Part 12 (1/2)

19th. I. Lincoln's Gettyburg Address, 5-Pt. I: 107-108

20th. THOMAS CHATTERTON, b. 20 N. 1752 I. Minstrel's Song, 15:40-41 CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE, b. 20 N. 1829 II. Irish Astronomy, 8-Pt. II:79-80 III. Davis's The First Piano in a Mining-Camp, 9-Pt. I:34-44 IV. Dunne's On Gold Seeking, 9-Pt. I:99-102

21st. VOLTAIRE, b. 21 N. 1694 I. Jeannot and Colin, 22-Pt. I:1-16 BRYAN WALLER PROCTER (Barry Cornwall), b. 21 N. 1787 II. The Sea, 12:72-73 III. The Poet's Song to His Wife, 12:242-243 IV. A Pet.i.tion to Time, 12:252

22nd. St. Cecilia's Day, Nov. 22nd.

I. Dryden's Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 13:61-63 II. O May I Join the Choir Invisible, 15:185-186 JACK LONDON, d. 22 N. 1916 III. Jan the Unrepentant, 22-Pt. II:136

23rd. I. Carryl's The Walloping Window Blind, 9-Pt. II:35-36 II. Marble's The Hoosier and the Salt-pile, 8-Pt. II:62-67

24th. I. Arnold's Growing Old, 14:281-282 II. Lyly's Spring's Welcome, 12:15 III. Cupid and Campaspe, 12:86 IV. Lindsay's Auld Robin Gray, 10:30-32

25th. I. Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, 3-Pt. II:37-57

Montaigne with his sheepskin blistered, And Howell the worse for wear, And the worm-drilled Jesuit's Horace, And the little old cropped Moliere-- And the Burton I bought for a florin, And the Rabelais foxed and flea'd-- For the others I never have opened, But those are the ones I read.

--AUSTIN DOBSON.

NOVEMBER 26th TO DECEMBER 2ND

26th. COVENTRY PATMORE, d. 26 N. 1896 I. To the Unknown Eros, 13:169-171 II. The Toys, 15:140-141 III. Lamb's The Old Familiar Faces, 15:73-74 IV. Hester, 15:75-76

27th. I. Wordsworth's Influence of Natural Objects, 14:251-253 RIDGELEY TORRENCE, b. 27 N. 1875 II. Torrence's Evensong, 12:346 III. Burt's Resurgam, 13:292

28th. WILLIAM BLAKE, b. 28 N. 1757 I. The Tiger, 12:42-43 II. Piping Down the Valleys, 12:246 III. The Golden Door, 15:172 WAs.h.i.+NGTON IRVING. d. 28 N. 1859 IV. Rip Van Winkle, 19-Pt. II:71-96

29th. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, b. 29 N. 1832 I. Street Scenes in Was.h.i.+ngton, 8-Pt. II:74-76 JOHN G. NEIHARDT, married 29 N. 1908 II. Envoi, 15:200 III. Cheney's Happiest Heart, 14:318 IV. Dargan's There's Rosemary, 13:287

30th. SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (Mark Twain), b. 30 N. 1835 I. Colonel Mulberry Sellers, 7-Pt. II:31-40 II. The Notorious Jumping Frog, 7-Pt. I:122-131

D. 1st.

I. Keats's In a Drear-Nighted December, 12:268 II. Gray's Progress of Poesy, 13:76-80 III. Doyle's Private of the Buffs, 11:284-285

2nd. I. Lowell's The First Snow-Fail, 15:135-136 II. Daniel's Love Is a Sickness, 12:108 III. Delia, 13:181-182 IV. Darley's Song, 12:170-171

When evening has arrived, I return home, and go into my study....

For hours together, the miseries of life no longer annoy me; I forget every vexation; I do not fear poverty; for I have altogether transferred myself to those with whom I hold converse.

--MACHIAVELLI.

DECEMBER 3RD TO 9TH

3rd. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, b. 3 D. 1826 I. Lincoln's Letter to McClellan, 5-Pt. I:109-110 Battle of Hohenlinden, 3 D. 1800 II. Campbell's Hohenlinden, 10:188-189 ROBERT Louis STEVENSON, d. 3 D. 1894 III. Providence and the Guitar, 19-Pt. II: 96-138

4th. I. Sudermann's The Gooseherd, 20-Pt. II:62-74