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 Pet.i.tion 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 Moliere-- 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.
NOVEMBER 26th TO DECEMBER 2ND
26th. COVENTRY PATMORE, d. 26 N. 1896 I. To the Unknown Eros, 13:169-171 II. The Toys, 15:140-141 III. Lamb"s The Old Familiar Faces, 15:73-74 IV. Hester, 15:75-76
27th. I. Wordsworth"s Influence of Natural Objects, 14:251-253 RIDGELEY TORRENCE, b. 27 N. 1875 II. Torrence"s Evensong, 12:346 III. Burt"s Resurgam, 13:292
28th. WILLIAM BLAKE, b. 28 N. 1757 I. The Tiger, 12:42-43 II. Piping Down the Valleys, 12:246 III. The Golden Door, 15:172 WASHINGTON IRVING. d. 28 N. 1859 IV. Rip Van Winkle, 19-Pt. II:71-96
29th. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, b. 29 N. 1832 I. Street Scenes in Washington, 8-Pt. II:74-76 JOHN G. NEIHARDT, married 29 N. 1908 II. Envoi, 15:200 III. Cheney"s Happiest Heart, 14:318 IV. Dargan"s There"s Rosemary, 13:287
30th. SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (Mark Twain), b. 30 N. 1835 I. Colonel Mulberry Sellers, 7-Pt. II:31-40 II. The Notorious Jumping Frog, 7-Pt. I:122-131
D. 1st.
I. Keats"s In a Drear-Nighted December, 12:268 II. Gray"s Progress of Poesy, 13:76-80 III. Doyle"s Private of the Buffs, 11:284-285
2nd. I. Lowell"s The First Snow-Fail, 15:135-136 II. Daniel"s Love Is a Sickness, 12:108 III. Delia, 13:181-182 IV. Darley"s Song, 12:170-171
When evening has arrived, I return home, and go into my study....
For hours together, the miseries of life no longer annoy me; I forget every vexation; I do not fear poverty; for I have altogether transferred myself to those with whom I hold converse.
--MACHIAVELLI.
DECEMBER 3RD TO 9TH
3rd. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, b. 3 D. 1826 I. Lincoln"s Letter to McClellan, 5-Pt. I:109-110 Battle of Hohenlinden, 3 D. 1800 II. Campbell"s Hohenlinden, 10:188-189 ROBERT Louis STEVENSON, d. 3 D. 1894 III. Providence and the Guitar, 19-Pt. II: 96-138
4th. I. Sudermann"s The Gooseherd, 20-Pt. II:62-74
5th. CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI, b. 5 D. 1830 I. One Certainty, 13:265 II. Up-Hill, 12:322-323 III. Hayne"s In Harbor, 15:142-143 IV. Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon, 13:265-266 V. Goldsmith"s When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly, 13:273
6th. R. H. BARHAM, b. 6 D. 1788 I. The Jackdaw of Rheims, 11:173-179
7th. CALE YOUNG RICE, b. 7 D. 1872 I. Chant of the Colorado, 14:291 ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, b. 7 D. 1784 II. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, 12:73-74 III. Hame, Hame, Hame, 12:309-310 IV. Bailey"s After the Funeral, 8-Pt. I:42-44 V. What He Wanted It For, 9-Pt. I:90-91
8th. I. A Visit to Brigham Young, 9-Pt. I:47-52
9th. STEPHEN PHILLIPS, d. 9 D. 1915 I. Harold before Senlac, 14:315
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pa.s.s to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasures that G.o.d has prepared for his creatures.... It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
--TROLLOPE.
DECEMBER 10TH TO 16TH
10th. EMILY d.i.c.kINSON, b. 10 D. 1830 I. Our Share of Night to Bear, 13:282 II. Heart, We Will Forget Him, 13:282 III. Ruskin"s Mountain Glory, 1-Pt. II:59-69
11th. I. Webster"s Reply to Hayne, 6-Pt. I:63-105
12th. I. Herford"s Gold, 9-Pt. II:9 II. Child"s Natural History, 9-Pt. II:37-39 III. Metaphysics, 9-Pt. II:128 IV. The End of the World, 9-Pt. I:120-122
13th. WILLIAM DRUMMOND, b. 13 D. 1585 I. Invocation, 12:24-25 II. "I Know That All Beneath the Moon Decays," 13:196-197 III. For the Baptist, 13:197 IV. To His Lute, 13:198 V. Browne"s The Siren"s Song, 12:23 VI. A Welcome, 12:111-112 VII. My Choice, 12:112-113
14th. CHARLES WOLFE, b. 14 D. 1791 I. The Burial of Sir John Moore, 15:31-33 II. Clough"s In a Lecture Room, 14:272 III. Qua Cursum Ventus, 12:317-318 IV. Davis"s Souls, 14:317
15th. I. Mrs. Browning"s Sonnets from the Portuguese, 13:232-239
16th. GEORGE SANTAYANA, b. 16 D. 1863 I. "As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room," 13:287 II. MacMillan"s Shadowed Star, 18:273
When there is no recreation or business for thee abroad, thou may"st have a company of honest old fellows in their leathern jackets in thy study which will find thee excellent divertis.e.m.e.nt at home.
--THOMAS FULLER.
DECEMBER 17TH TO 23RD
17th. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, b. 17 D. 1807 I. Amy Wentworth, 10:53-56 II. The Barefoot Boy, 14:169-172 III. My Psalm, 15:180-191 IV. The Eternal Goodness, 15:192-196 V. Telling the Bees, 11:308-310
18th. PHILIP FRENEAU, d. 18 D. 1832 I. The Wild Honeysuckle, 14:113-114 L. G. C. A. CHATRIAN, b. 18 D. 1826 II. The Comet, 20-Pt. II:104-114
19th. BAYARD TAYLOR, d. 19 D. 1878 I. Palabras Grandiosas, 9-Pt. I:58 II. Bedouin Love Song, 12:174-175 III. The Song of the Camp, 11:288-290 IV. W. B. Scott"s Glenkindie, 10:48-51
20th. I. Ford"s The Society Reporter"s Christmas, 8-Pt. I:57-65 II. The Dying Gag, 9-Pt. II:119-122
21st. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, d. 21 D. 1375 I. The Falcon, 20-Pt. II:1-11
22nd. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, b. 22 D. 1869 I. Miniver Cheevy, 7-Pt. I:147 II. Vickery"s Mountain, 14:303 III. Richard Cory, 14:309