molto sa chi non sa, se tacer sa.[2] - - "Gingillino," Part II,--_Giusti_. - -GIUSEPPI GIUSTI, a notable Italian poet and political satirist, was born -in Monsummano, May 12, 1809, and died in Florence, March 31, 1850. His -first masterpiece was the poem "Dies Iræ," other pieces are: "The Boot," -"The Crowned," "The Investiture of a Knight," and the satires written -from 1847 to 1849. - - - Each hour until we meet is as a bird - That wings from far his gradual way along - The rustling covert of my soul--his song - Still loudlier trilled through leaves more deeply stirr'd: - But at the hour of meeting, a clear word - Is every note he sings, in Love's own tongue. - - "Winged Hours," Sonnet xv,--_Dante Gabriel Rossetti_. - -DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, the renowned English painter and poet, was born -in London, May 12, 1828, and died at Birchington, Kent, April 9, 1882. -Among his poetical works are: "Blessed Damozel," "Sister Helen," "The -White Ship," "The House of Life," "The King's Tragedy," "Hand and Soul," -and "Rose Mary." Also: translations of "Early Italian Poets." - - - To tremble, when I touch her hands, - With awe that no man understands; - To feel soft reverence arise - When, lover-sweet, I meet her eyes; - To see her beauty grow and shine - When most I feel this awe divine,-- - Whate'er befall me, this is mine; - And whereabout the room she moves, - My spirit follows her, and loves. - - "Divine Awe,"--_George Edward Woodberry_. - -GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY, a famous American poet and miscellaneous -writer, was born at Beverly, Mass., May 12, 1855. He has written: "The -North Shore Watch, and Other Poems," "History of Wood Engraving," "Life -of Edgar Allan Poe," "The Flight and Other Poems," "North Africa and -the Desert," "Shakespeare: An Address," "Great Writers," "Poems," "The -Inspiration of Poetry," "Wendell Phillips," "Two Phases of Criticism," -"Ideal Passion" (sonnets). - - - Work, and thou wilt bless the day - Ere the toil be done; - They that work not, can not pray, - Can not feel the sun. - God is living, working still, - All things work and move; - Work, or lose the power to will, - Lose the power to love. - - "Working,"--_John Sullivan Dwight_. - -JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT, a noted American musical critic, was born at -Boston, May 13, 1813, and died September 5, 1893. His noted poem is, -"God Save the State." - - - Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never - of any use to them. - - --_Alphonse Daudet_. - -ALPHONSE DAUDET, a distinguished French novelist, was born at Nîmes, May -13, 1840, and died December 16, 1897. He wrote: "The Little Thing: Story -of a Child," "Letters from My Mill," "Monday Tales," "Fromont, Jr. and -Risler, Sr.," "The Nabob," "Kings in Exile," "Numa Roumestan," "The -Gospeller," "Sappho," "Tartarin," "Prodigious Adventures of Tartarin," -"Tartarin in the Alps," "Port Tarascon," "Thirty Years of Paris," -"Recollections of a Man of Letters," etc. - - - Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, - The queen of the world and the child of the skies! - Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, - While ages on ages thy splendors unfold. - - "Columbia,"--_Timothy Dwight_. - -TIMOTHY DWIGHT, a celebrated American Congregational clergyman, was born -in Northampton, Mass., May 14, 1752, and died in New Haven, Conn., -January 11, 1817. He wrote: "Observations on Language," "Essay on -Light," "Greenfield Hill" "Travels in New England and New York," -"Theology Explained and Defended," etc. - - - "You can never say too much about Coleridge to me," Rossetti would - write, "for I worship him on the right side of idolatry, and I - perceive you know him well." Upon this one of my first remarks was - that there was much in Coleridge's higher descriptive verse - equivalent to the landscape art of Turner. The critical parallel - Rossetti warmly approved of, adding however, that Coleridge, at - his best as a pictorial artist, was a spiritualised Turner. - - "Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti,"--_Hall Caine_. - -SIR THOMAS HENRY HALL CAINE, an eminent English novelist, was born at -Runcorn, Cheshire, May 14, 1853. His most noted works are: "The -Deemster," "A Son of Hagar," "Recollections of Rossetti," "The -Scapegoat," "The Shadow of a Crime," "The Manxman," "The Christian," -"The White Prophet," "The Prodigal Son," "The Woman Thou Gavest Me," -etc. Also: "The Drama of 365 Days," "Scenes in the Great War," -"Britain's Daughters," etc. - - - Sooth 'twere a pleasant life to lead, - With nothing in the world to do - But just to blow a shepherd's reed, - The silent season thro' - And just to drive a flock to feed,-- - Sheep, quiet, fond and few! - - "Dolce far Niente," Stanza I,--_Laman Blanchard_. - -SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD, a noted British author and journalist, was born -May 15, 1804, and died February 15, 1845. He published "Lyric -Offerings," etc.; and edited numerous magazine journals. - - - The deeper the feeling the less demonstrative will be the - expression of it. - - --_Balzac_. - -HONORÉ DE BALZAC, the greatest of French novelists, was born in Tours, -May 16, 1799, and died in Paris, August 18, 1850. He wrote in all about -97 celebrated novels. Among them: "Le Vieille Fille," "Contrat De -Marriage," "Le Colonel Chabert," "Les Chouans," "Pierrette," -"Seraphita," "Les Employés," "Modeste Mignon," "Histoire Des Treize," -"Début Dans La Vie," "Ursule Mirouet," "Eugène Grandet," "Cousin Pons," -"Le Père Goriot," "Les Paysans," "Cousine Bette," etc., etc. - - - Les grandes ne sont grands que parceque nous sommes à genoux; - Relevons nous.[3] - - "Revolutions de Paris," Motto.--_Prudhomme_. - -RENÉ FRANÇOIS ARMAND SULLY-PRUDHOMME, a famous French poet, was born at -Paris, May 16, 1839, and died in 1907. He has written: "The Broken -Vase," "Stanzas and Poems," "The Stables of Augeas," "The Wildernesses," -"Revolt of the Flowers," "Reflections on the Art of Versification," etc. - - - To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men - of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. - - "Literary Character of Men of Genius," Ch. II,--_Isaac - Disraeli_. - -ISAAC DISRAELI, a distinguished English literary essayist, compiler and -historian, was born at Enfield in Middlesex, May 17, 1766, and died -January 9, 1848. Among his writings are: "Curiosities of Literature," -"Calamities of Authors," "Quarrels of Authors," "Miscellanies, or -Literary Recollections," etc. Also: "Commentaries on the Life and Reign -of Charles I." - - - A monument to Newton! a monument to Shakespeare! Look up to - Heaven--look into the Human Heart. Till the planets and the - passions--the affections and the fixed stars are - extinguished--their names cannot die. - - "Noctes Ambrosianæ," Vol. iii,--_John Wilson_. - -JOHN WILSON (CHRISTOPHER NORTH), a noted Scottish writer, was born May -18, 1785, at Paisley, and died April 3, 1854. Among his works are: "The -Isle of Palms," "The City of the Plague," "Lights and Shadows of -Scottish Life," "The Trials of Margaret Lindsay," "The Foresters," etc. - - - Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy - destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for - indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over - emotions of piety--no, for action was existence given thee; thy - actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth. - - --_Fichte_. - -JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE, a renowned German philosopher, was born at -Rammenau in Upper Lusatia, May 19, 1762, and died at Berlin, January 27, -1814. Among his works are: "Foundations of the Whole Doctrine of -Science," "Introduction to the Doctrine of Science," "The Doctrine of -Science," "System of Moral Doctrine," "Man's Destiny," and his -celebrated treatise, "Essay Toward a Critique of All Revelation." - - - The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the - individuals composing it. - - --_John Stuart Mill_. - -JOHN STUART MILL, a famous English philosophical writer, logician, and -political economist, was born in London, May 20, 1806, and died at -Avignon, France, May 8, 1873. Among the most important of his works are: -"Essay on Liberty," "Logic," "Political Economy," "On the Subjection of -Women," "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy," "Auguste -Comte and Positivism," and "Utilitarianism." His "Autobiography" -appeared in 1873. - - - It was the calm and silent night! - Seven hundred years and fifty-three - Had Rome been growing up to might, - And now was queen of land and sea. - No sound was heard of clashing wars, - Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain; - Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars - Held undisturbed their ancient reign, - In the solemn midnight - Centuries ago. - - "Christmas Hymn,"--_Alfred Domett_. - -ALFRED DOMETT, a noted British statesman and poet, was born at -Camberwell Grove, Surrey, May 20, 1811, and died in 1887. The best -known of his works are: "Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea Day Dream," and -"Flotsam and Jetsam: Rhymes Old and New." - - - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things - To low ambition and the pride of kings. - Let us (since life can little more supply - Than just to look about us, and to die) - Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; - A mighty maze! but not without a plan. - - "Essay on Man," Epistle i, Line 1,--_Alexander Pope_. - -ALEXANDER POPE, the renowned English poet, was born at London, May 21, -1688, and died at Twickenham on the Thames, May 30, 1744. His most -famous works are: "Homer's Odyssey," "The Iliad of Homer," translated, -"Epistles from Eloisa to Abelard," "The Rape of the Lock," "The Temple -of Fame," "Essay on Criticism," "The Dunciad," "Imitations of Horace," -"Essay on Man," etc. - - - "It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,"--words which I - record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others. - - "Memoirs,"--_Fouché_. - -JOSEPH FOUCHÉ (DUKE OF OTRANTO), a celebrated French statesman, was born -May 21, 1759, and died in 1820. A few of his famous political pamphlets -and reports are: "Réflexions sur le jugement de Louis Cofret," -"Réflexions sur l'éducation publique," "Rapport et project de loi -relatif aux Collèges," etc. - - - A sudden thought strikes me,--let us swear an eternal friendship. - - "The Rovers,"--_J. H. Frere_. - -JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE, a noted English poet, translator, and diplomatist, -was born in London, May 21, 1769, and died in Malta, January 7, 1846. He -produced: the "Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work... -Relating to King Arthur and his Round Table," known as "The Monks and -the Giants"; a literary burlesque, and numerous translations. - - - A sound so fine, there's nothing lives - 'Twixt it and silence. - - "Virginius," Act v, Sc. 2 (1784-1862),--_James Sheridan - Knowles_. - -JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES, a famous Irish actor, lecturer and dramatist, -was born at Cork, May 21, 1784, and died at Torquay, England, November -30, 1862. Among his dramas are: "Caius Gracchus," "William Tell," -"Alfred the Great," "The Wife: a Tale of Mantua," "The Rose of Aragon," -and his three masterpieces, "Virginius," "The Hunchback," and "The Love -Chase." - - - Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of a good - style in speaking or in writing. - - --_Richard Grant White_. - -RICHARD GRANT WHITE, an eminent American journalist, critic, and -Shakespearean scholar, was born in New York City, May 22, 1822, and died -there, April 8, 1885. Among his books are: "National Hymns: A Lyrical -and National Study for the Times," "Memoirs of the Life of William -Shakespeare, with an Essay Towards the Expression of His Genius," -"Poetry of the Civil War," "Words and Their Uses," "England Without and -Within," etc. - - - The bow was made in England: - Of true wood, of yew-wood, - The wood of English bows; - So men who are free - Love the old yew-tree - And the land where the yew-tree grows. - - "Songs of Action: Song of the Bow," etc. I,--_Sir A. Conan - Doyle_. - -SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, a renowned Scotch story and romance writer, was -born in Edinburgh, May 22, 1859. His works include: "A Study in -Scarlet," "The Sign of the Four," "The White Company," "The Great -Shadow," "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," "The Hound of the -Baskervilles," "Adventures of Gerard," "Return of Sherlock Holmes," "Sir -Nigel," "Through the Magic Door," "The Fires of Fate," "The Crime of the -Congo," "The Lost World," "The Case of Oscar Slater," "The Valley of -Fear," "A Visit to Three Fronts," "His Last Bow," etc. - - - I remember, I remember - The fir-trees dark and high; - I used to think their slender-tops - Were close against the sky; - It was a childish ignorance, - But now 'tis little joy - To know I'm farther off from heaven - Than when I was a boy. - - "I remember, I remember,"--_Thomas Hood_. - -THOMAS HOOD, the great English poet, was born in London, May 23, 1799, -and died there May 3, 1845. Among his poetical works are: "The Haunted -House," "Whims and Oddities," "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies," and -"The Hostler's Lament," "The Bridge of Sighs," and "The Song of the -Shirt." - - - Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me! - Fear, hope, and longing, at strife, - Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever, - Gathering strength, gaining breath,--naught can sever - Me from the Spirit of Life! - - "Dryad Song," Stanza 4,--_Margaret Fuller_. - -SARAH MARGARET FULLER, Marchioness d'Ossoli, best known as "Margaret -Fuller," was born at Cambridgeport, Mass., May 23, 1810, and died in -1850. She wrote: "Art, Literature, and Drama," "At Home and Abroad," -"Life Without and Life Within," and a collection of essays on "Women in -the Nineteenth Century." - - - The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. - In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only - end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the - sciences. - - --_William Whewell_. - -WILLIAM WHEWELL, a noted English philosopher and scientist, was born at -Lancaster, May 24, 1794, and died at Cambridge, March 6, 1866. Among his -works are: "History of the Inductive Sciences," "Philosophy of the -Inductive Sciences," "Lectures on Political Economy," "Elements of -Morality," etc. - - - If ever any poet stood in the white light of the beauty which we - call poetry, it was Mrs. Browning. Her thoughts were as fire and - her words were as fire. - - "Lectures on English Literature," 1889, p. 135.--_Maurice - Francis Egan_. - -MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, a distinguished man of letters, was born in -Philadelphia, May 24, 1852 and died in 1923. His works include: "That -Girl of Mine," "That Lover of Mine," "A Garden of Roses," "Stories of -Duty," "The Life Around Us," "Lectures on English Literature," "A Primer -of English Literature," "A Gentleman," "The Flower of the Flock," -"Preludes" (poetry), "Songs and Sonnets," "Everybody's St. Francis." - - - Beneath the rule of men entirely great, - The pen is mightier than the sword. - - "Richelieu," Act ii, Sc. 2,--_Edward Bulwer-Lytton_. - -EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON, LORD LYTTON, the renowned English novelist, poet -and dramatist, was born in London, May 25, 1803, and died in Torquay, -January 18, 1873. Among his famous novels are: "Eugene Aram," "Pelham," -"Last Days of Pompeii," "Pilgrims of the Rhine," "Last of the Barons," -"Ernest Maltravers," "A Strange Story," "Rienzi," "Devereux," -"Falkland," "Harold," "The Coming Race," "The Caxtons," and three noted -dramas, "Money," "Richelieu," and "The Lady of Lyons." - - - I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a - French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good - version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English - speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under - heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River - when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in - originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. - - "Books,"--_Ralph Waldo Emerson_. - -RALPH WALDO EMERSON, the famous American philosopher, essayist and poet, -was born in Boston, May 25, 1803, and died at Concord, Mass., April 27, -1882. He wrote: "The American Scholar," "Man the Reformer," "Nature," -"The Young American," "The Conduct of Life," "Letters and Social Aims," -"Tribute to Walter Scott," "Society and Solitude," "Representative Men," -"Miscellanies," "Essays," "Poems," "May Day and Other Pieces," etc. - - - Satire should, like a polished razor keen, - Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. - - "To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace," Book ii,--_Mary - Wortley Montagu_. - -MARY WORTLEY, LADY MONTAGU, a celebrated English letter-writer, was born -at Thoresby, Notts, May 26, 1689, and died in England, August 21, 1762. -Her "Letters" won for her great literary fame. - - - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a - glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to - make men holy, let us die to make men free. - - "Battle Hymn of the Republic,"--_Julia Ward Howe_. - -JULIA WARD HOWE, a famous American poet, essayist, lecturer, biographer, -and writer of travels, was born in New York, May 27, 1819, and died in -1910. Among her works are: "Life of Margaret Fuller," "Trip to Cuba," -"Sex and Education," "The World's Own," "Later Lyrics," "From the Oak to -the Olive," and her celebrated "Battle Hymn of the Republic." - - - A cause is like champagne and high heels,--one must be prepared to - suffer for it. - - "The Title,"--_Arnold Bennett_. - -ENOCH ARNOLD BENNETT, a famous English author and journalist, was born -at North Staffordshire, May 27, 1867. Among his many works are: "The -Truth About an Author," "A Great Man," "The Old Wives' Tale," "The -Regent," "The Price of Love," "Over There," "War Scenes on the Western -Front," "Books and Persons," "The Pretty Lady," "The Roll Call," "Things -That Have Interested Me." Among his plays are: "Milestones" (with Edward -Knoblauch), "The Great Adventure," "The Title," "Judith," "Sacred and -Profane Love." - - - Whate'er there be of Sorrow - I'll put off till To-morrow - And when To-morrow comes, why then - 'Twill be To-day and Joy again. - - "The Word,"--_John K. Bangs_. - -JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, a noted American humorist and novelist, was born -May 27, 1862, and died January 21, 1922. Among his publications are -"Coffee and Repartee," "Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica," "Water Ghost and -Other Stories," "A Houseboat on the Styx," "A Rebellious Heroine," "The -Pursuit of the Houseboat," "Olympian Nights," "Over the Plum Pudding," -"Mollie and the Unwise Man," "The Inventions of the Idiot," "Songs of -Cheer," "Little Book of Christmas," "Line o' Cheer for Each Day of the -Year," "The Foothills of Parnassas," "From Pillar to Post," "Half-Hours -with the Idiot." - - - The harp that once through Tara's halls - The soul of music shed, - Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls - As if that soul were fled. - So sleeps the pride of former days, - So glory's thrill is o'er; - And hearts that once beat high for praise - Now feel that pulse no more. - - "The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls,"--_Thomas Moore_. - -THOMAS MOORE, one of the greatest of Irish poets, was born at Dublin, -May 28, 1779, and died near Devizes, February 25, 1852. His most famous -works were: "Irish Melodies," "Loves of the Angels," "Odes and -Epistles," "The Twopenny Post Bag," "History of Ireland," "The -Epicurean," and "Lalla Rookh," his most famous work. - - - Asa Gray and Dr. Tarrey are known wherever the study of botany is - pursued. Gray, with his indefatigable zeal, will gain upon his - competitors. - - "Life and Correspondence," ed. Agassiz, Vol. ii, p. 437, - Letter to Milne Edwards,--_L. Agassiz_. - -JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ, a renowned Swiss naturalist, was born at -Motier, Switzerland, May 28, 1807, and died at Cambridge, Mass., -December 14, 1873. He published: "Studies of Glaciers," "Principles of -Zoölogy," "The Structure of Animal Life," "Scientific Results of a -Journey in Brazil," etc. - - - Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price - of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what - course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me - death! - - "Speech in the Virginia Convention," March, 1775,--_Patrick - Henry_. - -PATRICK HENRY, an illustrious American orator, was born at Studley, Va., -May 29, 1736, and died at Red Hill, Va., June 6, 1799. His numerous -speeches may be found in a (3 vols.) book, entitled "Life," by William -Wirt Henry. - - - "Vanitas Vanitatum" has rung in the ears - Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; - The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare - Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. - - "Vanity Fair,"--_Frederick Locker-Lampson_. - -FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON, a noted English poet, was born at Greenwich, -May 29, 1821, and died in 1895. His fame rests principally upon his -"Society Verses." - - - In this dim world of clouding cares, - We rarely know, till wildered eyes - See white wings lessening up the skies - The angels with us unawares. - - "Babe Cristabel,"--_Thomas Gerald Massey_. - -(THOMAS) GERALD MASSEY, a celebrated English poet, was born near Tring, -Hertfordshire, May 29, 1828, and died October 29, 1907. He published -"Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love," "The Ballad of Babe Cristabel," -"War Waits," and "A Tale of Eternity." He collected the best of these -volumes into a two-volume edition of poems called "My Lyrical Life." He -also wrote: "The Book of the Beginnings," "The Natural Genesis," and his -most important work, "Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World." - - - "Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed." - - "Heretics,"--_G. K. Chesterton_. - -GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, a famous English author was born in London, -May 29, 1874. He has published: "Robert Browning," "Charles Dickens," -"George Bernard Shaw," "What's Wrong with the World?" "The Victorian Age -in Literature," "The Wisdom of Father Brown," "Poems," "A Shilling for -My Thoughts," "A Short History of England," "Irish Impressions," "The -Superstition of Divorce," etc. - - - So long as faith with freedom reigns - And loyal hope survives, - And gracious charity remains - To leaven lowly lives; - While there is one untrodden tract - For intellect or will, - And men are free to think and act, - Life is worth living still. - - "Is Life Worth Living?"--_Alfred Austin_. - -ALFRED AUSTIN, a noted English poet, critic and journalist, was born at -Headingly, near Leeds, May 30, 1835, and died in 1913. He was appointed -poet laureate of England in 1896. Among his writings are: "The Golden -Age: A Satire," "The Tower of Babel," "The Human Tragedy," "Veronica's -Garden," etc. - - - Die Liebe wintert nicht - Nein, nein! Ist und bleibt Frühlings-Schein.[4] - - "Herbstlied,"--_Ludwig Tieck_. - -JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK, a celebrated German poet and miscellaneous writer, -was born in Berlin, May 31, 1773, and died there, April 28, 1853. Among -his works may be mentioned: "William Lovell," "Ostrich Plumes," -"Abdallah," "Peter Lebrecht: A Story Without Adventures," "Prince -Zerbino," "Romantic Fancies," "Life and Death of St. Genevieve," "Love -Songs of the Suabian Past," "Old English Dramatists," "The Tourists," -"The Old Man of the Mountain," "Society in the Country," "Dramatic -Pages," "The Betrothal," "Musical Joys and Sorrows," etc. - - - To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, - Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. - - "Miracles,"--_Walt Whitman_. - -WALT WHITMAN, a renowned American poet, was born at West Hills, L. I., -May 31, 1819, and died at Camden, N. J., March 26, 1892. He wrote: -"Leaves of Grass," "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, and Other Poems," -"Two Rivulets" "November Boughs," "Memoranda During the War," "Drum -Taps," "Passage to India," etc. - - - A brave endeavor - To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, - Is better than life with love forever, - And love is the sweetest thing on earth. - - "Sir Hugo's Choice,"--_James Jeffrey Roche_. - -JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE, a noted American author, was born in Queen's -County, Ireland, May 31, 1847, and died in 1908. He has written: "Songs -and Satires," "Ballads of Blue Water," "Life of John Boyle O'Reilly," -"His Majesty the King; A Romance of the Harem," etc. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few. - -[2] Much knows he who knows naught, if he can hold his tongue. - -[3] The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise -up. - -[4] Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring. - - - - -JUNE - - - - -JUNE - - - Abide with me! fast falls the even-tide! - The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide! - When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, - Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me! - - "Abide With Me!"--_Henry Francis Lyte_. - -HENRY FRANCIS LYTE, a distinguished British clergyman and poet, was born -at Kelso, Scotland, June 1, 1793, and died at Nice, France, November 20, -1847. He has written: "The Spirit of the Psalms," and some well-known -hymns, among them, "Abide with Me," "Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken," -"Praise, My Soul," "The King of Heaven," etc. - - - While we would have our young sisters imitate, as they cannot fail - to love, the conduct of Ruth, will not their elders do well to - ponder on, and imitate the tenderness of Naomi? Would we have our - daughters Ruths, we must be Naomis. - - --_Grace Aguilar_. - -GRACE AGUILAR, a celebrated English novelist, was born at Hackney, June -2, 1816, and died at Frankfort-on-the-Main, September 16, 1847. She -wrote: "The Spirit of Judaism," "Women of Israel," "Home Influence," -"The Days of Bruce," "The Vale of Cedars," etc. - - - 'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create. - - "The Library,"--_John G. Saxe_. - -JOHN G. SAXE, a noted American humorous poet, was born in Highgate, Vt., -June 2, 1816, and died in Albany, N. Y., March 31, 1887. His most -popular poems include: "Rhyme of the Rail," and "The Proud Miss -McBride." - - - When false things are brought low, - And swift things have grown slow, - Feigning like froth shall go, - Faith be for aye. - - "Between Us Now,"--_Thomas Hardy_. - -THOMAS HARDY, the renowned English novelist, was born in Dorsetshire, -June 2, 1840. Among his noted works are: "Desperate Remedies," "Under -the Greenwood Tree," "A Pair of Blue Eyes," "Far from the Madding Crowd" -(Cornhill), "The Hand of Ethelberta," "The Return of the Native," "The -Trumpet Major," "A Laodicean," "Two on a Tower," "The Mayor of -Casterbridge," "The Woodlanders," "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," "Jude the -Obscure," "The Well Beloved," "Wessex Tales," "A Group of Noble Dames," -"Life's Little Ironies," "A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper and Other -Tales," "Wessex Poems," "Poems of the Past and the Present," "The -Dynasts" Pt. 1, 2, 3 (1903, 1906, 1908), "Time's Laughing Stocks," -"Satires of Circumstance," "Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses," -"Complete Poetical Works." - - - Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment - of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness - that he has done his best. - - "Memoirs," Vol. i, p. 130,--_Sydney Smith_. - -SYDNEY SMITH, the famous English wit, essayist and clergyman, was born -at Woodford, Essex, June 3, 1771, and died in London, February 22, 1845. -Among his publications are: "Three Letters to Archdeacon Singleton on -the Ecclesiastical Commission," "Letters," "Papers," "Peter Plymley's -Letters," etc. - - - Courage, Brother! do not stumble, - Though thy path be dark as night; - There's a star to guide the humble, - Trust in God and do the Right. - - "Trust in God,"--_Norman Macleod_. - -NORMAN MACLEOD, a distinguished Scottish divine and miscellaneous -writer, was born at Campbeltown, June 3, 1812, and died at Glasgow, -June 16, 1872. Among his writings are: "Peeps at the Far East," "Wee -Davie," "The Earnest Student," "Character Sketches," "Parish Papers," -and "The Starling." - - - Qui fuit peut revenir aussi; - Qui meurt, il n'en est pas ainsi.[1] - - --_Scarron_. - -PAUL SCARRON, a noted French poet, novelist, and dramatist, was born at -Paris, June 4, 1610, and died there October 14, 1660. His works include: -"The Ridiculous Heir," "Jodelet," "Don Japhet of Armenia," "The Scholar -of Salamanca," and his best known work the "Comic Romance." His travesty -of the Æneid (1648-53) was considered a masterpiece of its kind. - - - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a - people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only - for a nation of shopkeepers. - - "Wealth of Nations," Vol. ii, Book iv, Chap. vii, part 3 - (1775),--_Adam Smith_. - -ADAM SMITH, a celebrated Scotch political economist, was born at -Kirkcaldy, June 5, 1723, and died at Edinburgh, July 17, 1790. Among his -works may be mentioned: "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the -Wealth of Nations," "Theory of Moral Sentiments," and "Origin of -Languages." - - - Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.[2] - - "Le Cid," II, 3,--_Corneille_. - -PIERRE CORNEILLE, the illustrious French dramatist, was born at Rouen, -June 6, 1606, and died in Paris, September 30, 1684. He wrote: "The -Gallery of the Palace," "The Lady's Maid," "Mélite," "The Widow," "The -Palais Royal," "Medea," "The Dramatic Illusion," "Pompey," "The Liar," -"The Sequel to the Liar," "Cinna," "Horace," "Théodore," "Polyeucte," -"Don Sancho," "The Golden Fleece," "The Cid," etc., etc. - - - There is no such thing as abstract liberty; it is not even - thinkable. If you ask me, "Do you favor liberty?" I reply, - "Liberty for whom to do what?" - - "The Shadow on the Dial,"--_Ambrose Bierce_. - -AMBROSE BIERCE, a noted American author and journalist, was born in -Ohio, June 6, 1842, disappeared in 1913. His best known works are: "In -the Midst of Life," "Shapes of Clay," and "Can Such Things Be?" His -"Collected Works," in 12 volumes, were published 1909-1912. - - - Beddoes was, so to say, saturated with the spirit of the - Elizabethan Dramatists, and cast his poetry for the most part into - Elizabethan forms. - - A Poetry Book, Second Series, "The Modern Poets," p. 322, - _note_,--_Amelia B. Edwards_. - -AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS, a celebrated English novelist and -Egyptologist, was born in London, June 7, 1831, and died April 15, 1892. -She has published: "My Brother's Wife," "Hand and Glove," "In the Days -of My Youth," "A Thousand Miles up the Nile," etc. - - - I studied the great art of fiction closely for fifteen years - before I presumed to write a word of it. - - --_Charles Reade_. - -CHARLES READE, a renowned English novelist, was born at Ipsden, June 8, -1814, and died April 11, 1884. Among his numerous productions are: "Peg -Woffington," "It's Never Too Late to Mend," "The Course of True Love -Never Did Run Smooth," "The Double Marriage; or White Lies," "Hard -Cash," "The Cloister and the Hearth," "Foul Play," "Put Yourself in His -Place," "A Terrible Temptation," "A Simpleton," "A Woman Hater," etc. -His plays include: "Gold," "Masks and Faces," "The Courier of Lyons," -"Two Loves and a Life," "The King's Rivals," etc. - - - 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, - Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; - A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, - Which sought through the world is ne'er met with elsewhere. - An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain, - Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again; - The birds singing gayly, that came at my call, - Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all. - - "Home Sweet Home," from the opera "Clari, the Maid of - Milan,"--_J. Howard Payne_. - -JOHN HOWARD PAYNE, an American dramatist and author, was born in New -York City, June 9, 1792, and died in Tunis, Africa, April 10, 1852. His -fame rests upon the celebrated lyric "Home, Sweet Home," introduced in -his drama, the "Maid of Milan." His other plays are "Brutus," -"Virginius," and "Charles II." - - - While black with storms the ruffled ocean rolls, and from the - fisher's art defends her finny shoals. - - --_Sir Richard Blackmore_. - -SIR RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE, a renowned English novelist, was born -in Longworth, Berkshire, June 9, 1825, and died January 22, 1900. Some -of his well-known novels are: "The Maid of Sker," "Cripps the Carrier," -"Clara Vaughan," "Sir Thomas Upmore," "Alice Lorraine," "Christowell," -"Spring-haven," "Erema," "Mary Anerley," and his most celebrated novel, -"Lorna Doone." - - - By the flow of the inland river, - Whence the fleets of the iron have fled, - Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, - Asleep are the ranks of the dead;-- - Under the sod and the dew, - Waiting the Judgment Day: - Under the one, the Blue; - Under the other, the Gray. - - "The Blue and the Gray,"--_Francis Miles Finch_. - -FRANCIS MILES FINCH, a noted American poet and judge, was born in -Ithaca, N. Y., June 9, 1827, and died in 1907. He is the author of the -well-known lyrics, "Nathan Hale," and "The Blue and the Gray." - - - Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not - count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for - prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the - world; who shall say under what manifestations, or humble - disguise! - - --_Anne Isabelle Thackeray_. - -LADY ANNE ISABELLE (THACKERAY) RITCHIE, a distinguished English -miscellaneous writer, was born in London, June 9, 1838, and died in -1919. She has written: "Old Kensington," "Toilers and Spinsters," "Miss -Angel," "Bluebeard's Keys," "Mme. de Sévigné," "Lord Tennyson and his -Friends," "Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning," etc. - - - Also, I think that good must come of good, - And ill of evil--surely--unto all-- - In every place and time--seeing sweet fruit - Growth from wholesome roots, and bitter things - From poison stocks; yea, seeing, too, how spite - Breeds hate, and kindness, friends, and patience, peace. - - --_Edwin Arnold_. - -SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, the famous English poet and journalist, was born in -Rochester, June 10, 1832, and died in 1904. His greatest works are: -"Indian Idylls," "Pearls of the Faith," "The Light of the World," -"Japonica," "The Tenth Muse and Other Poems," "Sa'di in the Garden," -and his most famous work: "The Light of Asia, a Poetic Presentation of -the Life and Teaching of Gautama." - - - Shall I, wasting in despair, - Die because a woman's fair? - Or make pale my cheeks with care, - 'Cause another's rosy are? - Be she fairer than the day, - Or the flowery meads in May, - If she be not so to me, - What care I how fair she be? - - "The Shepherd's Resolution,"--_George Wither_. - -GEORGE WITHER, a celebrated English poet and soldier, was born at -Brentworth, June 11, 1588, and died in London, May 2, 1667. Among his -writings are: "Fidelia," "The Shepherd's Hunting," "Hymns and Songs of -the Church," "The Motto," "Abuses Stript and Whipt," and his best-known -song, "Shall I, Wasting in Despair." - - - In lang, lang day o' simmer, - When the clear and cloudless sky - Refuses ae wee drap o' rain - To Nature parched and dry, - The genial night, wi' balmy breath, - Gars verdure spring anew, - An' ilka blade o' grass - Keps its ain drap o' dew. - - "Its Ain Drap o' Dew,"--_Ballantine_. - -JAMES BALLANTINE, a noted Scotch poet, was born in Edinburgh, on June -11, 1808, and died December 18, 1877. His poetical works include: "The -Gaberlunzie's Wallet," "One Hundred Songs," etc. - - - All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward - systems--but God remains. - - "Robert Elsmere," Book IV, Chap, xxvi,--_Mary Augusta (Arnold) - Ward_. - -MRS. HUMPHRY WARD (MARY AUGUSTA ARNOLD), a famous English novelist, was -born at Hobart Town, Tasmania, June 11, 1851, and died in 1920. She has -written: "Milly and Ollie," "Miss Bretherton," "Robert Elsmere," "The -History of David Grieve," "Marcella," "The Story of Bessie Costrell," -"Sir George Tressady," "Eleanor," "Lady Rose's Daughter," "The Marriage -of William Ashe," "Fenwick's Career," "Diana Mallory," "Daphne," -"Canadian Born," "England's Effort," "Towards the Goal," "Missing," etc. - - - The poems of Alfred Tennyson have certainly much of the beauty of - a long-past time; but they have also a life so vivid, a truth so - lucid, and a melody so inexhaustible, as to mark him the poet that - cannot die. - - "A History of the Thirty Years' Peace," A.D. 1815-1846, - Vol. IV. p. 436--_Harriet Martineau_. - -HARRIET MARTINEAU, a notable English reformer and miscellaneous writer, -was born at Norwich, June 12, 1802, and died at Ambleside, June 27, -1876. Among her most noted works are: "Society in America," "Deerbrook," -"History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace," "Philosophy of -Comte," "British Rule in India," "Biographical Sketches," etc. - - - I am reading again, the "History of England," that of Smollett.... - I have to the reign of George the Second, and, in spite of the - dislike I have of Smollett's language and style of writing, I am - much entertained.--Burney, Frances, 1770. - - "Early Diary," ed. Ellis, Vol. I, p. 94,--_Frances Burney_. - -FRANCES BURNEY--MADAME D'ARBLAY, a celebrated English novelist, was born -in King's Lynn, Norfolk, June 13, 1752, and died in Bath, January 6, -1840. Among her noted works are: "Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance -into the World," "Cecilia," "Camilla," and "The Wanderer, or Female -Difficulties." - - - Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; - Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: - And so make life, death, and that vast forever - One grand sweet song. - - "A Farewell,"--_Charles Kingsley_. - -CHARLES KINGSLEY, the distinguished English novelist, poet, and -philanthropist, was born at Holne, near Dartmoor, Devonshire, June 13, -1819, and died at Eversley, Hampshire, January 23, 1875. He wrote many -novels, among them: "Hypatia," "The Saint's Tragedy," (a drama in -verse), "Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet," "Westward, Ho!" "Yeast," "The -Water Babies," (a fairy tale). Also "Lectures Delivered in America," -"Poems," "Andromeda and Other Poems," etc. - - - Land of Heart's Desire, - Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, - But joy is wisdom, Time and endless song. - - "Land of Heart's Desire,"--_William Butler Yeats_. - -WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, a famous Irish poet and writer of romance, was -born in Dublin, June 13, 1865. He has written: "The Wanderings of -Oisin," "Celtic Twilight," "Poems," "The Secret Rose," "Irish Folk -Lore," "Fairy Tales," "Irish Stories," "The Wind Among the Reeds," "The -Countess Kathleen," "The Shadowy Waters," "Ideas of Good and Evil," "In -the Seven Woods," "Hour Glass and Other Plays," "The King's Threshold," -"Deirdre," "The Green Helmet and Other Poems," "Plays for an Irish -Theatre," etc. - - - It lies around us like a cloud-- - A world we do not see; - Yet the sweet closing of an eye - May bring us there to be. - - "The Other World,"--_Harriet Beecher Stowe_. - -HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, a renowned American novelist, was born at -Litchfield, Conn., June 14, 1811, and died at Hartford, Conn., July 1, -1896. Among her numerous works are: "Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands," -"First Geography for Children," "The Minister's Wooing," "Religious -Poems," "Agnes of Sorrento," "Men of Our Times," "Earthly Care a -Heavenly Discipline," "House and Home Papers," "Palmetto Leaves," "The -Ravages of a Carpet," "The Chimney Corner," "Little Foxes," "Lives and -Deeds of Our Self-Made Men," etc., etc. Also her famous works: "Uncle -Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly," "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin," and -"Uncle Tom's Emancipation." - - - Justice, like lightning, ever should appear; - To few men ruin, but to all men fear. - - --_Thomas Randolph_. - -THOMAS RANDOLPH, a noted English poet and dramatist, was born near -Daventry in Northamptonshire, and was baptized June 15, 1605, and died -in 1635. Among his plays are: "The Jealous Lovers," "The Muses' -Looking-Glasse," etc. - - - Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and - flourishing in an immortal youth. - - "Duty of Thanksgiving," "Works," Vol. I, p. 66,--_Isaac Barrow_. - -ISAAC BARROW, a distinguished English theologian, classical scholar and -mathematician, was born at London, June 16, 1630, and died at London, -April, 1677. The best edition of his theological works is that of Rev. -A. Napier (1859). - - - Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. - - --_John Wesley_. - -JOHN WESLEY, a celebrated English divine and writer, was born at -Epworth, June 17, 1703, and died March 2, 1791. He wrote: "Doctrine of -Original Sin," "Explanatory Notes on the New Testament," "Preservative -Against Unsettled Notions in Religion," "A Calm Address to Our American -Colonies," "Survey of the Wisdom of God in Creation," "Notes on the Old -and New Testaments," etc. - - - The violet thinks, with her timid blue eye, - To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy. - - "Garden Gossip,"--_Mrs. Osgood_. - -MRS. FRANCES SARGENT (LOCKE) OSGOOD, a well-known American poet, was -born in Boston, June 18, 1811, and died in Hingham, Mass., May 12, 1850. -She published: "Wreath of Wild Flowers," "Poetry of Flowers," "Poems," -etc. - - - Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far, - Was pinned with a single star. - - "Death in Disguise," Line 227 (Boston edition, 1833).