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Les grandes douleurs sont les serres chaudes de l’âme.[1]“Noirs et Rouges,” Chap. XXI, p. 319,—Cherbuliez.

Les grandes douleurs sont les serres chaudes de l’âme.[1]

“Noirs et Rouges,” Chap. XXI, p. 319,—Cherbuliez.

Victor Cherbuliez, a distinguished French romancist, was born at Geneva, July 19, 1829, and died in 1899. Under the name of “G. Valbert,” he wrote: “A Horse by Phidias,” “A Political Spain,” “Foreign Profiles,” “Art and Nature“; also, “Romance of a Respectable Woman,” “Prosper Randoce,” “Miss Rovel,” “Samuel Brohl & Co.,” etc.

Taine liked to say, that what he most admired in the works of Renan, was “that one could not see how it was done“; and he was right, if he meant only the style or the “phrase,” which gives the impression of being born spontaneously, without effort and without art, under the pen of Renan.—Ferdinand Brunetière.

—Ferdinand Brunetière.

Ferdinand Brunetière, a celebrated French critic, and man of letters, was born at Toulon, July 19, 1849, and diedDecember 9, 1906. Among his publications are: “Études critiques,” “Le Roman Naturaliste,” “Histoire et Littérature,” “Discours Académiques,” “Discours de Combat,” “L’Action Sociale du Christianisme,” “Sur les Chemins de la Croyance,” etc.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.Sonnet ccxxv, Canzone xxi, “To Laura in Life.”

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

Sonnet ccxxv, Canzone xxi, “To Laura in Life.”

Francesco Petrarch, the greatest of Italian lyric poets, was born at Arezzo, July 20, 1304, and died at Arquà, July 18, 1374. He wrote: “Africa,” “Memoranda,” “Of Contempt of the World,” “Of the Solitary Life,” “Of the Remedies for Either Fortune,” “Rime,” “Of Illustrious Men,” “Metrical Epistles,” etc.

To sea! to sea! the calm is o’er,The wanton water leaps in sport,And rattles down the pebbly shore,The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort,And unseen mermaid’s pearly songComes bubbling up, the weeds among.Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar:To sea! to sea! the calm is o’er.“To Sea!”—Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

“To Sea!”—Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes, a noted English poet and dramatist, was born at Clifton, July 20, 1803, and died at Basle, January 26, 1849. He wrote: “The Improvisatore,” and “The Bride’s Tragedy,” “Poetical Works” (London, 1890), and “Letters” (London, 1894), were edited by Edmond Gosse.

Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrivesShe builds our quiet as she forms our lives;Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,And opens in each heart a little heaven.“Charity,”—Matthew Prior.

Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrivesShe builds our quiet as she forms our lives;Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,And opens in each heart a little heaven.

“Charity,”—Matthew Prior.

Matthew Prior, an eminent English poet, was born at Wimborne in Dorsetshire, July 21, 1664, and died at Wimpole in Cambridgeshire, September 18, 1721. Among his noted works are: “Solomon,” “Alma; or, the Progress of the Mind,” and “Poems on Several Occasions.”

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?“Characteristics,” A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Sect. 2,—Shaftesbury.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?

“Characteristics,” A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Sect. 2,—Shaftesbury.

Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, a distinguished English statesman, was born in Wimborne, St. Giles, Dorsetshire, July 22, 1621, and died in Amsterdam, January 22, 1683. His notable work was: “Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times,” a collection of his numerous writings.

Blithe wanderer of the wintry air,Now here, now there, now everywhere,Quickly drifting to and fro,A cheerful life devoid of care,A shadow on the snow.“The English Sparrow,”—George W. Bungay.

Blithe wanderer of the wintry air,Now here, now there, now everywhere,Quickly drifting to and fro,A cheerful life devoid of care,A shadow on the snow.

“The English Sparrow,”—George W. Bungay.

George Washington Bungay, a noted journalist and poet, was born in Walsingham, England, July 22, 1818, and died July 10, 1892. The best known of his many poems are: “The Creed of the Bells,” and “The English Sparrow.” He also wrote: “Abraham Lincoln Songster,” “Pen Portraits of Illustrious Abstainers,” etc.

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that heWho finds himself, loses his misery.“Self Independence,”—Coventry K. D. Patmore.

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that heWho finds himself, loses his misery.

“Self Independence,”—Coventry K. D. Patmore.

Coventry Keassey Deighton Patmore, a celebrated English poet, was born at Woodford in Essex, July 23, 1823, and died in 1896. He wrote: “The Unknown Eros,” “Amelia,” “The Rod, the Root and the Flower,” “The Angel in the House,” “Principle in Art, and Other Essays,” etc.

Truth is liable to be left-handed in history.—Dumas, (Père).

Truth is liable to be left-handed in history.

—Dumas, (Père).

