The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII

by Unknown

THE GUIDE TO DAILY READING

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