THE GUIDE TO DAILY READING
Reading edition
PREPARED BY ASA DON DICKINSON
The elaborate, systematic “course of reading” is a bore. After thirty years spent among books and bookish people I have never yet met anyone who would admit that he had ploughed through such a course from beginning to end. Of course a few faithful souls, with abundant leisure, have done this, just as there are men who have walked from New York City to San Francisco. Good exercise, doubtless! But most of us have not time for feats of such questionable utility.
Yet I myself and most of the booklovers whom I know have started at one time or another to pursue a course of reading, and we have never regretted our attempts. Why? Because this is an excellent way to discover the comparatively small number of authors who have a message that we need to hear. When such an one is discovered, one may with a good conscience let the systematic course go by the board until one has absorbed all that is useful from the store of good things offered by the valuable new acquaintance.
Each one has his idiosyncrasies. If I may be permitted to allude to a personal failing, let me confess that I have never read “Paradise Lost” or “Pilgrim’s Progress.” I have hopefully dipped into them repeatedly, but—I don’t like them. Some day I hope to, but until my mind is ready for these two great world-books, I do not intend to waste time by driving through them with set teeth. There are too many other good books that I do enjoy reading. “In brief, Sir, study what you most affect.”
The “Guide to Daily Readings” which follows makes no claim to be systematic. The aim has been simply to introduce the reader to a goodly company of authors—to provide a daily flower of thought for the buttonhole, to-day a glorious rose of poetic fancy, to-morrow a pert little pansy of quaint humor.
Yet nearly all the selections are doubly significant and interesting if read upon the days to which they are especially assigned. For example, on New Year’s Day it is suggested that one set one’s house in order by reading Franklin’s “Rules of Conduct,” Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life,” Bryant’s “Thanatopsis,” and Lowell’s “To the Future”; on January 19th, Poe’s Birthday, one is directed to an excellent sketch of Poe and to typical examples of his best work, “The Raven” and “The Cask of Amontillado”; and on October 31st, Hallowe’en, one is reminded of Burns’s “Tam O’Shanter” and Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
The references are explicit in each case, so that it is a matter of only a few seconds to find each one. For example, the reference to the “Cask of Amontillado” is 4-Pt. I =67-77; which means that this tale is ten pages long and will be found in Part I of volume 4, at page 67. Excepting volumes 10-15 (Poetry), two volumes are bound in one in this set, so it should be remembered that generally there are two pages numbered 67 in each book.
The daily selections can in most cases be read in from fifteen minutes to half an hour, and Dr. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, has said that fifteen minutes a day devoted to good literature will give every man the essentials of a liberal education. If time can be found between breakfast and the work-hours for these few minutes of reading, one will receive more benefit than if it is done during the somnolent period which follows the day’s work and dinner. It is a mistake, however, to read before breakfast. Eyes and stomach are too closely related to permit of this.
Happy is he who can read these books in company with a sympathetic companion. His enjoyment of the treasure they contain will be doubled.
One final hint—when reading for something besides pastime, get in the habit of referring when necessary to dictionary, encyclopædia, and atlas. If on the subway or a railway train, jot down a memorandum of the query on the flyleaf, and look up the answer at the first opportunity.
ASA DON DICKINSON.
There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to study.
—DANIEL WYTTENBACH.
JANUARY 1ST TO 7TH
1st. I. Franklin’s Rules of Conduct, 6-Pt. II: 86-101 II. Longfellow’s Psalm of Life, 14:247-248 III. Bryant’s Thanatopsis, 15:18-20 IV. Lowell’s To the Future, 13:164-167
2nd. I. Arnold’s Self Dependence, 14:273-274 II. Adams’s Cold Wave of 32 B. C., 9-Pt. I:146 III. Thomas’s Frost To-night, 12:343
3rd. TOMASSO SALVINI, b. 1 Ja. 1829; d. 1 Ja. 1916 I. Tomasso Salvini, 17-II:80-108
4th. I. Extracts from Thackeray’s Book of Snobs, 1-Pt. I:3-37
5th. I. Ruskin’s Venice, 1-Pt. II:73-88 II. St. Marks, 1-Pt. II:91-100
6th. I. Shakespeare’s Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, 12:256-257 II. Messenger’s A Winter Wish, 12:259-261 III. Emerson’s The Snow Storm, 14:93-94 IV. Thackeray’s Nil Nisi Bonum, l-Pt. I:130-143
7th. I. Adams’s Ballad of the Thoughtless Waiter, 9-Pt. I:147 II. Us Poets, 9-Pt. I:148 III. Spenser’s Amoretti, 13:177
No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. —THOMAS CARLYLE.
JANUARY 8TH TO 14th
8th. I. Fred Trover’s Little Iron-clad, 7-Pt. II:82-105
9th. I. Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, 21-Pt. II:1-56
10th. I. Carlyle’s Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 2-Pt. I: 32-78
11th. I ALEXANDER HAMILTON, b. II Ja. 1757 Alexander Hamilton, 16-Pt. I:71-91
12th. I. Macaulay’s Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Biographer, 2-Pt. II:30-39 II. The Puritans, 2-Pt. II:23-29
13th. I. EDMUND SPENSER, d, 16 Ja. 1599 Prothalamion, 13:13-20
14th. I. Hawthorne’s Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, 3-Pt. I:3-19
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. —SIR JOHN HERSCHEL.
JANUARY 15TH TO 21ST
15th. EDWARD EVERETT, d. 15 Ja. 1865 I. Lincoln to Everett, 5-Pt. I:120 II. Irving’s Westminster Abbey, 3-Pt. II:75-92
16th. GEORGE V. HOBART, b. 16 Ja. 1867 I. John Henry at the Races, 9-Pt. II:107-113 II. Poe’s The Black Cat, 4-Pt. I:127-143
17th. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. 17 Ja. 1706 I. Poor Richard’s Almanac, 6-Pt. II:133-149 II. Maxims, 7-Pt. II:11 III. The Whistle, 6-Pt. II:156-159
18th. DANIEL WEBSTER, b. 18 Ja. 1782 I. Adams and Jefferson, 6-Pt. I:3-60
19th. EDGAR ALLAN POE, b. 19 Ja. 1809 I. Cask of Amontillado, 4-Pt. I:67-77 II. The Raven, 10:285-292 III. Edgar Allan Poe, 17-Pt. I:28-37
20th. N. P. WILLIS, b. 20 Ja. 1806 I. Miss Albina McLush, 7-Pt. I:25-29 RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, b. 20 Ja. 1866 II. May Is Building Her House, 12:328
21st. JAMES STUART, Earl of Murray, killed 21 Ja. 1570 I. The Bonny Earl of Murray, 10:21-22 II. Lincoln’s The Dred Scott Decision, 5-Pt. I:13-22 III. Fragment on Slavery, 5-Pt. I:11-12
He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour. His taste is rendered so acute as easily to distinguish the nicest shade of difference. —WILLIAM GODWIN.
JANUARY 22ND TO 28TH
22nd. LORD BYRON, b. 22 Ja. 1788 I. Macaulay’s Lord Byron the Man, 2-Pt. II: 80-94 II. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, 12:275-277 III. The Isles of Greece, 14:75-79
23rd. I. Lamb’s Dream Children, 5-Pt. II:34-40 II. On Some of the Old Actors, 5-Pt. II:52-76
24th. I. Spenser’s Epithalamium, 13:20-37
25th. ROBERT BURNS, b. 25 Ja. 1759 I. The Cotter’s Saturday Night, II:40-48 II. Robert Burns, 17-Pt. 1:43-64 II. Halleck’s Burns, 15:67-73
26th. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES, d. 26 Ja. 1849 I. Wolfram’s Dirge, 15:42-43 II. How Many Times Do I Love Thee, Dear? 12:158-159 III. Dream-Pedlary, 12:227-228 IV. Franklin’s Philosophical Experiments, 6-Pt. II:125-130
27th. JOHN McCRAE, Died in France 28 Ja. 1918 I. In Flanders Fields, 15:214
28th. HENRY MORTON STANLEY, b. 28 Ja. 1841 I. Henry Morton Stanley, 17-Pt. II:97-124
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly.... —WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.