Alexandre Dumas, the Elder, an illustrious French dramatist and romancist, was born at Villière Cotterets, Aisne, July 24, 1803 (?), and died near Dieppe, December 5, 1870. A few of his great romances are: “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “The Three Musketeers,” “Twenty Years After,” “The Knight of Maison-Rouge,” “Viscount de Bragelonne,” “Queen Margot,” etc., etc. Some of his historical romances are: “Joan of Arc,” “Michelangelo and Raffaelle,” “Louis XIV and His Age,” etc. His most famous plays were: “Henri III. and His Court,” “Antony,” “Charles VII with His Grand Vassals,” “Napoleon Bonaparte,” “Mdlle. de Belle-Isle,” “Marriage under Louis XV,” “The Misses St. Cyr,” etc. He also wrote entertaining narratives of his travels in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, North Africa, Syria, Egypt, etc.

Heaven is not reached at a single bound;But we build the ladder by which we riseFrom the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,And we mount to its summit round by round.“Gradatim,”—-Josiah G. Holland.

Heaven is not reached at a single bound;But we build the ladder by which we riseFrom the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,And we mount to its summit round by round.

“Gradatim,”—-Josiah G. Holland.

Josiah Gilbert Holland, a famous American poet and novelist and editor, was born at Belchertown, Mass., July 24, 1819, and died in New York, October 12, 1881. Among his works are: “Letters to the Young,” “Life of Abraham Lincoln,” “Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects,” “Nicholas Minturn,” etc. Also poems under the titles: “Bitter Sweet,” “Kathrina,” “The Mistress of the Manse,” “Garnered Sheaves,” etc.

The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.“The Foundations of Belief,”—Arthur James Balfour.

“The Foundations of Belief,”—Arthur James Balfour.

Rt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour, a distinguished English author and statesman, was born July 25, 1848. He has written: “A Defence of Philosophic Doubt,” “The Foundations of Belief,” “Essays and Addresses,” “Economic Notes on Insular Free Trade,” “Speeches” (1880-1905), on “Fiscal Reform,” “Criticism and Beauty,” “Theism and Humanism,” etc.

I remember, I rememberHow my childhood fleeted by,—The mirth of its DecemberAnd the warmth of its July.“I remember, I remember,”—Winthrop M. Praed.

I remember, I rememberHow my childhood fleeted by,—The mirth of its DecemberAnd the warmth of its July.

“I remember, I remember,”—Winthrop M. Praed.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed, a celebrated English poet, was born in London, July 26, 1802, and died in 1839. Among his best known pieces are: “The Red Fisherman,” “Private Theatricals,” “Every-Day Characters,” “School and Schoolfellows,” “A Letter of Advice,” “Our Ball,” “My Partner,” “My Little Cousins,” etc.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.“Man and Superman,”—George Bernard Shaw.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

“Man and Superman,”—George Bernard Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw, a famous British author and playwright, was born in Dublin, July 26, 1856. He has written, “The Quintessence of Ibsenism,” “The Sanity of Art,” “The Perfect Wagnerite,” “The Common Sense of Municipal Training,” “Socialism and Superior Brains,” “Common Sense about the War,” etc. Also: “The Admirable Bashville,” “Man and Superman,” “John Bull’s Other Island,” “How He Lied to Her Husband,” “Major Barbara,” “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” “Getting Married,” “Misalliance,” “Fanny’s First Play,” “Androcles and theLion,” “Pygmalion,” “Overruled,” “Great Catherine,” “The Music-Cure,” “O’Flaherty, V. C.,” “An Unsocial Socialist,” “The Devil’s Disciple,” “Cæsar and Cleopatra,” “The Man of Destiny,” “You Never Can Tell,” “Back to Methuselah” (cycle of plays), etc.

’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,And robes the mountain in its azure hue.“Pleasures of Hope,” Part I, Line 7,—Thomas Campbell.

’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

“Pleasures of Hope,” Part I, Line 7,—Thomas Campbell.

Thomas Campbell, a Scottish poet, of great fame, was born at Glasgow, July 27, 1777; and died at Boulogne, France June, 15, 1844. The best known of his poems are: “Gertrude of Wyoming,” “Pleasures of Hope,” “Lochiel’s Warning,” “The Exile of Erin,” “Battle of the Baltic,” “Ye Mariners of England,” etc.

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.—Dumas, Fils.

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

—Dumas, Fils.

Alexandre Dumas, the Younger, the renowned French dramatist and romancist, was born at Paris, July 27, 1824, and died November 28, 1895. A few of his famous romances are: “A Woman’s Romance,” “Césarine,” “Camille,” etc. Also, “The Divorce Question,” “The Clemenceau Case,” “The Natural Son,” “The Friend of Women,” “Claude’s Wife,” “The Danicheffs,” “Joseph Balsamo,” “Françillon,” etc.

