Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
—RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
JUNE 25TH TO JULY 1ST
25th. I. Goodman’s Eugenically Speaking, 18:193
26th. I. Burns’s Elegy, 15:61-64
II. Mary Morison, 12: 147-148
III. Oh! Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley? 12:148-149
IV. O, My Love’s Like a Red, Red Rose, 12:149-150
V. Ae Fond Kiss, 12:150-151
27th. HELEN KELLER, b. 27 Je. 1880
I. Helen Keller, 17-Pt. I:167-171
II. Garrison’s A Love Song, 12:338
28th. I. Lincoln’s Letter to Bryant, 5—Pt. I:122-123
II. Burns’s Of A’ the Airts, 12:151
III. Highland Mary, 12:152-153
IV. A Farewell, 12:199-200
V. It Was A’ for Our Rightfu’ King, 12:200-201
29th. I. The Pit and the Pendulum, 21-Pt. I:139-162
30th. I. Burns’s John Anderson My Jo, 12:245-246
II. Thou Lingering Star, 12:270-271
III. Lines Written on a Banknote, 13:273-274
IV. Byron’s Darkness, 11:102-105
V. Oh! Snatch’d Away in Beauty’s Bloom, 15:113-114
Jl. 1st. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, d. 1 Jl. 1896
I. The Minister’s Wooing, 8-Pt. II:97-106
A library is not worth anything without a catalogue; it is a Polyphemus without an eye in his head—and you must confront the difficulties whatever they may be, of making a proper catalogue.
—Thomas Carlyle.