--_McDonald - Clarke_. - -MCDONALD CLARKE, a noted American poet, was born in Bath, Maine, June -18, 1778, and died in New York, March 5, 1842. His works include: -"Poetic Sketches," "The Belles of Broadway," etc. - - - Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers - have lost. - - "Of Books,"--_Thomas Fuller_. - -THOMAS FULLER, a famous English divine and historian, was baptized on -June 19, 1608, and died in 1661. Among his famous works are: "David's -Heinous Sin," "History of the Holy War," "Church History of Britain," -etc. "The Worthies of England," is the work for which he is now -esteemed. - - - Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed - simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or - just. - - "Thoughts," Chap. IV, 6,--_Blaise Pascal_. - -BLAISE PASCAL, a renowned French philosopher and mathematician, was born -at Clermont Ferrand, in Auvergne, June 19, 1623, and died at Paris, -August 19, 1662. His writings include: "Letters Written by Louis -Montalte to a Friend in the Provinces," more widely known as the -"Provincial Letters," and his "Thoughts on Religion" (Pensées), which -was published after his death. - - - Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance - sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? - - "Hymns in Prose," xiii,--_Mrs. Barbauld_. 1743-1825. - -ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD, a celebrated English poet and essayist, was born -in Kibworth-Harcourt, Leicestershire, June 20, 1743, and died in Stoke -Newington, March 9, 1825. She wrote: "Early Lessons for Children," -"Devotional Pieces," "Hymns in Prose for Children," "Eighteen Hundred -and Eleven," etc. - - - The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; - At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; - With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, - And all the tumult and the trouble stopped. - - "The Nestling Swallows,"--_Celia Thaxter_. - -MRS. CELIA (LEIGHTON) THAXTER, a famous American poet, was born at -Portsmouth, N. H., June 20, 1836, and died in 1894. She has written: -"Poems for Children," "Idyls and Pastorals," "Poems," "Drift-Weed," "The -Yule Log," "Letters," "An Island Garden," "Among the Isles of Shoals," -"Stories and Poems for Children," etc. - - - Woman's love is writ in water! - Woman's faith is traced on sand! - - "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers"; "Charles Edward at - Versailles,"--_W. E. Aytoun_. - -WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN, a noted Scottish humorist, was born in -Edinburgh, June 21, 1813, and died at Blackhills, near Elgin, August 4, -1865. He wrote: "Ballads of Scotland," and his most famous work, "Lays -of the Scottish Cavaliers." With Theodore Martin he wrote the -celebrated "Bon Gaultier Ballads." - - - With the multiplication of books comes the rapid extension and - awakening of mental activity. - - "Constitutional History of England,"--_William Stubbs_. - -WILLIAM STUBBS, a noted English historical writer, was born at -Knaresborough, June 21, 1825, and died April 22, 1901. His most famous -work is: "The Constitutional History of England." He also published: -"Lectures on Mediæval and Modern History." - - - Hopkins sought to add to the five points of Calvinism the rather - heterogeneous ingredient that holiness consists in pure, - disinterested benevolence, and that all regard for self is - necessarily sinful. - - "History of the United States of America," Vol. II, p. - 597,--_Richard Hildreth_. - -RICHARD HILDRETH, a renowned American historian, was born in Deerfield, -Mass., June 22, 1807, and died in Florence, Italy, July 11, 1865. Among -his works are: "History of Banks," "Theory of Morals," "Theory of -Politics," and his most noted work, "History of the United States." - - - My two favourite novels are Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" and - Lytton's "Coming Race." Both these books I can read again and - again, and with an added pleasure. Only my delight in the last is - always marred afresh by disgust at the behaviour of the hero, who, - in order to return to this dull earth, put away the queenly Zoe's - love. - - "Books which Have Influenced Me," p. 67,--_Haggard, H. Rider_. - -SIR HENRY RIDER HAGGARD, a celebrated English novelist was born in -Norfolk, June 22, 1856. Among his numerous works are: "Cetewayo and His -White Neighbors," "Dawn," "The Witch's Head," "King Solomon's Mines," -"She," "Jess," "Allan Quatermain," "Cleopatra," "Allan's Wife," -"Beatrice," "Nada, the Lily," "The People of the Mist," "Heart of the -World," "Joan Haste," "Rural England," "Pearl Maiden," "The Way of the -Spirit," "Benita," "Fair Margaret," "The Yellow God," "Regeneration," -"Red Eve," "Marie," "Child of Storm," "The Holy Flower," "The Ivory -Child," "Love Eternal," "Moon of Israel," "When the World Shook," etc. - - - At some disputed barricade, - When Spring comes back with rustling shade - And apple-blossoms fill the air,-- - I have a rendezvous with Death - When Spring brings back blue days and fair. - - "I have a Rendezvous With Death,"--_Alan Seeger_. - -ALAN SEEGER, a noted American poet, was born in New York City, June 22, -1888, and was killed on the field of Belloy en Santene, France, July 4, -1916. He will always be remembered for his famous poem, "I Have a -Rendezvous with Death." - - - If but one friend have crossed thy way, - Once only, in thy mortal day; - If only once life's best surprise - Has opened on thy human eyes; - Ingrate thou wert, indeed, if thou - Didst not in that rare presence bow, - And on earth's holy ground, unshod, - Speak softlier the dear name of God. - - --_Lucy Larcom_. - -LUCY LARCOM, a noted American poet, was born at Beverly, Mass., June 23 -(?), 1826, and died in Boston in 1893. Her works include: "Poems," "An -Idyl of Work, a Story in Verse," "As It Is in Heaven," and "The Unseen -Friend." - - - The world still needs - Its champion as of old, and finds him still. - - "The Epic of Hades: Herakles,"--_Sir Lewis Morris_. - -SIR LEWIS MORRIS, a distinguished British poet, was born at Penbryn, -June 23, 1833, and died November 13, 1907. His poetical works include: -"Songs of Two Worlds," "The Epic of Hades" (his best-known work) "Songs -Unsung," "A Vision of Saints," "The Ode of Life," "Idylls and Lyrics," -"The New Rambler," and "Gwen." - - - Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses - regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the - poor visited, the work of piety accomplished? - - --_Massillon_. - -JEAN BAPTISTE MASSILLON, a renowned French preacher, was born at Hyères, -June 24, 1663, and died at Clermont, September 18, 1742. His sermons -have been translated into English, also the funeral oration on Louis -XIV. (London, 1872.) - - - A glass is good, and a lass is good, - And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; - The world is good, and the people are good, - And we're all good fellows together. - - "Sprigs of Laurel," Act. II. Sc. I,--_John B. O'Keefe_. - -JOHN B. O'KEEFE, a famous Irish dramatist, was born in Dublin, June 24, -1747, and died at Southampton, February 4, 1833. Among his plays are: -"The Young Quaker," "The Poor Soldier," "Peeping Tom," "Wild Oats," "The -Castle of Andalusia," "Sprigs of Laurel," etc. - - - Of all the duties, the love of truth, with faith and constancy in - it, ranks first and highest. Truth is God. To love God and to love - Truth are one and the same. - - --_Silvio Pellico_. - -SILVIO PELLICO, an illustrious Italian poet, was born at Saluzzo, in -Piedmont, June 24, 1788, and died at Turin, January 31, 1854. Among his -tragedies are: "Iginia of Asti," "Ester of Engaddi," "Leonerio of -Dertonia," "Laodicea," "Eufemio of Messina," "Gismonda da Mendrisio," -"Thomas More," "Herodias," and "Francesca da Rimini," his most -celebrated tragedy. - - - Put away all sarcasm from your speech. Never complain. Do not - prophesy evil. Have a good word for every one or else keep silent. - - --_Henry Ward Beecher_. - -HENRY WARD BEECHER, a distinguished American clergyman, was born in -Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813, and died in Brooklyn, New York, March -8, 1887. He wrote: "Freedom and War," "Norwood, or Village Life in New -England," "Eyes and Ears," "Star Papers: or Experiences of Art and -Nature," etc. His "Sermons" were edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott in 1868. - - - Who can refute a sneer? - - "Moral Philosophy." Vol. II, Book V, Chap. 9.--_William Paley_. - -WILLIAM PALEY, a noted English divine and philosopher, was born at -Peterborough, June 25 (?), 1743, and died May 25, 1805. He published his -lectures, revised and enlarged under the title of "The Principles of -Moral and Political Philosophy"; also "Deity Collected from the -Appearances of Nature." - - - Dryden's practical knowledge of English was beyond all others - exquisite and wonderful. - - "The Diversions of Purley,"--_John Horne Tooke_. - -JOHN HORNE TOOKE, a celebrated English political writer and grammarian, -was born at Westminster, June 25, 1736, and died at Wimbledon, March 18, -1812. His principal work was: "Epea Pteroenta (Winged Words); or The -Diversions of Purley." - - - Live while you live, the epicure would say, - And seize the pleasures of the present day; - Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, - And give to God each moment as it flies. - Lord, in my views, let both united be: - I live in pleasure when I live to thee. - - "Epigram on his Family Arms,"--_Philip Doddridge_. - -PHILIP DODDRIDGE, a distinguished English non-conformist divine, was -born in London, June 26, 1702, and died in Lisbon, Portugal, October 26, -1751. Among his works are: "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the -Soul," "The Family Expositor," and "Evidences of Christianity." - - - Lafcadio Hearn is a painter with the pen. - -LAFCADIO HEARN, a noted American journalist and miscellaneous writer, -was born at Santa Maura, Ionian Islands, June 27, 1850, and died -September 26, 1904. He has written: "Two Years in the French West -Indies," "Youma," "Some Chinese Ghosts," "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan," -"Gleanings in Buddha-fields," "Out of the East," "Kokoro," "Exotics and -Retrospectives," "Shadowings," "A Japanese Miscellany," "Kotto," -"Japanese Fairy Tales," "Kwaidan," etc. - - - Days of absence, sad and dreary, - Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- - Days of absence, I am weary: - She I love is far away. - - "Days of Absence,"--_Jean Jacques Rousseau_. - -JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU, the renowned French writer, was born in Geneva, -June 28, 1712, and died at Ermenonville near Paris, July 2, 1778. Among -his numerous works may be mentioned: "A Project of Perpetual Peace," "To -the Archbishop of Paris," "Letters from the Mountain," "Consolations of -My Life," "Memoir on the Shape of the Earth," "The Village Soothsayer," -"Letter on French Music," "On Political Economy," "Letters to -Voltaire," "Narcissus," "The Social Contract," "Letters on His Exile," -and his famous, "Confessions." - - - So long as a ray of sunlight illumines her fields, Italy will - reverence Alfieri as the first to give to tragedy a noble mission, - to raise it from the dust in which it lay, and make of it the - instructor of the people. - - "Life and Writings," Vol. II,--_Mazzini_. - -JOSEPH MAZZINI, a famous Italian patriot, was born at Genoa, June 28 -(?), 1805, and died at Pisa, March 10, 1872. "Complete Works" (18 -vols.), 1861-91. His "Memoirs" were published in 1875. - - - For right is right, since God is God, - And right the day must win; - To doubt would be disloyalty, - To falter would be sin. - - "The Right Must Win,"--_Frederick W. Faber_. - -FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER, a distinguished English hymn-writer, was born -in Calverley, Yorkshire, June 28, 1814, and died at the Oratory, -Brompton, September 26, 1863. His collection of "Hymns" appeared in -1848. - - - Be silent and safe,--silence never betrays you. - - "Rules of the Road,"--_John B. O'Reilly_. - -JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, a celebrated Irish-American poet and prose-writer, -was born near Drogheda, Ireland, June 28, 1844, and died at Hull, Mass., -August 10, 1890. He wrote: "Songs of the Southern Seas," "Moondyne," -etc. - - - Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? - Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; - Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, - And trembled with fear at your frown! - - "Ben Bolt,"--_Thomas Dunn English_. - -THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH, a noted American writer, was born in Philadelphia, -June 29, 1819, and died in 1902. He is best remembered by his famous -song, "Ben Bolt." - - - Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher! - Of magic matter: give it a slight toss over - The ambient ether--and I don't see why - You shouldn't make a sky. - - "Sky-Making." To Professor Tyndall,--_Mortimer Collins_. - -MORTIMER COLLINS, a famous English novelist and poet, was born in -Plymouth, June 29, 1827, and died at Knowl Hill, Berkshire, July 28, -1876. His novels include: "Who Is the Heir," "Sweet Anne Page," "The -Ivory Gate," "The Vivian Romance," "The Marquis and Merchant," "Two -Plunges for a Pearl," "Blacksmith and Scholar," etc. Also: "Idyls and -Rhymes," "Summer Songs," and "The British Birds." - - - No historian who has yet written has shown such familiarity with - the facts of English history, no matter what the subject in hand - may be: the extinction of villeinage, the Bloody Assizes, the - appearance of the newspaper, the origin of the national debt, or - the state of England in 1685. Macaulay is absolutely unrivaled in - the art of arranging and combining his facts, and of presenting in - a clear and vigorous narrative the spirit of the epoch he treats. - Nor should we fail to mention that both Essays and History abound - in remarks, general observations, and comment always clear, - vigorous, and shrewd, and in the main very just. - - "Library of the World's Best Literature," ed., Warner, - p. 9386.--_John Bach McMaster_. - -JOHN BACH MCMASTER, a renowned American historian, was born at Brooklyn, -N. Y., June 29, 1852. He has written: "Brief History of the United -States," "Cambridge Modern History," "A Primary School History of the -United States," "Daniel Webster," "The Struggle for the Social, -Political and Industrial Rights of Man," "Life and Times of Stephen -Girard," and his most famous work, "History of the People of the United -States." - - - Is she not more than painting can express, - Or youthful poets fancy when they love? - - "The Fair Penitent," Act III, Sc. I,--_Nicholas Rowe_. - -NICHOLAS ROWE, a distinguished English dramatist and poet-laureate, was -born at Little Barford, Bedfordshire, June 30 (?), 1674, and died -December 6, 1718. He is best known as the translator of Lucan's -"Pharsalia." He was the author of many successful plays, the most -popular being: "Tamerlane," "The Fair Penitent," "Jane Shore," and "Lady -Jane Grey." - - - Why thus longing, thus forever sighing - For the far-off, unattained, and dim, - While the beautiful all round thee lying - Offers up its low, perpetual hymn? - - "Why thus Longing?"--_Harriet Winslow Sewall_. - -HARRIET (WINSLOW) SEWALL, a noted American poet, was born at Portland, -Me., June 30, 1819, and died at Wellesley, Mass., February, 1889. -"Poems, with a Memoir," was published in 1889. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies. - -[2] Brave men are brave from the very first. - - - - -JULY - - - - -JULY - - - Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of - all virtues. - - "Christian Moderation," Introduction,--_Bishop Hall_. - -JOSEPH HALL (BISHOP HALL), a famous English bishop and satirist, was -born at Bristow Park near Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, July 1, -1574, and died in 1656. He wrote "Episcopacy by Divine Right," "An -Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament," "Of Toothless -Satyrs," "Christian Moderation," "Contemplations," etc. - - - Solitude holds a cup sparkling with bliss in her right hand, a - raging dagger in her left. To the blest she offers her goblet, but - stretches towards the wretched the ruthless steel. - - --_Klopstock_. - -FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK, a renowned German poet, was born at -Quedlinburg, July 2, 1724, and died at Hamburg, 1803. He is best known -by his great epic, "The Messiah," and his "Odes." - - - Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on - chance. - - "Handsome Lawrence," Ch. II,--_George Sand_. - -GEORGE SAND (BARONNE DUDEVANT), the great French novelist, was born in -Paris, July 2, 1804, and died at Nohant, June 7, 1876. Among her -numerous works may be mentioned: "Indiana," "Aldo the Poet," "The -Private Secretary," "Andrè," "A Winter at Majorca," "Gabriel," -"Pauline," "Horace," "The Seven Strings of the Lyre," "Consuelo," "The -Companion of a French Tour," "Isidora," "The Countess of Rudolstadt," -"The Miller of Angibault," "The Castle of Solitude," "The Master -Ringers," "Story of My Life," "The Snow Man," "Flavia," "Tamaris," "The -Last Love," "Cadio," "A Rolling Stone," "The Little Daughter," -"Narcissus," "Village Walks," "Loves of the Golden Age," "Journal of a -Tourist During the War," etc., etc. - - - Silence is the speech of love, - The music of the spheres above. - - "Speech of Love,"--_Richard Henry Stoddard_. - -RICHARD HENRY STODDARD, a distinguished American lyric poet, was born at -Hingham, Mass., July 2, 1825, and died in 1903. His works include: -"Abraham Lincoln: A Horatian Ode," "Poems," "The Lion's Cub," "Songs of -Summer," etc. - - - Life is a voyage. The winds of life come strong - From every point; yet each will speed thy course along, - If thou with steady hand when tempests blow - Canst keep thy course aright and never once let go. - - "The Voyage of Life,"--_Theodore Chickering Williams_. - -THEODORE CHICKERING WILLIAMS, a noted American clergyman, educator and -author, was born at Brookline, Mass., July 2, 1855, and died in 1915. He -has written: "Character Building," "Elegies of Tibullus," "Virgil's -Æneid," "Poems of Belief," "Virgil's Georgics and Eclogues," etc. - - - At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and - at forty, the judgment. - - --_Grattan_. - -HENRY GRATTAN, a noted Irish orator and statesman, was born in Dublin, -July 3, 1746, and died in London, June 4, 1820. He wrote: "Letters on -the Irish Union," "Correspondence," and numerous speeches. - - - We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above - us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not - good to do religiously. - - "Marble Faun," Bk. II, Ch. VII,--_Nathaniel Hawthorne_. - -NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, a famous American novelist and short-story writer, -was born in Salem, Mass., July 4, 1804, and died at Plymouth, N. H., May -19, 1864. He wrote: "The House of the Seven Gables," "Tanglewood Tales," -"The Wonder Book," "Tales of the White Hills," "Twice-Told Tales," -"Mosses from an Old Manse," "Fanshawe," "Our Old Home," "The Marble -Faun," "The Scarlet Letter," etc. - - - Let travellers devote one entire morning to inspecting the Arcos - and the Mai das agoas, after which they may repair to the English - Church and cemetery, Pere-la-chaise in miniature, where, if they - be of England, they may well be excused if they kiss the cold - tomb, as I did, of the author of "Amelia," the most singular - genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long - been the fashion to abuse in public and then read in secret. - - "The Bible in Spain,"--_George Borrow_. - -GEORGE BORROW, a distinguished English philologist, and traveler, was -born in East Dereham, Norfolk, July 5, 1803, and died in Oulton, -Suffolk, July 30, 1881. Among his writings are: "Romano Lavo Lil, or -Word-Book of the Romany," "The Zincali, or Gipsies of Spain," "The Bible -in Spain," "Lavengro," "The Romany Rye," and "Wild Wales." - - - The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great - shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know - what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need. - - --_Leibnitz_. - -GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNITZ, a renowned German philosopher and -scholar, was born at Leipsic, July 6, 1646, and died at Hanover, -November 14, 1716. Among his writings are: "Essays on God's Goodness, -Man's Freedom, and the Origin of Evil," "Principles of Nature and -Grace," "New Essays on the Human Understanding," etc. - - - Alexander Wilson, in the Preface to his "American Ornithology," - (1808), quotes these words, and relates the story of a boy who had - been gathering flowers. On bringing them to his mother, he said, - "Look, my dear Ma! What beautiful flowers I have found growing in - our place! Why, all the woods are full of them!" - - --_Alexander Wilson_. - -ALEXANDER WILSON, a celebrated Scotch-American ornithologist, was born -at Paisley, Scotland, July 6, 1766, and died in Philadelphia, August 23, -1813. His most important work, "American Ornithology," won for him great -fame. - - - Awake thee, my Lady-Love! - Wake thee, and rise! - The sun through the bower peeps - Into thine eyes. - - "Waking Song,"--_George Darley_. - -GEORGE DARLEY, a noted Irish poet and critic, was born in Dublin, July -7, 1795, and died near Rome, November 23, 1846. He wrote: "Sylvia, or -the May Queen," "Nepenthe," "Errors of Extasie and Other Poems," and -numerous studies of other men's work. - - - There's a hope for every woe, - And a balm for every pain, - But the first joys of our heart - Come never back again! - - "The Exile's Song,"--_Robert Gilfillan_. - -ROBERT GILFILLAN, a renowned Scotch poet, was born in Dumfermline, July -7, 1798, and died at Leith, December 4, 1850. His "Original Songs" have -made him famous, the best known of the collection being: "In the Days o' -Langsyne," "Peter McCraw," and "The Exile's Song." - - - The opinion of the strongest is always the best. - - "The Wolf and the Lamb," from "Fables," Book I, Fable 10,--_Jean - de La Fontaine_. - -JEAN DE LA FONTAINE, the great French fabulist and poet, was born at -Château-Thierry, in Champagne, July 8, 1621, and died in Paris, April -13, 1695. His principal works were: "Stories and Novels," "Adonis," "The -Loves of Psyche," and his celebrated "Fables." - - - They love their land because it is their own, - And scorn to give aught other reason why; - Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, - And think it kindness to his Majesty. - - "Connecticut,"--_Fitz-Greene Halleck_. - -FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, a celebrated American poet, was born in Guilford, -Conn., July 8, 1790, and died there, November 19, 1867. His most -important poems were: "Fanny," and "Marco Bozzaris." - - - Time softly there - Laughs through the abyss of radiance with the gods. - - "The Fire-Bringer," Act i,--_William Vaughn Moody_. - -WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, a noted American poet, was born at Spencer, -Indiana, July 8, 1869, and died at Colorado Springs, October 17, 1910. -He is best known by his famous poem, "An Ode in Time of Hesitation," -which won for him lasting fame. Among his dramas are: "The Masque of -Judgment," "The Great Divide," and "The Faith-Healer." With R. W. -Lovett, he wrote: "History of English Literature," etc. - - - A manufacturing district ... sends out, as it were, suckers into - all its neighborhood. - - "View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages," Ch. - IX,--_Hallam_. - -HENRY HALLAM, a distinguished English historian, was born at Windsor, -July 9, 1777, and died at Pickhurst, Kent, January 21, 1859. His noted -works are: "Constitutional History of England," "Introduction to the -Literature of Europe During the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth -Centuries," and "A View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages." - - - I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous - as they are, as I have with my impatience. - - --_Calvin_. - -JOHN CALVIN, a renowned reformer and theologian, was born at Noyon, in -Picardy, France, July 10, 1509; and died in Geneva, May 27, 1564. He -wrote: "Commentaries on the New Testament," and "Institutes of the -Christian Religion," the latter his most famous work. - - - Man was formed for society; and, as is demonstrated by the writers - on the subject, is neither capable of living alone, nor indeed has - the courage to do it. However, as it is impossible for the whole - race of mankind to be united in one great society, they must - necessarily divide into many, and form separate states, - commonwealths, and nations, entirely independent of each other, - and yet liable to a mutual intercourse. - - "Comment: Of the Nature of Laws in General,"--_Blackstone_. - -SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, an eminent English jurist and writer on law, was -born in London, July 10, 1723, and died in 1780. He won great celebrity -by his famous "Commentaries on the Laws of England." - - - All lies disgrace a gentleman, white or black, although I grant - there is a difference. To say the least of it, it is a dangerous - habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones. - I know of but one point on which a lie is excusable, and that is, - when you wish to deceive the enemy. Then, your duty to your - country warrants your lying till you are black in the face; and, - for the very reason that it goes against your grain, it becomes, - as it were, a sort of virtue. - - --_Captain Marryat_. - -FREDERICK MARRYAT (CAPTAIN MARRYAT), a celebrated English novelist, was -born in London, July 10, 1792, and died at Langham, Norfolk, August 9, -1848. His best known works are: "The King's Own," "Frank Mildmay," -"Peter Simple," "Mr. Midshipman Easy," "Japhet in Search of a Father," -"Masterman Ready," etc. - - - Chance is blind and is the sole author of creation. - - "Picciola," Ch. III,--_J. X. B. Saintine_. - -JOSEPH XAVIER BONIFACE SAINTINE, known as Saintine, the renowned French -littérateur and dramatist, was born in Paris, July 10, 1798, and died -there, January 21, 1865. He wrote numerous plays, but his story, -"Picciola," won for him world-wide fame. - - - This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, - For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; - Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, - For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade. - - Written in an Album, 1842,--_John Quincy Adams_. - -JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, an illustrious American statesman and publicist, and -sixth President of the United States, was born at Braintree, Mass., July -11, 1767, and died in Washington, D. C., February 21, 1848. He -published: "Letters on Silesia," etc. The "Diary of J. Q. Adams," and -his "Memoirs" appeared after his death. - - - It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you - live, than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any - gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more - tolerant than love. - - --_Arthur Helps_. - -SIR ARTHUR HELPS, a noted English essayist, historian and miscellaneous -writer, was born at Streatham, Surrey, July 11, 1813, and died in -London, March 7, 1875. Among his best works are: "Friends in Council," -"Companions of My Solitude," "Realmah," "Spanish Conquest in America," -"Casimir Maremma" (a romance), etc. - - - That man is blessed who every day is permitted to behold anything - so pure and serene as the western sky at sunset, while revolutions - vex the world. - - --_Henry D. Thoreau_. - -HENRY DAVID THOREAU, an eminent American writer, was born in Concord, -Mass., July 12, 1817, and died there May 6, 1862. His works include: -"Familiar Letters," "Summer," "Winter," "Autumn," "A Week on the Concord -and Merrimac Rivers," "Early Spring in Massachusetts," "Poems of -Nature," "The Maine Woods," "A Yankee in Canada," "Excursions," "Letters -to Various Persons," and "Cape Cod." - - - And what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation. - - Tract (1766),--_Tucker_ (Dean of Gloucester). - -JOSIAH TUCKER (DEAN TUCKER), a noted English economist and divine, was -born at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, July 13, 1712, and died November 4, -1799. His "Important Questions on Commerce" (1755), won for him great -fame. - - - Fixed in a white-thorn bush, its summer guest, - So low, e'en grass o'er-topped its tallest twig, - A sedge-bird built its little bendy nest, - Close by the meadow pool and wooden brig. - - "The Rural Muse. Poems: The Sedge-Bird's Nest,"--_Clare_. - -JOHN CLARE, a celebrated English poet, was born in Helpstone, near -Peterborough, July 13, 1793, and died at Northampton, May 20, 1864. His -"Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery," won for him great fame. - - - Busy, curious, thirsty fly, - Drink with me, and drink as I. - - "On a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale,"--_William Oldys_. - -WILLIAM OLDYS, a distinguished English biographer and antiquary, was -born July 14, 1696, and died April 15, 1761. He wrote: "The British -Librarian," "The Life of Sir Walter Raleigh," "The Universal Spectator," -etc. - - - Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down; - Rise up! come to the window, and gaze with all the town. - - The Bridal of Andalla,--_John G. Lockhart_. - -JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, a renowned Scotch biographer and son-in-law of -Walter Scott, was born at Cambusnethan, Lanark, July 14, 1794, and died -November 25, 1854. He wrote: "Reginald Dalton," "Adam Blair," -"Valerius," "Matthew Wald," "Life of Robert Burns," a volume of -translations of "Ancient Spanish Ballads," and his most celebrated work, -"Life of Sir Walter Scott." - - - But when the sun in all his state - Illumed the eastern skies, - She passed through Glory's morning-gate, - And walked in Paradise. - - "A Death-Bed,"--_James Aldrich_. - -JAMES ALDRICH, a noted American poet, was born at Mattituck, L. I., July -14, 1810, and died in New York, September 9, 1856. His most celebrated -poem, "A Death-Bed," won for him great fame. - - - 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house - Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse; - The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, - In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. - - "A Visit from St. Nicholas,"--_Clement Clarke Moore_. - -CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE, a distinguished American poet and educational -writer, was born in New York City, July 15, 1779, and died in Newport, -R. I., July 10, 1863. He is best known by his famous poem, "A Visit -from St. Nicholas." - - - "The history of our land will hereafter record the name of John - Henry Newman among the greatest of our people, as a confessor for - the faith, a great teacher of men, a preacher of justice, of - piety, and of compassion." - - From Purcell's "Life of Manning," Vol. II,--_Cardinal Manning_. - -HENRY EDWARD CARDINAL MANNING, a famous English Roman Catholic prelate, -was born July 15, 1808, at Totteridge in Hertfordshire, and died in -London, January 14, 1892. Among his publications are: "Petri -Privilegium," "The True Story of the Vatican Council," "The Temporal -Mission of the Holy Ghost," "The Catholic Church and Modern Society," -"The Internal Mission of the Holy Ghost," "England and Christendom," -"Sin and Its Consequences," etc. - - - Though all the bards of earth were dead - And all their music passed away, - What Nature wishes should be said - She'll find the rightful voice to say. - - "The Golden Silence,"--_William Winter_. - -WILLIAM WINTER, a distinguished American journalist and dramatic critic, -was born at Gloucester, Mass., July 15, 1836, and died in 1917. He has -written: "Life of Henry Irving," "The Wanderers," "Stage Life of Mary -Anderson," "The Queen's Domain," "Life of Edwin Booth," "The Convent, -and Other Poems," "The Jeffersons," "English Rambles," "Life of Ada -Rehan," "Thistle-down," "Poems," "Other Days, Being Chronicles and -Memories of the Stage," "Life and Art of Richard Mansfield," "Vagrant -Memories," etc. - - - A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. - - --_Sir Joshua Reynolds_. - -SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, the great English painter, was born at Plympton -Earls, Devonshire, July 16, 1723, and died in London, February 23, 1792. -His fifteen addresses delivered at the Royal Academy constitute the -well-known "Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds." - - - Whene'er I take my walks abroad, - How many poor I see! - What shall I render to my God - For all his gifts to me? - - "Divine Songs; Song iv."--_Isaac Watts_. - -ISAAC WATTS, a celebrated English clergyman and hymn-writer, was born at -Southampton, July 17, 1674, and died at Theobalds, Newington, November -25, 1748. He wrote many religious works, among them: "The Improvement of -the Mind," "Logic; or, the Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry after -Truth," and his famous "Psalms and Hymns." - - - There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundless. - And the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. - - "Proverbial Philosophy: Of Compensation," L. 15,--_Tupper_. - -MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, a famous English writer, was born in London, -July 17, 1810, and died November 29, 1889. He published: "Geraldine and -Other Poems," "My Life as an Author," etc. His fame, however, rests on -his notable work, "Proverbial Philosophy," (1838-1867). - - - Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love - them: almost all women; a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. - Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious - novel-readers, as well as young boys and girls, and their kind, - tender mothers. - - --_Thackeray_. - -WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, the renowned English novelist, was born in -Calcutta, India, July 18, 1811, and died December 24, 1863. Among his -celebrated works are: "Irish Sketch-Book," "The Book of Snobs," "Barry -Lyndon," "Comic Tales and Sketches," "A Shabby-Genteel Story," "Men's -Wives," "Our Street," "Mrs. Perkins's Ball," "English Humorists of the -Eighteenth Century," "Dr. Birch and His Young Friends," "Vanity Fair," -"The History of Pendennis," "The History of Henry Esmond," "The -Newcomes," "The Four Georges," "The Rose and the Ring," "The -Virginians," "The Adventures of Philip," etc. - - - Les grandes douleurs sont les serres chaudes de l'âme.[1] - - "Noirs et Rouges," Chap. XXI, p. 319,--_Cherbuliez_. - -VICTOR CHERBULIEZ, a distinguished French romancist, was born at Geneva, -July 19, 1829, and died in 1899. Under the name of "G. Valbert," he -wrote: "A Horse by Phidias," "A Political Spain," "Foreign Profiles," -"Art and Nature"; also, "Romance of a Respectable Woman," "Prosper -Randoce," "Miss Rovel," "Samuel Brohl & Co.," etc. - - - Taine liked to say, that what he most admired in the works of - Renan, was "that one could not see how it was done"; and he was - right, if he meant only the style or the "phrase," which gives the - impression of being born spontaneously, without effort and without - art, under the pen of Renan. - - --_Ferdinand Brunetière_. - -FERDINAND BRUNETIÈRE, a celebrated French critic, and man of letters, -was born at Toulon, July 19, 1849, and died December 9, 1906. Among his -publications are: "Études critiques," "Le Roman Naturaliste," "Histoire -et Littérature," "Discours Académiques," "Discours de Combat," "L'Action -Sociale du Christianisme," "Sur les Chemins de la Croyance," etc. - - - I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue. - - Sonnet ccxxv, Canzone xxi, "To Laura in Life." - -FRANCESCO PETRARCH, the greatest of Italian lyric poets, was born at -Arezzo, July 20, 1304, and died at Arquà, July 18, 1374. He wrote: -"Africa," "Memoranda," "Of Contempt of the World," "Of the Solitary -Life," "Of the Remedies for Either Fortune," "Rime," "Of Illustrious -Men," "Metrical Epistles," etc. - - - To sea! to sea! the calm is o'er, - The wanton water leaps in sport, - And rattles down the pebbly shore, - The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort, - And unseen mermaid's pearly song - Comes bubbling up, the weeds among. - Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar: - To sea! to sea! the calm is o'er. - - "To Sea!"--_Thomas Lovell Beddoes_. - -THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES, a noted English poet and dramatist, was born at -Clifton, July 20, 1803, and died at Basle, January 26, 1849. He wrote: -"The Improvisatore," and "The Bride's Tragedy," "Poetical Works" -(London, 1890), and "Letters" (London, 1894), were edited by Edmond -Gosse. - - - Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives - She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; - Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, - And opens in each heart a little heaven. - - "Charity,"--_Matthew Prior_. - -MATTHEW PRIOR, an eminent English poet, was born at Wimborne in -Dorsetshire, July 21, 1664, and died at Wimpole in Cambridgeshire, -September 18, 1721. Among his noted works are: "Solomon," "Alma; or, the -Progress of the Mind," and "Poems on Several Occasions." - - - How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in - reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - - "Characteristics," A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Sect. - 2,--_Shaftesbury_. - -ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, first Earl of Shaftesbury, a distinguished -English statesman, was born in Wimborne, St. Giles, Dorsetshire, July -22, 1621, and died in Amsterdam, January 22, 1683. His notable work was: -"Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times," a collection of -his numerous writings. - - - Blithe wanderer of the wintry air, - Now here, now there, now everywhere, - Quickly drifting to and fro, - A cheerful life devoid of care, - A shadow on the snow. - - "The English Sparrow,"--_George W. Bungay_. - -GEORGE WASHINGTON BUNGAY, a noted journalist and poet, was born in -Walsingham, England, July 22, 1818, and died July 10, 1892. The best -known of his many poems are: "The Creed of the Bells," and "The English -Sparrow." He also wrote: "Abraham Lincoln Songster," "Pen Portraits of -Illustrious Abstainers," etc. - - - Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he - Who finds himself, loses his misery. - - "Self Independence,"--_Coventry K. D. Patmore_. - -COVENTRY KEASSEY DEIGHTON PATMORE, a celebrated English poet, was born -at Woodford in Essex, July 23, 1823, and died in 1896. He wrote: "The -Unknown Eros," "Amelia," "The Rod, the Root and the Flower," "The Angel -in the House," "Principle in Art, and Other Essays," etc. - - - Truth is liable to be left-handed in history. - - --_Dumas_, (Père). - -ALEXANDRE DUMAS, the Elder, an illustrious French dramatist and -romancist, was born at Villière Cotterets, Aisne, July 24, 1803 (?), and -died near Dieppe, December 5, 1870. A few of his great romances are: -"The Count of Monte Cristo," "The Three Musketeers," "Twenty Years -After," "The Knight of Maison-Rouge," "Viscount de Bragelonne," "Queen -Margot," etc., etc. Some of his historical romances are: "Joan of Arc," -"Michelangelo and Raffaelle," "Louis XIV and His Age," etc. His most -famous plays were: "Henri III. and His Court," "Antony," "Charles VII -with His Grand Vassals," "Napoleon Bonaparte," "Mdlle. de Belle-Isle," -"Marriage under Louis XV," "The Misses St. Cyr," etc. He also wrote -entertaining narratives of his travels in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, -Spain, North Africa, Syria, Egypt, etc. - - - Heaven is not reached at a single bound; - But we build the ladder by which we rise - From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, - And we mount to its summit round by round. - - "Gradatim,"--_-Josiah G. Holland_. - -JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND, a famous American poet and novelist and editor, -was born at Belchertown, Mass., July 24, 1819, and died in New York, -October 12, 1881. Among his works are: "Letters to the Young," "Life of -Abraham Lincoln," "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects," "Nicholas -Minturn," etc. Also poems under the titles: "Bitter Sweet," "Kathrina," -"The Mistress of the Manse," "Garnered Sheaves," etc. - - - The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will - be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer - tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. - Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. - - "The Foundations of Belief,"--_Arthur James Balfour_. - -RT. HON. ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, a distinguished English author and -statesman, was born July 25, 1848. He has written: "A Defence of -Philosophic Doubt," "The Foundations of Belief," "Essays and Addresses," -"Economic Notes on Insular Free Trade," "Speeches" (1880-1905), on -"Fiscal Reform," "Criticism and Beauty," "Theism and Humanism," etc. - - - I remember, I remember - How my childhood fleeted by,-- - The mirth of its December - And the warmth of its July. - - "I remember, I remember,"--_Winthrop M. Praed_. - -WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED, a celebrated English poet, was born in London, -July 26, 1802, and died in 1839. Among his best known pieces are: "The -Red Fisherman," "Private Theatricals," "Every-Day Characters," "School -and Schoolfellows," "A Letter of Advice," "Our Ball," "My Partner," "My -Little Cousins," etc. - - - The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - - "Man and Superman,"--_George Bernard Shaw_. - -GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, a famous British author and playwright, was born in -Dublin, July 26, 1856. He has written, "The Quintessence of Ibsenism," -"The Sanity of Art," "The Perfect Wagnerite," "The Common Sense of -Municipal Training," "Socialism and Superior Brains," "Common Sense -about the War," etc. Also: "The Admirable Bashville," "Man and -Superman," "John Bull's Other Island," "How He Lied to Her Husband," -"Major Barbara," "The Doctor's Dilemma," "Getting Married," -"Misalliance," "Fanny's First Play," "Androcles and the Lion," -"Pygmalion," "Overruled," "Great Catherine," "The Music-Cure," -"O'Flaherty, V. C.," "An Unsocial Socialist," "The Devil's Disciple," -"Cæsar and Cleopatra," "The Man of Destiny," "You Never Can Tell," "Back -to Methuselah" (cycle of plays), etc. - - - 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, - And robes the mountain in its azure hue. - - "Pleasures of Hope," Part I, Line 7,--_Thomas Campbell_. - -THOMAS CAMPBELL, a Scottish poet, of great fame, was born at Glasgow, -July 27, 1777; and died at Boulogne, France June, 15, 1844. The best -known of his poems are: "Gertrude of Wyoming," "Pleasures of Hope," -"Lochiel's Warning," "The Exile of Erin," "Battle of the Baltic," "Ye -Mariners of England," etc. - - - Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us. - - --_Dumas, Fils_. - -ALEXANDRE DUMAS, THE YOUNGER, the renowned French dramatist and -romancist, was born at Paris, July 27, 1824, and died November 28, 1895. -A few of his famous romances are: "A Woman's Romance," "Césarine," -"Camille," etc. Also, "The Divorce Question," "The Clemenceau Case," -"The Natural Son," "The Friend of Women," "Claude's Wife," "The -Danicheffs," "Joseph Balsamo," "Françillon," etc. - - - Of Courtesy it is much less - Than Courage of Heart or Holiness, - Yet in my Walks it seems to me - That the Grace of God is in Courtesy. - - "Courtesy,"--_Hilaire Belloc_. - -HILAIRE BELLOC, a celebrated English author, was born July 27, 1870. -Among his works are: "Verses and Sonnets," "Paris," "Robespierre," "Path -to Rome," "Hills and the Sea," "Marie Antoinette," "The Green -Overcoat," "The Mercy of Allah," "General Sketch of the European War, -1st Phase," "The Last Days of the French Monarchy." - - - Beautiful Faith, surrendering to Time. - - "Marpessa," L. 62,--_Stephen Phillips_. - -STEPHEN PHILLIPS, a noted English author and poet, was born near the -City of Oxford, July 28, 1868, and died December 9, 1915. Among his -poetical pieces are: "The Woman with the Dead Soul," "Marpessa," "The -Wife," "After Rain," "Thoughts at Sunrise," "Thoughts at Noon." The -first volume of his "Poems" appeared in 1897, and "New Poems" in 1907. - - - "It is a great blessing," says Pascal, "to be born a man of - quality, since it brings one man as far forward at eighteen or - twenty as another man would be at fifty, which is a clear gain of - thirty years." These thirty years are commonly wanting to the - ambitious characters of democracies. The principle of equality, - which allows every man to arrive at everything, prevents all men - from rapid advancement. - - --_Alexis de Tocqueville_. - -ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, a distinguished French publicist and writer, was -born at Vermeuil (Seine-et-Oise), July 29, 1805, and died at Cannes, -April 16, 1859. His writings include: "The Old Régime and the -Revolution," "Democracy in America," and "Works," 9 vols., which -appeared in 1860-65. - - - She was good as she was fair, - None--none on earth above her! - As pure in thought as angels are: - To know her was to love her. - - "Jacqueline," Stanza 1,--_Samuel Rogers_. - -SAMUEL ROGERS, a famous English poet, was born at Newington Green, -London, July 30, 1763, and died in London, December 18, 1855. He wrote -"The Voyage of Columbus," "Italy," "Human Life," "Pleasures of Memory," -and "Jacqueline." - - - He was utterly incapable of anything like baseness. No man could - be more jealous of his honour; no man had a greater pride in being - largely and loftily a man. - - "Life of Robert Burns,"--_John Stuart Blackie_. - -JOHN STUART BLACKIE, a notable Scottish author was born in Glasgow, July -31, 1809, and died in Edinburgh, March 2, 1895. His works include -translations from the Greek and German; moral and religious and other -philosophy; also, "Lays of the Highlands and Islands," "Language and -Literature of the Scottish Highlands," "Wisdom of Goethe," "Life of -Burns," "Essays on Subjects of Moral and Social Interest," -"Self-Culture," etc. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] Great sorrows are the hot-houses of the soul. - - - - -AUGUST - - - - -AUGUST - - - All human race, from China to Peru, - Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue. - - "Universal Love of Pleasure,"--_Thomas Warton_. - -THOMAS WARTON, a distinguished English clergyman, critic, was born at -Basingstoke, August 1 (?), 1728, and died at Oxford, May 21, 1790. He -was poet-laureate of England in 1785. He wrote: "History of English -Poetry," etc. - - - Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener. - - --_F. Marion Crawford_. - -FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD, a celebrated American author, was born in Bagni -di Lucca, Italy, August 2, 1854, and died in 1909. Among his noted works -are: "Dr. Claudius," "Mr. Isaacs," "A Tale of a Lonely Parish," -"Zoroaster," "With the Immortals," "Sant' Ilario," "The Witch of -Prague," "Love in Idleness," "A Rose of Yesterday," "Don Orsino," "Via -Crucis," "In the Palace of the King," "The Heart of Rome," "Fair -Margaret," and its sequel, "Prima Donna." - - - Best they honor thee - Who honor in thee only what is best. - - "The True Patriotism,"--_William Watson_. - -SIR WILLIAM WATSON, a famous English poet, was born at Wharfedale, -August 2, 1858. He has published: "The Prince's Quest," "Epigrams of -Art," "Wordsworth's Grave, and Other Poems," "Lachrymæ Musarum," -"Excursions in Criticism," "The Eloping Angels," "Odes, and Other -Poems," "The Purple East," "The Year of Shame," "The Hope of the World," -"Collected Poems," "For England: Poems Written During Estrangement," -"New Poems," "Pencraft; A Plea for the Older Ways," "Retrogression," -"The Man Who Saw," "The Superhuman Antagonists," etc. - - - Ah woe is me, through all my days, - Wisdom and wealth I both have got, - And fame and name and great men's praise; - But Love, ah! Love I have it not. - - "The Way to Arcady,"--_Henry C. Bunner_. - -HENRY CUYLER BUNNER, a celebrated American poet and story-writer, was -born in Oswego, N. Y., August 3, 1855, and died in Nutley, N. J., May -11, 1896. He wrote: "A Woman of Honor," "Airs from Arcady and -Elsewhere," "The Runaway Browns," "Zadoc Pine and Other Stories," -"Jersey Street and Jersey Lane," "The Midge," "Short Sixes," etc. - - - All love is sweet, - Given or returned. Common as light is love, - And its familiar voice wearies not ever. - * * * * * - They who inspire it most are fortunate, - As I am now; but those who feel it most - Are happier still. - - "Prometheus Unbound," Act ii, Sc. 5.--_Percy B. Shelley_. - -PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, the renowned English poet, was born at Field -Place, near Horsham, Sussex, August 4, 1792, and was drowned off the -coast of Italy, July 8, 1822. Among his many works may be mentioned: "A -Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things," "Queen Mab: A -Philosophic Poem," "Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue; with Other -Poems," "Hellas: A Lyrical Drama," "Adonais: an Elegy on the Death of -John Keats," "The Cenci: A Tragedy," "Prometheus Unbound: a Lyrical -Drama," "An Address to the Irish People," "Alastor, or the Spirit of -Solitude, and Other Poems," "A Vindication of Natural Diet," "A -Refutation of Deism," etc. - - - Opinions!--they are like the clothes we wear, which warm us, not - with heat, but with ours. - - --_Walter Pater_. - -WALTER (HORATIO) PATER, a distinguished English literary and art critic, -was born at London, August 4, 1839, and died at Oxford, July 30, 1894. -He wrote: "The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry," "Marius the -Epicurean," "Imaginary Portraits," "Appreciations," "Plato and -Plato-nism," "The Child in the House," etc. - - - There was something sinister and superb in the song of these - shipwrecked and condemned creatures, something like a prayer and - also something grander and comparable to the ancient and sublime, - _Ave Cæsar, morituri te salutant_. - - "La Petite Rogue,"--_Guy de Maupassant_. - -GUY DE MAUPASSANT, a noted French novelist, was born at the Château de -Miromesnil, (Seine-Inférieure), August 5, 1850, and died in Paris, July -6, 1893. Among his many works are: "In the Sunshine," "On the Water," -"The Left Hand," "The Sisters Rondoli," "Peter and John," "Strong as -Death," "Tales of Day and Night," "Our Heart," "A Wondering Life," etc. - - - Il embellit tout ce qu'il touche.[1] - - "Lettre sur les Occupations de L'Académie Française," Sect. iv, - _Fénélon_. - -FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE FÉNÉLON, an illustrious French -theologian and writer, was born in the Château Fénélon, in Perigord, -Dordogne, August 6, 1651, and died January 7, 1715. He wrote: "Life of -Charlemagne," "Exposition of the Maxims of the Saints Regarding the -Inner Life," "Fables," "Treatise on the Education of Young Girls," and -his most noted work, "Telemachus." - - - In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove; - In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. - - "Locksley Hall," Line 19,--_Alfred Tennyson_. - -ALFRED TENNYSON, LORD TENNYSON, one of the greatest of English poets, -was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, August 6, 1809, and died at -Aldworth, October 6, 1892. Among his famous works are: "Maud and Other -Poems," "Queen Mary," "The Princess," "The Foresters," "Enoch Arden," -"The Holy Grail," "Harold," "The Idylls of the King," "Tiresias," -"Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," "In -Memoriam," etc. - - - When Freedom from her mountain-height - Unfurled her standard to the air, - She tore the azure robe of night, - And set the stars of glory there. - - "The American Flag,"--_Joseph Rodman Drake_. - -JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, a noted American poet, was born at New York, August -7, 1795, and died September 21, 1820. Among his poetical works are: "The -Culprit Fay," "Abelard to Héloise," "The American Flag," etc. - - - There were few of Tennyson's poems which I did not know by heart - without any attempt to commit them to memory. - - "Books Which Have Influenced Me,"--_Canon Farrar_. - -FREDERICK WILLIAM FARRAR, a celebrated English clergyman, was born at -Bombay, India, August 7, 1831, and died March 22, 1903. His most -notable works are: "Life and Works of Saint Paul," "The Witness of -History to Christ," "The Life of Christ," "The Early Days of -Christianity," "Eternal Hope," "The Origin of Language," "Chapters on -Language," "Families of Speech," "Language and Languages," "Darkness and -Dawn," "The Voice from Sinai," "The Life of Christ as represented in -Art," "Gathering Clouds," and "The Bible, Its Meaning and Supremacy." - - - That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the - greatest numbers. - - "Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil," sect. 3 - (1720),--_Hutcheson_. - -FRANCIS HUTCHESON, a distinguished Scotch educator and philosopher was -born at Drumalig, Ulster, Ireland, August 8, 1694, and died in Glasgow -about 1746. He was the author of "Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas -of Beauty and Virtue," "Nature and Conduct of the Passions and -Affections," "System of Moral Philosophy," etc. - - - Oh! say, can you see by the dawn's early light - What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?-- - Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the clouds of the fight - O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! - And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; - Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? - - "The Star-Spangled Banner,"--_Francis Scott Key_. - -FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, a noted American poet, was born in Frederick County, -Md., August 9, 1780, and died at Baltimore, January 11, 1843. He is best -known as the author of "The Star Spangled Banner." - - - We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: - "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God - never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more - calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. - - "The Complete Angler," Part I, Chap. II,--_Izaak Walton_. - -IZAAK WALTON, a celebrated English author, was born in Stafford, -England, August 9, 1593, and died at Winchester, December 15, 1683. His -most famous work was: "The Complete Angler: or, the Contemplative Man's -Recreation." He also wrote the biographies of a number of famous men, -known as "Walton's Lives." - - - Happy the man, and happy he alone, - He who can call to-day his own; - He who, secure within, can say, - To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. - - "Imitation of Horace," Book iii, Ode 29, Line 65,--_John - Dryden_. - -JOHN DRYDEN, the renowned English poet, was born at Aldwinkle, -Northamptonshire, August 9, 1631, and died in London, May 1, 1700. His -most famous works were: "The Hind and the Panther," "Alexander's Feast," -and "Absalom and Achitophel," also a number of noted plays including: -"Marriage à la Mode," "The Conquest of Grenada," "The Spanish Friar," -"Don Sebastian," "All for Love," etc. - - - His temper was of that warm susceptible kind which is caught - with the heroic and the tender, and, which is more fitted to delight - in the world of sentiment than to succeed in the bustle of ordinary - life. This is a disposition of mind well suited to the poetical - character, and, accordingly, all his earliest companions agree that - Mr. Home was from his childhood delighted with the lofty and heroic - ideas which embody themselves in the description or narrative of - poetry.... Mr. Home's favorite amusement was angling. - - "Account of the Life of Mr. John Home," "Home's Works," - Vol. I, pp. 6, 31,--_Henry Mackenzie_. - -HENRY MACKENZIE, a noted Scotch novelist, essayist and miscellaneous -writer, was born at Edinburgh, August 10, 1745, and died there January -14, 1831. He wrote: "The Man of the World," "Julia de Roubigné," "Works" -(8 vols.), and "The Man of Feeling," his most famous work. - - - Yes, Walt Whitman has appeared. He has his place upon the stage. - The drama is not ended. His voice is still heard. He is the poet of - democracy--of all people. He is the poet of the body and soul. He - has sounded the note of individuality. He has given the pass-word - primeval. He is the Poet of Humanity--of Intellectual Hospitality. - He has voiced the aspirations of America, and, above all, he is the - poet of Love and Death. - - "Liberty in Literature," In Re Walt Whitman,--_Robert G. - Ingersoll_. - -ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL, a distinguished American orator, lecturer and -lawyer, was born in Dresden, N. Y., August 11, 1833, and died at Dobbs -Ferry, N. Y., July 21, 1899. He has published: "Some Mistakes of Moses," -"Lectures, Complete," "Great Speeches," "Prose Poems and Selections." - - - Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of - rumor and scandal. - - --_Octave Feuillet_. - -OCTAVE FEUILLET, a celebrated French novelist, was born at St. Lô, -August 11, 1821, and died at Paris, December 29, 1890. He wrote: "The -Great Old Man," "The History of Sibylla," "Julie de Trécoeur," "A -Marriage in High Life," "Story of a Parisienne," "La Morte," and his -most notable work, "Romance of a Poor Young Man." - - - My mother says I must not pass - Too near that glass; - She is afraid that I will see - A little witch that looks like me, - With a red mouth to whisper low - The very thing I should not know. - - "The Witch in the Glass,"--_Sarah Morgan Bryant Piatt_. - -MRS. SARAH MORGAN (BRYANT) PIATT, a noted American poet, was born at -Lexington, Ky., August 11, 1836. Her best known works are: "A Woman's -Poems," "A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles," "Dramatic Persons and Moods," -"The Witch in the Glass," "An Enchanted Castle," etc. - - - How beautiful is night! - A dewy freshness fills the silent air; - No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, - Breaks the serene of heaven: - In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine - Rolls through the dark blue depths; - Beneath her steady ray - The desert circle spreads - Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. - How beautiful is night! - - "Thalaba," Book i, Stanza 1,--_Robert Southey_. - -ROBERT SOUTHEY, an English poet and prose-writer, of great renown, was -born in Bristol, August 12, 1774, and died March 21, 1843. He wrote: "A -Vision of Judgment," "Joan of Arc," "Thalaba the Destroyer," "The Curse -of Kehama," "Life of Nelson," "The Doctor," "Book of the Church," "Life -of John Bunyan," "Life of John Wesley," "History of Brazil," etc. - - - One day thou didst desert me--when I learned - How looks the world to men that lack thy grace, - And toward the shadowy night sick-hearted turned,-- - When, lo! the first star brought me back thy face! - - "To Imagination,"--_Edith Matilda Thomas_. - -EDITH MATILDA THOMAS, a famous American poet, was born in Chatham, Ohio, -August 12, 1854. She has written: "A New Year's Masque," "The Round -Year," "Children of the Seasons," "Babes of the Year," "Babes of the -Nation," "Lyrics and Sonnets," "Heaven and Earth," "The Inverted Torch," -"Fair Shadow Land," "In Sunshine Land," "In the Young World," "A Winter -Swallow, and Other Verse," "The Dancers," "Cassia and Other Verse," -"Children of Christmas," "The Guest of the Gate," "The White Messenger," -"The Flower from the Ashes," etc. - - - Cruel is death? Nay, kind, he that is ta'en - Was old in wisdom, though his years were few; - Life's pleasure hath he lost--escaped life's pain, - Nor wedded joys, nor wedded sorrows knew. - - "On a Youth," Translated from Julianus,--_Goldwin Smith_. - -GOLDWIN SMITH, a renowned English historian, essayist and educator, was -born at Reading, Berkshire, August 13, 1823, and died June 7, 1910. He -has written: "Irish History and Irish Character," "Foundation of the -American Colonies," "England and America," "The Civil War in America," -"Lectures on the Study of History," "Short History of England," "Life of -Cowper," "Life of Jane Austen," "Guesses at the Riddle of Existence," -"Reminiscences" (1910), "The Empire," "My Memory of Gladstone," etc. - - - Sweetest the strain when in the song - The singer has been lost. - - "The Poet and the Poem,"--_Elizabeth Stuart Phelps_. - -ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD, a celebrated American novelist, was born -at Andover, Mass., August 13, 1844, and died in 1911. Among her many -works are: "Ellen's Idol," "Gypsy Stories," "Men, Women and Ghosts," -"Poetic Studies," "The Story of Avis," "Old Maid's Paradise," "Sealed -Orders," "Beyond the Gates," "Songs of the Silent World," "The Gates -Between," "A Struggle for Immortality," "The Life of Christ," "Trixy," -"Walled In," and her most famous work, "Gates Ajar." - - - Flowers are Love's truest language. - - "Sonnet,"--_Park Benjamin_. - -PARK BENJAMIN, a noted American journalist, poet, and lecturer, was born -at Demerara, British Guiana, August 14, 1809 and died in New York, -September 12, 1864. Among his poetical pieces are: "The Old Sexton," -"Poetry," "Infatuation," "The Nautilus," "To One Beloved," and "The -Contemplation of Nature." - - - Among living authors Haggard is unquestionably first. I find two - very remarkable qualities in Mr. Haggard's novels,--a power of - imagination in which, for audacity and strength, he is unequalled - since the Elizabethan dramatists. Secondly there is the mesmeric - influence which he exercises over his readers. - - --_Walter Besant_. - -SIR WALTER BESANT, a distinguished English novelist, was born in -Portsmouth, August 14, 1838, and died June 10, 1901. Among his noted -works may be mentioned: "The Golden Butterfly," "Ready Money Mortiboy," -"The Seamy Side," "Studies in Early French Poetry," "When George the -Third Was King," "The French Humorists," "All Sorts and Conditions of -Men," "Dorothy Foster," "All in a Garden Fair," "The Ivory Gate," "The -Master Craftsman," "Beyond the Dreams of Avarice," "St. Katharine's by -the Tower," "Armorel of Lyonnesse," "The Rebel Queen," etc. The first -three works mentioned were written in collaboration with James Rice. - - - If on a Spring night, I went by - And God were standing there, - What is the prayer that I would cry - To Him? This is the prayer: - O Lord of Courage grave, - O Master of this night of Spring - Make firm in me a heart too brave - To ask Thee anything! - - "Moods, Songs and Doggerels," "The Prayer,"--_John - Galsworthy_. - -JOHN GALSWORTHY, a famous English author, was born at Combe in Surrey, -August 14, 1867. His publications include: "The Man of Property," "A -Motley," "Moods, Songs and Doggerels," "The Inn of Tranquillity," "A -Sheaf," Vol. I; "Beyond," "A Sheaf," Vol. II; "Saint's Progress," "In -Chancery," "Awakening," "To Let," etc. Plays: "The Silver Box," "The -Pigeon," "The Eldest Son," "The Skin Game," "A Family Man," etc. - - - The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is - unpolluted in his beam. - - "Holy Living," Chap. i, 3,--_Jeremy Taylor_. - -JEREMY TAYLOR, a renowned English theological writer, was born August -15, 1613, at Cambridge, and died at Lisburn, Ireland, August 13, 1667. -His most celebrated works are: "The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy -Life," "Discourse on the Liberty of Prophesying," "The Rule and Exercise -of Holy Living," and "The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying." - - - The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, - And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears, - The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, - And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears. - - "Lady of the Lake," Canto iv, Stanza 1.--_Walter Scott_. - -SIR WALTER SCOTT, a Scotch novelist and poet of great fame, was born in -Edinburgh, August 15, 1771, and died at Abbotsford, September 21, 1832. -Among his many works may be mentioned: "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," -"Ballads and Lyrical Pieces," "Rokeby," "Marmion," "The Lady of the -Lake," "Waverley," "Guy Mannering," "The Field of Waterloo," "The Lord -of the Isles," "Rob Roy," "Harold the Dauntless," "Ivanhoe," "The Bride -of Lammermoor: A Legend of Montrose," "Kenilworth," "The Abbot," "The -Monastery," "The Pirate," "Tales of the Crusaders: The Betrothed, The -Talisman," "History of Scotland," "Tales of a Grandfather," "Essays on -Ballad Poetry," "The Eve of St. John: A Border Ballad," "Life of -Dryden," "Life of Swift," etc., etc. - - - Shakespeare--that is, English tragedy--postulates the intense life - of flesh and blood, of animal sensibility, of man and - woman--breathing, waking, stirring, palpitating with the pulses of - hope and fear. In Greek tragedy the very masks show the utter - impossibility to these contests or conflicts. - - "Leaders in Literature,"--_De Quincey_. - -THOMAS DE QUINCEY, a celebrated English author, was born in Manchester, -August 15, 1785, and died December 8, 1859. Besides his numerous essays -and papers on historical literary and miscellaneous topics, he wrote: -"Confessions of an English Opium Eater," "Letters to a Young Man Whose -Education Has Been Neglected," "Logic of Political Economy," -"Klosterheim," "Leaders in Literature," "Suspiria de Profundis: Essays -on Style and Rhetoric," "Joan of Arc," "Autobiographic Sketches," -"Literary Reminiscences," etc., etc. - - - Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, - Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun, - Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, - "Are the weans in their bed? for it's nou ten o'clock." - - "Wee Willie Winkie,"--_William Miller_. - -WILLIAM MILLER, a noted Scotch poet, was born in Bridgegate, Glasgow, -August 16, 1810, and died at Glasgow, August 20, 1872. He wrote: -"Scottish Nursery Songs and Other Poems," his best known poem being "Wee -Willie Winkie." - - - Be sure you are right, then go ahead. - - --_David Crockett_. - -DAVID CROCKETT, a celebrated American politician, hunter and humorist, -was born at Limestone, Tenn., August 17, 1786, and was killed at Fort -Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, March 16, 1836. He wrote: "Sketches and -Eccentricities," "Tour to the North and Down East," his "Autobiography," -etc. - - - The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be - kind to some of His other children. - - --_Henry Drummond_. - -HENRY DRUMMOND, a distinguished Scotch geologist and religious writer, -was born at Stirling, August 17, 1851, and died at Tunbridge Wells, -England, March 11, 1897. His most famous works are: "Natural Law in the -Spiritual World," "The Ascent of Man," "Tropical Africa," "Pax -Vobiscum," "The Greatest Thing in the World," "The Programme of -Christianity." - - - A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. - - Quoted in "Memoirs of Mackintosh," Vol. II, p. 473,--_Lord John - Russell_. - -LORD JOHN RUSSELL, a famous English statesman, was born in London, -August 18, 1792, and died at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, May 28, -1878. He is best remembered by his historical works, "Life of William -Lord Russell," "Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe" (2 vols.) -"Correspondence of John, 4th Duke of Bedford," etc. - - - It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that - this is war. - - "Despatch to Earl Russell," Sept. 5, 1863.--_Charles Francis - Adams_. - -CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, an eminent American statesman, publicist, and -miscellaneous writer, was born at Boston, August 18, 1807, and died at -Boston, November 21, 1886. His best known work was: "Life and Works of -John Adams." - - - Sorrow and scarlet leaf, - Sad thoughts and sunny weather: - Ah me, this glory and this grief - Agree not well together! - - "A Song for September,"--_Thomas William Parsons_. - -THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS, a distinguished American poet, was born at -Boston, August 18, 1819, and died September 3, 1892. Among his writings -are: "The Old House at Sudbury," "Ghetto di Roma," "The Magnolia," "The -Shadow of the Obelisk," etc. He also made a metrical translation of -Dante's "Inferno." - - - All that is beautiful shall abide, - All that is base shall die. - - "Balder the Beautiful,"--_Robert W. Buchanan_. - -ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN, a celebrated English author, was born in -Warwickshire, August 18, 1841, and died in 1901. He wrote: "Idylls and -Legends of Inverburn," "Undertones," "London Poems," "North Coast -Poems," "Ballads of Love, Life and Humor," "The City of Dreams," "A -Child of Nature," "The Shadow of the Sword," "Foxglove Manor," etc. - - - Let's learn to temper our desires, - Not harshly to constrain; - And since excess makes pleasure less, - Why, so much more refrain. - Small table, cozy corner--here - We well may be beguiled; - Our worthy host old wine can boast; - Drink, drink--but draw it mild! - - "Les Petits Coups,"--translation of William Young,--_Pierre - Jean de Béranger_. - -PIERRE JEAN DE BÉRANGER, a famous French poet, was born in Paris, August -19, 1780, and died there July 16, 1857. Some of his noted songs are: -"The Old Flag," "Les Petits Coups," "The Old Corporal," "Roger -Bontemps," "Little Red Man," "Little Gray Man," "King of Yvetot," "My -Grandmother," "The Marquis of Carabas," and his "Autobiography." - - - Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; - Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. - - "Seek and Find,"--_Robert Herrick_. - -ROBERT HERRICK, a renowned English poet and royalist clergyman, was born -in London, August 20, 1591, and died at Dean Prior, Devonshire, October -15, 1674. He wrote: "Noble Numbers," and "Hesperides." - - - In the Confessions of St. Augustine, passion, nature, - individuality only appear in order to be immolated to Divine - grace. They are a history of a crisis of the soul, of a new birth, - of a _Vita Nuova_; the Saint would have blushed to relate more - than he has done of the life of the man, which he had quitted. - With Rousseau the case is precisely the reverse; here grace is - nothing, nature everything; nature dominant, triumphant, - displaying herself with a daring freedom, which at times amounts - to the distasteful--nay, to the disgusting. - - "Life of Luther," (translation),--_Michelet_. - -JULES MICHELET, a famous French historian, was born in Paris, August 21, -1798, and died at Hyères, February 9, 1874. His principal works are: -"History of France," "History of the Revolution," "Abridgment of Modern -History," "Of the Jesuits," "Of the Priest, the Wife, and the Family," -"Of the People," "Poland and Russia," etc. - - - Who can blame me if I cherish the belief that the world is still - young--that there are great possibilities in store for it? - - --_John Tyndall_. - -JOHN TYNDALL, an eminent British physicist and writer on science, was -born at Leighlin Bridge, near Carlow, Ireland, August 21, 1820, and -died at Haslemere, Surrey, England, December 4, 1893. He has written: -"Philosophical Transactions in Glaciers of the Alps," "Mountaineering in -1861," "Dust and Disease," "Hours of Exercise in the Alps," "Sound: A -Course of Eight Lectures," "Nine Lectures on Light," "Essays on the Use -and Limit of the Imagination in Science," "The Forms of Water in Clouds -and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers," "Essays on the Floating Matter of the -Air," "New Fragments," etc. - - - Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept - from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his - hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, - and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or - indolent stupidity. - - --_James Kirke Paulding_. - -JAMES KIRKE PAULDING, a distinguished American novelist, was born in -Dutchess County, N. Y., August 22, 1779, and died at Hyde Park, N. Y., -April 6, 1860. Among his famous works may be mentioned: "The United -States and England," "Lay of a Scotch Fiddle," "Letters on Slavery," -"The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan," -"Koningsmarke," "John Bull in America," "Westward Ho!" "The Dutchman's -Fireside," "Life of George Washington," etc. - - - It matters not how strait the gate, - How charged with punishments the scroll, - I am the master of my fate, - I am the captain of my soul. - - "To R. T. H. B."--_William Ernest Henley_. - -WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY, a noted British poet, critic, and editor, was -born at Gloucester, August 23, 1849, and died July 11, 1903. Among his -works are: "Views and Reviews," "Poems," "London Voluntaries," "Hawthorn -and Lavender," etc. - - - There is what I call the American idea.... This idea demands, as - the proximate organization thereof, a democracy--that is, a - government of all the people, by all the people, for all the - people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal - justice, the unchanging law of God: for shortness' sake I will - call it the idea of Freedom. - - "Speech at the N. E. Anti-slavery Convention, Boston," May 29, - 1850.--_Theodore Parker_. - -THEODORE PARKER, an American preacher and reformer of great celebrity, -was born at Lexington, Mass., August 24, 1810, and died at Florence, May -10, 1860. He wrote: "Ten Sermons on Religion," "Theism, Atheism and the -Popular Theology," and his most celebrated work: "Discourse on Matters -Pertaining to Religion." - - - With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early - or immoderately employed it makes the head waste and the heart - empty. - - Tr. by S. T. Coleridge.--_Herder_. - -JOHN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER, a distinguished German philosopher and -historian of literature, was born at Mohrungen, August 25, 1744, and -died at Weimar, December 18, 1803. Among his works are: "Voices of -Nations in Song," "Fragments on Recent German Literature," "The Cid," -"Ideas for a Philosophy of the History of Mankind," "Spirit of Hebrew -Poetry," etc. - - - Which I wish to remark,-- - And my language is plain,-- - That for ways that are dark - And for tricks that are vain, - The heathen Chinee is peculiar. - - "Plain Language from Truthful James,"--_Francis Bret Harte_. - -FRANCIS BRET HARTE, a celebrated American poet and short-story writer, -was born in Albany, N. Y., August 25, 1839, and died in 1902. Among his -many works are: "The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches," "The -Heathen Chinee," "Plain Language from Truthful James," "Poems," "East -and West Poems," "Echoes of the Foot-Hills," "Poetical Works," "Thankful -Blossom," "Drift from Two Shores," "Flip and Other Stories," "By Shore -and Sedge," "The Queen of the Pirate Isle," "On the Frontier," "Snow -Bound at Eagle's," "Tales of the Argonauts and Other Sketches," "A Waif -of the Plains," "Three Partners," and "In the Hollow of the Hills." - - - It is even at the present day important to direct careful - attention to an erroneous conception of wealth, which was - universal until the appearance of Adam Smith's great work, in - 1775. - - "Manual of Political Economy,"--_Henry Fawcett_. - -HENRY FAWCETT, a famous English political economist, was born at -Salisbury, August 26, 1833, and died in Cambridge, November 6, 1884. His -publications include: "Free Trade and Protection," "Indian Finance," -etc. His celebrated work, "Manual of Political Economy," won for him -great fame. - - - Roger Bacon treated more especially of physics, but remained - without influence. - - "Lectures on the History of Philosophy," tr., Haldane and - Simpson, Vol. III. p. 92,--_Hegel_. - -GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL, an eminent German philosopher, was born -at Stuttgart, August 27, 1770, and died at Berlin, November 14, 1831. -Among his writings are: "On the Difference Between the Fichtean and -Schellingian Systems," "The Orbits of the Planets," "Phenomenology of -the Human Mind," "System of Science," "Principles of the Philosophy of -Law, or the Law of Nature and Political Science," "Encyclopædia of the -Philosophical Sciences," etc. - - - If we compare Daudet with Zola, we shall see that it is Daudet who - is the naturalist novelist, not Zola. It is the author of Le Nabob - who begins with observation of reality, and who is possessed by - it, while the author of "L'Assommoir" only consults it when his - seige is finished and then summarily with preconceived ideas. - - "Les Contemporains,"--_Jules Lemaître_. - -FRANÇOIS ELIE JULES LEMAÎTRE, a famous French literary critic and -dramatist, was born in Vennecy (Loiret), August 27, 1853, and died in -1914. He is the author of five volumes of literary biographies, -"Contemporaries: Being Literary Studies and Portraits." Among his plays -are: "La Revoltée," "Deputy Leveau," "The Kings," "The Pardon," etc. -Also: "Médallions" (poems), "Petites Orientales" (poems), "Corneille and -Aristotle's Poetics," "Myrrha Stories." - - - The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an - audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye - alone. - - --_Niebuhr_. - -BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR, a great German historian, was born at -Copenhagen, August 27, 1776, and died at Bonn, January 2, 1831. His -writings include: "Roman History," "Lectures on the History of Rome," -"Lectures on Ancient History," "Grecian Heroic History," "Minor -Historical and Philological Writings," etc. - - - Who never ate his bread in sorrow, - Who never spent the darksome hours - Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. - - "Wilhelm Meister," Book ii, Chap, xiii,--_Goethe_. - -JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE, one of the greatest poets the world has ever -known, was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749, and died at -Weimar, March 22, 1832. His most famous works are: "Sorrows of Young -Werther," "Erwin and Elmira," "Stella," "Prometheus," "Iphigenia," -"Tasso," "Wilhelm Meister," and his greatest work, "Faust." He also -wrote: "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," "Fiction and Truth," "Hermann -and Dorothea," "Elective Affinities," "Wilhelm Meister's Years of -Travel," etc. - - - Man should be ever better than he seems. - - "The Song of Faith,"--_Sir Aubrey De Vere_. - -SIR AUBREY DE VERE, a famous Irish poet, was born August 28, 1788, and -died in 1846. Among his works are: "Julian, the Apostate: A Dramatic -Poem," "The Duke of Mercia: an Historical Drama," "The Song of Faith, -Devout Exercises and Sonnets," "Mary Tudor: an Historical Drama," was -published after his death in 1847. - - - The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were drop into - the mind, are commonly the most valuable we have, and therefore - should be secured, because they seldom return again. - - --_John Locke_. - -JOHN LOCKE, an eminent English philosopher, was born at Wrington, near -Bristol, August 29, 1632, and died at Oates (Essex), October 28, 1704. -His philosophical writings include: "An Epistle on Tolerance," "Essay -Concerning Human Understanding," "Two Treatises on Government," etc. He -also wrote: "Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study," "Some Thoughts -on Education," "Elements of Natural Philosophy," and many other works. - - - I do not know anyone who makes us feel more than Milton does the - grandeur of the ends which we ought to keep always before us, and - therefore our own pettiness and want of courage and nobleness in - pursuing them. I believe he failed to discern many of the - intermediate relations which God has established between Himself - and us; but I know no one who teaches us more habitually that - disobedience to the Divine will is the seat of all misery to men. - - "The Friendship of Books,"--_D. Maurice_. - -FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, a celebrated English divine and theological -and philosophical writer, was born near Lowestoft, Suffolk, August 29, -1805, and died in London, April 1, 1872. Among his works are: "Ancient -Philosophy," "Theological Essays," "Modern Philosophy," "Mediæval -Philosophy," "The Friendship of Books," etc., and a novel, "Eustace -Conway." - - - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, - As the swift seasons roll! - Leave thy low-vaulted past! - Let each new temple, nobler than the last, - Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, - Till thou at length art free, - Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! - - "The Chambered Nautilus,"--_Oliver Wendell Holmes_. - -OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, a distinguished American man of letters, was born -at Cambridge, Mass., August 29, 1809, and died at Boston, October 7, -1894. The most important of his works are: "Urania," "The Iron Gate," -"Songs in Many Keys," "Poems," "Songs of Many Seasons," "Elsie Venner," -"The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "The Professor at the Breakfast -Table," "The Poet at the Breakfast Table," "Soundings from the -Atlantic," "Our Hundred Days in Europe," "John Lothrop Motley," "A -Mortal Antipathy," "Ralph Waldo Emerson," "Over the Teacups," etc. - - - Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life. - - "Joyzelle," Act ii.