Of Courtesy it is much lessThan Courage of Heart or Holiness,Yet in my Walks it seems to meThat the Grace of God is in Courtesy.“Courtesy,”—Hilaire Belloc.

Of Courtesy it is much lessThan Courage of Heart or Holiness,Yet in my Walks it seems to meThat the Grace of God is in Courtesy.

“Courtesy,”—Hilaire Belloc.

Hilaire Belloc, a celebrated English author, was born July 27, 1870. Among his works are: “Verses and Sonnets,” “Paris,” “Robespierre,” “Path to Rome,” “Hills and the Sea,” “Marie Antoinette,” “The Green Overcoat,” “The Mercy of Allah,” “General Sketch of the European War, 1st Phase,” “The Last Days of the French Monarchy.”

Beautiful Faith, surrendering to Time.“Marpessa,” L. 62,—Stephen Phillips.

Beautiful Faith, surrendering to Time.

“Marpessa,” L. 62,—Stephen Phillips.

Stephen Phillips, a noted English author and poet, was born near the City of Oxford, July 28, 1868, and died December 9, 1915. Among his poetical pieces are: “The Woman with the Dead Soul,” “Marpessa,” “The Wife,” “After Rain,” “Thoughts at Sunrise,” “Thoughts at Noon.” The first volume of his “Poems” appeared in 1897, and “New Poems” in 1907.

“It is a great blessing,” says Pascal, “to be born a man of quality, since it brings one man as far forward at eighteen or twenty as another man would be at fifty, which is a clear gain of thirty years.” These thirty years are commonly wanting to the ambitious characters of democracies. The principle of equality, which allows every man to arrive at everything, prevents all men from rapid advancement.—Alexis de Tocqueville.

—Alexis de Tocqueville.

Alexis de Tocqueville, a distinguished French publicist and writer, was born at Vermeuil (Seine-et-Oise), July 29, 1805, and died at Cannes, April 16, 1859. His writings include: “The Old Régime and the Revolution,” “Democracy in America,” and “Works,” 9 vols., which appeared in 1860-65.

She was good as she was fair,None—none on earth above her!As pure in thought as angels are:To know her was to love her.“Jacqueline,” Stanza 1,—Samuel Rogers.

She was good as she was fair,None—none on earth above her!As pure in thought as angels are:To know her was to love her.

“Jacqueline,” Stanza 1,—Samuel Rogers.

Samuel Rogers, a famous English poet, was born at Newington Green, London, July 30, 1763, and died in London, December 18, 1855. He wrote “The Voyage of Columbus,” “Italy,” “Human Life,” “Pleasures of Memory,” and “Jacqueline.”

He was utterly incapable of anything like baseness. No man could be more jealous of his honour; no man had a greater pride in being largely and loftily a man.“Life of Robert Burns,”—John Stuart Blackie.

He was utterly incapable of anything like baseness. No man could be more jealous of his honour; no man had a greater pride in being largely and loftily a man.

“Life of Robert Burns,”—John Stuart Blackie.

John Stuart Blackie, a notable Scottish author was born in Glasgow, July 31, 1809, and died in Edinburgh, March 2, 1895. His works include translations from the Greek and German; moral and religious and other philosophy; also, “Lays of the Highlands and Islands,” “Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands,” “Wisdom of Goethe,” “Life of Burns,” “Essays on Subjects of Moral and Social Interest,” “Self-Culture,” etc.

[1]Great sorrows are the hot-houses of the soul.

AUGUST

All human race, from China to Peru,Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.“Universal Love of Pleasure,”—Thomas Warton.

All human race, from China to Peru,Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.

“Universal Love of Pleasure,”—Thomas Warton.

Thomas Warton, a distinguished English clergyman, critic, was born at Basingstoke, August 1 (?), 1728, and died at Oxford, May 21, 1790. He was poet-laureate of England in 1785. He wrote: “History of English Poetry,” etc.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.—F. Marion Crawford.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

—F. Marion Crawford.

Francis Marion Crawford, a celebrated American author, was born in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, August 2, 1854, and died in 1909. Among his noted works are: “Dr. Claudius,” “Mr. Isaacs,” “A Tale of a Lonely Parish,” “Zoroaster,” “With the Immortals,” “Sant’ Ilario,” “The Witch of Prague,” “Love in Idleness,” “A Rose of Yesterday,” “Don Orsino,” “Via Crucis,” “In the Palace of the King,” “The Heart of Rome,” “Fair Margaret,” and its sequel, “Prima Donna.”

Best they honor theeWho honor in thee only what is best.“The True Patriotism,”—William Watson.

Best they honor theeWho honor in thee only what is best.

“The True Patriotism,”—William Watson.

