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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/7167-0.txt b/7167-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bed8e5f --- /dev/null +++ b/7167-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3486 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Guide to Reading by Edited by Dr. +Lyman Abbott, Asa Don Dickenson, and Others + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and +most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions +whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms +of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at +www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + + +Title: The Guide to Reading + The Pocket University Volume XXIII + +Author: Edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott, Asa Don Dickenson, and Others + +Release Date: December, 2004 [EBook #7167] +[This file was first posted on March 19, 2003] +[Last Updated: March 24, 2022] + +Edition: 10 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +Produced by: Michelle Shephard, Tiffany Vergon, Charles Aldarondo, +Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GUIDE TO READING *** + + + + +THE +POCKET UNIVERSITY +VOLUME XXIII + +THE GUIDE TO +READING + +EDITED BY +DR. LYMAN ABBOTT, +ASA DON DICKINSON +AND OTHERS + + + + +CONTENTS + + +BOOKS FOR STUDY AND READING +By Lyman Abbott + +THE PURPOSE OF READING +By John Macy + +How TO GET THE BEST Out OF BOOKS +By Richard Le Gallienne + +THE GUIDE TO DAILY READING +By Asa Don Dickinson + +GENERAL INDEX OF AUTHORS + +GENERAL INDEX OF TITLES + + + + +THE POCKET UNIVERSITY +Books for Study and Reading +BY LYMAN ABBOTT + + +There are three services which books may render in the home: they may +be ornaments, tools, or friends. + +I was told a few years ago the following story which is worth retelling +as an illustration of the use of books as ornaments. A millionaire who +had one house in the city, one in the mountains, and one in the South, +wished to build a fourth house on the seashore. A house ought to have a +library. Therefore this new house was to have a library. When the house +was finished he found the library shelves had been made so shallow that +they would not take books of an ordinary size. His architect proposed +to change the bookshelves. The millionaire did not wish the change +made, but told his architect to buy fine bindings of classical books +and glue them into the shelves. The architect on making inquiries +discovered that the bindings would cost more than slightly shop-worn +editions of the books themselves. So the books were bought, cut in two +from top to bottom about in the middle, one half thrown away, and the +other half replaced upon the shelves that the handsome backs presented +the same appearance they would have presented if the entire book had +been there. Then the glass doors were locked, the key to the glass +doors lost, and sofas and chairs and tables put against them. Thus the +millionaire has his library furnished with handsome bindings and these +I may add are quite adequate for all the use which he wishes to make of +them. + +This is a rather extreme case of the use of books as ornaments, but it +illustrates in a bizarre way what is a not uncommon use. There is this +to be said for that illiterate millionaire: well-bound books are +excellent ornaments. No decoration with wall paper or fresco can make a +parlor as attractive as it can be made with low bookshelves filled with +works of standard authors and leaving room above for statuary, or +pictures, or the inexpensive decoration of flowers picked from one’s +own garden. I am inclined to think that the most attractive parlor I +have ever visited is that of a bookish friend whose walls are thus +furnished with what not only delights the eye, but silently invites the +mind to an inspiring companionship. + +More important practically than their use as ornaments is the use of +books as tools. Every professional man needs his special tools--the +lawyer his law books, the doctor his medical books, the minister his +theological treatises and his Biblical helps. I can always tell when I +go into a clergyman’s study by looking at his books whether he is +living in the Twentieth Century or in the Eighteenth. Tools do not make +the man, but they make his work and so show what the man is. + +Every home ought to have some books that are tools and the children +should be taught how to use them. There should be at least an atlas, a +dictionary, and an encyclopædia. If in the evening when the family talk +about the war in the Balkans the father gets out the atlas and the +children look to see where Roumania and Bulgaria and Greece and +Constantinople and the Dardanelles are on the map, they will learn more +of real geography in half an hour than they will learn in a week of +school study concerning countries in which they have no interest. When +there is reading aloud in the family circle, if every unfamiliar word +is looked up in a dictionary, which should always lie easily accessible +upon the table, they will get unconsciously a widening of their +vocabulary and a knowledge of the use of English which will be an +invaluable supplement to the work of their teacher of English in the +school. As to cyclopædias they are of all sizes from the little six- +volumed cyclopædia in the Everyman’s Library to the twenty-nine volumed +Encyclopædia Britannica, and from the general cyclopædia with more or +less full information on every conceivable topic to the more +distinctive family cyclopædia which covers the life of the household. +Where there are children in the family the cyclopædia which covers the +field they are most apt to be interested in--such as “The Library of +Work & Play” or “The Guide Series” to biography, music, pictures, etc. +--is the best one to begin with. After they have learned to go to it for +information which they want, they will desire a more general cyclopædia +because their wants have increased and broadened. + +So much for books as ornaments and as tools. Certainly not less +important, if comparisons can be made I am inclined to say more +important, is their usefulness as friends. + +In Smith College this distinction is marked by the College authorities +in an interesting and valuable manner. In the library building there is +a room for study. It is furnished with a number of plain oak or walnut +tables and with chairs which do not invite to repose. There are +librarians present to get from the stacks the special books which the +student needs. The room is barren of ornament. Each student is hard at +work examining, comparing, collating. She is to be called on to-morrow +in class to tell what she has learned, or next week to hand in a thesis +the product of her study. All eyes are intent upon the allotted task; +no one looks up to see you when you enter. In the same building is +another room which I will call The Lounge, though I think it bears a +different name. The books are upon shelves around the wall and all are +within easy reach. Many of them are fine editions. A wood fire is +burning in the great fireplace. The room is furnished with sofas and +easy chairs. No one is at work. No one is talking. No! but they are +listening--listening to authors whose voices have long since been +silent in death. + +In every home there ought to be books that are friends. In every day, +at least in every week, there ought to be some time which can be spent +in cultivating their friendship. This is reading, and reading is very +different from study. + +The student has been at work all the morning with his tools. He has +been studying a question of Constitutional Law: What are the powers of +the President of the United States? He has examined the Constitution; +then Willoughby or Watson on the Constitution; then he turns to The +Federalist; then perhaps to the Constitutional debates, or to the +histories, such as Von Holst’s Constitutional History of the United +States, or to treatises, such as Bryce’s American Commonwealth. He +compares the different opinions, weighs them, deliberates, endeavors to +reach a decision. Wearied with his morning pursuit of truth through a +maze of conflicting theories, he puts his tools by and goes to dinner. +In the evening he sits down in the same library for an hour with his +friends. He selects his friend according to his mood. Macaulay carries +him back across the centuries and he lives for an hour with The +Puritans or with Dr. Samuel Johnson. Carlyle carries him unharmed for +an hour through the exciting scenes of the French Revolution; or he +chuckles over the caustic humor of Thackeray’s semi-caricatures of +English snobs. With Jonathan Swift as a guide he travels with Gulliver +into no-man’s land and visits Lilliput or Brobdingnag; or Oliver +Goldsmith enables him to forget the strenuous life of America by taking +him to “The Deserted Village.” He joins Charles Lamb’s friends, listens +to the prose-poet’s reveries on Dream-Children, then closes his eyes +and falls into a reverie of his own childhood days; or he spends an +hour with Tennyson, charmed by his always musical but not often virile +verse, or with Browning, inspired by his always virile but often rugged +verse, or with Milton or Dante, and forgets this world altogether, with +its problems and perplexities, convoyed to another realm by these +spiritual guides; or he turns to the autobiography of one of the great +men of the past, telling of his achievements, revealing his doubts and +difficulties, his self-conflicts and self-victories, and so inspiring +the reader to make his own life sublime. Or one of the great scientists +may interpret to him the wonders of nature and thrill him with the +achievements of man in solving some of the riddles of the universe and +winning successive mastery over its splendid forces. + +It is true that no dead thing is equal to a living person. The one +afternoon I spent in John G. Whittier’s home, the one dinner I took +with Professor Tyndall in his London home, the one half hour which +Herbert Spencer gave to me at his Club, mean more to me than any equal +time spent in reading the writings of either one of them. These +occasions of personal fellowship abide in the memory as long as life +lasts. This I say with emphasis that what I say next may not be +misunderstood--that there is one respect in which the book is the best +of possible friends. You do not need to decide beforehand what friend +you will invite to spend the evening with you. When supper is over and +you sit down by the evening lamp for your hour of companionship, you +give your invitation according to your inclination at the time. And if +you have made a mistake, and the friend you have invited is not the one +you want to talk to, you can “shut him up” and not hurt his feelings. +Remarkable is the friend who speaks only when you want to listen and +can keep silence when you want silence. Who is there who has not been +sometimes bored by a good friend who went on talking when you wanted to +reflect on what he had already said? Who is there who has not had his +patience well nigh exhausted at times by a friend whose enthusiasm for +his theme appeared to be quite inexhaustible? A book never bores you +because you can always lay it down before it becomes a bore. + +Most families can do with a few books that are tools. In these days in +which there is a library in almost every village, the family that has +an atlas, a dictionary, and a cyclopædia can look to the public library +for such other tools as are necessary. And we can depend on the library +or the book club for books that are mere acquaintances--the current +book about current events, the books that are read to-day and forgotten +to-morrow, leaving only a residuum in our memory, the book that, once +read, we never expect to read again. In my own home this current +literature is either borrowed and returned or, if purchased, as soon as +it has been used is passed along to neighbors or to the village +library. Its room is better than its company on my over-crowded book +shelves. + +But books that are friends ought to abide in the home. The very form of +the book grows familiar; a different edition, even a different copy, +does not quite serve the same friendly purpose. If the reader is wise +he talks to his friend as well as listens to him and adds in pencil +notes, in the margin or on the back pages of the book, his own +reflections. I take up these books marked with the indications of my +conversation with my friend and in these pencilled memoranda find an +added value. Sometimes the mark emphasizes an agreement between my +friend and me, sometimes it emphasizes a disagreement, and sometimes it +indicates the progress in thought I have made since last we met. A +wisely marked book is sometimes doubled in value by the marking. + +Before I bring this essay to a close, already lengthened beyond my +predetermined limits, I venture to add four rules which may be of value +at least to the casual reader. + +For reading, select the book which suits your inclination. In study it +is wise to make your will command your mind and go on with your task +however unattractive it may prove to you. You may be a Hamiltonian, and +Jefferson’s views of the Constitution may repel you, or even bore you. +No matter. Go on. Scholarship requires persistence in study of matter +that repels or even bores the student. You may be a devout believer and +Herbert Spencer repellent. Nevertheless, if you are studying you may +need to master Herbert Spencer. But if you are reading, read what +interests you. If Scott does not interest you and Dickens does, drop +Scott and read Dickens. You need not be any one’s enemy; but you need +not be a friend with everybody. This is as true of books as of persons. +For friendship some agreement in temperament is quite essential. + +Henry Ward Beecher’s application of this principle struck me as +interesting and unique. He did a great deal of his reading on the train +in his lecture tours. His invariable companion was a black bag and the +black bag always contained some books. As I am writing from +recollection of a conversation with him some sixty years ago my +statement may lack in accuracy of detail, but not, I think, in +essential veracity. He selected in the beginning of the year some four +departments of reading, such as Poetry, History, Philosophy, Fiction, +and in each department a specific course, such as Greek Poetry, +Macaulay’s History, Spencer’s Philosophy, Scott’s Novels. Then he read +according to his mood, but generally in the selected course: if poetry, +the Greek poets; if history, Macaulay; if philosophy, Spencer; if +fiction, Scott. This gave at once liberty to his mood and unity to his +reading. + +One may read either for acquisition or for inspiration. A gentleman who +has acquired a national reputation as a popular lecturer and preacher, +formed the habit, when in college, of always subjecting himself to a +recitation in all his serious reading. After finishing a chapter he +would close the book and see how much of what he had read he could +recall. One consequence is the development of a quite marvelous memory, +the results of which are seen in frequent and felicitous references in +his public speaking to literature both ancient and modern. + +He who reads for inspiration pursues a different course. If as he +reads, a thought expressed by his author starts a train of thought in +his own mind, he lays down his book and follows his thought wherever it +may lead him. He endeavors to remember, not the thought which the +author has recorded, but the unrecorded thought which the author has +stimulated in his own mind. Reading is to him not an acquisition but a +ferment. I imagine from my acquaintance with Phillips Brooks and with +his writings that this was his method. + +I have a friend who says that he prefers to select his authors for +himself, not to have them selected for him. But he has money with which +to buy the books he wants, a room in which to put them, and the broad +culture which enables him to make a wise selection. Most of us lack one +at least of these qualifications: the money, the space, or the +knowledge. For most of us a library for the home, selected as this +Pocket Library has been has three great advantages: the cost is not +prohibitive; the space can easily be made in out home for the books; +and the selection is more wisely made than any we could make for +ourselves. For myself I should be very glad to have the editors of this +series come into my library, which is fairly large but sadly needs +weeding out, give me a literary appraisal of my books, and tell me what +volumes in their respective departments they think I could best +dispense with to make room for their betters, and what their betters +would be. + +To these considerations in favor of such a home library as this, may be +added the fact that the books are of such a size that one can easily +put a volume in his pocket when he is going on a train or in a trolley +car. For busy men and women often the only time for reading is the time +which too many of us are apt to waste in doing nothing. + +Perhaps the highest use of good books is their use as friends. Such a +wisely selected group of friends as this library furnishes is an +invaluable addition to any home which receives it and knows how to make +wise use of it. I am glad to have the privilege of introducing it and +hope that this introduction may add to the number of homes in which it +will find a welcome. + + + + +THE PURPOSE OF READING + +BY JOHN MACY + + +Why do we read books is one of those vast questions that need no +answer. As well ask, Why ought we to be good? or, Why do we believe in +a God? The whole universe of wisdom answers. To attempt an answer in a +single article would be like turning a spyglass for a moment toward the +stars. We take the great simple things for granted, like the air we +breathe. In a country that holds popular education to be the foundation +of all its liberties and fortunes, we do not find many people who need +to be argued into the belief that the reading of books is good for us; +even people who do not read much acknowledge vaguely that they ought to +read more. + +There are, to be sure, men of rough worldly wisdom, even endowed with +spiritual insight, who distrust “book learning” and fall back on the +obvious truth that experience of life is the great teacher. Such +persons are in a measure justified in their conviction by the number of +unwise human beings who have read much but to no purpose. + +The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, +With loads of learned lumber in his head + +is a living argument against mere reading. But we can meet such +argument by pointing out that the blockhead who cannot learn from books +cannot learn much from life, either. That sometimes useful citizen whom +it is fashionable to call a Philistine, and who calls himself a +“practical man,” often has under him a beginner fresh from the schools, +who is glib and confident in repeating bookish theories, but is not yet +skillful in applying them. If the practical man is thoughtless, he +sniffs at theory and points to his clumsy assistant as proof of the +uselessness of what is to be got from books. If he is wise, the +practical man realizes how much better off he would be, how much +farther his hard work and experience might have carried him, if he had +had the advantage of bookish training. + +Moreover, the hard-headed skeptic, self-made and self-secure, who will +not traffic with the literature that touches his life work, is seldom +so confined to his own little shop that he will not, for recreation, +take holiday tours into the literature of other men’s lives and labors. +The man who does not like to read any books is, I am confident, seldom +found, and at the risk of slandering a patriot, I will express the +doubt whether he is a good citizen. Honest he may be, but certainly not +wise. The human race for thousands of years has been writing its +experiences, telling how it has met our everlasting problems, how it +has struggled with darkness and rejoiced in light. What fools we should +be to try to live our lives without the guidance and inspiration of the +generations that have gone before, without the joy, encouragement, and +sympathy that the best imaginations of our generation are distilling +into words. For literature is simply life selected and condensed into +books. In a few hours we can follow all that is recorded of the life of +Jesus--the best that He did in years of teaching and suffering all ours +for a day of reading, and the more deeply ours for a lifetime of +reading and meditation! + +If the expression of life in words is strong and beautiful and true it +outlives empires, like the oldest books of the Old Testament. If it is +weak or trivial or untrue, it is forgotten like most of the “stories” +in yesterday’s newspaper, like most of the novels of last year. The +expression of truth, the transmission of knowledge and emotions between +man and man from generation to generation, these are the purposes of +literature. Not to read books is like being shut up in a dungeon while +life rushes by outside. + +I happen to be writing in Christmas week, and I have read for the tenth +time “A Christmas Carol,” by Dickens, that amazing allegory in which +the hard, bitter facts of life are involved in a beautiful myth, that +wizard’s caldron in which humor bubbles and from which rise phantom +figures of religion and poetry. Can any one doubt that if this story +were read by every man, woman, and child in the world, Christmas would +be a happier time and the feelings of the race elevated and +strengthened? The story has power enough to defeat armies, to make +revolutions in the faith of men, and turn the cold markets of the world +into festival scenes of charity. If you know any mean person you may be +sure that he has not read “A Christmas Carol,” or that he read it long +ago and has forgotten it. I know there are persons who pretend that the +sentimentality of Dickens destroys their interest in him. I once took a +course with an over-refined, imperfectly educated professor of +literature, who advised me that in time I should outgrow my liking for +Dickens. It was only his way of recommending to me a kind of fiction +that I had not learned to like. In time I did learn to like it, but I +did not outgrow Dickens. A person who can read “A Christmas Carol” +aloud to the end and keep his voice steady is, I suspect, not a safe +person to trust with one’s purse or one’s honor. + +It is not necessary to argue about the value of literature or even to +define it. One way of bringing ourselves to realize vividly what +literature can do for us is to enter the libraries of great men and see +what books have done for the acknowledged leaders of our race. + +You will recall John Stuart Mill’s experience in reading Wordsworth. +Mill was a man of letters as well as a scientific economist and +philosopher, and we expect to find that men of letters have been +nourished on literature; reading must necessarily have been a large +part of their professional preparation. The examples of men of action +who have been molded and inspired by books will perhaps be more helpful +to remember; for most of us are not to be writers or to engage in +purely intellectual work; our ambitions point to a thousand different +careers in the world of action. + +Lincoln was not primarily a man of letters, although he wrote noble +prose on occasion, and the art of expression was important, perhaps +indispensable, in his political success. He read deeply in the law and +in books on public questions. For general literature he had little +time, either during his early struggles or after his public life began, +and his autobiographical memorandum contains the significant words: +“Education defective.” But these more significant words are found in a +letter which he wrote to Hackett, the player: “Some of Shakespeare’s +plays I have never read, while others I have gone over perhaps as +frequently as any unprofessional reader. Among the latter are ‘Lear,’ +‘Richard III,’ ‘Henry VIII,’ ‘Hamlet,’ and, especially, ‘Macbeth.’” + +If he had not read these masterpieces, no doubt he would have become +President just the same and guided the country through its terrible +difficulties; but we may be fairly sure that the high philosophy by +which he lifted the political differences of his day above partisan +quarrels, the command of words which gives his letters and speeches +literary permanence apart from their biographical interest, the poetic +exaltation of the Gettysburg Address, these higher qualities of genius, +beyond the endowment of any native wit, came to Lincoln in some part +from the reading of books. It is important to note that he followed +Franklin’s advice to read much but not too many books; the list of +books mentioned in the biographical records of Lincoln is not long. But +he went over those half dozen plays “frequently.” We should remember, +too, that he based his ideals upon the Bible and his style upon the +King James Version. His writings abound in Biblical phrases. + +We are accustomed to regard Lincoln as a thinker. His right arm in the +saddest duty of his life, General Grant, was a man of deeds; as Lincoln +said of him, he was a “copious worker and fighter, but a very meager +writer and telegrapher.” In his “Memoirs,” Grant makes a modest +confession about his reading: + +“There is a fine library connected with the Academy [West Point] from +which cadets can get books to read in their quarters. I devoted more +time to these than to books relating to the course of studies. Much of +the time, I am sorry to say, was devoted to novels, but not those of a +trashy sort. I read all of Bulwer’s then published, Cooper’s, +Marryat’s, Scott’s, Washington Irving’s works, Lever’s, and many others +that I do not now remember.” + +Grant was not a shining light in his school days, nor indeed in his +life until the Civil War, and at first sight he is not a striking +example of a great man influenced by books. Yet who can deny that the +fruit of that early reading is to be found in his “Memoirs,” in which a +man of action, unused to writing, and called upon to narrate great +events, discovers an easy adequate style? There is a dangerous kind of +conjecture in which many biographers indulge when they try to relate +logically the scattered events of a man’s life. A conjectured relation +is set down as a proved or unquestioned relation. I have said something +about this in [Footnote: See John Macy’s Guide to Reading, Chapter +VIII.] writing on biography, and I do not wish to violate my own +teachings. But we may, without harm, hazard the suggestion, which is +only a suggestion, that some of the chivalry of Scott’s heroes wove +itself into Grant’s instincts and inspired this businesslike, modern +general, in the days when politeness has lost some of its flourish, to +be the great gentleman he was at Appomattox when he quietly wrote into +the terms of the surrender that the Confederate officers should keep +their side arms. Stevenson’s account of the episode in his essay on +“Gentlemen” is heightened, though not above the dignity of the facts, +certainly not to a degree that is untrue to the facts, as they are to +be read in Grant’s simple narrative. Since I have agreed not to say +“ought to read,” I will only express the hope that the quotation from +Stevenson will lead you to the essay and to the volume that contains +it. + +“On the day of the capitulation, Lee wore his presentation sword; it +was the first thing that Grant observed, and from that moment he had +but one thought: how to avoid taking it. A man, who should perhaps have +had the nature of an angel, but assuredly not the special virtues of a +gentleman, might have received the sword, and no more words about it; +he would have done well in a plain way. One who wished to be a +gentleman, and knew not how, might have received and returned it: he +would have done infamously ill, he would have proved himself a cad; +taking the stage for himself, leaving to his adversary confusion of +countenance and the ungraceful posture of a man condemned to offer +thanks. Grant without a word said, added to the terms this article: +‘All officers to retain their side arms’; and the problem was solved +and Lee kept his sword, and Grant went down to posterity, not perhaps a +fine gentleman, but a great one.” + +Napoleon, who of all men of mighty deeds after Julius Caesar had the +greatest intellect, was a tireless reader, and since he needed only +four or five hours’ sleep in twenty-four he found time to read in +the midst of his prodigious activities. Nowadays those of us who are +preparing to conquer the world are taught to strengthen ourselves for +the task by getting plenty of sleep. Napoleon’s devouring eyes read far +into the night; when he was in the field his secretaries forwarded a +stream of books to his headquarters; and if he was left without a new +volume to begin, some underling had to bear his imperial displeasure. +No wonder that his brain contained so many ideas that, as the +sharp-tongued poet, Heine, said, one of his lesser thoughts would keep +all the scholars and professors in Germany busy all their lives making +commentaries on it. + +In Franklin’s “Autobiography” we have an unusually clear statement of +the debt of a man of affairs to literature: “From a child I was fond of +reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid +out in books. Pleased with the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ my first +collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.... My +father’s little library consisted chiefly of books on polemic divinity, +most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time +when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not +fallen in my way, since it was now resolved that I should not be a +clergyman. ‘Plutarch’s Lives’ there was in which I read abundantly, and +I still think that time spent to great advantage. There was also a book +of De Foe’s, called an ‘Essay on Projects,’ and another of Dr. +Mather’s, called ‘Essays to do Good,’ which perhaps gave me a turn of +thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events +of my life.” + +It is not surprising to find that the most versatile of versatile +Americans read De Foe’s “Essay on Projects,” which contains practical +suggestions on a score of subjects, from banking and insurance to +national academics. In Cotton Mather’s “Essays to do Good” is the germ +perhaps of the sensible morality of Franklin’s “Poor Richard.” The +story of how Franklin gave his nights to the study of Addison and by +imitating the Spectator papers taught himself to write, is the +best of lessons in self-cultivation in English. The “Autobiography” is +proof of how well he learned, not Addison’s style, which was suited to +Joseph Addison and not to Benjamin Franklin, but a clear, firm manner +of writing. In Franklin’s case we can see not only what he owed to +books, but how one side of his fine, responsive mind was starved +because, as he put it, more proper books did not fall in his way. The +blind side of Franklin’s great intellect was his lack of religious +imagination. This defect may be accounted for by the forbidding nature +of the religious books in his father’s library. Repelled by the dull +discourses, the young man missed the religious exaltation and poetic +mysticism which the New England divines concealed in their polemic +argument. Franklin’s liking for Bunyan and his confession that his +father’s discouragement kept him from being a poet--“most probably,” he +says, “a very bad one”--show that he would have responded to the right +kind of religious literature, and not have remained all his life such a +complacent rationalist. + +If it is clear that the purpose of reading is to put ourselves in +communication with the best minds of our race, we need go no farther +for a definition of “good reading.” Whatever human beings have said +well is literature, whether it be the Declaration of Independence or a +love story. Reading consists in nothing more than in taking one of the +volumes in which somebody has said something well, opening it on one’s +knee, and beginning. + +We take it for granted, then, that we know why we read. We may ask one +further question: How shall we read? One answer is that we should read +with as much of ourselves as a book warrants, with the part of +ourselves that a book demands. Mrs. Browning says: + + We get no good + By being ungenerous, even to a book, + And calculating profits--so much help + By so much reading. It is rather when + We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge + Soul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound, + Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- + ’Tis then we get the right good from a book. + +We sometimes know exactly what we wish to get from a book, especially +if it is a volume of information on a definite subject. But the great +book is full of treasures that one does not deliberately seek, and +which indeed one may miss altogether on the first journey through. It +is almost nonsensical to say: Read Macaulay for clearness, Carlyle for +power, Thackeray for ease. Literary excellence is not separated and +bottled up in any such drug-shop array. If Macaulay is a master of +clearness it is because he is much else besides. Unless we read a man +for all there is in him, we get very little; we meet, not a living +human being, not a vital book, but something dead, dismembered, +disorganized. We do not read Thackeray for ease; we read him for +Thackeray and enjoy his ease by the way. + +We must read a book for all there is in it or we shall get little or +nothing. To be masters of books we must have learned to let books +master us. This is true of books that we are required to read, such as +text-books, and of those we read voluntarily and at leisure. The law of +reading is to give a book its due and a little more. The art of reading +is to know how to apply this law. For there is an art of reading, for +each of us to learn for himself, a private way of making the +acquaintance of books. + +Macaulay, whose mind was never hurried or confused, learned to read +very rapidly, to absorb a page at a glance. A distinguished professor, +who has spent his life in the most minutely technical scholarship, +surprised us one day by commending to his classes the fine art +of “skipping.” Many good books, including some most meritorious +“three-decker” novels, have their profitless pages, and it is useful +to know by a kind of practised instinct where to pause and reread +and where to run lightly and rapidly over the page. It is a useful +accomplishment not only in the reading of fiction, but in the business +of life, to the man of affairs who must get the gist of a mass of +written matter, and to the student of any special subject. + +Usually, of course, a book that is worth reading at all is worth +reading carefully. Thoroughness of reading is the first thing to preach +and to practise, and it is perhaps dangerous to suggest to a beginner +that any book should be skimmed. The suggestion will serve its purpose +if it indicates that there are ways to read, that practice in reading +is like practice in anything else; the more one does, and the more +intelligently one does it, the farther and more easily one can go. In +the best reading--that is, the most thoughtful reading of the most +thoughtful books--attention is necessary. It is even necessary that we +should read some works, some passages, so often and with such close +application that we commit them to memory. It is said that the habit of +learning pieces by heart is not so prevalent as it used to be. I hope +that this is not so. What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, +no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have +not begun to read, you have not learned how to read. + +We have said enough, perhaps, of the theories of reading. The one +lesson that seems most obvious is that we must come close to +literature. + + + + +HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT +OF BOOKS + +By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE + + +One is sometimes asked by young people panting after the waterbrooks of +knowledge: “How shall I get the best out of books?” Here indeed, is one +of those questions which can be answered only in general terms, with +possible illustrations from one’s own personal experience. Misgivings, +too, as to one’s fitness to answer it may well arise, as wistfully +looking round one’s own bookshelves, one asks oneself: “Have I myself +got the best out of this wonderful world of books?” It is almost like +asking oneself: “Have I got the best out of life?” + +As we make the survey, it will surely happen that our eyes fall on many +writers whom the stress of life, or spiritual indolence, has prevented +us from using as all the while they have been eager to be used; friends +we might have made yet never have made, neglected counsellors we would +so often have done well to consult, guides that could have saved us +many a wrong turning in the difficult way. There, in unvisited corners +of our shelves, what neglected fountains of refreshments, gardens in +which we have never walked, hills we have never climbed! + +“Well,” we say with a sigh, “a man cannot read everything; it is life +that has interrupted our studies, and probably the fact is that we have +accumulated more books than we really need.” The young reader’s +appetite is largely in his eyes, and it is very natural for one who is +born with a taste for books to gather them about him at first +indiscriminately, on the hearsay recommendation of fame, before he +really knows what his own individual tastes are, or are going to be, +and in that wistful survey I have imagined, our eyes will fall, too, +with some amusement, on not a few volumes to which we never have had +any really personal relation, and which, whatever their distinction or +their value for others, were never meant for us. The way to do with +such books is to hand them over to some one who has a use for them. On +our shelves they are like so much good thrown away, invitations to +entertainments for which we have no taste. In all vital libraries, such +a process of progressive refection is continually going on, and to +realize what we do not want in books, or cannot use, must, obviously, +be a first principle in our getting the best out of them. + +Yes, we read too many books, and too many that, as they do not really +interest us, bring us neither benefit nor diversion. Even from the +point of view of reading for pleasure, we manage our reading badly. We +listlessly allow ourselves to be bullied by publishers’ advertisements +into reading the latest fatuity in fiction, without, in one case out of +twenty, finding any of that pleasure we are ostensibly seeking. +Instead, indeed, we are bored and enervated, where we might have been +refreshed, either by romance or laughter. Such reading resembles the +idle absorption of innocuous but interesting beverages, which cheer as +little as they inebriate, and yet at the same time make frivolous +demands on the digestive functions. No one but a publisher could call +such reading “light.” Actually it is weariness to the flesh and +heaviness to the spirit. + +If, therefore, our idea of the best in books is the recreation they can +so well bring; if we go to books as to a playground to forget our cares +and to blow off the cobwebs of business, let us make sure that we find +what we seek. It is there, sure enough. The playgrounds of literature +are indeed wide, and alive with bracing excitement, nor is there any +limit to the variety of the games. But let us be sure, when we set Out +to be amused, that we really are amused, that our humorists do really +make us laugh, and that our story-tellers have stories to tell and know +how to tell them. Beware of imitations, and, when in doubt, try +Shakespeare, and Dumas--even Ouida. As a rule, avoid the “spring +lists,” or “summer reading.” “Summer reading” is usually very hot work. + +Hackneyed as it is, there is no better general advice on reading than +Shakespeare’s-- + +No profit is where is no pleasure taken, + +In brief, sir, study what you most affect. + +Not only in regard to books whose purpose, frankly, is recreation, but +also in regard to the graver uses of books, this counsel no less holds. +No reading does us any good that is not a pleasure to us. Her paths are +paths of pleasantness. Yet, of course, this does not mean that all +profitable reading is easy reading. Some of the books that give us the +finest pleasure need the closest application for their enjoyment. There +is always a certain spiritual and mental effort necessary to be made +before we tackle the great books. One might compare it to the effort of +getting up to see the sun rise. It is no little tug to leave one’s warm +bed--but once we are out in the crystalline morning air, wasn’t it +worth it? Perhaps our finest pleasure always demands some such +austerity of preparation. That is the secret of the truest +epicureanism. Books like Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” or Plato’s dialogues, +will not give themselves to a lounging reader. They demand a braced, +attentive spirit. But when the first effort has been made, how +exhilarating are the altitudes in which we find ourselves; what a glow +of pure joy is the reward which we are almost sure to win by our mental +mountaineering. + +But such books are not for moments when we are unwilling or unable to +make that necessary effort. We cannot always be in the mood for the +great books, and often we are too tired physically, or too low down on +the depressed levels of daily life, even to lift our eyes toward the +hills. To attempt the great books--or any books at all--in such moods +and moments, is a mistake. We may thus contract a prejudice against +some writer who, approached in more fortunate moments, would prove the +very man we were looking for. + +To know when to read is hardly less important than to know what to +read. Of course, every one must decide the matter for himself; but one +general counsel may be ventured: Read only what you want to read, and +only when you want to read it. + +Some readers find the early morning, when they have all the world to +themselves, their best time for reading, and, if you are a good +sleeper, and do not find early rising more wearying than refreshing, +there is certainly no other time of the day when the mind is so eagerly +receptive, has so keen an edge of appetite, and absorbs a book in so +fine an intoxication. For your true book-lover there is no other +exhilaration so exquisite as that with which one reads an inspiring +book in the solemn freshness of early morning. One’s nerves seem +peculiarly strung for exquisite impressions in the first dewy hours of +the day, there is a virginal sensitiveness and purity about all our +senses, and the mere delight of the eye in the printed page is keener +than at any other time. “The Muses love the morning, and that is a fit +time for study,” said Erasmus to his friend Christianus of Lubeck; and, +certainly, if early rising agrees with one, there is no better time for +getting the very best out of a book. Moreover, morning reading has a +way of casting a spell of peace over the whole day. It has a sweet, +solemnizing effect on our thoughts--a sort of mental matins--and +through the day’s business it accompanies us as with hidden music. + +There are others who prefer to do their reading at night, and I presume +that most readers of this paper are so circumstanced as to have no time +to spare for reading during the day. Personally, I think that one of +the best places to read in is bed. Paradoxical as it may sound, one is +not so apt to fall asleep over his book in bed as in the post-prandial +armchair. While one’s body rests itself, one’s mind, remains alert, +and, when the time for sleep comes at last, it passes into +unconsciousness, tranquilized and sweetened with thought and pleasantly +weary with healthy exercise. One awakens, too, next morning, with, so +to say, a very pleasant taste of meditation in the mouth. Erasmus, +again, has a counsel for the bedtime reader, expressed with much +felicity. “A little before you sleep,” he says, “read something that is +exquisite, and worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall +asleep; and, when you awake in the morning, call yourself to an account +for it.” + +In an old Atlantic Monthly, from which, if I remember aright, he +never rescued it, Oliver Wendell Holmes has a delightful paper on the +delights of reading in bed, entitled “Pillow-Smoothing Authors.” + +Then, though I suppose we shall have the oculists against us, the cars +are good places to read in--if you have the power of detachment, and +are able to switch off your ears from other people’s conversation. It +is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. +Most likely you will carry it many a day and never give it a single +look, but, even so, a book in the hand is always a companionable +reminder of that happier world of fancy, which, alas! most of us can +only visit by playing truant from the real world. As some men wear +boutonnieres, so a reader carries a book, and sometimes, when he +is feeling the need of beauty, or the solace of a friend, he opens it, +and finds both. Probably he will count among the most fruitful moments +of his reading the snatched glimpses of beauty and wisdom he has caught +in the morning car. The covers of his book have often proved like some +secret door, through which, surreptitiously opened, he has looked for a +moment into his own particular fairy land. Never mind the oculist, +therefore, but, whenever you feel like it, read in the car. + +One or two technical considerations may be dealt with in this place. +How to remember what one reads is one of them. Some people are blest +with such good memories that they never forget anything that they have +once read. Literary history has recorded many miraculous memories. +Still, it is quite possible to remember too much, and thus turn one’s +mind into a lumber-room of useless information. A good reader forgets +even more than he remembers. Probably we remember all that is really +necessary for us, and, except in so far as our reading is technical and +directed toward some exact science or profession, accuracy of memory +is not important. As the Sabbath was made for man, so books were made +for the reader, and, when a reader has assimilated from any given book +his own proper nourishment and pleasure, the rest of the book is so +much oyster shell. The end of true reading is the development of +individuality. Like a certain water insect, the reader instinctively +selects from the outspread world of books the building materials for +the house of his soul. He chooses here and rejects there, and remembers +or forgets according to the formative desire of his nature. Yet it +often happens that he forgets much that he needs to remember, and thus +the question of methodical aids to memory arises. + +One’s first thought, of course, is of the commonplace book. Well, have +you ever kept one, or, to be more accurate, tried to keep one? +Personally, I believe in the commonplace book so long as we don’t +expect too much from it. Its two dangers are (1) that one is apt to +make far too many and too minute entries, and (2) that one is apt to +leave all the remembering to the commonplace book, with a consequent +relaxation of one’s own attention. On the other hand, the mere +discipline of a commonplace book is a good thing, and if--as I think is +the best way--we copy out the passages at full length, they are thus +the more securely fixed in the memory. A commonplace book kept with +moderation is really useful, and may be delightful. But the entries +should be made at full length. Otherwise, the thing becomes a mere +index, an index which encourages us to forget. + +Another familiar way of assisting one’s memory in reading is to mark +one’s own striking passages. This method is chiefly worth while for the +sake of one’s second and subsequent readings; though it all depends +when one makes the markings--at what time of his life, I mean. Markings +made at the age of twenty years are of little use at thirty--except +negatively. In fact, I have usually found that all I care to read again +of a book read at twenty is just the passages I did not mark. This +consideration, however, does not depreciate the value of one’s +comparatively contemporary markings. At the same time, marking, like +indexing, is apt, unless guarded against, to relax the memory. One is +apt to mark a passage in lieu of remembering it. Still, for a second +reading, as I say--a second reading not too long after the first-- +marking is a useful method, particularly if one regards his first +reading of a book as a prospecting of the ground rather than a taking +possession. One’s first reading is a sort of flying visit, during which +he notes the places he would like to visit again and really come to +know. A brief index of one’s markings at the end of a volume is a +method of memory that commended itself to the booklovers of former +days--to Leigh Hunt, for instance. + +Yet none of these external methods, useful as they may prove, can +compare with a habit of thorough attention. We read far too hurriedly, +too much in the spirit of the “quick lunch.” No doubt we do so a great +deal from the misleading idea that there is so very much to read. +Actually, there is very little to read,--if we wish for real reading-- +and there is time to read it all twice over. We--Americans--bolt our +books as we do our food, and so get far too little good out of them. We +treat our mental digestions as brutally as we treat our stomachs. +Meditation is the digestion of the mind, but we allow ourselves no time +for meditation. We gorge our eyes with the printed page, but all too +little of what we take in with our eyes ever reaches our minds or our +spirits. We assimilate what we can from all this hurry of superfluous +food, and the rest goes to waste, and, as a natural consequence, +contributes only to the wear and tear of our mental organism. + +Books should be real things. They were so once, when a man would give a +fat field in exchange for a small manuscript; and they are no less real +to-day--some of them. Each age contributes one or two real books to the +eternal library--and always the old books remain, magic springs of +healing and refreshment. If no one should write a book for a thousand +years, there are quite enough books to keep us going. Real books there +are in plenty. Perhaps there are more real books than there are real +readers. Books are the strong tincture of experience. They are to be +taken carefully, drop by drop, not carelessly gulped down by the +bottleful. Therefore, if you would get the best out of books, spend a +quarter of an hour in reading, and three-quarters of an hour in +thinking over what you have read. + + + + +THE GUIDE TO DAILY +READING + +PREPARED BY +ASA DON DICKINSON + + +The elaborate, systematic “course of reading” is a bore. After thirty +years spent among books and bookish people I have never yet met anyone +who would admit that he had ploughed through such a course from +beginning to end. Of course a few faithful souls, with abundant +leisure, have done this, just as there are men who have walked from New +York City to San Francisco. Good exercise, doubtless! But most of us +have not time for feats of such questionable utility. + +Yet I myself and most of the booklovers whom I know have started +at one time or another to pursue a course of reading, and we have never +regretted our attempts. Why? Because this is an excellent way to +discover the comparatively small number of authors who have a message +that we need to hear. When such an one is discovered, one may with a +good conscience let the systematic course go by the board until one has +absorbed all that is useful from the store of good things offered by +the valuable new acquaintance. + +Each one has his idiosyncrasies. If I may be permitted to allude to a +personal failing, let me confess that I have never read “Paradise Lost” +or “Pilgrim’s Progress.” I have hopefully dipped into them repeatedly, +but--I don’t like them. Some day I hope to, but until my mind is +ready for these two great world-books, I do not intend to waste time by +driving through them with set teeth. There are too many other good +books that I do enjoy reading. “In brief, Sir, study what you most +affect.” + +The “Guide to Daily Readings” which follows makes no claim to be +systematic. The aim has been simply to introduce the reader to a goodly +company of authors--to provide a daily flower of thought for the +buttonhole, to-day a glorious rose of poetic fancy, to-morrow a pert +little pansy of quaint humor. + +Yet nearly all the selections are doubly significant and interesting if +read upon the days to which they are especially assigned. For example, +on New Year’s Day it is suggested that one set one’s house in order by +reading Franklin’s “Rules of Conduct,” Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life,” +Bryant’s “Thanatopsis,” and Lowell’s “To the Future”; on January 19th, +Poe’s Birthday, one is directed to an excellent sketch of Poe and to +typical examples of his best work, “The Raven” and “The Cask of +Amontillado”; and on October 31st, Hallowe’en, one is reminded of +Burns’s “Tam O’Shanter” and Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” + +The references are explicit in each case, so that it is a matter of +only a few seconds to find each one. For example, the reference to the +“Cask of Amontillado” is 4-Pt. I =67-77; which means that this tale is +ten pages long and will be found in Part I of volume 4, at page 67. +Excepting volumes 10-15 (Poetry), two volumes are bound in one in this +set, so it should be remembered that generally there are two pages +numbered 67 in each book. + +The daily selections can in most cases be read in from fifteen minutes +to half an hour, and Dr. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, has said +that fifteen minutes a day devoted to good literature will give every +man the essentials of a liberal education. If time can be found between +breakfast and the work-hours for these few minutes of reading, one will +receive more benefit than if it is done during the somnolent period +which follows the day’s work and dinner. It is a mistake, however, to +read before breakfast. Eyes and stomach are too closely related +to permit of this. + +Happy is he who can read these books in company with a sympathetic +companion. His enjoyment of the treasure they contain will be doubled. + +One final hint--when reading for something besides pastime, get in the +habit of referring when necessary to dictionary, encyclopædia, and +atlas. If on the subway or a railway train, jot down a memorandum of +the query on the flyleaf, and look up the answer at the first +opportunity. + +ASA DON DICKINSON. + + + + +There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a +man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to +study. + + --DANIEL WYTTENBACH. + +JANUARY 1ST TO 7TH + + +1st. I. Franklin’s Rules of Conduct, 6-Pt. II: 86-101 + II. Longfellow’s Psalm of Life, 14:247-248 + III. Bryant’s Thanatopsis, 15:18-20 + IV. Lowell’s To the Future, 13:164-167 + +2nd. I. Arnold’s Self Dependence, 14:273-274 + II. Adams’s Cold Wave of 32 B. C., 9-Pt. I:146 + III. Thomas’s Frost To-night, 12:343 + +3rd. TOMASSO SALVINI, b. 1 Ja. 1829; d. 1 Ja. 1916 + I. Tomasso Salvini, 17-II:80-108 + +4th. I. Extracts from Thackeray’s Book of Snobs, 1-Pt. I:3-37 + +5th. I. Ruskin’s Venice, 1-Pt. II:73-88 + II. St. Marks, 1-Pt. II:91-100 + +6th. I. Shakespeare’s Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, 12:256-257 + II. Messenger’s A Winter Wish, 12:259-261 + III. Emerson’s The Snow Storm, 14:93-94 + IV. Thackeray’s Nil Nisi Bonum, l-Pt. I:130-143 + +7th. I. Adams’s Ballad of the Thoughtless Waiter, 9-Pt. I:147 + II. Us Poets, 9-Pt. I:148 + III. Spenser’s Amoretti, 13:177 + + +No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be +read at all. + --THOMAS CARLYLE. + +JANUARY 8TH TO 14th + + +8th. I. Fred Trover’s Little Iron-clad, 7-Pt. II:82-105 + +9th. I. Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, 21-Pt. II:1-56 + +10th. I. Carlyle’s Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 2-Pt. I: 32-78 + +11th. I ALEXANDER HAMILTON, b. II Ja. 1757 + Alexander Hamilton, 16-Pt. I:71-91 + +12th. I. Macaulay’s Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Biographer, 2-Pt. II:30-39 + II. The Puritans, 2-Pt. II:23-29 + +13th. I. EDMUND SPENSER, d, 16 Ja. 1599 + Prothalamion, 13:13-20 + +14th. I. Hawthorne’s Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, 3-Pt. I:3-19 + + +The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most +powerful engines of civilization ever invented. + --SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. + +JANUARY 15TH TO 21ST + + +15th. EDWARD EVERETT, d. 15 Ja. 1865 + I. Lincoln to Everett, 5-Pt. I:120 + II. Irving’s Westminster Abbey, 3-Pt. II:75-92 + +16th. GEORGE V. HOBART, b. 16 Ja. 1867 + I. John Henry at the Races, 9-Pt. II:107-113 + II. Poe’s The Black Cat, 4-Pt. I:127-143 + +17th. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. 17 Ja. 1706 + I. Poor Richard’s Almanac, 6-Pt. II:133-149 + II. Maxims, 7-Pt. II:11 + III. The Whistle, 6-Pt. II:156-159 + +18th. DANIEL WEBSTER, b. 18 Ja. 1782 + I. Adams and Jefferson, 6-Pt. I:3-60 + +19th. EDGAR ALLAN POE, b. 19 Ja. 1809 + I. Cask of Amontillado, 4-Pt. I:67-77 + II. The Raven, 10:285-292 + III. Edgar Allan Poe, 17-Pt. I:28-37 + +20th. N. P. WILLIS, b. 20 Ja. 1806 + I. Miss Albina McLush, 7-Pt. I:25-29 + RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, b. 20 Ja. 1866 + II. May Is Building Her House, 12:328 + +21st. JAMES STUART, Earl of Murray, killed 21 Ja. 1570 + I. The Bonny Earl of Murray, 10:21-22 + II. Lincoln’s The Dred Scott Decision, 5-Pt. I:13-22 + III. Fragment on Slavery, 5-Pt. I:11-12 + + +He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable +dishes, and all of admirable flavour. His taste is rendered +so acute as easily to distinguish the nicest shade of difference. + --WILLIAM GODWIN. + +JANUARY 22ND TO 28TH + + +22nd. LORD BYRON, b. 22 Ja. 1788 + I. Macaulay’s Lord Byron the Man, 2-Pt. II: 80-94 + II. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, 12:275-277 + III. The Isles of Greece, 14:75-79 + +23rd. I. Lamb’s Dream Children, 5-Pt. II:34-40 + II. On Some of the Old Actors, 5-Pt. II:52-76 + +24th. I. Spenser’s Epithalamium, 13:20-37 + +25th. ROBERT BURNS, b. 25 Ja. 1759 + I. The Cotter’s Saturday Night, II:40-48 + II. Robert Burns, 17-Pt. 1:43-64 + II. Halleck’s Burns, 15:67-73 + +26th. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES, d. 26 Ja. 1849 + I. Wolfram’s Dirge, 15:42-43 + II. How Many Times Do I Love Thee, Dear? 12:158-159 + III. Dream-Pedlary, 12:227-228 + IV. Franklin’s Philosophical Experiments, 6-Pt. II:125-130 + +27th. JOHN McCRAE, Died in France 28 Ja. 1918 + I. In Flanders Fields, 15:214 + +28th. HENRY MORTON STANLEY, b. 28 Ja. 1841 + I. Henry Morton Stanley, 17-Pt. II:97-124 + + +We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring +together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to +another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him +as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly.... + --WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. + +JANUARY 29TH TO FEBRUARY 4th + + +29th. ADELAIDE RISTORI, b. 30 Ja. 1822 + I. Adelaide Ristori, 17-Pt. II:109-119 + II. Thackeray’s On Being Found Out, 1-Pt. I:104-115 + +30th. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, b. 30 Ja. 1775 + I. Rose Aylmer,15:119 + II. The Maid’s Lament, 15:119-120 + III. Mother I Cannot Mind My Wheel, 12:273 + IV. On His Seventy-fifth Birthday, 13:278 + V. Ruskin’s The Two Boyhoods, 1-Pt. II:3-23 + +31st. I. Carlyle’s Essay on Biography, 2-Pt. I:3-3l + +F.1st. + I. Morris’s February,14:102-103 + II. Belloc’s South Country,12:331 + III. Early Morning, 13:294 + +2nd. W.R.BENET, b. 2 F. 1886 + I. Tricksters, 13:288 + II. Hodgson’s Eve, 11:324 + III. The Gypsy Girl, 14:299 + +3rd. SIDNEY LANIER, b. 3 F. 1842 + I. The Marshes of Glynn, 14:55-61 + II. A Ballad of Trees and the Master, 12:316-317 + III. The Stirrup Cup, 13:283 + +4th. THOMAS CARLYLE, d. 4 F. 1881 + 81 + I. Mirabeau, 2-Pt. I:79-86 + II. Ghosts, 2-Pt. I:134-137 + III. Labor, 2-Pt. I:138-145 + + +Borrow therefore, of those golden morning hours, and bestow them on +your book. + --EARL OF BEDFORD + +FEBRUARY 5TH TO 11TH + + +5th. I. De Quincey’s On the Knocking at the Gate In Macbeth, + 4-Pt. II:100-107 + +6th. SIR HENRY IRVING, b. 6 F. 1838 + I. Sir Henry Irving, 17-II:39-47 + +7th. CHARLES DICKENS, b. 7 F. 1812 + I. The Trial for Murder, 21-Pt. I:1-19 + +8th. JOHN RUSKIN, b. 8 F. 1819 + I. The Slave Ship, 1-Pt. II:27-29 + II. Art and Morals, 1-Pt. II:103-132 + III. Peace, 1-Pt. II:135-137 + +9th. GEORGE ADE, b. 9 F. 1866 + I. The Fable of the Preacher, 9-Pt. II:67-71 + II. The Fable of the Caddy, 9-Pt. II:93-94 + III. The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players, 9-Pt. II:13l-136 + +10th. SIR JOHN SUCKLING, baptized 10 F. 1609 + I. Encouragements to a Lover, 13:122 + II. Constancy, 12:122-123 + E. W. TOWNSEND, b. 10 F. 1855 + III. Chimmie Meets the Duchess, 9-Pt. I 109-114 + +11th. I. Brooke’s Dust, 12:341 + II. 1914--V--The Soldier, 15: 228 + III. Guiterman’s In the Hospital, 15:203 + + +The scholar, only, knows how dear these silent, yet +eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours +become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly +turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. + --Washington Irving. + +February 12th to 18th + + +12th. Abraham Lincoln, b. 12 F. 1809 + I. Lincoln, 16-Pt. I:93-141 + +13th. I. Irving’s The Stout Gentleman, 3-Pt. II: 129-145 + +14th. W. T. Sherman, d. 14 F. 1891 + I. General William Tecumseh Sherman, 16-Pt. II:32-61 + +15th. Charles Bertrand Lewis (“M. Quad”) b. 15 F. 1842 + I. The Patent Gas Regulator, 9-Pt. II:3-7 + II. Two Cases of Grip, 8-Pt. I:50-53 + +16th. Joseph Hergesheimer, b. 15 F. 1880 + I. A Sprig of Lemon Verbena, 22-Pt. II:1-47 + +17th. Josephine Dodge Daskam, b. 17 F. 1876 + I. The Woman Who Was Not Athletic, 9-Pt. II:78-80 + II. The Woman Who Used Her Theory, 9-Pt. II: 80-81 + III. The Woman Who Helped Her Sister, 9-Pt. II:81-82 + +18th. I. De Quincey’s The Affliction of Childhood, 4-Pt. II:3-30 + + +What a place to be in is an old library! It seems though all the +souls of all the writers were reposing here. + --CHARLES LAMB. + +FEBRUARY 19TH TO 25th + + +19th. I. Conrad’s The Lagoon, 22-Pt. I:17-37 + +20th. JOSEPH JEFFERSON, b. 20 F. 1829 + I. Joseph Jefferson, 17-Pt. II:3-22 + +21st. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, b. 21 F. 1801 + I. The Pillar of the Cloud, 12:323 + II. Sensitiveness, 15:183-184 + III. Flowers Without Fruit, 15:184 + IV. Lincoln’s Address at Cooper Institute, 5-Pt. I:37-69 + +22nd. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. 22 F. 1732 + I. Washington, 16-Pt. I:3-42 + +23rd. I. Mrs. Freeman’s The Wind in the Rosebush, 20-Pt. II:12-38 + +24th. SAMUEL LOVER, b. 24 F. 1797 + I. The Gridiron, 19-Pt. II:59-70 + +25th. I. Lamb’s Superannuated Man, 5-Pt. II: 80-91 +II. Old China, 5-Pt. II:91-100 + + +A little peaceful home +Sounds all my wants and wishes; add to this +My book and friend, and this is happiness. + --FRANCESCO DI RIOJA. + +FEBRUARY 26TH TO MARCH 4TH + + +26th. SAM WALTER FOSS, d. 26 F. 1911 + I. The Prayer of Cyrus Brown, 9-Pt. II:8 + II. The Meeting of the Clabberhuses, 8-Pt. I: 39-41 + III. A Modern Martyrdom, 9-Pt. II: 84-86 + IV. The Ideal Husband to His Wife, 9-Pt. I:103-104 + +27th. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, b. 27 F. 1807 + I. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 17-Pt. I:3-27 + II. Wreck of the Hesperus, 10:156-160 + III. My Lost Youth, 12:263-266 + +28th. ELLEN TERRY, b. 27 F. 1848 + I. Ellen Terry, 17-Pt. II:48-60 + +Mr.1st I. Morris’s March, 14:103-104 + W. D. HOWELLS, b. 1 Mr. 1837 + II. Mrs. Johnson, 8-Pt. II:107-128 + +2nd. I. Franklin’s Settling Down, 6-Pt. II:76-85 + II. Public Affairs, 6-Pt. II:102-107 + +3rd. EDMUND WALLER, b. 9 Mr. 1606 + I. On a Girdle, 12:132 + II. Go, Lovely Rose, 12:136-137 + III. De la Mare’s The Listeners, 11:327 + +4th. Inauguration Day + I. Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 5-Pt. I:74-89 + + +A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of +a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a +luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. + --HENRY WARD BEECHER. + +MARCH 5TH TO 11TH + + +5th. FRANK NORRIS, b. 5 Mr. 1870 + I. The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock, 22-Pt. II:64 + +6th. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, b. 6 Mr. 1806 + I. Mother and Poet, 11:297-302 + II. A Musical Instrument, 12: 282-283 + III. The Cry of the Children, 12: 296-302 + +7th. I. Thackeray’s On a Lazy Idle Boy, 1-Pt. I: 41-51 + +8th. HENRY WARD BEECHER, d. 8 Mr. 1887 + I. Deacon Marble, 7-Pt. I:13-15 + II. The Deacon’s Trout, 7-Pt. I:15-16 + III. Noble and the Empty Hole, 7-Pt. I:17-18 + +9th. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD, d. 9 Mr. 1825 + I. Life, 14:260-261 + II. Dunsany’s Night at an Inn, 18:I + +10th. I. Ruskin’s The Mountain Gloom, 1-Pt. II: 33-56 + +11th. CHARLES SUMNER, d. n Mr. 1874 + I. Longfellow’s Charles Sumner, 15:111-112 + GILES FLETCHER, buried 11 Mr. 1611 + II. Wooing Song, 12:101-102 + III. Carlyle’s Reward, 2-Pt. I:146-160 + +Books that can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside are +the best after all. + --SAMUEL JOHNSON. + + +MARCH 12TH TO 18TH + + +12th. I. A Family Horse, 9-Pt. I:3-14 + II. Living in the Country, 7-Pt. I:82-95 + +13th. I. Macaulay’s Task of the Modern Historian, 2-Pt. II:3-22 + II. Puritans, 2-Pt. II:23-29 + + +14th. HENRY IV. defeated the “Leaguers” at Ivry, + 14 Mr. 1590 + I. Macaulay’s Ivry, 10:194-199 + +15th. JOHANN LUDWIG PAUL HEYSE, b. 15 Mr. 1830 + I. L’Arrabiata, 20-Pt. I:130-157 + +16th. WILL IRWIN, b. 15 Mr. 1876 + I. The Servant Problem, 7-Pt. I:132 + +17th. I. Hawthorne’s The Great Stone Face, 3-Pt. I:103-135 + + +18th. I. Roche’s The V-A-S-E, 7-Pt. II:60-61 + II. Roche’s A Boston Lullaby, 8-Pt. II:78 + III. A Boston Lullaby (Anon.), 7-Pt. II:105 + IV. Burgess’s The Bohemians of Boston, 7-Pt. II:141-143 + + +The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I +had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, +it resembles the meeting with an old one. + --OLIVER GOLDSMITH. + +MARCH 19TH TO 25th + + +19th. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, d. 19 Mr. 1907 + I. A Rivermouth Romance, 7-Pt. II:129-140 + II. A Death Bed, 15:136-137 + +20th. CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, d. 20 Mr. 1903 + I. Ballad, 7-Pt. II:51-52 + II. Hans Breitmann’s Party, 7-Pt. I:96-97 + III. De Quincey’s Levana, 4-Pt. II:145-157 + +21st. ROBERT SOUTHEY, d. 21 Mr. 1843 + I. The Inchcape Rock, 10:153-156 + II. My Days Among the Dead Are Past, 14: 261-262 + III. Lincoln’s Springfield Speech, 5-Pt. I:23-36 + +22nd. I. Lamb’s Two Races of Men, 5-Pt. II:3-11 + +23rd. JOHN DAVIDSQN, disappeared 23 Mr. 1909 + I. Butterflies, 12:345 + II. Doyle’s Dancing Men, 22-Pt. I:63-l00 + +24th. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, d. 24 Mr. 1882 + I. The Building of the Ship, ll:89-102 + II. The Skeleton in Armor, 10:124-130 + III. Resignation, 15:131-133 + IV. The Arrow and the Song, 12:283-284 + +25th. I. Franklin’s George Whitefield, 6-Pt. II: 108-114 + II. The Franklin Stove, 6-Pt. II:115-116 + III. Civic Pride, 6-Pt. II:117-124 + IV. Advice to a Young Tradesman, 6-Pt. II: 153-155 + + +For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our +learnings. + --ST. PAUL. + +MARCH 26TH TO APRIL 1ST + + +26th. A. E. HOUSMAN, b. 26 Mr. 1859 + I. A Shropshire Lad-XIII, 12:340 + II. Ferber’s Gay Old Dog, 22-Pt. II:81-114 + +27th. I. Thackeray’s Thorns in the Cushion, 1-Pt. I:51-64 + +28th. FOCH, made Commander Allied Armies, 28 + Mr. 1918 + I. Burr’s Fall In, 15:211 + II. Coates’s Place de la Concorde, 15:226 + +29th. BONNIVARD, Prisoner of Chillon, liberated + 29 Mr. 1536 + I. Byron’s Prisoner of Chillon, 11:191-204 + +30th. DE WOLF HOPPER, b. 30 Mr. 1858 + I. Casey at the Bat, 9-Pt. I:95-98 + II. Butler’s Just Like a Cat, 8-Pt. I:152 + +31st. ANDREW MARVELL, b,. 31 Mr. 1621 + I. The Garden, 14:20-22 + II. Bermudas, 15:162-163 + JOHN DONNE, d. 31 Mr. 1631 + III. The Dream, 12:137-138 + IV. The Will, 15:156-158 + V. Death, 13:195-196 + VI. A Burnt Ship, 13:272 + +Ap. 1st. AGNES REPPLIER, b. 1 Ap. 1858 + I. A Plea for Humor, 8-Pt. II:3-25 + + +Dreams, books are each a world; and books, we know, +Are a substantial world, both pure and good: +Round these, with tendrils, strong as flesh and blood, +Our pastime and our happiness will grow. + --WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. + +APRIL 2ND TO 8TH + + +2nd. I. Jefferson, 16-Pt. I:43-70 + Nelson’s Victory Over the Danish Fleet, 2 Ap. 1801 + II. The Battle of the Baltic, 10:189-192 + +3rd. WASHINGTON IRVING, b. 3 Ap. 1783 + I. Wouter Van Twiller, 7-Pt. I:3-10 + II. The Voyage, 3-Pt. II:61-71 + +4th. I. Browning’s Home Thoughts from Abroad, 12:57-58 + II. Macaulay’s Byron the Poet, 2-Pt. II:94-109 + +5th. FRANK R. STOCKTON, b. 5 Ap. 1834 + I. Pomona’s Novel, 7-Pt. II:62-81 + II. A Piece of Red Calico, 8-Pt. I:105-112 + +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 + Titanic Sunk, 15 Ap. 1912 + VI. Van Dyke’s Heroes of the Titanic, 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 BRONTË, b. 21 Ap. 1816 + I. Charlotte Brontë, 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 Dyke’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. ABBÉ 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 noble 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 BRUYÈRE. + +MAY 7TH TO 13TH + + +7th. ROBERT BROWNING, b. 7 My. 1812 + I. Landor’s To Robert Browning, 14:151-152 + II. A King Lived Long Ago, 11:9-11 + III. Evelyn Hope, 15:121-123 + IV. How They Brought the Good News, 10:130-134 + V. A Woman’s Last Word, 14:189-191 + +8th. I. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 13:184-195 + II. Peabody’s Fortune and Men’s Eyes, 18:89 + +9th. J. M. BARRIE, b. 9 My. 1860 + I. The Courting of T’Nowhead’s Bell, 20-Pt. I:1-29 + +10th. HENRY M. STANLEY, d. 10 My. 1904 + I. In Darkest Africa, 16-Pt. II:97-124 + +11th. I. Wordsworth’s The Green Linnet, 14:106-108 + GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY, b. 12 My. 1855 + II. At Gibraltar, 13:290 + +12th. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, b. 12 My. 1828 + I. The Blessed Damozel, 10:58-63 + II. The Sonnet, 13:176-177 + III. The House of Life, 13:257-264 + +13th. ALPHONSE DAUDET, b. 13 My. 1840 + I. The Siege of Berlin, 21-Pt. I:129-138 + +Learn to be good readers--which is perhaps a more difficult thing +than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read +faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you +have a real interest in. + --THOMAS CARLYLE. + +MAY 14TH TO 20TH + + +14th. “Mother’s Day” (2d Sunday in May) + I. Branch’s Songs for My Mother, 14:300 + II. Emerson’s Each and All, 14:262-263 + III. Carlyle’s Battle of Dunbar, 2-Pt. I:142-159 + +15th. I. Thackeray’s On Letts’s Diary, 1-Pt. I:115-130 + +16th. HONORÉ DE BALZAC, b. 20 My. 1799 + I. A Passion in the Desert, 21-Pt. II:107-129 + +17th. I. Thackeray’s On a Joke I Once Heard, l-Pt. I:89-104 + +18th. I. Browning’s May and Death, 15:123-124 + II. Galsworthy’s The Little Man, 18:227 + +19th. Battle of La Hogue 19 My. 1692 (N. S. 29 My. 1692) + I. Browning’s Hervé Riel, 10:162-168 + NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, d. 19 My. 1864 + II. The Great Carbuncle, 20-Pt. II:30-52 + +20th. I. Gerstenberg’s Overtones, 18:139 + + +At this day, as much company as I have kept, and as much as I love +it, I love reading better. + --ALEXANDER POPE. + +MAY 21ST TO 27TH + + +21st. ALEXANDER POPE, b. 21 My. 1688 + I. On a Certain Lady at Court, 13:272-273 + II. The Dying Christian to His Soul, 15:169 + III. The Universal Prayer, 15:166-168 + JAMES GRAHAM, Marquis of Montrose, + d. 21 My. 1650 + IV. The Execution of Montrose, 10:270-277 + +22nd. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, b. 22 My. 1859 + I. The Dancing Men, 22-Pt. I:63 + +23rd. THOMAS HOOD, b. 23 My. 1799 + I. Flowers, 12:53-54 + II. I Remember, I Remember, 12:269-270 + III. The Song of the Shirt, 12:292-295 + IV. The Bridge of Sighs, 15:124-128 + V. The Dream of Eugene Aram, 11:265-273 + +24th. RICHARD MANSFIELD, b. 24 My. 1857 + I. Richard Mansfield, 17-Pt. II:61-79 + +25th. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, b. 25 My. 1803 + I. The Rhodora, 14:115 + II. The Titmouse, 12:66-69 + III. The Problem, 14:268-271 + IV. Lincoln’s The Whigs and the Mexican War, 5-Pt. I:3-6 + V. Notes for a Law Lecture, 5-Pt. I:7-10 + +26th. I. Bret Harte’s Melons, 7-Pt. II:41-50 + II. The Society upon the Stanislaus, 7-Pt. II:57-59 + +27th. I. Lady Dufferin’s The Lament of the Irish Emigrant, 15:128-130 + II. Hawthorne’s Wakefield, 3-Pt. I:85-99 + + +All the best experience of humanity, folded, saved, freighted to us +here! Some of these tiny ships we call Old and New Testaments, Homer, +Aeschylus, Plato, Juvenal, etc. Precious Minims! + --WALT WHITMAN. + +MAY 28TH TO JUNE 3RD + + +28th. THOMAS MOORE, b. 28 My. 1779 + I. As Slow Our Ship, 12:232-233 + II. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, 12:157-158 + III. The Lake of the Dismal Swamp, 11:83-85 + IV. Oft in the Stilly Night, 12:271-272 + V. Fly to the Desert, 12:155-157 + VI. Canadian Boat Song, 12:233-234 + +29th I. De Quincey’s Pleasures of Opium, 4-Pt. II:31-73 + +30th. Memorial Day + I. Hale’s The Man Without a Country, 21-Pt. II:57-95 + +31st. WALT WHITMAN, b. 31 My. 1819 + I. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 14: 120-129 + +Je. 1st. HENRY FRANCIS LYTE, b. 1 Je. 1793 + I. Abide With Me, 15:180-181 + JOHN DRINKWATER, b. 1 Je. 1882 + II. Birthright, 15:199 + CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, killed in a street + brawl, 1 Je. 1593 + III. Porcelain Cups, 22-Pt. I:38-62 + +2nd. J. G. SAXE, b. 2 Je. 1816 + I. Early Rising + II. The Coquette + III. The Stammering Wife + IV. My Familiar, + THOMAS HARDY, b. 2 Je. 1840 + V. Hardy’s The Oxen, 15:201 + +3rd. I. Hood’s It Was Not in the Winter, + II. Lamb’s Letters, + + +We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at +the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding +either, but approving the latter most. + --PLUTARCH. + +JUNE 4TH TO 10th + + +4th. I. Thackeray’s Dennis Haggarty’s Wife, 21-Pt. I:20-52 + +5th. O. HENRY, d. 5 Je. 1910 + I. The Furnished Room, 22-Pt. I:140 + +6th. ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, b. 6 Je. 1868 + I. Captain Scott’s Last Struggle, 16-Pt. II: 152-159 + +7th. EDWIN BOOTH, d. 7 Je. 1893 + I. Edwin Booth, 17-Pt. II:23-38 + +8th. I. Lamb’s Letters, 5-Pt. II:103-106 + +9th. CHARLES DICKENS, d. 9 Je. 1870 + I. Charles Dickens, 17-Pt. I:99-120 + +10th. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, d. 10 Je. 1909 + I. My Double and How He Undid Me, 8-Pt. I:124-142 + + +If an author be worthy of anything, he is worth bottoming. It may be +all very well to skim milk, for the cream lies on the top; but who +could skim Lord Byron? + --GEORGE SEARLE PHILLIPS. + +JUNE 11TH TO 17TH + + +11th. I. Wells’s Tragedy of a Theatre Hat, 9-Pt. II:50-55 + II. One Week,9-Pt. II:151 + III. The Poster Girl, 8-Pt. II:92-93 + IV. A Memory, 9-Pt. I:116-117 + +12th. CHARLES KINGSLEY, b. 12 Je. 1819 + I. Oh! That We Two Were Maying, 12:175-176 + II. The Last Buccaneer, 14:240-242 + III. The Sands of Dee, 10:261-262 + IV. The Three Fishers, 10:262-263 + V. Lorraine, 11:306-308 + +13th. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, b. 13 Je. 1865 + I. Ballad of Father Gilligan, 10:314 + II. Fiddler of Dooney, 14:310 + +14th. Flag Day + I. Whittier’s Barbara Frietchie, 10:210-213 + II. Key’s Star-Spangled Banner, 12:213-215 + III. Drake’s American Flag, 12:215-217 + IV. Holmes’s Old Ironsides, 12:217-218 + +15th. I. Leacock’s My Financial Career, 9-Pt. II:19-23 + II. Hawthorne’s Gray Champion, 3-Pt. I:139-152 + +16th. I. Lanigan’s The Villager and the Snake, 9-Pt-I:19 + II. The Amateur Orlando, 9-Pt. I:26-30 + III. The Ahkoond of Swat, 8-Pt. I: 37-38 + +17th. JOSEPH ADDISON, d. 17 Je. 1719 + I. The Voice of the Heavens, 15:165-166 + II. Poe’s MS. Found in a Bottle, 4-Pt. I:105-123 + III. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, 5-Pt. I:90-93 + IV. Ship of State and Pilot, 5-Pt. I:94-95 + + +Sitting last winter among my books, and walled around with all the +comfort and protection which they and my fireside could afford me--to +wit, a table of higher piled books at my back, my writing desk on one +side of me, some shelves on the other, and the feeling of the warm fire +at my feet--I began to consider how I loved the authors of those books. + --LEIGH HUNT. + +JUNE 18th TO 24TH + + +18th. I. Hawthorne’s Ethan Brand, 3-Pt. I:55-82 + +19th. RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, d. Aug. 11, 1885 + I. The Brook-Side, 12:177-178 + II. The Men of Old, 14:133-135 + III. Lincoln’s Speech in Independence Hall, 5-Pt. I:71-73 + IV. To the Workingmen of Manchester, 5-Pt. I:115-117 + +20th. I. Longfellow’s Hymn to the Night, 12:46-47 + II. The Light of the Stars, 12:48-49 + III. Daybreak, 12:49-50 + IV. Seaweed, 14:88-89 + V. The Village Blacksmith, 14:165-166 + +21st. HENRY GUY CARLETON, b. 21 Je. 1856 + I. The Thompson Street Poker Club, 7-Pt. II: 116-121 + II. Munkittrick’s Patriotic Tourist, 9-Pt. II: 47-48 + III. What’s in a Name, 9-Pt. II:103-104 + IV. ’Tis Ever Thus, 9-Pt. II:152 + +22nd. ALAN SEEGER, b. 22 Je. 1888 + I. I Have a Rendezvous with Death, 15:215 + II. O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi, 22-Pt. II:48 + +23rd. I. Longfellow’s The Day Is Done, 12:240-242. + II. The Beleaguered City, 14:249-251 + III. The Bridge, 12:279-282 + IV. Whittier’s Ichabod, 14:154-156 + V. Maud Muller, 11:219-224 + +24th. AMBROSE BIERCE, b. 24 Je. 1842 + I. The Dog and the Bees, 7-Pt. II:10 + II. The Man and the Goose, 9-Pt. I:85 + Battle of Bannockburn, 24 Je. 1314 + III. Burns’s Bannockburn, 12:198-199 + IV. My Heart’s in the Highlands, 12:36-37 + V. The Banks of Doon, 12:146-147 + + +Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. +Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon +as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. + --RALPH WALDO EMERSON. + +JUNE 25TH TO JULY 1ST + + +25th. I. Goodman’s Eugenically Speaking, 18:193 + +26th. I. Burns’s Elegy, 15:61-64 + II. Mary Morison, 12: 147-148 + III. Oh! Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley? 12:148-149 + IV. O, My Love’s Like a Red, Red Rose, 12:149-150 + V. Ae Fond Kiss, 12:150-151 + +27th. HELEN KELLER, b. 27 Je. 1880 + I. Helen Keller, 17-Pt. I:167-171 + II. Garrison’s A Love Song, 12:338 + +28th. I. Lincoln’s Letter to Bryant, 5--Pt. I:122-123 + II. Burns’s Of A’ the Airts, 12:151 + III. Highland Mary, 12:152-153 + IV. A Farewell, 12:199-200 + V. It Was A’ for Our Rightfu’ King, 12:200-201 + +29th. I. The Pit and the Pendulum, 21-Pt. I:139-162 + +30th. I. Burns’s John Anderson My Jo, 12:245-246 + II. Thou Lingering Star, 12:270-271 + III. Lines Written on a Banknote, 13:273-274 + IV. Byron’s Darkness, 11:102-105 + V. Oh! Snatch’d Away in Beauty’s Bloom, 15:113-114 + +Jl. 1st. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, d. 1 Jl. 1896 + I. The Minister’s Wooing, 8-Pt. II:97-106 + + +A library is not worth anything without a catalogue; it is a +Polyphemus without an eye in his head--and you must confront the +difficulties whatever they may be, of making a proper catalogue. + --Thomas Carlyle. + +July 2nd to 8th + + +2nd. Richard Henry Stoddard, b. 2 Jl. 1825 + I. There Are Gains for All Our Losses, 12:267 + II. The Sky, 13:281 + III. Byron’s Ode on Venice, 13:115-121 + IV. Stanzas for Music, 12:162-163 + V. When We Two Parted, 12: 163-164 + +3rd. Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Oilman, b. 3 Jl. 1860 + I. Similar Cases, 9-Pt. I:53-57 + II. Byron’s She Walks in Beauty, 12:164-165 + III. Destruction of Sennacherib, 11:183-184 + IV. Sonnet on Chillon, 13:222 + +4th. Nathaniel Hawthorne, b. 4 Jl. 1804 + I. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 17-Pt. I.74-98 + Declaration of Independence, 4 Jl. 1776 + II. Emerson’s Ode, 13:167-169 + +5th. I. Emerson’s Waldeinsamkeit, 14:39-41 + II. The World Soul, 12:59-63 + III. To the Humblebee, 12:64-66 + IV. The Forerunners, 14:265-267 + V. Brahma, 14:271 + +6th. I. Macdonald’s Earl o’ Quarterdeck, 10:300 + +7th. I. Markham’s Man with the Hoe, 14:294 + +8th. Shelley drowned, 8 Jl. 1822 + I. Memorabilia, 14:151 + II. Hawthorne’s The Minister’s Black Veil, 21-Pt. I:107-128 + + +For my part I have ever gained the most profit, and the most +pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most. + --JULIUS C. HARE. + +JULY 9TH TO 15TH + + +9th. I. Browning’s The Statue and the Bust, II: 273-284 + II. The Lost Leader, 12:289-290 + III. The Patriot, II:290-291 + +10th. ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE, b. 10 Jl. 1861 + I. Mis’ Smith, 8-Pt. II:77 + F. P. DUNNE, (“Mr. Dooley”), b. 10 Jl. 1867 + II. Home Life of Geniuses, 9-Pt. II:56-62 + III. The City as a Summer Resort, 9-Pt. II:138-144 + +11th. I. Burdette’s Vacation of Mustapha, 8-Pt. I:3-7 + II. The Legend of Mimir, 8-Pt. I:68-69 + III. The Artless Prattle of Childhood, 7-Pt. II. 106-112 + IV. Rheumatism Movement Cure, 8-Pt. II:37-43 + +12th. B. P. SHILLABER, b. 12 Jl. 1814 + I. Fancy Diseases, 7-Pt. I:32 + II. Bailed Out, 7-Pt. I:33 + III. Masson’s My Subway Guard Friend, 9-Pt. I:140 + +13th. I. Mukerji’s Judgment of Indra, 18:257 + +14th. The Bastille Destroyed, 14 Jl. 1789 + I. Carlyle’s The Flight to Varennes from + “The French Revolution,” 2-Pt. I:87-110 + +15th. Battle of Château Thierry, 15 Jl. 1918 + I. Grenfell’s Into Battle, 15:217 + II. Keats’s La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 10:85-87 + III. Ode to a Nightingale, 13:132-135 + IV. Ode, 13:135-137 + V. Ode to Psyche, 13:139-141 + VI. Fancy, 13:143-146 + + +Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of +prosperity; the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and +no hindrance abroad; companions at night, in travelling, in the country. + --CICERO. + +JULY 16TH TO 22ND + + +16th. ROALD AMUNDSEN, b. 16 Jl. 1872 + I. Amundsen, 16-Pt. II:147-15l + II. Masefield’s Sea Fever, 12:334 + +17th. I. Keats’s Robin Hood, 14: 146-148 + II. Sonnets, 13:223-227 + III. Shelley’s Hymn of Pan, 12:44-45 + IV. Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, 14: 61-73 + V. Stanzas Written in Dejection, 14:73-75 + +18th. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, b. 18 Jl. 1811 + I. De Finibus, 1-Pt. I:143-157 + II. Ballads, 1-Pt. I:161-164 + +19th. I. Derby’s Illustrated Newspaper, 7-Pt. II: + 11-19 + II. Tushmaker’s Toothpuller, 7-Pt. II:53-56 + III. Burdette’s Romance of the Carpet, 9-Pt. I: + 38-40 + +20th. JEAN INGELOW, d.20 Jl.1897 + I. High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, + 10:263-269 + II. Shelley’s The Cloud, 14:90-93 + III. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 13:121-124 + IV. To a Skylark, 13:124-129 + V. Arethusa, 11:140-143 + +21st. Robert Burns, d. 21 Jl. 1796 + I. Thoughts, 15:65-67 + II. Shelley’s Love’s Philosophy, 12:160 + III. I Fear Thy Kisses, 12:161 + IV. To----, 12:161-162 + V. To---, 12:162 + +22nd. I. Shelley’s Ozymandias of Egypt, 13:222-223 + II. Song, 12:225-226 + III. When the Lamp Is Shattered, 12:274-275 + IV. Tennyson’s The Gardener’s Daughter, II:17-28 + V. The Deserted House, 15:23-24 + + +Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; +natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to +contend. + --BACON. + +July 23rd to 29th + + +23rd. U. S. Grant, d. 23 Jl. 1885 + I. Lincoln to Grant, 5-Pt. I:121 + II. Tennyson’s Ulysses, 14:175-177 + III. Ask Me No More, 12:180 + IV. The Splendor Falls, 12:181 + V. Come into the Garden, Maud, 12:182-184 + VI. Sir Galahad, 14: 184-186 + +24th. John Newton, b. 24 Jl. 1725. + I. The Quiet Heart, 15:170 + II. Tennyson’s The Miller’s Daughter, II:31-40 + III. The Oak, 14:41 + IV. Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere, 10:51-53 + V. Song, 12:54-55 + +25th. I. Tennyson’s The Throstle, 12:55-56 + II. A Small, Sweet Idyl, 14:79-80 + III. Merlin and the Gleam, II:122-127 + IV. The Lotos-Eaters, 14:135-143 + V. Mariana, 14:162-164 + +26th. I. Stevenson’s Markheim, 20-Pt. I:103-129 + +27th. Thomas Campbell, b. 27 Jl. 1777 + I. The Soldier’s Dream, 10:186-187 + II. Lord Ullin’s Daughter, 10:259-261 + III. How Delicious Is the Winning, 12:165-166 + IV. To the Evening Star, 12:47 + +28th. ABRAHAM COWLEY, d. 28 Jl. 1667 + I. A Supplication, 13:59-60 + II. On the Death of Mr. William Hervey, 15:80-86 + JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE VISCOUNT DUNDEE, + d. 28 Jl. 1689 + III. Scott’s Bonny Dundee, 10:183-186 + +29th. DON MARQUIS, b. 29 Jl. 1878 + I. Chant Royal of the Dejected Dipsomaniac, 9-Pt. I:143 + BOOTH TARKINGTON, b. 29 Jl. 1869 + II. Overwhelming Saturday, 22-Pt. I:101 + + +Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that +he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells. + --COWPER. + +July 30th to August 5th + + +30th. JOYCE KILMER, killed in action, 30 Jl. 1918 + I. A Ballad of Three, 10:311 + II. Trees, 12:329 + III. Noyes’s The May Tree, 12:327 + +31st. I. Tennyson’s Song of the Brook, 14:99-101 + II. O That ’t Were Possible, 12:185-188 + III. Morte d’Arthur, 11:204-215 + IV. Sweet and Low, 12:249-250 + V. Will, 14:259-260 + +Ag. 1st + I. Tennyson’s Rizpah, 10:279-285 + II. The Children’s Hospital, 11:310-315 + III. Break, Break, Break, 12:320 + IV. In the Valley of Cauteretz, 12:321 + V. Wages, 12:321-322 + VI. Crossing the Bar, 12:324 + VII. Flower in the Crannied Wall, 13:280 + +2nd. I. Browning’s Love Among the Ruins, 11:28-31 + II. My Star, 12:58-59 + III. From Pippa Passes, 12:59 + IV. The Boy and the Angel, 11:133-137 + V. Epilogue, 15: 143-144 + +3rd. H. C. BUNNER, b. 3 Ag. 1855 + I. Behold the Deeds! 7-Pt. II:123-125 + II. The Love Letters of Smith, 8-Pt. I:89-104 + +4th. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, b. 4 Ag. 1792 + I. The Sensitive Plant, 11:54-68 + II. To Night, 12:43-44 + III. The Indian Serenade, 12:159-160 + +5th. GUY DE MAUPASSANT, b. 5 Ag. 1850 + I. The Piece of String, 21-Pt. II:96-106 + II. The Necklace, 21-Pt. I:94-106 + + + Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes +never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. + --LORD MACAULAY. + +AUGUST 6th to 12th + + +6th. ALFRED TENNYSON, b. 6 Ag. 1809 + I. Alfred Tennyson, 17-Pt. I:38-42 + II. Dora, 11:11-17 + III. The Lady of Shalott, 10:73-79 + +7th. JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, b. 7 Ag. 1795 + I. Halleck’s Joseph Rodman Drake, 15:104-105 + II. Browning’s Prospice, 15:145-146 + III. Pied Piper, 11:163-173 + IV. Meeting at Night, 12:189-190 + V. Parting at Morning, 12:190 + +8th. SARA TEASDALE, b. 8 Ag. 1884 + I. Teasdale’s Blue Squills, 12:327 + II. The Return, 12:338 + III. Browning’s Misconceptions, 12:190-191 + IV. Rabbi Ben Ezra, 14:191-199 + +9th. JOHN DRYDEN, b. 9 Ag. 1631 + I. Alexander’s Feast, 13:63-70 + II. Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love! 12:140-141 + III. The Elixir, 15:150-151 + IV. Discipline, 15:151-152 + V. The Pulley, 15:153-154 + +10th. WITTER BYNNER, b. 10 Ag. 1881 + I. Sentence, 13:295 + II. Browning’s Soul, 14:199-221 + III. Herrick’s To Blossoms, 12:33-34 + IV. To Daffodils, 12:34 + V. To Violets, 12:35 + +11th. I. Herrick’s To Meadows, 12:35-36 + II. Lacrimæ, 15:41-42 + III. The Primrose, 12:124 + IV. Litany, 15:158-160 + V. Lowell’s Madonna of the Evening Flowers, 11:319 + +12th. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, d. 12 Ag. 1891 + I. Rhoecus, 11:127-13 3 + II. The Courtin’, 11:230-233 + III. The Yankee Recruit, 7-Pt. I:52-60 + + +Give us a house furnished with books rather than with furniture. +Both if you can, but books at any rate! + --HENRY WARD BEECHER. + +AUGUST 13TH TO 19TH + + +13th. Battle of Blenheim, 13 Ag. 1704 + I. Southey’s After Blenheim, 10:192-194 + II. De Quincey’s Going Down with Victory, 4-Pt. II: 107-119 + +14th. JOHN FLETCHER, d. 14 Ag. 1785 + I. Love’s Emblems, 12:29-30 + II. Hear, Ye Ladies, 12:132-133 + III. Melancholy, 12:278-279 + IV. Lodge’s Rosalind’s Madrigal, 12:83-84 + V. Rosalind’s Description, 12:84-86 + +15th. THOMAS DE QUINCEY, b. 15 Ag. 1785 + I. The Pains of Opium, 4-Pt. II:73-100 + +16th. BARONESS NAIRNE (Carolina Oliphant), b. 16 Ag. 1766 + I. The Laird o’ Cockpen, 11:251-252 + II. The Land o’ the Leal, 12:311-312 + III. Cather’s Grandmither, Think Not I Forget, 14:313 + +17th. I. Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers, 19-Pt. II:1-58 + +18th. I. Longfellow’s Rain in Summer, 14:96-99 + II. Herrick’s Corinna’s Going a-Maying, 12:30-33 + III. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind, 13:129-132 + +19th. Battle of Otterburn, 19 Ag. 1388 + I. The Battle of Otterburn, 10:171-176 + + +Books make up no small part of human happiness. + --FREDERICK THE GREAT (in youth). + +My latest passion will be for literature. +--FREDERICK THE GREAT (in old age). + +AUGUST 20TH TO 26TH + + +20th. MARCO BOZZARIS,fell 20 Ag. 1823 + I. Halleck’s Marco Bozzaris, 11:187-191 + II. Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal, 11:107-121 + +21st. MARY MAPES DODGE, d. 21 Ag. 1905 + I. Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question, 7-Pt. 11:20-24 + II. Lowell’s Letter from a Candidate, 7-Pt. II:29-32 + +22nd. Royal Standard Raised at Nottingham, 22 Ag. 1642 + I. Browning’s Cavalier Tunes, 12:205-208 + II. Milton’s Il Penseroso, 14:14-19 + III. Lycidas, 15:52-58 + +23rd. EDGAR LEE MASTERS, b. 23 Ag. 1869 + I. Isaiah Beethoven, 14:308 + II. Hardy’s She Hears the Storm, 14:312 + III. Wheelock’s The Unknown Beloved, 10:309 + +24th. ROBERT HERRICK, baptized 24 Ag. 1591 + I. To Dianeme, 12:123 + II. Upon Julia’s Clothes, 12:124 + III. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 12:125 + IV. Delight in Disorder, 12:125-126 + V. To Anthea, 12:126-127 + VI. To Daisies, 12:127 + VII. The Night Piece, 12:128 + +25th. BRET HARTE, b. 25 Ag. 1839 + I. Plain Language from Truthful James, II:234-236 + II. The Outcasts of Poker Flat, 20-Pt. I:30-46 + III. Ramon, 11:285-288 + IV. Her Letter, 8-Pt. I:113-115 + +26th. I. Holley’s An Unmarried Female, 8-Pt. II: 26-36 + + +We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions. + --HENRY FIELDING. + +AUGUST 27TH TO SEPTEMBER 2ND + + +27th. I. Scott’s Coronach, 15:33-34 + II. Lochinvar, 10:36-39 + III. A Weary Lot Is Thine, 10:40-41 + IV. County Guy, 12:154-155 + V. Hail to the Chief, 12:203-204 + +28th. LEO TOLSTOI, b. 28 Ag. 1828 + I. The Prisoner in the Caucasus, 19-Pt. I:141-186 + +29th. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,b. 29Ag. 1809;d. + I. The Ballad of the Oysterman, 7-Pt. I:105-106 + II. My Aunt, 7-Pt. I:23-24 + III. Foreign Correspondence, 7-Pt. I:77-80 + IV. The Chambered Nautilus, 14:108-109 + The Royal George lost 29 Ag. 1782 + V. Cowper’s On the Loss of the Royal George, 10:148-149 + +30th. I. Scott’s Brignall Banks, 10:41-43 + II. Hunting Song, 12:230-231 + III. Soldier Rest, 12:277-278 + IV. Proud Maisie, 10:258 + V. Harp of the North, 12:286-287 + +31st. THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, b. 31 Ag. 1811 + I. The Mummy’s Foot, 19-Pt. I:90-108 + +S. 1ST. SIMEON FORD, b. 31 Ag. 1855 + I. At a Turkish Bath, 9-Pt. II:74-77 + II. The Discomforts of Travel, 9-Pt. II: 123-127 + III. Boyhood in a New England Hotel, 9-Pt. I:123-126 + +2nd. AUSTIN DOBSON, d. 2 S. 1921 + I. Ballad of Prose and Rhyme, 12:335 + II. Carman’s Vagabond Song, 12:330 + III. Colum’s Old Woman of the Roads, 14:311 + IV. Peabody’s House and the Road, 12:344 + V. Daly’s Inscription for a Fireplace, 13:294 + + +Old wood best to burn; old wine to drink; old friends to trust; and +old authors to read. + --ALONZO OF ARAGON. + +SEPTEMBER 3RD TO 9TH + + +3rd. IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENIEFF, d. 3 S.1883 + I. The Song of Triumphant Love, 19-Pt. I: 109-140 + II. Wordsworth’s Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, + Sept, 3, 1802, 13:211 + +4th. SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE, d. 4 (?) S. 1591 + I. Tennyson’s The Revenge, 10:222-229 + II. Wordsworth’s To the Skylark, 12:40-41 + III. On a Picture of Peele Castle, 14:44-47 + +5th. I. Some Messages Received by Teachers in Brooklyn Public + Schools, 7-Pt. II:144-147 + II. Emerson’s Labor, 2-Pt. I:138-145 + +6th. I. Wordsworth’s Resolution and Independence, 11:48-54 + II. Yarrow Unvisited, 14:53-55 + III. Intimations of Immortality, 13:89-96 + IV. Ode to Duty, 13:96-98 + V. The Small Celandine, 14:112-113 + +7th. I. Milton’s Echo, 12:25-26 + II. Sabrina, 12:26-27 + III. The Spirit’s Epilogue, 12:27-29 + IV. On Time, 13:52-53 + V. At a Solemn Music, 13:53-54 + +8th. I. Wordsworth’s Lucy, 15:114-118 + II. Hart-Leap Well, 10:134-142 + SIEGFRIED SASSOON, b. 8 S. 1886 + III. Dreamers, 15:223 + +9th. SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, drowned 9 S. 1583 + I. Longfellow’s Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 10:160-161 + Battle of Flodden Field, 9 S. 1513 + II. Elliot’s A Lament for Flodden, 10:251-252 + III. Wordsworth’s Stepping Westward, 14:158-159 + IV. She Was A Phantom of Delight, 14:159-160 + V. Scorn Not the Sonnet, 13:175-176 + + +To desire to have many books, and never use them, is like a child +that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping. + --HENRY PEACHAM. + +SEPTEMBER 10TH TO 16TH + + +10th. I. Wordsworth’s Nuns Fret Not, 13:175 + II. Lines, 14:253-255 + III. We Are Seven, 10:252-255 + +11th. JAMES THOMSON, b. II S. 1700 + I. Rule Britannia, 12:208-209 + II. Collins’s On the Death of Thomson, 15:59-60 + III. Lowell’s A Winter Ride, 12:331 + IV. MacKaye’s The Automobile, 13:290 + +12th. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, b. 12 S. 1829 + I. Plumbers, 8-Pt. I:150-151 + II. My Summer in a Garden, 7-Pt. I:6l-74 + III. How I Killed a Bear, 9-Pt. I:59-70 + +13th. GENERAL AMBROSE EVERETT BURNSIDE, d. 13 S. 1881 + I. Lincoln’s Letter to Burnside, 5-Pt. I:118 + II. Collins’s Ode Written in 1745, 15:34 + III. The Passions, 13:81-85 + IV. Ode to Evening, 13:85-88 + V. Dirge in Cymbeline, 15:112-113 + +14th. DUKE OF WELLINGTON, d. 14 S. 1852 + I. Tennyson’s Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, + 13:151-161 + DANTE, d. 14 S. 1321 + II. Longfellow’s Dante and Divina Comedia, 13:239-244 + III. Parsons’s On a Bust of Dante, 14:152-154 + +15th. I. Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper, 14:160-161 + II. Jonson’s Hymn to Diana, 12:14 + III. Pindaric Ode, 13:37-42 + IV. Epitaph, 15:46-47 + V. On Elizabeth L. H., 15:47 + +16th. ALFRED NOYES, b. 16 S. 1880 + I. Old Grey Squirrel, 14:306 + JOHN GAY, baptized 16 S. 1685 + II. Black-Eyed Susan, 10:32-34 + CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS, b. 16 S. 1861 + III. O-U-G-H, 7-Pt. I:143 + + +It does not matter how many, but how good, books you have. + --SENECA. + +SEPTEMBER 17TH to 23RD + + +17th. I. Turner’s The Harvest Moon, 13:249 + II. Letty’s Globe, 13:245-246 + III. Mary, A Reminiscence, 13:246-247 + IV. Her First-born, 13:247-248 + V. The Lattice at Sunrise, 13:248 + +18th. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, b. 18 S. 1709 + I. Macaulay’s Dr. Samuel Johnson, 2-Pt. II:39-79 + +19th. HARTLEY COLERIDGE, b. 19 S. 1796 + I. Song, 12:166-167 + II. Sonnets, 13:227-230 + III. Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight, 14:22-25 + IV. Love, 10:44-47 + V. France: An Ode, 13:99-103 + +20th. WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE, d. 20 S. 1863 + I. Antony to Cleopatra, 14:238-240 + II. Hood’s The Death Bed, 15:131 + III. Autumn, 13:148-150 + IV. Ruth, 14:157-158 + V. Fair Ines, 12:168-169 + +21st. SIR WALTER SCOTT, d. 21 S. 1832 + I. Sir Walter Scott, 17-Pt. I:65-73 + II. The Maid of Neidpath, 10:39-40 + III. Pibroch of Donald Dhu, 12:201-203 + IV. Wandering Willie’s Tale, 20-Pt. II:75-103 + +22nd. I. Wordsworth’s My Heart Leaps Up, 13:274 + II. Laodamia, 11:143-150 + III. There Was a Boy, 14:156-157 + +23rd. Battle of Monterey, 23 S. 1846 + I. Hoffman’s Monterey, 10:206-207 + II. Lovelace’s The Grasshopper, 12:30 + III. To Lucasta, 12:129-130 + IV. To Althea, 12:130-131 + V. To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, 12:198 + + +The words of the good are like a staff in a slippery place. + --HINDU SAYING. + +SEPTEMBER 24TH TO 30TH + + +24th. I. Noyes’s Creation, 15:204 + +25th. FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS, b. 25 S. 1793 + I. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, 10:151-153 + II. Poe’s Annabel Lee, 10:56-57 + III. To Helen, 12:176 + IV. The Bells, 12:234-238 + V. For Annie, 12:305-308 + +26th. I. Holmes’s Latter-Day Warnings, 7-Pt. I:34-35 + II. Contentment, 7-Pt. I:35-38 + III. An Aphorism, 8-Pt. II:44-52 + IV. Music Pounding, 7-Pt. I:80-81 + +27th. I. Holmes’s The Height of the Ridiculous, 8-Pt. I:118-119 + II. The Last Leaf, 14:167-168 + III. The One-Hoss Shay, 11:236-241 + +28th. I. Morley’s Haunting Beauty of Strychnine, 9-Pt. I:135 + II. Guiterman’s Strictly Germ-Proof, 7-Pt. I:141 + III. Burgess’s Lazy Roof, 8-Pt. I:149 + IV. My Feet, 8-Pt. I:149 + +29th. ÉMILE ZOLA, d. 29 S. 1902 + I. The Death of Olivier Bécaille, 21-Pt. I:53-93 + +30th. I. Lowell’s Without and Within, 8-Pt. II:72-73 + II. She Came and Went, 15:134 + III. The Sower, 14:144-145 + IV. Sonnets, 13:251-253 + V. What Rabbi Jehosha Said, 14:282-283 + + +If you are reading a piece of thoroughly good literature, Baron +Rothschild may possibly be as well occupied as you--he is certainly not +better occupied. + --P. G. HAMERTON. + +OCTOBER 1ST TO 7TH + + +1st. LOUIS UNTERMYER, b. 1 O. 1885 + I. Only of Thee and Me, 12:339 + II. Morris’s October, 14:105-106 + III. Bunner’s Candor, 8-Pt. I:11-12 + +2nd. French Fleet destroyed off Boston, October, 1746 + I. Longfellow’s Ballad of the French Fleet, 10:202-204 + II. Mrs. Browning’s Sleep, 15:21-23 + III. The Romance of the Swan’s Nest, 10:79-83 + IV. A Dead Rose, 12:191-192 + V. A Man’s Requirements, 12:192-194 + +3rd. WILLIAM MORRIS, d. 3 0. 1896 + I. Summer Dawn, 12:172 + II. The Nymph’s Song to Hylas, 12:173-174 + III. The Voice of Toil, 12:290-292 + IV. The Shameful Death, 10:277-279 + +4th. HENRY CAREY, d. 4 O. 1743 + I. Sally in Our Alley, 12:142-144 + II. Van Dyke’s The Proud Lady, 10:296 + +5th. I. Poe’s Ulalume, II:302-306 + II. Arnold’s The Last Word, 15:43 + III. A Nameless Epitaph, 15:48 + IV. Thyrsis, 15:86-97 + V. Requiescat, 15:120-121 + +6th. GEORGE HENRY BOKER, b. 6 O. 1893 + I. The Black Regiment, 10:207-210 + II. Lamb’s Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:129-132 + III. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:136-143 + IV. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:143-145 + +7th. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, d. 7 O. 1586 + I. The Bargain, 12:87 + II. Astrophel and Stella, 13:178-180 + III. To Sir Philip Sidney’s Soul, 13:181 + EDGAR ALLAN POE, d. 7 O. 1849 + IV. The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Pt. I:1-53 + + +A little before you go to sleep read something that is exquisite and +worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall asleep. + --ERASMUS. + +OCTOBER 8TH TO 14TH + + +8th. JOHN HAY, b. 8 O. 1838 + I. Little Breeches, 7-Pt. I:45-47 + EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, b. 8 0. 1833. + II. The Diamond Wedding, 7-Pt. I:107-114 + +9th. S. W. GILLILAN, b. O. 1869 + I. Finnigin to Flannigan, 9-Pt. I:92-93 + II. Dunne’s On Expert Testimony, 9-Pt. II:13-16 + III. Work and Sport, 9-Pt. II:87-92 + IV. Avarice and Generosity, 9-Pt. II:144-146 + +10th. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, d. 10 0. 1872 + I. Lincoln’s Letter to Seward, 5-Pt. I:111-112 + II. Walker’s Medicine Show, 18:213 + +11th. I. Keats’s To Autumn, 13:142-143 + II. Carew’s Epitaph, 15:48 + III. Disdain Returned, 12:133-134 + IV. Song, 12:134 + V. To His Inconstant Mistress, 12:135 + +12th. ROBERT E. LEE, d. 12 O. 1870 + I. Robert E. Lee, 16-Pt. II:62-73 + DINAH MULOCK CRAIK, d. 12 O. 1887. + II. Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True 12:310-311 + +13th. SIR HENRY IRVING, d. 13 O. 1905 + I. Sir Henry Irving, 17-Pt. II:39-47 + +14th. JOSH BILLINGS (H. W. SHAW), d. 14 O. 1885 + I. Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats, 7-Pt. I:48-51 + II. To Correspondents, 9-Pt. I:73-74 + III. Russell’s Origin of the Banjo, 9-Pt. I:79-82 + + +And when a man is at home and happy with a book, sitting by his +fireside, he must be a churl if he does not communicate that happiness. +Let him read now and then to his wife and children. + --H. FRISWELL. + +OCTOBER 15TH TO 21ST + + +15th. I. Tennyson’s Tears, Idle Tears, 12:272-273 + II. Shakespeare’s Over Hill, Over Dale, 12:19 + III. Poe’s Assignation, 4-Pt. I:81-101 + +16th. I. Nye’s How to Hunt the Fox, 8-Pt. I:70-78 + II. A Fatal Thirst, 7-Pt. II:148-150 + III. On Cyclones, 9-Pt. I:83-85 + +17th. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, d. 17 O. 1910 + I. Gloucester Moors, 11:320 + +18th. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, 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 Passionate 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. Vobiscum 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 DYKE, 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 title-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 + + +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. + +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 pass to the +greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasures that God has +prepared for his creatures.... It lasts when all other pleasures fade. + --TROLLOPE. + +DECEMBER 10TH TO 16TH + + +10th. EMILY DICKINSON, 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 divertisement 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 + +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 Noël, 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. 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LYMAN ABBOTT, +ASA DON DICKINSON +AND OTHERS</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</h2> +</div> + + +<p><a href="#THE_POCKET_UNIVERSITY">BOOKS FOR STUDY AND READING</a><br /> +By Lyman Abbott</p> + +<p><a href="#THE_PURPOSE_OF_READING">THE PURPOSE OF READING</a><br /> +By John Macy</p> + +<p><a href="#HOW_TO_GET_THE_BEST_OUT">How TO GET THE BEST Out OF BOOKS</a><br /> +By Richard Le Gallienne</p> + +<p><a href="#THE_GUIDE_TO_DAILY">THE GUIDE TO DAILY READING</a><br /> +By Asa Don Dickinson</p> + +<p>GENERAL INDEX OF AUTHORS</p> + +<p>GENERAL INDEX OF TITLES</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_POCKET_UNIVERSITY">THE POCKET UNIVERSITY<br /> +Books for Study and Reading</h2> +<p class="center">BY LYMAN ABBOTT</p> +</div> + + +<p>There are three services which books may render in the home: they may +be ornaments, tools, or friends.</p> + +<p>I was told a few years ago the following story which is worth retelling +as an illustration of the use of books as ornaments. A millionaire who +had one house in the city, one in the mountains, and one in the South, +wished to build a fourth house on the seashore. A house ought to have a +library. Therefore this new house was to have a library. When the house +was finished he found the library shelves had been made so shallow that +they would not take books of an ordinary size. His architect proposed +to change the bookshelves. The millionaire did not wish the change +made, but told his architect to buy fine bindings of classical books +and glue them into the shelves. The architect on making inquiries +discovered that the bindings would cost more than slightly shop-worn +editions of the books themselves. So the books were bought, cut in two +from top to bottom about in the middle, one half thrown away, and the +other half replaced upon the shelves that the handsome backs presented +the same appearance they would have presented if the entire book had +been there. Then the glass doors were locked, the key to the glass +doors lost, and sofas and chairs and tables put against them. Thus the +millionaire has his library furnished with handsome bindings and these +I may add are quite adequate for all the use which he wishes to make of +them.</p> + +<p>This is a rather extreme case of the use of books as ornaments, but it +illustrates in a bizarre way what is a not uncommon use. There is this +to be said for that illiterate millionaire: well-bound books are +excellent ornaments. No decoration with wall paper or fresco can make a +parlor as attractive as it can be made with low bookshelves filled with +works of standard authors and leaving room above for statuary, or +pictures, or the inexpensive decoration of flowers picked from one’s +own garden. I am inclined to think that the most attractive parlor I +have ever visited is that of a bookish friend whose walls are thus +furnished with what not only delights the eye, but silently invites the +mind to an inspiring companionship.</p> + +<p>More important practically than their use as ornaments is the use of +books as tools. Every professional man needs his special tools—the +lawyer his law books, the doctor his medical books, the minister his +theological treatises and his Biblical helps. I can always tell when I +go into a clergyman’s study by looking at his books whether he is +living in the Twentieth Century or in the Eighteenth. Tools do not make +the man, but they make his work and so show what the man is.</p> + +<p>Every home ought to have some books that are tools and the children +should be taught how to use them. There should be at least an atlas, a +dictionary, and an encyclopædia. If in the evening when the family talk +about the war in the Balkans the father gets out the atlas and the +children look to see where Roumania and Bulgaria and Greece and +Constantinople and the Dardanelles are on the map, they will learn more +of real geography in half an hour than they will learn in a week of +school study concerning countries in which they have no interest. When +there is reading aloud in the family circle, if every unfamiliar word +is looked up in a dictionary, which should always lie easily accessible +upon the table, they will get unconsciously a widening of their +vocabulary and a knowledge of the use of English which will be an +invaluable supplement to the work of their teacher of English in the +school. As to cyclopædias they are of all sizes from the little six- +volumed cyclopædia in the Everyman’s Library to the twenty-nine volumed +Encyclopædia Britannica, and from the general cyclopædia with more or +less full information on every conceivable topic to the more +distinctive family cyclopædia which covers the life of the household. +Where there are children in the family the cyclopædia which covers the +field they are most apt to be interested in—such as “The Library of +Work & Play” or “The Guide Series” to biography, music, pictures, etc. +—is the best one to begin with. After they have learned to go to it for +information which they want, they will desire a more general cyclopædia +because their wants have increased and broadened.</p> + +<p>So much for books as ornaments and as tools. Certainly not less +important, if comparisons can be made I am inclined to say more +important, is their usefulness as friends.</p> + +<p>In Smith College this distinction is marked by the College authorities +in an interesting and valuable manner. In the library building there is +a room for study. It is furnished with a number of plain oak or walnut +tables and with chairs which do not invite to repose. There are +librarians present to get from the stacks the special books which the +student needs. The room is barren of ornament. Each student is hard at +work examining, comparing, collating. She is to be called on to-morrow +in class to tell what she has learned, or next week to hand in a thesis +the product of her study. All eyes are intent upon the allotted task; +no one looks up to see you when you enter. In the same building is +another room which I will call The Lounge, though I think it bears a +different name. The books are upon shelves around the wall and all are +within easy reach. Many of them are fine editions. A wood fire is +burning in the great fireplace. The room is furnished with sofas and +easy chairs. No one is at work. No one is talking. No! but they are +listening—listening to authors whose voices have long since been +silent in death.</p> + +<p>In every home there ought to be books that are friends. In every day, +at least in every week, there ought to be some time which can be spent +in cultivating their friendship. This is reading, and reading is very +different from study.</p> + +<p>The student has been at work all the morning with his tools. He has +been studying a question of Constitutional Law: What are the powers of +the President of the United States? He has examined the Constitution; +then Willoughby or Watson on the Constitution; then he turns to The +Federalist; then perhaps to the Constitutional debates, or to the +histories, such as Von Holst’s Constitutional History of the United +States, or to treatises, such as Bryce’s American Commonwealth. He +compares the different opinions, weighs them, deliberates, endeavors to +reach a decision. Wearied with his morning pursuit of truth through a +maze of conflicting theories, he puts his tools by and goes to dinner. +In the evening he sits down in the same library for an hour with his +friends. He selects his friend according to his mood. Macaulay carries +him back across the centuries and he lives for an hour with The +Puritans or with Dr. Samuel Johnson. Carlyle carries him unharmed for +an hour through the exciting scenes of the French Revolution; or he +chuckles over the caustic humor of Thackeray’s semi-caricatures of +English snobs. With Jonathan Swift as a guide he travels with Gulliver +into no-man’s land and visits Lilliput or Brobdingnag; or Oliver +Goldsmith enables him to forget the strenuous life of America by taking +him to “The Deserted Village.” He joins Charles Lamb’s friends, listens +to the prose-poet’s reveries on Dream-Children, then closes his eyes +and falls into a reverie of his own childhood days; or he spends an +hour with Tennyson, charmed by his always musical but not often virile +verse, or with Browning, inspired by his always virile but often rugged +verse, or with Milton or Dante, and forgets this world altogether, with +its problems and perplexities, convoyed to another realm by these +spiritual guides; or he turns to the autobiography of one of the great +men of the past, telling of his achievements, revealing his doubts and +difficulties, his self-conflicts and self-victories, and so inspiring +the reader to make his own life sublime. Or one of the great scientists +may interpret to him the wonders of nature and thrill him with the +achievements of man in solving some of the riddles of the universe and +winning successive mastery over its splendid forces.</p> + +<p>It is true that no dead thing is equal to a living person. The one +afternoon I spent in John G. Whittier’s home, the one dinner I took +with Professor Tyndall in his London home, the one half hour which +Herbert Spencer gave to me at his Club, mean more to me than any equal +time spent in reading the writings of either one of them. These +occasions of personal fellowship abide in the memory as long as life +lasts. This I say with emphasis that what I say next may not be +misunderstood—that there is one respect in which the book is the best +of possible friends. You do not need to decide beforehand what friend +you will invite to spend the evening with you. When supper is over and +you sit down by the evening lamp for your hour of companionship, you +give your invitation according to your inclination at the time. And if +you have made a mistake, and the friend you have invited is not the one +you want to talk to, you can “shut him up” and not hurt his feelings. +Remarkable is the friend who speaks only when you want to listen and +can keep silence when you want silence. Who is there who has not been +sometimes bored by a good friend who went on talking when you wanted to +reflect on what he had already said? Who is there who has not had his +patience well nigh exhausted at times by a friend whose enthusiasm for +his theme appeared to be quite inexhaustible? A book never bores you +because you can always lay it down before it becomes a bore.</p> + +<p>Most families can do with a few books that are tools. In these days in +which there is a library in almost every village, the family that has +an atlas, a dictionary, and a cyclopædia can look to the public library +for such other tools as are necessary. And we can depend on the library +or the book club for books that are mere acquaintances—the current +book about current events, the books that are read to-day and forgotten +to-morrow, leaving only a residuum in our memory, the book that, once +read, we never expect to read again. In my own home this current +literature is either borrowed and returned or, if purchased, as soon as +it has been used is passed along to neighbors or to the village +library. Its room is better than its company on my over-crowded book +shelves.</p> + +<p>But books that are friends ought to abide in the home. The very form of +the book grows familiar; a different edition, even a different copy, +does not quite serve the same friendly purpose. If the reader is wise +he talks to his friend as well as listens to him and adds in pencil +notes, in the margin or on the back pages of the book, his own +reflections. I take up these books marked with the indications of my +conversation with my friend and in these pencilled memoranda find an +added value. Sometimes the mark emphasizes an agreement between my +friend and me, sometimes it emphasizes a disagreement, and sometimes it +indicates the progress in thought I have made since last we met. A +wisely marked book is sometimes doubled in value by the marking.</p> + +<p>Before I bring this essay to a close, already lengthened beyond my +predetermined limits, I venture to add four rules which may be of value +at least to the casual reader.</p> + +<p>For reading, select the book which suits your inclination. In study it +is wise to make your will command your mind and go on with your task +however unattractive it may prove to you. You may be a Hamiltonian, and +Jefferson’s views of the Constitution may repel you, or even bore you. +No matter. Go on. Scholarship requires persistence in study of matter +that repels or even bores the student. You may be a devout believer and +Herbert Spencer repellent. Nevertheless, if you are studying you may +need to master Herbert Spencer. But if you are reading, read what +interests you. If Scott does not interest you and Dickens does, drop +Scott and read Dickens. You need not be any one’s enemy; but you need +not be a friend with everybody. This is as true of books as of persons. +For friendship some agreement in temperament is quite essential.</p> + +<p>Henry Ward Beecher’s application of this principle struck me as +interesting and unique. He did a great deal of his reading on the train +in his lecture tours. His invariable companion was a black bag and the +black bag always contained some books. As I am writing from +recollection of a conversation with him some sixty years ago my +statement may lack in accuracy of detail, but not, I think, in +essential veracity. He selected in the beginning of the year some four +departments of reading, such as Poetry, History, Philosophy, Fiction, +and in each department a specific course, such as Greek Poetry, +Macaulay’s History, Spencer’s Philosophy, Scott’s Novels. Then he read +according to his mood, but generally in the selected course: if poetry, +the Greek poets; if history, Macaulay; if philosophy, Spencer; if +fiction, Scott. This gave at once liberty to his mood and unity to his +reading.</p> + +<p>One may read either for acquisition or for inspiration. A gentleman who +has acquired a national reputation as a popular lecturer and preacher, +formed the habit, when in college, of always subjecting himself to a +recitation in all his serious reading. After finishing a chapter he +would close the book and see how much of what he had read he could +recall. One consequence is the development of a quite marvelous memory, +the results of which are seen in frequent and felicitous references in +his public speaking to literature both ancient and modern.</p> + +<p>He who reads for inspiration pursues a different course. If as he +reads, a thought expressed by his author starts a train of thought in +his own mind, he lays down his book and follows his thought wherever it +may lead him. He endeavors to remember, not the thought which the +author has recorded, but the unrecorded thought which the author has +stimulated in his own mind. Reading is to him not an acquisition but a +ferment. I imagine from my acquaintance with Phillips Brooks and with +his writings that this was his method.</p> + +<p>I have a friend who says that he prefers to select his authors for +himself, not to have them selected for him. But he has money with which +to buy the books he wants, a room in which to put them, and the broad +culture which enables him to make a wise selection. Most of us lack one +at least of these qualifications: the money, the space, or the +knowledge. For most of us a library for the home, selected as this +Pocket Library has been has three great advantages: the cost is not +prohibitive; the space can easily be made in out home for the books; +and the selection is more wisely made than any we could make for +ourselves. For myself I should be very glad to have the editors of this +series come into my library, which is fairly large but sadly needs +weeding out, give me a literary appraisal of my books, and tell me what +volumes in their respective departments they think I could best +dispense with to make room for their betters, and what their betters +would be.</p> + +<p>To these considerations in favor of such a home library as this, may be +added the fact that the books are of such a size that one can easily +put a volume in his pocket when he is going on a train or in a trolley +car. For busy men and women often the only time for reading is the time +which too many of us are apt to waste in doing nothing.</p> + +<p>Perhaps the highest use of good books is their use as friends. Such a +wisely selected group of friends as this library furnishes is an +invaluable addition to any home which receives it and knows how to make +wise use of it. I am glad to have the privilege of introducing it and +hope that this introduction may add to the number of homes in which it +will find a welcome.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_PURPOSE_OF_READING">THE PURPOSE OF READING</h2> +</div> + +<p class="center">BY JOHN MACY</p> + + +<p>Why do we read books is one of those vast questions that need no +answer. As well ask, Why ought we to be good? or, Why do we believe in +a God? The whole universe of wisdom answers. To attempt an answer in a +single article would be like turning a spyglass for a moment toward the +stars. We take the great simple things for granted, like the air we +breathe. In a country that holds popular education to be the foundation +of all its liberties and fortunes, we do not find many people who need +to be argued into the belief that the reading of books is good for us; +even people who do not read much acknowledge vaguely that they ought to +read more.</p> + +<p>There are, to be sure, men of rough worldly wisdom, even endowed with +spiritual insight, who distrust “book learning” and fall back on the +obvious truth that experience of life is the great teacher. Such +persons are in a measure justified in their conviction by the number of +unwise human beings who have read much but to no purpose.</p> + +<p>The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, +With loads of learned lumber in his head</p> + +<p>is a living argument against mere reading. But we can meet such +argument by pointing out that the blockhead who cannot learn from books +cannot learn much from life, either. That sometimes useful citizen whom +it is fashionable to call a Philistine, and who calls himself a +“practical man,” often has under him a beginner fresh from the schools, +who is glib and confident in repeating bookish theories, but is not yet +skillful in applying them. If the practical man is thoughtless, he +sniffs at theory and points to his clumsy assistant as proof of the +uselessness of what is to be got from books. If he is wise, the +practical man realizes how much better off he would be, how much +farther his hard work and experience might have carried him, if he had +had the advantage of bookish training.</p> + +<p>Moreover, the hard-headed skeptic, self-made and self-secure, who will +not traffic with the literature that touches his life work, is seldom +so confined to his own little shop that he will not, for recreation, +take holiday tours into the literature of other men’s lives and labors. +The man who does not like to read any books is, I am confident, seldom +found, and at the risk of slandering a patriot, I will express the +doubt whether he is a good citizen. Honest he may be, but certainly not +wise. The human race for thousands of years has been writing its +experiences, telling how it has met our everlasting problems, how it +has struggled with darkness and rejoiced in light. What fools we should +be to try to live our lives without the guidance and inspiration of the +generations that have gone before, without the joy, encouragement, and +sympathy that the best imaginations of our generation are distilling +into words. For literature is simply life selected and condensed into +books. In a few hours we can follow all that is recorded of the life of +Jesus—the best that He did in years of teaching and suffering all ours +for a day of reading, and the more deeply ours for a lifetime of +reading and meditation!</p> + +<p>If the expression of life in words is strong and beautiful and true it +outlives empires, like the oldest books of the Old Testament. If it is +weak or trivial or untrue, it is forgotten like most of the “stories” +in yesterday’s newspaper, like most of the novels of last year. The +expression of truth, the transmission of knowledge and emotions between +man and man from generation to generation, these are the purposes of +literature. Not to read books is like being shut up in a dungeon while +life rushes by outside.</p> + +<p>I happen to be writing in Christmas week, and I have read for the tenth +time “A Christmas Carol,” by Dickens, that amazing allegory in which +the hard, bitter facts of life are involved in a beautiful myth, that +wizard’s caldron in which humor bubbles and from which rise phantom +figures of religion and poetry. Can any one doubt that if this story +were read by every man, woman, and child in the world, Christmas would +be a happier time and the feelings of the race elevated and +strengthened? The story has power enough to defeat armies, to make +revolutions in the faith of men, and turn the cold markets of the world +into festival scenes of charity. If you know any mean person you may be +sure that he has not read “A Christmas Carol,” or that he read it long +ago and has forgotten it. I know there are persons who pretend that the +sentimentality of Dickens destroys their interest in him. I once took a +course with an over-refined, imperfectly educated professor of +literature, who advised me that in time I should outgrow my liking for +Dickens. It was only his way of recommending to me a kind of fiction +that I had not learned to like. In time I did learn to like it, but I +did not outgrow Dickens. A person who can read “A Christmas Carol” +aloud to the end and keep his voice steady is, I suspect, not a safe +person to trust with one’s purse or one’s honor.</p> + +<p>It is not necessary to argue about the value of literature or even to +define it. One way of bringing ourselves to realize vividly what +literature can do for us is to enter the libraries of great men and see +what books have done for the acknowledged leaders of our race.</p> + +<p>You will recall John Stuart Mill’s experience in reading Wordsworth. +Mill was a man of letters as well as a scientific economist and +philosopher, and we expect to find that men of letters have been +nourished on literature; reading must necessarily have been a large +part of their professional preparation. The examples of men of action +who have been molded and inspired by books will perhaps be more helpful +to remember; for most of us are not to be writers or to engage in +purely intellectual work; our ambitions point to a thousand different +careers in the world of action.</p> + +<p>Lincoln was not primarily a man of letters, although he wrote noble +prose on occasion, and the art of expression was important, perhaps +indispensable, in his political success. He read deeply in the law and +in books on public questions. For general literature he had little +time, either during his early struggles or after his public life began, +and his autobiographical memorandum contains the significant words: +“Education defective.” But these more significant words are found in a +letter which he wrote to Hackett, the player: “Some of Shakespeare’s +plays I have never read, while others I have gone over perhaps as +frequently as any unprofessional reader. Among the latter are ‘Lear,’ +‘Richard III,’ ‘Henry VIII,’ ‘Hamlet,’ and, especially, ‘Macbeth.’”</p> + +<p>If he had not read these masterpieces, no doubt he would have become +President just the same and guided the country through its terrible +difficulties; but we may be fairly sure that the high philosophy by +which he lifted the political differences of his day above partisan +quarrels, the command of words which gives his letters and speeches +literary permanence apart from their biographical interest, the poetic +exaltation of the Gettysburg Address, these higher qualities of genius, +beyond the endowment of any native wit, came to Lincoln in some part +from the reading of books. It is important to note that he followed +Franklin’s advice to read much but not too many books; the list of +books mentioned in the biographical records of Lincoln is not long. But +he went over those half dozen plays “frequently.” We should remember, +too, that he based his ideals upon the Bible and his style upon the +King James Version. His writings abound in Biblical phrases.</p> + +<p>We are accustomed to regard Lincoln as a thinker. His right arm in the +saddest duty of his life, General Grant, was a man of deeds; as Lincoln +said of him, he was a “copious worker and fighter, but a very meager +writer and telegrapher.” In his “Memoirs,” Grant makes a modest +confession about his reading:</p> + +<p>“There is a fine library connected with the Academy [West Point] from +which cadets can get books to read in their quarters. I devoted more +time to these than to books relating to the course of studies. Much of +the time, I am sorry to say, was devoted to novels, but not those of a +trashy sort. I read all of Bulwer’s then published, Cooper’s, +Marryat’s, Scott’s, Washington Irving’s works, Lever’s, and many others +that I do not now remember.”</p> + +<p>Grant was not a shining light in his school days, nor indeed in his +life until the Civil War, and at first sight he is not a striking +example of a great man influenced by books. Yet who can deny that the +fruit of that early reading is to be found in his “Memoirs,” in which a +man of action, unused to writing, and called upon to narrate great +events, discovers an easy adequate style? There is a dangerous kind of +conjecture in which many biographers indulge when they try to relate +logically the scattered events of a man’s life. A conjectured relation +is set down as a proved or unquestioned relation. I have said something +about this in [Footnote: See John Macy’s Guide to Reading, Chapter +VIII.] writing on biography, and I do not wish to violate my own +teachings. But we may, without harm, hazard the suggestion, which is +only a suggestion, that some of the chivalry of Scott’s heroes wove +itself into Grant’s instincts and inspired this businesslike, modern +general, in the days when politeness has lost some of its flourish, to +be the great gentleman he was at Appomattox when he quietly wrote into +the terms of the surrender that the Confederate officers should keep +their side arms. Stevenson’s account of the episode in his essay on +“Gentlemen” is heightened, though not above the dignity of the facts, +certainly not to a degree that is untrue to the facts, as they are to +be read in Grant’s simple narrative. Since I have agreed not to say +“ought to read,” I will only express the hope that the quotation from +Stevenson will lead you to the essay and to the volume that contains +it.</p> + +<p>“On the day of the capitulation, Lee wore his presentation sword; it +was the first thing that Grant observed, and from that moment he had +but one thought: how to avoid taking it. A man, who should perhaps have +had the nature of an angel, but assuredly not the special virtues of a +gentleman, might have received the sword, and no more words about it; +he would have done well in a plain way. One who wished to be a +gentleman, and knew not how, might have received and returned it: he +would have done infamously ill, he would have proved himself a cad; +taking the stage for himself, leaving to his adversary confusion of +countenance and the ungraceful posture of a man condemned to offer +thanks. Grant without a word said, added to the terms this article: +‘All officers to retain their side arms’; and the problem was solved +and Lee kept his sword, and Grant went down to posterity, not perhaps a +fine gentleman, but a great one.”</p> + +<p>Napoleon, who of all men of mighty deeds after Julius Caesar had the +greatest intellect, was a tireless reader, and since he needed only +four or five hours’ sleep in twenty-four he found time to read in +the midst of his prodigious activities. Nowadays those of us who are +preparing to conquer the world are taught to strengthen ourselves for +the task by getting plenty of sleep. Napoleon’s devouring eyes read far +into the night; when he was in the field his secretaries forwarded a +stream of books to his headquarters; and if he was left without a new +volume to begin, some underling had to bear his imperial displeasure. +No wonder that his brain contained so many ideas that, as the +sharp-tongued poet, Heine, said, one of his lesser thoughts would keep +all the scholars and professors in Germany busy all their lives making +commentaries on it.</p> + +<p>In Franklin’s “Autobiography” we have an unusually clear statement of +the debt of a man of affairs to literature: “From a child I was fond of +reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid +out in books. Pleased with the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ my first +collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.... My +father’s little library consisted chiefly of books on polemic divinity, +most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time +when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not +fallen in my way, since it was now resolved that I should not be a +clergyman. ‘Plutarch’s Lives’ there was in which I read abundantly, and +I still think that time spent to great advantage. There was also a book +of De Foe’s, called an ‘Essay on Projects,’ and another of Dr. +Mather’s, called ‘Essays to do Good,’ which perhaps gave me a turn of +thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events +of my life.”</p> + +<p>It is not surprising to find that the most versatile of versatile +Americans read De Foe’s “Essay on Projects,” which contains practical +suggestions on a score of subjects, from banking and insurance to +national academics. In Cotton Mather’s “Essays to do Good” is the germ +perhaps of the sensible morality of Franklin’s “Poor Richard.” The +story of how Franklin gave his nights to the study of Addison and by +imitating the Spectator papers taught himself to write, is the +best of lessons in self-cultivation in English. The “Autobiography” is +proof of how well he learned, not Addison’s style, which was suited to +Joseph Addison and not to Benjamin Franklin, but a clear, firm manner +of writing. In Franklin’s case we can see not only what he owed to +books, but how one side of his fine, responsive mind was starved +because, as he put it, more proper books did not fall in his way. The +blind side of Franklin’s great intellect was his lack of religious +imagination. This defect may be accounted for by the forbidding nature +of the religious books in his father’s library. Repelled by the dull +discourses, the young man missed the religious exaltation and poetic +mysticism which the New England divines concealed in their polemic +argument. Franklin’s liking for Bunyan and his confession that his +father’s discouragement kept him from being a poet—“most probably,” he +says, “a very bad one”—show that he would have responded to the right +kind of religious literature, and not have remained all his life such a +complacent rationalist.</p> + +<p>If it is clear that the purpose of reading is to put ourselves in +communication with the best minds of our race, we need go no farther +for a definition of “good reading.” Whatever human beings have said +well is literature, whether it be the Declaration of Independence or a +love story. Reading consists in nothing more than in taking one of the +volumes in which somebody has said something well, opening it on one’s +knee, and beginning.</p> + +<p>We take it for granted, then, that we know why we read. We may ask one +further question: How shall we read? One answer is that we should read +with as much of ourselves as a book warrants, with the part of +ourselves that a book demands. Mrs. Browning says:</p> +<p class="poetry p0"> +<span style="margin-left: 12em;">We get no good</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">By being ungenerous, even to a book,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">And calculating profits—so much help</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">By so much reading. It is rather when</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">Soul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">’Tis then we get the right good from a book.</span></p> + +<p>We sometimes know exactly what we wish to get from a book, especially +if it is a volume of information on a definite subject. But the great +book is full of treasures that one does not deliberately seek, and +which indeed one may miss altogether on the first journey through. It +is almost nonsensical to say: Read Macaulay for clearness, Carlyle for +power, Thackeray for ease. Literary excellence is not separated and +bottled up in any such drug-shop array. If Macaulay is a master of +clearness it is because he is much else besides. Unless we read a man +for all there is in him, we get very little; we meet, not a living +human being, not a vital book, but something dead, dismembered, +disorganized. We do not read Thackeray for ease; we read him for +Thackeray and enjoy his ease by the way.</p> + +<p>We must read a book for all there is in it or we shall get little or +nothing. To be masters of books we must have learned to let books +master us. This is true of books that we are required to read, such as +text-books, and of those we read voluntarily and at leisure. The law of +reading is to give a book its due and a little more. The art of reading +is to know how to apply this law. For there is an art of reading, for +each of us to learn for himself, a private way of making the +acquaintance of books.</p> + +<p>Macaulay, whose mind was never hurried or confused, learned to read +very rapidly, to absorb a page at a glance. A distinguished professor, +who has spent his life in the most minutely technical scholarship, +surprised us one day by commending to his classes the fine art +of “skipping.” Many good books, including some most meritorious +“three-decker” novels, have their profitless pages, and it is useful +to know by a kind of practised instinct where to pause and reread +and where to run lightly and rapidly over the page. It is a useful +accomplishment not only in the reading of fiction, but in the business +of life, to the man of affairs who must get the gist of a mass of +written matter, and to the student of any special subject.</p> + +<p>Usually, of course, a book that is worth reading at all is worth +reading carefully. Thoroughness of reading is the first thing to preach +and to practise, and it is perhaps dangerous to suggest to a beginner +that any book should be skimmed. The suggestion will serve its purpose +if it indicates that there are ways to read, that practice in reading +is like practice in anything else; the more one does, and the more +intelligently one does it, the farther and more easily one can go. In +the best reading—that is, the most thoughtful reading of the most +thoughtful books—attention is necessary. It is even necessary that we +should read some works, some passages, so often and with such close +application that we commit them to memory. It is said that the habit of +learning pieces by heart is not so prevalent as it used to be. I hope +that this is not so. What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, +no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have +not begun to read, you have not learned how to read.</p> + +<p>We have said enough, perhaps, of the theories of reading. The one +lesson that seems most obvious is that we must come close to +literature.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="HOW_TO_GET_THE_BEST_OUT">HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT +OF BOOKS</h2> +</div> + +<p class="center">By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE</p> + + +<p>One is sometimes asked by young people panting after the waterbrooks of +knowledge: “How shall I get the best out of books?” Here indeed, is one +of those questions which can be answered only in general terms, with +possible illustrations from one’s own personal experience. Misgivings, +too, as to one’s fitness to answer it may well arise, as wistfully +looking round one’s own bookshelves, one asks oneself: “Have I myself +got the best out of this wonderful world of books?” It is almost like +asking oneself: “Have I got the best out of life?”</p> + +<p>As we make the survey, it will surely happen that our eyes fall on many +writers whom the stress of life, or spiritual indolence, has prevented +us from using as all the while they have been eager to be used; friends +we might have made yet never have made, neglected counsellors we would +so often have done well to consult, guides that could have saved us +many a wrong turning in the difficult way. There, in unvisited corners +of our shelves, what neglected fountains of refreshments, gardens in +which we have never walked, hills we have never climbed!</p> + +<p>“Well,” we say with a sigh, “a man cannot read everything; it is life +that has interrupted our studies, and probably the fact is that we have +accumulated more books than we really need.” The young reader’s +appetite is largely in his eyes, and it is very natural for one who is +born with a taste for books to gather them about him at first +indiscriminately, on the hearsay recommendation of fame, before he +really knows what his own individual tastes are, or are going to be, +and in that wistful survey I have imagined, our eyes will fall, too, +with some amusement, on not a few volumes to which we never have had +any really personal relation, and which, whatever their distinction or +their value for others, were never meant for us. The way to do with +such books is to hand them over to some one who has a use for them. On +our shelves they are like so much good thrown away, invitations to +entertainments for which we have no taste. In all vital libraries, such +a process of progressive refection is continually going on, and to +realize what we do not want in books, or cannot use, must, obviously, +be a first principle in our getting the best out of them.</p> + +<p>Yes, we read too many books, and too many that, as they do not really +interest us, bring us neither benefit nor diversion. Even from the +point of view of reading for pleasure, we manage our reading badly. We +listlessly allow ourselves to be bullied by publishers’ advertisements +into reading the latest fatuity in fiction, without, in one case out of +twenty, finding any of that pleasure we are ostensibly seeking. +Instead, indeed, we are bored and enervated, where we might have been +refreshed, either by romance or laughter. Such reading resembles the +idle absorption of innocuous but interesting beverages, which cheer as +little as they inebriate, and yet at the same time make frivolous +demands on the digestive functions. No one but a publisher could call +such reading “light.” Actually it is weariness to the flesh and +heaviness to the spirit.</p> + +<p>If, therefore, our idea of the best in books is the recreation they can +so well bring; if we go to books as to a playground to forget our cares +and to blow off the cobwebs of business, let us make sure that we find +what we seek. It is there, sure enough. The playgrounds of literature +are indeed wide, and alive with bracing excitement, nor is there any +limit to the variety of the games. But let us be sure, when we set Out +to be amused, that we really are amused, that our humorists do really +make us laugh, and that our story-tellers have stories to tell and know +how to tell them. Beware of imitations, and, when in doubt, try +Shakespeare, and Dumas—even Ouida. As a rule, avoid the “spring +lists,” or “summer reading.” “Summer reading” is usually very hot work.</p> + +<p>Hackneyed as it is, there is no better general advice on reading than +Shakespeare’s—</p> + +<p class="poetry">No profit is where is no pleasure taken,</p> + +<p class="poetry">In brief, sir, study what you most affect.