--_Maurice Maeterlinck_. - -MAURICE MAETERLINCK, a celebrated Belgian poet, was born in Flanders, -August 29, 1864. Among his works are: "The Seven Princesses," "The -Blind," "The Intruder," "The Treasure of the Humble," "Hot-House -Blooms," "La Princesse Maleine," "Alladine et Palomides," "Douze -Chansons," "La Sagesse et la Destinée," "Le Temple Enseveli," "The -Double Garden," "The Blue Bird," "La Mort," "The Light Beyond," etc. - - - It is very foolish, and betrays what a small mind we have, to - allow fashion to sway us in everything that regards taste; in our - way of living, our health, and our conscience. - - "The Characters,"--_Jean de La Bruyère_. - -JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE, a famous French moralist and satirist, was born in -Paris, August 30 (?), 1645, and died at Versailles, May 10, 1696. His -fame rests on his great work, "The Characters of Theophrastus, -Translated from the Greek, with the Characters or Manners of this -Century." - - - If for widows you die, - Learn to _kiss_ not to sigh. - - "Widow Malone," II, 33-4,--_Charles James Lever_. - -CHARLES (JAMES) LEVER, a noted Irish novelist, was born at Dublin, -August 31, 1806, and died at Trieste, June 1, 1872. He wrote: -"Confessions of Harry Lorrequer," "Charles O'Malley," "Arthur O'Leary," -"Jack Hinton the Guardsman," "Tom Burke of Ours," "The O'Donoghue," "Con -Cregan," "Roland Cashel," "The Daltons, or Three Roads in Life," -"Luttrell of Arran," "The Fortunes of Glencore," "Davenport Dunn," "Sir -Brooke Fosbrooke," "The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly," "Lord Kilgobbin," -etc. - - - Ils sont si transparents qu'ils laissent voir votre âme.[2] - - "The Two Beautiful Eyes,"--_Théophile Gautier_. - -THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, a renowned French poet and novelist, was born in -Tarbes, Hautes Pyrenees, August 31, 1811, and died near Paris, in 1872. -Among his famous works may be mentioned: "Young France," "Albertus," -"Poems," "History of Romanticism," "A Journey in Spain," "Italy," -"Constantinople," "Miltona," "The Golden Fleece," "Arria Marcella," -"Mademoiselle Dafne," "The Nest of Nightingales," "The Loving Dead," -"The Chain of Gold," "Jean and Jeannette," "The Tiger Skin," "Spirite," -"Modern Art," "The Arts in Europe," etc., etc. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] He adorned whatever he touched. - -[2] Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen. - - - - -SEPTEMBER - - - - -SEPTEMBER - - - Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and - unostentatious. - - --_Lady Blessington_. - -MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON, a distinguished Irish descriptive -writer and novelist, was born in Knockbrit, Tipperary, September 1, -1789, and died in Paris, June 4, 1849. Among her works are: "The Idler -in Italy," "The Idler in France," "Conversations with Lord Byron," etc. - - - The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the - mother to its own blissful clime. - - "Monody on Mrs. Hemans,"--_Lydia H. Sigourney_. - -LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, a noted American author, was born in Norwich, -Conn., September 1, 1791, and died in Hartford, Conn., June 10, 1865. -She wrote: "Letters to Young Ladies," "Letters to Mothers," "Scenes in -My Native Land," "Voice of Flowers," "Letters to My Pupils," "The Daily -Councelor," "Gleanings," (poetry), "The Man of Uz, and Other Poems," -etc. - - - Socrates, like Solon, thought that no man is too old to learn; - that to learn and to know is not a schooling for life, but life - itself, and that which alone gives to life its value. To become by - knowledge better from day to day, and to make others better, - appeared to both to be the real duty of man. - - "History of Greece,"--_Ernst Curtius_. - -ERNST CURTIUS, a renowned German archæologist and historian, was born at -Lubeck, September 2, 1814, and died in 1896. He wrote: "Peloponnesus," -and his famous, "History of Greece." - - - The fire upon the hearth is low, - And there is stillness everywhere, - And, like winged spirits, here and there - The firelight shadows fluttering go. - - "In the Firelight,"--_Eugene Field_. - -EUGENE FIELD, a noted poet and humorous journalist, was born at St. -Louis, Mo., September 2, 1850, and died November 4, 1895. He wrote: "The -Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac," "The Holy Cross, and Other Tales," -"Love Songs of Childhood," "A Little Book of Western Verse," and "A -Second Book of Verse." - - - Nothing can make a man happy but that which shall last as long as - he lasts; for an immortal soul shall persist in being, not only - when profit, pleasure, and honour, but when time itself shall - cease. - - --_South_. - -ROBERT SOUTH, a famous English divine, was born at Hackney, Middlesex, -September 3, 1634, and died July 8, 1716. A collection of his sermons -was published in 1692 in six volumes. - - - The Grecian history is a poem, Latin history a picture, modern - history a chronicle. - - --_Chateaubriand_. - -FRANÇOIS RENÉ AUGUSTE, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND, a renowned French -statesman, traveler, novelist and historical writer, was born at St. -Malo, September 4, 1768, and died at Paris, July 4, 1848. Among his -works are: "The Genius of Christianity" (his most famous work), "Atala," -"René," and "The Natchez," also "The Martyrs, or Triumph of the -Christian Religion," "A Journey from Paris to Jerusalem," "An Essay on -English Literature," and translated Milton's "Paradise Lost." - - - Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, - Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfährt.[1] - - "Oberon," II. 24,--_Wieland_. - -CHRISTOPHER MARTIN WIELAND, a celebrated German poet and prose-writer, -was born in Oberholzheim, Suabia, September 5, 1733, and died January -20, 1813. He wrote: "Agathon," "The New Amadis," "The Golden Mirror," -and "Oberon," his most famous work. He also translated the greater part -of Shakespeare into German. - - - Husband and wife--so much in common, how different in type! Such a - contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended - together! - - --_Ruffini_. - -GIOVANNI DOMENICO RUFFINI, a distinguished Italian littérateur, was born -at Genoa, September 6, 1807, and died at Taggia, November 2, 1881. He -published: "Lorenzo Benoni" (a romance), "Lavinia," etc.; also, "Doctor -Antonio," his most famous book. - - - Le style est l'homme même.[2] - - "Discours de Réception,"--_Buffon_. - -GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC, COMTE DE BUFFON, a famous French naturalist, was -born at Montbard, September 7, 1707, and died April 16, 1788. His -"Natural History," won for him world-wide fame. - - - Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa.[3] - - "Orlando Furioso," Canto x, Stanza 84,--_Ludovico Ariosto_. - -LUDOVICO ARIOSTO, an illustrious Italian poet, was born at Reggio, -September 8, 1474, and died at Ferrara, June 6, 1533. His most famous -work is: "Orlando Furioso." - - - None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as - the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. - - --_Trench_. - -RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, a noted Anglican archbishop and poet, was born -at Dublin on September 9, 1807, and died March 28, 1886. He wrote: "The -Story of Justin Martyr, and Other Poems," "Sabbation," "Honor Neale, and -Other Poems," "Poems from Eastern Sources," "The Study of Words," -"English Past and Present," "A Select Glossary of English Words," "Notes -on the Parables," "Notes on the Miracles," etc. - - - The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. - - "What is to be done?" Chap. xl. Note,--_Tolstoi_. - -COUNT LYOF ALEKSÉEVICH TOLSTOI, the great Russian novelist, was born on -the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana in the government of Tula, Russia, -September 9, 1828, and died in 1910. His most celebrated works are: "In -What My Faith Consists," "Cossacks," "Sevastopol," "War and Peace," -"Master and Man," "My Confession," "The Kreutzer Sonata," and "Anna -Karénina." - - - A language cannot be thoroughly learned by an adult without five - years' residence in the country where it is spoken; and without - habits of close observation, a residence of twenty years is - insufficient. - - --_P. G. Hamerton_. - -PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON, a distinguished English artist and art-writer, -was born at Laneside, Lancashire, September 10, 1834; and died near -Boulogne, France, November 5, 1894. Among his works are: "Etching and -Etchers," "Thoughts About Art," "Painting in France," "The Quest of -Happiness," "The Graphic Arts," "Contemporary French Painters," "Human -Intercourse," "The Intellectual Life," and "A Painter's Camp in the -Highlands." - - - A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was, - Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; - And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, - Forever flushing round a summer sky; - There eke the soft delights that witchingly - Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, - And the calm pleasures always hover'd nigh; - But whate'er smack'd of noyance or unrest - Was far, far off expell'd from this delicious nest. - - "The Castle of Indolence," Canto i, Stanza 6.--_James Thomson_. - -JAMES THOMSON, a famous Scotch poet, was born at Ednam, September 11, -1700, and died August 27, 1748. His most celebrated poems are: "The -Seasons," and "The Castle of Indolence." - - - Woman's grief is like a summer storm, - Short as it is violent. - - "Basil," Act V, Sc. 3,--_Joanna Baillie_. - -JOANNA BAILLIE, a celebrated Scottish poet, was born in Bothwell, -Lanarkshire, September 11, 1762, and died at Hampstead, England, -February 23, 1851. She wrote: "Plays on the Passions," and numerous -poems and songs. - - - Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it. - - "My Summer in a Garden: Preliminary."--_Chas. Dudley Warner_. - -CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, an eminent American journalist and miscellaneous -writer, was born at Plainfield, Mass., September 12, 1829, and died in -1900. Among his noted works are: "My Summer in a Garden," "Backlog -Studies," "My Winter on the Nile," "Life of Captain John Smith," -"Washington Irving," "A Roundabout Journey," "Their Pilgrimage," "Book -of Eloquence," "A Little Journey in the World," "As We Were Saying," -"The Golden House," "The Relation of Literature to Life," "Studies in -the South and West, with Comments on Canada," "That Fortune," etc. In -collaboration with Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) he wrote: "The -Gilded Age." He was editor of the "American Men of Letters" series, and -of "The Library of the World's Best Literature." - - - The desire of love, Joy; - The desire of life, Peace: - The desire of the soul, Heaven: - The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever. - - "Desire,"--_William Sharp_. - -WILLIAM SHARP, a distinguished British critic and man of letters, was -born September 12, 1856, and died in 1905. Among his works are: -"Humanity and Man," "The Conqueror's Dream, and Other Poems," "Dante -Gabriel Rossetti," "Shakespeare's Songs, Poems, and Sonnets," "Sonnets -of this Century," "Shelley," "Romantic Ballads," "Sospiri di Roma," -"Flower o' the Vine," "Sospiri d' Italia," etc. - - - Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. - - "Guesses at Truth."--_J. C. and A. W. Hare_. - -JULIUS CHARLES HARE, a famous English divine and theological writer, was -born at Valdagno, Italy, September 13, 1795, and died in England, -January 23, 1855. He wrote: "Mission of the Comforter," "The Contest -with Rome," "Vindication of Luther," and conjointly with A. W. Hare, -"Guesses at Truth." - - - True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that - unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our - hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, - casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a - toilsome and troubled life. - - --_Humboldt_. - -ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, a renowned German scientist, was born in Berlin, -September 14, 1769, and died there May 6, 1859. He wrote: "Voyages to -the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent," "Observations on Zoölogy -and Comparative Anatomy," "View of the Cordilleras and of the Monuments -of the Indigenous Races of America," and "Cosmos," his most celebrated -work. - - - O years, gone down into the past, - What pleasant memories come to me - Of your untroubled days of peace, - And hours of almost ecstasy. - - "_Reconciled_,"--Phoebe Cary. - -PHOEBE CARY, a noted American poetess and prose-writer, was born in -Cincinnati, Ohio, September 14, 1824, and died in Newport, Rhode Island, -July 31, 1871. With her sister, she published many books, among them, -"Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love," and "Poems and Parodies." - - - We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those - whom we admire. - - "Maxim 294,"--_Rochefoucauld_. - -FRANÇOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, an illustrious French classicist and -philosopher, was born at Paris, September 15, 1613, and died there March -17, 1680. His most celebrated works were: "Reflections, or Moral -Sentences and Maxims," better known as "Maxims," and his "Memoirs." - - - Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,--not upper ten - thousand. - - "The Ways of the Hour," Chap. VI,--_Cooper_. - -JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, a famous American novelist, and historian, was -born in Burlington, N. J., September 15, 1789, and died at Cooperstown, -N. Y., September 14, 1851. A few of his celebrated novels are: "The -Spy," "The Pilot," "Precaution," "The Pioneers," "The Last of the -Mohicans," "The Prairie," "The Red Rover," "The Water-Witch," "Homeward -Bound," "The Pathfinder," "The Deerslayer," "The Redskins," "The Ways of -the Hour," etc. - - - I would not live alway: I ask not to stay - Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way. - - "I would not live alway,"--_William Augustus Muhlenberg_. - -WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, a noted American philanthropist and -Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born in Philadelphia, Penn., -September 16, 1796, and died in New York, April, 1877. He wrote: "A Plea -for Christian Hymns," and many well-known hymns, among them: "Saviour -Who Thy Flock Art Feeding," "Shout the Glad Tidings," and "I Would Not -Live Alway." - - - We all know Mr. Lowell's brilliant qualities as a poet, critic, - scholar, and man of the world; but that in him which touches me - most strongly belongs to his relations to his country--his keen - and subtle yet kindly recognition of her virtues and her faults, - and the sympathetic power with which in the day of her melancholy - triumph, after the Civil War, he gave such noble expression to her - self-devotion, sorrows, and hopes. - - "James Russell Lowell, The Critic,"--_Francis Parkman_. - -FRANCIS PARKMAN, an eminent American historian, was born at Boston, -September 16, 1823, and died at Jamaica Plain, Mass., November 8, 1893. -He wrote: "The Oregon Trail: Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life," "History -of the Conspiracy of Pontiac," "The Pioneers of France in the New -World," "The Jesuits in North America," "La Salle and the Discovery of -the Great West," "The Old Régime in Canada," "Count Frontenac and New -France under Louis XIV," "Montcalm and Wolfe," and "A Half-Century of -Conflict." - - - The essayist rises higher than the poet--witty, tender; wise in - human frailty, but never bitter. - - "Personal Tributes to Dr. Holmes, the Writer," Vol. 7, p. 167 - (1894),--_Hamlin Garland_. - -HAMLIN GARLAND, a celebrated American story writer, was born in La -Crosse, Wis., September 16, 1860. His works include: "Main Traveled -Roads," "A Spoil of Office," "Prairie Folks," "Prairie Songs," -"Crumbling Idols," "A Little Norsk," "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly," "Jason -Edwards," "The Eagle's Heart," "Her Mountain Lover," "Hesper," "The -Light of the Star," "The Long Trail," "Money Magic," "The Shadow World," -"Victor Olnee's Discipline," "Other Main Traveled Roads," "A Son of the -Middle Border," etc. - - - There's a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky. - - "Forty Singing Seamen,"--_Alfred Noyes_. - -ALFRED NOYES, a noted English writer, was born at Staffordshire, -September 16, 1880. He has written, "Robin Hood," "Tales of the Mermaid -Tavern," "The Winepress," "The Sea in English Poetry," "A Salute from -the Fleet," "The Flower of Old Japan," "Poems," "Forty Singing Seamen," -"Walking Shadows," "The Elfin Artist," (New Poems). - - - All reasoning is retrospect; it consists in the application of - facts and principles previously known. This will show the very - great importance of knowledge, especially of that kind called - Experience. - - "Knowledge,"--_John Foster_. - -JOHN FOSTER, a famous English author, and dissenting minister, best -known as the "Essayist," was born near Halifax, Yorkshire, September 17, -1770, and died October 15, 1843. His fame rests chiefly on his -celebrated "Essays." He also wrote: "Essay on Popular Ignorance," -"Discourse on Missions," etc. - - - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not - coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and - nights to the volumes of Addison. - - "Life of Addison,"--_Samuel Johnson_. - -SAMUEL JOHNSON, a renowned English critic, essayist, lexicographer, and -poet, was born in Lichfield, September 18, 1709, and died in London, -December 13, 1784. Among his many works may be mentioned: "Life of -Richard Savage," "The Vanity of Human Wishes," "Life of Dryden," "Plan -for a Dictionary," "The Rambler," "Irene," "The Idler," "Shakespeare -with Notes," "The False Alarm," "Taxation no Tyranny," "Rasselas," -"English Poets," etc. - - - Men are polished, through act and speech, - Each by each, - As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach. - - "A Home Idyl,"--_John Townsend Trowbridge_. - -JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, a celebrated American poet, novelist and -general writer, was born in Ogden, N. Y., September 18, 1827, and died -in 1916. He has written: "Martin Merrivale," "Neighbor Jackwood," "The -Old Battle Ground," "The Drummer Boy," "The Three Scouts," "Coupon -Bonds," "The Story of Columbus," "The Jack Hazard Series," "The Silver -Medal Series," "The Emigrant's Story, and Other Poems," "At Sea," "The -Pewee," "Hearts and Faces," "The Vagabonds," "The Book of Gold, and -Other Poems," "The Start in Life Series," "The Tide Mill Series," -"Poetical Works," "My Own Story," etc. - - - O Traveller who hast wandered far - 'Neath southern sun and northern star, - Say where the fairest regions are! - Friend, underneath whatever skies - Love looks in love-returning eyes, - There are the bowers of paradise. - - "The Bowers of Paradise,"--_Clinton Scollard_. - -CLINTON SCOLLARD, a popular American poet and author, was born in New -York, September 18, 1860. He has published: "Pictures in Song," "Old and -New World Lyrics," "Under Summer Skies," "Lyrics and Legends of -Christmastide," "Odes and Elegies," "From the Lips of the Sea," -"Poems--A Selection from the Harvest of Thirty Years of Song," "A -Christmas Garland," "A Knight of the Highway," "A Son of a Tory," "The -Lutes of Morn," "Lyrics of the Dawn," "Footfaring," etc. - - - Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this - age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the - eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, - and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in - full military array. - - "Speech," January 29, 1828,--_Lord Brougham_. - -HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, LORD BROUGHAM, a distinguished British statesman -and author, was born in Edinburgh, September 19, 1778, and died at -Cannes, France, May 7, 1868. His most important works are: "Lives of Men -of Letters and Science," "Speeches," and "Sketches of the Statesmen of -the Time of George III." - - - The soul of man is larger than the sky, - Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark - Of the unfathomed center. - - "To Shakespeare,"--_Hartley Coleridge_. - -HARTLEY COLERIDGE, a celebrated English poet, and man of letters, (son -of Samuel Taylor Coleridge), was born at Bristol, September 19, 1796, -and died in 1849. His writings include: "Biographia Borealis," "The -Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire," "Essays and Marginalia," and some -exquisite sonnets, published in the _London Magazine_. - - - When change itself can give no more - 'Tis easy to be true. - - "Reasons for Constancy,"--_Sir Charles Sedley_. - -SIR CHARLES SEDLEY, a noted English dramatist, was born at Aylesford in -Kent, September 20, 1639, and died August 20, 1701. Besides his -tragedies and comedies, he wrote a famous song, "Phyllis." - - - In the first days - Of my distracting grief, I found myself - As women wish to be who love their lords. - - "Douglas," Act I, Sc. i,--_John Home_. - -JOHN HOME, a well-known Scotch dramatist, was born in Leith, near -Edinburgh, September 21, 1722, and died at Merchiston near Edinburgh, -September 5, 1808. His most celebrated plays are: "Alfred," "The Fatal -Discovery," "Agis," and his tragedy, "Douglas." He also wrote, "History -of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1755-56." - - - Where are the cities of old time? - - "The Ballade of Dead Cities,"--_Edmund William Gosse_. - -EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE, a famous English poet, essayist, and critic, was -born in London, September 21, 1849. He has written: "On Viol and Flute," -"The Unknown Lover," "Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets," "Life of Jeremy -Taylor," "French Profiles," "Coventry Patmore," "Life of Sir Thomas -Browne," "Father and Son," "Henrik Ibsen," "Two Visits to Denmark," -"Portraits and Studies," "Collected Essays" (5 vols.), "Life of -Swinburne," "Lord Redesdale's Further Memories," "Three French -Moralists," "Diversions of a Man of Letters," "Malherbe," etc. - - - How few take time for friendship! How few plan for it! It is - treated as a haphazard, fortuitous thing. May good luck send us - friends; we will not go after them. May favoring fortune bind our - friendships; we will take no stitches ourselves. Yet friendship - requires painstaking. No art is so difficult, no craft so arduous. - Roll a ball of clay and expect it to become a rose in your hand, - but never expect an acquaintanceship, without care and thought, to - blossom into friendship. - - --_Wells_. - -HERBERT GEORGE WELLS, a distinguished English author, was born at -Bromley, Kent, September 21, 1868. Among his many works may be -mentioned: "The Wheels of Chance," "Certain Personal Matters," (essays), -"The War of the Worlds," "The Sleeper Awakes," "Love and Mr. Lewisham," -"Anticipations," "The Sea Lady," "Mankind in the Making," "The Food of -the Gods," "A Modern Utopia," "The War in the Air," "Ann Veronica," -"The New Machiavelli," "Marriage," "The Passionate Friends," "An -Englishman Looks at the World," "The World Set Free," "The Peace of the -World," "The Research Magnificent," "What is Coming?" "Mr. Britling Sees -it Through," "The Soul of a Bishop," "Joan and Peter," "The Come Back," -etc. - - - Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the - world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet - by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. - - "Letter," July 1, 1748,--_Earl of Chesterfield_. - -PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, a famous English man of -affairs and of the world, was born in London, September 22, 1694, and -died March 24, 1773. His "Letters to His Son" won for him everlasting -literary fame. - - - A reply to a newspaper attack resembles very much the attempt of - Hercules to crop the Hydra, without the slightest chance of - ultimate success. - - "Gilbert Gurney," Vol. II, Chap. I, _Theodore M. Hook_. - -THEODORE EDWARD HOOK, a famous English wit and novelist, was born in -London, September 22, 1788, and died August 24, 1841. He wrote: -"Macwell," "Gilbert Gurney," "Gurney Married," "Births, Deaths and -Marriages." "His Sayings and Doings," were published in 1824, 1825 and -in 1828. - - - I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not - inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any - suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in - pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature. - - --_Jane Porter_. - -JANE PORTER, a distinguished English novelist, was born at Durham, -September 23, 1776, and died at Bristol, May 24, 1850. Among her -stories are: "Thaddeus of Warsaw," "The Scottish Chiefs," "The Pastor's -Fireside," etc. - - - Within the rose I found a trembling tear, - Close curtained in a gloom of crimson night, - By tender petals from the outer light. - - "Within the Rose I found a Trembling Tear,"--_Boyesen_. - -HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN, a celebrated American novelist, was born at -Frederiksvarn, Norway, September 23, 1848, and died in New York, October -4, 1895. He has written: "Idyls of Norway and Other Poems," "Tales from -Two Hemispheres," "Ilka on the Hilltop and Other Stories," "A Norseman's -Pilgrimage," "Gunnar," and "A Daughter of the Philistines." - - - When he writes of himself, how supremely excellent is the reading. - It is good even when he does it intentionally, as in "Portraits - and Memories." It is better still when he sings it, as in his - "Child's Garden." He is irresistible to every lonely child who - reads and thrills, and reads again to find his past recovered for - him with effortless ease. It is a book never long out of my hands, - for only in it and in my dreams when I am touched with fever, do I - grasp the long, long thoughts of a lonely child and a - hill-wandering boy-thoughts I never told to any; yet which Mr. - Stevenson tells over again to me as if he read them off a printed - page. - - "Mr. Stevenson's Books," _McClure's Magazine_, Vol. 4, p. 289 - 1895,--_S. R. Crockett_. - -SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT, a distinguished Scotch novelist, was born in -Little Duchrae, Galloway, September 24, 1862, and died in 1914. He has -written "The Stickit Minister," "The Lilac Sun-Bonnet," "Lad's Love," -"Joan of the Sword Hand," "The Dark o' the Moon," "The Banner of Blue," -"An Adventure in Spain," "Maid Margaret," "Cherry Riband," "Flower o' -the Corn," "Kit Kennedy," "The Red Axe," "The Bloom of the Heather," -"The White Plume of Navarre," "Anne of the Barricades," "Patsy," -"Sandy," etc. - - - The breaking waves dashed high - On a stern and rock-bound coast, - And the woods against a stormy sky - Their giant branches tossed. - - "Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,"--_Felicia Hemans_. - -FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE HEMANS, a noted English-Irish poet, was born in -Liverpool, September 25, 1793, and died at Redesdale, near Dublin, May -16, 1835. Her most famous works are: "Tales and Historic Scenes in -Verse," "Songs of the Cid," "Lays of Many Lands," "The Siege of -Valencia, the Last Constantine," and "Domestic Affections." - - - We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but - when once obtained, it is not in human nature to surrender it - voluntarily. - - "The Clockmaker,"--_Thomas Chandler Haliburton_. - -THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (SAM SLICK), a famous Canadian author, was -born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, September 26 (?), 1796, and died near -London, August 27, 1865. He is best known by his famous "Sam Slick" -papers. - - - Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least injury - without damage; it is a precious stone, the price of which is - lessened by the least flaw. - - --_Bossuet_. - -JACQUES BÉNIGNE BOSSUET, a renowned French theologian, was born at -Dijon, September 27, 1627, and died April 12, 1704. He wrote: "Discourse -upon Universal History Down to the Empire of Charlemagne," "History of -the Variations of the Protestant Churches," and the "Defense of the -Famous Declaration Which the Gallican Clergy Approved Regarding the -Power of the Church." His "Complete Works," in 46 volumes, were -published 1815-19. - - - A life on the ocean wave! - A home on the rolling deep, - Where the scattered waters rave, - And the winds their revels keep! - Like an eagle caged I pine - On this dull unchanging shore: - O give me the flashing brine, - The spray and the tempest's roar! - - "A Life on the Ocean Wave,"--_Epes Sargent_. - -EPES SARGENT, a celebrated American journalist, author and dramatist, -was born in Gloucester, Mass., September 27, 1813, and died in Boston, -December 31, 1880. His works include: "Change Makes Change," "The -Priestess," "Wealth and Worth," "Peculiar: A Tale of the Great -Transition," "Songs of the Sea," "Life of Henry Clay," "A Life on the -Ocean Wave," etc. - - - Logic makes only one demand, that of science. But life makes a - thousand. The body wants health; the imagination cries out for - beauty; and the heart for love. Pride asks for consideration; the - soul yearns for peace; the conscience for holiness; our whole - being is athirst for happiness and for perfection. - - --_Amiel_. - -HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL, an eminent Swiss essayist, poet, and philosophical -critic, was born at Geneva, September 27, 1821, and died there, March -11, 1881. His writings include: "Millet Grains," "Study on Mme. de -Staël," "The Literary Movement in Romanish Switzerland," etc. His famous -"Journal" appeared after his death. - - - The dews of summer nights did fall, - The moon, sweet regent of the sky, - Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall - And many an oak that grew thereby. - - "Cumnor Hall,"--_William J. Mickle_. - -WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE, a noted Scottish poet, was born at Langholm, -Dumfriesshire, September 28, 1735, and died at Forest Hill, October 28, -1788. He wrote: "Syr Martyn," "Almada Hill," "Cumnor Hall," etc. - - - Cobden is a man of an extremely interesting mind; quite the - opposite of an Englishman in this respect, that you never hear him - talk commonplaces, and that he has few prejudices. - - "Correspondence,"--_Prosper Mérimée_. - -PROSPER MÉRIMÉE, a renowned French essayist and litterateur, was born at -Paris, September 28, 1803, and died at Cannes, September 23, 1870. He -wrote: "Historic Monuments," "Historic and Literary Medleys," "Mateo -Falcone," "Guzla," "Plays of Clara Gazul," and his most celebrated -works: "Colomba" and "Carmen." - - - Time's corrosive dewdrop eats - The giant warrior to a crust - Of earth in earth and rust in rust. - - "A Danish Barrow,"--_Francis T. Palgrave_. - -FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE, a distinguished English poet and art critic, -was born September 28, 1824, and died in 1897. He wrote: "Essays on -Art," "Lyrical Poems," "The Visions of England," "The Life of Jesus -Christ Illustrated from the Italian painters of the 14th, 15th and 16th -Centuries," "Idylls and Songs," "Hymns," "Amenophis and Other Poems," -"The Golden Treasury," etc. - - - "I have often noticed that almost everyone has his own individual - small economies--careful habits of saving fractions of pennies in - some one peculiar direction--any disturbance of which annoys him - more than spending shillings or pounds on some real extravagance." - - "Cranford, Chap. V,"--_Mrs. Gaskell_. - -MRS. ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL, a famous English novelist, was born in -Chelsea, September 29, 1810, and died November 12, 1865. Among her -notable works are: "Mary Barton," "Ruth," "Lizzie Leigh," "Sylvia's -Lovers," "Wives and Daughters," "The Life of Charlotte Brontë," and -"Cranford," her most celebrated work. - - - Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; - Here's to the widow of fifty; - Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, - And here's to the housewife that's thrifty! - Let the toast pass; - Drink to the lass; - I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. - - "School for Scandal," Act iii, Sc. 3.--_Sheridan_. - -RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, the renowned British dramatist and -parliamentary orator, was born in Dublin, September 30, 1751, and died -at London, July 7, 1816. His dramatic works include: "The Rivals," "The -School for Scandal," "The Critic," and "The Duenna." His most famous -speeches are: "The Perfumery Speech" and the "Begum Speech." - - - Der Unterliegende ist immer philosophisch gestimmt.[4] - - --_Sudermann_. - -HERMANN SUDERMANN, a celebrated German novelist and dramatist, was born -at Matziken, East Prussia, September 30, 1857. Among his works are: -"Dame Care," "In the Twilight," "Honor," "The Cat Bridge," "The -Destruction of Sodom," "Brothers and Sisters," "Home," "Battle of the -Butterflies," "Iolanthe's Wedding," "Once on a Time," "The Undying -Past," "Das Hohe Lied," "Strand-kinder," "The Indian Lily," "Der gute -Ruf," etc. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] I have often thought that however learnedly you may talk about it, -one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. - -[2] The style is the man himself. - -[3] Nature made him, and then broke the mould. - -[4] The losing side is always philosophically inclined. - - - - -OCTOBER - - - - -OCTOBER - - - I have read somewhere or other,--in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I - think,--that history is philosophy teaching by examples. - - "On the Study and Use of History," Letter 2,--_Bolingbroke_. - -HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE, a distinguished English statesman, -author, and orator, was born at Battersea, October 1, 1678, and died -there, December 12, 1751. His principal works are: "Letters on the -Spirit of Patriotism," "Letters on the Study of History," "The Idea of a -Patriot King," and "A Dissertation on Parties." - - - We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and - keep step to the music of the Union. - - "Letter to the Whig Convention, 1855,"--_Rufus Choate_. - -RUFUS CHOATE, an eminent American lawyer, orator and statesman, was born -at Essex, Mass., October 1, 1799, and died at Halifax, N. S., July 13, -1859. His "Works" (2 vols.) were published in 1863. - - - But I account it worth - All pangs of fair hopes crost-- - All loves and honors lost,-- - To gain the heavens, at cost - Of losing earth. - - "Sir Marmaduke's Musings,"--_Theodore Tilton_. - -THEODORE TILTON, a noted American journalist, lecturer, editor, and -verse-writer, was born in New York City, October 2, 1835, and died in -1907. He wrote: "Thou and I," "The Sexton's Tale, and Other Poems," -"Suabian Stories," "Tempest-Tossed," "Sanctum Sanctorum: or An Editor's -Proof Sheets," etc. - - - Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams: On the day of his death, hearing - the noise of bells and cannon, he asked the occasion. On being - reminded that it was "Independence Day," he replied, "Independence - forever!" - - "History of the United States," Vol. vii, p. 65,--_Bancroft_. - -GEORGE BANCROFT, a famous American historian and statesman, was born in -Worcester, Mass., October 3, 1800, and died in Washington, D. C., -January 17, 1891. His most famous work is the "History of the United -States." - - - But Petrarch's highest merit by no means consists in this new - classic elegance; it consists in the fact that he was the first to - write freely of all things in the same way that a man speaks. He - was the first to throw aside all scholastic crutches, and prove - how much more swiftly a man could walk without leaning upon them. - - "Machiavelli and his Times," (transl.) Vol. I,--_Pasquale - Villari_. - -PASQUALE VILLARI, a distinguished Italian historian, was born at Naples, -October 3, 1827, and died in 1914. His principal works are: "Niccolo -Machiavelli and His Times," "Ancient Legends and Traditions Illustrating -the Divine Comedy," "Essays Critical, Historical and Literary," -"Teaching History," "The School and the Social Question in Italy." - - - Amongst the masses--even in revolutions--aristocracy must ever - exist; destroy it in nobility, and it becomes centered in the rich - and powerful House of Commons. Pull them down, and it still - survives in the master and foreman of the workshop. - - --_Guizot_. - -FRANÇOIS GUIZOT, an illustrious French historian and statesman, was born -at Nîmes, October 4, 1787, and died at Val Richer, near Lisieux, -September 12, 1874. He wrote: "History of the English Revolution," -"Corneille and his Time," "The History of Civilization in Europe," "The -History of Civilization in France," "Memoirs," "Shakespeare and His -Times," "History of France for my Grandchildren," etc. - - - Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or - rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high - and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper - holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and - benevolence to men. - - --_Jonathan Edwards_. - -JONATHAN EDWARDS, a famous American divine and theological writer, was -born in East Windsor, Conn., October 5, 1703, and died at Princeton, N. -J., March 22, 1758. Among his works may be mentioned: "The Great -Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended," "An Inquiry into the -Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which Is -Supposed to Be Essential to Moral Agency," "A Dissertation Concerning -the End for which God Created the World," and "The Nature of True -Virtue." - - - We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our - associates. - - --_Diderot_. - -DENIS DIDEROT, a famous French philosopher and encyclopædist, was born -at Langres, October 5, 1713, and died July 31, 1784. He wrote: -"Philosophic Reflections," "A Skeptic's Walk," "The Nun," "Rameau's -Nephew," "Little Papers," etc. - - - The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who - feel. - - Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770,--_Horace Walpole_. - -HORACE WALPOLE, a famous English author and letter-writer, was born in -London, October 5, 1717, and died there March 2, 1797. His works -include: "Anecdotes of Painters in England," "The Castle of Otranto," -"Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III," "The Mysterious -Mother," "Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George II," etc. -His chief fame rests upon his celebrated letters, 9 vols., which were -published in 1857-59. - - - No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown. - - "Sonnet, Versöhnung, a Belief,"--_John Addington Symonds_. - -JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS, a distinguished English critic and historian of -literature, was born at Bristol, October 5, 1840, and died at Rome, -April 19, 1893. He wrote: "Studies of the Greek Poets," "Sketches in -Italy and Greece," "Introduction to the Study of Dante," "Shakespeare's -Predecessors," "Sketches and Studies in Italy," and his greatest work: -"The Renaissance in Italy." - - - "Freedom!" their battle cry-- - "Freedom! or leave to die! - - "The Black Regiment,"--_George H. Boker_. - -GEORGE HENRY BOKER, a noted American poet and dramatist, was born in -Philadelphia, Pa., October 6, 1823, and died there January 2, 1890. His -plays include: "Anne Boleyn," "The Betrothed," "Calaynos," "All the -World's a Mask," and "Francesca da Rimini." Also, "Poems of the War," -"Sonnets," "Königsmark and Other Poems," etc. - - - The ripest peach is highest on the tree. - - "The Ripest Peach,"--_James Whitcomb Riley_. - -JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, a celebrated American poet, was born at -Greenfield, Ind., October 7, 1853, and died July 22, 1916. Among his -writings are: "The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems," "Green -Fields and Running Brooks," "Child Rhymes," "Love Lyrics," "The Golden -Year," "Songs of Summer," "The Rose," "The Riley Baby Book," "Songs of -Friendship," "Songs of Cheer," "Old Schoolday Romances," "Songs of -Home," "Down Around the River and Other Poems," "A Summer's Day and -Other Poems," "All the Year Round," "Knee-Deep in June and Other Poems," -"The Prayer-Perfect and Other Poems," "A Song of Long Ago," "When My -Dreams Come True," "Away," "Do They Miss Me?" "Friendship," etc. - - - I think that saving a little child - And bringing him to his own, - Is a derned sight better business, - Than, loafing around the throne. - - "Little Breeches,"--_John Hay_. - -JOHN HAY, a famous American poet and prose-writer, was born in Salem, -Ind., October 8, 1838, and died in 1905. His literary fame rests on his -famous "Pike County Ballads." - - - Thy Soul ... - Is as far from my grasp, is as free, - As the stars from the mountain-tops be, - As the pearl in the depths of the sea, - From the portionless king that would be. - - "Stanzas from Music,"--_Edmund Clarence Stedman_. - -EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, a distinguished American man of letters, was -born in Hartford, Conn., October 8, 1833, and died in 1908. He wrote: -"Nature and Elements of Poetry," "Poets of America," "Victorian -Anthology," "Victorian Poets," "Poems Now First Collected," etc. - - - Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! - I am so weary of toil and of tears-- - Toil without recompense, tears all in vain! - Take them, and give me my childhood again! - - "Rock Me to Sleep,"--_Elizabeth Akers Allen_. - -ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN, a noted American poet, was born at Strong, Me., -October 9, 1832, and died in 1911. She wrote: "The Silver Bridge and -Other Poems," and a volume of "Poems," the best known among them being: -"Rock Me to Sleep, Mother." - - - Woodman, spare that tree! - Touch not a single bough! - In youth it sheltered me, - And I'll protect it now. - - "Woodman, Spare that Tree!"