George Crabbe, a celebrated English poet, was born in Aldborough, Suffolk, December 24, 1754, and died at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, February 3, 1832. His most famous poems are: “The Parish Register,” “The Village,” “Tales in Verse,” and “The Borough.”
Still so gently o’er me stealing,
Mem’ry will bring back the feeling,
Spite of all my grief revealing
That I love thee,—that I dearly love thee still.
“La Sonnambula,”—Scribe.
Augustin Eugène Scribe, a distinguished French dramatist, was born in Paris, December 24, 1791, and died February 20, 1861. His collected “Œuvres,” (76 vols. 1874-85), contains all his works.
She is fair as the spirit of light,
That floats in the ether on high.
—Adam Mickiewicz.
Adam Mickiewicz, the most celebrated of Slavic poets, was born near Novogròdek, Lithuania, December 24, 1798, and died at Constantinople, November 26, 1855. Among his famous works are: “Crimean Sonnets,” “Lectures on Slavic Literature,” “The Books of the Polish People and of the Polish Pilgrimage,” the ballad, “Dziady,” and three famous epics: “Pan Tadeusz,” “Conrad Wallenrod,” and “Grazyna.”
There is no better motto which it (culture) can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, “To make reason and the will of God prevail.”
“Culture and Anarchy,”—Matthew Arnold.
Matthew Arnold, an eminent English poet, essayist and critic, was born at Laleham, December 24, 1822, and died at Liverpool, April 15, 1888. His principal works are: “Empedocles on Etna,” “The Strayed Reveler and Other Poems,” “New Poems,” “Essays in Criticism,” “Lectures on the Study of Celtic Literature,” “Culture and Anarchy,” “Friendship’s Garland,” “Mixed Essays,” “Irish Essays,” “Last Essays on Church and Religion,” and “Discourses on America.”