JANUARY 29TH TO FEBRUARY 4th
29th. ADELAIDE RISTORI, b. 30 Ja. 1822 I. Adelaide Ristori, 17-Pt. II:109-119 II. Thackeray’s On Being Found Out, 1-Pt. I:104-115
30th. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, b. 30 Ja. 1775 I. Rose Aylmer,15:119 II. The Maid’s Lament, 15:119-120 III. Mother I Cannot Mind My Wheel, 12:273 IV. On His Seventy-fifth Birthday, 13:278 V. Ruskin’s The Two Boyhoods, 1-Pt. II:3-23
31st. I. Carlyle’s Essay on Biography, 2-Pt. I:3-3l
F.1st. I. Morris’s February,14:102-103 II. Belloc’s South Country,12:331 III. Early Morning, 13:294
2nd. W.R.BENET, b. 2 F. 1886 I. Tricksters, 13:288 II. Hodgson’s Eve, 11:324 III. The Gypsy Girl, 14:299
3rd. SIDNEY LANIER, b. 3 F. 1842 I. The Marshes of Glynn, 14:55-61 II. A Ballad of Trees and the Master, 12:316-317 III. The Stirrup Cup, 13:283
4th. THOMAS CARLYLE, d. 4 F. 1881 81 I. Mirabeau, 2-Pt. I:79-86 II. Ghosts, 2-Pt. I:134-137 III. Labor, 2-Pt. I:138-145
Borrow therefore, of those golden morning hours, and bestow them on your book. —EARL OF BEDFORD
FEBRUARY 5TH TO 11TH
5th. I. De Quincey’s On the Knocking at the Gate In Macbeth, 4-Pt. II:100-107
6th. SIR HENRY IRVING, b. 6 F. 1838 I. Sir Henry Irving, 17-II:39-47
7th. CHARLES DICKENS, b. 7 F. 1812 I. The Trial for Murder, 21-Pt. I:1-19
8th. JOHN RUSKIN, b. 8 F. 1819 I. The Slave Ship, 1-Pt. II:27-29 II. Art and Morals, 1-Pt. II:103-132 III. Peace, 1-Pt. II:135-137
9th. GEORGE ADE, b. 9 F. 1866 I. The Fable of the Preacher, 9-Pt. II:67-71 II. The Fable of the Caddy, 9-Pt. II:93-94 III. The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players, 9-Pt. II:13l-136
10th. SIR JOHN SUCKLING, baptized 10 F. 1609 I. Encouragements to a Lover, 13:122 II. Constancy, 12:122-123 E. W. TOWNSEND, b. 10 F. 1855 III. Chimmie Meets the Duchess, 9-Pt. I 109-114
11th. I. Brooke’s Dust, 12:341 II. 1914—V—The Soldier, 15: 228 III. Guiterman’s In the Hospital, 15:203
The scholar, only, knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. —Washington Irving.
February 12th to 18th
12th. Abraham Lincoln, b. 12 F. 1809 I. Lincoln, 16-Pt. I:93-141
13th. I. Irving’s The Stout Gentleman, 3-Pt. II: 129-145
14th. W. T. Sherman, d. 14 F. 1891 I. General William Tecumseh Sherman, 16-Pt. II:32-61
15th. Charles Bertrand Lewis (“M. Quad”) b. 15 F. 1842 I. The Patent Gas Regulator, 9-Pt. II:3-7 II. Two Cases of Grip, 8-Pt. I:50-53
16th. Joseph Hergesheimer, b. 15 F. 1880 I. A Sprig of Lemon Verbena, 22-Pt. II:1-47
17th. Josephine Dodge Daskam, b. 17 F. 1876 I. The Woman Who Was Not Athletic, 9-Pt. II:78-80 II. The Woman Who Used Her Theory, 9-Pt. II: 80-81 III. The Woman Who Helped Her Sister, 9-Pt. II:81-82
18th. I. De Quincey’s The Affliction of Childhood, 4-Pt. II:3-30
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems though all the souls of all the writers were reposing here. —CHARLES LAMB.
FEBRUARY 19TH TO 25th
19th. I. Conrad’s The Lagoon, 22-Pt. I:17-37
20th. JOSEPH JEFFERSON, b. 20 F. 1829 I. Joseph Jefferson, 17-Pt. II:3-22
21st. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, b. 21 F. 1801 I. The Pillar of the Cloud, 12:323 II. Sensitiveness, 15:183-184 III. Flowers Without Fruit, 15:184 IV. Lincoln’s Address at Cooper Institute, 5-Pt. I:37-69
22nd. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. 22 F. 1732 I. Washington, 16-Pt. I:3-42
23rd. I. Mrs. Freeman’s The Wind in the Rosebush, 20-Pt. II:12-38
24th. SAMUEL LOVER, b. 24 F. 1797 I. The Gridiron, 19-Pt. II:59-70
25th. I. Lamb’s Superannuated Man, 5-Pt. II: 80-91 II. Old China, 5-Pt. II:91-100
A little peaceful home Sounds all my wants and wishes; add to this My book and friend, and this is happiness. —FRANCESCO DI RIOJA.
FEBRUARY 26TH TO MARCH 4TH
26th. SAM WALTER FOSS, d. 26 F. 1911 I. The Prayer of Cyrus Brown, 9-Pt. II:8 II. The Meeting of the Clabberhuses, 8-Pt. I: 39-41 III. A Modern Martyrdom, 9-Pt. II: 84-86 IV. The Ideal Husband to His Wife, 9-Pt. I:103-104
27th. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, b. 27 F. 1807 I. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 17-Pt. I:3-27 II. Wreck of the Hesperus, 10:156-160 III. My Lost Youth, 12:263-266
28th. ELLEN TERRY, b. 27 F. 1848 I. Ellen Terry, 17-Pt. II:48-60
Mr.1st I. Morris’s March, 14:103-104 W. D. HOWELLS, b. 1 Mr. 1837 II. Mrs. Johnson, 8-Pt. II:107-128
2nd. I. Franklin’s Settling Down, 6-Pt. II:76-85 II. Public Affairs, 6-Pt. II:102-107
3rd. EDMUND WALLER, b. 9 Mr. 1606 I. On a Girdle, 12:132 II. Go, Lovely Rose, 12:136-137 III. De la Mare’s The Listeners, 11:327
4th. Inauguration Day I. Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 5-Pt. I:74-89
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. —HENRY WARD BEECHER.
MARCH 5TH TO 11TH
5th. FRANK NORRIS, b. 5 Mr. 1870 I. The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock, 22-Pt. II:64
6th. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, b. 6 Mr. 1806 I. Mother and Poet, 11:297-302 II. A Musical Instrument, 12: 282-283 III. The Cry of the Children, 12: 296-302
7th. I. Thackeray’s On a Lazy Idle Boy, 1-Pt. I: 41-51
8th. HENRY WARD BEECHER, d. 8 Mr. 1887 I. Deacon Marble, 7-Pt. I:13-15 II. The Deacon’s Trout, 7-Pt. I:15-16 III. Noble and the Empty Hole, 7-Pt. I:17-18
9th. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD, d. 9 Mr. 1825 I. Life, 14:260-261 II. Dunsany’s Night at an Inn, 18:I
10th. I. Ruskin’s The Mountain Gloom, 1-Pt. II: 33-56
11th. CHARLES SUMNER, d. n Mr. 1874 I. Longfellow’s Charles Sumner, 15:111-112 GILES FLETCHER, buried 11 Mr. 1611 II. Wooing Song, 12:101-102 III. Carlyle’s Reward, 2-Pt. I:146-160
Books that can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside are the best after all. —SAMUEL JOHNSON.
MARCH 12TH TO 18TH
12th. I. A Family Horse, 9-Pt. I:3-14 II. Living in the Country, 7-Pt. I:82-95
13th. I. Macaulay’s Task of the Modern Historian, 2-Pt. II:3-22 II. Puritans, 2-Pt. II:23-29
14th. HENRY IV. defeated the “Leaguers” at Ivry, 14 Mr. 1590 I. Macaulay’s Ivry, 10:194-199
15th. JOHANN LUDWIG PAUL HEYSE, b. 15 Mr. 1830 I. L’Arrabiata, 20-Pt. I:130-157
16th. WILL IRWIN, b. 15 Mr. 1876 I. The Servant Problem, 7-Pt. I:132
17th. I. Hawthorne’s The Great Stone Face, 3-Pt. I:103-135
18th. I. Roche’s The V-A-S-E, 7-Pt. II:60-61 II. Roche’s A Boston Lullaby, 8-Pt. II:78 III. A Boston Lullaby (Anon.), 7-Pt. II:105 IV. Burgess’s The Bohemians of Boston, 7-Pt. II:141-143
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. —OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
MARCH 19TH TO 25th
19th. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, d. 19 Mr. 1907 I. A Rivermouth Romance, 7-Pt. II:129-140 II. A Death Bed, 15:136-137
20th. CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, d. 20 Mr. 1903 I. Ballad, 7-Pt. II:51-52 II. Hans Breitmann’s Party, 7-Pt. I:96-97 III. De Quincey’s Levana, 4-Pt. II:145-157
21st. ROBERT SOUTHEY, d. 21 Mr. 1843 I. The Inchcape Rock, 10:153-156 II. My Days Among the Dead Are Past, 14: 261-262 III. Lincoln’s Springfield Speech, 5-Pt. I:23-36
22nd. I. Lamb’s Two Races of Men, 5-Pt. II:3-11
23rd. JOHN DAVIDSQN, disappeared 23 Mr. 1909 I. Butterflies, 12:345 II. Doyle’s Dancing Men, 22-Pt. I:63-l00
24th. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, d. 24 Mr. 1882 I. The Building of the Ship, ll:89-102 II. The Skeleton in Armor, 10:124-130 III. Resignation, 15:131-133 IV. The Arrow and the Song, 12:283-284
25th. I. Franklin’s George Whitefield, 6-Pt. II: 108-114 II. The Franklin Stove, 6-Pt. II:115-116 III. Civic Pride, 6-Pt. II:117-124 IV. Advice to a Young Tradesman, 6-Pt. II: 153-155
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learnings. —ST. PAUL.