Sir William Watson, a famous English poet, was born at Wharfedale, August 2, 1858. He has published: “The Prince’s Quest,” “Epigrams of Art,” “Wordsworth’sGrave, and Other Poems,” “Lachrymæ Musarum,” “Excursions in Criticism,” “The Eloping Angels,” “Odes, and Other Poems,” “The Purple East,” “The Year of Shame,” “The Hope of the World,” “Collected Poems,” “For England: Poems Written During Estrangement,” “New Poems,” “Pencraft; A Plea for the Older Ways,” “Retrogression,” “The Man Who Saw,” “The Superhuman Antagonists,” etc.

Ah woe is me, through all my days,Wisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men’s praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.“The Way to Arcady,”—Henry C. Bunner.

Ah woe is me, through all my days,Wisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men’s praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

“The Way to Arcady,”—Henry C. Bunner.

Henry Cuyler Bunner, a celebrated American poet and story-writer, was born in Oswego, N. Y., August 3, 1855, and died in Nutley, N. J., May 11, 1896. He wrote: “A Woman of Honor,” “Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere,” “The Runaway Browns,” “Zadoc Pine and Other Stories,” “Jersey Street and Jersey Lane,” “The Midge,” “Short Sixes,” etc.

All love is sweet,Given or returned. Common as light is love,And its familiar voice wearies not ever.. . . . . . . . .They who inspire it most are fortunate,As I am now; but those who feel it mostAre happier still.“Prometheus Unbound,” Act ii, Sc. 5.—Percy B. Shelley.

“Prometheus Unbound,” Act ii, Sc. 5.—Percy B. Shelley.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, the renowned English poet, was born at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, August 4, 1792, and was drowned off the coast of Italy, July 8, 1822. Among his many works may be mentioned: “A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things,” “Queen Mab: A Philosophic Poem,” “Rosalind and Helen: A ModernEclogue; with Other Poems,” “Hellas: A Lyrical Drama,” “Adonais: an Elegy on the Death of John Keats,” “The Cenci: A Tragedy,” “Prometheus Unbound: a Lyrical Drama,” “An Address to the Irish People,” “Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, and Other Poems,” “A Vindication of Natural Diet,” “A Refutation of Deism,” etc.

Opinions!—they are like the clothes we wear, which warm us, not with heat, but with ours.—Walter Pater.

Opinions!—they are like the clothes we wear, which warm us, not with heat, but with ours.

—Walter Pater.

Walter (Horatio) Pater, a distinguished English literary and art critic, was born at London, August 4, 1839, and died at Oxford, July 30, 1894. He wrote: “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry,” “Marius the Epicurean,” “Imaginary Portraits,” “Appreciations,” “Plato and Plato-nism,” “The Child in the House,” etc.

There was something sinister and superb in the song of these shipwrecked and condemned creatures, something like a prayer and also something grander and comparable to the ancient and sublime,Ave Cæsar, morituri te salutant.“La Petite Rogue,”—Guy de Maupassant.

“La Petite Rogue,”—Guy de Maupassant.

Guy de Maupassant, a noted French novelist, was born at the Château de Miromesnil, (Seine-Inférieure), August 5, 1850, and died in Paris, July 6, 1893. Among his many works are: “In the Sunshine,” “On the Water,” “The Left Hand,” “The Sisters Rondoli,” “Peter and John,” “Strong as Death,” “Tales of Day and Night,” “Our Heart,” “A Wondering Life,” etc.

Il embellit tout ce qu’il touche.[1]“Lettre sur les Occupations de L’Académie Française,” Sect. iv,Fénélon.

Il embellit tout ce qu’il touche.[1]

“Lettre sur les Occupations de L’Académie Française,” Sect. iv,Fénélon.

François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénélon, an illustrious French theologian and writer, was born in the ChâteauFénélon, in Perigord, Dordogne, August 6, 1651, and died January 7, 1715. He wrote: “Life of Charlemagne,” “Exposition of the Maxims of the Saints Regarding the Inner Life,” “Fables,” “Treatise on the Education of Young Girls,” and his most noted work, “Telemachus.”

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.“Locksley Hall,” Line 19,—Alfred Tennyson.

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

“Locksley Hall,” Line 19,—Alfred Tennyson.

Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson, one of the greatest of English poets, was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, August 6, 1809, and died at Aldworth, October 6, 1892. Among his famous works are: “Maud and Other Poems,” “Queen Mary,” “The Princess,” “The Foresters,” “Enoch Arden,” “The Holy Grail,” “Harold,” “The Idylls of the King,” “Tiresias,” “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After,” “Poems, Chiefly Lyrical,” “In Memoriam,” etc.

When Freedom from her mountain-heightUnfurled her standard to the air,She tore the azure robe of night,And set the stars of glory there.“The American Flag,”—Joseph Rodman Drake.

When Freedom from her mountain-heightUnfurled her standard to the air,She tore the azure robe of night,And set the stars of glory there.

