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