MARCH 26TH TO APRIL 1ST
26th. A. E. HOUSMAN, b. 26 Mr. 1859 I. A Shropshire Lad-XIII, 12:340 II. Ferber’s Gay Old Dog, 22-Pt. II:81-114
27th. I. Thackeray’s Thorns in the Cushion, 1-Pt. I:51-64
28th. FOCH, made Commander Allied Armies, 28 Mr. 1918 I. Burr’s Fall In, 15:211 II. Coates’s Place de la Concorde, 15:226
29th. BONNIVARD, Prisoner of Chillon, liberated 29 Mr. 1536 I. Byron’s Prisoner of Chillon, 11:191-204
30th. DE WOLF HOPPER, b. 30 Mr. 1858 I. Casey at the Bat, 9-Pt. I:95-98 II. Butler’s Just Like a Cat, 8-Pt. I:152
31st. ANDREW MARVELL, b,. 31 Mr. 1621 I. The Garden, 14:20-22 II. Bermudas, 15:162-163 JOHN DONNE, d. 31 Mr. 1631 III. The Dream, 12:137-138 IV. The Will, 15:156-158 V. Death, 13:195-196 VI. A Burnt Ship, 13:272
Ap. 1st. AGNES REPPLIER, b. 1 Ap. 1858 I. A Plea for Humor, 8-Pt. II:3-25
Dreams, books are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils, strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
APRIL 2ND TO 8TH
2nd. I. Jefferson, 16-Pt. I:43-70 Nelson’s Victory Over the Danish Fleet, 2 Ap. 1801 II. The Battle of the Baltic, 10:189-192
3rd. WASHINGTON IRVING, b. 3 Ap. 1783 I. Wouter Van Twiller, 7-Pt. I:3-10 II. The Voyage, 3-Pt. II:61-71
4th. I. Browning’s Home Thoughts from Abroad, 12:57-58 II. Macaulay’s Byron the Poet, 2-Pt. II:94-109
5th. FRANK R. STOCKTON, b. 5 Ap. 1834 I. Pomona’s Novel, 7-Pt. II:62-81 II. A Piece of Red Calico, 8-Pt. I:105-112
6th. COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY reached the North Pole, 6 Ap. 1909 I. At the North Pole, 16-Pt. II:125-151
7th. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, b. 7 Ap. 1770 I. Landor’s To Wordsworth, 14:148-150 II. To the Cuckoo, 12:38-40 III. Daffodils, 12:41-42 IV. Tintern Abbey, 14:47-52 V. Lucy Gray, 10:255-258 VI. Arnold’s Memorial Verses, 15:77-79
8th. PHINEAS FLETCHER, baptized, 8 Ap. 1582 I. A Hymn, 12:317 ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER, b. 8 Ap.1879 II. Earth’s Easter (1915), 15:224 III. Hagedorn’s Song Is So Old, 12:337
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. —LORD BYRON.
APRIL 9TH TO 15TH
9th. I. Tennyson’s Early Spring, 14:94-96 II. Poe’s Ligeia, 4-Pt. I:37-63
10th. I. De Quincey’s The Vision of Sudden Death, 4-Pt. II:119-145
11th. NAPOLEON abdicated at Fontainebleau, 11 Ap. 1814 I. Byron’s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, 13:109-115
12th. I. Franklin’s Autobiography, 6-Pt. II:3-35
13th. I. Burns’s To a Mountain Daisy, 14:109-111 II. Lamb’s Imperfect Sympathies, 5-Pt. II:21-34
14th. LINCOLN shot by John Wilkes Booth, 14 Ap. 1865 I. Markham’s, Lincoln the Man of the People, 14:296 II. Flecker’s Dying Patriot, 10:295 III. Ballad of Camden Town, 12:347
15th. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, d. 15 Ap. 1865 I. Farewell at Springfield, 5-Pt. I:70 II. Speech to 166th Ohio Regiment, 5-Pt. I:96-97 III. Letters to Mrs. Lincoln, 5-Pt. I:113-114 IV. To Grant, 5-Pt. I:121 V. Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain! 15:105-106 Titanic Sunk, 15 Ap. 1912 VI. Van Dyke’s Heroes of the Titanic, 10:305
Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of a man—has decided his way of life. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
APRIL 16TH TO 22ND
16th. I. Herbert’s Easter, 15:152-153 II. Franklin’s Motion for Prayers, 6-Pt. II: 62-164 III. Necessary Hints, 6-Pt. II: 160-161
17th. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, d. 17 Ap. 1790 I. Franklin’s Autobiography, 6-Pt. II:35-75 DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST, b. 17 Ap. 1842 II. A Remarkable Dream, 8-Pt. I:79-80
18th. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, b. 18 Ap. 1864 I. Mr. Travers’s First Hunt, 22-Pt. I:135 II. A Slave to Duty, 8-Pt. I:66-67
19th. Battles of Lexington and Concord, 19 Ap. 1775 I. Emerson’s Concord Hymn, 12:218-219 Siege of Ratisbon, 19-23 Ap. 1809 II. Browning’s Incident of the French Camp, 10:213-214
20th. I. Campbell’s Ye Mariners of England, 10: 150-151 II. Lincoln’s Response to Serenade, 5-Pt. I: 98-100 WILLIAM H. DAVIS, b. 20 Ap. 1870 III. Davies’s Catharine, 11:327
21st. CHARLOTTE BRONTË, b. 21 Ap. 1816 I. Charlotte Brontë, 17-Pt. I:121-132 II. Thackeray’s De Juventute, 1-Pt. I:65-87
22nd. I. Riley’s The Elf-Child, 8-Pt. I:34-36 II. A Liz-Town Humorist, 8-Pt. I:48-49 III. Carlyle’s The Watch Tower, 2-Pt. I:129-133 UNITED STATES DAY CELEBRATED IN FRANCE 22 Ap. 1917 IV. Van Dyke’s The Name of France, 15:224
Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From my own library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
APRIL 23RD TO 29TH
23rd. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, b. 23 (?) Ap. 1564; d/ 23 Ap. 1616 I. When Daises Pied, 12:18-19 II. Under the Greenwood Tree, 12:21 III. Hark, Hark, The Lark, 12:97 IV. Milton’s Epitaph on Shakespeare, 15:44 V. Stratford-on-Avon, 3-Pt. II:151-181
24th. JAMES T. FIELDS, d. 24 Ap. 1881 I. The Owl-Critic, 7-Pt. I: 41-44 II. The Alarmed Skipper, 7-Pt. I:75-76 LORD DUNSANY, wounded 25 Ap. 1916 III. Songs from an Evil Wood, 15:221
25th. OLIVER CROMWELL, b. 25 Ap. 1599 I. Marvell’s Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland, 13:54-59 II. To the Lord General Cromwell, 13:201-202 JOHN KEBLE, b. 25 Ap. 1792 III. Morning, 15:173-175 IV. Evening, 15:175-177
26th. CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (Artemus Ward,) b. 26 Ap. 1834 I. One of Mr. Ward’s Business Letters, 8-Pt. II:68-69 II. On Forts, 8-Pt. II:69-71 III. Among the Spirits, 8-Pt. I:81-85
27th. U. S. GRANT, b. 27 Ap. 1822 I. General Ulysses Simpson Grant, 16—Pt. II: 3-30
28th. 28 Ap. 1864 “Tell Tad the Goats are Well.” I. Lincoln’s Telegram to Mrs. Lincoln, 5—Pt. I:114 II. The Last Address in Public, April 11, 1865, 5—Pt. I:102-106
29th. E. R. SILL, b. 29 Ap. 1841 I. Five Lives, 7—Pt. I:39-40 II. Eve’s Daughter, 9—Pt. I:102 III. Opportunity, 11:106 IV. The Fool’s Prayer, 11:263-264.
I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner.... Why have we none for books? —CHARLES LAMB.
APRIL 30th TO MAY 6TH
April 30th. I. Peck’s Bessie Brown, M. D., 8-Pt. II:81-82 II. A Kiss in the Rain, 9-Pt. II:83 III. Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher, 4-Pt. I:3-34
May 1st. I. Morris’s May, 14:104-105 Battle of Manila Bay, I My. 1898 II. Ware’s Manila, 8-Pt. I:173 S.S. Lusitania torpedoed I My. 1916 III. Graves’s It’s a Queer Time, 15:219 HARRY LEON WILSON, b. I My. 1867 IV. Ruggles and Fate, 22-Pt. II:115
2nd. I. Lowell’s To the Dandelion, 14:116-118 II. Lamb’s Farewell to Tobacco, 5-Pt. II:149-154 III. She Is Going, 5-Pt. II:154
3rd. I. Browning’s Two in the Campagna, 14:187-189 II. Franklin’s Letters, 6-Pt. II:167-178
4th. RICHARD HOVEY, b. 4 My. 1864 I. The Sea Gypsy, 12:334 II. Braithwaite’s Sic Vita, 12:343 III. Sandy Star, 12:346
5th. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, b. 5 My. 1890 I. Rhubarb, 22-Pt. II:56
6th. ABBÉ VOGLER, d. 6 My. 1814 I. Abt Vogler, 14:177-183 ROBERT EDWIN PEARY, b. 6 My. 1857 II. Robert E. Peary, 16-Pt. II:125-146
Where a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by: it is good and made by a good workman. —JEAN BE LA BRUYÈRE.
MAY 7TH TO 13TH
7th. ROBERT BROWNING, b. 7 My. 1812 I. Landor’s To Robert Browning, 14:151-152 II. A King Lived Long Ago, 11:9-11 III. Evelyn Hope, 15:121-123 IV. How They Brought the Good News, 10:130-134 V. A Woman’s Last Word, 14:189-191
8th. I. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 13:184-195 II. Peabody’s Fortune and Men’s Eyes, 18:89
9th. J. M. BARRIE, b. 9 My. 1860 I. The Courting of T’Nowhead’s Bell, 20-Pt. I:1-29
10th. HENRY M. STANLEY, d. 10 My. 1904 I. In Darkest Africa, 16-Pt. II:97-124
11th. I. Wordsworth’s The Green Linnet, 14:106-108 GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY, b. 12 My. 1855 II. At Gibraltar, 13:290
12th. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, b. 12 My. 1828 I. The Blessed Damozel, 10:58-63 II. The Sonnet, 13:176-177 III. The House of Life, 13:257-264
13th. ALPHONSE DAUDET, b. 13 My. 1840 I. The Siege of Berlin, 21-Pt. I:129-138
Learn to be good readers—which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in. —THOMAS CARLYLE.
