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