</p> + +<p>Not only in regard to books whose purpose, frankly, is recreation, but +also in regard to the graver uses of books, this counsel no less holds. +No reading does us any good that is not a pleasure to us. Her paths are +paths of pleasantness. Yet, of course, this does not mean that all +profitable reading is easy reading. Some of the books that give us the +finest pleasure need the closest application for their enjoyment. There +is always a certain spiritual and mental effort necessary to be made +before we tackle the great books. One might compare it to the effort of +getting up to see the sun rise. It is no little tug to leave one’s warm +bed—but once we are out in the crystalline morning air, wasn’t it +worth it? Perhaps our finest pleasure always demands some such +austerity of preparation. That is the secret of the truest +epicureanism. Books like Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” or Plato’s dialogues, +will not give themselves to a lounging reader. They demand a braced, +attentive spirit. But when the first effort has been made, how +exhilarating are the altitudes in which we find ourselves; what a glow +of pure joy is the reward which we are almost sure to win by our mental +mountaineering.</p> + +<p>But such books are not for moments when we are unwilling or unable to +make that necessary effort. We cannot always be in the mood for the +great books, and often we are too tired physically, or too low down on +the depressed levels of daily life, even to lift our eyes toward the +hills. To attempt the great books—or any books at all—in such moods +and moments, is a mistake. We may thus contract a prejudice against +some writer who, approached in more fortunate moments, would prove the +very man we were looking for.</p> + +<p>To know when to read is hardly less important than to know what to +read. Of course, every one must decide the matter for himself; but one +general counsel may be ventured: Read only what you want to read, and +only when you want to read it.</p> + +<p>Some readers find the early morning, when they have all the world to +themselves, their best time for reading, and, if you are a good +sleeper, and do not find early rising more wearying than refreshing, +there is certainly no other time of the day when the mind is so eagerly +receptive, has so keen an edge of appetite, and absorbs a book in so +fine an intoxication. For your true book-lover there is no other +exhilaration so exquisite as that with which one reads an inspiring +book in the solemn freshness of early morning. One’s nerves seem +peculiarly strung for exquisite impressions in the first dewy hours of +the day, there is a virginal sensitiveness and purity about all our +senses, and the mere delight of the eye in the printed page is keener +than at any other time. “The Muses love the morning, and that is a fit +time for study,” said Erasmus to his friend Christianus of Lubeck; and, +certainly, if early rising agrees with one, there is no better time for +getting the very best out of a book. Moreover, morning reading has a +way of casting a spell of peace over the whole day. It has a sweet, +solemnizing effect on our thoughts—a sort of mental matins—and +through the day’s business it accompanies us as with hidden music.</p> + +<p>There are others who prefer to do their reading at night, and I presume +that most readers of this paper are so circumstanced as to have no time +to spare for reading during the day. Personally, I think that one of +the best places to read in is bed. Paradoxical as it may sound, one is +not so apt to fall asleep over his book in bed as in the post-prandial +armchair. While one’s body rests itself, one’s mind, remains alert, +and, when the time for sleep comes at last, it passes into +unconsciousness, tranquilized and sweetened with thought and pleasantly +weary with healthy exercise. One awakens, too, next morning, with, so +to say, a very pleasant taste of meditation in the mouth. Erasmus, +again, has a counsel for the bedtime reader, expressed with much +felicity. “A little before you sleep,” he says, “read something that is +exquisite, and worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall +asleep; and, when you awake in the morning, call yourself to an account +for it.”</p> + +<p>In an old Atlantic Monthly, from which, if I remember aright, he +never rescued it, Oliver Wendell Holmes has a delightful paper on the +delights of reading in bed, entitled “Pillow-Smoothing Authors.”</p> + +<p>Then, though I suppose we shall have the oculists against us, the cars +are good places to read in—if you have the power of detachment, and +are able to switch off your ears from other people’s conversation. It +is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. +Most likely you will carry it many a day and never give it a single +look, but, even so, a book in the hand is always a companionable +reminder of that happier world of fancy, which, alas! most of us can +only visit by playing truant from the real world. As some men wear +boutonnieres, so a reader carries a book, and sometimes, when he +is feeling the need of beauty, or the solace of a friend, he opens it, +and finds both. Probably he will count among the most fruitful moments +of his reading the snatched glimpses of beauty and wisdom he has caught +in the morning car. The covers of his book have often proved like some +secret door, through which, surreptitiously opened, he has looked for a +moment into his own particular fairy land. Never mind the oculist, +therefore, but, whenever you feel like it, read in the car.</p> + +<p>One or two technical considerations may be dealt with in this place. +How to remember what one reads is one of them. Some people are blest +with such good memories that they never forget anything that they have +once read. Literary history has recorded many miraculous memories. +Still, it is quite possible to remember too much, and thus turn one’s +mind into a lumber-room of useless information. A good reader forgets +even more than he remembers. Probably we remember all that is really +necessary for us, and, except in so far as our reading is technical and +directed toward some exact science or profession, accuracy of memory +is not important. As the Sabbath was made for man, so books were made +for the reader, and, when a reader has assimilated from any given book +his own proper nourishment and pleasure, the rest of the book is so +much oyster shell. The end of true reading is the development of +individuality. Like a certain water insect, the reader instinctively +selects from the outspread world of books the building materials for +the house of his soul. He chooses here and rejects there, and remembers +or forgets according to the formative desire of his nature. Yet it +often happens that he forgets much that he needs to remember, and thus +the question of methodical aids to memory arises.</p> + +<p>One’s first thought, of course, is of the commonplace book. Well, have +you ever kept one, or, to be more accurate, tried to keep one? +Personally, I believe in the commonplace book so long as we don’t +expect too much from it. Its two dangers are (1) that one is apt to +make far too many and too minute entries, and (2) that one is apt to +leave all the remembering to the commonplace book, with a consequent +relaxation of one’s own attention. On the other hand, the mere +discipline of a commonplace book is a good thing, and if—as I think is +the best way—we copy out the passages at full length, they are thus +the more securely fixed in the memory. A commonplace book kept with +moderation is really useful, and may be delightful. But the entries +should be made at full length. Otherwise, the thing becomes a mere +index, an index which encourages us to forget.</p> + +<p>Another familiar way of assisting one’s memory in reading is to mark +one’s own striking passages. This method is chiefly worth while for the +sake of one’s second and subsequent readings; though it all depends +when one makes the markings—at what time of his life, I mean. Markings +made at the age of twenty years are of little use at thirty—except +negatively. In fact, I have usually found that all I care to read again +of a book read at twenty is just the passages I did not mark. This +consideration, however, does not depreciate the value of one’s +comparatively contemporary markings. At the same time, marking, like +indexing, is apt, unless guarded against, to relax the memory. One is +apt to mark a passage in lieu of remembering it. Still, for a second +reading, as I say—a second reading not too long after the first— +marking is a useful method, particularly if one regards his first +reading of a book as a prospecting of the ground rather than a taking +possession. One’s first reading is a sort of flying visit, during which +he notes the places he would like to visit again and really come to +know. A brief index of one’s markings at the end of a volume is a +method of memory that commended itself to the booklovers of former +days—to Leigh Hunt, for instance.</p> + +<p>Yet none of these external methods, useful as they may prove, can +compare with a habit of thorough attention. We read far too hurriedly, +too much in the spirit of the “quick lunch.” No doubt we do so a great +deal from the misleading idea that there is so very much to read. +Actually, there is very little to read,—if we wish for real reading— +and there is time to read it all twice over. We—Americans—bolt our +books as we do our food, and so get far too little good out of them. We +treat our mental digestions as brutally as we treat our stomachs. +Meditation is the digestion of the mind, but we allow ourselves no time +for meditation. We gorge our eyes with the printed page, but all too +little of what we take in with our eyes ever reaches our minds or our +spirits. We assimilate what we can from all this hurry of superfluous +food, and the rest goes to waste, and, as a natural consequence, +contributes only to the wear and tear of our mental organism.</p> + +<p>Books should be real things. They were so once, when a man would give a +fat field in exchange for a small manuscript; and they are no less real +to-day—some of them. Each age contributes one or two real books to the +eternal library—and always the old books remain, magic springs of +healing and refreshment. If no one should write a book for a thousand +years, there are quite enough books to keep us going. Real books there +are in plenty. Perhaps there are more real books than there are real +readers. Books are the strong tincture of experience. They are to be +taken carefully, drop by drop, not carelessly gulped down by the +bottleful. Therefore, if you would get the best out of books, spend a +quarter of an hour in reading, and three-quarters of an hour in +thinking over what you have read.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_GUIDE_TO_DAILY">THE GUIDE TO DAILY +READING</h2> +</div> + +<p class="center">PREPARED BY +ASA DON DICKINSON</p> + + +<p>The elaborate, systematic “course of reading” is a bore. After thirty +years spent among books and bookish people I have never yet met anyone +who would admit that he had ploughed through such a course from +beginning to end. Of course a few faithful souls, with abundant +leisure, have done this, just as there are men who have walked from New +York City to San Francisco. Good exercise, doubtless! But most of us +have not time for feats of such questionable utility.</p> + +<p>Yet I myself and most of the booklovers whom I know have started +at one time or another to pursue a course of reading, and we have never +regretted our attempts. Why? Because this is an excellent way to +discover the comparatively small number of authors who have a message +that we need to hear. When such an one is discovered, one may with a +good conscience let the systematic course go by the board until one has +absorbed all that is useful from the store of good things offered by +the valuable new acquaintance.</p> + +<p>Each one has his idiosyncrasies. If I may be permitted to allude to a +personal failing, let me confess that I have never read “Paradise Lost” +or “Pilgrim’s Progress.” I have hopefully dipped into them repeatedly, +but—I don’t like them. Some day I hope to, but until my mind is +ready for these two great world-books, I do not intend to waste time by +driving through them with set teeth. There are too many other good +books that I do enjoy reading. “In brief, Sir, study what you most +affect.”</p> + +<p>The “Guide to Daily Readings” which follows makes no claim to be +systematic. The aim has been simply to introduce the reader to a goodly +company of authors—to provide a daily flower of thought for the +buttonhole, to-day a glorious rose of poetic fancy, to-morrow a pert +little pansy of quaint humor.</p> + +<p>Yet nearly all the selections are doubly significant and interesting if +read upon the days to which they are especially assigned. For example, +on New Year’s Day it is suggested that one set one’s house in order by +reading Franklin’s “Rules of Conduct,” Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life,” +Bryant’s “Thanatopsis,” and Lowell’s “To the Future”; on January 19th, +Poe’s Birthday, one is directed to an excellent sketch of Poe and to +typical examples of his best work, “The Raven” and “The Cask of +Amontillado”; and on October 31st, Hallowe’en, one is reminded of +Burns’s “Tam O’Shanter” and Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”</p> + +<p>The references are explicit in each case, so that it is a matter of +only a few seconds to find each one. For example, the reference to the +“Cask of Amontillado” is 4-Pt. I =67-77; which means that this tale is +ten pages long and will be found in Part I of volume 4, at page 67. +Excepting volumes 10-15 (Poetry), two volumes are bound in one in this +set, so it should be remembered that generally there are two pages +numbered 67 in each book.</p> + +<p>The daily selections can in most cases be read in from fifteen minutes +to half an hour, and Dr. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, has said +that fifteen minutes a day devoted to good literature will give every +man the essentials of a liberal education. If time can be found between +breakfast and the work-hours for these few minutes of reading, one will +receive more benefit than if it is done during the somnolent period +which follows the day’s work and dinner. It is a mistake, however, to +read before breakfast. Eyes and stomach are too closely related +to permit of this.</p> + +<p>Happy is he who can read these books in company with a sympathetic +companion. His enjoyment of the treasure they contain will be doubled.</p> + +<p>One final hint—when reading for something besides pastime, get in the +habit of referring when necessary to dictionary, encyclopædia, and +atlas. If on the subway or a railway train, jot down a memorandum of +the query on the flyleaf, and look up the answer at the first +opportunity.</p> + +<p class="right">ASA DON DICKINSON.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p class="poetry">There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a +man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to +study.</p> +</div> +<p class="right"> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—DANIEL WYTTENBACH.</span></p> + +<p>JANUARY 1ST TO 7TH</p> + + +<p>1st. I. Franklin’s Rules of Conduct, 6-Pt. II: 86-101<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Longfellow’s Psalm of Life, 14:247-248</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Bryant’s Thanatopsis, 15:18-20</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Lowell’s To the Future, 13:164-167</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. I. Arnold’s Self Dependence, 14:273-274<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Adams’s Cold Wave of 32 B. C., 9-Pt. I:146</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Thomas’s Frost To-night, 12:343</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. TOMASSO SALVINI, b. 1 Ja. 1829; d. 1 Ja. 1916<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Tomasso Salvini, 17-II:80-108</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. I. Extracts from Thackeray’s Book of Snobs, 1-Pt. I:3-37</p> + +<p>5th. I. Ruskin’s Venice, 1-Pt. II:73-88<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. St. Marks, 1-Pt. II:91-100</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. I. Shakespeare’s Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, 12:256-257<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Messenger’s A Winter Wish, 12:259-261</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Emerson’s The Snow Storm, 14:93-94</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Thackeray’s Nil Nisi Bonum, l-Pt. I:130-143</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. I. Adams’s Ballad of the Thoughtless Waiter, 9-Pt. I:147<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Us Poets, 9-Pt. I:148</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Spenser’s Amoretti, 13:177</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry p0">No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be +read at all. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—THOMAS CARLYLE.</span></p> + +<p>JANUARY 8TH TO 14th</p> + + +<p>8th. I. Fred Trover’s Little Iron-clad, 7-Pt. II:82-105</p> + +<p>9th. I. Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, 21-Pt. II:1-56</p> + +<p>10th. I. Carlyle’s Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 2-Pt. I: 32-78</p> + +<p>11th. I ALEXANDER HAMILTON, b. II Ja. 1757<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7.5em;">Alexander Hamilton, 16-Pt. I:71-91</span><br /> + +</p><p>12th. I. Macaulay’s Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Biographer, 2-Pt. II:30-39<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Puritans, 2-Pt. II:23-29</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. I. EDMUND SPENSER, d, 16 Ja. 1599<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7.5em;">Prothalamion, 13:13-20</span><br /> + +</p><p>14th. I. Hawthorne’s Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, 3-Pt. I:3-19</p> + + +<p class="poetry">The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most +powerful engines of civilization ever invented. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—SIR JOHN HERSCHEL.</span></p> + +<p>JANUARY 15TH TO 21ST</p> + + +<p>15th. EDWARD EVERETT, d. 15 Ja. 1865<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Lincoln to Everett, 5-Pt. I:120</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Irving’s Westminster Abbey, 3-Pt. II:75-92</span><br /> + +</p><p>16th. GEORGE V. HOBART, b. 16 Ja. 1867<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. John Henry at the Races, 9-Pt. II:107-113</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Poe’s The Black Cat, 4-Pt. I:127-143</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. 17 Ja. 1706<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Poor Richard’s Almanac, 6-Pt. II:133-149</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Maxims, 7-Pt. II:11</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Whistle, 6-Pt. II:156-159</span><br /> + +</p><p>18th. DANIEL WEBSTER, b. 18 Ja. 1782<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Adams and Jefferson, 6-Pt. I:3-60</span><br /> + +</p><p>19th. EDGAR ALLAN POE, b. 19 Ja. 1809<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Cask of Amontillado, 4-Pt. I:67-77</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Raven, 10:285-292</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Edgar Allan Poe, 17-Pt. I:28-37</span><br /> + +</p><p>20th. N. P. WILLIS, b. 20 Ja. 1806<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Miss Albina McLush, 7-Pt. I:25-29</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, b. 20 Ja. 1866</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. May Is Building Her House, 12:328</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. JAMES STUART, Earl of Murray, killed 21 Ja. 1570<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Bonny Earl of Murray, 10:21-22</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lincoln’s The Dred Scott Decision, 5-Pt. I:13-22</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Fragment on Slavery, 5-Pt. I:11-12</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable +dishes, and all of admirable flavour. His taste is rendered +so acute as easily to distinguish the nicest shade of difference. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—WILLIAM GODWIN.</span></p> + +<p>JANUARY 22ND TO 28TH</p> + + +<p>22nd. LORD BYRON, b. 22 Ja. 1788<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Macaulay’s Lord Byron the Man, 2-Pt. II: 80-94</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, 12:275-277</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Isles of Greece, 14:75-79</span><br /> + +</p><p>23rd. I. Lamb’s Dream Children, 5-Pt. II:34-40<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. On Some of the Old Actors, 5-Pt. II:52-76</span><br /> + +</p><p>24th. I. Spenser’s Epithalamium, 13:20-37</p> + +<p>25th. ROBERT BURNS, b. 25 Ja. 1759<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Cotter’s Saturday Night, II:40-48</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Robert Burns, 17-Pt. 1:43-64</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Halleck’s Burns, 15:67-73</span><br /> + +</p><p>26th. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES, d. 26 Ja. 1849<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Wolfram’s Dirge, 15:42-43</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. How Many Times Do I Love Thee, Dear? 12:158-159</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Dream-Pedlary, 12:227-228</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Franklin’s Philosophical Experiments, 6-Pt. II:125-130</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. JOHN McCRAE, Died in France 28 Ja. 1918<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. In Flanders Fields, 15:214</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. HENRY MORTON STANLEY, b. 28 Ja. 1841<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Henry Morton Stanley, 17-Pt. II:97-124</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring +together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to +another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him +as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly.... +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.</span></p> + +<p>JANUARY 29TH TO FEBRUARY 4th</p> + + +<p>29th. ADELAIDE RISTORI, b. 30 Ja. 1822<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Adelaide Ristori, 17-Pt. II:109-119</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Thackeray’s On Being Found Out, 1-Pt. I:104-115</span><br /> + +</p><p>30th. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, b. 30 Ja. 1775<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Rose Aylmer,15:119</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Maid’s Lament, 15:119-120</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Mother I Cannot Mind My Wheel, 12:273</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">IV. On His Seventy-fifth Birthday, 13:278</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">V. Ruskin’s The Two Boyhoods, 1-Pt. II:3-23</span><br /> + +</p><p>31st. I. Carlyle’s Essay on Biography, 2-Pt. I:3-3l</p> + +<p>F.1st.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">I. Morris’s February,14:102-103</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">II. Belloc’s South Country,12:331</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">III. Early Morning, 13:294</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. W.R.BENET, b. 2 F. 1886<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">I. Tricksters, 13:288</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">II. Hodgson’s Eve, 11:324</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">III. The Gypsy Girl, 14:299</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. SIDNEY LANIER, b. 3 F. 1842<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">I. The Marshes of Glynn, 14:55-61</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">II. A Ballad of Trees and the Master, 12:316-317</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">III. The Stirrup Cup, 13:283</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. THOMAS CARLYLE, d. 4 F. 1881<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">81</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">I. Mirabeau, 2-Pt. I:79-86</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">II. Ghosts, 2-Pt. I:134-137</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">III. Labor, 2-Pt. I:138-145</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Borrow therefore, of those golden morning hours, and bestow them on +your book. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—EARL OF BEDFORD</span></p> + +<p>FEBRUARY 5TH TO 11TH</p> + + +<p>5th. I. De Quincey’s On the Knocking at the Gate In Macbeth,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">4-Pt. II:100-107</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. SIR HENRY IRVING, b. 6 F. 1838<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Sir Henry Irving, 17-II:39-47</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. CHARLES DICKENS, b. 7 F. 1812<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Trial for Murder, 21-Pt. I:1-19</span><br /> + +</p><p>8th. JOHN RUSKIN, b. 8 F. 1819<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Slave Ship, 1-Pt. II:27-29</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Art and Morals, 1-Pt. II:103-132</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Peace, 1-Pt. II:135-137</span><br /> + +</p><p>9th. GEORGE ADE, b. 9 F. 1866<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Fable of the Preacher, 9-Pt. II:67-71</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Fable of the Caddy, 9-Pt. II:93-94</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players, 9-Pt. II:13l-136</span><br /> + +</p><p>10th. SIR JOHN SUCKLING, baptized 10 F. 1609<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Encouragements to a Lover, 13:122</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Constancy, 12:122-123</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">E. W. TOWNSEND, b. 10 F. 1855</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Chimmie Meets the Duchess, 9-Pt. I 109-114</span><br /> + +</p><p>11th. I. Brooke’s Dust, 12:341<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. 1914—V—The Soldier, 15: 228</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Guiterman’s In the Hospital, 15:203</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">The scholar, only, knows how dear these silent, yet +eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours +become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly +turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—Washington Irving.</span></p> + +<p>February 12th to 18th</p> + + +<p>12th. Abraham Lincoln, b. 12 F. 1809<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Lincoln, 16-Pt. I:93-141</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. I. Irving’s The Stout Gentleman, 3-Pt. II: 129-145</p> + +<p>14th. W. T. Sherman, d. 14 F. 1891<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. General William Tecumseh Sherman, 16-Pt. II:32-61</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. Charles Bertrand Lewis (“M. Quad”) b. 15 F. 1842<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Patent Gas Regulator, 9-Pt. II:3-7</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Two Cases of Grip, 8-Pt. I:50-53</span><br /> + +</p><p>16th. Joseph Hergesheimer, b. 15 F. 1880<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Sprig of Lemon Verbena, 22-Pt. II:1-47</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. Josephine Dodge Daskam, b. 17 F. 1876<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Woman Who Was Not Athletic, 9-Pt. II:78-80</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Woman Who Used Her Theory, 9-Pt. II: 80-81</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Woman Who Helped Her Sister, 9-Pt. II:81-82</span><br /> + +</p><p>18th. I. De Quincey’s The Affliction of Childhood, 4-Pt. II:3-30</p> + + +<p class="poetry">What a place to be in is an old library! It seems though all the +souls of all the writers were reposing here. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—CHARLES LAMB.</span><br /> +</p> +<p>FEBRUARY 19TH TO 25th</p> + + +<p>19th. I. Conrad’s The Lagoon, 22-Pt. I:17-37</p> + +<p>20th. JOSEPH JEFFERSON, b. 20 F. 1829<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Joseph Jefferson, 17-Pt. II:3-22</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, b. 21 F. 1801<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Pillar of the Cloud, 12:323</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Sensitiveness, 15:183-184</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Flowers Without Fruit, 15:184</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Lincoln’s Address at Cooper Institute, 5-Pt. I:37-69</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. 22 F. 1732<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Washington, 16-Pt. I:3-42</span><br /> + +</p><p>23rd. I. Mrs. Freeman’s The Wind in the Rosebush, 20-Pt. II:12-38</p> + +<p>24th. SAMUEL LOVER, b. 24 F. 1797 +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Gridiron, 19-Pt. II:59-70</span><br /> + +</p><p>25th. I. Lamb’s Superannuated Man, 5-Pt. II: 80-91<br /> +II. Old China, 5-Pt. II:91-100</p> + + +<p class="poetry">A little peaceful home +Sounds all my wants and wishes; add to this +My book and friend, and this is happiness. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—FRANCESCO DI RIOJA.</span><br /> +</p> +<p>FEBRUARY 26TH TO MARCH 4TH</p> + + +<p>26th. SAM WALTER FOSS, d. 26 F. 1911<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. The Prayer of Cyrus Brown, 9-Pt. II:8</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">II. The Meeting of the Clabberhuses, 8-Pt. I: 39-41</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">III. A Modern Martyrdom, 9-Pt. II: 84-86</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">IV. The Ideal Husband to His Wife, 9-Pt. I:103-104</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, b. 27 F. 1807<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 17-Pt. I:3-27</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">II. Wreck of the Hesperus, 10:156-160</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">III. My Lost Youth, 12:263-266</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. ELLEN TERRY, b. 27 F. 1848<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. Ellen Terry, 17-Pt. II:48-60</span><br /> + +</p><p>Mr.1st I. Morris’s March, 14:103-104<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">W. D. HOWELLS, b. 1 Mr. 1837</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">II. Mrs. Johnson, 8-Pt. II:107-128</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. I. Franklin’s Settling Down, 6-Pt. II:76-85<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">II. Public Affairs, 6-Pt. II:102-107</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. EDMUND WALLER, b. 9 Mr. 1606<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. On a Girdle, 12:132</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">II. Go, Lovely Rose, 12:136-137</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">III. De la Mare’s The Listeners, 11:327</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. Inauguration Day<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 5-Pt. I:74-89</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of +a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a +luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—HENRY WARD BEECHER.</span></p> + +<p>MARCH 5TH TO 11TH</p> + + +<p>5th. FRANK NORRIS, b. 5 Mr. 1870<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock, 22-Pt. II:64</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, b. 6 Mr. 1806<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. Mother and Poet, 11:297-302</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">II. A Musical Instrument, 12: 282-283</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">III. The Cry of the Children, 12: 296-302</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. I. Thackeray’s On a Lazy Idle Boy, 1-Pt. I: 41-51</p> + +<p>8th. HENRY WARD BEECHER, d. 8 Mr. 1887<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. Deacon Marble, 7-Pt. I:13-15</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">II. The Deacon’s Trout, 7-Pt. I:15-16</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">III. Noble and the Empty Hole, 7-Pt. I:17-18</span><br /> + +</p><p>9th. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD, d. 9 Mr. 1825<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. Life, 14:260-261</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">II. Dunsany’s Night at an Inn, 18:I</span><br /> + +</p><p>10th. I. Ruskin’s The Mountain Gloom, 1-Pt. II: 33-56</p> + +<p>11th. CHARLES SUMNER, d. n Mr. 1874<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. Longfellow’s Charles Sumner, 15:111-112</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">GILES FLETCHER, buried 11 Mr. 1611</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">II. Wooing Song, 12:101-102</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">III. Carlyle’s Reward, 2-Pt. I:146-160</span><br /> + +</p><p class="poetry">Books that can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside are +the best after all. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—SAMUEL JOHNSON.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>MARCH 12TH TO 18TH</p> + + +<p>12th. I. A Family Horse, 9-Pt. I:3-14<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Living in the Country, 7-Pt. I:82-95</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. I. Macaulay’s Task of the Modern Historian, 2-Pt. II:3-22<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Puritans, 2-Pt. II:23-29</span><br /> + + +</p><p>14th. HENRY IV. defeated the “Leaguers” at Ivry,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">14 Mr. 1590</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Macaulay’s Ivry, 10:194-199</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. JOHANN LUDWIG PAUL HEYSE, b. 15 Mr. 1830<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. L’Arrabiata, 20-Pt. I:130-157</span><br /> + +</p><p>16th. WILL IRWIN, b. 15 Mr. 1876<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Servant Problem, 7-Pt. I:132</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. I. Hawthorne’s The Great Stone Face, 3-Pt. I:103-135</p> + + +<p>18th. I. Roche’s The V-A-S-E, 7-Pt. II:60-61<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Roche’s A Boston Lullaby, 8-Pt. II:78</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. A Boston Lullaby (Anon.), 7-Pt. II:105</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Burgess’s The Bohemians of Boston, 7-Pt. II:141-143</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I +had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, +it resembles the meeting with an old one. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—OLIVER GOLDSMITH.</span><br /> +</p> +<p>MARCH 19TH TO 25th</p> + + +<p>19th. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, d. 19 Mr. 1907<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Rivermouth Romance, 7-Pt. II:129-140</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Death Bed, 15:136-137</span><br /> + +</p><p>20th. CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, d. 20 Mr. 1903<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Ballad, 7-Pt. II:51-52</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hans Breitmann’s Party, 7-Pt. I:96-97</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. De Quincey’s Levana, 4-Pt. II:145-157</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. ROBERT SOUTHEY, d. 21 Mr. 1843<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Inchcape Rock, 10:153-156</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. My Days Among the Dead Are Past, 14: 261-262</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Lincoln’s Springfield Speech, 5-Pt. I:23-36</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. I. Lamb’s Two Races of Men, 5-Pt. II:3-11</p> + +<p>23rd. JOHN DAVIDSQN, disappeared 23 Mr. 1909<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Butterflies, 12:345</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Doyle’s Dancing Men, 22-Pt. I:63-l00</span><br /> + +</p><p>24th. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, d. 24 Mr. 1882<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Building of the Ship, ll:89-102</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Skeleton in Armor, 10:124-130</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Resignation, 15:131-133</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Arrow and the Song, 12:283-284</span><br /> + +</p><p>25th. I. Franklin’s George Whitefield, 6-Pt. II: 108-114<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Franklin Stove, 6-Pt. II:115-116</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Civic Pride, 6-Pt. II:117-124</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Advice to a Young Tradesman, 6-Pt. II: 153-155</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our +learnings. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—ST. PAUL.</span></p> + +<p>MARCH 26TH TO APRIL 1ST</p> + + +<p>26th. A. E. HOUSMAN, b. 26 Mr. 1859<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Shropshire Lad-XIII, 12:340</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Ferber’s Gay Old Dog, 22-Pt. II:81-114</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. I. Thackeray’s Thorns in the Cushion, 1-Pt. I:51-64</p> + +<p>28th. FOCH, made Commander Allied Armies, 28<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">Mr. 1918</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Burr’s Fall In, 15:211</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Coates’s Place de la Concorde, 15:226</span></p> + +<p>29th. BONNIVARD, Prisoner of Chillon, liberated +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">29 Mr. 1536</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Byron’s Prisoner of Chillon, 11:191-204</span><br /> + +</p><p>30th. DE WOLF HOPPER, b. 30 Mr. 1858<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Casey at the Bat, 9-Pt. I:95-98</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Butler’s Just Like a Cat, 8-Pt. I:152</span><br /> + +</p><p>31st. ANDREW MARVELL, b,. 31 Mr. 1621<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Garden, 14:20-22</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Bermudas, 15:162-163</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">JOHN DONNE, d. 31 Mr. 1631</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Dream, 12:137-138</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Will, 15:156-158</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Death, 13:195-196</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. A Burnt Ship, 13:272</span><br /> + +</p><p>Ap. 1st. AGNES REPPLIER, b. 1 Ap. 1858<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Plea for Humor, 8-Pt. II:3-25</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Dreams, books are each a world; and books, we know, +Are a substantial world, both pure and good: +Round these, with tendrils, strong as flesh and blood, +Our pastime and our happiness will grow. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.</span><br /> + +</p><p>APRIL 2ND TO 8TH</p> + + +<p>2nd. I. Jefferson, 16-Pt. I:43-70<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">Nelson’s Victory Over the Danish Fleet, 2 Ap. 1801</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Battle of the Baltic, 10:189-192</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. WASHINGTON IRVING, b. 3 Ap. 1783<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Wouter Van Twiller, 7-Pt. I:3-10</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Voyage, 3-Pt. II:61-71</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. I. Browning’s Home Thoughts from Abroad, 12:57-58<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Macaulay’s Byron the Poet, 2-Pt. II:94-109</span><br /> + +</p><p>5th. FRANK R. STOCKTON, b. 5 Ap. 1834<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Pomona’s Novel, 7-Pt. II:62-81</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Piece of Red Calico, 8-Pt. I:105-112</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY reached the North Pole,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7.5em;">6 Ap. 1909</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. At the North Pole, 16-Pt. II:125-151</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, b. 7 Ap. 1770<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Landor’s To Wordsworth, 14:148-150</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. To the Cuckoo, 12:38-40</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Daffodils, 12:41-42</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Tintern Abbey, 14:47-52</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Lucy Gray, 10:255-258</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. Arnold’s Memorial Verses, 15:77-79</span><br /> + +</p><p>8th. PHINEAS FLETCHER, baptized, 8 Ap. 1582<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Hymn, 12:317</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER, b. 8 Ap.1879</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Earth’s Easter (1915), 15:224</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Hagedorn’s Song Is So Old, 12:337</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, +upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, +think. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—LORD BYRON.</span><br /> + +</p><p>APRIL 9TH TO 15TH</p> + + +<p>9th. I. Tennyson’s Early Spring, 14:94-96<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Poe’s Ligeia, 4-Pt. I:37-63</span><br /> + +</p><p>10th. I. De Quincey’s The Vision of Sudden Death,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">4-Pt. II:119-145</span><br /> + +</p><p>11th. NAPOLEON abdicated at Fontainebleau, 11 Ap. 1814<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Byron’s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, 13:109-115</span><br /> + +</p><p>12th. I. Franklin’s Autobiography, 6-Pt. II:3-35</p> + +<p>13th. I. Burns’s To a Mountain Daisy, 14:109-111<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lamb’s Imperfect Sympathies, 5-Pt. II:21-34</span><br /> + +</p><p>14th. LINCOLN shot by John Wilkes Booth, 14 Ap. 1865<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Markham’s, Lincoln the Man of the People, 14:296</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Flecker’s Dying Patriot, 10:295</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Ballad of Camden Town, 12:347</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, d. 15 Ap. 1865<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Farewell at Springfield, 5-Pt. I:70</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Speech to 166th Ohio Regiment, 5-Pt. I:96-97</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Letters to Mrs. Lincoln, 5-Pt. I:113-114</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. To Grant, 5-Pt. I:121</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain! 15:105-106</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Titanic Sunk, 15 Ap. 1912</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. Van Dyke’s Heroes of the Titanic, 10:305</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of a man—has +decided his way of life. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—RALPH WALDO EMERSON.</span><br /> + +</p><p>APRIL 16TH TO 22ND</p> + + +<p>16th. I. Herbert’s Easter, 15:152-153<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Franklin’s Motion for Prayers, 6-Pt. II: 62-164</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Necessary Hints, 6-Pt. II: 160-161</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, d. 17 Ap. 1790<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Franklin’s Autobiography, 6-Pt. II:35-75</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST, b. 17 Ap. 1842</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Remarkable Dream, 8-Pt. I:79-80</span><br /> + +</p><p>18th. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, b. 18 Ap. 1864<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Mr. Travers’s First Hunt, 22-Pt. I:135</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Slave to Duty, 8-Pt. I:66-67</span><br /> + +</p><p>19th. Battles of Lexington and Concord, 19 Ap. 1775<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Emerson’s Concord Hymn, 12:218-219</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">Siege of Ratisbon, 19-23 Ap. 1809</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Browning’s Incident of the French Camp, 10:213-214</span><br /> + +</p><p>20th. I. Campbell’s Ye Mariners of England, 10: 150-151<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lincoln’s Response to Serenade, 5-Pt. I: 98-100</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">WILLIAM H. DAVIS, b. 20 Ap. 1870</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Davies’s Catharine, 11:327</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. CHARLOTTE BRONTË, b. 21 Ap. 1816<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Charlotte Brontë, 17-Pt. I:121-132</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Thackeray’s De Juventute, 1-Pt. I:65-87</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. I. Riley’s The Elf-Child, 8-Pt. I:34-36<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Liz-Town Humorist, 8-Pt. I:48-49</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Carlyle’s The Watch Tower, 2-Pt. I:129-133</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">UNITED STATES DAY CELEBRATED IN FRANCE 22 Ap. 1917</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Van Dyke’s The Name of France, 15:224</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, +From my own library, with volumes that +I prize above my dukedom. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.</span><br /> + +</p><p>APRIL 23RD TO 29TH</p> + + +<p>23rd. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, b. 23 (?) Ap. 1564;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">d/ 23 Ap. 1616</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. When Daises Pied, 12:18-19</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Under the Greenwood Tree, 12:21</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Hark, Hark, The Lark, 12:97</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Milton’s Epitaph on Shakespeare, 15:44</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Stratford-on-Avon, 3-Pt. II:151-181</span><br /> + +</p><p>24th. JAMES T. FIELDS, d. 24 Ap. 1881<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Owl-Critic, 7-Pt. I: 41-44</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Alarmed Skipper, 7-Pt. I:75-76</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">LORD DUNSANY, wounded 25 Ap. 1916</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Songs from an Evil Wood, 15:221</span><br /> + +</p><p>25th. OLIVER CROMWELL, b. 25 Ap. 1599<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Marvell’s Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland, 13:54-59</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. To the Lord General Cromwell, 13:201-202</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">JOHN KEBLE, b. 25 Ap. 1792</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Morning, 15:173-175</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Evening, 15:175-177</span><br /> + +</p><p>26th. CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (Artemus Ward,) b. 26 Ap. 1834<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. One of Mr. Ward’s Business Letters, 8-Pt. II:68-69</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. On Forts, 8-Pt. II:69-71</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Among the Spirits, 8-Pt. I:81-85</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. U. S. GRANT, b. 27 Ap. 1822<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. General Ulysses Simpson Grant, 16—Pt. II: 3-30</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. 