Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n’ai point d’autre crainte.[1]
“Athalie,” Act. i, Sc. I,—Racine.
Jean Baptiste Racine, the illustrious French dramatist, was born at La Ferté-Milon, December 21, 1639, and died at Paris, April 26, 1699. His greatest works were: “The Thebaid,” “The Pleaders,” “Alexander,” “Berenice,” “Bajazet,” “Esther,” “Athalie,” “Mithridates,” “Iphigenia,” “The Chaplain’s Wig,” “Phædra,” “Nymphs of the Seine,” “Letters,” and “Abridgment of the History of Port Royal,” his last dramatic work.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
“Endymion,” Chap. lxx,—Benjamin Disraeli.
Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, an eminent English statesman and novelist, was born in London, December 21, 1804, and died April 19, 1881. Among his celebrated works are: “The Young Duke,” “Vivian Grey,” “Venetia,” “The Rise of Iskander,” “Henrietta Temple,” “The Revolutionary Epic,” “Sibyl,” “Tancred,” “Lothair,” and “Endymion.”
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
“Short Studies of American Authors: Henry James, Jr.,”—T. W. Higginson.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a distinguished American poet, essayist and novelist, was born in Cambridge, Mass., December 22, 1823, and died in 1911. Among his writings are: “Atlantic Essays,” “Out-Door Papers,” “The Afternoon Landscape,” “Life of Margaret Fuller,” “Short Studies of American Authors,” “Young Folks’ History of the United States,” “Concerning All of Us,” “Cheerful Yesterdays,” “Old Cambridge,” “Contemporaries,” “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” “Part of a Man’s Life,” “Life of Stephen Higginson,” etc.
I have a liking old
For thee, though manifold
Stories, I know, are told
Not to thy credit.