--_George P. Morris_. - -GEORGE POPE MORRIS, a celebrated American journalist and song-writer, -was born in Philadelphia, October 10, 1802, and died in New York City, -July 6, 1864. He wrote: "Poems," "The Little Frenchman," "Briercliff," -and his famous song, "Woodman Spare That Tree." - - - It was acknowledged by Hume, that it was only in solitude and - retirement that he could yield any assent to his own philosophy. - - "Essays,"--_Hugh Miller_. - -HUGH MILLER, a distinguished Scottish geologist, was born at Cromarty, -October 11, 1802, and died near Edinburgh, December 2, 1856. His most -notable works are: "The Old Red Sandstone," "Footprints of the Creator," -"Testimony of the Rocks," "Poems," "Scenes and Legends of the North of -Scotland," etc. - - - There came to port last Sunday night - The queerest little craft, - Without an inch of rigging on; - I looked and looked,--and laughed! - It seemed so curious that she - Should cross the unknown water, - And moor herself within my room,-- - My daughter! O my daughter. - - "The New Arrival," St. I.--_George Washington Cable_. - -GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE, a famous American novelist, was born in New -Orleans, La., October 12, 1844. He has written: "The Silent South," "The -Creoles of Louisiana," "Old Creole Days," "Dr. Sevier," "Strange True -Stories of Louisiana," "The Busy Man's Bible," "John March, -Southerner," "The Negro Question," "Strong Hearts," "Kincaid's Battery," -"Gideon's Band," "The Amateur Garden," etc. - - - I've wandered east, I've wandered west, - Through mony a weary way; - But never, never can forget - The luve o' life's young day! - - "Jeannie Morrison,"--_William Motherwell_. - -WILLIAM MOTHERWELL, a Scottish poet and antiquary of great fame, was -born at Glasgow, October 13, 1797, and died there, November 1, 1835. His -most famous works are: "Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern," and "Poems, -Narrative and Lyrical." - - - Absence makes the heart grow fonder; - Isle of Beauty, fare the well! - - "Isle of Beauty,"--_Thomas Haynes Bayly_. - -THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY, a noted English poet and novelist, was born in -Bath, October 13, 1797, and died at Cheltenham, April 22, 1839. He wrote -36 dramas, including among them: "The Aylmers," "Perfection," and "The -Legend of Killarney." - - - Be humble and gentle in your conversation, of few words, I charge - you, but always pertinent when you speak, hearing out before you - attempt to answer, and then speaking as if you would persuade, not - impose. - - "Advice to his Children,"--_William Penn_. - -WILLIAM PENN, a distinguished writer, and the founder of Pennsylvania, -was born at London, October 14, 1644, and died July 30, 1718. Among his -notable works were: "A Sandy Foundation Shaken," "Truth Exalted," "No -Cross, No Crown," "Reasonableness of Toleration," and "Primitive -Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People Called -Quakers." - - - Come in the evening, or come in the morning; - Come when you're looked for, or come without warning. - - "The Welcome,"--_Thomas Osborne Davis_. - -THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS, a famous Irish poet and journalist was born in -Mallow, County Cork, October 14, 1814, and died in Dublin, September 15, -1845. His "Poems" and his "Literary and Historical Essays" were -collected in 1846. - - - Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, - Where heartsome wi' thee I ha'e mony days been; - For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, - We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more. - - "Lochaber No More,"--_Allan Ramsay_. - -ALLAN RAMSAY, an eminent Scottish poet, was born in Leadhills, -Lanarkshire, October 15, 1686, and died in Edinburgh, January 7, 1758. -His most noted works are: "Fables and Tales," "Tartana; or, The Plaid," -"The Evergreen," "Fair Assembly," "The Tea-Table Miscellany," "Health," -"Thirty Fables," and "Gentle Shepherd," his most celebrated work. - - - A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - - "The Picture of Dorian Gray,"--_Oscar Wilde_. - -OSCAR WILDE, a famous Irish poet and author, was born in Dublin, October -15, 1856, and died in 1900. Among his works are: "Poems," "The Picture -of Dorian Gray," "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," etc.; also three -noted plays: "Lady Windermere's Fan," "A Woman of No Importance," and -"The Importance of Being Earnest." - - - Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion. - - --_Tillotson_. - -JOHN TILLOTSON, a distinguished English archbishop, was born in Sowerby, -Yorkshire, October 16, 1630, and died in London, November 22, 1694. His -manuscript sermons were published after his death, with the "Rule of -Faith," by Ralph Barker. - - - The fourteenth of February is a day sacred to St. Valentine! It - was a very odd notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on this day - birds begin to couple; hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending - on this day letters containing professions of love and - affection. - - --_Noah Webster_. - -NOAH WEBSTER, the eminent American lexicographer and journalist, was -born at West Hartford, Conn., October 16, 1758, and died in New Haven, -May 28, 1843. He published "Sketches of American Policy," "Philosophical -and Practical Grammar of the English Language," "A Compendious -Dictionary of the English Language," and his _magnum opus_, "American -Dictionary of the English Language." - - - In the Cross of Christ I glory, - Tow'ring o'er the wrecks of time; - All the lights of sacred story - Gathers round its head sublime. - - "The Cross of Christ,"--_Sir John Bowring_. - -SIR JOHN BOWRING, a famous English author and diplomat, was born in -Exeter, October 17, 1792, and died there, November 23, 1872. Among his -writings are: "Specimens of the Polish Poets," "Specimens of the Russian -Poets," "Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain," "Servian Popular -Poetry," "The Flowery Scroll: A Chinese Novel," "The Kingdom and People -of Siam," "Cheskian Anthology," and "A Visit to the Philippine Islands." - - - Kingsley's three masters were--in poetry, Tennyson; in social - philosophy, Carlyle; in things moral and spiritual, Frederick D. - Maurice; he was a much more passionate reformer than Tennyson; he - was far more genial and social than Carlyle. Not that he imitated - any of the three. - - "Studies in Early Victorian Literature,"--_Frederic Harrison_. - -FREDERIC HARRISON, a renowned English essayist, and publicist, was born -in London, October 18, 1831. He wrote: "Order and Progress," "The Study -of History," "Oliver Cromwell," "The Meaning of History," "Choice of -Books," "Annals of an Old Manor House," "Chatham," "Life of Ruskin," -"Memories and Thoughts," "Carlyle and the London Library," "My Alpine -Jubilee," "National and Social Problems," "Among My Books," "The -Positive Evolution of Religion," "Autobiographic Memoirs," "The German -Peril," "On Society," "Jurisprudence and Conflict of Nations," "Obiter -Scripta," "Novissima Verba," etc. - - - O sweet delusive Noon, - Which the morning climbs to find, - O moment sped too soon, - And morning left behind. - - "Verses: Noon,"--_Helen Hunt_. - -HELEN FISKE JACKSON ("H. H."), a noted American poet and miscellaneous -writer, was born October 18, 1831, and died in 1885. Among her -publications are: "Poems," "Bits of Talk," "Hetty's Strange History," "A -Century of Dishonor," and "Ramona," her most famous work. - - - It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of - faces there should be none alike. - - "Religio Medici," Part II, Sect. ii,--_Sir Thomas Browne_. - -SIR THOMAS BROWNE, a celebrated English antiquary and physician, was -born in London, October 19, 1605, and died in 1682. His principal work -is "Religio Medici." After his death a collection of his fugitive pieces -was published, followed by "Christian Morals," a collection of -aphorisms. - - - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in - the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be - celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary - festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, - by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be - solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, - bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent - to the other, from this time forward for evermore. - - "Letter to Mrs. Adams," July 3, 1776.--_John Adams_. - -JOHN ADAMS, an illustrious American statesman and publicist, and second -President of the United States, was born at Braintree (now Quincy), -Massachusetts, October 19, 1735, and died there, July 4, 1826. His most -celebrated work was: "Defence of the Constitution and Government of the -United States." - - - With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks - To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. - - "The Story of Rimini,"--_Leigh Hunt_. - -LEIGH HUNT, a famous English poet, critic, and essayist, was born in -Southgate, October 19, 1784; and died at Putney, August 28, 1859. The -most important of his works are: "The Story of Rimini," "Recollections -of Byron," "A Legend of Florence," and "Sir Ralph Esher." - - - Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! - Star of Eternity! The only star - By which the bark of man could navigate - The sea of life and gain the coast of bliss - Securely. - - "The Course of Time," Book ii, Line 270,--_Robert Pollok_. - -ROBERT POLLOK, a noted Scottish poet, was born at North Moorhouse, -Renfrewshire, October 19, 1798, and died September 17, 1827. He -published "Tales of the Covenanters," and his famous poem, "The Course -of Time." - - - It is no easy task for anyone who has been studying his life and - works to set reasonable bounds to their reverence and enthusiasm, - for the man. - - "Alfred the Great,"--Ch. 24,--_Thomas Hughes_. - -THOMAS HUGHES, a celebrated English essayist and story-writer, was born -at Donnington Priory, near Newbury, October 20, 1823, and died in 1896. -He wrote: "Our Old Church: What Shall We Do With It?" "Rugby," "The -Manliness of Christ," and his two celebrated works, "Tom Brown's School -Days," and "Tom Brown at Oxford." - - - On their own merits modest men are dumb. - - "Epilogue" to the "Heir at Law,"--_George Colman, the Younger_. - -GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER, a famous English dramatist and humorous -poet, was born in London (?), October 21, 1762, and died there October -17, 1836. He wrote: "Broad Grins," "Poetic Vagaries," etc. Among his -comedies are: "The Iron Chest," "John Bull," and "The Heir-at-Law." - - - A noise like of a hidden brook - In the leafy month of June, - That to the sleeping woods all night - Singeth a quiet tune. - - "The Ancient Mariner," Part V,--_Samuel Taylor Coleridge_. - -SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, a renowned English poet and philosopher, was -born at Ottery, St. Mary, Devonshire, October 21, 1772, and died July -25, 1834. Among his famous works are: "Fall of Robespierre" (a play), -"Moral and Political Lecture Delivered at Bristol," "Conciones ad -Populum," "The Plot Discovered," "Poems on Various Subjects," "The -Destiny of Nations," "Ode to the Departing Year," "Pears in Solitude," -"Wallenstein," "Remorse, a Tragedy," "Biographia Literaria," "Aids to -Reflection," etc. "The Ancient Mariner," was published in 1798, in a -volume of "Lyrical Ballads," with Wordsworth. - - - If cruelty has its expiations and its remorses, generosity has its - chances and its turns of good fortune; as if Providence reserved - them for fitting occasions, that noble hearts may not be - discouraged. - - --_Lamartine_. - -ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE LAMARTINE, an eminent French poet, was born at -Milly, near Macon, October 21, 1790, and died at Passy, March 1, 1869. -His greatest works were: "Poetic and Religious Harmonies," "Jocelyn," -"Poetical Meditations," "New Poetical Meditations," "History of the -Girondins," "The Fall of an Angel," "Confidences," "New Confidences," -and the "History of the Restoration." - - - My country, 'tis of thee, - Sweet land of liberty, - Of thee I sing: - Land where my fathers died, - Land of the pilgrims' pride, - From every mountain-side - Let freedom ring. - - --"America"--_Samuel Francis Smith_. - -SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, a noted American clergyman and hymn-writer, was -born in Boston, October 21, 1808, and died in 1895. He wrote: "Mythology -and Early Greek History," "Knights and Sea Kings," "Poor Boys Who Became -Great," and his famous hymn, "America." - - - Heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to - execute. - - "Junius" Letter XXXVII. - -SIR PHILIP FRANCIS, a celebrated Irish-English public man and writer, -was born in Dublin, October 22, 1740, and died in London, December 23, -1818. He won celebrity by the "Letters" signed "Junius," which appeared -in the Public Advertiser of London, from 1768 to 1772. - - - Scatter the clouds that hide - The face of heaven, and show - Where sweet peace doth abide. - Where Truth and Beauty grow. - - "Morning Hymn,"--_Robert Bridges_. - -ROBERT BRIDGES, a renowned English author and poet, was born October 23, -1844. He has been poet-laureate of England since 1913. He has written: -"Essay on Milton's Prosody," "Critical Essay on Keats," "The Growth of -Love," "Eros and Psyche," "Prometheus the Firegiver," "Demeter, a -Masque," "The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English and French," "Ibant -Obscuri," and some notable plays, among them: "Nero" (Parts I and II), -"Palicio," "Ulysses," "Christian Captives," "Achilles in Scyros," -"Humours of the Court," "Feast of Bacchus," etc. - - - ... A Boswell and is not allowed to be, who has wild notions that - he is really a greater man than Johnson and occasionally - blasphemes against his idol, but who in the intervals is truly - Boswellian. - - "Essays in English Literature,"--_Saintsbury_. - -GEORGE EDWARD BATEMAN SAINTSBURY, an eminent English critic and literary -historian, was born at Southampton, October 23, 1845. Among his numerous -works are: "Primer of French Literature," "Short History of French -Literature," "Marlborough," "Elizabethan Literature," "Essays in English -Literature," "Essays on French Novelists," "Nineteenth Century -Literature," "Sir Walter Scott," "A Short History of English -Literature," "Matthew Arnold," "History of Criticism and Literary Taste -in Europe," "History of English Prosody," "History of English -Criticism," "The English Novel," "First Book of English Literature," "A -History of the French Novel," Vol. 1 (1917) and Vol. 2 (1919). - - - The frivolous work of polished idleness. - - "Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy, Remarks on Thomas - Brown,"--_Sir James Mackintosh_. - -SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH, a distinguished Scottish lawyer, philosopher, and -politician, was born at Aldourie, Inverness-shire, October 24, 1765, and -died in London, May 30, 1832. Among his writings are: "History of -England," "Life of Sir Thomas More," "Modern British Essayists," and -"Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy." - - - At the close of the day when the hamlet is still - And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, - When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, - And naught but the nightingale's song in the grove. - - "The Hermit,"--_James Beattie_. - -JAMES BEATTIE, a noted Scottish poet, was born in Laurencekirk, -Kincardineshire, October 25, 1735, and died in Aberdeen, August 18, -1803. His writings include: "The Minstrel," "Dissertations Moral and -Critical," "The Evidences of the Christian Religion Briefly and Plainly -Stated," "The Elements of Moral Science," and his famous "Essay on -Truth." - - - Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it - brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and - ache for the dark house and the long sleep, there is exhibited in - its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens. - - "On Mitford's History of Greece," (1824)--_Thomas B. Macaulay_. - -THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD MACAULAY, a renowned English historian, essayist, -poet and statesman, was born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, October -25, 1800, and died at Kensington, December 28, 1859. His most famous -works are: "Lays of Ancient Rome," and the "History of England." - - - Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze - We lift our heads, a race of other days. - - "Centennial Ode," Stanza 22,--_Charles Sprague_. - -CHARLES SPRAGUE, a noted American poet, was born in Boston, October 26, -1791, and died there, January 22, 1875. He wrote: "The Family Meeting," -"The Winged Worshippers," and "Curiosity." A collection of his works -entitled "Poetical and Prose Writings," was published in 1841. - - - Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest - forth, in thy awful beauty, the stars hide themselves in the sky; - the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou, - thyself, movest alone. - - "The Poems of Ossian," "Carthon Ossian's Address to the - Sun,"--_James Macpherson_. - -JAMES MACPHERSON, a famous Scottish author, known as the author of the -"Ossian" poems, was born at Ruthven, Inverness-shire, October 27, 1736, -and died February 17, 1796. He published the "Poems of Ossian," -consisting of "Fingal, an Epic Poem in Six Books" (1762), "Temora, an -Epic Poem in Eight Books" (1764); he also wrote: "History of Great -Britain" (1775). - - - No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. - - "The Strenuous Life,"--_Theodore Roosevelt_. - -THEODORE ROOSEVELT, a celebrated American politician and author, and -twenty-sixth President of the United States, was born in New York City, -October 27, 1858, and died January 6, 1918. He has written: "Essays on -Practical Politics," "The Naval War of 1812," "Life of Thomas Hart -Benton," "The Wilderness Hunter," "The Winning of the West," "Gouverneur -Morris," "Ranch Life and Hunting Trail," "History of New York City," -"Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," "The Outdoor Pastimes of an American -Hunter," "African Game Trails," "Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography," -"History as Literature," "Life History of African Big Game," "A Hunter -Naturalist in the Brazilian Wilderness," "Fear God and Take Your Own -Part," "A Book Lover's Holiday in the Open," "The Foes of Our Own -Household," etc. - - - Life is mostly froth and bubble; - Two things stand like stone:-- - Kindness in another's trouble, - Courage in our own. - - Ye Weary Wayfarer. Finis Exoptatus.--_Adam Lindsay Gordon_ - (Lionel Gordon). - -ADAM LINDSAY GORDON (LIONEL GORDON), a noted Australian poet, was born -October 28, 1833, and died June 24, 1870. His volumes of verse include: -"Sea Spray and Smoke Drift," "Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric," "Bush -Ballads and Galloping Rhymes." - - - A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he - reads as a task will do him little good. - - "Life of Johnson," Vol. II, Chap. VI (1763),--_Boswell_. - -JAMES BOSWELL, a famous Scottish biographer, was born in Edinburgh, -October 29, 1740, and died in London, May 19, 1795. He wrote: "An -Account of Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli," "Journal of a Tour to -the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson," etc. His "Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson" -is considered the most interesting biography that has ever been written. - - - N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diadème?[1] - - "Caius Gracchus,"--_Chénier_. - -ANDRÉ MARIE DE CHÉNIER, a renowned French poet, was born at -Constantinople, October 30, 1762, and died July 25, 1794. Among his -writings were: "Liberty," "Invention," "Dithyrambic on the Tennis Play," -and a beautiful elegy, "The Girl Captive." - - - Moan, O ye Autumn Winds! - Summer has fled, - The flowers have closed their tender leaves and die; - The lily's gracious head - All low must lie, - Because the gentle Summer now is dead. - - --_Adelaide A. Procter_. - -ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER, an English poetess of great fame, was born at -London, October 30, 1825, and died February 3, 1864. Her celebrated -"Legends and Lyrics," went through many editions. - - - A studious decliner of honours and titles. - - "Diary," Introduction,--_John Evelyn_. - -JOHN EVELYN, a renowned English diarist, was born at Wotton, in Surrey, -October 31, 1620, and died February 27, 1706. His writings are: "A -Parallel of Ancient and Modern Architecture," "Sculptura, or the History -and Art of Chalcography and Engraving on Copper," "Sylva," etc.; also -his famous "Diary." - - - A thing of beauty is a joy forever; - Its loveliness increases; it will never - Pass into nothingness. - - "Endymion," Book i,--_John Keats_. - -JOHN KEATS, an eminent English poet, was born in London, October 31, -1795, and died in Rome, 1821. He wrote: "Endymion, a Poetic Romance," -"Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems," including, -also, the unfinished epic, "Hyperion." "The Letters of John Keats to -Fanny Brawne" appeared in 1878, and the "Letters to His Family and -Friends" in 1891. - - - O Mother dear, Jerusalem, - When shall I come to Thee? - When shall my sorrows have an end? - Thy joys when shall I see? - - --_William Cowper Prime_. - -WILLIAM COWPER PRIME, a distinguished American man of letters, was born -at Cambridge, N. Y., October 31, 1825, and died in 1905. He wrote: "Owl -Creek Letters," "The Old House by the River," "Later Years," "Tent Life -in the Holy Land," "Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia," "The Holy Cross," -"Pottery and Porcelain of All Times and Nations," etc. He also wrote the -famous hymn, "O, Mother Dear, Jerusalem." - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] Is there no tyrant but the crowned one? - - - - -NOVEMBER - - - - -NOVEMBER - - - Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. - - "The Art of Poetry," Canto iii, Line 374,--_Boileau_. - -NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX, an eminent French critic and poet, was born -in Paris, November 1, 1636, and died March 13, 1711. A few of his noted -works are: "The Art of Poetry," "The Farewell of a Poet to the City of -Paris," and his masterpiece, "The Reading Desk." - - - I am dying, Egypt, dying;-- - Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast; - And the dark Plutonian shadows - Gather on the evening blast. - Let thine arms, O Queen, enfold me; - Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear; - Listen to the great heart-secrets - Thou, and thou alone, must hear. - - "Antony to Cleopatra," St. I,--_William Haines Lytle_. - -William Haines Lytle, a distinguished American general and poet, was -born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 2, 1826, and was killed at the Battle -of Chickamauga, Tenn., September 20, 1863. His best-known poems are -"Antony to Cleopatra," and "Jacqueline." - - - All men of whatever quality they be, who have done anything of - excellence, or which may properly resemble excellence, ought, if - they are persons of truth and honesty, to describe their life with - their own hand; but they ought not to attempt so fine an - enterprise till they have passed the age of forty. - - --_Benvenuto Cellini_. - -BENVENUTO CELLINI, a famous Italian sculptor, metal-worker, and writer -of memoirs, was born in Florence, November 3, 1500, and died there, -February 13, 1571. His "Autobiography" won for him an important place -in letters. - - - So live, that when thy summons comes to join - The innumerable caravan which moves - To that mysterious realm where each shall take - His chamber in the silent halls of death, - Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, - Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed - By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave - Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch - About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. - - "Thanatopsis,"--_William Cullen Bryant_. - -WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, the celebrated American poet, was born in -Cummington, Mass., November 3, 1794, and died in New York, June 12, -1878. His poetical works include: "The Yellow Violet," "Poems," "To a -Water-fowl," "The Ages," "The West Wind," "June," "The Fountain and -Other Poems," "Death of the Flowers," "The White-Footed Deer and Other -Poems," "The Flood of Years," and his famous "Thanatopsis." He also -wrote: "Letters of a Traveler," "Letters from the East," "Letters from -Spain," etc. - - - Rock of Ages, cleft for me, - Let me hide myself in thee. - - "Salvation through Christ,"--_A. M. Toplady_. - -AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY, a distinguished Anglican divine, was born -November 4, 1740, and died August 11, 1778. He is chiefly known as a -writer of hymns and poems including: "Rock of Ages," and the collections -entitled, "Poems on Sacred Subjects." - - - Beyond this vale of tears - There is a life above, - Unmeasured by the flight of years; - And all that life is love. - - "The Issues of Life and Death,"--_James Montgomery_. - -JAMES MONTGOMERY, a noted English poet and hymn-writer, was born at -Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, November 4, 1771, and died at Sheffield, -England, April 30, 1854. He wrote: "The World Before the Flood," "The -West Indies," "Greenland," "Original Hymns," "Prose by a Poet," etc. - - - Mensch, was du thust, bedenk das End, - Das wird die hochst Weisheit genennt.[1] - - --_Hans Sachs_. - -HANS SACHS, the famous German meistersinger, was born at Nuremberg, -November 5, 1494, and died January 19 or 20, 1576. A complete collection -of his works has never been published. - - - Make no man your idol; for the best man must have faults, and his - faults will usually become yours in addition to your own. This is - as true in art as in morals. - - "Lectures on Art and Poems,"--_Washington Allston_. - -WASHINGTON ALLSTON, a renowned American painter, poet, and romancer, was -born at Waccamaw, S. C., November 5, 1779, and died at Cambridge, Mass., -July 9, 1843. He wrote: "The Sylph of the Seasons and Other Poems," -"Monaldi," "Lectures on Art and Poems," etc. - - - Laugh and the world laughs with you, - Weep, and you weep alone; - For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth - But has trouble enough of its own. - - "The Way of the World,"--_Ella Wheeler Wilcox_. - -ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, a popular American poet, was born at Johnstown -Centre, Wis., November 5, 1845, and died October 31, 1919. Among her -volumes are: "Maurine," "Poems of Passion," "Poems of Pleasure," etc. -She is best known for her poem, "The Way of the World." - - - As good be out of the world as out of the fashion. - - "Love's Last Shift," Act ii.--_Colley Cibber_. - -COLLEY CIBBER, a noted English dramatist, was born in London, November -6, 1671, and died there, December 12, 1757. Among his dramatic works -are: "Love's Last Shift," "She Would and She Would Not," "The Careless -Husband," and "Love Makes a Man." - - - "Innocently to amuse the imagination in this dream of life is - wisdom." So wrote Oliver Goldsmith; and surely among those who - have earned the world's gratitude by this ministration he must be - accorded a conspicuous place. - - "Life of Goldsmith,"--_William Black_. - -WILLIAM BLACK, a celebrated Scottish novelist, was born November 6, -1841, and died in 1898. Among his popular novels are: "Love or -Marriage," "In Silk Attire," "A Daughter of Heth," "Madcap Violet," -"Three Feathers," "Yolande," "The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton," -"Macleod of Dare," "White Heather," "Donald Ross of Heimra," "Highland -Cousins," "Wild Eelin," and his most famous work, "A Princess of Thule." -He also wrote a "Life of Goldsmith." - - - The great deep ground out of which large historical studies may - grow is the ethical ground,--the simple ethical necessity for the - perfecting, first, of man as man, and secondly, of man as a member - of society; or in other words, the necessity for the development - of humanity on one hand and society on the other. - - --_Andrew Dickson White_. - -ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, a distinguished American scholar and diplomat, was -born at Homer, N. Y., November 7, 1832, and died in 1918. He has -written: "Outlines of Lectures on Mediæval and Modern History," "The -Plan of Organization for Cornell University," "The New Education," -"Report on Co-Education of the Sexes," "The Warfare of Science," "Seven -Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason," "The Work of -Benjamin Hale," "Lecture on the Problem of High Crime in the United -States," etc. - - - The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his intention as - to be willing to open his bosom to the inspection of the world is - in possession of one of the strongest pillars of a decided - character. The course of such a man will be firm and steady, - because he has nothing to fear from the world, and is sure of the - approbation and support of heaven. - - --_Wirt_. - -WILLIAM WIRT, a renowned American lawyer and author, was born at -Bladensburg, Md., November 8, 1772, and died at Washington, D. C., -February 18, 1834. He wrote: "Letters of a British Spy," "The Rainbow," -and his best known work, "Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick -Henry." - - - How little know they life's divinest bliss, - That know not to possess and yet refrain! - Let the young Psyche roam, a fleeting kiss; - Grasp it--a few poor grains of dust remain. - - --_Owen Meredith_. - -EDWARD ROBERT BULWER, EARL OF LYTTON ("OWEN MEREDITH"), an English poet -and novelist of great fame, was born in London, November 8, 1831, and -died in Paris, November 24, 1891. His writings include: "The Wanderer," -"Clytemnestra, the Earl's Return, and Other Poems," "Fables in Song," -"Glenaveril," "King Poppy," "The Ring of Amasis," and his famous novel -in verse, "Lucile." - - - Such and so various are the tastes of men. - - "Pleasures of the Imagination," Book iii, Line 567.--_Mark - Akenside_. - -MARK AKENSIDE, a noted English poet, was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, -November 9, 1721, and died in London, June 23, 1770. His most famous -work, "Pleasures of the Imagination," won for him great fame. - - - Emotional effusions are like licorice root. When you take your - first suck at it, it doesn't seem so bad but it leaves a very bad - taste in the mouth afterward. - - --_Turgenev_. - -IVAN SERGEYEVITCH TURGENEV, a celebrated Russian novelist, was born in -Orel, November 9, 1818, and died in Bougival, near Paris, September 3, -1883. Among his numerous works may be mentioned: "Improvidence," -"Poems," "The Conversation," "Two Friends," "Quiet Life," "First Love," -"On the Eve," "Hamlet and Don Quixote," "Fathers and Children," -"Visions," "The Brigadier," "A Strange Tale," "The Watch," "Some One -Knocks," "The Dream," "Song of Triumphant Love," "The Old Portraits," "A -House of Gentlefolk," "Poems in Prose," etc., etc. - - - Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book. - - --_Luther_. - -MARTIN LUTHER, the illustrious church reformer, was born at Eisleben, in -Saxony, November 10, 1483, and died there, February 18, 1546. Among his -works may be mentioned: "The Babylonian Captivity of the Church," "The -Slave Will," "Letters," "Table Talk," and the treatise, "Against Henry, -King of England." - - - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. - Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,-- - A breath can make them, as a breath has made; - But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, - When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. - - "The Deserted Village," Line 51,--_Oliver Goldsmith_. - -OLIVER GOLDSMITH, the renowned English-Irish poet, novelist, and -dramatist, was born in Pallas, County Longford, Ireland, November 10, -1728, and died at London, April 4, 1774. Among his celebrated works may -be mentioned: "The Traveller," "The Citizen of the World," "The -Good-Natured Man," "She Stoops to Conquer," "The Deserted Village," and -"The Vicar of Wakefield." - - - Against stupidity the very gods - Themselves contend in vain. - - "The Maid of Orleans," Act III, Sc. 6,--_Schiller_. - -JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER, the great German poet and -dramatist, was born in Marbach on the Neckar, November 10, 1759, and -died at Weimar, May 9, 1805. His greatest works are: "Inquiry into the -Connection Between the Animal and Spiritual Nature of Man," "Don -Carlos," "The Robbers," "Fiesco," "History of the Revolt of the -Netherlands from Spanish Rule," "History of the Thirty Years' War," "The -Ghost Seer," "Love and Intrigue," "The Piccolomini," "Maria Stuart," -"The Bride of Messina," "The Maid of Orleans," "William Tell," etc. - - - Where did you come from, baby dear? - Out of the everywhere into the here. - - "Baby" (Song in "At the Back of the North Wind")--_George - Macdonald_. - -GEORGE MACDONALD, a famous Scottish poet and novelist, was born at -Huntley, November 10, 1824, and died in 1905. Besides his numerous -poems, he has written: "Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood," "Robert -Falconer," "David Elginbrod," "Wilfred Cumbermede," "Malcolm," "Sir -Gibbie," "What's Mine's Mine," "Lilith," "Unspoken Sermons"; also, "The -Princess and the Goblin," "At the Back of the North Wind," etc. - - - I saw the lightning's gleaming rod - Reach forth and write upon the sky - The awful autograph of God. - - "The Ship in the Desert,"--_Cincinnatus Heine Miller_. - -CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER (JOAQUIN MILLER), a noted American poet, was -born in Wabash District, Ind., November 10, 1841, and died in 1912. -Among his works are: "The Baroness of New York," "The Danites," "Songs -of the Soul," "Songs of Mexican Seas," "Collected Poems," "'49, or the -Gold Seekers of the Sierras," etc. - - - Men have dulled their eyes with sin, - And dimmed the light of heaven with doubt, - And built their temple-walls to shut thee in, - And framed their iron creeds to shut thee out. - - "God of the Open Air,"--_Henry Van Dyke_. - -HENRY VAN DYKE, a distinguished Presbyterian clergyman and diplomat, was -born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1852. Among his numerous -works are: "The Story of the Psalms," "The Poetry of Tennyson," "The -Christ Child in Art," "The Friendly Year," "The Ruling Passion," "The -Blue Flower," "The Open Door," "Select Poems of Tennyson," "Music and -Other Poems," "Out of Doors in the Holy Land," "The Spirit of America," -"The Story of the Other Wise Man," "Poems in War Times," "The Red -Flower," "Collected Poems," "The Sad Shepherd," "The Mansion," "The -Unknown Quantity," "The Grand Canyon and Other Poems," "The Lost Boy," -etc. - - - The rattling, battering Irishman, - The stamping, ramping, swaggering, staggering, lathering, swash of - an Irishman. - - The Irishman and the Lady, st. I, 3,--_William Maginn_. - -WILLIAM MAGINN, a famous Irish scholar, poet and journalist, was born at -Cork, November 11, 1793, and died at Walton on Thames, August 20, 1842. -With Hugh Fraser, he founded _Fraser's Magazine_ in 1830. A partial -collection of his writings is found in "Miscellanies" (1855-57), edited -by R. Shelton Mackenzie. His best stories are "Bob Burke's Duel with -Ensign Brady" and "The City of Demons." - - - As all the perfumes of the vanished day - Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew - So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray - Old love is born anew. - - "Remembrance," translated by George Murray,--_Alfred de Musset_. - -LOUIS CHARLES ALFRED DE MUSSET, one of the greatest of French poets, was -born in Paris, November 11, 1810, and died there, May 1, 1857. Among his -writings are: "Tales of Spain and Italy," "A Night of May," "A Night of -December," "A Night of August," "A Night of October," "Letter to -Lamartine," "Hope in God," "Nights," "Emmeline," "Titian's Son," -"Frederick and Bernerette," "A Play in an Arm-Chair," etc. - - - The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life. - - "A Study of Death,"--_Henry Mills Alden_. - -HENRY MILLS ALDEN, a celebrated American editor, poet, and prose-writer, -was born at Mt. Tabor, Vt., November 11, 1836, and died October 7, 1919. -Among his works are: "God in His World," "The Ancient Lay of Sorrow," "A -Study of Death," "Magazine Writing and the New Literature," and -"Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" (with A. H. Guernsey). - - - This is my youth,--its hopes and dreams - How strange and shadowy it all seems - After these many years! - Turning the pages idly, so, - I look with smiles upon the woe, - Upon the joy, with tears! - - --_Aldrich_. - -THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, a renowned American poet, author, and essayist, -was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November 11, 1836, and died in -1907. His works include: "Marjorie Daw and Other People," "Prudence -Palfrey," "Complete Poems," "The Queen of Sheba," "The Stillwater -Tragedy," "The Story of a Bad Boy," etc. - - - I preached as never sure to preach again, - And as a dying man to dying men. - - "Love breathing Thanks and Praise,"--_Richard Baxter_. - -RICHARD BAXTER, an eminent English divine and author, was born at -Rowton, Shropshire, November 12, 1615, and died in London, December 8, -1691. His literary fame rests chiefly on his celebrated work, "The -Saints' Everlasting Rest." - - - Hail, Columbia! happy land! - Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! - Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, - Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, - And when the storm of war was gone, - Enjoyed the peace your valor won. - Let independence be our boast, - Ever mindful what it cost; - Ever grateful for the prize, - Let its altar reach the skies! - - "Hail, Columbia,"--_Joseph Hopkinson_. - -JOSEPH HOPKINSON, a noted American jurist and composer of the famous -patriotic song, "Hail Columbia," was born at Philadelphia, November 12, -1770, and died there, January 15, 1842. - - - My faith looks up to Thee, - Thou Lamb of Calvary, - Saviour divine! - Now hear me while I pray; - Take all my guilt away; - Oh, let me from this day - Be wholly Thine! - - "My Faith Looks Up To Thee,"--_Ray Palmer_. - -RAY PALMER, a distinguished American clergyman, and hymn-writer, was -born at Little Compton, R. I., November 12, 1808, and died at Newark, N. -J., March 29, 1887. He published: "Spiritual Improvement," "Hymns and -Sacred Pieces," "Hymns of My Holy Hours," etc. His best known hymn is, -"My Faith Looks up to Thee," which has been translated into twenty -languages. - - - When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast - on Saturday. - - "Epistle 36, To Casulanus,"--_Saint Augustine_. - -SAINT AUGUSTINE, the most famous of the Latin fathers of the Church, and -of patristic writers, was born in Tagasta, Numidia, November 13, 354, -and died at Hippo, August 28, 430. His most noted works are: "City of -God," "Grace of Christ," "Original Sin," and his "Confessions." - - - Viking gains are deep wounds, and right well they adorn if they stand - on the brow or the breast. - Let them bleed! - - --_Tegnér_. - -ESAIAS TEGNÉR, an illustrious Swedish poet, was born at Kyrkerud, -Wermland, Sweden, November 13, 1782, and died at Wexiö, November 2, -1846. He wrote: "Frithiof's Saga" (epic ballads), "Axel," -"Nattvärdsbarned," and his celebrated poem, "Svea," crowned