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”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 Sat.u.r.day 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, Yorks.h.i.+re, 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.

--_Sch.e.l.ling_.

FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON SCh.e.l.lING, 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 princ.i.p.al 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, ent.i.tled ”Alice in Wonderland,”

and ”Through the Looking-Gla.s.s.”

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.