18th. THOMAS LOVE PEAc.o.c.k, b. 18 O. 1785 I. Three Men of Gotham, 12:257-258 II. Shakespeare"s Silvia, 12:91-92 III. O Mistress Mine, 12:92 IV. Take, O Take Those Lips Away, 12:93 V. Love, 12:93-94
19th. LEIGH HUNT, b. 19 O. 1784 I. Jenny Kissed Me, 12:158 II. Abou Ben Adhem, 11:121-122 CORNWALLIS surrendered at Yorktown, 19 O. 1781 III. Tennyson"s England and America in 1782, 12:209-210
20th. I. Shakespeare"s The Fairy Life, 12:20 II. When Icicles Hang by the Wall, 12:22 III. Fear No More the Heat of the Sun, 15:37 IV. A Sea Dirge, 15:38
21st. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, b. 21 0. 1772 I. Youth and Age, 14:264-265 II. Kubla Khan, 14:80-82 III. Thompson"s Arab Love Song, 12:339
I wist all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
--ROGER ASCHAM.
OCTOBER 22ND TO 28TH
22nd. I. Shakespeare"s Crabbed Age and Youth, 12:94 II. On A Day, Alack the Day, 12:95 III. Come Away, Come Away, Death, 12:96 IV. Rittenhouse"s Ghostly Galley, 13:296 V. O"Hara"s Atropos, 15:199
23rd. I. Townsend"s Chimmie Fadden Makes Friends, 9-Pt. I:105-109 II. Tompkins"s Sham, 18:169
24th. I. Tarkington"s Beauty and the Jacobin, 18:19
25th. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, b 25 O. 1800 I. Country Gentlemen, 2-Pt. II:110-119 II. Polite Literature, 2-Pt. II:119-132 Battle of Balaclava, 25 0. 1854.
III. Tennyson"s Charge of the Light Brigade, 10:217-219 IV. Tennyson"s Charge of the Heavy Brigade, 10:219-221
26th. I. Vaughan"s Friends Departed, 15:10-11 II. Peace, 15:160-161 III. The Retreat, 15:161-162 IV. The World, 14:245-247
27th. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, b. 27 0. 1858 I. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 16-Pt. II:74-94
28th. I. Zola"s Attack on the Mill, 20-Pt. I:47-102
I never think of the name of Gutenberg without feelings of veneration and homage.
--G. S. PHILLIPS.
OCTOBER 29TH TO NOVEMBER 4TH
29th. JOHN KEATS, b. 29 O. 1795 I. Ode on a Grecian Urn, 13:137-139 II. The Eve of St. Agnes, 11:68-83
30th. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER, b. 30 O. 1825 I. A Doubting Heart, 12:312-313 II. Marlowe"s Pa.s.sionate Shepherd, 12:97-98 III. Raleigh"s Her Reply, 12:98-99 IV. The Pilgrimage, 12:314-316
31st. Hallowe"en I. Burns"s Tam O"Shanter, 11:253-260
N. 1st.
I. Bryant"s The Death of the Flowers, 14:118-120 II. The Battle-Field, 15:26-28 III. The Evening Wind, 12:50-52 IV. To a Waterfowl, 13:147-148
2nd. I. Arnold"s Rugby Chapel, 15: 97-104 II. Campion"s Cherry-Ripe, 12:103 III. Follow Your Saint, 12:103-104 IV. Vobisc.u.m est Iope, 12:105
3rd. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, b. 3 N. 1794 I. The Mosquito, 8-Pt. II:58-61 II. To the Fringed Gentian, 14:114-115 III. Song of Marion"s Men, 10:199-201 IV. Forest Hymn, 14:34-38
4th. EUGENE FIELD, d. 4 N. 1895 I. Baked Beans and Culture, 9-Pt. I:86-89 II. The Little Peach, 8-Pt. I:86 III. Dibdin"s Ghost, 9-Pt. II:44-46 IV. Dutch Lullaby, 12:250-251
To divert myself from a troublesome Fancy "tis but to run to my books ... they always receive me with the same kindness.
--MONTAIGNE.
NOVEMBER 5TH TO 11TH
5th. I. Lowell"s What Mr. Robinson Thinks, 7-Pt. I:115-117 II. Field"s The Truth About Horace, 9-Pt. I:17-18 III. The Cyclopeedy, 9-Pt. I:127-134
6th. HOLMAN F. DAY, b. 6 N. 1865 I. Tale of the Kennebec Mariner, 9-Pt. II:10-12 II. Grampy Sings a Song, 9-Pt. II:64-66 III. Cure for Homesickness, 9-Pt. II:129-130 IV. The Night After Christmas (Anonymous), 9-Pt. I:75-76
7th. I. Gibson"s The Fear, 15:216 II. Back, 15:216 III. The Return, 15:217
8th. JOHN MILTON, d. 8 N. 1674 I. Sonnets, 13:198-205 II. L"Allegro, 14:9-14 III. On Milton by Dryden, 13:272
9th. I. Lincoln"s Letter to Astor, Roosevelt, and Sands, 9 N. 1863, 5-Pt. I:119 II. Arnold"s Saint Brandan, II:137-140 III. Longing, 12:188-189 IV. Sonnets, 13:253-256
10th. HENRY VAN d.y.k.e, b. 10 N. 1852 I. Salute to the Trees, 14:290 II. The Standard Bearer, 10:307 VACHEL LINDSAY, b. 10 N. 1879 III. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, 14:298
11th. Armistice Day, 11 N. 1918 I. Wharton"s The Young Dead, 15:213 II. Meynell"s Dead Harvest, 14:292 III. Tennyson"s Locksley Hall, 14:223-238
We have known Book-love to be independent of the author and lurk in a few charmed words traced upon the t.i.tle-page by a once familiar hand.
--ANONYMOUS.
NOVEMBER 12TH TO 18TH
12th. RICHARD BAXTER, b. 12 N. 1615 I. A Hymn of Trust, 15:164-165 II. Arnold"s The Future, 14:275-278 III. Palladium, 14:278-279 IV. The Forsaken Merman, 11:291-296
13th. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, b. 13 N. 1850 I. Robert Louis Stevenson, 17-Pt. I:133-146 II. Foreign Lands, 12:248-249 III. Requiem, 15:142
14th. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, d. 14 N. 1915 I. Booker T. Washington, 17-Pt. I:172-190
15th. WILLIAM COWPER, b. 26 N. 1731 I. To Mary, 12:243-245 II. Boadicea, 10:181-182 III. Verses, 14:221-223 IV. Diverting History of John Gilpin, 11:241-251
16th. I. Cone"s Ride to the Lady, 10:311 II. Hewlett"s Soldier, Soldier, 15:212
17th. Lucknow relieved by Campbell, 17 N. 1857 I. Robert Lowell"s The Relief of Lucknow, 11:184-187 II. Roberts"s The Maid, 10:305
18th. I. Joseph Conrad, 17-Pt. I:147-166
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