6th. COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY reached the North Pole, 6 Ap. 1909 I. At the North Pole, 16-Pt. II:125-151
7th. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, b. 7 Ap. 1770 I. Landor"s To Wordsworth, 14:148-150 II. To the Cuckoo, 12:38-40 III. Daffodils, 12:41-42 IV. Tintern Abbey, 14:47-52 V. Lucy Gray, 10:255-258 VI. Arnold"s Memorial Verses, 15:77-79
8th. PHINEAS FLETCHER, baptized, 8 Ap. 1582 I. A Hymn, 12:317 ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER, b. 8 Ap.1879 II. Earth"s Easter (1915), 15:224 III. Hagedorn"s Song Is So Old, 12:337
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
--LORD BYRON.
APRIL 9TH TO 15TH
9th. I. Tennyson"s Early Spring, 14:94-96 II. Poe"s Ligeia, 4-Pt. I:37-63
10th. I. De Quincey"s The Vision of Sudden Death, 4-Pt. II:119-145
11th. NAPOLEON abdicated at Fontainebleau, 11 Ap. 1814 I. Byron"s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, 13:109-115
12th. I. Franklin"s Autobiography, 6-Pt. II:3-35
13th. I. Burns"s To a Mountain Daisy, 14:109-111 II. Lamb"s Imperfect Sympathies, 5-Pt. II:21-34
14th. LINCOLN shot by John Wilkes Booth, 14 Ap. 1865 I. Markham"s, Lincoln the Man of the People, 14:296 II. Flecker"s Dying Patriot, 10:295 III. Ballad of Camden Town, 12:347
15th. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, d. 15 Ap. 1865 I. Farewell at Springfield, 5-Pt. I:70 II. Speech to 166th Ohio Regiment, 5-Pt. I:96-97 III. Letters to Mrs. Lincoln, 5-Pt. I:113-114 IV. To Grant, 5-Pt. I:121 V. Whitman"s O Captain! My Captain! 15:105-106 t.i.tanic Sunk, 15 Ap. 1912 VI. Van d.y.k.e"s Heroes of the t.i.tanic, 10:305
Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of a man--has decided his way of life.
--RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
APRIL 16TH TO 22ND
16th. I. Herbert"s Easter, 15:152-153 II. Franklin"s Motion for Prayers, 6-Pt. II: 62-164 III. Necessary Hints, 6-Pt. II: 160-161
17th. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, d. 17 Ap. 1790 I. Franklin"s Autobiography, 6-Pt. II:35-75 DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST, b. 17 Ap. 1842 II. A Remarkable Dream, 8-Pt. I:79-80
18th. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, b. 18 Ap. 1864 I. Mr. Travers"s First Hunt, 22-Pt. I:135 II. A Slave to Duty, 8-Pt. I:66-67
19th. Battles of Lexington and Concord, 19 Ap. 1775 I. Emerson"s Concord Hymn, 12:218-219 Siege of Ratisbon, 19-23 Ap. 1809 II. Browning"s Incident of the French Camp, 10:213-214
20th. I. Campbell"s Ye Mariners of England, 10: 150-151 II. Lincoln"s Response to Serenade, 5-Pt. I: 98-100 WILLIAM H. DAVIS, b. 20 Ap. 1870 III. Davies"s Catharine, 11:327
21st. CHARLOTTE BRONTe, b. 21 Ap. 1816 I. Charlotte Bronte, 17-Pt. I:121-132 II. Thackeray"s De Juventute, 1-Pt. I:65-87
22nd. I. Riley"s The Elf-Child, 8-Pt. I:34-36 II. A Liz-Town Humorist, 8-Pt. I:48-49 III. Carlyle"s The Watch Tower, 2-Pt. I:129-133 UNITED STATES DAY CELEBRATED IN FRANCE 22 Ap. 1917 IV. Van d.y.k.e"s The Name of France, 15:224
Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From my own library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
--WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
APRIL 23RD TO 29TH
23rd. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, b. 23 (?) Ap. 1564; d/ 23 Ap. 1616 I. When Daises Pied, 12:18-19 II. Under the Greenwood Tree, 12:21 III. Hark, Hark, The Lark, 12:97 IV. Milton"s Epitaph on Shakespeare, 15:44 V. Stratford-on-Avon, 3-Pt. II:151-181
24th. JAMES T. FIELDS, d. 24 Ap. 1881 I. The Owl-Critic, 7-Pt. I: 41-44 II. The Alarmed Skipper, 7-Pt. I:75-76 LORD DUNSANY, wounded 25 Ap. 1916 III. Songs from an Evil Wood, 15:221
25th. OLIVER CROMWELL, b. 25 Ap. 1599 I. Marvell"s Upon Cromwell"s Return from Ireland, 13:54-59 II. To the Lord General Cromwell, 13:201-202 JOHN KEBLE, b. 25 Ap. 1792 III. Morning, 15:173-175 IV. Evening, 15:175-177
26th. CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (Artemus Ward,) b. 26 Ap. 1834 I. One of Mr. Ward"s Business Letters, 8-Pt. II:68-69 II. On Forts, 8-Pt. II:69-71 III. Among the Spirits, 8-Pt. I:81-85
27th. U. S. GRANT, b. 27 Ap. 1822 I. General Ulysses Simpson Grant, 16--Pt. II: 3-30
28th. 28 Ap. 1864 "Tell Tad the Goats are Well."
I. Lincoln"s Telegram to Mrs. Lincoln, 5--Pt. I:114 II. The Last Address in Public, April 11, 1865, 5--Pt. I:102-106
29th. E. R. SILL, b. 29 Ap. 1841 I. Five Lives, 7--Pt. I:39-40 II. Eve"s Daughter, 9--Pt. I:102 III. Opportunity, 11:106 IV. The Fool"s Prayer, 11:263-264.
I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner....Why have we none for books?
--CHARLES LAMB.
APRIL 30th TO MAY 6TH
April 30th.
I. Peck"s Bessie Brown, M. D., 8-Pt. II:81-82 II. A Kiss in the Rain, 9-Pt. II:83 III. Poe"s Fall of the House of Usher, 4-Pt. I:3-34
May 1st.
I. Morris"s May, 14:104-105 Battle of Manila Bay, I My. 1898 II. Ware"s Manila, 8-Pt. I:173 S.S. Lusitania torpedoed I My. 1916 III. Graves"s It"s a Queer Time, 15:219 HARRY LEON WILSON, b. I My. 1867 IV. Ruggles and Fate, 22-Pt. II:115
2nd. I. Lowell"s To the Dandelion, 14:116-118 II. Lamb"s Farewell to Tobacco, 5-Pt. II:149-154 III. She Is Going, 5-Pt. II:154
3rd. I. Browning"s Two in the Campagna, 14:187-189 II. Franklin"s Letters, 6-Pt. II:167-178
4th. RICHARD HOVEY, b. 4 My. 1864 I. The Sea Gypsy, 12:334 II. Braithwaite"s Sic Vita, 12:343 III. Sandy Star, 12:346
5th. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, b. 5 My. 1890 I. Rhubarb, 22-Pt. II:56
6th. ABBe VOGLER, d. 6 My. 1814 I. Abt Vogler, 14:177-183 ROBERT EDWIN PEARY, b. 6 My. 1857 II. Robert E. Peary, 16-Pt. II:125-146
Where a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with n.o.ble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by: it is good and made by a good workman.
--JEAN BE LA BRUYeRE.
MAY 7TH TO 13TH