“The American Flag,”—Joseph Rodman Drake.

Joseph Rodman Drake, a noted American poet, was born at New York, August 7, 1795, and died September 21, 1820. Among his poetical works are: “The Culprit Fay,” “Abelard to Héloise,” “The American Flag,” etc.

There were few of Tennyson’s poems which I did not know by heart without any attempt to commit them to memory.“Books Which Have Influenced Me,”—Canon Farrar.

There were few of Tennyson’s poems which I did not know by heart without any attempt to commit them to memory.

“Books Which Have Influenced Me,”—Canon Farrar.

Frederick William Farrar, a celebrated English clergyman, was born at Bombay, India, August 7, 1831, and diedMarch 22, 1903. His most notable works are: “Life and Works of Saint Paul,” “The Witness of History to Christ,” “The Life of Christ,” “The Early Days of Christianity,” “Eternal Hope,” “The Origin of Language,” “Chapters on Language,” “Families of Speech,” “Language and Languages,” “Darkness and Dawn,” “The Voice from Sinai,” “The Life of Christ as represented in Art,” “Gathering Clouds,” and “The Bible, Its Meaning and Supremacy.”

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.“Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil,” sect. 3 (1720),—Hutcheson.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

“Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil,” sect. 3 (1720),—Hutcheson.

Francis Hutcheson, a distinguished Scotch educator and philosopher was born at Drumalig, Ulster, Ireland, August 8, 1694, and died in Glasgow about 1746. He was the author of “Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue,” “Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections,” “System of Moral Philosophy,” etc.

Oh! say, can you see by the dawn’s early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?—Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the clouds of the fightO’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming!And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet waveO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?“The Star-Spangled Banner,”—Francis Scott Key.

“The Star-Spangled Banner,”—Francis Scott Key.

Francis Scott Key, a noted American poet, was born in Frederick County, Md., August 9, 1780, and died at Baltimore, January 11, 1843. He is best known as the author of “The Star Spangled Banner.”

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did”; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.“The Complete Angler,” Part I, Chap. II,—Izaak Walton.

“The Complete Angler,” Part I, Chap. II,—Izaak Walton.

Izaak Walton, a celebrated English author, was born in Stafford, England, August 9, 1593, and died at Winchester, December 15, 1683. His most famous work was: “The Complete Angler: or, the Contemplative Man’s Recreation.” He also wrote the biographies of a number of famous men, known as “Walton’s Lives.”

Happy the man, and happy he alone,He who can call to-day his own;He who, secure within, can say,To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv’d to-day.“Imitation of Horace,” Book iii, Ode 29, Line 65,—John Dryden.

Happy the man, and happy he alone,He who can call to-day his own;He who, secure within, can say,To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv’d to-day.

“Imitation of Horace,” Book iii, Ode 29, Line 65,—John Dryden.

John Dryden, the renowned English poet, was born at Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, August 9, 1631, and died in London, May 1, 1700. His most famous works were: “The Hind and the Panther,” “Alexander’s Feast,” and “Absalom and Achitophel,” also a number of noted plays including: “Marriage à la Mode,” “The Conquest of Grenada,” “The Spanish Friar,” “Don Sebastian,” “All for Love,” etc.

His temper was of that warm susceptible kind which is caught with the heroic and the tender, and, which is more fitted to delight in the world of sentiment than to succeed in the bustle of ordinary life. This is a disposition of mind well suited to the poetical character, and, accordingly, all his earliest companions agree that Mr. Home was from his childhood delighted with the lofty and heroic ideas which embody themselves in the description or narrative of poetry.... Mr. Home’s favorite amusement was angling.“Account of the Life of Mr. John Home,” “Home’s Works,” Vol. I, pp. 6, 31,—Henry Mackenzie.

“Account of the Life of Mr. John Home,” “Home’s Works,” Vol. I, pp. 6, 31,—Henry Mackenzie.

Henry Mackenzie, a noted Scotch novelist, essayist andmiscellaneous writer, was born at Edinburgh, August 10, 1745, and died there January 14, 1831. He wrote: “The Man of the World,” “Julia de Roubigné,” “Works” (8 vols.), and “The Man of Feeling,” his most famous work.

Yes, Walt Whitman has appeared. He has his place upon the stage. The drama is not ended. His voice is still heard. He is the poet of democracy—of all people. He is the poet of the body and soul. He has sounded the note of individuality. He has given the pass-word primeval. He is the Poet of Humanity—of Intellectual Hospitality. He has voiced the aspirations of America, and, above all, he is the poet of Love and Death.“Liberty in Literature,” In Re Walt Whitman,—Robert G. Ingersoll.

“Liberty in Literature,” In Re Walt Whitman,—Robert G. Ingersoll.