MAY 14TH TO 20TH
14th. “Mother’s Day” (2d Sunday in May) I. Branch’s Songs for My Mother, 14:300 II. Emerson’s Each and All, 14:262-263 III. Carlyle’s Battle of Dunbar, 2-Pt. I:142-159
15th. I. Thackeray’s On Letts’s Diary, 1-Pt. I:115-130
16th. HONORÉ DE BALZAC, b. 20 My. 1799 I. A Passion in the Desert, 21-Pt. II:107-129
17th. I. Thackeray’s On a Joke I Once Heard, l-Pt. I:89-104
18th. I. Browning’s May and Death, 15:123-124 II. Galsworthy’s The Little Man, 18:227
19th. Battle of La Hogue 19 My. 1692 (N. S. 29 My. 1692) I. Browning’s Hervé Riel, 10:162-168 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, d. 19 My. 1864 II. The Great Carbuncle, 20-Pt. II:30-52
20th. I. Gerstenberg’s Overtones, 18:139
At this day, as much company as I have kept, and as much as I love it, I love reading better. —ALEXANDER POPE.
MAY 21ST TO 27TH
21st. ALEXANDER POPE, b. 21 My. 1688 I. On a Certain Lady at Court, 13:272-273 II. The Dying Christian to His Soul, 15:169 III. The Universal Prayer, 15:166-168 JAMES GRAHAM, Marquis of Montrose, d. 21 My. 1650 IV. The Execution of Montrose, 10:270-277
22nd. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, b. 22 My. 1859 I. The Dancing Men, 22-Pt. I:63
23rd. THOMAS HOOD, b. 23 My. 1799 I. Flowers, 12:53-54 II. I Remember, I Remember, 12:269-270 III. The Song of the Shirt, 12:292-295 IV. The Bridge of Sighs, 15:124-128 V. The Dream of Eugene Aram, 11:265-273
24th. RICHARD MANSFIELD, b. 24 My. 1857 I. Richard Mansfield, 17-Pt. II:61-79
25th. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, b. 25 My. 1803 I. The Rhodora, 14:115 II. The Titmouse, 12:66-69 III. The Problem, 14:268-271 IV. Lincoln’s The Whigs and the Mexican War, 5-Pt. I:3-6 V. Notes for a Law Lecture, 5-Pt. I:7-10
26th. I. Bret Harte’s Melons, 7-Pt. II:41-50 II. The Society upon the Stanislaus, 7-Pt. II:57-59
27th. I. Lady Dufferin’s The Lament of the Irish Emigrant, 15:128-130 II. Hawthorne’s Wakefield, 3-Pt. I:85-99
All the best experience of humanity, folded, saved, freighted to us here! Some of these tiny ships we call Old and New Testaments, Homer, Aeschylus, Plato, Juvenal, etc. Precious Minims! —WALT WHITMAN.
MAY 28TH TO JUNE 3RD
28th. THOMAS MOORE, b. 28 My. 1779 I. As Slow Our Ship, 12:232-233 II. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, 12:157-158 III. The Lake of the Dismal Swamp, 11:83-85 IV. Oft in the Stilly Night, 12:271-272 V. Fly to the Desert, 12:155-157 VI. Canadian Boat Song, 12:233-234
29th I. De Quincey’s Pleasures of Opium, 4-Pt. II:31-73
30th. Memorial Day I. Hale’s The Man Without a Country, 21-Pt. II:57-95
31st. WALT WHITMAN, b. 31 My. 1819 I. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 14: 120-129
Je. 1st. HENRY FRANCIS LYTE, b. 1 Je. 1793 I. Abide With Me, 15:180-181 JOHN DRINKWATER, b. 1 Je. 1882 II. Birthright, 15:199 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, killed in a street brawl, 1 Je. 1593 III. Porcelain Cups, 22-Pt. I:38-62
2nd. J. G. SAXE, b. 2 Je. 1816 I. Early Rising II. The Coquette III. The Stammering Wife IV. My Familiar, THOMAS HARDY, b. 2 Je. 1840 V. Hardy’s The Oxen, 15:201
3rd. I. Hood’s It Was Not in the Winter, II. Lamb’s Letters,
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most. —PLUTARCH.
JUNE 4TH TO 10th
4th. I. Thackeray’s Dennis Haggarty’s Wife, 21-Pt. I:20-52
5th. O. HENRY, d. 5 Je. 1910 I. The Furnished Room, 22-Pt. I:140
6th. ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, b. 6 Je. 1868 I. Captain Scott’s Last Struggle, 16-Pt. II: 152-159
7th. EDWIN BOOTH, d. 7 Je. 1893 I. Edwin Booth, 17-Pt. II:23-38
8th. I. Lamb’s Letters, 5-Pt. II:103-106
9th. CHARLES DICKENS, d. 9 Je. 1870 I. Charles Dickens, 17-Pt. I:99-120
10th. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, d. 10 Je. 1909 I. My Double and How He Undid Me, 8-Pt. I:124-142
If an author be worthy of anything, he is worth bottoming. It may be all very well to skim milk, for the cream lies on the top; but who could skim Lord Byron? —GEORGE SEARLE PHILLIPS.
JUNE 11TH TO 17TH
11th. I. Wells’s Tragedy of a Theatre Hat, 9-Pt. II:50-55 II. One Week,9-Pt. II:151 III. The Poster Girl, 8-Pt. II:92-93 IV. A Memory, 9-Pt. I:116-117
12th. CHARLES KINGSLEY, b. 12 Je. 1819 I. Oh! That We Two Were Maying, 12:175-176 II. The Last Buccaneer, 14:240-242 III. The Sands of Dee, 10:261-262 IV. The Three Fishers, 10:262-263 V. Lorraine, 11:306-308
13th. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, b. 13 Je. 1865 I. Ballad of Father Gilligan, 10:314 II. Fiddler of Dooney, 14:310
14th. Flag Day I. Whittier’s Barbara Frietchie, 10:210-213 II. Key’s Star-Spangled Banner, 12:213-215 III. Drake’s American Flag, 12:215-217 IV. Holmes’s Old Ironsides, 12:217-218
15th. I. Leacock’s My Financial Career, 9-Pt. II:19-23 II. Hawthorne’s Gray Champion, 3-Pt. I:139-152
16th. I. Lanigan’s The Villager and the Snake, 9-Pt-I:19 II. The Amateur Orlando, 9-Pt. I:26-30 III. The Ahkoond of Swat, 8-Pt. I: 37-38
17th. JOSEPH ADDISON, d. 17 Je. 1719 I. The Voice of the Heavens, 15:165-166 II. Poe’s MS. Found in a Bottle, 4-Pt. I:105-123 III. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, 5-Pt. I:90-93 IV. Ship of State and Pilot, 5-Pt. I:94-95
Sitting last winter among my books, and walled around with all the comfort and protection which they and my fireside could afford me—to wit, a table of higher piled books at my back, my writing desk on one side of me, some shelves on the other, and the feeling of the warm fire at my feet—I began to consider how I loved the authors of those books. —LEIGH HUNT.
JUNE 18th TO 24TH
18th. I. Hawthorne’s Ethan Brand, 3-Pt. I:55-82
19th. RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, d. Aug. 11, 1885 I. The Brook-Side, 12:177-178 II. The Men of Old, 14:133-135 III. Lincoln’s Speech in Independence Hall, 5-Pt. I:71-73 IV. To the Workingmen of Manchester, 5-Pt. I:115-117
20th. I. Longfellow’s Hymn to the Night, 12:46-47 II. The Light of the Stars, 12:48-49 III. Daybreak, 12:49-50 IV. Seaweed, 14:88-89 V. The Village Blacksmith, 14:165-166
21st. HENRY GUY CARLETON, b. 21 Je. 1856 I. The Thompson Street Poker Club, 7-Pt. II: 116-121 II. Munkittrick’s Patriotic Tourist, 9-Pt. II: 47-48 III. What’s in a Name, 9-Pt. II:103-104 IV. ’Tis Ever Thus, 9-Pt. II:152
22nd. ALAN SEEGER, b. 22 Je. 1888 I. I Have a Rendezvous with Death, 15:215 II. O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi, 22-Pt. II:48
23rd. I. Longfellow’s The Day Is Done, 12:240-242. II. The Beleaguered City, 14:249-251 III. The Bridge, 12:279-282 IV. Whittier’s Ichabod, 14:154-156 V. Maud Muller, 11:219-224
24th. AMBROSE BIERCE, b. 24 Je. 1842 I. The Dog and the Bees, 7-Pt. II:10 II. The Man and the Goose, 9-Pt. I:85 Battle of Bannockburn, 24 Je. 1314 III. Burns’s Bannockburn, 12:198-199 IV. My Heart’s in the Highlands, 12:36-37 V. The Banks of Doon, 12:146-147
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
JUNE 25TH TO JULY 1ST
25th. I. Goodman’s Eugenically Speaking, 18:193
26th. I. Burns’s Elegy, 15:61-64 II. Mary Morison, 12: 147-148 III. Oh! Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley? 12:148-149 IV. O, My Love’s Like a Red, Red Rose, 12:149-150 V. Ae Fond Kiss, 12:150-151
27th. HELEN KELLER, b. 27 Je. 1880 I. Helen Keller, 17-Pt. I:167-171 II. Garrison’s A Love Song, 12:338
28th. I. Lincoln’s Letter to Bryant, 5—Pt. I:122-123 II. Burns’s Of A’ the Airts, 12:151 III. Highland Mary, 12:152-153 IV. A Farewell, 12:199-200 V. It Was A’ for Our Rightfu’ King, 12:200-201
29th. I. The Pit and the Pendulum, 21-Pt. I:139-162
30th. I. Burns’s John Anderson My Jo, 12:245-246 II. Thou Lingering Star, 12:270-271 III. Lines Written on a Banknote, 13:273-274 IV. Byron’s Darkness, 11:102-105 V. Oh! Snatch’d Away in Beauty’s Bloom, 15:113-114
Jl. 1st. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, d. 1 Jl. 1896 I. The Minister’s Wooing, 8-Pt. II:97-106
A library is not worth anything without a catalogue; it is a Polyphemus without an eye in his head—and you must confront the difficulties whatever they may be, of making a proper catalogue. —Thomas Carlyle.