28 Ap. 1864 “Tell Tad the Goats are Well.”<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Lincoln’s Telegram to Mrs. Lincoln, 5—Pt. I:114</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Last Address in Public, April 11, 1865, 5—Pt. I:102-106</span><br /> + +</p><p>29th. E. R. SILL, b. 29 Ap. 1841<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Five Lives, 7—Pt. I:39-40</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Eve’s Daughter, 9—Pt. I:102</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Opportunity, 11:106</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Fool’s Prayer, 11:263-264.</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">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? +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—CHARLES LAMB.</span><br /> + +</p><p>APRIL 30th TO MAY 6TH</p> + + +<p>April 30th.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Peck’s Bessie Brown, M. D., 8-Pt. II:81-82</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Kiss in the Rain, 9-Pt. II:83</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher, 4-Pt. I:3-34</span><br /> + +</p><p>May 1st.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Morris’s May, 14:104-105 Battle of Manila Bay, I My. 1898</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Ware’s Manila, 8-Pt. I:173</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">S.S. Lusitania torpedoed I My. 1916</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Graves’s It’s a Queer Time, 15:219</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">HARRY LEON WILSON, b. I My. 1867</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Ruggles and Fate, 22-Pt. II:115</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. I. Lowell’s To the Dandelion, 14:116-118<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lamb’s Farewell to Tobacco, 5-Pt. II:149-154</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. She Is Going, 5-Pt. II:154</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. I. Browning’s Two in the Campagna, 14:187-189<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Franklin’s Letters, 6-Pt. II:167-178</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. RICHARD HOVEY, b. 4 My. 1864<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Sea Gypsy, 12:334</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Braithwaite’s Sic Vita, 12:343</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Sandy Star, 12:346</span><br /> + +</p><p>5th. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, b. 5 My. 1890<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Rhubarb, 22-Pt. II:56</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. ABBÉ VOGLER, d. 6 My. 1814<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Abt Vogler, 14:177-183</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">ROBERT EDWIN PEARY, b. 6 My. 1857</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Robert E. Peary, 16-Pt. II:125-146</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Where a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and +courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by: it +is good and made by a good workman. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—JEAN BE LA BRUYÈRE.</span><br /> + +</p><p>MAY 7TH TO 13TH</p> + + +<p>7th. ROBERT BROWNING, b. 7 My. 1812<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Landor’s To Robert Browning, 14:151-152</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A King Lived Long Ago, 11:9-11</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Evelyn Hope, 15:121-123</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. How They Brought the Good News, 10:130-134</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. A Woman’s Last Word, 14:189-191</span><br /> + +</p><p>8th. I. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 13:184-195<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Peabody’s Fortune and Men’s Eyes, 18:89</span><br /> + +</p><p>9th. J. M. BARRIE, b. 9 My. 1860<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Courting of T’Nowhead’s Bell, 20-Pt. I:1-29</span><br /> + +</p><p>10th. HENRY M. STANLEY, d. 10 My. 1904<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. In Darkest Africa, 16-Pt. II:97-124</span><br /> + +</p><p>11th. I. Wordsworth’s The Green Linnet, 14:106-108<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY, b. 12 My. 1855</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. At Gibraltar, 13:290</span><br /> + +</p><p>12th. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, b. 12 My. 1828<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Blessed Damozel, 10:58-63</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Sonnet, 13:176-177</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The House of Life, 13:257-264</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. ALPHONSE DAUDET, b. 13 My. 1840<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Siege of Berlin, 21-Pt. I:129-138</span><br /> + +</p><p class="poetry">Learn to be good readers—which is perhaps a more difficult thing +than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read +faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you +have a real interest in. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—THOMAS CARLYLE.</span><br /> + +</p><p>MAY 14TH TO 20TH</p> + + +<p>14th. “Mother’s Day” (2d Sunday in May)<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Branch’s Songs for My Mother, 14:300</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Emerson’s Each and All, 14:262-263</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Carlyle’s Battle of Dunbar, 2-Pt. I:142-159</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. I. Thackeray’s On Letts’s Diary, 1-Pt. I:115-130</p> + +<p>16th. HONORÉ DE BALZAC, b. 20 My. 1799<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Passion in the Desert, 21-Pt. II:107-129</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. I. Thackeray’s On a Joke I Once Heard, l-Pt. I:89-104</p> + +<p>18th. I. Browning’s May and Death, 15:123-124<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Galsworthy’s The Little Man, 18:227</span><br /> + +</p><p>19th. Battle of La Hogue 19 My. 1692 (N. S. 29 My. 1692)<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Browning’s Hervé Riel, 10:162-168</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, d. 19 My. 1864</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Great Carbuncle, 20-Pt. II:30-52</span><br /> + +</p><p>20th. I. Gerstenberg’s Overtones, 18:139</p> + + +<p class="poetry">At this day, as much company as I have kept, and as much as I love +it, I love reading better. +<br /><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—ALEXANDER POPE.</span><br /> + +</p><p>MAY 21ST TO 27TH</p> + + +<p>21st. ALEXANDER POPE, b. 21 My. 1688<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. On a Certain Lady at Court, 13:272-273</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Dying Christian to His Soul, 15:169</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Universal Prayer, 15:166-168</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">JAMES GRAHAM, Marquis of Montrose,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">d. 21 My. 1650</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Execution of Montrose, 10:270-277</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, b. 22 My. 1859<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Dancing Men, 22-Pt. I:63</span><br /> + +</p><p>23rd. THOMAS HOOD, b. 23 My. 1799<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Flowers, 12:53-54</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. I Remember, I Remember, 12:269-270</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Song of the Shirt, 12:292-295</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Bridge of Sighs, 15:124-128</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. The Dream of Eugene Aram, 11:265-273</span><br /> + +</p><p>24th. RICHARD MANSFIELD, b. 24 My. 1857<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Richard Mansfield, 17-Pt. II:61-79</span><br /> + +</p><p>25th. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, b. 25 My. 1803<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Rhodora, 14:115</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Titmouse, 12:66-69</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Problem, 14:268-271</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Lincoln’s The Whigs and the Mexican War, 5-Pt. I:3-6</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Notes for a Law Lecture, 5-Pt. I:7-10</span><br /> + +</p><p>26th. I. Bret Harte’s Melons, 7-Pt. II:41-50<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Society upon the Stanislaus, 7-Pt. II:57-59</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. I. Lady Dufferin’s The Lament of the Irish Emigrant, 15:128-130<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hawthorne’s Wakefield, 3-Pt. I:85-99</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">All the best experience of humanity, folded, saved, freighted to us +here! Some of these tiny ships we call Old and New Testaments, Homer, +Aeschylus, Plato, Juvenal, etc. Precious Minims!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—WALT WHITMAN.</span><br /> + +</p><p>MAY 28TH TO JUNE 3RD</p> + + +<p>28th. THOMAS MOORE, b. 28 My. 1779<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. As Slow Our Ship, 12:232-233</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, 12:157-158</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Lake of the Dismal Swamp, 11:83-85</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Oft in the Stilly Night, 12:271-272</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Fly to the Desert, 12:155-157</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. Canadian Boat Song, 12:233-234</span><br /> + +</p><p>29th I. De Quincey’s Pleasures of Opium, 4-Pt. II:31-73</p> + +<p>30th. Memorial Day<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Hale’s The Man Without a Country, 21-Pt. II:57-95</span><br /> + +</p><p>31st. WALT WHITMAN, b. 31 My. 1819<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 14: 120-129</span><br /> + +</p><p>Je. 1st. HENRY FRANCIS LYTE, b. 1 Je. 1793<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Abide With Me, 15:180-181</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">JOHN DRINKWATER, b. 1 Je. 1882</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Birthright, 15:199</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, killed in a street</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">brawl, 1 Je. 1593</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">III. Porcelain Cups, 22-Pt. I:38-62</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. J. G. SAXE, b. 2 Je. 1816<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Early Rising</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Coquette</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Stammering Wife</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. My Familiar,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">THOMAS HARDY, b. 2 Je. 1840</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Hardy’s The Oxen, 15:201</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. I. Hood’s It Was Not in the Winter,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">II. Lamb’s Letters,</span><br /></p> + + +<p class="poetry">We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at +the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding +either, but approving the latter most.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—PLUTARCH.</span><br /> + +</p><p>JUNE 4TH TO 10th</p> + + +<p>4th. I. Thackeray’s Dennis Haggarty’s Wife, 21-Pt. I:20-52 + +</p><p>5th. O. HENRY, d. 5 Je. 1910<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Furnished Room, 22-Pt. I:140</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, b. 6 Je. 1868<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Captain Scott’s Last Struggle, 16-Pt. II: 152-159</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. EDWIN BOOTH, d. 7 Je. 1893<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Edwin Booth, 17-Pt. II:23-38</span><br /> + +</p><p>8th. I. Lamb’s Letters, 5-Pt. II:103-106</p> + +<p>9th. CHARLES DICKENS, d. 9 Je. 1870<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Charles Dickens, 17-Pt. I:99-120</span><br /> + +</p><p>10th. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, d. 10 Je. 1909<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. My Double and How He Undid Me, 8-Pt. I:124-142</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">If an author be worthy of anything, he is worth bottoming. It may be +all very well to skim milk, for the cream lies on the top; but who +could skim Lord Byron?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—GEORGE SEARLE PHILLIPS.</span><br /> + +</p><p>JUNE 11TH TO 17TH</p> + + +<p>11th. I. Wells’s Tragedy of a Theatre Hat, 9-Pt. II:50-55<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. One Week,9-Pt. II:151</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Poster Girl, 8-Pt. II:92-93</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. A Memory, 9-Pt. I:116-117</span><br /> + +</p><p>12th. CHARLES KINGSLEY, b. 12 Je. 1819<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Oh! That We Two Were Maying, 12:175-176</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Last Buccaneer, 14:240-242</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Sands of Dee, 10:261-262</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Three Fishers, 10:262-263</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Lorraine, 11:306-308</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, b. 13 Je. 1865<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Ballad of Father Gilligan, 10:314</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Fiddler of Dooney, 14:310</span><br /> + +</p><p>14th. Flag Day<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Whittier’s Barbara Frietchie, 10:210-213</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Key’s Star-Spangled Banner, 12:213-215</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Drake’s American Flag, 12:215-217</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Holmes’s Old Ironsides, 12:217-218</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. I. Leacock’s My Financial Career, 9-Pt. II:19-23<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hawthorne’s Gray Champion, 3-Pt. I:139-152</span><br /> + +</p><p>16th. I. Lanigan’s The Villager and the Snake, 9-Pt-I:19<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Amateur Orlando, 9-Pt. I:26-30</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Ahkoond of Swat, 8-Pt. I: 37-38</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. JOSEPH ADDISON, d. 17 Je. 1719<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Voice of the Heavens, 15:165-166</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Poe’s MS. Found in a Bottle, 4-Pt. I:105-123</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, 5-Pt. I:90-93</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Ship of State and Pilot, 5-Pt. I:94-95</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Sitting last winter among my books, and walled around with all the +comfort and protection which they and my fireside could afford me—to +wit, a table of higher piled books at my back, my writing desk on one +side of me, some shelves on the other, and the feeling of the warm fire +at my feet—I began to consider how I loved the authors of those books.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—LEIGH HUNT.</span><br /> + +</p><p>JUNE 18th TO 24TH</p> + + +<p>18th. I. Hawthorne’s Ethan Brand, 3-Pt. I:55-82</p> + +<p>19th. RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, d. Aug. 11, 1885<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Brook-Side, 12:177-178</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Men of Old, 14:133-135</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Lincoln’s Speech in Independence Hall, 5-Pt. I:71-73</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. To the Workingmen of Manchester, 5-Pt. I:115-117</span><br /> + +</p><p>20th. I. Longfellow’s Hymn to the Night, 12:46-47<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Light of the Stars, 12:48-49</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Daybreak, 12:49-50</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Seaweed, 14:88-89</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. The Village Blacksmith, 14:165-166</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. HENRY GUY CARLETON, b. 21 Je. 1856<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Thompson Street Poker Club, 7-Pt. II: 116-121</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Munkittrick’s Patriotic Tourist, 9-Pt. II: 47-48</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. What’s in a Name, 9-Pt. II:103-104</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. ’Tis Ever Thus, 9-Pt. II:152</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. ALAN SEEGER, b. 22 Je. 1888<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. I Have a Rendezvous with Death, 15:215</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi, 22-Pt. II:48</span><br /> + +</p><p>23rd. I. Longfellow’s The Day Is Done, 12:240-242.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Beleaguered City, 14:249-251</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Bridge, 12:279-282</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Whittier’s Ichabod, 14:154-156</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Maud Muller, 11:219-224</span><br /> + +</p><p>24th. AMBROSE BIERCE, b. 24 Je. 1842<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Dog and the Bees, 7-Pt. II:10</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Man and the Goose, 9-Pt. I:85</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">Battle of Bannockburn, 24 Je. 1314</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Burns’s Bannockburn, 12:198-199</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. My Heart’s in the Highlands, 12:36-37</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. The Banks of Doon, 12:146-147</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. +Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon +as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—RALPH WALDO EMERSON.</span><br /> + +</p><p>JUNE 25TH TO JULY 1ST</p> + + +<p>25th. I. Goodman’s Eugenically Speaking, 18:193</p> + +<p>26th. I. Burns’s Elegy, 15:61-64<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Mary Morison, 12: 147-148</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Oh! Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley? 12:148-149</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. O, My Love’s Like a Red, Red Rose, 12:149-150</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Ae Fond Kiss, 12:150-151</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. HELEN KELLER, b. 27 Je. 1880<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Helen Keller, 17-Pt. I:167-171</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Garrison’s A Love Song, 12:338</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. I. Lincoln’s Letter to Bryant, 5—Pt. I:122-123<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Burns’s Of A’ the Airts, 12:151</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Highland Mary, 12:152-153</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. A Farewell, 12:199-200</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. It Was A’ for Our Rightfu’ King, 12:200-201</span><br /> + +</p><p>29th. I. The Pit and the Pendulum, 21-Pt. I:139-162</p> + +<p>30th. I. Burns’s John Anderson My Jo, 12:245-246<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Thou Lingering Star, 12:270-271</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Lines Written on a Banknote, 13:273-274</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Byron’s Darkness, 11:102-105</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Oh! Snatch’d Away in Beauty’s Bloom, 15:113-114</span><br /> + +</p><p>Jl. 1st. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, d. 1 Jl. 1896<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Minister’s Wooing, 8-Pt. II:97-106</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">A library is not worth anything without a catalogue; it is a +Polyphemus without an eye in his head—and you must confront the +difficulties whatever they may be, of making a proper catalogue.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—Thomas Carlyle.</span><br /> + +</p><p>July 2nd to 8th</p> + + +<p>2nd. Richard Henry Stoddard, b. 2 Jl. 1825<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. There Are Gains for All Our Losses, 12:267</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Sky, 13:281</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Byron’s Ode on Venice, 13:115-121</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Stanzas for Music, 12:162-163</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. When We Two Parted, 12: 163-164</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Oilman, b. 3 Jl. 1860<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Similar Cases, 9-Pt. I:53-57</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Byron’s She Walks in Beauty, 12:164-165</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Destruction of Sennacherib, 11:183-184</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Sonnet on Chillon, 13:222</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. Nathaniel Hawthorne, b. 4 Jl. 1804<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 17-Pt. I.74-98</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Declaration of Independence, 4 Jl. 1776</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Emerson’s Ode, 13:167-169</span><br /> + +</p><p>5th. I. Emerson’s Waldeinsamkeit, 14:39-41<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The World Soul, 12:59-63</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. To the Humblebee, 12:64-66</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Forerunners, 14:265-267</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Brahma, 14:271</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. I. Macdonald’s Earl o’ Quarterdeck, 10:300</p> + +<p>7th. I. Markham’s Man with the Hoe, 14:294</p> + +<p>8th. Shelley drowned, 8 Jl. 1822<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Memorabilia, 14:151</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hawthorne’s The Minister’s Black Veil, 21-Pt. I:107-128</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">For my part I have ever gained the most profit, and the most +pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—JULIUS C. HARE.</span><br /> + +</p><p>JULY 9TH TO 15TH</p> + + +<p>9th. I. Browning’s The Statue and the Bust, II: 273-284<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Lost Leader, 12:289-290</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Patriot, II:290-291</span><br /> + +</p><p>10th. ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE, b. 10 Jl. 1861<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Mis’ Smith, 8-Pt. II:77</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">F. P. DUNNE, (“Mr. Dooley”), b. 10 Jl. 1867</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Home Life of Geniuses, 9-Pt. II:56-62</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The City as a Summer Resort, 9-Pt. II:138-144</span><br /> + +</p><p>11th. I. Burdette’s Vacation of Mustapha, 8-Pt. I:3-7<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Legend of Mimir, 8-Pt. I:68-69</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Artless Prattle of Childhood, 7-Pt. II. 106-112</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Rheumatism Movement Cure, 8-Pt. II:37-43</span><br /> + +</p><p>12th. B. P. SHILLABER, b. 12 Jl. 1814<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Fancy Diseases, 7-Pt. I:32</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Bailed Out, 7-Pt. I:33</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Masson’s My Subway Guard Friend, 9-Pt. I:140</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. I. Mukerji’s Judgment of Indra, 18:257</p> + +<p>14th. The Bastille Destroyed, 14 Jl. 1789<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Carlyle’s The Flight to Varennes from</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">“The French Revolution,” 2-Pt. I:87-110</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. Battle of Château Thierry, 15 Jl. 1918<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Grenfell’s Into Battle, 15:217</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Keats’s La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 10:85-87</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Ode to a Nightingale, 13:132-135</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Ode, 13:135-137</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Ode to Psyche, 13:139-141</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. Fancy, 13:143-146</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of +prosperity; the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and +no hindrance abroad; companions at night, in travelling, in the country.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—CICERO.</span><br /> + +</p><p>JULY 16TH TO 22ND</p> + + +<p>16th. ROALD AMUNDSEN, b. 16 Jl. 1872<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Amundsen, 16-Pt. II:147-15l</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Masefield’s Sea Fever, 12:334</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. I. Keats’s Robin Hood, 14: 146-148<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Sonnets, 13:223-227</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Shelley’s Hymn of Pan, 12:44-45</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, 14: 61-73</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Stanzas Written in Dejection, 14:73-75</span><br /> + +</p><p>18th. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, b. 18 Jl. 1811<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. De Finibus, 1-Pt. I:143-157</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Ballads, 1-Pt. I:161-164</span><br /> + +</p><p>19th. I. Derby’s Illustrated Newspaper, 7-Pt. II:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">11-19</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Tushmaker’s Toothpuller, 7-Pt. II:53-56</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Burdette’s Romance of the Carpet, 9-Pt. I:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">38-40</span><br /> + +</p><p>20th. JEAN INGELOW, d.20 Jl.1897<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">10:263-269</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Shelley’s The Cloud, 14:90-93</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 13:121-124</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. To a Skylark, 13:124-129</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Arethusa, 11:140-143</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. Robert Burns, d. 21 Jl. 1796<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Thoughts, 15:65-67</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Shelley’s Love’s Philosophy, 12:160</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. I Fear Thy Kisses, 12:161</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. To——, 12:161-162</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. To—-, 12:162</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. I. Shelley’s Ozymandias of Egypt, 13:222-223<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Song, 12:225-226</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. When the Lamp Is Shattered, 12:274-275</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Tennyson’s The Gardener’s Daughter, II:17-28</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. The Deserted House, 15:23-24</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; +natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to +contend.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—BACON.</span><br /> + +</p><p>July 23rd to 29th</p> + + +<p>23rd. U. S. Grant, d. 23 Jl. 1885<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Lincoln to Grant, 5-Pt. I:121</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Tennyson’s Ulysses, 14:175-177</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Ask Me No More, 12:180</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Splendor Falls, 12:181</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Come into the Garden, Maud, 12:182-184</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. Sir Galahad, 14: 184-186</span><br /> + +</p><p>24th. John Newton, b. 24 Jl. 1725.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Quiet Heart, 15:170</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Tennyson’s The Miller’s Daughter, II:31-40</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Oak, 14:41</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere, 10:51-53</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Song, 12:54-55</span><br /> + +</p><p>25th. I. Tennyson’s The Throstle, 12:55-56<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Small, Sweet Idyl, 14:79-80</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Merlin and the Gleam, II:122-127</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Lotos-Eaters, 14:135-143</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Mariana, 14:162-164</span><br /> + +</p><p>26th. I. Stevenson’s Markheim, 20-Pt. I:103-129</p> + +<p>27th. Thomas Campbell, b. 27 Jl. 1777<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Soldier’s Dream, 10:186-187</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lord Ullin’s Daughter, 10:259-261</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. How Delicious Is the Winning, 12:165-166</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. To the Evening Star, 12:47</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. ABRAHAM COWLEY, d. 28 Jl. 1667<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Supplication, 13:59-60</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. On the Death of Mr. William Hervey, 15:80-86</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE VISCOUNT DUNDEE,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">d. 28 Jl. 1689</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Scott’s Bonny Dundee, 10:183-186</span><br /> + +</p><p>29th. DON MARQUIS, b. 29 Jl. 1878<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Chant Royal of the Dejected Dipsomaniac, 9-Pt. I:143</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">BOOTH TARKINGTON, b. 29 Jl. 1869</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Overwhelming Saturday, 22-Pt. I:101</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that +he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—COWPER.</span><br /> + +</p><p>July 30th to August 5th</p> + + +<p>30th. JOYCE KILMER, killed in action, 30 Jl. 1918<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Ballad of Three, 10:311</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Trees, 12:329</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Noyes’s The May Tree, 12:327</span><br /> + +</p><p>31st. I. Tennyson’s Song of the Brook, 14:99-101<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. O That ’t Were Possible, 12:185-188</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Morte d’Arthur, 11:204-215</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Sweet and Low, 12:249-250</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Will, 14:259-260</span><br /> + +</p><p>Ag. 1st<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Tennyson’s Rizpah, 10:279-285</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Children’s Hospital, 11:310-315</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Break, Break, Break, 12:320</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. In the Valley of Cauteretz, 12:321</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Wages, 12:321-322</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. Crossing the Bar, 12:324</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VII. Flower in the Crannied Wall, 13:280</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. I. Browning’s Love Among the Ruins, 11:28-31<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. My Star, 12:58-59</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. From Pippa Passes, 12:59</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Boy and the Angel, 11:133-137</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Epilogue, 15: 143-144</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. H. C. BUNNER, b. 3 Ag. 1855<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Behold the Deeds! 7-Pt. II:123-125</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Love Letters of Smith, 8-Pt. I:89-104</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, b. 4 Ag. 1792<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Sensitive Plant, 11:54-68</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. To Night, 12:43-44</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Indian Serenade, 12:159-160</span><br /> + +</p><p>5th. GUY DE MAUPASSANT, b. 5 Ag. 1850<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Piece of String, 21-Pt. II:96-106</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Necklace, 21-Pt. I:94-106</span><br /> +</p> +<p class="poetry"> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes</span><br /> +never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—LORD MACAULAY.</span><br /> +</p> +<p>AUGUST 6th to 12th</p> + + +<p>6th. ALFRED TENNYSON, b. 6 Ag. 1809<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Alfred Tennyson, 17-Pt. I:38-42</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Dora, 11:11-17</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Lady of Shalott, 10:73-79</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, b. 7 Ag. 1795<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Halleck’s Joseph Rodman Drake, 15:104-105</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Browning’s Prospice, 15:145-146</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Pied Piper, 11:163-173</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Meeting at Night, 12:189-190</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Parting at Morning, 12:190</span><br /> + +</p><p>8th. SARA TEASDALE, b. 8 Ag. 1884<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Teasdale’s Blue Squills, 12:327</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Return, 12:338</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Browning’s Misconceptions, 12:190-191</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Rabbi Ben Ezra, 14:191-199</span><br /> + +</p><p>9th. JOHN DRYDEN, b. 9 Ag. 1631<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Alexander’s Feast, 13:63-70</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love! 12:140-141</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Elixir, 15:150-151</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Discipline, 15:151-152</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. The Pulley, 15:153-154</span><br /> + +</p><p>10th. WITTER BYNNER, b. 10 Ag. 1881<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Sentence, 13:295</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Browning’s Soul, 14:199-221</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Herrick’s To Blossoms, 12:33-34</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. To Daffodils, 12:34</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. To Violets, 12:35</span><br /> + +</p><p>11th. I. Herrick’s To Meadows, 12:35-36<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lacrimæ, 15:41-42</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Primrose, 12:124</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Litany, 15:158-160</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Lowell’s Madonna of the Evening Flowers, 11:319</span><br /> + +</p><p>12th. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, d. 12 Ag. 1891<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Rhoecus, 11:127-13 3</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Courtin’, 11:230-233</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Yankee Recruit, 7-Pt. I:52-60</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Give us a house furnished with books rather than with furniture. +Both if you can, but books at any rate!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—HENRY WARD BEECHER.</span><br /> + +</p><p>AUGUST 13TH TO 19TH</p> + + +<p>13th. Battle of Blenheim, 13 Ag. 1704<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Southey’s After Blenheim, 10:192-194</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. De Quincey’s Going Down with Victory, 4-Pt. II: 107-119</span><br /> + +</p><p>14th. JOHN FLETCHER, d. 14 Ag. 1785<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Love’s Emblems, 12:29-30</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hear, Ye Ladies, 12:132-133</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Melancholy, 12:278-279</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Lodge’s Rosalind’s Madrigal, 12:83-84</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Rosalind’s Description, 12:84-86</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. THOMAS DE QUINCEY, b. 15 Ag. 1785<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Pains of Opium, 4-Pt. II:73-100</span><br /> + +</p><p>16th. BARONESS NAIRNE (Carolina Oliphant), b. 16 Ag. 1766<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Laird o’ Cockpen, 11:251-252</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Land o’ the Leal, 12:311-312</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Cather’s Grandmither, Think Not I Forget, 14:313</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. I. Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers, 19-Pt. II:1-58</p> + +<p>18th. I. Longfellow’s Rain in Summer, 14:96-99<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Herrick’s Corinna’s Going a-Maying, 12:30-33</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind, 13:129-132</span><br /> + +</p><p>19th. Battle of Otterburn, 19 Ag. 1388<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Battle of Otterburn, 10:171-176</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Books make up no small part of human happiness.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—FREDERICK THE GREAT (in youth).</span><br /> + +</p><p class="poetry">My latest passion will be for literature.<br /> +—FREDERICK THE GREAT (in old age).</p> + +<p>AUGUST 20TH TO 26TH</p> + + +<p>20th. MARCO BOZZARIS,fell 20 Ag. 1823<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Halleck’s Marco Bozzaris, 11:187-191</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal, 11:107-121</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. MARY MAPES DODGE, d. 21 Ag. 1905<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question, 7-Pt. 11:20-24</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lowell’s Letter from a Candidate, 7-Pt. II:29-32</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. Royal Standard Raised at Nottingham, 22 Ag. 1642<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Browning’s Cavalier Tunes, 12:205-208</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Milton’s Il Penseroso, 14:14-19</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Lycidas, 15:52-58</span><br /> + +</p><p>23rd. EDGAR LEE MASTERS, b. 23 Ag. 1869<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Isaiah Beethoven, 14:308</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hardy’s She Hears the Storm, 14:312</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Wheelock’s The Unknown Beloved, 10:309</span><br /> + +</p><p>24th. ROBERT HERRICK, baptized 24 Ag. 1591<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. To Dianeme, 12:123</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Upon Julia’s Clothes, 12:124</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 12:125</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Delight in Disorder, 12:125-126</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. To Anthea, 12:126-127</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. To Daisies, 12:127</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VII. The Night Piece, 12:128</span><br /> + +</p><p>25th. BRET HARTE, b. 25 Ag. 1839<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Plain Language from Truthful James, II:234-236</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Outcasts of Poker Flat, 20-Pt. I:30-46</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Ramon, 11:285-288</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Her Letter, 8-Pt. I:113-115</span><br /> + +</p><p>26th. I. Holley’s An Unmarried Female, 8-Pt. II: 26-36</p> + + +<p class="poetry">We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—HENRY FIELDING.</span><br /> + +</p><p>AUGUST 27TH TO SEPTEMBER 2ND</p> + + +<p>27th. I. Scott’s Coronach, 15:33-34<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lochinvar, 10:36-39</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. A Weary Lot Is Thine, 10:40-41</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. County Guy, 12:154-155</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Hail to the Chief, 12:203-204</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. LEO TOLSTOI, b. 28 Ag. 1828<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Prisoner in the Caucasus, 19-Pt. I:141-186</span><br /> + +</p><p>29th. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,b. 29Ag. 1809;d.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Ballad of the Oysterman, 7-Pt. I:105-106</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. My Aunt, 7-Pt. I:23-24</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Foreign Correspondence, 7-Pt. I:77-80</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Chambered Nautilus, 14:108-109</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">The Royal George lost 29 Ag. 1782</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Cowper’s On the Loss of the Royal George, 10:148-149</span><br /> + +</p><p>30th. I. Scott’s Brignall Banks, 10:41-43<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hunting Song, 12:230-231</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Soldier Rest, 12:277-278</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Proud Maisie, 10:258</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Harp of the North, 12:286-287</span><br /> + +</p><p>31st. THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, b. 31 Ag. 1811<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Mummy’s Foot, 19-Pt. I:90-108</span><br /> + +</p><p>S. 1ST. SIMEON FORD, b. 31 Ag. 1855<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. At a Turkish Bath, 9-Pt. II:74-77</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Discomforts of Travel, 9-Pt. II: 123-127</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Boyhood in a New England Hotel, 9-Pt. I:123-126</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. AUSTIN DOBSON, d. 2 S. 1921<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Ballad of Prose and Rhyme, 12:335</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Carman’s Vagabond Song, 12:330</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Colum’s Old Woman of the Roads, 14:311</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Peabody’s House and the Road, 12:344</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Daly’s Inscription for a Fireplace, 13:294</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">Old wood best to burn; old wine to drink; old friends to trust; and +old authors to read.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—ALONZO OF ARAGON.</span><br /> + +</p><p>SEPTEMBER 3RD TO 9TH</p> + + +<p>3rd. IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENIEFF, d. 3 S.1883<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Song of Triumphant Love, 19-Pt. I: 109-140</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Wordsworth’s Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Sept, 3, 1802, 13:211</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE, d. 4 (?) S. 1591<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Tennyson’s The Revenge, 10:222-229</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Wordsworth’s To the Skylark, 12:40-41</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. On a Picture of Peele Castle, 14:44-47</span><br /> + +</p><p>5th. I. Some Messages Received by Teachers in Brooklyn Public<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Schools, 7-Pt. II:144-147</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Emerson’s Labor, 2-Pt. I:138-145</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. I. Wordsworth’s Resolution and Independence, 11:48-54<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Yarrow Unvisited, 14:53-55</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Intimations of Immortality, 13:89-96</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Ode to Duty, 13:96-98</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. The Small Celandine, 14:112-113</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. I. Milton’s Echo, 12:25-26<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Sabrina, 12:26-27</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Spirit’s Epilogue, 12:27-29</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. On Time, 13:52-53</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. At a Solemn Music, 13:53-54</span><br /> + +</p><p>8th. I. Wordsworth’s Lucy, 15:114-118<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hart-Leap Well, 10:134-142</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">SIEGFRIED SASSOON, b. 8 S. 1886</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Dreamers, 15:223</span><br /> + +</p><p>9th. SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, drowned 9 S. 1583<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Longfellow’s Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 10:160-161</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Battle of Flodden Field, 9 S. 1513</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Elliot’s A Lament for Flodden, 10:251-252</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Wordsworth’s Stepping Westward, 14:158-159</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. She Was A Phantom of Delight, 14:159-160</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Scorn Not the Sonnet, 13:175-176</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">To desire to have many books, and never use them, is like a child +that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—HENRY PEACHAM.