Robert Green Ingersoll, a distinguished American orator, lecturer and lawyer, was born in Dresden, N. Y., August 11, 1833, and died at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., July 21, 1899. He has published: “Some Mistakes of Moses,” “Lectures, Complete,” “Great Speeches,” “Prose Poems and Selections.”

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.—Octave Feuillet.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

—Octave Feuillet.

Octave Feuillet, a celebrated French novelist, was born at St. Lô, August 11, 1821, and died at Paris, December 29, 1890. He wrote: “The Great Old Man,” “The History of Sibylla,” “Julie de Trécœur,” “A Marriage in High Life,” “Story of a Parisienne,” “La Morte,” and his most notable work, “Romance of a Poor Young Man.”

My mother says I must not passToo near that glass;She is afraid that I will seeA little witch that looks like me,With a red mouth to whisper lowThe very thing I should not know.“The Witch in the Glass,”—Sarah Morgan Bryant Piatt.

My mother says I must not passToo near that glass;She is afraid that I will seeA little witch that looks like me,With a red mouth to whisper lowThe very thing I should not know.

“The Witch in the Glass,”—Sarah Morgan Bryant Piatt.

Mrs. Sarah Morgan (Bryant) Piatt, a noted American poet, was born at Lexington, Ky., August 11, 1836. Herbest known works are: “A Woman’s Poems,” “A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles,” “Dramatic Persons and Moods,” “The Witch in the Glass,” “An Enchanted Castle,” etc.

How beautiful is night!A dewy freshness fills the silent air;No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain,Breaks the serene of heaven:In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divineRolls through the dark blue depths;Beneath her steady rayThe desert circle spreadsLike the round ocean, girdled with the sky.How beautiful is night!“Thalaba,” Book i, Stanza 1,—Robert Southey.

“Thalaba,” Book i, Stanza 1,—Robert Southey.

Robert Southey, an English poet and prose-writer, of great renown, was born in Bristol, August 12, 1774, and died March 21, 1843. He wrote: “A Vision of Judgment,” “Joan of Arc,” “Thalaba the Destroyer,” “The Curse of Kehama,” “Life of Nelson,” “The Doctor,” “Book of the Church,” “Life of John Bunyan,” “Life of John Wesley,” “History of Brazil,” etc.

One day thou didst desert me—when I learnedHow looks the world to men that lack thy grace,And toward the shadowy night sick-hearted turned,—When, lo! the first star brought me back thy face!“To Imagination,”—Edith Matilda Thomas.

One day thou didst desert me—when I learnedHow looks the world to men that lack thy grace,And toward the shadowy night sick-hearted turned,—When, lo! the first star brought me back thy face!

“To Imagination,”—Edith Matilda Thomas.

Edith Matilda Thomas, a famous American poet, was born in Chatham, Ohio, August 12, 1854. She has written: “A New Year’s Masque,” “The Round Year,” “Children of the Seasons,” “Babes of the Year,” “Babes of the Nation,” “Lyrics and Sonnets,” “Heaven and Earth,” “The Inverted Torch,” “Fair Shadow Land,” “In Sunshine Land,” “In the Young World,” “A Winter Swallow, and Other Verse,” “The Dancers,” “Cassia andOther Verse,” “Children of Christmas,” “The Guest of the Gate,” “The White Messenger,” “The Flower from the Ashes,” etc.

Cruel is death? Nay, kind, he that is ta’enWas old in wisdom, though his years were few;Life’s pleasure hath he lost—escaped life’s pain,Nor wedded joys, nor wedded sorrows knew.“On a Youth,” Translated from Julianus,—Goldwin Smith.

Cruel is death? Nay, kind, he that is ta’enWas old in wisdom, though his years were few;Life’s pleasure hath he lost—escaped life’s pain,Nor wedded joys, nor wedded sorrows knew.

“On a Youth,” Translated from Julianus,—Goldwin Smith.

Goldwin Smith, a renowned English historian, essayist and educator, was born at Reading, Berkshire, August 13, 1823, and died June 7, 1910. He has written: “Irish History and Irish Character,” “Foundation of the American Colonies,” “England and America,” “The Civil War in America,” “Lectures on the Study of History,” “Short History of England,” “Life of Cowper,” “Life of Jane Austen,” “Guesses at the Riddle of Existence,” “Reminiscences” (1910), “The Empire,” “My Memory of Gladstone,” etc.

Sweetest the strain when in the songThe singer has been lost.“The Poet and the Poem,”—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

Sweetest the strain when in the songThe singer has been lost.

“The Poet and the Poem,”—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, a celebrated American novelist, was born at Andover, Mass., August 13, 1844, and died in 1911. Among her many works are: “Ellen’s Idol,” “Gypsy Stories,” “Men, Women and Ghosts,” “Poetic Studies,” “The Story of Avis,” “Old Maid’s Paradise,” “Sealed Orders,” “Beyond the Gates,” “Songs of the Silent World,” “The Gates Between,” “A Struggle for Immortality,” “The Life of Christ,” “Trixy,” “Walled In,” and her most famous work, “Gates Ajar.”