July 2nd to 8th
2nd. Richard Henry Stoddard, b. 2 Jl. 1825 I. There Are Gains for All Our Losses, 12:267 II. The Sky, 13:281 III. Byron’s Ode on Venice, 13:115-121 IV. Stanzas for Music, 12:162-163 V. When We Two Parted, 12: 163-164
3rd. Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Oilman, b. 3 Jl. 1860 I. Similar Cases, 9-Pt. I:53-57 II. Byron’s She Walks in Beauty, 12:164-165 III. Destruction of Sennacherib, 11:183-184 IV. Sonnet on Chillon, 13:222
4th. Nathaniel Hawthorne, b. 4 Jl. 1804 I. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 17-Pt. I.74-98 Declaration of Independence, 4 Jl. 1776 II. Emerson’s Ode, 13:167-169
5th. I. Emerson’s Waldeinsamkeit, 14:39-41 II. The World Soul, 12:59-63 III. To the Humblebee, 12:64-66 IV. The Forerunners, 14:265-267 V. Brahma, 14:271
6th. I. Macdonald’s Earl o’ Quarterdeck, 10:300
7th. I. Markham’s Man with the Hoe, 14:294
8th. Shelley drowned, 8 Jl. 1822 I. Memorabilia, 14:151 II. Hawthorne’s The Minister’s Black Veil, 21-Pt. I:107-128
For my part I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most. —JULIUS C. HARE.
JULY 9TH TO 15TH
9th. I. Browning’s The Statue and the Bust, II: 273-284 II. The Lost Leader, 12:289-290 III. The Patriot, II:290-291
10th. ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE, b. 10 Jl. 1861 I. Mis’ Smith, 8-Pt. II:77 F. P. DUNNE, (“Mr. Dooley”), b. 10 Jl. 1867 II. Home Life of Geniuses, 9-Pt. II:56-62 III. The City as a Summer Resort, 9-Pt. II:138-144
11th. I. Burdette’s Vacation of Mustapha, 8-Pt. I:3-7 II. The Legend of Mimir, 8-Pt. I:68-69 III. The Artless Prattle of Childhood, 7-Pt. II. 106-112 IV. Rheumatism Movement Cure, 8-Pt. II:37-43
12th. B. P. SHILLABER, b. 12 Jl. 1814 I. Fancy Diseases, 7-Pt. I:32 II. Bailed Out, 7-Pt. I:33 III. Masson’s My Subway Guard Friend, 9-Pt. I:140
13th. I. Mukerji’s Judgment of Indra, 18:257
14th. The Bastille Destroyed, 14 Jl. 1789 I. Carlyle’s The Flight to Varennes from “The French Revolution,” 2-Pt. I:87-110
15th. Battle of Château Thierry, 15 Jl. 1918 I. Grenfell’s Into Battle, 15:217 II. Keats’s La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 10:85-87 III. Ode to a Nightingale, 13:132-135 IV. Ode, 13:135-137 V. Ode to Psyche, 13:139-141 VI. Fancy, 13:143-146
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity; the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions at night, in travelling, in the country. —CICERO.
JULY 16TH TO 22ND
16th. ROALD AMUNDSEN, b. 16 Jl. 1872 I. Amundsen, 16-Pt. II:147-15l II. Masefield’s Sea Fever, 12:334
17th. I. Keats’s Robin Hood, 14: 146-148 II. Sonnets, 13:223-227 III. Shelley’s Hymn of Pan, 12:44-45 IV. Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, 14: 61-73 V. Stanzas Written in Dejection, 14:73-75
18th. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, b. 18 Jl. 1811 I. De Finibus, 1-Pt. I:143-157 II. Ballads, 1-Pt. I:161-164
19th. I. Derby’s Illustrated Newspaper, 7-Pt. II: 11-19 II. Tushmaker’s Toothpuller, 7-Pt. II:53-56 III. Burdette’s Romance of the Carpet, 9-Pt. I: 38-40
20th. JEAN INGELOW, d.20 Jl.1897 I. High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 10:263-269 II. Shelley’s The Cloud, 14:90-93 III. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 13:121-124 IV. To a Skylark, 13:124-129 V. Arethusa, 11:140-143
21st. Robert Burns, d. 21 Jl. 1796 I. Thoughts, 15:65-67 II. Shelley’s Love’s Philosophy, 12:160 III. I Fear Thy Kisses, 12:161 IV. To——, 12:161-162 V. To—-, 12:162
22nd. I. Shelley’s Ozymandias of Egypt, 13:222-223 II. Song, 12:225-226 III. When the Lamp Is Shattered, 12:274-275 IV. Tennyson’s The Gardener’s Daughter, II:17-28 V. The Deserted House, 15:23-24
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. —BACON.
July 23rd to 29th
23rd. U. S. Grant, d. 23 Jl. 1885 I. Lincoln to Grant, 5-Pt. I:121 II. Tennyson’s Ulysses, 14:175-177 III. Ask Me No More, 12:180 IV. The Splendor Falls, 12:181 V. Come into the Garden, Maud, 12:182-184 VI. Sir Galahad, 14: 184-186
24th. John Newton, b. 24 Jl. 1725. I. The Quiet Heart, 15:170 II. Tennyson’s The Miller’s Daughter, II:31-40 III. The Oak, 14:41 IV. Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere, 10:51-53 V. Song, 12:54-55
25th. I. Tennyson’s The Throstle, 12:55-56 II. A Small, Sweet Idyl, 14:79-80 III. Merlin and the Gleam, II:122-127 IV. The Lotos-Eaters, 14:135-143 V. Mariana, 14:162-164
26th. I. Stevenson’s Markheim, 20-Pt. I:103-129
27th. Thomas Campbell, b. 27 Jl. 1777 I. The Soldier’s Dream, 10:186-187 II. Lord Ullin’s Daughter, 10:259-261 III. How Delicious Is the Winning, 12:165-166 IV. To the Evening Star, 12:47
28th. ABRAHAM COWLEY, d. 28 Jl. 1667 I. A Supplication, 13:59-60 II. On the Death of Mr. William Hervey, 15:80-86 JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE VISCOUNT DUNDEE, d. 28 Jl. 1689 III. Scott’s Bonny Dundee, 10:183-186
29th. DON MARQUIS, b. 29 Jl. 1878 I. Chant Royal of the Dejected Dipsomaniac, 9-Pt. I:143 BOOTH TARKINGTON, b. 29 Jl. 1869 II. Overwhelming Saturday, 22-Pt. I:101
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells. —COWPER.
July 30th to August 5th
30th. JOYCE KILMER, killed in action, 30 Jl. 1918 I. A Ballad of Three, 10:311 II. Trees, 12:329 III. Noyes’s The May Tree, 12:327
31st. I. Tennyson’s Song of the Brook, 14:99-101 II. O That ’t Were Possible, 12:185-188 III. Morte d’Arthur, 11:204-215 IV. Sweet and Low, 12:249-250 V. Will, 14:259-260
Ag. 1st I. Tennyson’s Rizpah, 10:279-285 II. The Children’s Hospital, 11:310-315 III. Break, Break, Break, 12:320 IV. In the Valley of Cauteretz, 12:321 V. Wages, 12:321-322 VI. Crossing the Bar, 12:324 VII. Flower in the Crannied Wall, 13:280
2nd. I. Browning’s Love Among the Ruins, 11:28-31 II. My Star, 12:58-59 III. From Pippa Passes, 12:59 IV. The Boy and the Angel, 11:133-137 V. Epilogue, 15: 143-144
3rd. H. C. BUNNER, b. 3 Ag. 1855 I. Behold the Deeds! 7-Pt. II:123-125 II. The Love Letters of Smith, 8-Pt. I:89-104
4th. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, b. 4 Ag. 1792 I. The Sensitive Plant, 11:54-68 II. To Night, 12:43-44 III. The Indian Serenade, 12:159-160
5th. GUY DE MAUPASSANT, b. 5 Ag. 1850 I. The Piece of String, 21-Pt. II:96-106 II. The Necklace, 21-Pt. I:94-106
Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. —LORD MACAULAY.