</span><br /> + +</p><p>SEPTEMBER 10TH TO 16TH</p> + + +<p>10th. I. Wordsworth’s Nuns Fret Not, 13:175<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lines, 14:253-255</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. We Are Seven, 10:252-255</span><br /> + +</p><p>11th. JAMES THOMSON, b. II S. 1700<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Rule Britannia, 12:208-209</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Collins’s On the Death of Thomson, 15:59-60</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Lowell’s A Winter Ride, 12:331</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. MacKaye’s The Automobile, 13:290</span><br /> + +</p><p>12th. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, b. 12 S. 1829<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Plumbers, 8-Pt. I:150-151</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. My Summer in a Garden, 7-Pt. I:6l-74</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. How I Killed a Bear, 9-Pt. I:59-70</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. GENERAL AMBROSE EVERETT BURNSIDE, d. 13 S. 1881<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Lincoln’s Letter to Burnside, 5-Pt. I:118</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Collins’s Ode Written in 1745, 15:34</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Passions, 13:81-85</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Ode to Evening, 13:85-88</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Dirge in Cymbeline, 15:112-113</span><br /> + +</p><p>14th. DUKE OF WELLINGTON, d. 14 S. 1852<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Tennyson’s Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">13:151-161</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">DANTE, d. 14 S. 1321</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Longfellow’s Dante and Divina Comedia, 13:239-244</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Parsons’s On a Bust of Dante, 14:152-154</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. I. Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper, 14:160-161<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Jonson’s Hymn to Diana, 12:14</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Pindaric Ode, 13:37-42</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Epitaph, 15:46-47</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. On Elizabeth L. H., 15:47</span><br /> + +</p><p>16th. ALFRED NOYES, b. 16 S. 1880<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Old Grey Squirrel, 14:306</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">JOHN GAY, baptized 16 S. 1685</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Black-Eyed Susan, 10:32-34</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS, b. 16 S. 1861</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. O-U-G-H, 7-Pt. I:143</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">It does not matter how many, but how good, books you have.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—SENECA.</span><br /> + +</p><p>SEPTEMBER 17TH to 23RD</p> + + +<p>17th. I. Turner’s The Harvest Moon, 13:249<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Letty’s Globe, 13:245-246</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Mary, A Reminiscence, 13:246-247</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Her First-born, 13:247-248</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. The Lattice at Sunrise, 13:248</span><br /> + +</p><p>18th. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, b. 18 S. 1709<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Macaulay’s Dr. Samuel Johnson, 2-Pt. II:39-79</span><br /> + +</p><p>19th. HARTLEY COLERIDGE, b. 19 S. 1796<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Song, 12:166-167</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Sonnets, 13:227-230</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight, 14:22-25</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Love, 10:44-47</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. France: An Ode, 13:99-103</span><br /> + +</p><p>20th. WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE, d. 20 S. 1863<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Antony to Cleopatra, 14:238-240</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hood’s The Death Bed, 15:131</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Autumn, 13:148-150</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Ruth, 14:157-158</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Fair Ines, 12:168-169</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. SIR WALTER SCOTT, d. 21 S. 1832<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Sir Walter Scott, 17-Pt. I:65-73</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Maid of Neidpath, 10:39-40</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Pibroch of Donald Dhu, 12:201-203</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Wandering Willie’s Tale, 20-Pt. II:75-103</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. I. Wordsworth’s My Heart Leaps Up, 13:274<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Laodamia, 11:143-150</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. There Was a Boy, 14:156-157</span><br /> + +</p><p>23rd. Battle of Monterey, 23 S. 1846<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Hoffman’s Monterey, 10:206-207</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lovelace’s The Grasshopper, 12:30</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. To Lucasta, 12:129-130</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. To Althea, 12:130-131</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, 12:198</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">The words of the good are like a staff in a slippery place.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—HINDU SAYING.</span><br /> + +</p><p>SEPTEMBER 24TH TO 30TH</p> + + +<p>24th. I. Noyes’s Creation, 15:204</p> + +<p>25th. FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS, b. 25 S. 1793<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, 10:151-153</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Poe’s Annabel Lee, 10:56-57</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. To Helen, 12:176</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Bells, 12:234-238</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. For Annie, 12:305-308</span><br /> + +</p><p>26th. I. Holmes’s Latter-Day Warnings, 7-Pt. I:34-35<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Contentment, 7-Pt. I:35-38</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. An Aphorism, 8-Pt. II:44-52</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Music Pounding, 7-Pt. I:80-81</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. I. Holmes’s The Height of the Ridiculous, 8-Pt. I:118-119<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Last Leaf, 14:167-168</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The One-Hoss Shay, 11:236-241</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. I. Morley’s Haunting Beauty of Strychnine, 9-Pt. I:135<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Guiterman’s Strictly Germ-Proof, 7-Pt. I:141</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Burgess’s Lazy Roof, 8-Pt. I:149</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. My Feet, 8-Pt. I:149</span><br /> + +</p><p>29th. ÉMILE ZOLA, d. 29 S. 1902<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Death of Olivier Bécaille, 21-Pt. I:53-93</span><br /> + +</p><p>30th. I. Lowell’s Without and Within, 8-Pt. II:72-73<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. She Came and Went, 15:134</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Sower, 14:144-145</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Sonnets, 13:251-253</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. What Rabbi Jehosha Said, 14:282-283</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">If you are reading a piece of thoroughly good literature, Baron +Rothschild may possibly be as well occupied as you—he is certainly not +better occupied.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—P. G. HAMERTON.</span><br /> + +</p><p>OCTOBER 1ST TO 7TH</p> + + +<p>1st. LOUIS UNTERMYER, b. 1 O. 1885<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Only of Thee and Me, 12:339</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Morris’s October, 14:105-106</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Bunner’s Candor, 8-Pt. I:11-12</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. French Fleet destroyed off Boston, October, 1746<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Longfellow’s Ballad of the French Fleet, 10:202-204</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Mrs. Browning’s Sleep, 15:21-23</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Romance of the Swan’s Nest, 10:79-83</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. A Dead Rose, 12:191-192</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. A Man’s Requirements, 12:192-194</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. WILLIAM MORRIS, d. 3 0. 1896<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Summer Dawn, 12:172</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Nymph’s Song to Hylas, 12:173-174</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Voice of Toil, 12:290-292</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Shameful Death, 10:277-279</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. HENRY CAREY, d. 4 O. 1743<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Sally in Our Alley, 12:142-144</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Van Dyke’s The Proud Lady, 10:296</span><br /> + +</p><p>5th. I. Poe’s Ulalume, II:302-306<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Arnold’s The Last Word, 15:43</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. A Nameless Epitaph, 15:48</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Thyrsis, 15:86-97</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Requiescat, 15:120-121</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. GEORGE HENRY BOKER, b. 6 O. 1893<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Black Regiment, 10:207-210</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lamb’s Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:129-132</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:136-143</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:143-145</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, d. 7 O. 1586<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Bargain, 12:87</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Astrophel and Stella, 13:178-180</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. To Sir Philip Sidney’s Soul, 13:181</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">EDGAR ALLAN POE, d. 7 O. 1849</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Pt. I:1-53</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">A little before you go to sleep read something that is exquisite and +worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall asleep.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—ERASMUS.</span><br /> + +</p><p>OCTOBER 8TH TO 14TH</p> + + +<p>8th. JOHN HAY, b. 8 O. 1838<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Little Breeches, 7-Pt. I:45-47</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, b. 8 0. 1833.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Diamond Wedding, 7-Pt. I:107-114</span><br /> + +</p><p>9th. S. W. GILLILAN, b. O. 1869<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Finnigin to Flannigan, 9-Pt. I:92-93</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Dunne’s On Expert Testimony, 9-Pt. II:13-16</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Work and Sport, 9-Pt. II:87-92</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Avarice and Generosity, 9-Pt. II:144-146</span><br /> + +</p><p>10th. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, d. 10 0. 1872<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Lincoln’s Letter to Seward, 5-Pt. I:111-112</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Walker’s Medicine Show, 18:213</span><br /> + +</p><p>11th. I. Keats’s To Autumn, 13:142-143<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Carew’s Epitaph, 15:48</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Disdain Returned, 12:133-134</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Song, 12:134</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. To His Inconstant Mistress, 12:135</span><br /> + +</p><p>12th. ROBERT E. LEE, d. 12 O. 1870<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Robert E. Lee, 16-Pt. II:62-73</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">DINAH MULOCK CRAIK, d. 12 O. 1887.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True 12:310-311</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. SIR HENRY IRVING, d. 13 O. 1905<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Sir Henry Irving, 17-Pt. II:39-47</span><br /> + +</p><p>14th. JOSH BILLINGS (H. W. SHAW), d. 14 O. 1885<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats, 7-Pt. I:48-51</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. To Correspondents, 9-Pt. I:73-74</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Russell’s Origin of the Banjo, 9-Pt. I:79-82</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">And when a man is at home and happy with a book, sitting by his +fireside, he must be a churl if he does not communicate that happiness. +Let him read now and then to his wife and children.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—H. FRISWELL.</span><br /> + +</p><p>OCTOBER 15TH TO 21ST</p> + + +<p>15th. I. Tennyson’s Tears, Idle Tears, 12:272-273<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Shakespeare’s Over Hill, Over Dale, 12:19</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Poe’s Assignation, 4-Pt. I:81-101</span><br /> + +</p><p>16th. I. Nye’s How to Hunt the Fox, 8-Pt. I:70-78<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Fatal Thirst, 7-Pt. II:148-150</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. On Cyclones, 9-Pt. I:83-85</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, d. 17 O. 1910<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Gloucester Moors, 11:320</span><br /> + +</p><p>18th. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, b. 18 O. 1785<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Three Men of Gotham, 12:257-258</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Shakespeare’s Silvia, 12:91-92</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. O Mistress Mine, 12:92</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Take, O Take Those Lips Away, 12:93</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Love, 12:93-94</span><br /> + +</p><p>19th. LEIGH HUNT, b. 19 O. 1784<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Jenny Kissed Me, 12:158</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Abou Ben Adhem, 11:121-122</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">CORNWALLIS surrendered at Yorktown, 19 O. 1781</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Tennyson’s England and America in 1782, 12:209-210</span><br /> + +</p><p>20th. I. Shakespeare’s The Fairy Life, 12:20<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. When Icicles Hang by the Wall, 12:22</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Fear No More the Heat of the Sun, 15:37</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. A Sea Dirge, 15:38</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, b. 21 0. 1772<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Youth and Age, 14:264-265</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Kubla Khan, 14:80-82</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Thompson’s Arab Love Song, 12:339</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">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.<br /> + +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—ROGER ASCHAM.</span><br /></p> + +<p>OCTOBER 22ND TO 28TH</p> + + +<p>22nd. I. Shakespeare’s Crabbed Age and Youth, 12:94<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. On A Day, Alack the Day, 12:95</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Come Away, Come Away, Death, 12:96</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Rittenhouse’s Ghostly Galley, 13:296</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. O’Hara’s Atropos, 15:199</span><br /> + +</p><p>23rd. I. Townsend’s Chimmie Fadden Makes Friends, 9-Pt. I:105-109<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Tompkins’s Sham, 18:169</span><br /> + +</p><p>24th. I. Tarkington’s Beauty and the Jacobin, 18:19</p> + +<p>25th. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, b 25 O. 1800<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Country Gentlemen, 2-Pt. II:110-119</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Polite Literature, 2-Pt. II:119-132</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">Battle of Balaclava, 25 0. 1854.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, 10:217-219</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Tennyson’s Charge of the Heavy Brigade, 10:219-221</span><br /> + +</p><p>26th. I. Vaughan’s Friends Departed, 15:10-11<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Peace, 15:160-161</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Retreat, 15:161-162</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The World, 14:245-247</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, b. 27 0. 1858<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 16-Pt. II:74-94</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. I. Zola’s Attack on the Mill, 20-Pt. I:47-102</p> + + +<p class="poetry p0">I never think of the name of Gutenberg without feelings of +veneration and homage.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—G. S. PHILLIPS.</span><br /> + +</p><p>OCTOBER 29TH TO NOVEMBER 4TH</p> + + +<p>29th. JOHN KEATS, b. 29 O. 1795<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Ode on a Grecian Urn, 13:137-139</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Eve of St. Agnes, 11:68-83</span><br /> + +</p><p>30th. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER, b. 30 O. 1825<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Doubting Heart, 12:312-313</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Marlowe’s Passionate Shepherd, 12:97-98</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Raleigh’s Her Reply, 12:98-99</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Pilgrimage, 12:314-316</span><br /> + +</p><p>31st. Hallowe’en<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Burns’s Tam O’Shanter, 11:253-260</span><br /> + +</p><p>N. 1st.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Bryant’s The Death of the Flowers, 14:118-120</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Battle-Field, 15:26-28</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Evening Wind, 12:50-52</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. To a Waterfowl, 13:147-148</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. I. Arnold’s Rugby Chapel, 15: 97-104<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Campion’s Cherry-Ripe, 12:103</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Follow Your Saint, 12:103-104</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Vobiscum est Iope, 12:105</span><br /> + +</p><p>3rd. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, b. 3 N. 1794<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Mosquito, 8-Pt. II:58-61</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. To the Fringed Gentian, 14:114-115</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Song of Marion’s Men, 10:199-201</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Forest Hymn, 14:34-38</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. EUGENE FIELD, d. 4 N. 1895<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Baked Beans and Culture, 9-Pt. I:86-89</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Little Peach, 8-Pt. I:86</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Dibdin’s Ghost, 9-Pt. II:44-46</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Dutch Lullaby, 12:250-251</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">To divert myself from a troublesome Fancy ’tis but to run to my +books ... they always receive me with the same kindness.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—MONTAIGNE.</span><br /> + +</p><p>NOVEMBER 5TH TO 11TH</p> + + +<p>5th. I. Lowell’s What Mr. Robinson Thinks, 7-Pt. I:115-117<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Field’s The Truth About Horace, 9-Pt. I:17-18</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Cyclopeedy, 9-Pt. I:127-134</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. HOLMAN F. DAY, b. 6 N. 1865<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Tale of the Kennebec Mariner, 9-Pt. II:10-12</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Grampy Sings a Song, 9-Pt. II:64-66</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Cure for Homesickness, 9-Pt. II:129-130</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Night After Christmas (Anonymous), 9-Pt. I:75-76</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. I. Gibson’s The Fear, 15:216<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Back, 15:216</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Return, 15:217</span><br /> + +</p><p>8th. JOHN MILTON, d. 8 N. 1674<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Sonnets, 13:198-205</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. L’Allegro, 14:9-14</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. On Milton by Dryden, 13:272</span><br /> + +</p><p>9th. I. Lincoln’s Letter to Astor, Roosevelt, and Sands, 9 N. 1863,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">5-Pt. I:119</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Arnold’s Saint Brandan, II:137-140</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Longing, 12:188-189</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Sonnets, 13:253-256</span><br /> + +</p><p>10th. HENRY VAN DYKE, b. 10 N. 1852<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Salute to the Trees, 14:290</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Standard Bearer, 10:307</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">VACHEL LINDSAY, b. 10 N. 1879</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, 14:298</span><br /> + +</p><p>11th. Armistice Day, 11 N. 1918<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Wharton’s The Young Dead, 15:213</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Meynell’s Dead Harvest, 14:292</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Tennyson’s Locksley Hall, 14:223-238</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">We have known Book-love to be independent of the author +and lurk in a few charmed words traced upon the title-page +by a once familiar hand.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—ANONYMOUS.</span><br /> + +</p><p>NOVEMBER 12TH TO 18TH</p> + + +<p>12th. RICHARD BAXTER, b. 12 N. 1615<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. A Hymn of Trust, 15:164-165</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Arnold’s The Future, 14:275-278</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Palladium, 14:278-279</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Forsaken Merman, 11:291-296</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, b. 13 N. 1850<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Robert Louis Stevenson, 17-Pt. I:133-146</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Foreign Lands, 12:248-249</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Requiem, 15:142</span><br /> + +</p><p>14th. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, d. 14 N. 1915<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Booker T. Washington, 17-Pt. I:172-190</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. WILLIAM COWPER, b. 26 N. 1731<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. To Mary, 12:243-245</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Boadicea, 10:181-182</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Verses, 14:221-223</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Diverting History of John Gilpin, 11:241-251</span><br /> + +</p><p>16th. I. Cone’s Ride to the Lady, 10:311<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Hewlett’s Soldier, Soldier, 15:212</span><br /> + +</p><p>17th. Lucknow relieved by Campbell, 17 N. 1857<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Robert Lowell’s The Relief of Lucknow, 11:184-187</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Roberts’s The Maid, 10:305</span><br /> + +</p><p>18th. I. Joseph Conrad, 17-Pt. I:147-166</p> + + +<p class="poetry">Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for +granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—LORD BACON.</span><br /> + +</p><p>NOVEMBER 19TH TO 25TH</p> + + +<p>19th. I. Lincoln’s Gettyburg Address, 5-Pt. I: 107-108</p> + +<p>20th. THOMAS CHATTERTON, b. 20 N. 1752<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Minstrel’s Song, 15:40-41</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE, b. 20 N. 1829</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Irish Astronomy, 8-Pt. II:79-80</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Davis’s The First Piano in a Mining-Camp, 9-Pt. I:34-44</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Dunne’s On Gold Seeking, 9-Pt. I:99-102</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. VOLTAIRE, b. 21 N. 1694<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Jeannot and Colin, 22-Pt. I:1-16</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">BRYAN WALLER PROCTER (Barry Cornwall),</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">b. 21 N. 1787</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Sea, 12:72-73</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Poet’s Song to His Wife, 12:242-243</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. A Petition to Time, 12:252</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. St. Cecilia’s Day, Nov. 22nd.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Dryden’s Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 13:61-63</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. O May I Join the Choir Invisible, 15:185-186</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">JACK LONDON, d. 22 N. 1916</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Jan the Unrepentant, 22-Pt. II:136</span><br /> + +</p><p>23rd. I. Carryl’s The Walloping Window Blind, 9-Pt. II:35-36<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Marble’s The Hoosier and the Salt-pile, 8-Pt. II:62-67</span><br /> + +</p><p>24th. I. Arnold’s Growing Old, 14:281-282<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Lyly’s Spring’s Welcome, 12:15</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Cupid and Campaspe, 12:86</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Lindsay’s Auld Robin Gray, 10:30-32</span><br /> + +</p><p>25th. I. Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker, 3-Pt. II:37-57</p> + +<p class="poetry"> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Montaigne with his sheepskin blistered,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">And Howell the worse for wear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">And the worm-drilled Jesuit’s Horace,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">And the little old cropped Molière—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">And the Burton I bought for a florin,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">And the Rabelais foxed and flea’d—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">For the others I never have opened,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">But those are the ones I read.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—AUSTIN DOBSON.</span></p> + +<p>NOVEMBER 26th TO DECEMBER 2ND</p> + + +<p>26th. COVENTRY PATMORE, d. 26 N. 1896<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. To the Unknown Eros, 13:169-171</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Toys, 15:140-141</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Lamb’s The Old Familiar Faces, 15:73-74</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Hester, 15:75-76</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. I. Wordsworth’s Influence of Natural Objects, 14:251-253<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">RIDGELEY TORRENCE, b. 27 N. 1875</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Torrence’s Evensong, 12:346</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Burt’s Resurgam, 13:292</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. WILLIAM BLAKE, b. 28 N. 1757<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Tiger, 12:42-43</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Piping Down the Valleys, 12:246</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Golden Door, 15:172</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">WASHINGTON IRVING. d. 28 N. 1859</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Rip Van Winkle, 19-Pt. II:71-96</span><br /> + +</p><p>29th. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, b. 29 N. 1832<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Street Scenes in Washington, 8-Pt. II:74-76</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">JOHN G. NEIHARDT, married 29 N. 1908</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Envoi, 15:200</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Cheney’s Happiest Heart, 14:318</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Dargan’s There’s Rosemary, 13:287</span><br /> + +</p><p>30th. SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (Mark Twain), b. 30 N. 1835<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Colonel Mulberry Sellers, 7-Pt. II:31-40</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Notorious Jumping Frog, 7-Pt. I:122-131</span><br /> + +</p><p>D. 1st.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Keats’s In a Drear-Nighted December, 12:268</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Gray’s Progress of Poesy, 13:76-80</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Doyle’s Private of the Buffs, 11:284-285</span><br /> + +</p><p>2nd. I. Lowell’s The First Snow-Fail, 15:135-136<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Daniel’s Love Is a Sickness, 12:108</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Delia, 13:181-182</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Darley’s Song, 12:170-171</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">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.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—MACHIAVELLI.</span><br /> + +</p><p>DECEMBER 3RD TO 9TH</p> + + +<p>3rd. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, b. 3 D. 1826<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Lincoln’s Letter to McClellan, 5-Pt. I:109-110</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">Battle of Hohenlinden, 3 D. 1800</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Campbell’s Hohenlinden, 10:188-189</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">ROBERT Louis STEVENSON, d. 3 D. 1894</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Providence and the Guitar, 19-Pt. II: 96-138</span><br /> + +</p><p>4th. I. Sudermann’s The Gooseherd, 20-Pt. II:62-74</p> + +<p>5th. CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI, b. 5 D. 1830<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. One Certainty, 13:265</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Up-Hill, 12:322-323</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Hayne’s In Harbor, 15:142-143</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon, 13:265-266</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Goldsmith’s When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly, 13:273</span><br /> + +</p><p>6th. R. H. BARHAM, b. 6 D. 1788<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Jackdaw of Rheims, 11:173-179</span><br /> + +</p><p>7th. CALE YOUNG RICE, b. 7 D. 1872<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Chant of the Colorado, 14:291</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, b. 7 D. 1784</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, 12:73-74</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Hame, Hame, Hame, 12:309-310</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Bailey’s After the Funeral, 8-Pt. I:42-44</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. What He Wanted It For, 9-Pt. I:90-91</span><br /> + +</p><p>8th. I. A Visit to Brigham Young, 9-Pt. I:47-52</p> + +<p>9th. STEPHEN PHILLIPS, d. 9 D. 1915<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Harold before Senlac, 14:315</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the +greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasures that God has +prepared for his creatures.... It lasts when all other pleasures fade.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—TROLLOPE.</span><br /> + +</p><p>DECEMBER 10TH TO 16TH</p> + + +<p>10th. EMILY DICKINSON, b. 10 D. 1830<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Our Share of Night to Bear, 13:282</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Heart, We Will Forget Him, 13:282</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Ruskin’s Mountain Glory, 1-Pt. II:59-69</span><br /> + +</p><p>11th. I. Webster’s Reply to Hayne, 6-Pt. I:63-105</p> + +<p>12th. I. Herford’s Gold, 9-Pt. II:9<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Child’s Natural History, 9-Pt. II:37-39</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Metaphysics, 9-Pt. II:128</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The End of the World, 9-Pt. I:120-122</span><br /> + +</p><p>13th. WILLIAM DRUMMOND, b. 13 D. 1585<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Invocation, 12:24-25</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. “I Know That All Beneath the Moon Decays,” 13:196-197</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. For the Baptist, 13:197</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. To His Lute, 13:198</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Browne’s The Siren’s Song, 12:23</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VI. A Welcome, 12:111-112</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">VII. My Choice, 12:112-113</span><br /> + +</p><p>14th. CHARLES WOLFE, b. 14 D. 1791<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Burial of Sir John Moore, 15:31-33</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Clough’s In a Lecture Room, 14:272</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Qua Cursum Ventus, 12:317-318</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Davis’s Souls, 14:317</span><br /> + +</p><p>15th. I. Mrs. Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, 13:232-239</p> + +<p>16th. GEORGE SANTAYANA, b. 16 D. 1863<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. “As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room,” 13:287</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. MacMillan’s Shadowed Star, 18:273</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">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 divertisement at home.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—THOMAS FULLER.</span><br /> + +</p><p>DECEMBER 17TH TO 23RD</p> + + +<p>17th. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, b. 17 D. 1807<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Amy Wentworth, 10:53-56</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Barefoot Boy, 14:169-172</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. My Psalm, 15:180-191</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. The Eternal Goodness, 15:192-196</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">V. Telling the Bees, 11:308-310</span><br /> + +</p><p>18th. PHILIP FRENEAU, d. 18 D. 1832<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Wild Honeysuckle, 14:113-114</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">L. G. C. A. CHATRIAN, b. 18 D. 1826</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Comet, 20-Pt. II:104-114</span><br /> + +</p><p>19th. BAYARD TAYLOR, d. 19 D. 1878<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Palabras Grandiosas, 9-Pt. I:58</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Bedouin Love Song, 12:174-175</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. The Song of the Camp, 11:288-290</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. W. B. Scott’s Glenkindie, 10:48-51</span><br /> + +</p><p>20th. I. Ford’s The Society Reporter’s Christmas, 8-Pt. I:57-65<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. The Dying Gag, 9-Pt. II:119-122</span><br /> + +</p><p>21st. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, d. 21 D. 1375<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. The Falcon, 20-Pt. II:1-11</span><br /> + +</p><p>22nd. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, b. 22 D. 1869<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Miniver Cheevy, 7-Pt. I:147</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Vickery’s Mountain, 14:303</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Richard Cory, 14:309</span><br /> + +</p><p>23rd. MICHAEL DRAYTON, d. 23 D. 1631<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Idea, 13:182</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Agincourt, 10:176-181</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Stevenson’s The Whaups, 12:70</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Youth and Love, 12:231</span><br /> + + +</p><p class="poetry">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.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">—JOHN RUSKIN.</span><br /> + +</p><p>DECEMBER 24TH TO 31ST</p> + + +<p>24th. Christmas Eve<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Guiney’s Tryste Noël, 15:202</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Rossetti’s My Sister’s Sleep, 15:137-139</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">MATTHEW ARNOLD, b. 24 D. 1822</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Dover Beach, 14:279-280</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Philomela, 12:56-57</span><br /> + +</p><p>25th. I. Milton’s Ode on The Morning of Christ’s Nativity, 13:42-43<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Thackeray’s The Mahogany Tree, 12:252-254</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Thackeray’s The End of the Play, 14:283-286</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Domett’s A Christmas Hymn, 15:178-179</span><br /> + +</p><p>26th. THOMAS GRAY, b. 26 D. 1716<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Elegy, 15:12-17</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Ode to Adversity, 13:70-72</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 13:72-76</span><br /> + +</p><p>27th. CHARLES LAMB, d. 27 D. 1834<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Landor’s To the Sister of Elia, 15:76-77</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, 5-Pt. II:40-51</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading, 5-Pt. II 70-79</span><br /> + +</p><p>28th. I. Hawthorne’s The Birthmark, 3-Pt. I:23-51</p> + +<p>29th. JOHN VANCE CHENEY, b,. 29 D. 1848<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Cheney’s Happiest Heart, 14:318</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Emerson’s Terminus, 14:267-268</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Clough’s Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, 14:272-273</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Lamb’s Old Familiar Faces, 15:73-74</span><br /> + +</p><p>30th. RUDYARD KIPLING, b. 30 D. 1865<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I. Without Benefit of Clergy, 19-Pt. I:54-89</span><br /> + +</p><p>31st. I. Shelley’s The World’s Great Age Begins Anew, 12:284-286<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">II. Burns’s Auld Lang Syne, 12:261-262</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">III. Lowell’s To the Past, 13:161-163</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IV. Lamb’s New Year’s Eve, 5-Pt. 