Flowers are Love’s truest language.“Sonnet,”—Park Benjamin.

Flowers are Love’s truest language.

“Sonnet,”—Park Benjamin.

Park Benjamin, a noted American journalist, poet, and lecturer, was born at Demerara, British Guiana, August 14,1809 and died in New York, September 12, 1864. Among his poetical pieces are: “The Old Sexton,” “Poetry,” “Infatuation,” “The Nautilus,” “To One Beloved,” and “The Contemplation of Nature.”

Among living authors Haggard is unquestionably first. I find two very remarkable qualities in Mr. Haggard’s novels,—a power of imagination in which, for audacity and strength, he is unequalled since the Elizabethan dramatists. Secondly there is the mesmeric influence which he exercises over his readers.—Walter Besant.

—Walter Besant.

Sir Walter Besant, a distinguished English novelist, was born in Portsmouth, August 14, 1838, and died June 10, 1901. Among his noted works may be mentioned: “The Golden Butterfly,” “Ready Money Mortiboy,” “The Seamy Side,” “Studies in Early French Poetry,” “When George the Third Was King,” “The French Humorists,” “All Sorts and Conditions of Men,” “Dorothy Foster,” “All in a Garden Fair,” “The Ivory Gate,” “The Master Craftsman,” “Beyond the Dreams of Avarice,” “St. Katharine’s by the Tower,” “Armorel of Lyonnesse,” “The Rebel Queen,” etc. The first three works mentioned were written in collaboration with James Rice.

If on a Spring night, I went byAnd God were standing there,What is the prayer that I would cryTo Him? This is the prayer:O Lord of Courage grave,O Master of this night of SpringMake firm in me a heart too braveTo ask Thee anything!“Moods, Songs and Doggerels,” “The Prayer,”—John Galsworthy.

“Moods, Songs and Doggerels,” “The Prayer,”—John Galsworthy.

John Galsworthy, a famous English author, was born at Combe in Surrey, August 14, 1867. His publications include: “The Man of Property,” “A Motley,” “Moods, Songs and Doggerels,” “The Inn of Tranquillity,” “A Sheaf,” Vol. I; “Beyond,” “A Sheaf,” Vol. II; “Saint’s Progress,” “In Chancery,” “Awakening,” “To Let,” etc. Plays: “The Silver Box,” “The Pigeon,” “The Eldest Son,” “The Skin Game,” “A Family Man,” etc.

The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is unpolluted in his beam.“Holy Living,” Chap. i, 3,—Jeremy Taylor.

The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is unpolluted in his beam.

“Holy Living,” Chap. i, 3,—Jeremy Taylor.

Jeremy Taylor, a renowned English theological writer, was born August 15, 1613, at Cambridge, and died at Lisburn, Ireland, August 13, 1667. His most celebrated works are: “The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life,” “Discourse on the Liberty of Prophesying,” “The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living,” and “The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying.”

The rose is fairest when ’t is budding new,And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears,The rose is sweetest wash’d with morning dew,And love is loveliest when embalm’d in tears.“Lady of the Lake,” Canto iv, Stanza 1.—Walter Scott.

The rose is fairest when ’t is budding new,And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears,The rose is sweetest wash’d with morning dew,And love is loveliest when embalm’d in tears.

“Lady of the Lake,” Canto iv, Stanza 1.—Walter Scott.

Sir Walter Scott, a Scotch novelist and poet of great fame, was born in Edinburgh, August 15, 1771, and died at Abbotsford, September 21, 1832. Among his many works may be mentioned: “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” “Ballads and Lyrical Pieces,” “Rokeby,” “Marmion,” “The Lady of the Lake,” “Waverley,” “Guy Mannering,” “The Field of Waterloo,” “The Lord of the Isles,” “Rob Roy,” “Harold the Dauntless,” “Ivanhoe,” “The Bride of Lammermoor: A Legend of Montrose,” “Kenilworth,” “The Abbot,” “The Monastery,” “The Pirate,” “Tales of the Crusaders: The Betrothed, The Talisman,” “History of Scotland,” “Tales of a Grandfather,” “Essays on BalladPoetry,” “The Eve of St. John: A Border Ballad,” “Life of Dryden,” “Life of Swift,” etc., etc.

Shakespeare—that is, English tragedy—postulates the intense life of flesh and blood, of animal sensibility, of man and woman—breathing, waking, stirring, palpitating with the pulses of hope and fear. In Greek tragedy the very masks show the utter impossibility to these contests or conflicts.“Leaders in Literature,”—De Quincey.

“Leaders in Literature,”—De Quincey.