AUGUST 6th to 12th
6th. ALFRED TENNYSON, b. 6 Ag. 1809 I. Alfred Tennyson, 17-Pt. I:38-42 II. Dora, 11:11-17 III. The Lady of Shalott, 10:73-79
7th. JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, b. 7 Ag. 1795 I. Halleck’s Joseph Rodman Drake, 15:104-105 II. Browning’s Prospice, 15:145-146 III. Pied Piper, 11:163-173 IV. Meeting at Night, 12:189-190 V. Parting at Morning, 12:190
8th. SARA TEASDALE, b. 8 Ag. 1884 I. Teasdale’s Blue Squills, 12:327 II. The Return, 12:338 III. Browning’s Misconceptions, 12:190-191 IV. Rabbi Ben Ezra, 14:191-199
9th. JOHN DRYDEN, b. 9 Ag. 1631 I. Alexander’s Feast, 13:63-70 II. Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love! 12:140-141 III. The Elixir, 15:150-151 IV. Discipline, 15:151-152 V. The Pulley, 15:153-154
10th. WITTER BYNNER, b. 10 Ag. 1881 I. Sentence, 13:295 II. Browning’s Soul, 14:199-221 III. Herrick’s To Blossoms, 12:33-34 IV. To Daffodils, 12:34 V. To Violets, 12:35
11th. I. Herrick’s To Meadows, 12:35-36 II. Lacrimæ, 15:41-42 III. The Primrose, 12:124 IV. Litany, 15:158-160 V. Lowell’s Madonna of the Evening Flowers, 11:319
12th. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, d. 12 Ag. 1891 I. Rhoecus, 11:127-13 3 II. The Courtin’, 11:230-233 III. The Yankee Recruit, 7-Pt. I:52-60
Give us a house furnished with books rather than with furniture. Both if you can, but books at any rate! —HENRY WARD BEECHER.
AUGUST 13TH TO 19TH
13th. Battle of Blenheim, 13 Ag. 1704 I. Southey’s After Blenheim, 10:192-194 II. De Quincey’s Going Down with Victory, 4-Pt. II: 107-119
14th. JOHN FLETCHER, d. 14 Ag. 1785 I. Love’s Emblems, 12:29-30 II. Hear, Ye Ladies, 12:132-133 III. Melancholy, 12:278-279 IV. Lodge’s Rosalind’s Madrigal, 12:83-84 V. Rosalind’s Description, 12:84-86
15th. THOMAS DE QUINCEY, b. 15 Ag. 1785 I. The Pains of Opium, 4-Pt. II:73-100
16th. BARONESS NAIRNE (Carolina Oliphant), b. 16 Ag. 1766 I. The Laird o’ Cockpen, 11:251-252 II. The Land o’ the Leal, 12:311-312 III. Cather’s Grandmither, Think Not I Forget, 14:313
17th. I. Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers, 19-Pt. II:1-58
18th. I. Longfellow’s Rain in Summer, 14:96-99 II. Herrick’s Corinna’s Going a-Maying, 12:30-33 III. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind, 13:129-132
19th. Battle of Otterburn, 19 Ag. 1388 I. The Battle of Otterburn, 10:171-176
Books make up no small part of human happiness. —FREDERICK THE GREAT (in youth).
My latest passion will be for literature. —FREDERICK THE GREAT (in old age).
AUGUST 20TH TO 26TH
20th. MARCO BOZZARIS,fell 20 Ag. 1823 I. Halleck’s Marco Bozzaris, 11:187-191 II. Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal, 11:107-121
21st. MARY MAPES DODGE, d. 21 Ag. 1905 I. Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question, 7-Pt. 11:20-24 II. Lowell’s Letter from a Candidate, 7-Pt. II:29-32
22nd. Royal Standard Raised at Nottingham, 22 Ag. 1642 I. Browning’s Cavalier Tunes, 12:205-208 II. Milton’s Il Penseroso, 14:14-19 III. Lycidas, 15:52-58
23rd. EDGAR LEE MASTERS, b. 23 Ag. 1869 I. Isaiah Beethoven, 14:308 II. Hardy’s She Hears the Storm, 14:312 III. Wheelock’s The Unknown Beloved, 10:309
24th. ROBERT HERRICK, baptized 24 Ag. 1591 I. To Dianeme, 12:123 II. Upon Julia’s Clothes, 12:124 III. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 12:125 IV. Delight in Disorder, 12:125-126 V. To Anthea, 12:126-127 VI. To Daisies, 12:127 VII. The Night Piece, 12:128
25th. BRET HARTE, b. 25 Ag. 1839 I. Plain Language from Truthful James, II:234-236 II. The Outcasts of Poker Flat, 20-Pt. I:30-46 III. Ramon, 11:285-288 IV. Her Letter, 8-Pt. I:113-115
26th. I. Holley’s An Unmarried Female, 8-Pt. II: 26-36
We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions. —HENRY FIELDING.
AUGUST 27TH TO SEPTEMBER 2ND
27th. I. Scott’s Coronach, 15:33-34 II. Lochinvar, 10:36-39 III. A Weary Lot Is Thine, 10:40-41 IV. County Guy, 12:154-155 V. Hail to the Chief, 12:203-204
28th. LEO TOLSTOI, b. 28 Ag. 1828 I. The Prisoner in the Caucasus, 19-Pt. I:141-186
29th. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,b. 29Ag. 1809;d. I. The Ballad of the Oysterman, 7-Pt. I:105-106 II. My Aunt, 7-Pt. I:23-24 III. Foreign Correspondence, 7-Pt. I:77-80 IV. The Chambered Nautilus, 14:108-109 The Royal George lost 29 Ag. 1782 V. Cowper’s On the Loss of the Royal George, 10:148-149
30th. I. Scott’s Brignall Banks, 10:41-43 II. Hunting Song, 12:230-231 III. Soldier Rest, 12:277-278 IV. Proud Maisie, 10:258 V. Harp of the North, 12:286-287
31st. THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, b. 31 Ag. 1811 I. The Mummy’s Foot, 19-Pt. I:90-108
S. 1ST. SIMEON FORD, b. 31 Ag. 1855 I. At a Turkish Bath, 9-Pt. II:74-77 II. The Discomforts of Travel, 9-Pt. II: 123-127 III. Boyhood in a New England Hotel, 9-Pt. I:123-126
2nd. AUSTIN DOBSON, d. 2 S. 1921 I. Ballad of Prose and Rhyme, 12:335 II. Carman’s Vagabond Song, 12:330 III. Colum’s Old Woman of the Roads, 14:311 IV. Peabody’s House and the Road, 12:344 V. Daly’s Inscription for a Fireplace, 13:294
Old wood best to burn; old wine to drink; old friends to trust; and old authors to read. —ALONZO OF ARAGON.
SEPTEMBER 3RD TO 9TH
3rd. IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENIEFF, d. 3 S.1883 I. The Song of Triumphant Love, 19-Pt. I: 109-140 II. Wordsworth’s Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept, 3, 1802, 13:211
4th. SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE, d. 4 (?) S. 1591 I. Tennyson’s The Revenge, 10:222-229 II. Wordsworth’s To the Skylark, 12:40-41 III. On a Picture of Peele Castle, 14:44-47
5th. I. Some Messages Received by Teachers in Brooklyn Public Schools, 7-Pt. II:144-147 II. Emerson’s Labor, 2-Pt. I:138-145
6th. I. Wordsworth’s Resolution and Independence, 11:48-54 II. Yarrow Unvisited, 14:53-55 III. Intimations of Immortality, 13:89-96 IV. Ode to Duty, 13:96-98 V. The Small Celandine, 14:112-113
7th. I. Milton’s Echo, 12:25-26 II. Sabrina, 12:26-27 III. The Spirit’s Epilogue, 12:27-29 IV. On Time, 13:52-53 V. At a Solemn Music, 13:53-54
8th. I. Wordsworth’s Lucy, 15:114-118 II. Hart-Leap Well, 10:134-142 SIEGFRIED SASSOON, b. 8 S. 1886 III. Dreamers, 15:223
9th. SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, drowned 9 S. 1583 I. Longfellow’s Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 10:160-161 Battle of Flodden Field, 9 S. 1513 II. Elliot’s A Lament for Flodden, 10:251-252 III. Wordsworth’s Stepping Westward, 14:158-159 IV. She Was A Phantom of Delight, 14:159-160 V. Scorn Not the Sonnet, 13:175-176
To desire to have many books, and never use them, is like a child that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping. —HENRY PEACHAM.
SEPTEMBER 10TH TO 16TH
10th. I. Wordsworth’s Nuns Fret Not, 13:175 II. Lines, 14:253-255 III. We Are Seven, 10:252-255
11th. JAMES THOMSON, b. II S. 1700 I. Rule Britannia, 12:208-209 II. Collins’s On the Death of Thomson, 15:59-60 III. Lowell’s A Winter Ride, 12:331 IV. MacKaye’s The Automobile, 13:290
12th. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, b. 12 S. 1829 I. Plumbers, 8-Pt. I:150-151 II. My Summer in a Garden, 7-Pt. I:6l-74 III. How I Killed a Bear, 9-Pt. I:59-70
13th. GENERAL AMBROSE EVERETT BURNSIDE, d. 13 S. 1881 I. Lincoln’s Letter to Burnside, 5-Pt. I:118 II. Collins’s Ode Written in 1745, 15:34 III. The Passions, 13:81-85 IV. Ode to Evening, 13:85-88 V. Dirge in Cymbeline, 15:112-113
14th. DUKE OF WELLINGTON, d. 14 S. 1852 I. Tennyson’s Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, 13:151-161 DANTE, d. 14 S. 1321 II. Longfellow’s Dante and Divina Comedia, 13:239-244 III. Parsons’s On a Bust of Dante, 14:152-154
15th. I. Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper, 14:160-161 II. Jonson’s Hymn to Diana, 12:14 III. Pindaric Ode, 13:37-42 IV. Epitaph, 15:46-47 V. On Elizabeth L. H., 15:47
16th. ALFRED NOYES, b. 16 S. 1880 I. Old Grey Squirrel, 14:306 JOHN GAY, baptized 16 S. 1685 II. Black-Eyed Susan, 10:32-34 CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS, b. 16 S. 1861 III. O-U-G-H, 7-Pt. I:143
It does not matter how many, but how good, books you have. —SENECA.