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LYMAN ABBOTT, +ASA DON DICKINSON +AND OTHERS + + + + +CONTENTS + + +BOOKS FOR STUDY AND READING +By Lyman Abbott + +THE PURPOSE OF READING +By John Macy + +How TO GET THE BEST Out OF BOOKS +By Richard Le Gallienne + +THE GUIDE TO DAILY READING +By Asa Don Dickinson + +GENERAL INDEX OF AUTHORS + +GENERAL INDEX OF TITLES + + + + +THE POCKET UNIVERSITY +Books for Study and Reading +BY LYMAN ABBOTT + + +There are three services which books may render in the home: they may +be ornaments, tools, or friends. + +I was told a few years ago the following story which is worth retelling +as an illustration of the use of books as ornaments. A millionaire who +had one house in the city, one in the mountains, and one in the South, +wished to build a fourth house on the seashore. A house ought to have a +library. Therefore this new house was to have a library. When the house +was finished he found the library shelves had been made so shallow that +they would not take books of an ordinary size. His architect proposed +to change the bookshelves. The millionaire did not wish the change +made, but told his architect to buy fine bindings of classical books +and glue them into the shelves. The architect on making inquiries +discovered that the bindings would cost more than slightly shop-worn +editions of the books themselves. So the books were bought, cut in two +from top to bottom about in the middle, one half thrown away, and the +other half replaced upon the shelves that the handsome backs presented +the same appearance they would have presented if the entire book had +been there. Then the glass doors were locked, the key to the glass +doors lost, and sofas and chairs and tables put against them. Thus the +millionaire has his library furnished with handsome bindings and these +I may add are quite adequate for all the use which he wishes to make of +them. + +This is a rather extreme case of the use of books as ornaments, but it +illustrates in a bizarre way what is a not uncommon use. There is this +to be said for that illiterate millionaire: well-bound books are +excellent ornaments. No decoration with wall paper or fresco can make a +parlor as attractive as it can be made with low bookshelves filled with +works of standard authors and leaving room above for statuary, or +pictures, or the inexpensive decoration of flowers picked from one's +own garden. I am inclined to think that the most attractive parlor I +have ever visited is that of a bookish friend whose walls are thus +furnished with what not only delights the eye, but silently invites the +mind to an inspiring companionship. + +More important practically than their use as ornaments is the use of +books as tools. Every professional man needs his special tools--the +lawyer his law books, the doctor his medical books, the minister his +theological treatises and his Biblical helps. I can always tell when I +go into a clergyman's study by looking at his books whether he is +living in the Twentieth Century or in the Eighteenth. Tools do not make +the man, but they make his work and so show what the man is. + +Every home ought to have some books that are tools and the children +should be taught how to use them. There should be at least an atlas, a +dictionary, and an encyclopdia. If in the evening when the family talk +about the war in the Balkans the father gets out the atlas and the +children look to see where Roumania and Bulgaria and Greece and +Constantinople and the Dardanelles are on the map, they will learn more +of real geography in half an hour than they will learn in a week of +school study concerning countries in which they have no interest. When +there is reading aloud in the family circle, if every unfamiliar word +is looked up in a dictionary, which should always lie easily accessible +upon the table, they will get unconsciously a widening of their +vocabulary and a knowledge of the use of English which will be an +invaluable supplement to the work of their teacher of English in the +school. As to cyclopdias they are of all sizes from the little six- +volumed cyclopdia in the Everyman's Library to the twenty-nine volumed +Encyclopdia Britannica, and from the general cyclopdia with more or +less full information on every conceivable topic to the more +distinctive family cyclopdia which covers the life of the household. +Where there are children in the family the cyclopdia which covers the +field they are most apt to be interested in--such as "The Library of +Work & Play" or "The Guide Series" to biography, music, pictures, etc. +--is the best one to begin with. After they have learned to go to it for +information which they want, they will desire a more general cyclopdia +because their wants have increased and broadened. + +So much for books as ornaments and as tools. Certainly not less +important, if comparisons can be made I am inclined to say more +important, is their usefulness as friends. + +In Smith College this distinction is marked by the College authorities +in an interesting and valuable manner. In the library building there is +a room for study. It is furnished with a number of plain oak or walnut +tables and with chairs which do not invite to repose. There are +librarians present to get from the stacks the special books which the +student needs. The room is barren of ornament. Each student is hard at +--work examining, comparing, collating. She is to be called on to-morrow +in class to tell what she has learned, or next week to hand in a thesis +the product of her study. All eyes are intent upon the allotted task; +no one looks up to see you when you enter. In the same building is +another room which I will call The Lounge, though I think it bears a +different name. The books are upon shelves around the wall and all are +within easy reach. Many of them are fine editions. A wood fire is +burning in the great fireplace. The room is furnished with sofas and +easy chairs. No one is at work. No one is talking. No! but they are +listening--listening to authors whose voices have long since been +silent in death. + +In every home there ought to be books that are friends. In every day, +at least in every week, there ought to be some time which can be spent +in cultivating their friendship. This is reading, and reading is very +different from study. + +The student has been at work all the morning with his tools. He has +been studying a question of Constitutional Law: What are the powers of +the President of the United States? He has examined the Constitution; +then Willoughby or Watson on the Constitution; then he turns to The +Federalist; then perhaps to the Constitutional debates, or to the +histories, such as Von Holst's Constitutional History of the United +States, or to treatises, such as Bryce's American Commonwealth. He +compares the different opinions, weighs them, deliberates, endeavors to +reach a decision. Wearied with his morning pursuit of truth through a +maze of conflicting theories, he puts his tools by and goes to dinner. +In the evening he sits down in the same library for an hour with his +friends. He selects his friend according to his mood. Macaulay carries +him back across the centuries and he lives for an hour with The +Puritans or with Dr. Samuel Johnson. Carlyle carries him unharmed for +an hour through the exciting scenes of the French Revolution; or he +chuckles over the caustic humor of Thackeray's semi-caricatures of +English snobs. With Jonathan Swift as a guide he travels with Gulliver +into no-man's land and visits Lilliput or Brobdingnag; or Oliver +Goldsmith enables him to forget the strenuous life of America by taking +him to "The Deserted Village." He joins Charles Lamb's friends, listens +to the prose-poet's reveries on Dream-Children, then closes his eyes +and falls into a reverie of his own childhood days; or he spends an +hour with Tennyson, charmed by his always musical but not often virile +verse, or with Browning, inspired by his always virile but often rugged +verse, or with Milton or Dante, and forgets this world altogether, with +its problems and perplexities, convoyed to another realm by these +spiritual guides; or he turns to the autobiography of one of the great +men of the past, telling of his achievements, revealing his doubts and +difficulties, his self-conflicts and self-victories, and so inspiring +the reader to make his own life sublime. Or one of the great scientists +may interpret to him the wonders of nature and thrill him with the +achievements of man in solving some of the riddles of the universe and +winning successive mastery over its splendid forces. + +It is true that no dead thing is equal to a living person. The one +afternoon I spent in John G. Whittier's home, the one dinner I took +with Professor Tyndall in his London home, the one half hour which +Herbert Spencer gave to me at his Club, mean more to me than any equal +time spent in reading the writings of either one of them. These +occasions of personal fellowship abide in the memory as long as life +lasts. This I say with emphasis that what I say next may not be +misunderstood--that there is one respect in which the book is the best +of possible friends. You do not need to decide beforehand what friend +you will invite to spend the evening with you. When supper is over and +you sit down by the evening lamp for your hour of companionship, you +give your invitation according to your inclination at the time. And if +you have made a mistake, and the friend you have invited is not the one +you want to talk to, you can "shut him up" and not hurt his feelings. +Remarkable is the friend who speaks only when you want to listen and +can keep silence when you want silence. Who is there who has not been +sometimes bored by a good friend who went on talking when you wanted to +reflect on what he had already said? Who is there who has not had his +patience well nigh exhausted at times by a friend whose enthusiasm for +his theme appeared to be quite inexhaustible? A book never bores you +because you can always lay it down before it becomes a bore. + +Most families can do with a few books that are tools. In these days in +which there is a library in almost every village, the family that has +an atlas, a dictionary, and a cyclopdia can look to the public library +for such other tools as are necessary. And we can depend on the library +or the book club for books that are mere acquaintances--the current +book about current events, the books that are read to-day and forgotten +to-morrow, leaving only a residuum in our memory, the book that, once +read, we never expect to read again. In my own home this current +literature is either borrowed and returned or, if purchased, as soon as +it has been used is passed along to neighbors or to the village +library. Its room is better than its company on my over-crowded book +shelves. + +But books that are friends ought to abide in the home. The very form of +the book grows familiar; a different edition, even a different copy, +does not quite serve the same friendly purpose. If the reader is wise +he talks to his friend as well as listens to him and adds in pencil +notes, in the margin or on the back pages of the book, his own +reflections. I take up these books marked with the indications of my +conversation with my friend and in these pencilled memoranda find an +added value. Sometimes the mark emphasizes an agreement between my +friend and me, sometimes it emphasizes a disagreement, and sometimes it +indicates the progress in thought I have made since last we met. A +wisely marked book is sometimes doubled in value by the marking. + +Before I bring this essay to a close, already lengthened beyond my +predetermined limits, I venture to add four rules which may be of value +at least to the casual reader. + +For reading, select the book which suits your inclination. In study it +is wise to make your will command your mind and go on with your task +however unattractive it may prove to you. You may be a Hamiltonian, and +Jefferson's views of the Constitution may repel you, or even bore you. +No matter. Go on. Scholarship requires persistence in study of matter +that repels or even bores the student. You may be a devout believer and +Herbert Spencer repellent. Nevertheless, if you are studying you may +need to master Herbert Spencer. But if you are reading, read what +interests you. If Scott does not interest you and Dickens does, drop +Scott and read Dickens. You need not be any one's enemy; but you need +not be a friend with everybody. This is as true of books as of persons. +For friendship some agreement in temperament is quite essential. + +Henry Ward Beecher's application of this principle struck me as +interesting and unique. He did a great deal of his reading on the train +in his lecture tours. His invariable companion was a black bag and the +black bag always contained some books. As I am writing from +recollection of a conversation with him some sixty years ago my +statement may lack in accuracy of detail, but not, I think, in +essential veracity. He selected in the beginning of the year some four +departments of reading, such as Poetry, History, Philosophy, Fiction, +and in each department a specific course, such as Greek Poetry, +Macaulay's History, Spencer's Philosophy, Scott's Novels. Then he read +according to his mood, but generally in the selected course: if poetry, +the Greek poets; if history, Macaulay; if philosophy, Spencer; if +fiction, Scott. This gave at once liberty to his mood and unity to his +reading. + +One may read either for acquisition or for inspiration. A gentleman who +has acquired a national reputation as a popular lecturer and preacher, +formed the habit, when in college, of always subjecting himself to a +recitation in all his serious reading. After finishing a chapter he +would close the book and see how much of what he had read he could +recall. One consequence is the development of a quite marvelous memory, +the results of which are seen in frequent and felicitous references in +his public speaking to literature both ancient and modern. + +He who reads for inspiration pursues a different course. If as he +reads, a thought expressed by his author starts a train of thought in +his own mind, he lays down his book and follows his thought wherever it +may lead him. He endeavors to remember, not the thought which the +author has recorded, but the unrecorded thought which the author has +stimulated in his own mind. Reading is to him not an acquisition but a +ferment. I imagine from my acquaintance with Phillips Brooks and with +his writings that this was his method. + +I have a friend who says that he prefers to select his authors for +himself, not to have them selected for him. But he has money with which +to buy the books he wants, a room in which to put them, and the broad +culture which enables him to make a wise selection. Most of us lack one +at least of these qualifications: the money, the space, or the +knowledge. For most of us a library for the home, selected as this +Pocket Library has been has three great advantages: the cost is not +prohibitive; the space can easily be made in out home for the books; +and the selection is more wisely made than any we could make for +ourselves. For myself I should be very glad to have the editors of this +series come into my library, which is fairly large but sadly needs +weeding out, give me a literary appraisal of my books, and tell me what +volumes in their respective departments they think I could best +dispense with to make room for their betters, and what their betters +would be. + +To these considerations in favor of such a home library as this, may be +added the fact that the books are of such a size that one can easily +put a volume in his pocket when he is going on a train or in a trolley +car. For busy men and women often the only time for reading is the time +which too many of us are apt to waste in doing nothing. + +Perhaps the highest use of good books is their use as friends. Such a +wisely selected group of friends as this library furnishes is an +invaluable addition to any home which receives it and knows how to make +wise use of it. I am glad to have the privilege of introducing it and +hope that this introduction may add to the number of homes in which it +will find a welcome. + + + + +THE PURPOSE OF READING + +BY JOHN MACY + + +Why do we read books is one of those vast questions that need no +answer. As well ask, Why ought we to be good? or, Why do we believe in +a God? The whole universe of wisdom answers. To attempt an answer in a +single article would be like turning a spyglass for a moment toward the +stars. We take the great simple things for granted, like the air we +breathe. In a country that holds popular education to be the foundation +of all its liberties and fortunes, we do not find many people who need +to be argued into the belief that the reading of books is good for us; +even people who do not read much acknowledge vaguely that they ought to +read more. + +There are, to be sure, men of rough worldly wisdom, even endowed with +spiritual insight, who distrust "book learning" and fall back on the +obvious truth that experience of life is the great teacher. Such +persons are in a measure justified in their conviction by the number of +unwise human beings who have read much but to no purpose. + +The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, +With loads of learned lumber in his head + +is a living argument against mere reading. But we can meet such +argument by pointing out that the blockhead who cannot learn from books +cannot learn much from life, either. That sometimes useful citizen whom +it is fashionable to call a Philistine, and who calls himself a +"practical man," often has under him a beginner fresh from the schools, +who is glib and confident in repeating bookish theories, but is not yet +skillful in applying them. If the practical man is thoughtless, he +sniffs at theory and points to his clumsy assistant as proof of the +uselessness of what is to be got from books. If he is wise, the +practical man realizes how much better off he would be, how much +farther his hard work and experience might have carried him, if he had +had the advantage of bookish training. + +Moreover, the hard-headed skeptic, self-made and self-secure, who will +not traffic with the literature that touches his life work, is seldom +so confined to his own little shop that he will not, for recreation, +take holiday tours into the literature of other men's lives and labors. +The man who does not like to read any books is, I am confident, seldom +found, and at the risk of slandering a patriot, I will express the +doubt whether he is a good citizen. Honest he may be, but certainly not +wise. The human race for thousands of years has been writing its +experiences, telling how it has met our everlasting problems, how it +has struggled with darkness and rejoiced in light. What fools we should +be to try to live our lives without the guidance and inspiration of the +generations that have gone before, without the joy, encouragement, and +sympathy that the best imaginations of our generation are distilling +into words. For literature is simply life selected and condensed into +books. In a few hours we can follow all that is recorded of the life of +Jesus--the best that He did in years of teaching and suffering all ours +for a day of reading, and the more deeply ours for a lifetime of +reading and meditation! + +If the expression of life in words is strong and beautiful and true it +outlives empires, like the oldest books of the Old Testament. If it is +weak or trivial or untrue, it is forgotten like most of the "stories" +in yesterday's newspaper, like most of the novels of last year. The +expression of truth, the transmission of knowledge and emotions between +man and man from generation to generation, these are the purposes of +literature. Not to read books is like being shut up in a dungeon while +life rushes by outside. + +I happen to be writing in Christmas week, and I have read for the tenth +time "A Christmas Carol," by Dickens, that amazing allegory in which +the hard, bitter facts of life are involved in a beautiful myth, that +wizard's caldron in which humor bubbles and from which rise phantom +figures of religion and poetry. Can any one doubt that if this story +were read by every man, woman, and child in the world, Christmas would +be a happier time and the feelings of the race elevated and +strengthened? The story has power enough to defeat armies, to make +revolutions in the faith of men, and turn the cold markets of the world +into festival scenes of charity. If you know any mean person you may be +sure that he has not read "A Christmas Carol," or that he read it long +ago and has forgotten it. I know there are persons who pretend that the +sentimentality of Dickens destroys their interest in him. I once took a +course with an over-refined, imperfectly educated professor of +literature, who advised me that in time I should outgrow my liking for +Dickens. It was only his way of recommending to me a kind of fiction +that I had not learned to like. In time I did learn to like it, but I +did not outgrow Dickens. A person who can read "A Christmas Carol" +aloud to the end and keep his voice steady is, I suspect, not a safe +person to trust with one's purse or one's honor. + +It is not necessary to argue about the value of literature or even to +define it. One way of bringing ourselves to realize vividly what +literature can do for us is to enter the libraries of great men and see +what books have done for the acknowledged leaders of our race. + +You will recall John Stuart Mill's experience in reading Wordsworth. +Mill was a man of letters as well as a scientific economist and +philosopher, and we expect to find that men of letters have been +nourished on literature; reading must necessarily have been a large +part of their professional preparation. The examples of men of action +who have been molded and inspired by books will perhaps be more helpful +to remember; for most of us are not to be writers or to engage in +purely intellectual work; our ambitions point to a thousand different +careers in the world of action. + +Lincoln was not primarily a man of letters, although he wrote noble +prose on occasion, and the art of expression was important, perhaps +indispensable, in his political success. He read deeply in the law and +in books on public questions. For general literature he had little +time, either during his early struggles or after his public life began, +and his autobiographical memorandum contains the significant words: +"Education defective." But these more significant words are found in a +letter which he wrote to Hackett, the player: "Some of Shakespeare's +plays I have never read, while others I have gone over perhaps as +frequently as any unprofessional reader. Among the latter are 'Lear,' +'Richard III,' 'Henry VIII,' 'Hamlet,' and, especially, 'Macbeth.'" + +If he had not read these masterpieces, no doubt he would have become +President just the same and guided the country through its terrible +difficulties; but we may be fairly sure that the high philosophy by +which he lifted the political differences of his day above partisan +quarrels, the command of words which gives his letters and speeches +literary permanence apart from their biographical interest, the poetic +exaltation of the Gettysburg Address, these higher qualities of genius, +beyond the endowment of any native wit, came to Lincoln in some part +from the reading of books. It is important to note that he followed +Franklin's advice to read much but not too many books; the list of +books mentioned in the biographical records of Lincoln is not long. But +he went over those half dozen plays "frequently." We should remember, +too, that he based his ideals upon the Bible and his style upon the +King James Version. His writings abound in Biblical phrases. + +We are accustomed to regard Lincoln as a thinker. His right arm in the +saddest duty of his life, General Grant, was a man of deeds; as Lincoln +said of him, he was a "copious worker and fighter, but a very meager +writer and telegrapher." In his "Memoirs," Grant makes a modest +confession about his reading: + +"There is a fine library connected with the Academy [West Point] from +which cadets can get books to read in their quarters. I devoted more +time to these than to books relating to the course of studies. Much of +the time, I am sorry to say, was devoted to novels, but not those of a +trashy sort. I read all of Bulwer's then published, Cooper's, +Marryat's, Scott's, Washington Irving's works, Lever's, and many others +that I do not now remember." + +Grant was not a shining light in his school days, nor indeed in his +life until the Civil War, and at first sight he is not a striking +example of a great man influenced by books. Yet who can deny that the +fruit of that early reading is to be found in his "Memoirs," in which a +man of action, unused to writing, and called upon to narrate great +events, discovers an easy adequate style? There is a dangerous kind of +conjecture in which many biographers indulge when they try to relate +logically the scattered events of a man's life. A conjectured relation +is set down as a proved or unquestioned relation. I have said something +about this in [Footnote: See John Macy's Guide to Reading, Chapter +VIII.] writing on biography, and I do not wish to violate my own +teachings. But we may, without harm, hazard the suggestion, which is +only a suggestion, that some of the chivalry of Scott's heroes wove +itself into Grant's instincts and inspired this businesslike, modern +general, in the days when politeness has lost some of its flourish, to +be the great gentleman he was at Appomattox when he quietly wrote into +the terms of the surrender that the Confederate officers should keep +their side arms. Stevenson's account of the episode in his essay on +"Gentlemen" is heightened, though not above the dignity of the facts, +certainly not to a degree that is untrue to the facts, as they are to +be read in Grant's simple narrative. Since I have agreed not to say +"ought to read," I will only express the hope that the quotation from +Stevenson will lead you to the essay and to the volume that contains +it. + +"On the day of the capitulation, Lee wore his presentation sword; it +was the first thing that Grant observed, and from that moment he had +but one thought: how to avoid taking it. A man, who should perhaps have +had the nature of an angel, but assuredly not the special virtues of a +gentleman, might have received the sword, and no more words about it; +he would have done well in a plain way. One who wished to be a +gentleman, and knew not how, might have received and returned it: he +would have done infamously ill, he would have proved himself a cad; +taking the stage for himself, leaving to his adversary confusion of +countenance and the ungraceful posture of a man condemned to offer +thanks. Grant without a word said, added to the terms this article: +'All officers to retain their side arms'; and the problem was solved +and Lee kept his sword, and Grant went down to posterity, not perhaps a +fine gentleman, but a great one." + +Napoleon, who of all men of mighty deeds after Julius Caesar had the +greatest intellect, was a tireless reader, and since he needed only +four or five hours' sleep in twenty-four he found time to read in the +midst of his prodigious activities. Nowadays those of us who are +preparing to conquer the world are taught to strengthen ourselves for +the task by getting plenty of sleep. Napoleon's devouring eyes read far +into the night; when he was in the field his secretaries forwarded a +stream of books to his headquarters; and if he was left without a new +volume to begin, some underling had to bear his imperial displeasure. +No wonder that his brain contained so many ideas that, as the sharp- +tongued poet, Heine, said, one of his lesser thoughts would keep all +the scholars and professors in Germany busy all their lives making +commentaries on it. + +In Franklin's "Autobiography" we have an unusually clear statement of +the debt of a man of affairs to literature: "From a child I was fond of +reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid +out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first +collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.... My +father's little library consisted chiefly of books on polemic divinity, +most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time +when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not +fallen in my way, since it was now resolved that I should not be a +clergyman. 'Plutarch's Lives' there was in which I read abundantly, and +I still think that time spent to great advantage. There was also a book +of De Foe's, called an 'Essay on Projects,' and another of Dr. +Mather's, called 'Essays to do Good,' which perhaps gave me a turn of +thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events +of my life." + +It is not surprising to find that the most versatile of versatile +Americans read De Foe's "Essay on Projects," which contains practical +suggestions on a score of subjects, from banking and insurance to +national academics. In Cotton Mather's "Essays to do Good" is the germ +perhaps of the sensible morality of Franklin's "Poor Richard." The +story of how Franklin pave his nights to the study of Addison and by +imitating the Spectator papers taught himself to write, is the +best of lessons in self-cultivation in English. The "Autobiography" is +proof of how well he learned, not Addison's style, which was suited to +Joseph Addison and not to Benjamin Franklin, but a clear, firm manner +of writing. In Franklin's case we can see not only what he owed to +books, but how one side of his fine, responsive mind was starved +because, as he put it, more proper books did not fall in his way. The +blind side of Franklin's great intellect was his lack of religious +imagination. This defect may be accounted for by the forbidding nature +of the religious books in his father's library. Repelled by the dull +discourses, the young man missed the religious exaltation and poetic +mysticism which the New England divines concealed in their polemic +argument. Franklin's liking for Bunyan and his confession that his +father's discouragement kept him from being a poet--"most probably," he +says, "a very bad one"--show that he would have responded to the right +kind of religious literature, and not have remained all his life such a +complacent rationalist. + +If it is clear that the purpose of reading is to put ourselves in +communication with the best minds of our race, we need go no farther +for a definition of "good reading." Whatever human beings hare said +well is literature, whether it be the Declaration of Independence or a +love story. Reading consists in nothing more than in taking one of the +volumes in which somebody has said something well, opening it on one's +knee, and beginning. + +We take it for granted, then, that we know why we read. We may ask one +further question: How shall we read? One answer is that we should read +with as much of ourselves as a book warrants, with the part of +ourselves that a book demands. Mrs. Browning says: + + We get no good + By being ungenerous, even to a book, + And calculating profits--so much help + By so much reading. It is rather when + We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge + Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, + Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- + 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. + +We sometimes know exactly what we wish to get from a book, especially +if it is a volume of information on a definite subject. But the great +book is full of treasures that one does not deliberately seek, and +which indeed one may miss altogether on the first journey through. It +is almost nonsensical to say: Read Macaulay for clearness, Carlyle for +power, Thackeray for ease. Literary excellence is not separated and +bottled up in any such drug-shop array. If Macaulay is a master of +clearness it is because he is much else besides. Unless we read a man +for all there is in him, we get very little; we meet, not a living +human being, not a vital book, but something dead, dismembered, +disorganized. We do not read Thackeray for ease; we read him for +Thackeray and enjoy his ease by the way. + +We must read a book for all there is in it or we shall get little or +nothing. To be masters of books we must have learned to let books +master us. This is true of books that we are required to read, such as +text-books, and of those we read voluntarily and at leisure. The law of +reading is to give a book its due and a little more. The art of reading +is to know how to apply this law. For there is an art of reading, for +each of us to learn for himself, a private way of making the +acquaintance of books. + +Macaulay, whose mind was never hurried or confused, learned to read +very rapidly, to absorb a page at a glance. A distinguished professor, +who has spent his life in the most minutely technical scholarship, +surprised us one day by commending to his classes the fine art of +"skipping." Many good books, including some most meritorious "three- +decker" novels, have their profitless pages, and it is useful to know +by a kind of practised instinct where to pause and reread and where to +run lightly and rapidly over the page. It is a useful accomplishment +not only in the reading of fiction, but in the business of life, to the +man of affairs who must get the gist of a mass of written matter, and +to the student of any special subject. + +Usually, of course, a book that is worth reading at all is worth +reading carefully. Thoroughness of reading is the first thing to preach +and to practise, and it is perhaps dangerous to suggest to a beginner +that any book should be skimmed. The suggestion will serve its purpose +if it indicates that there are ways to read, that practice in reading +is like practice in anything else; the more one does, and the more +intelligently one does it, the farther and more easily one can go. In +the best reading--that is, the most thoughtful reading of the most +thoughtful books--attention is necessary. It is even necessary that we +should read some works, some passages, so often and with such close +application that we commit them to memory. It is said that the habit of +learning pieces by heart is not so prevalent as it used to be. I hope +that this is not so. What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, +no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have +not begun to read, you have not learned how to read. + +We have said enough, perhaps, of the theories of reading. The one +lesson that seems most obvious is that we must come close to +literature. + + + + +HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT +OF BOOKS + +By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE + + +One is sometimes asked by young people panting after the waterbrooks of +knowledge: "How shall I get the best out of books?" Here indeed, is one +of those questions which can be answered only in general terms, with +possible illustrations from one's own personal experience. Misgivings, +too, as to one's fitness to answer it may well arise, as wistfully +looking round one's own bookshelves, one asks oneself: "Have I myself +got the best out of this wonderful world of books?" It is almost like +asking oneself: "Have I got the best out of life?" + +As we make the survey, it will surely happen that our eyes fall on many +writers whom the stress of life, or spiritual indolence, has prevented +us from using as all the while they have been eager to be used; friends +we might have made yet never have made, neglected counsellors we would +so often have done well to consult, guides that could have saved us +many a wrong turning in the difficult way. There, in unvisited corners +of our shelves, what neglected fountains of refreshments, gardens in +which we have never walked, hills we have never climbed! + +"Well," we say with a sigh, "a man cannot read everything; it is life +that has interrupted our studies, and probably the fact is that we have +accumulated more books than we really need." The young reader's +appetite is largely in his eyes, and it is very natural for one who is +born with a taste for books to gather them about him at first +indiscriminately, on the hearsay recommendation of fame, before he +really knows what his own individual tastes are, or are going to be, +and in that wistful survey I have imagined, our eyes will fall, too, +with some amusement, on not a few volumes to which we never have had +any really personal relation, and which, whatever their distinction or +their value for others, were never meant for us. The way to do with +such books is to hand them over to some one who has a use for them. On +our shelves they are like so much good thrown away, invitations to +entertainments for which we have no taste. In all vital libraries, such +a process of progressive refection is continually going on, and to +realize what we do not want in books, or cannot use, must, obviously, +be a first principle in our getting the best out of them. + +Yes, we read too many books, and too many that, as they do not really +interest us, bring us neither benefit nor diversion. Even from the +point of view of reading for pleasure, we manage our reading badly. We +listlessly allow ourselves to be bullied by publishers' advertisements +into reading the latest fatuity in fiction, without, in one case out of +twenty, finding any of that pleasure we are ostensibly seeking. +Instead, indeed, we are bored and enervated, where we might have been +refreshed, either by romance or laughter. Such reading resembles the +idle absorption of innocuous but interesting beverages, which cheer as +little as they inebriate, and yet at the same time make frivolous +demands on the digestive functions. No one but a publisher could call +such reading "light." Actually it is weariness to the flesh and +heaviness to the spirit. + +If, therefore, our idea of the best in books is the recreation they can +so well bring; if we go to books as to a playground to forget our cares +and to blow off the cobwebs of business, let us make sure that we find +what we seek. It is there, sure enough. The playgrounds of literature +are indeed wide, and alive with bracing excitement, nor is there any +limit to the variety of the games. But let us be sure, when we set Out +to be amused, that we really are amused, that our humorists do really +make us laugh, and that our story-tellers have stories to tell and know +how to tell them. Beware of imitations, and, when in doubt, try +Shakespeare, and Dumas--even Ouida. As a rule, avoid the "spring +lists," or "summer reading." "Summer reading" is usually very hot work. + +Hackneyed as it is, there is no better general advice on reading than +Shakespeare's-- + +No profit is where is no pleasure taken, + +In brief, sir, study what you most affect. + +Not only in regard to books whose purpose, frankly, is recreation, but +also in regard to the graver uses of books, this counsel no less holds. +No reading does us any good that is not a pleasure to us. Her paths are +paths of pleasantness. Yet, of course, this does not mean that all +profitable reading is easy reading. Some of the books that give us the +finest pleasure need the closest application for their enjoyment. There +is always a certain spiritual and mental effort necessary to be made +before we tackle the great books. One might compare it to the effort of +getting up to see the sun rise. It is no little tug to leave one's warm +bed--but once we are out in the crystalline morning air, wasn't it +worth it? Perhaps our finest pleasure always demands some such +austerity of preparation. That is the secret of the truest +epicureanism. Books like Dante's "Divine Comedy," or Plato's dialogues, +will not give themselves to a lounging reader. They demand a braced, +attentive spirit. But when the first effort has been made, how +exhilarating are the altitudes in which we find ourselves; what a glow +of pure joy is the reward which we are almost sure to win by our mental +mountaineering. + +But such books are not for moments when we are unwilling or unable to +make that necessary effort. We cannot always be in the mood for the +great books, and often we are too tired physically, or too low down on +the depressed levels of daily life, even to lift our eyes toward the +hills. To attempt the great books--or any books at all--in such moods +and moments, is a mistake. We may thus contract a prejudice against +some writer who, approached in more fortunate moments, would prove the +very man we were looking for. + +To know when to read is hardly less important than to know what to +read. Of course, every one must decide the matter for himself; but one +general counsel may be ventured: Read only what you want to read, and +only when you want to read it. + +Some readers find the early morning, when they have all the world to +themselves, their best time for reading, and, if you are a good +sleeper, and do not find early rising more wearying than refreshing, +there is certainly no other time of the day when the mind is so eagerly +receptive, has so keen an edge of appetite, and absorbs a book in so +fine an intoxication. For your true book-lover there is no other +exhilaration so exquisite as that with which one reads an inspiring +book in the solemn freshness of early morning. One's nerves seem +peculiarly strung for exquisite impressions in the first dewy hours of +the day, there is a virginal sensitiveness and purity about all our +senses, and the mere delight of the eye in the printed page is keener +than at any other time. "The Muses love the morning, and that is a fit +time for study," said Erasmus to his friend Christianus of Lubeck; and, +certainly, if early rising agrees with one, there is no better time for +getting the very best out of a book. Moreover, morning reading has a +way of casting a spell of peace over the whole day. It has a sweet, +solemnizing effect on our thoughts--a sort of mental matins--and +through the day's business it accompanies us as with hidden music. + +There are others who prefer to do their reading at night, and I presume +that most readers of this paper are so circumstanced as to have no time +to spare for reading during the day. Personally, I think that one of +the best places to read in is bed. Paradoxical as it may sound, one is +not so apt to fall asleep over his book in bed as in the post-prandial +armchair. While one's body rests itself, one's mind, remains alert, +and, when the time for sleep comes at last, it passes into +unconsciousness, tranquilized and sweetened with thought and pleasantly +weary with healthy exercise. One awakens, too, next morning, with, so +to say, a very pleasant taste of meditation in the mouth. Erasmus, +again, has a counsel for the bedtime reader, expressed with much +felicity. "A little before you sleep," he says, "read something that is +exquisite, and worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall +asleep; and, when you awake in the morning, call yourself to an account +for it." + +In an old Atlantic Monthly, from which, if I remember aright, he +never rescued it, Oliver Wendell Holmes has a delightful paper on the +delights of reading in bed, entitled "Pillow-Smoothing Authors." + +Then, though I suppose we shall have the oculists against us, the cars +are good places to read in--if you have the power of detachment, and +are able to switch off your ears from other people's conversation. It +is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. +Most likely you will carry it many a day and never give it a single +look, but, even so, a book in the hand is always a companionable +reminder of that happier world of fancy, which, alas! most of us can +only visit by playing truant from the real world. As some men wear +boutonnieres, so a reader carries a book, and sometimes, when he +is feeling the need of beauty, or the solace of a friend, he opens it, +and finds both. Probably he will count among the most fruitful moments +of his reading the snatched glimpses of beauty and wisdom he has caught +in the morning car. The covers of his book have often proved like some +secret door, through which, surreptitiously opened, he has looked for a +moment into his own particular fairy land. Never mind the oculist, +therefore, but, whenever you feel like it, read in the car. + +One or two technical considerations may be dealt with in this place. +How to remember what one reads is one of them. Some people are blest +with such good memories that they never forget anything that they have +once read. Literary history has recorded many miraculous memories. +Still, it is quite possible to remember too much, and thus turn one's +mind into a lumber-room of useless information. A good reader forgets +even more than he remembers. Probably we remember all that is really +necessary for us, and, except in so far as our reading is technical and +directed toward some exact science or, profession, accuracy of memory +is not important. As the Sabbath was made for man, so books were made +for the reader, and, when a reader has assimilated from any given book +his own proper nourishment and pleasure, the rest of the book is so +much oyster shell. The end of true reading is the development of +individuality. Like a certain water insect, the reader instinctively +selects from the outspread world of books the building materials for +the house of his soul. He chooses here and rejects there, and remembers +or forgets according to the formative desire of his nature. Yet it +often happens that he forgets much that he needs to remember, and thus +the question of methodical aids to memory arises. + +One's first thought, of course, is of the commonplace book. Well, have +you ever kept one, or, to be more accurate, tried to keep one? +Personally, I believe in the commonplace book so long as we don't +expect too much from it. Its two dangers are (1) that one is apt to +make far too many and too minute entries, and (2) that one is apt to +leave all the remembering to the commonplace book, with a consequent +relaxation of one's own attention. On the other hand, the mere +discipline of a commonplace book is a good thing, and if--as I think is +the best way--we copy out the passages at full length, they are thus +the more securely fixed in the memory. A commonplace book kept with +moderation is really useful, and may be delightful. But the entries +should be made at full length. Otherwise, the thing becomes a mere +index, an index which encourages us to forget. + +Another familiar way of assisting one's memory in reading is to mark +one's own striking passages. This method is chiefly worth while for the +sake of one's second and subsequent readings; though it all depends +when one makes the markings--at what time of his life, I mean. Markings +made at the age of twenty years are of little use at thirty--except +negatively. In fact, I have usually found that all I care to read again +of a book read at twenty is just the passages I did not mark. This +consideration, however, does not depreciate the value of one's +comparatively contemporary markings. At the same time, marking, like +indexing, is apt, unless guarded against, to relax the memory. One is +apt to mark a passage in lieu of remembering it. Still, for a second +reading, as I say--a second reading not too long after the first-- +marking is a useful method, particularly if one regards his first +reading of a book as a prospecting of the ground rather than a taking +possession. One's first reading is a sort of flying visit, during which +he notes the places he would like to visit again and really come to +know. A brief index of one's markings at the end of a volume is a +method of memory that commended itself to the booklovers of former +days--to Leigh Hunt, for instance. + +Yet none of these external methods, useful as they may prove, can +compare with a habit of thorough attention. We read far too hurriedly, +too much in the spirit of the "quick lunch." No doubt we do so a great +deal from the misleading idea that there is so very much to read. +Actually, there is very little to read,--if we wish for real reading-- +and there is time to read it all twice over. We--Americans--bolt our +books as we do our food, and so get far too little good out of them. We +treat our mental digestions as brutally as we treat our stomachs. +Meditation is the digestion of the mind, but we allow ourselves no time +for meditation. We gorge our eyes with the printed page, but all too +little of what we take in with our eyes ever reaches our minds or our +spirits. We assimilate what we can from all this hurry of superfluous +food, and the rest goes to waste, and, as a natural consequence, +contributes only to the wear and tear of our mental organism. + +Books should be real things. They were so once, when a man would give a +fat field in exchange for a small manuscript; and they are no less real +to-day--some of them. Each age contributes one or two real books to the +eternal library--and always the old books remain, magic springs of +healing and refreshment. If no one should write a book for a thousand +years, there are quite enough books to keep us going. Real books there +are in plenty. Perhaps there are more real books than there are real +readers. Books are the strong tincture of experience. They are to be +taken carefully, drop by drop, not carelessly gulped down by the +bottleful. Therefore, if you would get the best out of books, spend a +quarter of an hour in reading, and three-quarters of an hour in +thinking over what you have read. + + + + +THE GUIDE TO DAILY +READING + +PREPARED BY +ASA DON DICKINSON + + +The elaborate, systematic "course of reading" is a bore. After thirty +years spent among books and bookish people I have never yet met anyone +who would admit that he had ploughed through such a course from +beginning to end. Of course a few faithful souls, with abundant +leisure, have done this, just as there are men who have walked from New +York City to San Francisco. Good exercise, doubtless! But most of us +have not time for feats of such questionable utility. + +Yet I myself and most of the booklovers whom I know have started +at one time or another to pursue a course of reading, and we have never +regretted our attempts. Why? Because this is an excellent way to +discover the comparatively small number of authors who have a message +that we need to hear. When such an one is discovered, one may with a +good conscience let the systematic course go by the board until one has +absorbed all that is useful from the store of good things offered by +the valuable new acquaintance. + +Each one has his idiosyncrasies. If I may be permitted to allude to a +personal failing, let me confess that I have never read "Paradise Lost" +or "Pilgrim's Progress." I have hopefully dipped into them repeatedly, +but--I don't like them. Some day I hope to, but until my mind is +ready for these two great world-books, I do not intend to waste time by +driving through them with set teeth. There are too many other good +books that I do enjoy reading. "In brief, Sir, study what you most +affect." + +The "Guide to Daily Readings" which follows makes no claim to be +systematic. The aim has been simply to introduce the reader to a goodly +company of authors--to provide a daily flower of thought for the +buttonhole, to-day a glorious rose of poetic fancy, to-morrow a pert +little pansy of quaint humor. + +Yet nearly all the selections are doubly significant and interesting if +read upon the days to which they are especially assigned. For example, +on New Year's Day it is suggested that one set one's house in order by +reading Franklin's "Rules of Conduct," Longfellow's "Psalm of Life," +Bryant's "Thanatopsis," and Lowell's "To the Future"; on January 19th, +Poe's Birthday, one is directed to an excellent sketch of Poe and to +typical examples of his best work, "The Raven" and "The Cask of +Amontillado"; and on October 31st, Hallowe'en, one is reminded of +Burns's "Tam O'Shanter" and Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." + +The references are explicit in each case, so that it is a matter of +only a few seconds to find each one. For example, the reference to the +"Cask of Amontillado" is 4-Pt. I =67-77; which means that this tale is +ten pages long and will be found in Part I of volume 4, at page 67. +Excepting volumes 10-15 (Poetry), two volumes are bound in one in this +set, so it should be remembered that generally there are two pages +numbered 67 in each book. + +The daily selections can in most cases be read in from fifteen minutes +to half an hour, and Dr. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, has said +that fifteen minutes a day devoted to good literature will give every +man the essentials of a liberal education. If time can be found between +breakfast and the work-hours for these few minutes of reading, one will +receive more benefit than if it is done during the somnolent period +which follows the day's work and dinner. It is a mistake, however, to +read before breakfast. Eyes and stomach are too closely related +to permit of this. + +Happy is he who can read these books in company with a sympathetic +companion. His enjoyment of the treasure they contain will be doubled. + +One final hint--when reading for something besides pastime, get in the +habit of referring when necessary to dictionary, encyclopdia, and +atlas. If on the subway or a railway train, jot down a memorandum of +the query on the flyleaf, and look up the answer at the first +opportunity. + +ASA DON DICKINSON. + + + + +There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a +man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to study. + --DANIEL WYTTENBACH. + +JANUARY 1ST TO 7TH + + +1st. I. Franklin's Rules of Conduct, 6-Pt. II: 86-101 + II. Longfellow's Psalm of Life, 14:247-248 + III. Bryant's Thanatopsis, 15:18-20 + IV. Lowell's To the Future, 13:164-167 + +2nd. I. Arnold's Self Dependence, 14:273-274 + II. Adams's Cold Wave of 32 B. C., 9-Pt. I:146 + III. Thomas's Frost To-night, 12:343 + +3rd. TOMASSO SALVINI, b. 1 Ja. 1829; d. 1 Ja. 1916 + I. Tomasso Salvini, 17-II:80-108 + +4th. I. Extracts from Thackeray's Book of Snobs, 1-Pt. I:3-37 + +5th. I. Ruskin's Venice, 1-Pt. II:73-88 + II. St. Marks, 1-Pt. II:91-100 + +6th. I. Shakespeare's Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, 12:256-257 + II. Messenger's A Winter Wish, 12:259-261 + III. Emerson's The Snow Storm, 14:93-94 + IV. Thackeray's Nil Nisi Bonum, l-Pt. I:130-143 + +7th. I. Adams's Ballad of the Thoughtless Waiter, 9-Pt. I:147 + II. Us Poets, 9-Pt. I:148 + III. Spenser's Amoretti, 13:177 + + +No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be +read at all. + --THOMAS CARLYLE. + +JANUARY 8TH TO 14th + + +8th. I. Fred Trover's Little Iron-clad, 7-Pt. II:82-105 + +9th. I. Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, 21-Pt. II:1-56 + +10th. I. Carlyle's Boswell's Life of Johnson, 2-Pt. I: 32-78 + +11th. I ALEXANDER HAMILTON, b. II Ja. 1757 + Alexander Hamilton, 16-Pt. I:71-91 + +12th. I. Macaulay's Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Biographer, 2-Pt. II:30-39 + II. The Puritans, 2-Pt. II:23-29 + +13th. I. EDMUND SPENSER, d, 16 Ja. 1599 + Prothalamion, 13:13-20 + +14th. I. Hawthorne's Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, 3-Pt. I:3-19 + + +The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most +powerful engines of civilization ever invented. + --SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. + +JANUARY 15TH TO 21ST + + +15th. EDWARD EVERETT, d. 15 Ja. 1865 + I. Lincoln to Everett, 5-Pt. I:120 + II. Irving's Westminster Abbey, 3-Pt. II:75-92 + +16th. GEORGE V. HOBART, b. 16 Ja. 1867 + I. John Henry at the Races, 9-Pt. II:107-113 + II. Poe's The Black Cat, 4-Pt. I:127-143 + +17th. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. 17 Ja. 1706 + I. Poor Richard's Almanac, 6-Pt. II:133-149 + II. Maxims, 7-Pt. II:11 + III. The Whistle, 6-Pt. II:156-159 + +18th. DANIEL WEBSTER, b. 18 Ja. 1782 + I. Adams and Jefferson, 6-Pt. I:3-60 + +19th. EDGAR ALLAN POE, b. 19 Ja. 1809 + I. Cask of Amontillado, 4-Pt. I:67-77 + II. The Raven, 10:285-292 + III. Edgar Allan Poe, 17-Pt. I:28-37 + +20th. N. P. WILLIS, b. 20 Ja. 1806 + I. Miss Albina McLush, 7-Pt. I:25-29 + RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, b. 20 Ja. 1866 + II. May Is Building Her House, 12:328 + +21st. JAMES STUART, Earl of Murray, killed 21 Ja. 1570 + I. The Bonny Earl of Murray, 10:21-22 + II. Lincoln's The Dred Scott Decision, 5-Pt. I:13-22 + III. Fragment on Slavery, 5-Pt. I:11-12 + + +He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable +dishes, and all of admirable flavour. His taste is rendered +so acute as easily to distinguish the nicest shade of difference. + --WILLIAM GODWIN. + +JANUARY 22ND TO 28TH + + +22nd. LORD BYRON, b. 22 Ja. 1788 + I. Macaulay's Lord Byron the Man, 2-Pt. II: 80-94 + II. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, 12:275-277 + III. The Isles of Greece, 14:75-79 + +23rd. I. Lamb's Dream Children, 5-Pt. II:34-40 + II. On Some of the Old Actors, 5-Pt. II:52-76 + +24th. I. Spenser's Epithalamium, 13:20-37 + +25th. ROBERT BURNS, b. 25 Ja. 1759 + I. The Cotter's Saturday Night, II:40-48 + II. Robert Burns, 17-Pt. 1:43-64 + II. Halleck's Burns, 15:67-73 + +26th. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES, d. 26 Ja. 1849 + I. Wolfram's Dirge, 15:42-43 + II. How Many Times Do I Love Thee, Dear? 12:158-159 + III. Dream-Pedlary, 12:227-228 + IV. Franklin's Philosophical Experiments, 6-Pt. II:125-130 + +27th. JOHN McCRAE, Died in France 28 Ja. 1918 + I. In Flanders Fields, 15:214 + +28th. HENRY MORTON STANLEY, b. 28 Ja. 1841 + I. Henry Morton Stanley, 17-Pt. II:97-124 + + +We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring +together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to +another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him +as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly.... + --WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. + +JANUARY 29TH TO FEBRUARY 4th + + +29th. ADELAIDE RISTORI, b. 30 Ja. 1822 + I. Adelaide Ristori, 17-Pt. II:109-119 + II. Thackeray's On Being Found Out, 1-Pt. I:104-115 + +30th. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, b. 30 Ja. 1775 + I. Rose Aylmer,15:119 + II. The Maid's Lament, 15:119-120 + III. Mother I Cannot Mind My Wheel, 12:273 + IV. On His Seventy-fifth Birthday, 13:278 + V. Ruskin's The Two Boyhoods, 1-Pt. II:3-23 + +31st. I. Carlyle's Essay on Biography, 2-Pt. I:3-3l + +F.1st. + I. Morris's February,14:102-103 + II. Belloc's South Country,12:331 + III. Early Morning, 13:294 + +2nd. W.R.BENET, b. 2 F. 1886 + I. Tricksters, 13:288 + II. Hodgson's Eve, 11:324 + III. The Gypsy Girl, 14:299 + +3rd. SIDNEY LANIER, b. 3 F. 1842 + I. The Marshes of Glynn, 14:55-61 + II. A Ballad of Trees and the Master, 12:316-317 + III. The Stirrup Cup, 13:283 + +4th. THOMAS CARLYLE, d. 4 F. 1881 + 81 + I. Mirabeau, 2-Pt. I:79-86 + II. Ghosts, 2-Pt. I:134-137 + III. Labor, 2-Pt. I:138-145 + + +Borrow therefore, of those golden morning hours, and bestow them on +your book. + --EARL OF BEDFORD + +FEBRUARY 5TH TO 11TH + + +5th. I. De Quincey's On the Knocking at the Gate In Macbeth, + 4-Pt. II:100-107 + +6th. SIR HENRY IRVING, b. 6 F. 1838 + I. Sir Henry Irving, 17-II:39-47 + +7th. CHARLES DICKENS, b. 7 F. 1812 + I. The Trial for Murder, 21-Pt. I:1-19 + +8th. JOHN RUSKIN, b. 8 F. 1819 + I. The Slave Ship, 1-Pt. II:27-29 + II. Art and Morals, 1-Pt. II:103-132 + III. Peace, 1-Pt. II:135-137 + +9th. GEORGE ADE, b. 9 F. 1866 + I. The Fable of the Preacher, 9-Pt. II:67-71 + II. The Fable of the Caddy, 9-Pt. II:93-94 + III. The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players, 9-Pt. II:13l-136 + +10th. SIR JOHN SUCKLING, baptized 10 F. 1609 + I. Encouragements to a Lover, 13:122 + II. Constancy, 12:122-123 + E. W. TOWNSEND, b. 10 F. 1855 + III. Chimmie Meets the Duchess, 9-Pt. I 109-114 + +11th. I. Brooke's Dust, 12:341 + II. 1914--V--The Soldier, 15: 228 + III. Guiterman's In the Hospital, 15:203 + + +The scholar, only, knows how dear these silent, yet +eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours +become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly +turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. + --Washington Irving. + +February 12th to 18th + + +12th. Abraham Lincoln, b. 12 F. 1809 + I. Lincoln, 16-Pt. I:93-141 + +13th. I. Irving's The Stout Gentleman, 3-Pt. II: 129-145 + +14th. W. T. Sherman, d. 14 F. 1891 + I. General William Tecumseh Sherman, 16-Pt. II:32-61 + +15th. Charles Bertrand Lewis ("M. Quad") b. 15 F. 1842 + I. The Patent Gas Regulator, 9-Pt. II:3-7 + II. Two Cases of Grip, 8-Pt. I:50-53 + +16th. Joseph Hergesheimer, b. 15 F. 1880 + I. A Sprig of Lemon Verbena, 22-Pt. II:1-47 + +17th. Josephine Dodge Daskam, b. 17 F. 1876 + I. The Woman Who Was Not Athletic, 9-Pt. II:78-80 + II. The Woman Who Used Her Theory, 9-Pt. II: 80-81 + III. The Woman Who Helped Her Sister, 9-Pt. II:81-82 + +18th. I. De Quincey's The Affliction of Childhood, 4-Pt. II:3-30 + + +What a place to be in is an old library! It seems though all the +souls of all the writers were reposing here. + --CHARLES LAMB. + +FEBRUARY 19TH TO 25th + + +19th. I. Conrad's The Lagoon, 22-Pt. I:17-37 + +20th. JOSEPH JEFFERSON, b. 20 F. 1829 + I. Joseph Jefferson, 17-Pt. II:3-22 + +21st. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, b. 21 F. 1801 + I. The Pillar of the Cloud, 12:323 + II. Sensitiveness, 15:183-184 + III. Flowers Without Fruit, 15:184 + IV. Lincoln's Address at Cooper Institute, 5-Pt. I:37-69 + +22nd. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. 22 F. 1732 + I. Washington, 16-Pt. I:3-42 + +23rd. I. Mrs. Freeman's The Wind in the Rosebush, 20-Pt. II:12-38 + +24th. SAMUEL LOVER, b. 24 F. 1797 + I. The Gridiron, 19-Pt. II:59-70 + +25th. I. Lamb's Superannuated Man, 5-Pt. II: 80-91 +II. Old China, 5-Pt. II:91-100 + + +A little peaceful home +Sounds all my wants and wishes; add to this +My book and friend, and this is happiness. + --FRANCESCO DI RIOJA. + +FEBRUARY 26TH TO MARCH 4TH + + +26th. SAM WALTER FOSS, d. 26 F. 1911 + I. The Prayer of Cyrus Brown, 9-Pt. II:8 + II. The Meeting of the Clabberhuses, 8-Pt. I: 39-41 + III. A Modern Martyrdom, 9-Pt. II: 84-86 + IV. The Ideal Husband to His Wife, 9-Pt. I:103-104 + +27th. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, b. 27 F. 1807 + I. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 17-Pt. I:3-27 + II. Wreck of the Hesperus, 10:156-160 + III. My Lost Youth, 12:263-266 + +28th. ELLEN TERRY, b. 27 F. 1848 + I. Ellen Terry, 17-Pt. II:48-60 + +Mr.1st I. Morris's March, 14:103-104 + W. D. HOWELLS, b. 1 Mr. 1837 + II. Mrs. Johnson, 8-Pt. II:107-128 + +2nd. I. Franklin's Settling Down, 6-Pt. II:76-85 + II. Public Affairs, 6-Pt. II:102-107 + +3rd. EDMUND WALLER, b. 9 Mr. 1606 + I. On a Girdle, 12:132 + II. Go, Lovely Rose, 12:136-137 + III. De la Mare's The Listeners, 11:327 + +4th. Inauguration Day + I. Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 5-Pt. I:74-89 + + +A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of +a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a +luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. + --HENRY WARD BEECHER. + +MARCH 5TH TO 11TH + + +5th. FRANK NORRIS, b. 5 Mr. 1870 + I. The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock, 22-Pt. II:64 + +6th. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, b. 6 Mr. 1806 + I. Mother and Poet, 11:297-302 + II. A Musical Instrument, 12: 282-283 + III. The Cry of the Children, 12: 296-302 + +7th. I. Thackeray's On a Lazy Idle Boy, 1-Pt. I: 41-51 + +8th. HENRY WARD BEECHER, d. 8 Mr. 1887 + I. Deacon Marble, 7-Pt. I:13-15 + II. The Deacon's Trout, 7-Pt. I:15-16 + III. Noble and the Empty Hole, 7-Pt. I:17-18 + +9th. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD, d. 9 Mr. 1825 + I. Life, 14:260-261 + II. Dunsany's Night at an Inn, 18:I + +10th. I. Ruskin's The Mountain Gloom, 1-Pt. II: 33-56 + +11th. CHARLES SUMNER, d. n Mr. 1874 + I. Longfellow's Charles Sumner, 15:111-112 + GILES FLETCHER, buried 11 Mr. 1611 + II. Wooing Song, 12:101-102 + III. Carlyle's Reward, 2-Pt. I:146-160 + +Books that can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside are +the best after all. + --SAMUEL JOHNSON. + + +MARCH 12TH TO 18TH + + +12th. I. A Family Horse, 9-Pt. I:3-14 + II. Living in the Country, 7-Pt. I:82-95 + +13th. I. Macaulay's Task of the Modern Historian, 2-Pt. II:3-22 + II. Puritans, 2-Pt. II:23-29 + + +14th. HENRY IV. defeated the "Leaguers" at Ivry, + 14 Mr. 1590 + I. Macaulay's Ivry, 10:194-199 + +15th. JOHANN LUDWIG PAUL HEYSE, b. 15 Mr. 1830 + I. L'Arrabiata, 20-Pt. I:130-157 + +16th. WILL IRWIN, b. 15 Mr. 1876 + I. The Servant Problem, 7-Pt. I:132 + +17th. I. Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face, 3-Pt. I:103-135 + + +18th. I. Roche's The V-A-S-E, 7-Pt. II:60-61 + II. Roche's A Boston Lullaby, 8-Pt. II:78 + III. A Boston Lullaby (Anon.), 7-Pt. II:105 + IV. Burgess's The Bohemians of Boston, 7-Pt. II:141-143 + + +The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I +had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, +it resembles the meeting with an old one. + --OLIVER GOLDSMITH. + +MARCH 19TH TO 25th + + +19th. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, d. 19 Mr. 1907 + I. A Rivermouth Romance, 7-Pt. II:129-140 + II. A Death Bed, 15:136-137 + +20th. CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, d. 20 Mr. 1903 + I. Ballad, 7-Pt. II:51-52 + II. Hans Breitmann's Party, 7-Pt. I:96-97 + III. De Quincey's Levana, 4-Pt. II:145-157 + +21st. ROBERT SOUTHEY, d. 21 Mr. 1843 + I. The Inchcape Rock, 10:153-156 + II. My Days Among the Dead Are Past, 14: 261-262 + III. Lincoln's Springfield Speech, 5-Pt. I:23-36 + +22nd. I. Lamb's Two Races of Men, 5-Pt. II:3-11 + +23rd. JOHN DAVIDSQN, disappeared 23 Mr. 1909 + I. Butterflies, 12:345 + II. Doyle's Dancing Men, 22-Pt. I:63-l00 + +24th. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, d. 24 Mr. 1882 + I. The Building of the Ship, ll:89-102 + II. The Skeleton in Armor, 10:124-130 + III. Resignation, 15:131-133 + IV. The Arrow and the Song, 12:283-284 + +25th. I. Franklin's George Whitefield, 6-Pt. II: 108-114 + II. The Franklin Stove, 6-Pt. II:115-116 + III. Civic Pride, 6-Pt. II:117-124 + IV. Advice to a Young Tradesman, 6-Pt. II: 153-155 + + +For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our +learnings. + --ST. PAUL. + +MARCH 26TH TO APRIL 1ST + + +26th. A. E. HOUSMAN, b. 26 Mr. 1859 + I. A Shropshire Lad-XIII, 12:340 + II. Ferber's Gay Old Dog, 22-Pt. II:81-114 + +27th. I. Thackeray's Thorns in the Cushion, 1-Pt. I:51-64 + +28th. FOCH, made Commander Allied Armies, 28 + Mr. 1918 + I. Burr's Fall In, 15:211 + II. Coates's Place de la Concorde, 15:226 + +29th. BONNIVARD, Prisoner of Chillon, liberated + 29 Mr. 1536 + I. Byron's Prisoner of Chillon, 11:191-204 + +30th. DE WOLF HOPPER, b. 30 Mr. 1858 + I. Casey at the Bat, 9-Pt. I:95-98 + II. Butler's Just Like a Cat, 8-Pt. I:152 + +31st. ANDREW MARVELL, b,. 31 Mr. 1621 + I. The Garden, 14:20-22 + II. Bermudas, 15:162-163 + JOHN DONNE, d. 31 Mr. 1631 + III. The Dream, 12:137-138 + IV. The Will, 15:156-158 + V. Death, 13:195-196 + VI. A Burnt Ship, 13:272 + +Ap. 1st. AGNES REPPLIER, b. 1 Ap. 1858 + I. A Plea for Humor, 8-Pt. II:3-25 + + +Dreams, books are each a world; and books, we know, +Are a substantial world, both pure and good: +Round these, with tendrils, strong as flesh and blood, +Our pastime and our happiness will grow. + --WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. + +APRIL 2ND TO 8TH + + +2nd. I. Jefferson, 16-Pt. I:43-70 + Nelson's Victory Over the Danish Fleet, 2 Ap. 1801 + II. The Battle of the Baltic, 10:189-192 + +3rd. WASHINGTON IRVING, b. 3 Ap. 1783 + I. Wouter Van Twiller, 7-Pt. I:3-10 + II. The Voyage, 3-Pt. II:61-71 + +4th. I. Browning's Home Thoughts from Abroad, 12:57-58 + II. Macaulay's Byron the Poet, 2-Pt. II:94-109 + +5th. FRANK R. STOCKTON, b. 5 Ap. 1834 + I. Pomona's Novel, 7-Pt. II:62-81 + II. A Piece of Red Calico, 8-Pt. I:105-112 + +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 + Titanic Sunk, 15 Ap. 1912 + VI. Van Dyke's Heroes of the Titanic, 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 BRONT, b. 21 Ap. 1816 + I. Charlotte Bront, 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 Dyke'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. ABB 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 noble 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 BRUYRE. + +MAY 7TH TO 13TH + + +7th. ROBERT BROWNING, b. 7 My. 1812 + I. Landor's To Robert Browning, 14:151-152 + II. A King Lived Long Ago, 11:9-11 + III. Evelyn Hope, 15:121-123 + IV. How They Brought the Good News, 10:130-134 + V. A Woman's Last Word, 14:189-191 + +8th. I. Shakespeare's Sonnets, 13:184-195 + II. Peabody's Fortune and Men's Eyes, 18:89 + +9th. J. M. BARRIE, b. 9 My. 1860 + I. The Courting of T'Nowhead's Bell, 20-Pt. I:1-29 + +10th. HENRY M. STANLEY, d. 10 My. 1904 + I. In Darkest Africa, 16-Pt. II:97-124 + +11th. I. Wordsworth's The Green Linnet, 14:106-108 + GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY, b. 12 My. 1855 + II. At Gibraltar, 13:290 + +12th. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, b. 12 My. 1828 + I. The Blessed Damozel, 10:58-63 + II. The Sonnet, 13:176-177 + III. The House of Life, 13:257-264 + +13th. ALPHONSE DAUDET, b. 13 My. 1840 + I. The Siege of Berlin, 21-Pt. I:129-138 + +Learn to be good readers--which is perhaps a more difficult thing +than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read +faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you +have a real interest in. + --THOMAS CARLYLE. + +MAY 14TH TO 20TH + + +14th. "Mother's Day" (2d Sunday in May) + I. Branch's Songs for My Mother, 14:300 + II. Emerson's Each and All, 14:262-263 + III. Carlyle's Battle of Dunbar, 2-Pt. I:142-159 + +15th. I. Thackeray's On Letts's Diary, 1-Pt. I:115-130 + +16th. HONOR DE BALZAC, b. 20 My. 1799 + I. A Passion in the Desert, 21-Pt. II:107-129 + +17th. I. Thackeray's On a Joke I Once Heard, l-Pt. I:89-104 + +18th. I. Browning's May and Death, 15:123-124 + II. Galsworthy's The Little Man, 18:227 + +19th. Battle of La Hogue 19 My. 1692 (N. S. 29 My. 1692) + I. Browning's Herv Riel, 10:162-168 + NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, d. 19 My. 1864 + II. The Great Carbuncle, 20-Pt. II:30-52 + +20th. I. Gerstenberg's Overtones, 18:139 + + +At this day, as much company as I have kept, and as much as I love +it, I love reading better. + --ALEXANDER POPE. + +MAY 21ST TO 27TH + + +21st. ALEXANDER POPE, b. 21 My. 1688 + I. On a Certain Lady at Court, 13:272-273 + II. The Dying Christian to His Soul, 15:169 + III. The Universal Prayer, 15:166-168 + JAMES GRAHAM, Marquis of Montrose, + d. 21 My. 1650 + IV. The Execution of Montrose, 10:270-277 + +22nd. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, b. 22 My. 1859 + I. The Dancing Men, 22-Pt. I:63 + +23rd. THOMAS HOOD, b. 23 My. 1799 + I. Flowers, 12:53-54 + II. I Remember, I Remember, 12:269-270 + III. The Song of the Shirt, 12:292-295 + IV. The Bridge of Sighs, 15:124-128 + V. The Dream of Eugene Aram, 11:265-273 + +24th. RICHARD MANSFIELD, b. 24 My. 1857 + I. Richard Mansfield, 17-Pt. II:61-79 + +25th. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, b. 25 My. 1803 + I. The Rhodora, 14:115 + II. The Titmouse, 12:66-69 + III. The Problem, 14:268-271 + IV. Lincoln's The Whigs and the Mexican War, 5-Pt. I:3-6 + V. Notes for a Law Lecture, 5-Pt. I:7-10 + +26th. I. Bret Harte's Melons, 7-Pt. II:41-50 + II. The Society upon the Stanislaus, 7-Pt. II:57-59 + +27th. I. Lady Dufferin's The Lament of the Irish Emigrant, 15:128-130 + II. Hawthorne's Wakefield, 3-Pt. I:85-99 + + +All the best experience of humanity, folded, saved, freighted to us +here! Some of these tiny ships we call Old and New Testaments, Homer, +Aeschylus, Plato, Juvenal, etc. Precious Minims! + --WALT WHITMAN. + +MAY 28TH TO JUNE 3RD + + +28th. THOMAS MOORE, b. 28 My. 1779 + I. As Slow Our Ship, 12:232-233 + II. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, 12:157-158 + III. The Lake of the Dismal Swamp, 11:83-85 + IV. Oft in the Stilly Night, 12:271-272 + V. Fly to the Desert, 12:155-157 + VI. Canadian Boat Song, 12:233-234 + +29th I. De Quincey's Pleasures of Opium, 4-Pt. II:31-73 + +30th. Memorial Day + I. Hale's The Man Without a Country, 21-Pt. II:57-95 + +31st. WALT WHITMAN, b. 31 My. 1819 + I. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 14: 120-129 + +Je. 1st. HENRY FRANCIS LYTE, b. 1 Je. 1793 + I. Abide With Me, 15:180-181 + JOHN DRINKWATER, b. 1 Je. 1882 + II. Birthright, 15:199 + CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, killed in a street + brawl, 1 Je. 1593 + III. Porcelain Cups, 22-Pt. I:38-62 + +2nd. J. G. SAXE, b. 2 Je. 1816 + I. Early Rising + II. The Coquette + III. The Stammering Wife + IV. My Familiar, + THOMAS HARDY, b. 2 Je. 1840 + V. Hardy's The Oxen, 15:201 + +3rd. I. Hood's It Was Not in the Winter, + II. Lamb's Letters, + + +We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at +the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding +either, but approving the latter most. + --PLUTARCH. + +JUNE 4TH TO 10th + + +4th. I. Thackeray's Dennis Haggarty's Wife, 21-Pt. I:20-52 + +5th. O. HENRY, d. 5 Je. 1910 + I. The Furnished Room, 22-Pt. I:140 + +6th. ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, b. 6 Je. 1868 + I. Captain Scott's Last Struggle, 16-Pt. II: 152-159 + +7th. EDWIN BOOTH, d. 7 Je. 1893 + I. Edwin Booth, 17-Pt. II:23-38 + +8th. I. Lamb's Letters, 5-Pt. II:103-106 + +9th. CHARLES DICKENS, d. 9 Je. 1870 + I. Charles Dickens, 17-Pt. I:99-120 + +10th. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, d. 10 Je. 1909 + I. My Double and How He Undid Me, 8-Pt. I:124-142 + + +If an author be worthy of anything, he is worth bottoming. It may be +all very well to skim milk, for the cream lies on the top; but who +could skim Lord Byron? + --GEORGE SEARLE PHILLIPS. + +JUNE 11TH TO 17TH + + +11th. I. Wells's Tragedy of a Theatre Hat, 9-Pt. II:50-55 + II. One Week,9-Pt. II:151 + III. The Poster Girl, 8-Pt. II:92-93 + IV. A Memory, 9-Pt. I:116-117 + +12th. CHARLES KINGSLEY, b. 12 Je. 1819 + I. Oh! That We Two Were Maying, 12:175-176 + II. The Last Buccaneer, 14:240-242 + III. The Sands of Dee, 10:261-262 + IV. The Three Fishers, 10:262-263 + V. Lorraine, 11:306-308 + +13th. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, b. 13 Je. 1865 + I. Ballad of Father Gilligan, 10:314 + II. Fiddler of Dooney, 14:310 + +14th. Flag Day + I. Whittier's Barbara Frietchie, 10:210-213 + II. Key's Star-Spangled Banner, 12:213-215 + III. Drake's American Flag, 12:215-217 + IV. Holmes's Old Ironsides, 12:217-218 + +15th. I. Leacock's My Financial Career, 9-Pt. II:19-23 + II. Hawthorne's Gray Champion, 3-Pt. I:139-152 + +16th. I. Lanigan's The Villager and the Snake, 9-Pt-I:19 + II. The Amateur Orlando, 9-Pt. I:26-30 + III. The Ahkoond of Swat, 8-Pt. I: 37-38 + +17th. JOSEPH ADDISON, d. 17 Je. 1719 + I. The Voice of the Heavens, 15:165-166 + II. Poe's MS. Found in a Bottle, 4-Pt. I:105-123 + III. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, 5-Pt. I:90-93 + IV. Ship of State and Pilot, 5-Pt. I:94-95 + + +Sitting last winter among my books, and walled around with all the +comfort and protection which they and my fireside could afford me--to +wit, a table of higher piled books at my back, my writing desk on one +side of me, some shelves on the other, and the feeling of the warm fire +at my feet--I began to consider how I loved the authors of those books. + --LEIGH HUNT. + +JUNE 18th TO 24TH + + +18th. I. Hawthorne's Ethan Brand, 3-Pt. I:55-82 + +19th. RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, d. Aug. 11, 1885 + I. The Brook-Side, 12:177-178 + II. The Men of Old, 14:133-135 + III. Lincoln's Speech in Independence Hall, 5-Pt. I:71-73 + IV. To the Workingmen of Manchester, 5-Pt. I:115-117 + +20th. I. Longfellow's Hymn to the Night, 12:46-47 + II. The Light of the Stars, 12:48-49 + III. Daybreak, 12:49-50 + IV. Seaweed, 14:88-89 + V. The Village Blacksmith, 14:165-166 + +21st. HENRY GUY CARLETON, b. 21 Je. 1856 + I. The Thompson Street Poker Club, 7-Pt. II: 116-121 + II. Munkittrick's Patriotic Tourist, 9-Pt. II: 47-48 + III. What's in a Name, 9-Pt. II:103-104 + IV. 'Tis Ever Thus, 9-Pt. II:152 + +22nd. ALAN SEEGER, b. 22 Je. 1888 + I. I Have a Rendezvous with Death, 15:215 + II. O. Henry's Gift of the Magi, 22-Pt. II:48 + +23rd. I. Longfellow's The Day Is Done, 12:240-242. + II. The Beleaguered City, 14:249-251 + III. The Bridge, 12:279-282 + IV. Whittier's Ichabod, 14:154-156 + V. Maud Muller, 11:219-224 + +24th. AMBROSE BIERCE, b. 24 Je. 1842 + I. The Dog and the Bees, 7-Pt. II:10 + II. The Man and the Goose, 9-Pt. I:85 + Battle of Bannockburn, 24 Je. 1314 + III. Burns's Bannockburn, 12:198-199 + IV. My Heart's in the Highlands, 12:36-37 + V. The Banks of Doon, 12:146-147 + + +Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. +Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon +as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. + --RALPH WALDO EMERSON. + +JUNE 25TH TO JULY 1ST + + +25th. I. Goodman's Eugenically Speaking, 18:193 + +26th. I. Burns's Elegy, 15:61-64 + II. Mary Morison, 12: 147-148 + III. Oh! Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley? 12:148-149 + IV. O, My Love's Like a Red, Red Rose, 12:149-150 + V. Ae Fond Kiss, 12:150-151 + +27th. HELEN KELLER, b. 27 Je. 1880 + I. Helen Keller, 17-Pt. I:167-171 + II. Garrison's A Love Song, 12:338 + +28th. I. Lincoln's Letter to Bryant, 5--Pt. I:122-123 + II. Burns's Of A' the Airts, 12:151 + III. Highland Mary, 12:152-153 + IV. A Farewell, 12:199-200 + V. It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King, 12:200-201 + +29th. I. The Pit and the Pendulum, 21-Pt. I:139-162 + +30th. I. Burns's John Anderson My Jo, 12:245-246 + II. Thou Lingering Star, 12:270-271 + III. Lines Written on a Banknote, 13:273-274 + IV. Byron's Darkness, 11:102-105 + V. Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom, 15:113-114 + +Jl. 1st. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, d. 1 Jl. 1896 + I. The Minister's Wooing, 8-Pt. II:97-106 + + +A library is not worth anything without a catalogue; it is a +Polyphemus without an eye in his head--and you must confront the +difficulties whatever they may be, of making a proper catalogue. + --Thomas Carlyle. + +July 2nd to 8th + + +2nd. Richard Henry Stoddard, b. 2 Jl. 1825 + I. There Are Gains for All Our Losses, 12:267 + II. The Sky, 13:281 + III. Byron's Ode on Venice, 13:115-121 + IV. Stanzas for Music, 12:162-163 + V. When We Two Parted, 12: 163-164 + +3rd. Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Oilman, b. 3 Jl. 1860 + I. Similar Cases, 9-Pt. I:53-57 + II. Byron's She Walks in Beauty, 12:164-165 + III. Destruction of Sennacherib, 11:183-184 + IV. Sonnet on Chillon, 13:222 + +4th. Nathaniel Hawthorne, b. 4 Jl. 1804 + I. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 17-Pt. I.74-98 + Declaration of Independence, 4 Jl. 1776 + II. Emerson's Ode, 13:167-169 + +5th. I. Emerson's Waldeinsamkeit, 14:39-41 + II. The World Soul, 12:59-63 + III. To the Humblebee, 12:64-66 + IV. The Forerunners, 14:265-267 + V. Brahma, 14:271 + +6th. I. Macdonald's Earl o' Quarterdeck, 10:300 + +7th. I. Markham's Man with the Hoe, 14:294 + +8th. Shelley drowned, 8 Jl. 1822 + I. Memorabilia, 14:151 + II. Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil, 21-Pt. I:107-128 + + +For my part I have ever gained the most profit, and the most +pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most. + --JULIUS C. HARE. + +JULY 9TH TO 15TH + + +9th. I. Browning's The Statue and the Bust, II: 273-284 + II. The Lost Leader, 12:289-290 + III. The Patriot, II:290-291 + +10th. ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE, b. 10 Jl. 1861 + I. Mis' Smith, 8-Pt. II:77 + F. P. DUNNE, ("Mr. Dooley"), b. 10 Jl. 1867 + II. Home Life of Geniuses, 9-Pt. II:56-62 + III. The City as a Summer Resort, 9-Pt. II:138-144 + +11th. I. Burdette's Vacation of Mustapha, 8-Pt. I:3-7 + II. The Legend of Mimir, 8-Pt. I:68-69 + III. The Artless Prattle of Childhood, 7-Pt. II. 106-112 + IV. Rheumatism Movement Cure, 8-Pt. II:37-43 + +12th. B. P. SHILLABER, b. 12 Jl. 1814 + I. Fancy Diseases, 7-Pt. I:32 + II. Bailed Out, 7-Pt. I:33 + III. Masson's My Subway Guard Friend, 9-Pt. I:140 + +13th. I. Mukerji's Judgment of Indra, 18:257 + +14th. The Bastille Destroyed, 14 Jl. 1789 + I. Carlyle's The Flight to Varennes from + "The French Revolution," 2-Pt. I:87-110 + +15th. Battle of Chteau Thierry, 15 Jl. 1918 + I. Grenfell's Into Battle, 15:217 + II. Keats's La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 10:85-87 + III. Ode to a Nightingale, 13:132-135 + IV. Ode, 13:135-137 + V. Ode to Psyche, 13:139-141 + VI. Fancy, 13:143-146 + + +Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of +prosperity; the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and +no hindrance abroad; companions at night, in travelling, in the country. + --CICERO. + +JULY 16TH TO 22ND + + +16th. ROALD AMUNDSEN, b. 16 Jl. 1872 + I. Amundsen, 16-Pt. II:147-15l + II. Masefield's Sea Fever, 12:334 + +17th. I. Keats's Robin Hood, 14: 146-148 + II. Sonnets, 13:223-227 + III. Shelley's Hymn of Pan, 12:44-45 + IV. Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, 14: 61-73 + V. Stanzas Written in Dejection, 14:73-75 + +18th. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, b. 18 Jl. 1811 + I. De Finibus, 1-Pt. I:143-157 + II. Ballads, 1-Pt. I:161-164 + +19th. I. Derby's Illustrated Newspaper, 7-Pt. II: + 11-19 + II. Tushmaker's Toothpuller, 7-Pt. II:53-56 + III. Burdette's Romance of the Carpet, 9-Pt. I: + 38-40 + +20th. JEAN INGELOW, d.20 Jl.1897 + I. High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, + 10:263-269 + II. Shelley's The Cloud, 14:90-93 + III. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 13:121-124 + IV. To a Skylark, 13:124-129 + V. Arethusa, 11:140-143 + +21st. Robert Burns, d. 21 Jl. 1796 + I. Thoughts, 15:65-67 + II. Shelley's Love's Philosophy, 12:160 + III. I Fear Thy Kisses, 12:161 + IV. To----, 12:161-162 + V. To---, 12:162 + +22nd. I. Shelley's Ozymandias of Egypt, 13:222-223 + II. Song, 12:225-226 + III. When the Lamp Is Shattered, 12:274-275 + IV. Tennyson's The Gardener's Daughter, II:17-28 + V. The Deserted House, 15:23-24 + + +Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; +natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to +contend. + --BACON. + +July 23rd to 29th + + +23rd. U. S. Grant, d. 23 Jl. 1885 + I. Lincoln to Grant, 5-Pt. I:121 + II. Tennyson's Ulysses, 14:175-177 + III. Ask Me No More, 12:180 + IV. The Splendor Falls, 12:181 + V. Come into the Garden, Maud, 12:182-184 + VI. Sir Galahad, 14: 184-186 + +24th. John Newton, b. 24 Jl. 1725. + I. The Quiet Heart, 15:170 + II. Tennyson's The Miller's Daughter, II:31-40 + III. The Oak, 14:41 + IV. Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere, 10:51-53 + V. Song, 12:54-55 + +25th. I. Tennyson's The Throstle, 12:55-56 + II. A Small, Sweet Idyl, 14:79-80 + III. Merlin and the Gleam, II:122-127 + IV. The Lotos-Eaters, 14:135-143 + V. Mariana, 14:162-164 + +26th. I. Stevenson's Markheim, 20-Pt. I:103-129 + +27th. Thomas Campbell, b. 27 Jl. 1777 + I. The Soldier's Dream, 10:186-187 + II. Lord Ullin's Daughter, 10:259-261 + III. How Delicious Is the Winning, 12:165-166 + IV. To the Evening Star, 12:47 + +28th. ABRAHAM COWLEY, d. 28 Jl. 1667 + I. A Supplication, 13:59-60 + II. On the Death of Mr. William Hervey, 15:80-86 + JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE VISCOUNT DUNDEE, + d. 28 Jl. 1689 + III. Scott's Bonny Dundee, 10:183-186 + +29th. DON MARQUIS, b. 29 Jl. 1878 + I. Chant Royal of the Dejected Dipsomaniac, 9-Pt. I:143 + BOOTH TARKINGTON, b. 29 Jl. 1869 + II. Overwhelming Saturday, 22-Pt. I:101 + + +Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom +is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells. + --COWPER. + +July 30th to August 5th + + +30th. JOYCE KILMER, killed in action, 30 Jl. 1918 + I. A Ballad of Three, 10:311 + II. Trees, 12:329 + III. Noyes's The May Tree, 12:327 + +31st. I. Tennyson's Song of the Brook, 14:99-101 + II. O That 't Were Possible, 12:185-188 + III. Morte d'Arthur, 11:204-215 + IV. Sweet and Low, 12:249-250 + V. Will, 14:259-260 + +Ag. 1st + I. Tennyson's Rizpah, 10:279-285 + II. The Children's Hospital, 11:310-315 + III. Break, Break, Break, 12:320 + IV. In the Valley of Cauteretz, 12:321 + V. Wages, 12:321-322 + VI. Crossing the Bar, 12:324 + VII. Flower in the Crannied Wall, 13:280 + +2nd. I. Browning's Love Among the Ruins, 11:28-31 + II. My Star, 12:58-59 + III. From Pippa Passes, 12:59 + IV. The Boy and the Angel, 11:133-137 + V. Epilogue, 15: 143-144 + +3rd. H. C. BUNNER, b. 3 Ag. 1855 + I. Behold the Deeds! 7-Pt. II:123-125 + II. The Love Letters of Smith, 8-Pt. I:89-104 + +4th. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, b. 4 Ag. 1792 + I. The Sensitive Plant, 11:54-68 + II. To Night, 12:43-44 + III. The Indian Serenade, 12:159-160 + +5th. GUY DE MAUPASSANT, b. 5 Ag. 1850 + I. The Piece of String, 21-Pt. II:96-106 + II. The Necklace, 21-Pt. I:94-106 + + + Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes +never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. + --LORD MACAULAY. + +AUGUST 6th to 12th + + +6th. ALFRED TENNYSON, b. 6 Ag. 1809 + I. Alfred Tennyson, 17-Pt. I:38-42 + II. Dora, 11:11-17 + III. The Lady of Shalott, 10:73-79 + +7th. JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, b. 7 Ag. 1795 + I. Halleck's Joseph Rodman Drake, 15:104-105 + II. Browning's Prospice, 15:145-146 + III. Pied Piper, 11:163-173 + IV. Meeting at Night, 12:189-190 + V. Parting at Morning, 12:190 + +8th. SARA TEASDALE, b. 8 Ag. 1884 + I. Teasdale's Blue Squills, 12:327 + II. The Return, 12:338 + III. Browning's Misconceptions, 12:190-191 + IV. Rabbi Ben Ezra, 14:191-199 + +9th. JOHN DRYDEN, b. 9 Ag. 1631 + I. Alexander's Feast, 13:63-70 + II. Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love! 12:140-141 + III. The Elixir, 15:150-151 + IV. Discipline, 15:151-152 + V. The Pulley, 15:153-154 + +10th. WITTER BYNNER, b. 10 Ag. 1881 + I. Sentence, 13:295 + II. Browning's Soul, 14:199-221 + III. Herrick's To Blossoms, 12:33-34 + IV. To Daffodils, 12:34 + V. To Violets, 12:35 + +11th. I. Herrick's To Meadows, 12:35-36 + II. Lacrim, 15:41-42 + III. The Primrose, 12:124 + IV. Litany, 15:158-160 + V. Lowell's Madonna of the Evening Flowers, 11:319 + +12th. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, d. 12 Ag. 1891 + I. Rhoecus, 11:127-13 3 + II. The Courtin', 11:230-233 + III. The Yankee Recruit, 7-Pt. I:52-60 + + +Give us a house furnished with books rather than with furniture. +Both if you can, but books at any rate! + --HENRY WARD BEECHER. + +AUGUST 13TH TO 19TH + + +13th. Battle of Blenheim, 13 Ag. 1704 + I. Southey's After Blenheim, 10:192-194 + II. De Quincey's Going Down with Victory, 4-Pt. II: 107-119 + +14th. JOHN FLETCHER, d. 14 Ag. 1785 + I. Love's Emblems, 12:29-30 + II. Hear, Ye Ladies, 12:132-133 + III. Melancholy, 12:278-279 + IV. Lodge's Rosalind's Madrigal, 12:83-84 + V. Rosalind's Description, 12:84-86 + +15th. THOMAS DE QUINCEY, b. 15 Ag. 1785 + I. The Pains of Opium, 4-Pt. II:73-100 + +16th. BARONESS NAIRNE (Carolina Oliphant), b. 16 Ag. 1766 + I. The Laird o' Cockpen, 11:251-252 + II. The Land o' the Leal, 12:311-312 + III. Cather's Grandmither, Think Not I Forget, 14:313 + +17th. I. Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers, 19-Pt. II:1-58 + +18th. I. Longfellow's Rain in Summer, 14:96-99 + II. Herrick's Corinna's Going a-Maying, 12:30-33 + III. Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, 13:129-132 + +19th. Battle of Otterburn, 19 Ag. 1388 + I. The Battle of Otterburn, 10:171-176 + + +Books make up no small part of human happiness. + --FREDERICK THE GREAT (in youth). + +My latest passion will be for literature. +--FREDERICK THE GREAT (in old age). + +AUGUST 20TH TO 26TH + + +20th. MARCO BOZZARIS,fell 20 Ag. 1823 + I. Halleck's Marco Bozzaris, 11:187-191 + II. Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal, 11:107-121 + +21st. MARY MAPES DODGE, d. 21 Ag. 1905 + I. Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question, 7-Pt. 11:20-24 + II. Lowell's Letter from a Candidate, 7-Pt. II:29-32 + +22nd. Royal Standard Raised at Nottingham, 22 Ag. 1642 + I. Browning's Cavalier Tunes, 12:205-208 + II. Milton's Il Penseroso, 14:14-19 + III. Lycidas, 15:52-58 + +23rd. EDGAR LEE MASTERS, b. 23 Ag. 1869 + I. Isaiah Beethoven, 14:308 + II. Hardy's She Hears the Storm, 14:312 + III. Wheelock's The Unknown Beloved, 10:309 + +24th. ROBERT HERRICK, baptized 24 Ag. 1591 + I. To Dianeme, 12:123 + II. Upon Julia's Clothes, 12:124 + III. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 12:125 + IV. Delight in Disorder, 12:125-126 + V. To Anthea, 12:126-127 + VI. To Daisies, 12:127 + VII. The Night Piece, 12:128 + +25th. BRET HARTE, b. 25 Ag. 1839 + I. Plain Language from Truthful James, II:234-236 + II. The Outcasts of Poker Flat, 20-Pt. I:30-46 + III. Ramon, 11:285-288 + IV. Her Letter, 8-Pt. I:113-115 + +26th. I. Holley's An Unmarried Female, 8-Pt. II: 26-36 + + +We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions. + --HENRY FIELDING. + +AUGUST 27TH TO SEPTEMBER 2ND + + +27th. I. Scott's Coronach, 15:33-34 + II. Lochinvar, 10:36-39 + III. A Weary Lot Is Thine, 10:40-41 + IV. County Guy, 12:154-155 + V. Hail to the Chief, 12:203-204 + +28th. LEO TOLSTOI, b. 28 Ag. 1828 + I. The Prisoner in the Caucasus, 19-Pt. I:141-186 + +29th. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,b. 29Ag. 1809;d. + I. The Ballad of the Oysterman, 7-Pt. I:105-106 + II. My Aunt, 7-Pt. I:23-24 + III. Foreign Correspondence, 7-Pt. I:77-80 + IV. The Chambered Nautilus, 14:108-109 + The Royal George lost 29 Ag. 1782 + V. Cowper's On the Loss of the Royal George, 10:148-149 + +30th. I. Scott's Brignall Banks, 10:41-43 + II. Hunting Song, 12:230-231 + III. Soldier Rest, 12:277-278 + IV. Proud Maisie, 10:258 + V. Harp of the North, 12:286-287 + +31st. THOPHILE GAUTIER, b. 31 Ag. 1811 + I. The Mummy's Foot, 19-Pt. I:90-108 + +S. 1ST. SIMEON FORD, b. 31 Ag. 1855 + I. At a Turkish Bath, 9-Pt. II:74-77 + II. The Discomforts of Travel, 9-Pt. II: 123-127 + III. Boyhood in a New England Hotel, 9-Pt. I:123-126 + +2nd. AUSTIN DOBSON, d. 2 S. 1921 + I. Ballad of Prose and Rhyme, 12:335 + II. Carman's Vagabond Song, 12:330 + III. Colum's Old Woman of the Roads, 14:311 + IV. Peabody's House and the Road, 12:344 + V. Daly's Inscription for a Fireplace, 13:294 + + +Old wood best to burn; old wine to drink; old friends to trust; and +old authors to read. + --ALONZO OF ARAGON. + +SEPTEMBER 3RD TO 9TH + + +3rd. IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENIEFF, d. 3 S.1883 + I. The Song of Triumphant Love, 19-Pt. I: 109-140 + II. Wordsworth's Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, + Sept, 3, 1802, 13:211 + +4th. SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE, d. 4 (?) S. 1591 + I. Tennyson's The Revenge, 10:222-229 + II. Wordsworth's To the Skylark, 12:40-41 + III. On a Picture of Peele Castle, 14:44-47 + +5th. I. Some Messages Received by Teachers in Brooklyn Public + Schools, 7-Pt. II:144-147 + II. Emerson's Labor, 2-Pt. I:138-145 + +6th. I. Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence, 11:48-54 + II. Yarrow Unvisited, 14:53-55 + III. Intimations of Immortality, 13:89-96 + IV. Ode to Duty, 13:96-98 + V. The Small Celandine, 14:112-113 + +7th. I. Milton's Echo, 12:25-26 + II. Sabrina, 12:26-27 + III. The Spirit's Epilogue, 12:27-29 + IV. On Time, 13:52-53 + V. At a Solemn Music, 13:53-54 + +8th. I. Wordsworth's Lucy, 15:114-118 + II. Hart-Leap Well, 10:134-142 + SIEGFRIED SASSOON, b. 8 S. 1886 + III. Dreamers, 15:223 + +9th. SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, drowned 9 S. 1583 + I. Longfellow's Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 10:160-161 + Battle of Flodden Field, 9 S. 1513 + II. Elliot's A Lament for Flodden, 10:251-252 + III. Wordsworth's Stepping Westward, 14:158-159 + IV. She Was A Phantom of Delight, 14:159-160 + V. Scorn Not the Sonnet, 13:175-176 + + +To desire to have many books, and never use them, is like a child +that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping. + --HENRY PEACHAM. + +SEPTEMBER 10TH TO 16TH + + +10th. I. Wordsworth's Nuns Fret Not, 13:175 + II. Lines, 14:253-255 + III. We Are Seven, 10:252-255 + +11th. JAMES THOMSON, b. II S. 1700 + I. Rule Britannia, 12:208-209 + II. Collins's On the Death of Thomson, 15:59-60 + III. Lowell's A Winter Ride, 12:331 + IV. MacKaye's The Automobile, 13:290 + +12th. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, b. 12 S. 1829 + I. Plumbers, 8-Pt. I:150-151 + II. My Summer in a Garden, 7-Pt. I:6l-74 + III. How I Killed a Bear, 9-Pt. I:59-70 + +13th. GENERAL AMBROSE EVERETT BURNSIDE, d. 13 S. 1881 + I. Lincoln's Letter to Burnside, 5-Pt. I:118 + II. Collins's Ode Written in 1745, 15:34 + III. The Passions, 13:81-85 + IV. Ode to Evening, 13:85-88 + V. Dirge in Cymbeline, 15:112-113 + +14th. DUKE OF WELLINGTON, d. 14 S. 1852 + I. Tennyson's Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, + 13:151-161 + DANTE, d. 14 S. 1321 + II. Longfellow's Dante and Divina Comedia, 13:239-244 + III. Parsons's On a Bust of Dante, 14:152-154 + +15th. I. Wordsworth's The Solitary Reaper, 14:160-161 + II. Jonson's Hymn to Diana, 12:14 + III. Pindaric Ode, 13:37-42 + IV. Epitaph, 15:46-47 + V. On Elizabeth L. H., 15:47 + +16th. ALFRED NOYES, b. 16 S. 1880 + I. Old Grey Squirrel, 14:306 + JOHN GAY, baptized 16 S. 1685 + II. Black-Eyed Susan, 10:32-34 + CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS, b. 16 S. 1861 + III. O-U-G-H, 7-Pt. I:143 + + +It does not matter how many, but how good, books you have. + --SENECA. + +SEPTEMBER 17TH to 23RD + + +17th. I. Turner's The Harvest Moon, 13:249 + II. Letty's Globe, 13:245-246 + III. Mary, A Reminiscence, 13:246-247 + IV. Her First-born, 13:247-248 + V. The Lattice at Sunrise, 13:248 + +18th. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, b. 18 S. 1709 + I. Macaulay's Dr. Samuel Johnson, 2-Pt. II:39-79 + +19th. HARTLEY COLERIDGE, b. 19 S. 1796 + I. Song, 12:166-167 + II. Sonnets, 13:227-230 + III. Coleridge's Frost at Midnight, 14:22-25 + IV. Love, 10:44-47 + V. France: An Ode, 13:99-103 + +20th. WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE, d. 20 S. 1863 + I. Antony to Cleopatra, 14:238-240 + II. Hood's The Death Bed, 15:131 + III. Autumn, 13:148-150 + IV. Ruth, 14:157-158 + V. Fair Ines, 12:168-169 + +21st. SIR WALTER SCOTT, d. 21 S. 1832 + I. Sir Walter Scott, 17-Pt. I:65-73 + II. The Maid of Neidpath, 10:39-40 + III. Pibroch of Donald Dhu, 12:201-203 + IV. Wandering Willie's Tale, 20-Pt. II:75-103 + +22nd. I. Wordsworth's My Heart Leaps Up, 13:274 + II. Laodamia, 11:143-150 + III. There Was a Boy, 14:156-157 + +23rd. Battle of Monterey, 23 S. 1846 + I. Hoffman's Monterey, 10:206-207 + II. Lovelace's The Grasshopper, 12:30 + III. To Lucasta, 12:129-130 + IV. To Althea, 12:130-131 + V. To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, 12:198 + + +The words of the good are like a staff in a slippery place. + --HINDU SAYING. + +SEPTEMBER 24TH TO 30TH + + +24th. I. Noyes's Creation, 15:204 + +25th. FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS, b. 25 S. 1793 + I. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, 10:151-153 + II. Poe's Annabel Lee, 10:56-57 + III. To Helen, 12:176 + IV. The Bells, 12:234-238 + V. For Annie, 12:305-308 + +26th. I. Holmes's Latter-Day Warnings, 7-Pt. I:34-35 + II. Contentment, 7-Pt. I:35-38 + III. An Aphorism, 8-Pt. II:44-52 + IV. Music Pounding, 7-Pt. I:80-81 + +27th. I. Holmes's The Height of the Ridiculous, 8-Pt. I:118-119 + II. The Last Leaf, 14:167-168 + III. The One-Hoss Shay, 11:236-241 + +28th. I. Morley's Haunting Beauty of Strychnine, 9-Pt. I:135 + II. Guiterman's Strictly Germ-Proof, 7-Pt. I:141 + III. Burgess's Lazy Roof, 8-Pt. I:149 + IV. My Feet, 8-Pt. I:149 + +29th. MILE ZOLA, d. 29 S. 1902 + I. The Death of Olivier Bcaille, 21-Pt. I:53-93 + +30th. I. Lowell's Without and Within, 8-Pt. II:72-73 + II. She Came and Went, 15:134 + III. The Sower, 14:144-145 + IV. Sonnets, 13:251-253 + V. What Rabbi Jehosha Said, 14:282-283 + + +If you are reading a piece of thoroughly good literature, Baron +Rothschild may possibly be as well occupied as you--he is certainly not +better occupied. + --P. G. HAMERTON. + +OCTOBER 1ST TO 7TH + + +1st. LOUIS UNTERMYER, b. 1 O. 1885 + I. Only of Thee and Me, 12:339 + II. Morris's October, 14:105-106 + III. Bunner's Candor, 8-Pt. I:11-12 + +2nd. French Fleet destroyed off Boston, October, 1746 + I. Longfellow's Ballad of the French Fleet, 10:202-204 + II. Mrs. Browning's Sleep, 15:21-23 + III. The Romance of the Swan's Nest, 10:79-83 + IV. A Dead Rose, 12:191-192 + V. A Man's Requirements, 12:192-194 + +3rd. WILLIAM MORRIS, d. 3 0. 1896 + I. Summer Dawn, 12:172 + II. The Nymph's Song to Hylas, 12:173-174 + III. The Voice of Toil, 12:290-292 + IV. The Shameful Death, 10:277-279 + +4th. HENRY CAREY, d. 4 O. 1743 + I. Sally in Our Alley, 12:142-144 + II. Van Dyke's The Proud Lady, 10:296 + +5th. I. Poe's Ulalume, II:302-306 + II. Arnold's The Last Word, 15:43 + III. A Nameless Epitaph, 15:48 + IV. Thyrsis, 15:86-97 + V. Requiescat, 15:120-121 + +6th. GEORGE HENRY BOKER, b. 6 O. 1893 + I. The Black Regiment, 10:207-210 + II. Lamb's Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:129-132 + III. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:136-143 + IV. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:143-145 + +7th. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, d. 7 O. 1586 + I. The Bargain, 12:87 + II. Astrophel and Stella, 13:178-180 + III. To Sir Philip Sidney's Soul, 13:181 + EDGAR ALLAN POE, d. 7 O. 1849 + IV. The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Pt. I:1-53 + + +A little before you go to sleep read something that is exquisite and +worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall asleep. + --ERASMUS. + +OCTOBER 8TH TO 14TH + + +8th. JOHN HAY, b. 8 O. 1838 + I. Little Breeches, 7-Pt. I:45-47 + EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, b. 8 0. 1833. + II. The Diamond Wedding, 7-Pt. I:107-114 + +9th. S. W. GILLILAN, b. O. 1869 + I. Finnigin to Flannigan, 9-Pt. I:92-93 + II. Dunne's On Expert Testimony, 9-Pt. II:13-16 + III. Work and Sport, 9-Pt. II:87-92 + IV. Avarice and Generosity, 9-Pt. II:144-146 + +10th. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, d. 10 0. 1872 + I. Lincoln's Letter to Seward, 5-Pt. I:111-112 + II. Walker's Medicine Show, 18:213 + +11th. I. Keats's To Autumn, 13:142-143 + II. Carew's Epitaph, 15:48 + III. Disdain Returned, 12:133-134 + IV. Song, 12:134 + V. To His Inconstant Mistress, 12:135 + +12th. ROBERT E. LEE, d. 12 O. 1870 + I. Robert E. Lee, 16-Pt. II:62-73 + DINAH MULOCK CRAIK, d. 12 O. 1887. + II. Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True 12:310-311 + +13th. SIR HENRY IRVING, d. 13 O. 1905 + I. Sir Henry Irving, 17-Pt. II:39-47 + +14th. JOSH BILLINGS (H. W. SHAW), d. 14 O. 1885 + I. Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats, 7-Pt. I:48-51 + II. To Correspondents, 9-Pt. I:73-74 + III. Russell's Origin of the Banjo, 9-Pt. I:79-82 + + +And when a man is at home and happy with a book, sitting by his +fireside, he must be a churl if he does not communicate that happiness. +Let him read now and then to his wife and children. + --H. FRISWELL. + +OCTOBER 15TH TO 21ST + + +15th. I. Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, 12:272-273 + II. Shakespeare's Over Hill, Over Dale, 12:19 + III. Poe's Assignation, 4-Pt. I:81-101 + +16th. I. Nye's How to Hunt the Fox, 8-Pt. I:70-78 + II. A Fatal Thirst, 7-Pt. II:148-150 + III. On Cyclones, 9-Pt. I:83-85 + +17th. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, d. 17 O. 1910 + I. Gloucester Moors, 11:320 + +18th. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, 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 Passionate 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. Vobiscum 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 DYKE, 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 title-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 + + +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 Molire-- + 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 pass to the +greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasures that God has +prepared for his creatures.... It lasts when all other pleasures fade. + --TROLLOPE. + +DECEMBER 10TH TO 16TH + + +10th. EMILY DICKINSON, 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 divertisement 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 + +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 Nol, 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. Shelley'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 + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Guide to Reading +by Edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott, Asa Don Dickenson, and Others + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GUIDE TO READING *** + +This file should be named 7167-8.txt or 7167-8.zip + +Produced by Michelle Shephard, Tiffany Vergon, Charles Aldarondo, +Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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