by the -Swedish Academy. - - - To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little - less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to - renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to - keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on - the same condition, to keep friends with himself, here is a task - for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. - - --_Robert Louis Stevenson_. - -ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, a Scotch novelist, poet and essayist, of great -renown, was born in Edinburgh, November 13, 1850, and died at Apia, -Samoa, December 3, 1894. Among his publications are: "Familiar Studies -of Men and Books," "An Inland Voyage," "Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes," -"New Arabian Nights," "Treasure Island," "Prince Otto," "A Child's -Garden of Verses," "Kidnapped," "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. -Hyde," "Underwoods," "Memoirs and Portraits," "Ballads," "The Merry Men -and Other Tales," "The Black Arrow," "The Ebb Tide," "A Foot-Note to -History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa," "David Balfour," "Island -Nights' Entertainments," "Essays and Criticisms," etc. - - - "Comedies and novels end with the wedding of the hero," he says in - his autobiography; "for only the struggle, not the acquired - position, lends itself to their treatment." - - --_Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger_. - -ADAM GOTTLOB OEHLENSCHLÄGER, a noted Danish poet, was born near -Copenhagen, November 14, 1779, and died January 20, 1850. He has -written: "The Life of Christ Annually Repeated in Nature," "Poems," -"First Song of the Edda," "Palnatoke," "A Journey to Langeland," "Earl -Hakon," "Axel and Valborg," "The Little Shepherd Boy," "Socrates," -"Hamlet," etc. - - - Mutual love brings mutual delight,-- - Brings beauty, life;--for love is life, hate, death. - - "The Dying Raven,"--_Richard Henry Dana_. - -RICHARD HENRY DANA (THE ELDER), an American poet and essayist of great -fame, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 15, 1787, and died -February 2, 1879. His poetical works include: "The Dying Raven," "The -Buccaneers," "The Change of Home," etc. Among his short stories are: -"Edward and Mary," and "Paul Fenton." - - - The great artist ... is he who guides us into the region of his - own thoughts, into the palaces and fields of his own imagination, - and while there, speaks to us the language of the gods. - - --_Charles Blanc_. - -CHARLES BLANC, a distinguished French art critic, was born November 15, -1813, and died in 1882. He wrote: "A History of Painters of All -Schools," "The Treasure of Curiosity," "Grammar of the Arts of Design," -"The Dutch School of Painters," "Grammar of Painting and Engraving," -etc. - - - High office is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the - summit--reptiles and eagles. - - --_D'Alembert_. - -JEAN BAPTISTE LE ROND D'ALEMBERT, an eminent French philosopher, -mathematician and man of letters, was born in Paris, November 16, 1717, -and died there, October 9, 1783. Among his works are: "Literary and -Philosophical Miscellanies," "Elements of Philosophy," etc. He also -wrote the "Preliminary Discourse," or introduction to the great French -Encyclopedia. - - - In seeking to represent the working classes, and in standing up - for their rights and liberties, I hold that I am also defending - the rights and liberties of the middle and richer classes of - society. - - From the "Speech on the Corn Laws" (1843),--_John Bright_. - -JOHN BRIGHT, a distinguished English statesman, was born near Rochdale, -in Lancashire, November 16, 1811, and died March 27, 1889. His "Public -Letters," appeared in 1885, and his speeches and addresses were -published in the years 1867-69-79. - - - If my early friend, Dr. Thirlwall's "History of Greece," had - appeared a few years sooner, I should probably never had conceived - the design of the present work at all; I should certainly not have - been prompted to the task by any deficiencies, and as those which - I felt and regretted in Mitford. The comparison of the two authors - affords indeed a striking proof of the progress of sound and - enlarged views respecting the ancient world during the present - generation. Having studied of course the same evidence as Dr. - Thirlwall, I am better enabled than others to bear testimony to - the learning, the sagacity, and the candour which pervades his - excellent work. - - "A History of Greece,"--_George Grote_. - -GEORGE GROTE, a famous English historian, was born in Clay Hill, Kent, -November 17, 1794, and died in London, June 18, 1871. He is best known -by his celebrated work, "History of Greece." - - - The Law is the true embodiment - Of everything that's excellent. - It has no kind of fault or flaw, - And I, my Lords, embody the Law. - - "Lord Chancellor's Song,"--_Gilbert_. - -WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT, a celebrated English librettist and comic-poet -and prose-writer, was born in London, November 18, 1836, and died in -1911. He wrote: "The Bab Ballads," and several famous comic operas, -among which are: "Pinafore," "Patience," "The Mikado," "Ruddygore," and -"The Pirates of Penzance." - - - And so I penned - It down, until at last it came to be, - For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. - - "Pilgrim's Progress: Apology for his book,"--_John Bunyan_. - -JOHN BUNYAN, a renowned English author, was born in Elstow, Bedford, -November 19 (?), 1628, and died in London, August 31, 1688. He wrote -numerous works, the most famous being: "The Pilgrim's Progress," "Grace -Abounding," and the "Holy War." - - - What is love, It is nature's treasure, - 'Tis the storehouse of her joys; - 'Tis the highest heaven of pleasure, - 'Tis a bliss which never cloys. - - "The Revenge," Act I, Sc. 2,--_Thomas Chatterton_. - -THOMAS CHATTERTON, the famous young English poet, was born in Bristol, -November 20, 1752, and died at London, August 25, 1770. He wrote -numerous poems and plays, but he is best remembered as the author of the -so-called "Rowley Poems," which were collected and published by T. -Tyrwhitt in 1777. - - - The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: - Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. - - "Mérope," Act I, Sc. 3,--_Voltaire_. - -FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE, the illustrious French writer, was -born in Paris, November 21, 1694, and died there, May 30, 1778. Among -his famous works are: "Artemire," "Mariamne," "Letters on the English," -"History of Charles XII," "Philosophical Letters," "The Temple of -Taste," "Elements of Newton's Philosophy," "The Maid of Orleans," "The -Prodigal Son," "Mérope," "Discourse on Man," "Poem on Natural Law," -"Candide," "Semiramis," "Amélie," "Republican Ideas," "Tales," -"Catechism of the Honest Man," "Irene," "Tancrède," "Socrates," "Century -of Louis XV," "The Bible at Last Explained," "Zaïre," "The Ingenuous -One," etc., etc. - - - Touch us gently, Time! - Let us glide adown thy stream - Gently,--as we sometimes glide - Through a quiet dream. - - "Touch Us Gently, Time,"--_Bryan W. Procter_. - -BRYAN WALLER PROCTER, an eminent English poet and man of letters, was -born in Wiltshire, November 21, 1787, and died at London, October 4, -1874. Among his works are: "A Sicilian Story," "Dramatic Scenes and -Other Poems," "Mirandola" (a tragedy), "English Songs," "The Flood of -Thessaly," "Essays and Tales," "Charles Lamb: a Memoir," and the "Life -of Edmund Kean." - - - There are certain people whose biographies ought to be long; who - could learn too much concerning Lamb. - - "Adventures in Criticism,"--_A. T. Quiller-Couch_. - -SIR A. T. QUILLER-COUCH, a celebrated English writer of fiction, was -born in Cornwall, November 21, 1863. He has written: "The Astonishing -History of Troy Town," "Dead man's Rock," "The Splendid Spur," "The Blue -Pavilions," "The Delectable Duchy," "Wandering Heath," "Adventures in -Criticism," "Poems and Ballads," "The Ship of Stars," "The Westcotes," -"The White Wolf," "From a Cornish Window," "Sir John Constantine," "True -Tilda," "Brother Copas," "The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems," "Lady -Good-for-Nothing," "News from the Duchy," "The Oxford Book of Ballads," -"Poison Island," "Corporal Sam and Other Stories," "Nicky-Nan -Reservist," "On the Art of Writing," "Hocken and Hunken," etc. - - - He who loves - God and his law must hate the foes of God. - - "Spanish Gypsy, Bk. I,"--_George Eliot_. - -MARY ANN EVANS ("GEORGE ELIOT"), the great English novelist, was born at -Arbury Farm, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, November 22, 1819, and died -in London, December 22, 1880. Among her many works are: "Scenes of -Clerical Life," "Adam Bede," "The Mill on the Floss," "Romola," "The -Spanish Gypsy," "Agatha" (a poem), "Felix Holt," "Daniel Deronda," -"Middlemarch," "Jubal and Other Poems," etc., etc. - - - Peel was, undoubtedly, as Lord Beaconsfield has said, a great - member of Parliament; but he was surely much more than that, he - was a great statesman, a great Minister. He must always rank among - the foremost of English Ministers. The proud boast of Heine is - that, if any one names the best half-dozen of German poets his - name must be brought among them. If we name the best half-dozen of - modern English Prime Ministers, we can hardly fail to bring in the - name of Peel. - - "Life of Sir Robert Peel,"--_Justin McCarthy_. - -JUSTIN MCCARTHY, an eminent Irish politician, journalist, historian, -novelist and miscellaneous writer, was born at Cork, November 22, 1830, -and died April 24, 1912. He has written: "A History of Our Own Times," -"History of the Four Georges," "A Fair Saxon," "Lady Judith," "The Story -of Gladstone's Life," "Modern England," "The Reign of Queen Anne," -"Reminiscences," "The Story of an Irishman," "Irish Recollections," -etc. Also the biographies of Sir Robert Peel, Pope Leo XIII, and W. E. -Gladstone. - - - Spinoza was truly, what Voltaire has with rather less justice - called Clark, a reasoning machine. - - --_Hallam_ on _Spinoza_. - -BENEDICT SPINOZA, a renowned philosopher, was born at Amsterdam, -November 23, 1632, and died at The Hague, February 21, 1677. He wrote: -"Tractate on God and Man and Man's Felicity," "Theologico-Political -Tractate," and his most famous work, "Ethics Demonstrated -Geometrically." - - - Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed - as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. - - --_Laurence Sterne_. - -LAURENCE STERNE, an English novelist of great fame, was born at Clonmel, -Ireland, November 24, 1713, and died in London, March 18, 1768. His most -noted works are: "Tristram Shandy," "The Sermons of Mr. Yorick," and "A -Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy." - - - Since the seventeenth century, we have had no poet of the highest - order, though Shelley, had he lived, would perhaps have become - one. He had something of that burning passion, that sacred fire, - which kindles the soul, as though it came fresh from the altar of - the gods. But he was cut off in his early prime, when his splendid - genius was still in its dawn. - - "History of Civilization in England," Vol. II, p. 397 - (1861),--_Henry Thomas Buckle_. - -HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, a distinguished English historian, was born in Lee, -Kent, November 24, 1821, and died in Damascus, May 29, 1862. He is best -known for his great work, "The History of Civilization in England" (2 -vols. 1857-61). His "Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works" were edited by -Helen Taylor in 1872, and a new edition by Grant Allen in 1880. - - - How oft my guardian angel gently cried, - "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see - How he persists to knock and wait for thee!" - And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, - "To-morrow we will open," I replied, - And when the morrow came, I answered still, - "To-morrow." - - "To-morrow," Longfellow's Trans. L. 9,--_Lope de Vega_. - -LOPE DE VEGA, "TOME BURGUILLOS," a renowned Spanish dramatist, was born -in Madrid, November 25, 1562, and died August 21, 1635. Among his many -works may be mentioned: "Jerusalem Conquered," "Angelica," "King and -Peasant," "Circe," "Andromeda," "Philomela," "Orpheus," "Proserpine," -"San Isidro," "The Dragon," "The Maid of Almudena," "Journey Through My -Country," besides numerous sonnets, etc. - - - Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, - Some boundless contiguity of shade, - Where rumour of oppression and deceit, - Of unsuccessful or successful war, - Might never reach me more. - - "The Task," Book ii: "The Timepiece," Line i,--_William Cowper_. - -WILLIAM COWPER, an illustrious English poet, was born in Great -Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, November 26, 1731, and died at East -Dereham, Norfolk, April 25, 1800. His works include: "Homer's Iliad and -Odyssey," "The Task," "Poems" (1798), etc. - - - What shall I do with all the days and hours - That must be counted ere I see thy face? - How shall I charm the interval that lowers - Between this time and that sweet time of grace? - - "Absence,"--_Frances Anne Kemble_. - -FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE, a noted English actress, was born in London, -November 27, 1809, and died there, January 16, 1893. She wrote: -"Recollections of a Girlhood," "Recollections of Later Life," "Journal -of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation," and her "Journal." - - - I was angry with my friend; - I told my wrath, my wrath did end. - I was angry with my foe; - I told it not, my wrath did grow. - - "Christian Forbearance,"--_Wm. Blake_. - -WILLIAM BLAKE, a celebrated English poet and artist, was born in London, -November 28, 1757, and died there, August 12, 1827. He has published: -"Poetical Sketches," "Songs of Innocence," "Songs of Experience," etc. -His "Prophetic Books," including: "Book of Thel," "Marriage of Heaven -and Hell," "Book of Urizen," "Book of Los," "Book of Ahania," -"Jerusalem," and "Milton," are famous. His greatest artistic work is in -"Illustrations to the Book of Job." - - - What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes - bright. - - --_Victor Cousin_. - -VICTOR COUSIN, a distinguished French philosopher, was born in Paris, -November 28, 1792, and died at Cannes, January 2, 1867. He wrote: "Mme. -de Longueville," "Mme. de Hautefort," "Jacqueline Pascal," "French -Society in the 17th Century," "History of Philosophy," etc. His -translation of "Plato," also won for him great fame. - - - Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a - beautiful book. - - "Concord Days" (June Books),--_Amos Bronson Alcott_. - -AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, a noted American philosophical writer, and -educator, was born at Wolcott, Conn., November 29, 1799, and died at -Boston, March 4, 1888. His principal works are: "Orphic Sayings," -"Tablets," "Concord Days," "Table-Talk," "Sonnets and Canzonets," "Ralph -Waldo Emerson: His Character and Genius," "New Connecticut," etc. - - - What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action. - - Speech, December 21, 1855,--_Wendell Phillips_. - -WENDELL PHILLIPS, an American social and political reformer of great -fame, was born at Boston, November 29, 1811, and died there, February 2, -1884. Among his writings are: "Can Abolitionists Vote or Take Office?" -"The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Compact," "Defense of the Anti-Slavery -Movement," "Review of Webster's Speech of March 7th," "Speeches, -Lectures, and Letters," "Addresses," etc. - - - They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. - - "Arcadia," Book I,--_Sir Philip Sidney_. - -SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, a famous English courtier and man of letters, was -born at Penshurst in Kent, November 30, 1554, and died at Arnheim, -October 17, 1586. His best known works are: "Arcadia," "Sonnets," -"Apology for Poetry," and a versified translation of the "Psalms." - - - I've often wish'd that I had clear, - For life, six hundred pounds a year; - A handsome house to lodge a friend; - A river at my garden's end; - A terrace walk, and half a rood - Of land set out to plant a wood. - - "Imitation of Horace," Book ii, Sat. 6,--_Jonathan Swift_. - -JONATHAN SWIFT, the celebrated English prose satirist, was born in -Dublin, November 30, 1667, and died there, October 19, 1745. He wrote: -"Advice to the October Club," "Tale of a Tub," "Meditation upon a -Broomstick," "Battle of the Books," "Project for the Advancement of -Religion," "Public Spirit of the Whigs," "A Modest Proposal," "Drapier's -Letters," "Remarks on the Barrier Treaty," "Sentiments of a Church of -England Man," and "Gulliver's Travels," his most important work. - - - Forth we went, a gallant band-- - Youth, Love, Gold and Pleasure. - - "Last Song,"--_Mark Lemon_. - -MARK LEMON, a noted English playwright, was born in London, November 30, -1809, and died at Crawley in Sussex, May 23, 1870. Among his comedies -and dramas are: "Hearts Are Trumps," "Lost and Won," "Arnold of -Winkelried," "Domestic Economy," etc. - - - There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate; - when he can't afford it, and when he can. - - --_Mark Twain_. - -SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS, ("MARK TWAIN"), the distinguished American -humorist, was born in Missouri, November 30, 1835, and died in 1910. He -has written: "The Innocents Abroad," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Tramp -Abroad," "The Jumping Frog," "Old Times on the Mississippi," "Roughing -It," "Tom Sawyer," "The Prince and the Pauper," "The Gilded Age," -"Pudd'nhead Wilson," "Following the Equator," "A Double-Barreled -Detective Story," etc. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] - - Man, think of thine end, whatever thou doest, - That will be counted as wisdom the truest. - - - - -DECEMBER - - - - -DECEMBER - - - What is the greatest bliss - That the tongue o' man can name? - 'Tis to woo a bonnie lassie - When the kye comes hame! - - "When the Kye Comes Hame," st. 2,--_James Hogg_. - -JAMES HOGG, a famous Scotch pastoral poet, was born in Ettrick, December -1, 1770, and died at Eltrive Lake, November 21, 1835. He wrote: "Poems -and Songs," "The Mountain Bard," "Scottish Pastorals," and "The Queen's -Wake," his most famous work. - - - In the soul of Keats, if ever in a human soul at all, there was a - portion of the real poetic essence--the real faculty divine.... - His most obvious characteristic, I repeat, is the universality of - his sensuousness. And this it is, added to his exquisite mastery - in language and verse, that makes it such a luxury to read him. - - "Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats,"--_David Masson_. - -DAVID MASSON, a noted Scottish author, was born at Aberdeen, December 2, -1822, and died in 1907. He wrote: "The Life of Milton in connection with -the History of His Time," "Essays, Biographical and Critical," "British -Novelists," "Recent British Philosophy," "Carlyle Personally and His -Writings," "Edinburgh Sketches and Memories," etc. - - - Strange to the world he wore a bashful look, - The fields his study, nature was his book. - - "The Farmer's Boy: Spring," L. 31,--_Bloomfield_. - -ROBERT BLOOMFIELD, a celebrated English poet, was born at Honington, -December 3, 1766, and died in Shefford, in 1823. Among his poetical -pieces are: "The Milk Maid," "The Sailor's Return," and his most famous -poetical work, "The Farmer's Boy." - - - In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible - voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has - altogether vanished like a dream. - - "Heroes and Hero-Worship: The Hero as a Man of Letters,"--_Thomas - Carlyle_. - -THOMAS CARLYLE, a Scotch biographer, historian, and miscellaneous writer -of great fame, was born at Ecclefechan, December 4, 1795, and died in -London, February 4, 1881. Among his celebrated works may be mentioned: -"Life of Schiller," "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," a translation; -"The French Revolution," "Life and Letters of Oliver Cromwell," "German -Romance," "Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History," "Chartism," -"Past and Present," "Life of Sterling," "Friedrich II," "Latter-Day -Pamphlets," "Inaugural Address at Edinburgh," etc. - - - Give me the lowest place: or if for me - That lowest place too high, make one more low - Where I may sit and see - My God, and love Thee so. - - "The Lowest Place,"--_Christina G. Rossetti_. - -CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI, a renowned English poetess, was born in -London, December 5, 1830, and died December 29, 1894. Among her works -are: "The Prince's Progress," "Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book," "Seek -and Find," "Speaking Likenesses," "A Pageant, and Other Poems," "Letter -and Spirit," "Annus Domini: A Prayer for Each Day in the Year," -"Verses," and her most celebrated work, "Goblin Market." - - - Right as a trivet. - - "The Ingoldsby Legends, Auto-da-fe,"--_R. H. Barham_. - -RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM, a famous English poet, was born in Canterbury, -December 6, 1788, and died in London, June 17, 1845. Under the nom de -plume of "Thomas Ingoldsby," he wrote the celebrated "Ingoldsby -Legends." He also wrote: "Life of Theodore Hook," "My Cousin Nicholas," -etc. - - - What is worth doing is worth doing well; and with a little more - trouble at first, much trouble afterwards may be avoided. - - Max Müller, "Letter to John Bellows," July 18, 1866, from - "Life" (by His Wife) I. XV,--_Max Müller_. - -FRIEDRICH MAX MÜLLER, an eminent German-English Sanskrit scholar and -comparative philologist, was born at Dessau, December 6, 1823, and died -in 1900. He has written: "History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature," -"Science of Language," "Chips from a German Workshop," "Science of -Religion," "Essays on Language, Mythology, and Religion," "Science of -Thought," "My Autobiography," "Last Essays," appeared after his death, -also, "Life and Letters of the Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller," by -his wife. - - - Liberty of the imagination is the most precious possession of the - novelist. - - --_Joseph Conrad_. - -JOSEPH CONRAD, a renowned English author, of Polish parentage, was born -December 6, 1857. Among his works are: "An Outcast of the Islands," "The -Nigger of the Narcissus," "Typhoon," "The Mirror of the Sea," "The -Secret Agent," "Under Western Eyes," "Some Reminiscenses," "Chance," -"Within the Tides," "Victory," "The Shadow Line," "The Arrow of Gold," -"Rescue," "Notes on Life and Letters." - - - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, - A wind that follows fast, - And fills the white and rustling sail, - And bends the gallant mast. - And bends the gallant mast, my boys, - While like the eagle free - Away the good ship flies, and leaves - Old England on the lee. - - "A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea,"--_Allan Cunningham_. - -ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, a noted Scotch poet and miscellaneous writer, was born -in Keir, Dumfriesshire, December 7, 1784, and died in London, October -30, 1842. His best known works are: "Lord Roldan," "Paul Jones," "Sir -Marmaduke Maxwell," and his most famous work, "Critical History of the -Literature of the Last Fifty Years." - - - Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns - Its fragrant lamps, and turns - Into a royal court with green festoons - The banks of dark lagoons. - - "Spring,"--_Henry Timrod_. - -HENRY TIMROD, a famous American Southern poet and author, was born at -Charleston, S. C., December 8, 1829, and died at Columbia, S. C., -October 6, 1867. His "Poems" appeared in 1860. - - - You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke? - - "Plantation Proverbs,"--_Joel Chandler Harris_. - -JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, a noted American journalist and story writer, was -born at Eatonton, Georgia, December 8, 1848, and died July 3, 1908. He -has written: "Daddy Jake, the Runaway," "The Folk-Lore of the Old -Plantation," etc. He is best known, however, by his famous "Uncle Remus" -sketches. - - - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray - Had in her sober livery all things clad; - Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, - Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; - She all night long her amorous descant sung; - Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament - With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led - The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, - Rising in clouded majesty, at length - Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, - And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. - - "Paradise Lost," Book IV, Line 598,--_John Milton_. - -JOHN MILTON, one of the greatest of English poets, was born in London, -December 9, 1608, and died there November 8, 1674. His most famous works -were: "Paradise Lost," "Paradise Regained," "Comus," "Lycidas," -"L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," "Samson Agonistes," "Areopagitica," "The -Tenure of Kings and Magistrates," and the "Defence of the English -People." - - - And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, - While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves. - - "Adams and Liberty,"--_Robert Treat Paine, Jr._ - -ROBERT TREAT PAINE, JR., a celebrated American poet, was born in -Taunton, Mass., December 9, 1773, and died in Boston, November 13, 1811. -He is best known as the author of two songs, "Rise, Columbia," and -"Adams and Liberty." Among his poems are: "The Invention of Letters," -and "The Ruling Passion." - - - Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty. - - --_Eugene Sue_. - -EUGENE SUE, a famous French romancer, was born in Paris, December 10, -1804, and died at Annecy, July 3, 1857. He wrote: "Kernock the Pirate," -"History of the French Navy," "History of the War Navies of All -Nations," "The Seven Deadly Sins," "Martin the Foundling," "The -Mysteries of the People," "The Jouffroy Family," "The Secrets of the -Confessional," "The Mysteries of Paris," and "The Wandering Jew." - - - Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine - sympathy for childhood. When He said, "Of such is the kingdom of - heaven," it was a revelation. - - --_Eggleston_. - -EDWARD EGGLESTON, a distinguished American historian and novelist, was -born in Vevay, Ind., December 10, 1837, and died in 1902. Among his -noted works are: "The Circuit Rider," "The End of the World," "Roxy," -"The Hoosier Schoolmaster," "The Graysons," "The Faith Doctor," "Queer -Stories for Boys and Girls," "The Hoosier Schoolboy," "Schoolmasters' -Stories," "Mr. Blake's Walking-Stick," "School History of the United -States," "Household History of the United States," "First Book in -American History," "The Beginners of a Nation," "The Transit of -Civilization," etc. - - - Oh the heart is a free and fetterless thing,-- - A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing! - - "The Captive Greek Girl,"--_Julia Pardoe_. - -JULIA PARDOE, a noted English historical and miscellaneous writer, was -born at Beverly, Yorkshire, December 11 (?), 1806, and died in London, -November 26, 1862. Among her many works are: "Traditions of Portugal," -"City of the Sultan," "Louis XIV and the Court of France," "The Jealous -Wife," "The Court and Reign of Francis I," "Marie de' Medici," "Episodes -of French History During the Consulate," "A Life Struggle," and numerous -lyrics. - - - A place in thy memory, dearest, - Is all that I claim; - To pause and look back when thou hearest - The sound of my name. - - "A Place in Thy Memory,"--_Gerald Griffin_. - -GERALD GRIFFIN, a famous Irish novelist, poet and dramatist, was born at -Limerick, December 12, 1803, and died at Cork, June 12, 1840. He wrote: -"Tales of the Munster Festivals," "The Collegians," "Holland Tide: or -Munster Popular Tales," "The Invasion," "Gisippus, or the Forgotten -Friend," "Tales of My Neighborhood," etc. - - - "That Flaubert was one of the greatest writers who ever lived in - France is now commonly admitted, and his greatness principally - depends upon the extraordinary vigour and exactitude of his - style." - -GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, a renowned French novelist, was born at Rouen, -December 12, 1821, and died there, May 8, 1880. Among his writings are: -"Salammbô," "The History of a Young Man," "The Temptation of St. -Anthony," "Three Stories," and "Madame Bovary," his greatest novel. - - - The nightingale appear'd the first - And as her melody she sang, - The apple into blossom burst, - To life the grass and violets sprang. - - "New Spring," No. 31 ("Book of Songs"),--_Heine_. - -HEINRICH HEINE, an eminent German poet, was born at Düsseldorf, December -13, 1799, and died at Paris, February 17, 1856. Among his works are: -"Pictures of Travel," "Almansor," "Radcliff," "Poems," "Book of Songs," -"New Poems," "History of Recent Polite Literature in Germany," "The -Salon," "Doctor Faust," "The Romantic School," "Shakespeare's Maids and -Matrons," "The Romancers," "Miscellaneous Writings," etc. - - - Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before - the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms - with statues. - - "Literature and Life,"--_Phillips Brooks_. - -PHILLIPS BROOKS, a famous American clergyman of the Episcopal Church, -was born in Boston, December 13, 1835, and died there, January 23, 1893. -He published many volumes of sermons and lectures, including: "Letters -of Travel," "Lectures on Preaching," and "Essays and Addresses." - - - The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment - comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower - responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light. - - --_Hamilton W. Mabie_. - -HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, a celebrated American essayist, critic, and -editor, was born in Cold Spring, N. Y., December 13, 1846, and died in -1916. His works include: "Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas," "My -Study Fire," "Short Studies in Literature," "Nature and Culture," "Books -and Culture," "Work and Culture," "Works and Days," "Backgrounds of -Literature," "The Great Word," "What and How to Read," "Writers of -Knickerbocker," "American Ideals, Character and Life," "Japan To-day and -To-morrow," etc., etc. - - - Go, forget me! why should sorrow - O'er that brow a shadow fling? - Go, forget me, and to-morrow - Brightly smile and sweetly sing! - Smile,--though I shall not be near thee; - Sing,--though I shall never hear thee! - - "Go, forget me!"--_Charles Wolfe_. - -CHARLES WOLFE, a distinguished Irish clergyman and poet, was born at -Dublin, December 14, 1791, and died at Cove of Cork (now Queenstown), -February 21, 1823. His literary fame rests wholly upon his "Burial of -Sir John Moore." - - - Just to let thy Father do - What He will; - Just to know that He is true, - And be still. - Just to follow hour by hour - As He leadeth; - Just to draw the moment's power - As it needeth. - Just to trust Him, that is all! - Then the day will surely be - Peaceful, whatsoe'er befall, - Bright and blessed, calm and free. - - "The Secret of a Happy Day," St. I,--_Frances Ridley Havergal_. - -FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL, a noted English poet and religious writer, was -born at Astley, Worcestershire, December 14, 1836, and died at Swansea, -Wales, June 3, 1879. She wrote: "The Four Happy Days," "Under the -Surface" poems; "Royal Graces and Loyal Gifts" (6 vols., 1879), "Under -His Shadow," etc. - - - Then here's to the oak, the brave old oak, - Who stands in his pride alone! - And still flourish he, a hale green tree, - When a hundred years are gone! - - "The Brave Old Oak,"--_H. F. Chorley_. - -HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLEY, a famous English critic and miscellaneous -writer, was born in Blackley Hurst, Lancashire, December 15, 1808, and -died in London, February 15, 1872. He wrote a famous play, "Old Love and -New Fortune," and several novels, among them: "Conti," "The Prodigy," -and "The Lion." - - - Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. - - "Mansfield Park," Chap. II,--_Jane Austen_. - -JANE AUSTEN, a renowned English novelist, was born in Steventon, -Hampshire, December 16, 1775, and died in Winchester, July 18, 1817. Her -most famous works are: "Mansfield Park," "Sense and Sensibility," and -"Pride and Prejudice." - - - A sacred spark created by his breath, - The immortal mind of man his image bears; - A spirit living 'midst the forms of death, - Oppressed, but not subdued by mortal cares. - - "Written After Recovery from a Dangerous Illness,"--_Sir H. - Davy_. - -SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, an eminent English chemist, philosopher and man of -letters, was born at Penzance, Cornwall, December 17, 1778, and died at -Geneva, Switzerland, May 29, 1829. He wrote: "Consolations in Travel, or -the Last Days of a Philosopher," "Chemical and Philosophical -Researches," "On the Safety Lamp and on Flame," etc. - - - For of all sad words of tongue or pen, - The saddest are these: "It might have been!" - - "Maud Muller,"--_John Greenleaf Whittier_. - -JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, a renowned American poet, was born at -Haverhill, Massachusetts, December 17, 1807, and died at Hampton Falls, -New Hampshire, September 1892. Among his noted poems are: "Barbara -Frietchie," "Skipper Ireson's Ride," "Snow-Bound," "Maud Muller," "My -Playmate," "Laus Deo," "My Birthday," and "The Tent on the Beach." - - - A charge to keep I have, - A God to glorify; - A never dying soul to save, - And fit it for the sky. - - "Christian Fidelity,"--_Charles Wesley_. - -CHARLES WESLEY, a famous English clergyman and poet, was born at -Epworth, Lincolnshire, December 18, 1708, and died in London, March 29, -1788. He was called "the poet of Methodism," but many of his beautiful -hymns are used in all denominations of the Protestant church. - - - 'Tis noon;--a calm unbroken sleep - Is on the blue waves of the deep; - A soft haze like a fairy dream, - Is floating over wood and stream; - And many a broad magnolia flower, - Within its shadowy woodland bower, - Is gleaming like a lovely star. - - "To An Absent Wife," St. 2,--_George D. Prentice_. - -GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE, a distinguished American journalist, poet, and -author, was born at Preston, Conn., December 18, 1802, and died January -22, 1870. He published in 1860, "Prenticeana" a collection of pointed -paragraphs. His other works are: "Life of Henry Clay," and "Poems." - - - There is no to-morrow; though before our face the shadow named so - stretches, we always fail to o'ertake it, hasten as we may. - - --_Margaret J. Preston_. - -MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON, a celebrated American author, was born in -Philadelphia, Pa., December 19 (?), 1825, and died in 1897. She has -written: "Silverwood" (a novel), "Old Songs and New," "Cartoons," -"Beechen-brook," "Colonial Ballads," "For Love's Sake," "Aunt Dorothy," -etc. - - - Man is his own star; and that soul that can - Be honest is the only perfect man. - - Upon an "Honest Man's Fortune,"--_John Fletcher_. - -JOHN FLETCHER, the renowned English dramatist, was born in Rye, Sussex, -December 20 (?), 1579 and died in London, August, 1625. A few of his -famous plays are: "The Wild Goose Chase," "The Loyal Subject," "Monsieur -Thomas," "The Faithful Shepherdess," "A Wife for a Month," "Wit Without -Money," "The Chances," "Bonduca," "The Mad Lover," and "Rule a Wife and -Have a Wife." His name has always been associated with that of Francis -Beaumont, and together they wrote many plays; but the beforementioned -works were written by Fletcher alone. - - - Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, - It turns and turns to say "Good-by! - Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!" - Then lightly travels on its way. - - "Snowflakes,"--_Mary Mapes Dodge_. - -MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE, a noted American editor, poet and author, -was born in New York City, December 20 (?),1838, and died in 1905. She -has written: "Irvington Stories," "Along the Way" (poems), "Theophilus -and Others," "The Land of Pluck," "Donald and Dorothy," "The Golden -Gate," "Poems and Verses," and "Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates," her -most famous work. - - - Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte.[1] - - "Athalie," Act. i, Sc. I,--_Racine_. - -JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE, the illustrious French dramatist, was born at La -Ferté-Milon, December 21, 1639, and died at Paris, April 26, 1699. His -greatest works were: "The Thebaid," "The Pleaders," "Alexander," -"Berenice," "Bajazet," "Esther," "Athalie," "Mithridates," "Iphigenia," -"The Chaplain's Wig," "Phædra," "Nymphs of the Seine," "Letters," and -"Abridgment of the History of Port Royal," his last dramatic work. - - - The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. - - "Endymion," Chap. lxx,--_Benjamin Disraeli_. - -BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Lord Beaconsfield, an eminent English statesman and -novelist, was born in London, December 21, 1804, and died April 19, -1881. Among his celebrated works are: "The Young Duke," "Vivian Grey," -"Venetia," "The Rise of Iskander," "Henrietta Temple," "The -Revolutionary Epic," "Sibyl," "Tancred," "Lothair," and "Endymion." - - - To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own - country. - - "Short Studies of American Authors: Henry James, Jr.,"--_T. W. - Higginson_. - -THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, a distinguished American poet, essayist and -novelist, was born in Cambridge, Mass., December 22, 1823, and died in -1911. Among his writings are: "Atlantic Essays," "Out-Door Papers," "The -Afternoon Landscape," "Life of Margaret Fuller," "Short Studies of -American Authors," "Young Folks' History of the United States," -"Concerning All of Us," "Cheerful Yesterdays," "Old Cambridge," -"Contemporaries," "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," "Part of a Man's Life," -"Life of Stephen Higginson," etc. - - - I have a liking old - For thee, though manifold - Stories, I know, are told - Not to thy credit. - - "Ode to Tobacco,"--_Charles Stuart Calverley_. - -CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY, a noted English poet and humorist, was born at -Martley, Worcestershire, December 22, 1831, and died February 17, 1884. -He wrote: "Verses and Translations," and "Society Verses." - - - If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving - the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best - they could. - - --_C. A. Sainte-Beuve_. - -CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE, the great French literary critic, was -born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, December 23, 1804, and died at Paris, October -13, 1869. He wrote: "Literary Critiques and Portraits," "Literary -Portraits," "History of Port Royal," "Contemporary Portraits," "Picture -of French Poetry in the Sixteenth Century," "Meditations in August," -"Consolations," "Poems," his celebrated "Monday Talks," etc. - - - We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often - discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and - probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - - "Self-Help,"--_Samuel Smiles_. - -SAMUEL SMILES, a famous British author, was born at Haddington, -Scotland, December 23, 1812, and died, April 16, 1904. He wrote: "Lives -of the Engineers," "Industrial Biography," "James Brindley and the Early -Engineers," "Lives of Boulton and Watt," "Life of Thomas Telford," "Life -of George Stephenson," "The Life of a Scotch Naturalist" (Thomas -Edward), "Robert Dick," "George Moore," "Men of Invention and Industry," -"Life and Labor," "A Publisher and His Friends," "Jasmin," "Josiah -Wedgwood," "History of Ireland," etc. Also, "Self-Help," "Character," -"Thrift," and "Duty." - - - Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; - Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; - The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, - And ease of heart her every look convey'd. - - "The Parish Register, Marriages," Part ii,--_George Crabbe_. - -GEORGE CRABBE, a celebrated English poet, was born in Aldborough, -Suffolk, December 24, 1754, and died at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, February -3, 1832. His most famous poems are: "The Parish Register," "The -Village," "Tales in Verse," and "The Borough." - - - Still so gently o'er me stealing, - Mem'ry will bring back the feeling, - Spite of all my grief revealing - That I love thee,--that I dearly love thee still. - - "La Sonnambula,"--_Scribe_. - -AUGUSTIN EUGÈNE SCRIBE, a distinguished French dramatist, was born in -Paris, December 24, 1791, and died February 20, 1861. His collected -"Oeuvres," (76 vols. 1874-85), contains all his works. - - - She is fair as the spirit of light, - That floats in the ether on high. - - --_Adam Mickiewicz_. - -ADAM MICKIEWICZ, the most celebrated of Slavic poets, was born near -Novogròdek, Lithuania, December 24, 1798, and died at Constantinople, -November 26, 1855. Among his famous works are: "Crimean Sonnets," -"Lectures on Slavic Literature," "The Books of the Polish People and of -the Polish Pilgrimage," the ballad, "Dziady," and three famous epics: -"Pan Tadeusz," "Conrad Wallenrod," and "Grazyna." - - - There is no better motto which it (culture) can have than these - words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God - prevail." - - "Culture and Anarchy,"--_Matthew Arnold_. - -MATTHEW ARNOLD, an eminent English poet, essayist and critic, was born -at Laleham, December 24, 1822, and died at Liverpool, April 15, 1888. -His principal works are: "Empedocles on Etna," "The Strayed Reveler and -Other Poems," "New Poems," "Essays in Criticism," "Lectures on the Study -of Celtic Literature," "Culture and Anarchy," "Friendship's Garland," -"Mixed Essays," "Irish Essays," "Last Essays on Church and Religion," -and "Discourses on America." - - - It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. - - "On Compromise,"--_John Morley_. - -JOHN MORLEY (VISCOUNT MORLEY), a renowned English statesman, essayist, -editor, critic and biographer, was born at Blackburn, Lancashire, -December 24, 1838. He has written: "Life of Oliver Cromwell," "Life of -Gladstone," "Life of Cobden," "Sir Robert Walpole," "Studies in -Literature," "Cromwell," "Literary Essays," "Notes on Politics," -"Recollections," etc. - - - Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: - 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. - - "Oriental Eclogues," I, Line 5,--_William Collins_. - -WILLIAM COLLINS, a celebrated English poet, was born in Chichester, -December 25, 1721, and died there, June 12, 1759. His principal works -were: "Ode to Evening," "The Passions," "Ode on the Death of Thomson," -and the "Dirge to Cymbeline." - - - Who dares this pair of boots displace, - Must meet Bombastes face to face. - - "Bombastes Furioso," Act I, Sc. 4,--_William Barnes Rhodes_. - -WILLIAM BARNES RHODES, a noted English dramatic writer, was born -December 25, 1772, and died November 1, 1826. He wrote: "The Satires of -Juvenal, Translated into English Verse," "Epigrams," and his famous -burlesque, "Bombastes Furioso." - - - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, - The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, - The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, - And leaves the world to darkness and to me. - - "Elegy in a Country Churchyard,"--_Thomas Gray_. - -THOMAS GRAY, the renowned English poet, was born at Cornhill, London, -December 26, 1716, and died at Cambridge, July 24, 1771. He wrote: "Ode -to Adversity," "Progress of Poesy," "The Bard," "Ode on a Distant -Prospect of Eton College," and his most famous work, "Elegy in a Country -Churchyard." - - - It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six - thousand years for an observer. - - "Martyrs of Science" (Brewster),--_John Kepler_. - -JOHANNES KEPLER, a German astronomer of great fame, was born at Weil, -Würtemberg, December 27, 1571, and died at Ratisbon, November 15, 1630. -His most famous work was: "New Astronomy, with Commentaries on the -Motions of Mars." - - - Among men of letters Lowell is doubtless most typically American, - though Curtis must find an eligible place in the list. Lowell was - self-conscious, though the truest greatness is not; he was a - trifle too "smart," besides, and there is no "smartness" in great - literature. But both the self consciousness and the smartness must - be admitted to be American; and Lowell was so versatile, so - urbane, of so large a spirit, and so admirable in the scope of his - sympathies, that he must certainly go on the calendar. - - "Mere Literature and Other Essays,"--_Woodrow Wilson_. - -WOODROW WILSON, a famous American educator and author, and twenty-eighth -President of the United States, was born at Staunton, Va., December 28, -1856, and died at Washington, D. C., February 3, 1924. His works -include: "Congressional Government: A Study of American Politics," "The -State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics," "Division and -Reunion," "Epochs of American History," "An Old Master, and Other -Political Essays," "Mere Literature and Other Essays," "George -Washington," "A History of the American People," "Constitutional -Government in the United States," "The New Freedom," "When a Man Comes -to Himself," "On Being Human." - - - Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. - - "Speech," Hawarden, May 28, 1890,--_William E. Gladstone_. - -WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, the eminent English statesman, essayist, and -translator from the classics, was born in Liverpool, December 29, 1809, -and died in 1898. His works include: "Studies in Homer and the Homeric -Age," "Church and State," "Juventus Mundi," "Homeric Synchronism," -"Gleanings of Past Years," etc. - - - The tumult and the shouting dies,-- - The Captains and the Kings depart,-- - Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, - An humble and a contrite heart. - - "Recessional,"--_Rudyard Kipling_. - -RUDYARD KIPLING, a renowned English short-story writer, poet, and -novelist, was born at Bombay, India, December 30, 1865. Among his -writings are: "Life's Handicap," "Mine Own People," "Many Inventions," -"Soldiers Three," "The Light That Failed," "The Seven Seas," "Barrack -Room Ballads," "The Jungle Books," "Captains Courageous," "The Day's -Work," "Stalky and Co.," "Just So Stories for Little Children," "Kim," -"The Five Nations," "Traffics and Discoveries," "Puck of Pook's Hill," -"Actions and Reactions," "Rewards and Fairies," "The Harbour Watch" (a -play), "The New Armies in Training," "France at War," "Fringes of the -Fleet," "A Diversity of Creatures," "The Years Between," etc. - - - Die Todten reiten schnell.[2] - - "Lenore,"--_Bürger_. - -GOTTFRIED AUGUST BÜRGER, an eminent German poet, was born at -Molmerswende, near Ballenstedt, Anhalt, December 31, 1747 (or January 1, -1748), and died in Göttingen, June 8, 1794. He wrote: "The Parson's -Daughter," "The Wild Huntsman," "The Song of the Brave Man," "Kaiser and -Abbot," "The Robber Count," "The Wives of Weinsberg," and his most -famous ballad, "Lenore." - - - "Isn't God upon the ocean - Just the same as on the land?" - - "The Tempest,"--_James Thomas Fields_. - -JAMES THOMAS FIELDS, a noted American publisher and author, was born at -Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 31, 1817, and died in Boston, April -24, 1881. He published: "Underbrush," "Yesterdays with Authors," etc. - - - In winter, when the dismal rain - Comes down in slanting lines, - And Wind, that grand old harper, smote - His thunder-harp of pines. - - "A Life Drama," Sc. ii,--_Alexander Smith_. - -ALEXANDER SMITH, a famous Scottish poet, was born in Kilmarnock, -December 31, 1830, and died at Wardie, near Edinburgh, January 5, 1867. -Among his poetical works are: "City Poems," "Edwin of Deira," and "A -Life Drama," his most famous work. His prose works include: "Miss Oona -McQuarrie," "Alfred Hagart's Household," "Dreamthorpe," "A Summer in -Skye," etc. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] I fear God, dear Abner, and I have no other fear. - -[2] The dead ride swiftly. - - - - -APPENDIX - - - - -APPENDIX - - - A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great - blessing. - - "Works and Days," Line 346,--_Hesiod_. - -HESIOD, a renowned Greek poet, born at Ascra in Boeotia, and lived in -the ninth century (?), B.C. Among his writings are the: "Theogony," -"Works and Days," "The Shield of Hercules," etc. - - - "The Homeric Poems are the earliest literary product of the world - which has survived to our day, and they lie at the fountain-head - of all the later literature of Europe." - -HOMER, the greatest of epic poets, author of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey." -The date of his birth has never been known, but is generally set at the -eighth or ninth century B.C. - - - The fox said the grapes were sour. - - --_Æsop_. - -ÆSOP, a famous Greek fabulist, lived in the seventh century, B.C. - - - Procure not friends in haste, and when thou hast a friend part not - with him in haste. - - --_Solon_. - -SOLON, the renowned Athenian legislator, lived about 638-559 B.C. The -constitution which he gave to Athens, made him famous. - - - What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be - beautiful. - - --_Sappho_. - -SAPPHO, a celebrated Greek poet, was born in the Island of Lesbos, about -612 B.C. Little is known of her life. Only fragments of her poems -remain. We have in complete form a "Hymn to Aphrodite" and an "Ode to a -Beautiful Girl." - - - Wine is wont to show the mind of man. - - "Maxims," Line 500,--_Theognis_. - -THEOGNIS OF MEGARA, a famous Greek elegiac poet, flourished in the -latter half of the sixth century B.C. Over one thousand of his verses -have come down to our time. - - - With the exception of Heraclitus, Parmenides is the greatest of - the pre-Socratic Greek thinkers. - - --_Parmenides_. - -PARMENIDES, a celebrated Greek philosopher of the fifth century B.C., -was born at Elea in Southern Italy. He wrote one famous work on -philosophy entitled: "On Nature." It was divided into three sections, -"Proem," "Truth," and "Opinion," but only fragments of this work have -come down to our time. - - - A lip like Persuasion's calling on us to kiss it. - - --_Anacreon_. - -ANACREON, a famous lyric poet, of Greece, was born at Teos, in Ionia, -562 (?) B.C., and died 477 B.C. A few of his authentic compositions have -come down to our times. - - - We count it death to falter, not to die. - - Jacobs I. 63, 20,--_Simonides_. - -SIMONIDES, a renowned Greek lyric poet, was born in the Island of Ceos -about 556 B.C., and died about 468 B.C. Some of his famous "Epigrams," -have come down to our times. - - - By nature men are nearly alike; by practice they get to be wide - apart. - - --_Confucius_. - -CONFUCIUS, the head of Chinese religious and social philosophy, was born -about 551 B.C., and died 478 B.C. He wrote: "Analects," etc., and is -credited with having compiled the "Ancient Poems." His last work is -called "Annals of Lee" or "Spring and Autumn." - - - Much knowledge of things divine escapes us through want of faith. - - --_Heraclitus_. - -HERACLITUS, a renowned Greek philosopher, born in Ephesus, about 535 -B.C., died about 475 B.C. - - - Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - - "Prometheus," 981,--_Æschylus_. - -ÆSCHYLUS, the greatest of the Greek dramatists, was born at Eleusis, -Attica, 525 B.C., and died at Gela, Sicily, 456 B.C. Of his numerous -works only seven tragedies remain, "The Suppliants," "The Persians," -"The Seven Against Thebes," "Prometheus Bound," "Agamemnon," -"Choephori," and "Eumenides." - - - He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural talent. - - --_Pindar_. - -PINDAR, the greatest of the Greek lyric poets, was born at Cynoscephalæ -near Boeotian Thebes, 522 B.C., and died at Argos, about 450 B.C. The -Alexandrine scholars divided his poems into 17 books, comprising Hymns, -Pæans, Dithyrambs, Encomia, and Songs of Victory. - - - Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. - - --_Sophocles_. - -SOPHOCLES, the great Greek tragic poet, was born at Colonus near Athens, -about 495 B.C.; and died about 405 B.C. His seven great tragedies are: -"Antigone," "Electra," "Ajax," "Trachiniæ," "Philoctetes," "Oedipus -Tyrannus," and "Oedipus at Colonus." - - - The saying "Call no man happy before he dies" was ascribed to - Solon. - - --_Herodotus_, I, 32. - -HERODOTUS, "The Father of History," was born at Halicarnassus, in Caria, -about 490 B.C., and died at Thurii, in Magna Græcia, between 428 B.C. -and 426 B.C. His "Exposition of History" in nine books, won for him -everlasting fame. - - - Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven. - - "Medea," 636,--_Euripides_. - -EURIPIDES, a great Greek tragic poet, was born at Athens, about 480 -B.C., and died about 406 B.C. Nineteen of his dramas have come down to -our time: "Alcestis," "Andromache," "Hecube," "Bacchæ," "Helena," -"Electra," "Heraclidæ," "The Mad Hercules," "The Suppliants," -"Hippolytus," "Iphigenia at Tauris," "Ion," "Iphigenia at Aulis," -"Medea," "Orestes," "Rhesus," "The Trojan Women," "The Phoenissæ," and -"Cyclops." - - - Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. - - Aphorism i,--_Hippocrates_. - -HIPPOCRATES, a noted Greek philosopher and writer, termed the "Father of -Medicine," was born according to Soranus, in Cos, in the first year of -the 80th Olimpiad, i.e., in 460 B.C. The earliest Greek edition of the -Hippocratic writings is that which was published by Aldus and Asulanus -at Venice in 1526. - - - You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am - infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching - death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they - have in going to the God they serve. - - "In Phaedo," 77,--_Socrates_. - -SOCRATES, the renowned Athenian philosopher, was born at Athens, about -470 B.C., and died 399 B.C. He left no writings, but his philosophical -method and his teaching are to be found in the works of his -contemporaries and disciples. - - - Envy doth merit like its shade pursue. - - --_Aristophanes_. - -ARISTOPHANES, the greatest of the Greek writers of comedy, (448-380 -B.C.), was born at Athens. Only eleven of his 44 plays have come down to -us. They are: "The Knights," "The Clouds," "The Wasps," "The -Acharnians," "The Peace," "The Lyristrate," "The Birds," "The -Thesmophoriazusæ," "The Frogs," "The Ecclesiazusæ," and "Plutus." - - - Trees and fields tell me nothing, men are my teachers. - - --_Plato_. - -PLATO, the renowned Greek philosopher, was born at Athens, about 427 -B.C., and died there 347 B.C. Among his famous dialogues are: "Apology," -"Lysis," "Charmides," "Laches," "Protagoras," "Meno," "Gorgias," "Io," -"Euthyphro," "Crito," "Phædrus," "The Sophist," "The Politician," -"Parmenides," "Symposium," "Phædo," "The Republic," "The Laws," etc. - - - Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury - to the living, and the dead know it not. - - --_Xenophon_. - -XENOPHON, a famous Greek author, was born at Athens, about 430 B.C., and -died in Corinth, about 355 B.C. He is the author of: "Encomium of -Agesilaus," "Horsemanship," "Hipparchicus," "Cynegeticus," "Cyropædeia," -"Lacedæmonian Polity," "Hieron," "Athenian Finance," "Symposium," -"Apology of Socrates," "Oeconomicus," and his most celebrated works, -the "Hellenics" and "Anabasis." - - - Our Theocritus, our Bion, - And our Pindar's shining goals!-- - These were cup-bearers undying, - Of the wine that's meant for souls. - - "Wine of Cyprus,"--_E. B. Browning_. - -THEOCRITUS, the greatest of Greek bucolic poets, lived in the first half -of the third century B.C. Thirty-one of his idyls and pastorals and a -number of his epigrams have been preserved. - - - No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. - - --_Aristotle_. - -ARISTOTLE, the most renowned of Greek philosophers, was born at Stagira, -Macedonia, 384 B.C., and died at Chalcis, Euboea, 322 B.C. He wrote -numerous treatises on philosophy. - - - There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an - advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as - against despots. What is it? Distrust. - - "Philippic 2," Sect. 24,--_Demosthenes_. - -DEMOSTHENES, a renowned Athenian orator, was born about 384 B.C., and -died at Calauria, 322 B.C. Besides his numerous orations, he wrote the -"Olynthiacs" and the "Philippics," and his great speech, "On the -Crown." - - - Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom. - - --_Æschines_. - -ÆSCHINES, a great Athenian orator, rival of Demosthenes, lived 389-314 -B.C. - - - A good man never dies. - - "Epigrams," X,--_Callimachus_. - -CALLIMACHUS, a renowned Greek poet, born in Cyrene, flourished in the -third century B.C. Besides his tragedies, comedies, elegies and hymns, -he wrote the epics, "Hecale" and "Galatea," a "Hymn to Jupiter," and an -"Epitaph on Heracleitus." - - - Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. - - "Rudens," Act II, Sc. 5, 71,--_Plautus_. - -TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS, a celebrated Roman comic poet, was born at -Sarsina in Umbria, about 254 B.C., and died at Rome about 184 B.C. His -"Captives" has been declared "the best constructed drama in existence." - - - Buy not what you need, but what you must have; what you do not - need is dear at a penny. - - --_Cato_. - -MARCUS PORCIUS CATO, THE CENSOR, a famous Roman statesman and -pamphleteer (234-149 B.C.) He wrote many tractates on different -subjects, but only one of them, "On Farming," has come down to our -times. Of "Beginnings" we have only a few fragments. - - - "Polybius of Megalopolis in Arcadia must rank as the third Greek - historian, Herodotus and Thucydides being first and second." - -POLYBIUS, a celebrated Greek historian, was born at Megalopolis in -Arcadia, 204 B.C., and died 122 B.C. His "Histories," won for him great -fame. - - - The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. - - "Andria," Act III, Sc. 3, 23,--_Terence_. - -TERENCE, the renowned Latin writer of comedy, was born at Carthage, -about 185 B.C., and died about 159 B.C. Among his writings are: -"Andria," "Hecyra," "Heautontimorumenos," "Eunuchus," "Phormio," and -"Adelphi." - - - While the sick man has life there is hope. - - "Epistolarum ad Atticum,"--_Cicero_. - -MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the prince of Roman orators, a distinguished -writer on philosophy, rhetoric, morals, etc., was born at Arpinum, 106 -B.C., and died 43 B.C. Among his treatises on the art of oratory are: -"The Orator, to Marcus Brutus," "Of the Orator," and "Brutus, or of -Illustrious Orators." His philosophical writings include: "The -Academics," "Tusculan Disputations," "Of Definitions of Good and Evil." -Of discussions of moral questions, we have the practical treatise, "Of -Mutual Offices." Theological questions are examined in the two -treatises, "Of Divinations" and "Of the Nature of the Gods"; also the -treatises, "Of Old Age," "Of Friendship," "Of Consolation." The letters -of Cicero are extant to the number of 864, under the titles: "To -Intimate Friends" (16 books), "To Atticus" (also 16 books), "To -Quintus," his brother, (3 books), and "Correspondence with M. Brutus" -(in 2 books). - - - Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and - make men less brave in battle. - - --_Cæsar_. - -CAIUS JULIUS CÆSAR, the great Roman general and writer of memoirs, was -probably born about 100 B.C.; killed March 15, 44 B.C. Besides his -famous "Commentaries," he wrote a grammatical treatise, "On Analogy," -but it has not come down to our times. - - - What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others. - - "De Rerum Natura," IV, 637,--_Lucretius_. - -TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS, a renowned Roman poet, was born about 98 B.C., -and died 55 B.C. His one work, "On Nature," in six books, is considered -one of the greatest of Latin didactic poems. - - - I hate and love--the why I cannot tell But by my tortures know the - fact too well. - - "Two Chords," (translation of Sir Theodore Martin),--_Catullus_. - -CAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS, the greatest of Roman lyric poets, was born at -Verona, 84 B.C., and died 54 B.C. A number of his compositions have come -down to our time, The most celebrated are those "To Lesbia," "The Boat," -and "Address to Himself." - - - Numero deus impare gaudet. (The god delights in odd numbers.) - - "Eclogæ," 8, p. 75,--_Virgil_. - -VIRGIL, the greatest of Roman epic poets, was born at Andes near Mantua, -October 5, 70 B.C., and died at Brundisium, September 21, 19 B.C. He -wrote the "Georgics," "Bucolics," and the epic, "The Æneid," in 12 -books. - - - If you wish me to weep, you yourself must feel grief. - - "Ars Poetica," 102,--_Horace_. - -HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS), the great Latin lyric poet, was born -at Venusia, Italy, December 8, 65 B.C., and died at Rome November 27, 8 -B.C. He wrote: "Satires," "Epodes," "Odes," and his famous "Epistles." - - - Wit is the flower of the imagination. - - --_Livy_. - -LIVY, the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua), 59 B.C., -and died there A.D. 17. He wrote the "History of Rome from the Founding -of the City," in 142 "books," many of which have been lost. - - - Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter.[1] - - --_Tibullus_. - -ALBIUS TIBULLUS, a renowned Roman poet, was born about 54 B.C., and died -probably in 19 B.C. Three books of his elegies have come down to us. - - - Qua pote quisque in ca conterat diem.[2] - - --_Propertius_. - -SEXTUS PROPERTIUS, the great Roman elegiac poet, was born at Aassisium, -about 50 B.C., and died about 15 B.C. His poems consist of four books. - - - In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live, and enjoy his - being, who is engaged in some laudable pursuit and acquire a name - by some illustrious action or useful art. - - --_Sallust_. - -SALLUST, a famous Roman historian, was born about 86 B.C., and died at -Rome, about 34 B.C. He wrote: "The Conspiracy of Catiline," and "The -History of the War Against Jugurtha." - - - A good man possesses a kingdom. - - "Thyestes," 380,--_Seneca_. - -LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, an illustrious Roman philosopher, was born at -Corduba, in Spain, about the year 4 B.C., and died A.D. 65. Many of his -writings have come down to our time, among them 124 "Epistles to -Lucilius," containing exhortations to the practice of virtue: "On -Providence," "Anger," "Of Benefits," and "Natural History Questions," -also, several tragedies, among them, "Phædra," "Thyestes," and "Medea." - - - Habit is stronger than nature. - - --_Quintus Curtius Rufus_. - -QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS a notable Eoman historian, was born about the -first century A.D. He is the author of "De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni" -(Deeds of Alexander the Great), in ten books, the first two of which are -lost. - - - The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the - folly of others. - - Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 31,--_Pliny the Elder_. - -PLINY THE ELDER, a celebrated Roman compiler of encyclopædic knowledge, -was born at Novum Comum, (Como), A.D. 23; and died A.D. 79. He wrote: "A -Natural History" in 37 books, compiled from more than 2,000 volumes. - - - Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. - - --_Persius_. - -AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS, a famous Latin satiric poet, was born at -Volaterræ in Etruria, 34 A.D., and died A.D. 62. He wrote six satires, -and they are all extant. - - - A liar should have a good memory. - - "Institutionis Oratoriæ," iv, 2, 91,--_Quintilian_. - -QUINTILIAN, the famous Roman rhetorician, was born about A.D. 35, at -Calagurris (Calahorra), Spain, and died about A.D. 95 or 96. His great -work, "Institutionis Oratoriæ," is one of the most renowned classical -works on rhetoric. - - - Alta sedent civilis vulnera dextræ.[3] - - "Pharsalia," I, 32,--_Lucan_. - -MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCANUS (LUCAN), a celebrated Latin poet, was born at -Cordova, Spain, A.D. 39, and died at Rome, A.D. 65. He is best known by -his epic poem, "Pharsalia." - - - Quid crastina volveret ætas, - Scire nefos homini.[4] - - "Thebaid," III. 562,--_Statius_. - -PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS, a famous Roman poet, was born at Naples, about -A.D. 45, and died there, about A.D. 96. His chief work is, "The -Thebaid," an epic poem in twelve books. - - - Difficulties are things that show what men are. - - "Discourses," Chap. xxiv,--_Epictetus_. - -EPICTETUS, a celebrated Greek Stoic philosopher, was born at Hierapolis -in Phrygia, about A.D. 50. No works of his have come down to our time, -but his maxims were collected and published in the "Encheiridion," or -Handbook, and the "Commentaries" in eight books. - - - The gods looked with favour on superior courage. - - --_Tacitus_. - -PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS, a great Latin historian, was born about A.D. -54. He wrote the dialogue "De Oratoribus," the "Annals," the "Agricola," -the "Germania," ("On the Manners of the Germans"), and his "History." - - - No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. - - "Satire ii," 83,--_Juvenal_. - -JUVENAL, the renowned Latin poet, was born at Aquinum, about A.D. 60, -and died about A.D. 140. Sixteen of his famous satires are extant. - - - Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in - doubt. - - "Letters," Letter xviii, 5,--_Pliny the Younger_. - -PLINY THE YOUNGER, a noted Roman orator, nephew of Pliny the Elder, was -born at Comum, A.D. 61, and died about 113. Of his numerous forensic -works, only one oration is extant, "The Panegyric," also his "Letters." - - - To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the - force of human nature. - - "Life of Fabius,"--_Plutarch_. - -PLUTARCH, the celebrated Greek moralist, practical philosopher, and -biographer was born at Chæronea in Boeotia. The year of his birth and -death are not known, but he was very old at the death of Trajan, A.D. -117. He wrote: "Parallel Lives," and many "Moral Treatises," including -"The Education of Children," "The Right Way of Hearing," "Precepts About -Health," "Cessation of Oracles," "The Pythian Responses," "The Retarded -Vengeance of the Deity," "The Dæmon of Socrates," "The Virtues of -Women," "On the Fortune of the Romans," "Political Counsels," "On -Superstition," "On Isis and Osiris," "On the Pace of the Moon's Disk," -"On the Opinions Accepted by the Philosophers." - - - A boy of five years old serene and gay, - Unpitying Hades hurried me away. - Yet weep not for Callimachus: if few - The days I lived, few were my sorrows too. - - --_Lucian_. - -LUCIAN, the celebrated Greek satirist, was born at Samosata, in northern -Syria, about 120 A.D., and died about 200 A.D. Among his writings are: -"Praise of Demosthenes," "Dialogues of the Gods," "Dialogues of the Sea -Gods," "Dialogues of the Dead," "The True History," "Lucius; or The -Ass," "Death of Peregrinus," "The Fisherman," "The Sea Voyage, or -Votive Offerings," "The Sale of Lives," "Alexander, or The False -Prophet," "Hermotimus," etc. - - - Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day. - - Epigram x, 47.13,--_Martial_. - -MARTIAL, a famous Latin poet, was born at Bilbilis, Spain, A.D. 50 (?), -and died in Spain, 102 (?). His fame rests upon his "Epigrams" in -fifteen books. - - - Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: "Once at supper, reflecting - that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that - memorable and justly admired saying, 'My friends, I have lost a - day!'" - - "Lives of Twelve Cæsars" (Translation by Alexander - Thomson),--_Suetonius_. - -SUETONIUS, a famous Latin chronicler, grammarian, and critic, flourished -in the early part of the second century of our era. His works include: -"Distinguished Orators," "Illustrious Grammarians," "Lives of the -Cæsars," etc. - - - When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do - not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe - the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to - others, nor take offence from them. - - "Advice to St. Austin on Sabbath Keeping,"--_St. Ambrose_. - -SAINT AMBROSE, one of the fathers of the Latin Church, born at Trèves, -Gaul, probably A.D. 340, died at Milan, April 4, A.D. 397. His writings -include: "Of the Duties of the Clergy," "Hexæmeron," hymns, etc. He -became bishop of Milan in 374. - - - Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the - gods." - - "Socrates," XI,--_Diogenes Laertius_. - -DIOGENES LAERTIUS, a famous Greek compiler of anecdotes, flourished -about A.D. 200-250, a native of Lærte in Cilicia. He wrote a collection -of notes and memoranda (in 10 books), "On the Lives, Teachings, and -Sayings of Famous Men." - - - None can injure him, who does not injure himself. - - --_Chrysostom_. - -ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, a noted Greek Church father, born in Antioch, -Syria, 350 (?), and died at Comana, 407. His works, comprising homilies, -commentaries, liturgies, epistles, etc., can be found in 13 volumes, -fol. (1718). - - - Quis legem det amantibus? Major lex amor est sibi.[5] - - --_Boëthius_. - -BOËTHIUS, a famous Roman didactic poet and statesman, was born between -470 and 475, and died about 525. His celebrated "Consolation of -Philosophy" won for him lasting fame. - - - Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, - And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire. - - "Rubáiyát," Stanza lxvii,--_Omar Khayyám_. - -OMAR KHAYYÁM, a celebrated Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, -was born at Nishapur, in 1050 (?), and died there in 1123 (?). His fame -rests on the "Rubáiyát," or "Quatrains,"--four-line stanzas with the -third unrhymed. Fitzgerald's was the first English translation to make -these quatrains widely known. - - - "Abélard was almost the first who awakened mankind in the ages of - darkness to a sympathy with intellectual excellence ... Abélard - was the first of recorded name, who taught the banks of the Seine - to resound a tale of love; and it was of Eloïse that he sang." - -PIERRE ABÉLARD, a famous French scholastic philosopher and theologian, -was born near Nantes, 1079, and died April 21, 1142. His romantic and -tragic love for Héloïse is told in his "Story of My Misfortunes." - - - Jesu! the very Thought of Thee - With sweetness fills the breast, - But sweeter far Thy face to see - And in Thy presence rest. - - "Saint Bernard's Hymn,"--_Bernard of Clairvaux_. - -BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, ST. BERNARD, a renowned French theologian, church -father, and saint, was born at Fontaines, near Dijon, in 1091, and died -at Clairvaux, January 12, 1153. He wrote five books on "Reflection," and -his famous hymn, "Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee," is popular in the -churches of our day. - - - "Unless the spirit of wisdom and understanding had been with me - and filled me, I had never been able to construct so long a work - in such a difficult metre." - - --_Bernard of Cluny_. - -BERNARD OF CLUNY, a famous French monk and poet, who flourished in the -twelfth century, is best known for his noted work, "On Contempts of the -World." - - - "If St. Francis had been less of a poet, he would have been less - of a saint." - -ST. FRANCIS D'ASSISI, a renowned Italian preacher, and poet, founder of -the Franciscan order, was born at Assisi in Umbria, Italy, 1182, and -died October 12, 1226. The most famous of his hymns is the "Canticle of -the Sun." - - - He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in - his life, is like a man who laboured in his fields, but did not - sow. - - --_Sadi_. - -SADI, one of the greatest of Persian poets, was born at Shiraz, in 1184, -and died in 1291 (?). He wrote: "Bustán," or "The Fruit Garden," and -"Gulistán," or "The Rose Garden," also his "Divan." - - - The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a - perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and - heroic virtue. - - --_St. Bonaventura_. - -SAINT BONAVENTURA, an Italian theologian and scholar of great fame, was -born at Bagnarea, 1221, and died in 1274. His real name was Giovanni di -Fidenza. He wrote: "Life of Saint Francis," "Progress of the Mind -Towards God," etc. - - - "To an absolute purity of life, St. Thomas added an earnest love - of truth and of labor." - -THOMAS AQUINAS, a great mediæval theologian and philosopher, was born at -Aquino in the kingdom of Naples, about 1225, and died at Fossa Nuova, -March 7, 1274. Among his works are: "Sum of Catholic Belief Against the -Heathen," "Exposition of All the Epistles of St. Paul," and his most -famous work, the "Sum of Theology." - - - No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at - hand. - - "Divine Comedy," Canto V, Line 121,--_Dante_. - -DANTE ALIGHIERI, the greatest of Italian poets, was born in Florence -1265, and died in Ravenna, September 14, 1321. He wrote: the "New Life," -the "Banquet," and the "Divine Comedy." - - - O, marvelous power of the Divine seed, which overpowers the strong - man armed, softens obdurate hearts, and changes into divine men - those who were brutalized in sin, and removed to an infinite - distance from God. - - --_John Wyclif_. - -JOHN WYCLIF, a renowned scholar, was born near Richmond, England, about -1324, and died December 31, 1384. His great work was the translation of -the entire Bible into English. - - - Who that well his warke beginneth, - The rather a good ende he winneth. - - "Confessio Amantis,"--_Gower_. - -JOHN GOWER, a noted English poet, was born in Kent in 1325 (?), and died -in London in August (or September), 1408. Among his works are: "Voice of -One Crying" (Vox Clamantis), "Mirror of Meditation" (Speculum -Meditantis), and "Lover's Confession" (Confessio Amantis). - - - Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. - - "The Monkes Tale,"--_Geoffrey Chaucer_. - -GEOFFREY CHAUCER, the father of English poetry, was born in London (?), -1328 or 1340, and died there October 25, 1400. He wrote: "Troilus and -Cressida," "The Parliament of Fowles," "Boke of the Duchesse," "The -House of Fame," "The Legend of Good Women," and his most famous work, -"Canterbury Tales." - - - Man proposes, but God disposes. - - "Imitation of Christ," Book I, Chap. 19,--_Thomas à Kempis_. - -THOMAS À KEMPIS, a renowned German mystic, was born at Kempen, near -Cologne in 1380, and died in 1471. He was the author of the "Imitation -of Christ," which is said to be the most popular book in the world, with -the exception of the Bible. - - - "The one certain thing about Sir Thomas Malory is, that - he wrote the first and finest romance of chivalry in our - common-tongue,--the 'Morte d'Arthur.'" - -SIR THOMAS MALORY, the British author of the renowned "Morte d'Arthur," -was born about 1430, and died after 1470. - - - "If Froissart, by his picturesque descriptions, and fertility of - historical _invention_, may be reckoned the Livy of France, she - had her Tacitus in Philippe de Comines." - -PHILIPPE DE COMINES, a celebrated French chronicler, was born at -Comines, about 1445, and died at the Château of Argenton, October 17, -1510. His famous "Memoirs" won for him great fame. - - - I know everything except myself. - - "Autre Ballade," i,--_François Villon_. - -FRANÇOIS VILLON, a renowned French poet, was born in 1431, and died 1460 -(?). He wrote: "The Greater Testament," and the "Smaller Testament: Its -Codicil"; a collection of poems and a volume of "Ballades." - - - A heart which is void of the pains of love is not heart; - A body without heart woes is nothing but clay and water. - Turn thy face away from the world to the pangs of love; - For the world of love is a world of sweetness. - - "Love" (Translation of S. Robinson),--_Jami_. - -'ABD-URRAHMÁN JAMI, the last of Persia's classic poets, was born in Jam, -Khorasan, in 1414, and died in May (?), 1492 or 1493. His best known -works are: "The Abode of Spring," "The Chain of Gold," "The Loves of -Joseph and Zuleika and of Mejnun and Leila." - - - E duobus malis minimum eligendum.