SEPTEMBER 17TH to 23RD
17th. I. Turner’s The Harvest Moon, 13:249 II. Letty’s Globe, 13:245-246 III. Mary, A Reminiscence, 13:246-247 IV. Her First-born, 13:247-248 V. The Lattice at Sunrise, 13:248
18th. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, b. 18 S. 1709 I. Macaulay’s Dr. Samuel Johnson, 2-Pt. II:39-79
19th. HARTLEY COLERIDGE, b. 19 S. 1796 I. Song, 12:166-167 II. Sonnets, 13:227-230 III. Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight, 14:22-25 IV. Love, 10:44-47 V. France: An Ode, 13:99-103
20th. WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE, d. 20 S. 1863 I. Antony to Cleopatra, 14:238-240 II. Hood’s The Death Bed, 15:131 III. Autumn, 13:148-150 IV. Ruth, 14:157-158 V. Fair Ines, 12:168-169
21st. SIR WALTER SCOTT, d. 21 S. 1832 I. Sir Walter Scott, 17-Pt. I:65-73 II. The Maid of Neidpath, 10:39-40 III. Pibroch of Donald Dhu, 12:201-203 IV. Wandering Willie’s Tale, 20-Pt. II:75-103
22nd. I. Wordsworth’s My Heart Leaps Up, 13:274 II. Laodamia, 11:143-150 III. There Was a Boy, 14:156-157
23rd. Battle of Monterey, 23 S. 1846 I. Hoffman’s Monterey, 10:206-207 II. Lovelace’s The Grasshopper, 12:30 III. To Lucasta, 12:129-130 IV. To Althea, 12:130-131 V. To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, 12:198
The words of the good are like a staff in a slippery place. —HINDU SAYING.
SEPTEMBER 24TH TO 30TH
24th. I. Noyes’s Creation, 15:204
25th. FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS, b. 25 S. 1793 I. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, 10:151-153 II. Poe’s Annabel Lee, 10:56-57 III. To Helen, 12:176 IV. The Bells, 12:234-238 V. For Annie, 12:305-308
26th. I. Holmes’s Latter-Day Warnings, 7-Pt. I:34-35 II. Contentment, 7-Pt. I:35-38 III. An Aphorism, 8-Pt. II:44-52 IV. Music Pounding, 7-Pt. I:80-81
27th. I. Holmes’s The Height of the Ridiculous, 8-Pt. I:118-119 II. The Last Leaf, 14:167-168 III. The One-Hoss Shay, 11:236-241
28th. I. Morley’s Haunting Beauty of Strychnine, 9-Pt. I:135 II. Guiterman’s Strictly Germ-Proof, 7-Pt. I:141 III. Burgess’s Lazy Roof, 8-Pt. I:149 IV. My Feet, 8-Pt. I:149
29th. ÉMILE ZOLA, d. 29 S. 1902 I. The Death of Olivier Bécaille, 21-Pt. I:53-93
30th. I. Lowell’s Without and Within, 8-Pt. II:72-73 II. She Came and Went, 15:134 III. The Sower, 14:144-145 IV. Sonnets, 13:251-253 V. What Rabbi Jehosha Said, 14:282-283
If you are reading a piece of thoroughly good literature, Baron Rothschild may possibly be as well occupied as you—he is certainly not better occupied. —P. G. HAMERTON.
OCTOBER 1ST TO 7TH
1st. LOUIS UNTERMYER, b. 1 O. 1885 I. Only of Thee and Me, 12:339 II. Morris’s October, 14:105-106 III. Bunner’s Candor, 8-Pt. I:11-12
2nd. French Fleet destroyed off Boston, October, 1746 I. Longfellow’s Ballad of the French Fleet, 10:202-204 II. Mrs. Browning’s Sleep, 15:21-23 III. The Romance of the Swan’s Nest, 10:79-83 IV. A Dead Rose, 12:191-192 V. A Man’s Requirements, 12:192-194
3rd. WILLIAM MORRIS, d. 3 0. 1896 I. Summer Dawn, 12:172 II. The Nymph’s Song to Hylas, 12:173-174 III. The Voice of Toil, 12:290-292 IV. The Shameful Death, 10:277-279
4th. HENRY CAREY, d. 4 O. 1743 I. Sally in Our Alley, 12:142-144 II. Van Dyke’s The Proud Lady, 10:296
5th. I. Poe’s Ulalume, II:302-306 II. Arnold’s The Last Word, 15:43 III. A Nameless Epitaph, 15:48 IV. Thyrsis, 15:86-97 V. Requiescat, 15:120-121
6th. GEORGE HENRY BOKER, b. 6 O. 1893 I. The Black Regiment, 10:207-210 II. Lamb’s Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:129-132 III. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:136-143 IV. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:143-145
7th. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, d. 7 O. 1586 I. The Bargain, 12:87 II. Astrophel and Stella, 13:178-180 III. To Sir Philip Sidney’s Soul, 13:181 EDGAR ALLAN POE, d. 7 O. 1849 IV. The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Pt. I:1-53
A little before you go to sleep read something that is exquisite and worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall asleep. —ERASMUS.
OCTOBER 8TH TO 14TH
8th. JOHN HAY, b. 8 O. 1838 I. Little Breeches, 7-Pt. I:45-47 EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, b. 8 0. 1833. II. The Diamond Wedding, 7-Pt. I:107-114
9th. S. W. GILLILAN, b. O. 1869 I. Finnigin to Flannigan, 9-Pt. I:92-93 II. Dunne’s On Expert Testimony, 9-Pt. II:13-16 III. Work and Sport, 9-Pt. II:87-92 IV. Avarice and Generosity, 9-Pt. II:144-146
10th. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, d. 10 0. 1872 I. Lincoln’s Letter to Seward, 5-Pt. I:111-112 II. Walker’s Medicine Show, 18:213
11th. I. Keats’s To Autumn, 13:142-143 II. Carew’s Epitaph, 15:48 III. Disdain Returned, 12:133-134 IV. Song, 12:134 V. To His Inconstant Mistress, 12:135
12th. ROBERT E. LEE, d. 12 O. 1870 I. Robert E. Lee, 16-Pt. II:62-73 DINAH MULOCK CRAIK, d. 12 O. 1887. II. Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True 12:310-311
13th. SIR HENRY IRVING, d. 13 O. 1905 I. Sir Henry Irving, 17-Pt. II:39-47
14th. JOSH BILLINGS (H. W. SHAW), d. 14 O. 1885 I. Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats, 7-Pt. I:48-51 II. To Correspondents, 9-Pt. I:73-74 III. Russell’s Origin of the Banjo, 9-Pt. I:79-82
And when a man is at home and happy with a book, sitting by his fireside, he must be a churl if he does not communicate that happiness. Let him read now and then to his wife and children. —H. FRISWELL.
OCTOBER 15TH TO 21ST
15th. I. Tennyson’s Tears, Idle Tears, 12:272-273 II. Shakespeare’s Over Hill, Over Dale, 12:19 III. Poe’s Assignation, 4-Pt. I:81-101
16th. I. Nye’s How to Hunt the Fox, 8-Pt. I:70-78 II. A Fatal Thirst, 7-Pt. II:148-150 III. On Cyclones, 9-Pt. I:83-85
17th. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, d. 17 O. 1910 I. Gloucester Moors, 11:320
18th. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, b. 18 O. 1785 I. Three Men of Gotham, 12:257-258 II. Shakespeare’s Silvia, 12:91-92 III. O Mistress Mine, 12:92 IV. Take, O Take Those Lips Away, 12:93 V. Love, 12:93-94
19th. LEIGH HUNT, b. 19 O. 1784 I. Jenny Kissed Me, 12:158 II. Abou Ben Adhem, 11:121-122 CORNWALLIS surrendered at Yorktown, 19 O. 1781 III. Tennyson’s England and America in 1782, 12:209-210
20th. I. Shakespeare’s The Fairy Life, 12:20 II. When Icicles Hang by the Wall, 12:22 III. Fear No More the Heat of the Sun, 15:37 IV. A Sea Dirge, 15:38
21st. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, b. 21 0. 1772 I. Youth and Age, 14:264-265 II. Kubla Khan, 14:80-82 III. Thompson’s Arab Love Song, 12:339
I wist all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. —ROGER ASCHAM.
