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