[6] - - "Adages,"--_Erasmus_. - -DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, a renowned Dutch humanist, was born at Rotterdam, -1465 or 1467, and died July 12, 1536. He wrote a noted volume of -"Colloquies," a collection of "Adages," and a celebrated satire, "The -Praise of Folly"; besides numerous works on the ancients--Cicero, -Seneca, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, etc.; also a noted -treatise on "Free-Will." - - - There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, - by patience and love. - - --_Marguerite de Valois_. - -MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME, or DE VALOIS, Queen of Navarre, and famous for -her stories, poems and letters, was born in 1492, and died in Bigorre in -1549. She is best known in literature by the celebrated "Heptameron," a -collection of tales; "Pearls of the Pearl of Princesses" (poems), and -her "Letters," which were published in 1841-42. - - - One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, - Because to laugh is proper to the man. - - "To the Reader,"--_François Rabelais_. - -FRANÇOIS RABELAIS, the greatest of French satirists, was born at Chinon, -Touraine, about 1495, and died in 1553. His fame rests upon the two -works, "Gargantua," and "Pantagruel." - - - A chip of chance weigheth more than a pound of it. - - Courtier's Life,--_Sir T. Wyatt_. - -SIR THOMAS WYATT, a distinguished English poet and diplomatist, was born -at Arlington Castle, Kent, in 1503, and died at Sherborne, October 11, -1542. He wrote many poems, chiefly love sonnets after the Italian -manner. - - - Therefore, if to the goodness of nature be joined the wisdom of - the teacher, in leading young wits into a right and plain way of - learning; surely children kept up in God's fear, and governed by - His grace, may most easily be brought well to serve God and their - country, both by virtue and wisdom. - - "On Gentleness in Education" (From "The Schoolmaster"),--_Roger - Ascham_. - -ROGER ASCHAM, a famous English scholar and prose writer, was born at -Kirby Wiske, near Northallerton, in 1515, and died in London, December -30, 1568. His most noted works are: "Toxophilus," and "The -Schoolmaster." - - - Time shall make the bushes green; - Time dissolve the winter's snow; - Winds be soft, and skies serene; - Linnets sing their wonted strain: - But again - Blighted love shall never blow. - - "Blighted Love" (trans., Lord Strangford), st. 3,--_Luiz de - Camoëns_. - -LUIZ DE CAMOËNS, Portugal's greatest poet, was born at Lisbon, in 1524 -or 1525, and died June 10, 1580. He is best known by "The Lusiads," -which is considered the national epic of Portugal. - - - The stone that is rolling, can gather no moss, - Who often removeth is sure of loss. - - "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry Lessons," - St. 46,--_Tusser_. - -THOMAS TUSSER, a noted English poet was born at Rivenhall, Essex, in -1527, and died in London about 1580. He was the author of "Five Hundred -Points of Good Husbandry, United to as Many of Good Housewifery," etc. - - - I cannot eat but little meat, - My stomach is not good; - But sure I think that I can drink - With him that wears a hood. - - "Gammer Gurton's Needle," Act. II,--_Bishop Still_. - -BISHOP JOHN STILL, a celebrated English writer of comedy, was born at -Grantham, in Lincolnshire, in 1543, and died February 26, 1607. He is -reputed to be the author of "A Ryght Pithy Pleasant, and Merrie Comedy, -Intytuled Gammer Gurton's Needle." - - - I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. - - "Don Quixote," The Author's Preface,--_Cervantes_. - -CERVANTES, a renowned Spanish romancist, was born at Alcalà de Henares -in 1547, and died at Madrid, April 23, 1616. Of his many romances and -stories, his fame rests entirely on his celebrated work, "Don Quixote." - - - Who will not mercie unto others show, - How can he mercy ever hope to have? - - Faerie Queene, Book V, Canto II, St. 42,--_Edmund Spenser_. - -EDMUND SPENSER, the famous English poet, was born about 1552, and died -at London, January 13, or 16, 1599. Among his works are: "Amoretti," -"Four Hymns," "The Shepherd's Calendar," "Astrophel," "Complaints," -"Daphnaida," "Colin Clout's Come Home Again," and "The Faerie Queene," -his most famous work. - - - If all the world and love were young, - And truth in every shepherd's tongue, - These pretty pleasures might me move - To live with thee, and be thy love. - - "The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd,"--_Sir Walter - Raleigh_. - -SIR WALTER RALEIGH, the celebrated English admiral, was born at Hayes in -Devonshire, in 1552, and was executed, October 29, 1618. His poems were -not published until 1814, his "Miscellaneous Writings," in 1751, and his -"Complete Works," in 1829. - - - Live or die, sink or swim. - - "Edward I" (1584?),--_Peele_. - -GEORGE PEELE, a famous English dramatist, was born in 1553 (?), and died -in 1597 (?). He wrote: "The Arraignment of Paris," "The Chronicle -History of Edward I," "The Battle of Alcazar," "The Old Wives' Tales," -"David and Bethsabe," "Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes." - - - Calvin was incomparably the wisest man that ever the French Church - enjoyed. - - --_Richard Hooker_. - -RICHARD HOOKER, one of the greatest glories of the English Church, was -born in Exeter, in 1553, and died in 1600. Among his famous works may be -mentioned: "Ecclesiastical Polity," "The Nature and Majesty of Law," -"Scripture and the Law of Nature," "Defence of Reason," etc. - - - Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke. - - "Euphues and his England,"--_John Lyly_. - -JOHN LYLY, a renowned English dramatist, was born in 1554, and died in -London, 1606. He is known principally by his two books, "Euphues, or the -Anatomy of Wit," and "Euphues and His England." - - - He that loves a rosy cheek, - Or a coral lip admires, - Or from star-like eyes doth seek - Fuel to maintain his fires,-- - As old Time makes these decay, - So his flames must waste away. - - "Disdain Returned,"--_Thomas Carew_. - -THOMAS CAREW, a noted English poet, lived about 1598-1639. He wrote -numerous poems, mostly songs and odes. He also wrote a masque, "Coelum -Britannicum." - - - Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are - fools. - - "All Fools," Act V, Sc. I,--_George Chapman_. - -GEORGE CHAPMAN, a renowned English dramatist, and translator of Homer, -was born in Hitchin, Hertford, 1559, and died at London, May 12, 1634. -Among his comedies and tragedies are: "All Fools but the Fool," "May -Day," "Bussy d'Amboise," and "The Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron." -His version of Homer is renowned. - - - Though men determine, the gods do dispose; and oft times many - things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. - - "Perimedes the Blacksmith" (1588),--_Greene_. - -ROBERT GREENE, a celebrated English dramatist, was born in Norwich, -about 1560, and died in London, September 3, 1592. He wrote: "History of -Orlando Furioso," "Comical History of Alphonsus, King of Aragon," -"Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay," "The Scottish -Historie of James IV," etc.; also two noted tracts, "Never Too Late," -and "Greene's Groat's Worth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance." - - - Come let us kiss and part,-- - Nay I have done, you get no more of me; - And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart - That thus so clearly I myself can free. - Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, - And when we meet at any time again, - Be it not seen, on either of our brows, - That we one jot of former love retain. - - "Come Let Us Kiss and Part,"--_M. Drayton_. - -MICHAEL DRAYTON, a noted English poet, was born near Atherstone in -Warwickshire, in 1563, and died in 1631. He wrote: "The Shepherd's -Garland," "Poly Olbion," his most famous work, "Sir John Oldcastle" a -drama, and "Poems Lyrick and Pastorall," including the famous "Ballad of -Agincourt." - - - Who ever loved that loved not at first sight. - - "Hero and Leander,"--_Christopher Marlowe_. - -CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, a renowned English poet and dramatist, was born at -Canterbury, about 1564, and was killed at Deptford, June 1, 1593. He -wrote: "Tamburlaine," "The Jew of Malta," "Life and Death of Dr. -Faustus," and "Edward II," his most famous work. - - - Do not be troubled by Saint Bernard's saying that hell is full of - good intentions and wills. - - "Spiritual Letters," Letter xii,--_Francis De Sales_. - -SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES, a famous French ecclesiastic and devotional -writer, was born in 1567, and died in 1622. He wrote: "Introduction to -the Devout Life," "A Treatise on the Love of God," etc. He founded the -Order of the Visitation. - - - The world's a stage on which all parts are played. - - "A Game of Chess," Act. V, Sc. i,--_Thomas Middleton_. - -THOMAS MIDDLETON, a noted English dramatist, was born about 1570, and -died in 1627. He produced, "A Game of Chess," and with William Rowley, -"A Fair Quarrel," "The Changeling," "The Spanish Gipsy," etc. - - - To add to golden numbers golden numbers. - - "Patient Grissell,"--_Thomas Dekker_. - -THOMAS DEKKER, a famous English dramatist, was born in London, about -1570, and died after 1637. Among his plays are: "The Shoemaker's -Holiday," and "Old Fortunatus." He also wrote: "The Wonderful Year," -"The Bachelor's Banquet," etc. - - - I loved thee once, I'll love no more, - Thine be the grief as is the blame; - Thou art not what thou wast before, - What reason I should be the same? - He that can love unloved again, - Hath better store of love than brain: - God send me love my debts to pay, - While unthrifts fool their love away. - - "Woman's Inconstancy," St. I,--_Sir R. Ayton_. - -SIR ROBERT AYTON, a notable Scottish poet, was born in his father's -castle of Kinaldie in 1570, and died in London in February, 1638. Ayton -is supposed to have been the author of "Auld Lang Syne," which was -remodeled by Burns. - - - Drink to me only with thine eyes, - And I will pledge with mine; - Or leave a kiss but in the cup, - And I'll not look for wine. - - "The Forest: To Celia,"--_Ben Jonson_. - -BEN JONSON, a celebrated English dramatist, was born in London, in 1572 -or 1573, and died August 6, 1637. He wrote two famous comedies, "Every -Man in His Humour," and "Every Man Out of His Humour," and numerous -poems. - - - Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. - - "To the Countess of Bedford," St. 7,--_John Donne_. - -JOHN DONNE, a famous English poet and clergyman, was born in London, in -1573, and died March 31, 1631. His famous "Satires" won for him great -fame. A collection of his sermons were published in 1897. - - - As it fell upon a day - In the merry month of May, - Sitting in a pleasant shade - Which a grove of myrtles made. - - Address to the Nightingale,--_Richard Barnfield_. - -RICHARD BARNFIELD, a noted English poet, was baptized at Norbury, -Staffordshire, June 13, 1574, and died in 1627. He wrote: "The -Affectionate Shepherd," "Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets," "The Encomion -of Lady Pecunia," "The Passionate Pilgrim," etc. - - - Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, - Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. - - "Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells,"--_Thomas Heywood_. - -THOMAS HEYWOOD, a famous English dramatic poet, was born in Lincolnshire -(?), about 1575, and died in London (?), 1650 (?). Of all his poetry and -prose his fame rests upon "A Woman Killed with Kindness," "The Wise -Woman of Hogsdon," "Love's Mistress," etc. - - - Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. - - "A Very Woman," Act V, Sc. 4,--_Philip Massinger_. - -PHILIP MASSINGER, a celebrated English dramatist, was born at Salisbury, -in 1583, and died at the Bankside, Southwark, March, 1640. Among his -famous plays are: "The Duke of Milan," "The Fatal Dowry," "A New Way to -Pay Old Debts," "A City Madam," "A Very Woman," etc. - - - It is always good - When a man has two irons in the fire. - - "The Faithful Friends," Act I, Sc. 2,--_Francis Beaumont_. - -FRANCIS BEAUMONT, a renowned English dramatist, was born in 1584, at -Grace-Dieu, Leicestershire, and died in London, March 6, 1616. He has -always been associated with John Fletcher, and together they wrote many -famous plays, among them: "The Coxcomb," "King and No King," "The -Faithful Friends," "Philaster," "The Maid's Tragedy," "The Knight of the -Burning Pestle," and "The Scornful Lady." - - - Diamond cut diamond. - - "The Lover's Melancholy," Act I, Sc. I,--_John Ford_. - -JOHN FORD, a famous English dramatist, was baptized at Islington in -Devon, April 17, 1586, and died about 1640. His best plays are: "The -Lover's Melancholy," "The Broken Heart," and "Love's Sacrifice." - - - Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. - - "Emblems," Book II, Emblem 2,--_Francis Quarles_. - -FRANCIS QUARLES, a celebrated English sacred poet, was born in Rumford, -Essex, in 1592, and died September, 1644. His most famous works were: -"Emblems, Divine and Moral," "Argalus and Parthenia," and the -"Enchiridion." - - - Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates are secretaries of Nature. - - "Letters," Book ii, Letter xi,--_Howell_. - -JAMES HOWELL, a noted British author, was born at Abernaut, in -Carmarthenshire, in 1594, and died in November, 1666. Of all his works, -his "Letters," the "Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ" (four volumes issued in 1645, -1647, 1650 and 1655) are best known, and his elaborate allegories are -forgotten. - - - Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. - - "The Sophy," A Tragedy,--_Sir John Denham_. - -SIR JOHN DENHAM, a noted English poet, was born in Dublin, 1615, and -died in London (?), March 15 (?), 1669. He translated the "Æneid," and -produced "The Sophy," a tragedy, and "Cooper's Hill," a famous poem. - - - I have ever thought, - Nature doth nothing so great for great men, - As when she's pleas'd to make them lords of truth. - Integrity of life is fame's best friend, - Which nobly, beyond death shall crown the end. - - The Duchess of Malfi, Act V, Sc. 5,--_John Webster_. - -JOHN WEBSTER, a famous English dramatist, was born near the end of the -sixteenth century. Some of his dramas are: "The White Devil, or -Vittoria Corombona," "The Duchess of Malfi," "Appius and Virginia," and -"The Devil's Law Case." - - - My mind to me a kingdom is; - Such present joys therein I find, - That it excels all other bliss - That earth affords or grows by kind; - Though much I want which most would have, - Yet still my mind forbids to crave. - - --_Edward Dyer_. - -SIR EDWARD DYER, a noted English courtier and poet, was born at Sharpham -Park, Somersetshire, and died in 1607. He had a great reputation as a -poet among his contemporaries, but very little of his work has survived. -"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is," is universally accepted as his. - - - The assembled souls of all that men held wise. - - "Gondibert," Book II, Canto v. Stanza 37,--_Sir William - Davenant_. - -SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT, a celebrated English poet, was born at Oxford, in -1606, and died April 7, 1668. He wrote numerous poems and plays, and -succeeded Ben Jonson as poet laureate of England. Besides his poetical -works, he wrote an epic, "Gondibert," and an opera, "The Siege of -Rhodes." - - - 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; - Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. - - "Against Fruition,"--_Sir J. Suckling_. - -SIR JOHN SUCKLING, a noted English poet, was born at Whitton, Middlesex, -in 1608, and died in Paris, about 1642. He is noted for his love poems. -A complete edition of his works appeared in 1874. - - - When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war! - - --_Nathaniel Lee_. - -NATHANIEL LEE, a celebrated English dramatist, was born in 1653 (?), and -died in 1692. Among his plays are: "Nero, Emperor of Rome," -"Theodosius," "The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great," -etc. - - - He that imposes an oath makes it, - Not he that for convenience takes it; - Then, how can any man be said - To break an oath he never made! - - "Hudibras," Part II, Canto II, Line 377,--_Samuel Butler_. - -SAMUEL BUTLER, a famous English satirist, was born in Strensham, -Worcestershire, 1612, and died in London, September 25, 1680. His most -important works are: "Ode to Duval," "Characters," "The Elephant in the -Moon," and "Hudibras," which won for him world-wide fame. - - - Whoe'er she be, - That not impossible she, - That shall command my heart and me. - - "Wishes to his Supposed Mistress,"--_Richard Crashaw_. - -RICHARD CRASHAW, a noted English poet, was born in London, about 1613, -and died in 1650. His poems were collected by an anonymous friend and -published under the titles of "Steps to the Temple," "Sacred Poems," and -"The Delights of the Muses." - - - I could not love thee, dear, so much, - Lov'd I not honour more. - - "To Lucasta, on going to the Wars,"--_Richard Lovelace_. - -RICHARD LOVELACE, a famous English poet and dramatist, was born in -Woolwich, Kent, in 1618, and died in 1658. He wrote: "The Scholar," a -comedy, "The Soldier," a tragedy, and "Lucasta," a volume of poems. - - - A mighty pain to love it is, - And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; - But of all pains, the greatest pain - It is to love, but love in vain. - - --_Abraham Cowley_. - -ABRAHAM COWLEY, a noted English poet and essayist, was born in London, -1618, and died at Chertsey, Surrey, July 28, 1667. He wrote: "The -Mistress," "Poems," and numerous Virgilian elegies, essays, and -love-songs. - - - Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! - Shining nowhere but in the dark; - What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, - Could man outlook that mark! - - "They Are All Gone,"--_Henry Vaughan_. - -HENRY VAUGHAN, a celebrated British poet, known as "The Silurist," was -born in Newton, Brecknockshire, Wales, in 1621, and died in April, 1695. -His works are: "Olor Iscanus: Select Poems," "The Bleeding Heart," -"Ejaculations," "The Mount of Olives; or Solitary Devotions," and -"Thalia Rediviva." - - - God helps those who help themselves. - - "Discourses on Government," Ch. II, Pt. xxiii,--_Algernon - Sidney_. - -ALGERNON SIDNEY, a noted English republican patriot, was born at -Penshurst, Kent, in 1622 (?), and died in London, December 7, 1683. His -"Discourses on Government" appeared in 1698. - - - Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions. - - "Letters," 202,--_Mme. de Sévigné_. - -MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL, MARQUISE DE SÉVIGNÉ, a celebrated French -letter-writer, was born at Paris, in 1626, and died at the Castle of -Grignan, in Dauphiné, April 18, 1696. The best edition of her "Letters" -appeared in 1818-19. - - - Let free, impartial men from Dryden learn - Mysterious secrets, of a high concern, - And weighty truths, solid convincing sense, - Explain'd by unaffected eloquence. - - "On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici,"--_Earl of Roscommon_. - -WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMMON, a noted Irish poet, was born in -1630, and died January 21, 1685. His reputation as a didactic writer and -critic rests on his blank verse translation of Horace's "Ars Poetica," -and "Essays on Translated Verse." - - - Great families of yesterday we show, - And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. - - "The True-Born Englishman," Part I, Line I,--_Daniel Defoe_. - -DANIEL DEFOE, the famous author of "Robinson Crusoe," was born in St. -Giles Parish, Cripplegate, in 1660 or 1661, and died near London, in -1731. Among his works are: "The Storm," "Apparition of Mrs. Veal," -"Robinson Crusoe," "Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," "King of -Pirates," "Duncan Campbell," "Mr. Campbell's Pacquet," "Memoirs of a -Cavalier," "Captain Singleton," "Moll Flanders," "The Highland Rogue," -"Colonel Jacque," "Cartouche," "John Sheppard," "Account of Jonathan -Wild," etc. - - - To die is landing on some silent shore - Where billows never break, nor tempests roar; - Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. - - "The Dispensary," Canto iii, Line 225,--_Samuel Garth_. - -SIR SAMUEL GARTH, a renowned English physician and poet, was born in -Yorkshire (?), in 1661 (or at Bolam, Durham, 1660), and died in London -(?), January 18, 1719. His famous poem "The Dispensary," won for him -great fame. He also translated "Ovid," and wrote numerous epigrams. - - - Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to - behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her - was a liberal education. - - Tatler, No. 49,--_Richard Steele_. - -SIR RICHARD STEELE, a celebrated British author and dramatist, was born -in Dublin, in 1672, and died at Llangunnor, Wales, September 1, 1729. He -wrote: "The Tender Husband," "The Christian Hero," "The Lying Lover," -etc. However, his fame rests chiefly upon his connection with the -_Tatler_ and the _Spectator_. - - - Remote from man, with God he passed the days; - Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. - - "The Hermit," Line 5,--_Thomas Parnell_. - -THOMAS PARNELL, a noted Irish poet, was born in Dublin, in 1679, and -died in 1718. His best known poem is "The Hermit"; his other noted -poetical works include: "The Hymn to Contentment," "The Night Piece on -Death," and "The Fairy Tale." - - - Procrastination is the thief of time. - - "Night Thoughts," Night I, Line 393,--_Edward Young_. - -EDWARD YOUNG, an illustrious English poet, was born at Upham, Hampshire, -in 1684, and died at Welwyn, April 12, 1765. Among his works are: "The -Revenge," "Busiris," "The Love of Fame," and his masterpiece, "Night -Thoughts." - - - Friendship is the balm as well as the seasoning of life. - - --_Richardson_. - -SAMUEL RICHARDSON, a renowned English novelist was born in Derbyshire, -in 1689, and died July 4, 1761. All of his books are in the form of -letters. His best known works are: "Clarissa Harlowe," "Pamela," a -continuation of it in 1741, followed by "Sir Charles Grandison." His -"Correspondence" was published in 1804 by Anna Lætitia Barbauld. - - - If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, - The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears. - - "The Beggar's Opera," Act II, Sc. I,--_John Gay_. - -JOHN GAY, a famous English poet, was born near Barnstable, Devonshire, -in 1685, and died at London, December 4, 1732. He wrote: "The Fables," -"The Shepherd's Week," "Rural Sports," "Trivia, or the Art of Walking -the Streets of London," "The Wife of Bath," etc. Also "The Beggar's -Opera." - - - Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and - never into folly. - - --_Mme. du Deffand_. - -MARIE ANNE DE VICHY-CHAMROND, MARQUISE DU DEFFAND (MADAME DU DEFFAND), a -celebrated French wit and letter-writer, was born in Burgundy, in 1697, -and died at Paris, September 24, 1780. Her correspondence with Horace -Walpole was published in 1780; with d'Alembert, and other renowned -Frenchmen, in 1809; with Voltaire, in 1810, and with the Duchess de -Choiseul and others in 1859. - - - One kind kiss before we part, - Drop a tear and bid adieu; - Though we sever, my fond heart - Till we meet shall pant for you. - - "The Parting Kiss,"--_Robert Dodsley_. - -ROBERT DODSLEY, a noted English poet, was born at Mansfield, Notts, in -1703, and died in 1764. He published "The Muse in Livery," (a volume of -verse), and some notable plays, among them: "The Toy Shop," "The King -and the Miller of Mansfield," and "Sir John Cockle at Court." - - - Alas! by some degree of woe - We every bliss must gain; - The heart can ne'er a transport know - That never feels a pain. - - "Song,"--_Lord George Lyttelton_. - -LORD GEORGE LYTTLETON, a distinguished English statesman and man of -letters, was born at Hagley, Worcestershire, in 1709, and died, August -22, 1773. His best known prose works are: "The Conversion and -Apostleship of St. Paul," and "History of Henry II." - - - Of right and wrong he taught - Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; - And (strange to tell!) He practised what he preached. - - "The Art of Preserving Health," Book IV, Line 301,--_John - Armstrong_. - -JOHN ARMSTRONG, a celebrated English physician and poet, was born about -1709, and died September 7, 1779. He is best known by his famous poem, -"The Art of Preserving Health." - - - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, - Where'er his stages may have been, - May sigh to think he still has found - The warmest welcome at an inn. - - "Written on a Window of an Inn,"--_William Shenstone_. - -WILLIAM SHENSTONE, a celebrated English poet, was born at the Leasowes, -near Halesowen, Shropshire, in 1714, and died there, February 11, 1763. -His best known poems are: "The Pastoral Ballad," "Written in an Inn at -Henley," and "The Schoolmistress." His "Essays on Men and Manners," -"Letters," and "Works" were collected and published after his death. - - - Born in a cellar, and living in a garret. - - "The Author," Act II,--_Samuel Foote_. - -SAMUEL FOOTE, a noted English wag, impersonator and comic playwright, -was baptized January 27, 1720, at Truro in Cornwall, and died at Dover, -October 21, 1777. Of his popular plays the most notable are: "The -Minor," "The Liar," and "The Mayor of Garratt." - - - Facts are stubborn things. - - Translation of "Gil Bias,"--_Smollett_. - -TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT, a renowned British novelist, was born at -Dalquhurn, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, in 1721, and died at Monte Novo, -near Leghorn, Italy, October 21, 1771. A few of his numerous works are: -"The Regicide," "The Adventures of Roderick Random," "Advice," "The -Adventures of Peregrine Pickle," "The Reprisals," "The Adventures of -Ferdinand, Count Fathom," "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker," -"Travels," "Reproof," and "Compendium of Voyages and Travels." - - - There's nae sorrow there, John, - There's neither cauld nor care, John - The day is aye fair, - In the land o' the leal. - - "The Land o' the Leal,"--_Lady Nairne_. - -LADY NAIRNE (CAROLINA OLIPHANT), a famous Scotch poet, was born at Gask, -Perthshire, in 1766, and died there, 1845. She wrote: "The Land o' the -Leal," "Caller Herrin'," and "The Laird o' Cockpen." - - - Too late I stayed,--forgive the crime! - Unheeded flew the hours; - How noiseless falls the foot of time - That only treads on flowers. - - "Lines to Lady A. Hamilton,"--_William Robert Spencer_. - -WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER, a noted English poet and wit, was born in 1770, -and died in 1834. Among his best known pieces, which were published in a -collection of his poems in 1811, were "Beth Gelert," and "Too Late I -Stayed." - - - Abide with me from morn till eve, - For without Thee I cannot live; - Abide with me when night is nigh, - For without Thee I dare not die. - - "Evening,"--_John Keble_. - -JOHN KEBLE, a celebrated English religious poet, was born at Fairford, -Gloucestershire, in 1792, and died at Bournemouth, Hampshire, in 1866. -His fame rests on the renowned work, "The Christian Year," which he -published anonymously in 1872. - - - Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. - - "Rory O'More,"--_Samuel Lover_. - -SAMUEL LOVER, a famous Irish novelist and song-writer, was born at -Dublin, in 1797, and died July 6, 1868. He wrote: "Legends and Stories -of Ireland," "Songs and Ballads," including, "The Low-Backed Car," -"Widow Machree," "The Angel's Whisper," and "The Four-Leaved Shamrock." -Also: "Handy Andy, an Irish Tale," "Treasure Trove," "Rory O'More, a -National Romance," "Metrical Tales and Other Poems," and edited a -collection of "The Lyrics of Ireland." - - - On this I ponder - Where'er I wander, - And thus grow fonder, - Sweet Cork of thee,-- - With thy bells of Shandon, - That sound so grand on - The pleasant waters - Of the River Lee. - - "The Bells of Shandon,"--_Father Prout (Francis O'Mahony)_. - -FRANCIS O'MAHONY ("FATHER PROUT"), a noted Irish journalist and poet, -was born in Cork, about 1804, and died in Paris, in 1866. He published -"Reliques of Father Prout," "Facts and Figures from Italy," etc. - - - I'm very lonely now, Mary - For the poor make no new friends; - But oh, they love the better still - The few our Father sends. - - "Lament of the Irish Emigrant,"--_Lady Dufferin_. - -HELENA SELINA (SHERIDAN) LADY DUFFERIN, a noted English poet, was born -in 1807, and died June 13, 1867. Her songs and lyrics were collected -into a volume, and edited by her son. - - - For death and life, in ceaseless strife, - Beat wild on this world's shore, - And all our calm is in that balm - Not lost but gone before. - - "Not Lost but Gone Before,"--_Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton_. - -CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH NORTON (HON. MRS. NORTON), a distinguished -English author, was born in London, in 1808, and died in 1877. She wrote -a pamphlet on "English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century," "The -Dream and Other Poems," "A Voice from the Factories," "Aunt Carry's -Ballads," "Lives of the Sheridans," etc. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers. - -[2] Let everyone engage in the business with which he is best -acquainted. - -[3] The wounds of civil war are deeply felt. - -[4] Man is not allowed to know what will happen to-morrow. - -[5] What law can bind lovers? Love is their supreme law. - -[6] Of two evils, the least should be chosen. - - - - -INDEX - - - - -INDEX - - - A - - Abélard, 299 - Adams, Charles Francis, 187 - Adams, John, 228 - Adams, John Quincy, 159 - Adams, Sarah Flower, 44 - Addison, Joseph, 107 - Æschines, 291 - Æschylus, 287 - Æsop, 285 - Agassiz, J. L. R., 125 - Aguilar, Grace, 131 - Akenside, Mark, 243 - Alcott, Amos B., 257 - Alden, Henry Mills, 247 - Aldrich, Anne R., 99 - Aldrich, James, 161 - Aldrich, Thomas B., 247 - Alembert, J. B. L. d', 251 - Alfieri, Vittorio, 14 - Allen, Charles Grant, 46 - Allen, Elizabeth Ackers, 223 - Allingham, William, 66 - Allston, Washington, 241 - Ames, Fisher, 87 - Amiel, Henri F., 214 - Anacreon, 286 - Andersen, Hans Christian, 80 - Aquinas, Thomas, 301 - Arago, Dominique François, 47 - Arbuthnot, John, 102 - Ariosto, Ludovico, 201 - Aristotle, 290 - Armstrong, John, 319 - Aristophanes, 289 - Arnold, Sir Edwin, 136 - Arnold, Matthew, 277 - Ascham, Roger, 304 - Auerbach, Berthold, 50 - Aurelius, Marcus, 93 - Austen, Jane, 271 - Austin, Alfred, 127 - Ayton, Sir Robert, 309 - Aytoun, William E., 142 - - B - - Bacon, Francis, 19 - Bagehot, Walter, 30 - Baillie, Joanna, 203 - Bailey, Philip J., 97 - Balfour, Arthur James, 168 - Ballantine, James, 137 - Balzac, Honoré de, 116 - Bangs, John Kendrick, 124 - Bancroft, George, 220 - Barbauld, Anna Lætitia, 142 - Barham, Richard, 265 - Baring-Gould, Sabine, 23 - Barlowe, Joel, 69 - Barnfield, Richard, 310 - Barrie, James Matthew, 112 - Barnes, William, 43 - Barrow, Isaac, 140 - Barton, Bernard, 25 - Baxter, Richard, 248 - Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 225 - Beattie, James, 232 - Beaumarchais, P. A. C. de, 20 - Beaumont, Francis, 311 - Beddoes, Thomas L., 165 - Beecher, Henry Ward, 146 - Beers, Ethel L., 11 - Beethoven, Ludwig von, 87 - Belloc, Hilaire, 169 - Benjamin, Park, 183 - Bennett, Arnold, 124 - Bentham, Jeremy, 38 - Bentley, Richard, 21 - Benton, Thomas Hart, 63 - Béranger, Pierre Jean de, 188 - Berkeley, George, 62 - Bernard of Clairvaux, 300 - Bernard of Cluny, 300 - Besant, Walter, 184 - Beyle, Marie Henri, 20 - Bierce, Ambrose, 134 - Birrell, Augustine, 17 - Bismarck, Otto E. L. von, 79 - Black, William, 242 - Blackie, John Stuart, 171 - Blackmore, Sir Richard, 135 - Blackstone, Sir William, 158 - Blair, Robert, 93 - Blake, William, 257 - Blanc, Charles, 250 - Blanchard, Samuel L., 116 - Blossington, Countess of, 199 - Blind, Mathilde, 68 - Bloomfield, Robert, 263 - Boker, George Henry, 222 - Boëthius, 299 - Boileau-Despréaux, 239 - Bolingbroke, Viscount, 219 - Boner, John Henry, 25 - Borrow, George, 155 - Bossuet, Jacques B., 213 - Boswell, James, 235 - Bourdillon, Francis W., 69 - Bowring, Sir John, 227 - Boyesen, H. H., 212 - Brandes, George, 31 - Bridges, Robert, 231 - Bright, John, 251 - Brillat-Savarin, 79 - Brontë, Charlotte, 95 - Brooks, Phillips, 270 - Brougham, Lord, 209 - Browne, Charles Farrar, 100 - Browne, Sir Thomas, 228 - Brownell, Henry Howard, 32 - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 58 - Browning, Robert, 111 - Brunetière, Ferdinand, 164 - Bryant, William Cullen, 240 - Bryce, James, 113 - Buchanan, Robert W., 188 - Buckle, Henry Thomas, 255 - Buffon, Comte de, 201 - Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 122 - Bungay, George W., 166 - Bunner, Henry C., 176 - Bunyan, John, 252 - Bürger, August G., 280 - Burke, Edmund, 10 - Burleigh, William Henry, 29 - Burney, Frances, 138 - Burns, Robert, 20 - Burroughs, John, 82 - Burton, Robert, 33 - Bushnell, Horace, 90 - Butler, Samuel, 314 - Byrom, John, 51 - Byron, Lord, 19 - - C - - Cable, George W., 224 - Cæsar, Julius, 292 - Caine, Hall, 116 - Calderon, Pedro, 14 - Calhoun, John C., 66 - Callimachus, 291 - Calvin, John, 158 - Calverley, Charles Stuart, 275 - Campbell, John, Duke of Argyle, 103 - Campbell, Thomas, 169 - Camoëns, 305 - Canning, George, 89 - Carew, Thomas, 307 - Carlyle, Thomas, 264 - Carman, Bliss, 91 - Carroll, Lewis, 22 - Cary, Phoebe, 205 - Cato, the Censor, 291 - Catullus, 293 - Cawein, Madison J., 69 - Cellini, Benvenuto, 239 - Cervantes, 306 - Chalmers, Thomas, 65 - Chamisso, Adelbert von, 25 - Channing, William E., 86 - Chapman, George, 307 - Chateaubriand, Viscomte de, 200 - Chatterton, Thomas, 252 - Chaucer, Geoffrey, 302 - Chénier, André Marie de, 235 - Cherbuliez, Victor, 164 - Chesterfield, Earl of, 211 - Chesterton, Gilbert, 126 - Child, Lydia, M., 36 - Choate, Rufus, 219 - Chorley, Henry F., 271 - Churchill, Charles, 32 - Chrysostom, St. John, 299 - Cibber, Colley, 242 - Cicero, 292 - Clare, John, 160 - Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 42 - Clarke, McDonald, 141 - Clay, Henry, 89 - Cleveland, Grover, 66 - Cobbett, William, 60 - Clough, Arthur Hugh, 3 - Coleridge, Hartley, 209 - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 230 - Colman, George, Jr., 230 - Colman, George, Sr., 101 - Collins, Mortimer, 149 - Collins, William, 278 - Collins, William Wilkie, 7 - Comenius, 72 - Comines, Philippe de, 303 - Comte, Auguste, 16 - Confucius, 287 - Congreve, William, 83 - Conrad, Joseph, 265 - Cooke, Rose Terry, 40 - Cooper, James Fenimore, 205 - Copernicus, 42 - Corneille, Pierre, 133 - Cousin, Victor, 257 - Cowley, Abraham, 315 - Cowper, William, 256 - Crabbe, George, 276 - Craik, Dinah M., 94 - Cranch, Christopher P., 60 - Crashaw, Richard, 314 - Crawford, Francis Marion, 175 - Creasy, Sir Edward S., 18 - Crébillon, Prosper de, 11 - Crockett, David, 186 - Crockett, Samuel R., 212 - Cunningham, Allan, 266 - Curtis, George William, 46 - Curtius, Ernst, 199 - - D - - Dana, Richard Henry, 250 - Dante, 301 - Darley, George, 156 - Darmesteter, Agnes M. F. R., 50 - Darmesteter, James, 73 - Darwin, Charles Robert, 37 - Daudet, Alphonse, 115 - Davenant, Sir William, 313 - Davies, Sir John, 56 - Davies, W. H., 94 - Davis, Thomas Osborne, 226 - Davy, Sir Humphry, 272 - Deffand, Madame du, 318 - Defoe, Daniel, 316 - Dekker, Thomas, 309 - Deland, Margaret, 45 - De Ligne, 113 - Demosthenes, 290 - Denham, Sir John, 312 - DeQuincey, Thomas, 186 - Descartes, René, 75 - De Vere, Sir Aubrey, 194 - DeVere, Aubrey Thomas, 8 - Dewey, Orville, 73 - Dibdin, Charles, 64 - Dickens, Charles, 33 - Diderot, Denis, 221 - Dillon, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon, 316 - Diogenes, Laertius, 298 - Disraeli, Benjamin, 274 - Disraeli, Isaac, 117 - Dobell, Sydney, 83 - Dobson, Austin, 16 - Doddridge, Philip, 147 - Dodge, Mary Mapes, 274 - Dodsley, Robert, 318 - Domett, Alfred, 118 - Donne, John, 310 - Dorr, Julia C. R., 38 - Doudney, Sarah, 13 - Dowden, Edward, 109 - Doyle, A. Conan, 120 - Drake, Joseph Rodman, 178 - Draper, John W., 110 - Drayton, Michael, 308 - Drummond, Henry, 187 - Dryden, John, 180 - Dufferin, Lady, 322 - Dumas, Alexandre, the Elder, 167 - Dumas, Alexandre, the Younger, 169 - Du Maurier, George, 59 - Dunlop, John, 70 - Dwight, John S., 115 - Dwight, Timothy, 115 - Dyer, Edward, 313 - - E - - Ebers, George, 55 - Edgeworth, Maria, 3 - Edwards, Amelia B., 134 - Edwards, Jonathan, 221 - Egan, Maurice Francis, 122 - Eggleston, Edward, 268 - Eichendorff, Joseph von, 61 - Eliot, George, 254 - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 123 - English, Thomas D., 148 - Epictetus, 296 - Erasmus, 303 - Euripides, 288 - Evelyn, John, 235 - Everett, David, 73 - Everett, Edward, 89 - - F - - Faber, Frederick W., 148 - Falconer, William, 36 - Farrar, Frederick W., 178 - Fawcett, Henry, 192 - Fénélon, 177 - Feuillet, Octave, 181 - Fichte, Johann G., 118 - Field, Eugene, 200 - Fielding, Henry, 96 - Fields, James T., 281 - Finch, Francis M., 136 - Fiske, John, 74 - Fitzgerald, Edward, 75 - Flaubert, Gustave, 269 - Fletcher, John, 273 - Foote, Samuel, 319 - Ford, John, 311 - Forster, John, 80 - Foster, John, 207 - Fouché, Joseph, 119 - France, Anatole, 92 - Francis, Sir Philip, 231 - Franklin, Benjamin, 13 - Freneau, Philip, 4 - Frere, J. H., 119 - Froebel, Friedrich, 94 - Froude, James A., 97 - Fuller, Margaret, 121 - Fuller, Thomas, 141 - - G - - Galsworthy, John, 184 - Garland, Hamlin, 206 - Garnett, Richard, 49 - Garth, Samuel, 316 - Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth C., 215 - Gautier, Théophile, 196 - Gay, John, 318 - Gibbon, Edward, 100 - Gilbert, William S., 252 - Gilder, Richard Watson, 34 - Gilfillan, Robert, 156 - Giusti, Giuseppi, 114 - Gladstone, William E., 279 - Goethe, 193 - Goldoni, Carlo, 47 - Goldsmith, Oliver, 244 - Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 234 - Gosse, Edmund, 210 - Gower, John, 302 - Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 101 - Grattan, Henry, 154 - Gray, Thomas, 278 - Greeley, Horace, 30 - Greene, Robert, 308 - Griffin, Gerald, 269 - Grillparzer, Franz, 12 - Grimm, Jacob, 5 - Griswold, R. W., 39 - Grote, George, 251 - Guérin, Eugénie de, 9 - Guizot, François, 220 - - H - - Haeckel, Ernst, 40 - Haggard, Sir Henry Rider, 143 - Hale, Edward E., 81 - Haliburton, Thomas C., 213 - Hallam, Henry, 157 - Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 157 - Hall, Bishop, 153 - Hamilton, Alexander, 9 - Hamerton, Philip G., 202 - Hardy, Thomas, 132 - Hare, A. J. C., 63 - Hare, Julius C., 204 - Harris, Joel, Chandler, 266 - Harrison, Frederic, 227 - Harte, Francis Bret, 191 - Havergal, Frances R., 271 - Hawkins, Anthony Hope, 35 - Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 155 - Hay, John, 223 - Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 4 - Hazlitt, William, 87 - Hearn, Lafcadio, 147 - Heber, Reginald, 95 - Hegel, Georg W. F., 192 - Heine, Heinrich, 269 - Helps, Sir Arthur, 159 - Hemans, Felicia, 213 - Henley, William E., 190 - Henry, Patrick, 125 - Heraclitus, 287 - Herbert, George, 80 - Herder, Johann G. von, 191 - Herodotus, 288 - Herrick, Robert, 189 - Hesiod, 285 - Heyse, Paul Ludwig, 64 - Heywood, Thomas, 311 - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 275 - Hildreth, Richard, 143 - Hippocrates, 288 - Hobbes, Thomas, 83 - Hogg, James, 263 - Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 167 - Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 195 - Home, John, 209 - Homer, 285 - Hood, Thomas, 121 - Hook, Theodore, E., 211 - Hooker, Richard, 307 - Hopkins, Mark, 31 - Hopkinson, Joseph, 248 - Horace, 293 - Horne, Richard Henry, 3 - Housman, Alfred E., 71 - Howe, Julia Ward, 123 - Howell, James, 312 - Howells, William Dean, 55 - Hughes, Thomas, 229 - Hugo, Victor, 47 - Humboldt, Alexander von, 204 - Hume, David, 100 - Hunt, Leigh, 229 - Hutcheson, Francis, 179 - Huxley, Thomas Henry, 110 - - I - - Ibsen, Henrik, 67 - Ingelow, Jean, 65 - Ingersoll, Robert G., 181 - Irving, Washington, 81 - - J - - Jackson, Helen Fiske, 228 - James, Henry, 91 - Jami, 303 - Jefferson, Thomas, 80 - Jerome, J. K., 108 - Jerrold, Douglas, 5 - Johnson, Samuel, 207 - Jonson, Ben, 310 - Joubert, Joseph, 111 - Juvenal, 296 - - K - - Kant, Emmanuel, 96 - Keats, John, 236 - Keble, John, 321 - Kemble, Frances A., 256 - Kempis, Thomas à, 302 - Kepler, Johannes, 279 - Key, Francis Scott, 179 - Khayyám, Omar, 299 - Kingsley, Charles, 139 - Kipling, Rudyard, 280 - Klopstock, Friedrich G., 153 - Knowles, James S., 120 - Kotzebue, A. F., 109 - - L - - Laboulaye, E. R. L., 15 - LaBruyère, Jean de, 196 - La Fayette, Madame de, 65 - La Fontaine, Jean de, 157 - Lamb, Charles, 35 - Lamartine, 230 - Landor, Walter S., 24 - Lang, Andrew, 76 - Lanier, Sidney, 31 - Laplace, Marquis de, 72 - Larcom, Lucy, 144 - Layard, Sir Austen Henry, 57 - Lecky, William E. H., 70 - Lee, Nathaniel, 314 - Le Gallienne, Richard, 18 - Leibnitz, G. W. von, 155 - Lemaître, François, 193 - Lemon, Mark, 259 - Le Sage, 112 - Lessing, Gotthold E. von, 19 - Lever, Charles, 196 - Lewes, George Henry, 93 - Lincoln, Abraham, 36 - Livy, 293 - Locke, John, 194 - Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 126 - Lockhart, John G., 161 - Longfellow, Henry W., 48 - Lovelace, Richard, 314 - Lover, Samuel, 321 - Lowell, James Russell, 43 - Lubbock, Sir John, 102 - Lucan, 295 - Lucian, 297 - Lucretius, 293 - Luther, Martin, 244 - Lyly, John, 307 - Lyte, Henry Francis, 131 - Lyttleton, Lord George, 319 - Lytton, Earl of, 243 - Lytle, William Haines, 239 - - M - - Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 270 - Macaulay, Lord, 233 - Macdonald, George, 245 - Machiavelli, Niccolo, 108 - Mackay, Charles, 71 - Mackenzie, Henry, 180 - Mackintosh, Sir James, 232 - Macleod, Norman, 132 - Macpherson, James, 233 - Madison, James, 64 - Maeterlinck, Maurice, 195 - Maginn, William, 246 - Mahaffy, John P., 48 - Malory, Sir Thomas, 302 - Mann, Horace, 110 - Manning, Henry Edward, 162 - Marguerite d'Angoulême, 304 - Markham, Edwin, 98 - Marlowe, Christopher, 308 - Marryat, Frederick, 158 - Martial, 298 - Martineau, Harriet, 138 - Marvell, Andrew, 75 - Massey, Gerald, 126 - Massillon, Jean Baptiste, 145 - Massinger, Philip, 311 - Masson, David, 263 - Matthews, Brander, 41 - Maupassant, Guy de, 177 - Maurice, Frederick D., 194 - Mazzini, Joseph, 148 - Meredith, George, 37 - Mérimée, Prosper, 215 - Merivale, Charles, 59 - McCarthy, Justin, 254 - McMaster, John B., 149 - Michelangelo, 58 - Michelet, Jules, 189 - Mickiewicz, Adam, 277 - Mickle, William J., 214 - Middleton, Thomas, 309 - Mill, John Stuart, 118 - Miller, Cincinnatus H., 245 - Miller, Hugh, 224 - Miller, William, 186 - Milman, Henry Hart, 36 - Milton, John, 267 - Mitchell, Donald G., 89 - Mitchell, S. Weir, 39 - Molière, 12 - Montagu, Lady, 123 - Montaigne, 50 - Montesquieu, 14 - Montgomery, James, 240 - Moody, William V., 157 - Moore, Clement Clarke, 161 - Moore, Edward, 68 - Moore, Thomas, 125 - More, Hannah, 29 - More, Sir Thomas, 33 - Morley, John, 277 - Morris, George Pope, 224 - Morris, Sir Lewis, 145 - Morris, William, 70 - Motherwell, William, 225 - Motley, John Lothrop, 90 - Moulton, Louise C., 88 - Muhlenberg, William A., 206 - Müller, Friedrich Max, 265 - Musset, Alfred de, 247 - Myers, Frederick William Henry, 32 - - N - - Nadaud, Gustave, 42 - Nairne, Lady, 320 - Neale, Walter, 18 - Newman, John Henry, 41 - Newton, Sir Isaac, 6 - Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, 193 - Noel, Thomas, 113 - Norton, Lady Caroline, 322 - Novalis, 108 - Noyes, Alfred, 207 - - O - - Oehlenschlager, Adam G., 250 - O'Keefe, John B., 145 - Oldys, William, 160 - Oliphant, Margaret Wilson, 82 - O'Mahony, Francis, 321 - O'Reilly, John Boyle, 148 - Osgood, Mrs. Frances, 141 - Otway, Thomas, 57 - Ouida, 6 - Ovid, 67 - - P - - Paine, Robert T., Jr., 267 - Paine, Thomas, 24 - Paley, William, 146 - Palfrey, John G., 108 - Palgrave, Francis T., 215 - Palmer, Ray, 248 - Pardoe, Julia, 268 - Parmenides, 286 - Parker, Theodore, 191 - Parkman, Francis, 206 - Parnell, Thomas, 317 - Parton, James, 35 - Parsons, Thomas W., 188 - Pascal, Blaise, 141 - Pater, Walter, 177 - Patmore, Coventry K. D., 166 - Paulding, James K., 190 - Payne, J. Howard, 135 - Peele, George, 306 - Pellico, Silvio, 145 - Penn, William, 225 - Pepys, Samuel, 45 - Percy, Thomas, 90 - Persius, 295 - Petöfi, Alexander, 4 - Petrarch, 164 - Phelps, William Lyon, 5 - Phillips, Stephen, 170 - Phillips, Wendell, 258 - Piatt, Sarah M., 181 - Pierpont, John, 85 - Pindar, 287 - Plato, 289 - Plautus, 291 - Pliny, the Elder, 295 - Pliny, the Younger, 297 - Plutarch, 297 - Poe, Edgar Allan, 17 - Pollok, Robert, 229 - Polybius, 291 - Pope, Alexander, 119 - Porter, Jane, 211 - Praed, Winthrop M., 168 - Prentice, George D., 273 - Prescott, William H., 109 - Preston, Harriet W., 12 - Preston, Margaret J., 273 - Priestley, Joseph, 63 - Prime, William Cowper, 236 - Prior, Matthew, 165 - Procter, Adelaide Anne, 235 - Procter, Bryan Waller, 253 - Propertius, 294 - - Q - - Quarles, Francis, 312 - Quiller-Couch, A. T., 253 - Quincy, Josiah, 20 - Quintilian, 295 - - R - - Rabelais, François, 304 - Racine, 274 - Raleigh, Sir Walter, 306 - Ramsay, Allan, 226 - Randall, James Rider, 15 - Randolph, Thomas, 140 - Read, Thomas, B., 62 - Reade, Charles, 134 - Renan, Joseph Ernest, 49 - Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 162 - Rhodes, James Ford, 107 - Rhodes, William B., 278 - Richardson, Samuel, 317 - Richter, Jean Paul, 67 - Riley, James Whitcomb, 222 - Ritchie, Lady Anne, 136 - Roberts, Charles G. D., 9 - Robertson, Frederick W., 30 - Rochefoucauld, François Duc de la, 205 - Roche, James J., 128 - Roe, E. P., 59 - Rogers, Samuel, 170 - Roland, Madame, 65 - Rollin, Charles, 24 - Roosevelt, Theodore, 234 - Rossetti, Christina G., 264 - Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 114 - Rostand, Edmond, 79 - Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 147 - Rowe, Nicholas, 149 - Ruffini, Giovanni, 201 - Ruskin, John, 34 - Rufus, Quintus, 295 - Russell, Lord John, 187 - Russell, William Clark, 46 - - S - - Sachs, Hans, 241 - Sadi, 300 - Saint Ambrose, 298 - Saint Augustine, 249 - Sainte-Beuve, 275 - Saint Bonaventura, 301 - Saint Francis D'Assisi, 300 - Saint Frances De Sales, 309 - Saintine, J. X. B., 159 - Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 16 - Saint-Simon, 13 - Saintsbury, George, 232 - Sallust, 294 - Sand, George, 153 - Sangster, Margaret E., 44 - Sappho, 286 - Sargent, Epes, 214 - Saxe, John G., 131 - Scarron, Paul, 133 - Scheffel, Joseph V. von, 39 - Schelling, Friedrich, W. 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