OCTOBER 22ND TO 28TH
22nd. I. Shakespeare’s Crabbed Age and Youth, 12:94 II. On A Day, Alack the Day, 12:95 III. Come Away, Come Away, Death, 12:96 IV. Rittenhouse’s Ghostly Galley, 13:296 V. O’Hara’s Atropos, 15:199
23rd. I. Townsend’s Chimmie Fadden Makes Friends, 9-Pt. I:105-109 II. Tompkins’s Sham, 18:169
24th. I. Tarkington’s Beauty and the Jacobin, 18:19
25th. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, b 25 O. 1800 I. Country Gentlemen, 2-Pt. II:110-119 II. Polite Literature, 2-Pt. II:119-132 Battle of Balaclava, 25 0. 1854. III. Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, 10:217-219 IV. Tennyson’s Charge of the Heavy Brigade, 10:219-221
26th. I. Vaughan’s Friends Departed, 15:10-11 II. Peace, 15:160-161 III. The Retreat, 15:161-162 IV. The World, 14:245-247
27th. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, b. 27 0. 1858 I. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 16-Pt. II:74-94
28th. I. Zola’s Attack on the Mill, 20-Pt. I:47-102
I never think of the name of Gutenberg without feelings of veneration and homage. —G. S. PHILLIPS.
OCTOBER 29TH TO NOVEMBER 4TH
29th. JOHN KEATS, b. 29 O. 1795 I. Ode on a Grecian Urn, 13:137-139 II. The Eve of St. Agnes, 11:68-83
30th. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER, b. 30 O. 1825 I. A Doubting Heart, 12:312-313 II. Marlowe’s Passionate Shepherd, 12:97-98 III. Raleigh’s Her Reply, 12:98-99 IV. The Pilgrimage, 12:314-316
31st. Hallowe’en I. Burns’s Tam O’Shanter, 11:253-260
N. 1st. I. Bryant’s The Death of the Flowers, 14:118-120 II. The Battle-Field, 15:26-28 III. The Evening Wind, 12:50-52 IV. To a Waterfowl, 13:147-148
2nd. I. Arnold’s Rugby Chapel, 15: 97-104 II. Campion’s Cherry-Ripe, 12:103 III. Follow Your Saint, 12:103-104 IV. Vobiscum est Iope, 12:105
3rd. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, b. 3 N. 1794 I. The Mosquito, 8-Pt. II:58-61 II. To the Fringed Gentian, 14:114-115 III. Song of Marion’s Men, 10:199-201 IV. Forest Hymn, 14:34-38
4th. EUGENE FIELD, d. 4 N. 1895 I. Baked Beans and Culture, 9-Pt. I:86-89 II. The Little Peach, 8-Pt. I:86 III. Dibdin’s Ghost, 9-Pt. II:44-46 IV. Dutch Lullaby, 12:250-251
To divert myself from a troublesome Fancy ’tis but to run to my books ... they always receive me with the same kindness. —MONTAIGNE.
NOVEMBER 5TH TO 11TH
5th. I. Lowell’s What Mr. Robinson Thinks, 7-Pt. I:115-117 II. Field’s The Truth About Horace, 9-Pt. I:17-18 III. The Cyclopeedy, 9-Pt. I:127-134
6th. HOLMAN F. DAY, b. 6 N. 1865 I. Tale of the Kennebec Mariner, 9-Pt. II:10-12 II. Grampy Sings a Song, 9-Pt. II:64-66 III. Cure for Homesickness, 9-Pt. II:129-130 IV. The Night After Christmas (Anonymous), 9-Pt. I:75-76
7th. I. Gibson’s The Fear, 15:216 II. Back, 15:216 III. The Return, 15:217
8th. JOHN MILTON, d. 8 N. 1674 I. Sonnets, 13:198-205 II. L’Allegro, 14:9-14 III. On Milton by Dryden, 13:272
9th. I. Lincoln’s Letter to Astor, Roosevelt, and Sands, 9 N. 1863, 5-Pt. I:119 II. Arnold’s Saint Brandan, II:137-140 III. Longing, 12:188-189 IV. Sonnets, 13:253-256
10th. HENRY VAN DYKE, b. 10 N. 1852 I. Salute to the Trees, 14:290 II. The Standard Bearer, 10:307 VACHEL LINDSAY, b. 10 N. 1879 III. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, 14:298
11th. Armistice Day, 11 N. 1918 I. Wharton’s The Young Dead, 15:213 II. Meynell’s Dead Harvest, 14:292 III. Tennyson’s Locksley Hall, 14:223-238
We have known Book-love to be independent of the author and lurk in a few charmed words traced upon the title-page by a once familiar hand. —ANONYMOUS.
NOVEMBER 12TH TO 18TH
12th. RICHARD BAXTER, b. 12 N. 1615 I. A Hymn of Trust, 15:164-165 II. Arnold’s The Future, 14:275-278 III. Palladium, 14:278-279 IV. The Forsaken Merman, 11:291-296
13th. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, b. 13 N. 1850 I. Robert Louis Stevenson, 17-Pt. I:133-146 II. Foreign Lands, 12:248-249 III. Requiem, 15:142
14th. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, d. 14 N. 1915 I. Booker T. Washington, 17-Pt. I:172-190
15th. WILLIAM COWPER, b. 26 N. 1731 I. To Mary, 12:243-245 II. Boadicea, 10:181-182 III. Verses, 14:221-223 IV. Diverting History of John Gilpin, 11:241-251
16th. I. Cone’s Ride to the Lady, 10:311 II. Hewlett’s Soldier, Soldier, 15:212
17th. Lucknow relieved by Campbell, 17 N. 1857 I. Robert Lowell’s The Relief of Lucknow, 11:184-187 II. Roberts’s The Maid, 10:305
18th. I. Joseph Conrad, 17-Pt. I:147-166
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. —LORD BACON.
NOVEMBER 19TH TO 25TH
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 Petition 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 Molière— 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 WASHINGTON 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 Washington, 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
5th. CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI, b. 5 D. 1830 I. One Certainty, 13:265 II. Up-Hill, 12:322-323 III. Hayne’s In Harbor, 15:142-143 IV. Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon, 13:265-266 V. Goldsmith’s When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly, 13:273
6th. R. H. BARHAM, b. 6 D. 1788 I. The Jackdaw of Rheims, 11:173-179
7th. CALE YOUNG RICE, b. 7 D. 1872 I. Chant of the Colorado, 14:291 ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, b. 7 D. 1784 II. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, 12:73-74 III. Hame, Hame, Hame, 12:309-310 IV. Bailey’s After the Funeral, 8-Pt. I:42-44 V. What He Wanted It For, 9-Pt. I:90-91
8th. I. A Visit to Brigham Young, 9-Pt. I:47-52
9th. STEPHEN PHILLIPS, d. 9 D. 1915 I. Harold before Senlac, 14:315
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasures that God has prepared for his creatures.... It lasts when all other pleasures fade. —TROLLOPE.
DECEMBER 10TH TO 16TH
10th. EMILY DICKINSON, b. 10 D. 1830 I. Our Share of Night to Bear, 13:282 II. Heart, We Will Forget Him, 13:282 III. Ruskin’s Mountain Glory, 1-Pt. II:59-69
11th. I. Webster’s Reply to Hayne, 6-Pt. I:63-105
12th. I. Herford’s Gold, 9-Pt. II:9 II. Child’s Natural History, 9-Pt. II:37-39 III. Metaphysics, 9-Pt. II:128 IV. The End of the World, 9-Pt. I:120-122
13th. WILLIAM DRUMMOND, b. 13 D. 1585 I. Invocation, 12:24-25 II. “I Know That All Beneath the Moon Decays,” 13:196-197 III. For the Baptist, 13:197 IV. To His Lute, 13:198 V. Browne’s The Siren’s Song, 12:23 VI. A Welcome, 12:111-112 VII. My Choice, 12:112-113
14th. CHARLES WOLFE, b. 14 D. 1791 I. The Burial of Sir John Moore, 15:31-33 II. Clough’s In a Lecture Room, 14:272 III. Qua Cursum Ventus, 12:317-318 IV. Davis’s Souls, 14:317
15th. I. Mrs. Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, 13:232-239
16th. GEORGE SANTAYANA, b. 16 D. 1863 I. “As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room,” 13:287 II. MacMillan’s Shadowed Star, 18:273
When there is no recreation or business for thee abroad, thou may’st have a company of honest old fellows in their leathern jackets in thy study which will find thee excellent divertisement at home. —THOMAS FULLER.
DECEMBER 17TH TO 23RD
17th. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, b. 17 D. 1807 I. Amy Wentworth, 10:53-56 II. The Barefoot Boy, 14:169-172 III. My Psalm, 15:180-191 IV. The Eternal Goodness, 15:192-196 V. Telling the Bees, 11:308-310
18th. PHILIP FRENEAU, d. 18 D. 1832 I. The Wild Honeysuckle, 14:113-114 L. G. C. A. CHATRIAN, b. 18 D. 1826 II. The Comet, 20-Pt. II:104-114
19th. BAYARD TAYLOR, d. 19 D. 1878 I. Palabras Grandiosas, 9-Pt. I:58 II. Bedouin Love Song, 12:174-175 III. The Song of the Camp, 11:288-290 IV. W. B. Scott’s Glenkindie, 10:48-51
20th. I. Ford’s The Society Reporter’s Christmas, 8-Pt. I:57-65 II. The Dying Gag, 9-Pt. II:119-122
21st. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, d. 21 D. 1375 I. The Falcon, 20-Pt. II:1-11
22nd. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, b. 22 D. 1869 I. Miniver Cheevy, 7-Pt. I:147 II. Vickery’s Mountain, 14:303 III. Richard Cory, 14:309
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 Noël, 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. Shelley’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