Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
—LORD BACON.
NOVEMBER 19TH TO 25TH
19th. I. Lincoln’s Gettyburg Address, 5-Pt. I: 107-108
20th. THOMAS CHATTERTON, b. 20 N. 1752
I. Minstrel’s Song, 15:40-41
CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE, b. 20 N. 1829
II. Irish Astronomy, 8-Pt. II:79-80
III. Davis’s The First Piano in a Mining-Camp, 9-Pt. I:34-44
IV. Dunne’s On Gold Seeking, 9-Pt. I:99-102
21st. VOLTAIRE, b. 21 N. 1694
I. Jeannot and Colin, 22-Pt. I:1-16
BRYAN WALLER PROCTER (Barry Cornwall),
b. 21 N. 1787
II. The Sea, 12:72-73
III. The Poet’s Song to His Wife, 12:242-243
IV. A Petition to Time, 12:252
22nd. St. Cecilia’s Day, Nov. 22nd.
I. Dryden’s Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 13:61-63
II. O May I Join the Choir Invisible, 15:185-186
JACK LONDON, d. 22 N. 1916
III. Jan the Unrepentant, 22-Pt. II:136
23rd. I. Carryl’s The Walloping Window Blind, 9-Pt. II:35-36
II. Marble’s The Hoosier and the Salt-pile, 8-Pt. II:62-67
24th. I. Arnold’s Growing Old, 14:281-282
II. Lyly’s Spring’s Welcome, 12:15
III. Cupid and Campaspe, 12:86
IV. Lindsay’s Auld Robin Gray, 10:30-32
25th. I. Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker, 3-Pt. II:37-57
Montaigne with his sheepskin blistered,
And Howell the worse for wear,
And the worm-drilled Jesuit’s Horace,
And the little old cropped Molière—
And the Burton I bought for a florin,
And the Rabelais foxed and flea’d—
For the others I never have opened,
But those are the ones I read.
—AUSTIN DOBSON.