23rd. MICHAEL DRAYTON, d. 23 D. 1631 I. Idea, 13:182 II. Agincourt, 10:176-181 III. Stevenson"s The Whaups, 12:70 IV. Youth and Love, 12:231
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books; and valuable books should, in a civilized country, be within the reach of every one.
--JOHN RUSKIN.
DECEMBER 24TH TO 31ST
24th. Christmas Eve I. Guiney"s Tryste Noel, 15:202 II. Rossetti"s My Sister"s Sleep, 15:137-139 MATTHEW ARNOLD, b. 24 D. 1822 III. Dover Beach, 14:279-280 IV. Philomela, 12:56-57
25th. I. Milton"s Ode on The Morning of Christ"s Nativity, 13:42-43 II. Thackeray"s The Mahogany Tree, 12:252-254 III. Thackeray"s The End of the Play, 14:283-286 IV. Domett"s A Christmas Hymn, 15:178-179
26th. THOMAS GRAY, b. 26 D. 1716 I. Elegy, 15:12-17 II. Ode to Adversity, 13:70-72 III. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 13:72-76
27th. CHARLES LAMB, d. 27 D. 1834 I. Landor"s To the Sister of Elia, 15:76-77 II. A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, 5-Pt. II:40-51 III. Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading, 5-Pt. II 70-79
28th. I. Hawthorne"s The Birthmark, 3-Pt. I:23-51
29th. JOHN VANCE CHENEY, b,. 29 D. 1848 I. Cheney"s Happiest Heart, 14:318 II. Emerson"s Terminus, 14:267-268 III. Clough"s Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, 14:272-273 IV. Lamb"s Old Familiar Faces, 15:73-74
30th. RUDYARD KIPLING, b. 30 D. 1865 I. Without Benefit of Clergy, 19-Pt. I:54-89
31st. I. Sh.e.l.ley"s The World"s Great Age Begins Anew, 12:284-286 II. Burns"s Auld Lang Syne, 12:261-262 III. Lowell"s To the Past, 13:161-163 IV. Lamb"s New Year"s Eve, 5-Pt. II:11-21