To desire to have many books, and never use them, is like a child that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping.
—HENRY PEACHAM.
SEPTEMBER 10TH TO 16TH
10th. I. Wordsworth’s Nuns Fret Not, 13:175
II. Lines, 14:253-255
III. We Are Seven, 10:252-255
11th. JAMES THOMSON, b. II S. 1700
I. Rule Britannia, 12:208-209
II. Collins’s On the Death of Thomson, 15:59-60
III. Lowell’s A Winter Ride, 12:331
IV. MacKaye’s The Automobile, 13:290
12th. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, b. 12 S. 1829
I. Plumbers, 8-Pt. I:150-151
II. My Summer in a Garden, 7-Pt. I:6l-74
III. How I Killed a Bear, 9-Pt. I:59-70
13th. GENERAL AMBROSE EVERETT BURNSIDE, d. 13 S. 1881
I. Lincoln’s Letter to Burnside, 5-Pt. I:118
II. Collins’s Ode Written in 1745, 15:34
III. The Passions, 13:81-85
IV. Ode to Evening, 13:85-88
V. Dirge in Cymbeline, 15:112-113
14th. DUKE OF WELLINGTON, d. 14 S. 1852
I. Tennyson’s Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,
13:151-161
DANTE, d. 14 S. 1321
II. Longfellow’s Dante and Divina Comedia, 13:239-244
III. Parsons’s On a Bust of Dante, 14:152-154
15th. I. Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper, 14:160-161
II. Jonson’s Hymn to Diana, 12:14
III. Pindaric Ode, 13:37-42
IV. Epitaph, 15:46-47
V. On Elizabeth L. H., 15:47
16th. ALFRED NOYES, b. 16 S. 1880
I. Old Grey Squirrel, 14:306
JOHN GAY, baptized 16 S. 1685
II. Black-Eyed Susan, 10:32-34
CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS, b. 16 S. 1861
III. O-U-G-H, 7-Pt. I:143
It does not matter how many, but how good, books you have.
—SENECA.