Part 13 (1/1)

23rd. MICHAEL DRAYTON, d. 23 D. 1631 I. Idea, 13:182 II. Agincourt, 10:176-181 III. Stevenson's The Whaups, 12:70 IV. Youth and Love, 12:231

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books; and valuable books should, in a civilized country, be within the reach of every one.

--JOHN RUSKIN.

DECEMBER 24TH TO 31ST

24th. Christmas Eve I. Guiney's Tryste Noel, 15:202 II. Rossetti's My Sister's Sleep, 15:137-139 MATTHEW ARNOLD, b. 24 D. 1822 III. Dover Beach, 14:279-280 IV. Philomela, 12:56-57

25th. I. Milton's Ode on The Morning of Christ's Nativity, 13:42-43 II. Thackeray's The Mahogany Tree, 12:252-254 III. Thackeray's The End of the Play, 14:283-286 IV. Domett's A Christmas Hymn, 15:178-179

26th. THOMAS GRAY, b. 26 D. 1716 I. Elegy, 15:12-17 II. Ode to Adversity, 13:70-72 III. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 13:72-76

27th. CHARLES LAMB, d. 27 D. 1834 I. Landor's To the Sister of Elia, 15:76-77 II. A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, 5-Pt. II:40-51 III. Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading, 5-Pt. II 70-79

28th. I. Hawthorne's The Birthmark, 3-Pt. I:23-51

29th. JOHN VANCE CHENEY, b,. 29 D. 1848 I. Cheney's Happiest Heart, 14:318 II. Emerson's Terminus, 14:267-268 III. Clough's Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, 14:272-273 IV. Lamb's Old Familiar Faces, 15:73-74

30th. RUDYARD KIPLING, b. 30 D. 1865 I. Without Benefit of Clergy, 19-Pt. I:54-89

31st. I. Sh.e.l.ley's The World's Great Age Begins Anew, 12:284-286 II. Burns's Auld Lang Syne, 12:261-262 III. Lowell's To the Past, 13:161-163 IV. Lamb's New Year's Eve, 5-Pt. II:11-21