Thomas De Quincey, a celebrated English author, was born in Manchester, August 15, 1785, and died December 8, 1859. Besides his numerous essays and papers on historical literary and miscellaneous topics, he wrote: “Confessions of an English Opium Eater,” “Letters to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been Neglected,” “Logic of Political Economy,” “Klosterheim,” “Leaders in Literature,” “Suspiria de Profundis: Essays on Style and Rhetoric,” “Joan of Arc,” “Autobiographic Sketches,” “Literary Reminiscences,” etc., etc.

Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun,Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun,Tirlin’ at the window, cryin’ at the lock,“Are the weans in their bed? for it’s nou ten o’clock.”“Wee Willie Winkie,”—William Miller.

Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun,Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun,Tirlin’ at the window, cryin’ at the lock,“Are the weans in their bed? for it’s nou ten o’clock.”

“Wee Willie Winkie,”—William Miller.

William Miller, a noted Scotch poet, was born in Bridgegate, Glasgow, August 16, 1810, and died at Glasgow, August 20, 1872. He wrote: “Scottish Nursery Songs and Other Poems,” his best known poem being “Wee Willie Winkie.”

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.—David Crockett.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

—David Crockett.

David Crockett, a celebrated American politician, hunter and humorist, was born at Limestone, Tenn., August 17, 1786,and was killed at Fort Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, March 16, 1836. He wrote: “Sketches and Eccentricities,” “Tour to the North and Down East,” his “Autobiography,” etc.

The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.—Henry Drummond.

The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.

—Henry Drummond.

Henry Drummond, a distinguished Scotch geologist and religious writer, was born at Stirling, August 17, 1851, and died at Tunbridge Wells, England, March 11, 1897. His most famous works are: “Natural Law in the Spiritual World,” “The Ascent of Man,” “Tropical Africa,” “Pax Vobiscum,” “The Greatest Thing in the World,” “The Programme of Christianity.”

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.Quoted in “Memoirs of Mackintosh,” Vol. II, p. 473,—Lord John Russell.

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

Quoted in “Memoirs of Mackintosh,” Vol. II, p. 473,—Lord John Russell.

Lord John Russell, a famous English statesman, was born in London, August 18, 1792, and died at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, May 28, 1878. He is best remembered by his historical works, “Life of William Lord Russell,” “Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe” (2 vols.) “Correspondence of John, 4th Duke of Bedford,” etc.

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.“Despatch to Earl Russell,” Sept. 5, 1863.—Charles Francis Adams.

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.

“Despatch to Earl Russell,” Sept. 5, 1863.—Charles Francis Adams.

Charles Francis Adams, an eminent American statesman, publicist, and miscellaneous writer, was born at Boston, August 18, 1807, and died at Boston, November 21, 1886. His best known work was: “Life and Works of John Adams.”

Sorrow and scarlet leaf,Sad thoughts and sunny weather:Ah me, this glory and this griefAgree not well together!“A Song for September,”—Thomas William Parsons.

Sorrow and scarlet leaf,Sad thoughts and sunny weather:Ah me, this glory and this griefAgree not well together!

“A Song for September,”—Thomas William Parsons.

Thomas William Parsons, a distinguished American poet, was born at Boston, August 18, 1819, and died September 3, 1892. Among his writings are: “The Old House at Sudbury,” “Ghetto di Roma,” “The Magnolia,” “The Shadow of the Obelisk,” etc. He also made a metrical translation of Dante’s “Inferno.”

All that is beautiful shall abide,All that is base shall die.“Balder the Beautiful,”—Robert W. Buchanan.

All that is beautiful shall abide,All that is base shall die.

“Balder the Beautiful,”—Robert W. Buchanan.

Robert Williams Buchanan, a celebrated English author, was born in Warwickshire, August 18, 1841, and died in 1901. He wrote: “Idylls and Legends of Inverburn,” “Undertones,” “London Poems,” “North Coast Poems,” “Ballads of Love, Life and Humor,” “The City of Dreams,” “A Child of Nature,” “The Shadow of the Sword,” “Foxglove Manor,” etc.

Let’s learn to temper our desires,Not harshly to constrain;And since excess makes pleasure less,Why, so much more refrain.Small table, cozy corner—hereWe well may be beguiled;Our worthy host old wine can boast;Drink, drink—but draw it mild!“Les Petits Coups,”—translation of William Young,—Pierre Jean de Béranger.

“Les Petits Coups,”—translation of William Young,—Pierre Jean de Béranger.

Pierre Jean de Béranger, a famous French poet, was born in Paris, August 19, 1780, and died there July 16,1857. Some of his noted songs are: “The Old Flag,” “Les Petits Coups,” “The Old Corporal,” “Roger Bontemps,” “Little Red Man,” “Little Gray Man,” “King of Yvetot,” “My Grandmother,” “The Marquis of Carabas,” and his “Autobiography.”

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