Book ii

, Chap, xiii,--_Goethe_.

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE, one of the greatest poets the world has ever known, was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749, and died at Weimar, March 22, 1832. His most famous works are: "Sorrows of Young Werther," "Erwin and Elmira," "Stella," "Prometheus," "Iphigenia," "Tasso," "Wilhelm Meister," and his greatest work, "Faust." He also wrote: "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," "Fiction and Truth," "Hermann and Dorothea," "Elective Affinities," "Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel," etc.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

"The Song of Faith,"--_Sir Aubrey De Vere_.

SIR AUBREY DE VERE, a famous Irish poet, was born August 28, 1788, and died in 1846. Among his works are: "Julian, the Apostate: A Dramatic Poem," "The Duke of Mercia: an Historical Drama," "The Song of Faith, Devout Exercises and Sonnets," "Mary Tudor: an Historical Drama," was published after his death in 1847.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.

--_John Locke_.

JOHN LOCKE, an eminent English philosopher, was born at Wrington, near Bristol, August 29, 1632, and died at Oates (Essex), October 28, 1704. His philosophical writings include: "An Epistle on Tolerance," "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," "Two Treatises on Government," etc. He also wrote: "Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study," "Some Thoughts on Education," "Elements of Natural Philosophy," and many other works.

I do not know anyone who makes us feel more than Milton does the grandeur of the ends which we ought to keep always before us, and therefore our own pettiness and want of courage and nobleness in pursuing them. I believe he failed to discern many of the intermediate relations which God has established between Himself and us; but I know no one who teaches us more habitually that disobedience to the Divine will is the seat of all misery to men.

"The Friendship of Books,"--_D. Maurice_.

FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, a celebrated English divine and theological and philosophical writer, was born near Lowestoft, Suffolk, August 29, 1805, and died in London, April 1, 1872. Among his works are: "Ancient Philosophy," "Theological Essays," "Modern Philosophy," "Mediæval Philosophy," "The Friendship of Books," etc., and a novel, "Eustace Conway."

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

"The Chambered Nautilus,"--_Oliver Wendell Holmes_.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, a distinguished American man of letters, was born at Cambridge, Mass., August 29, 1809, and died at Boston, October 7, 1894. The most important of his works are: "Urania," "The Iron Gate," "Songs in Many Keys," "Poems," "Songs of Many Seasons," "Elsie Venner," "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "The Professor at the Breakfast Table," "The Poet at the Breakfast Table," "Soundings from the Atlantic," "Our Hundred Days in Europe," "John Lothrop Motley," "A Mortal Antipathy," "Ralph Waldo Emerson," "Over the Teacups," etc.

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

"Joyzelle," Act ii.--_Maurice Maeterlinck_.

MAURICE MAETERLINCK, a celebrated Belgian poet, was born in Flanders, August 29, 1864. Among his works are: "The Seven Princesses," "The Blind," "The Intruder," "The Treasure of the Humble," "Hot-House Blooms," "La Princesse Maleine," "Alladine et Palomides," "Douze Chansons," "La Sagesse et la Destinée," "Le Temple Enseveli," "The Double Garden," "The Blue Bird," "La Mort," "The Light Beyond," etc.

It is very foolish, and betrays what a small mind we have, to allow fashion to sway us in everything that regards taste; in our way of living, our health, and our conscience.

"The Characters,"--_Jean de La Bruyère_.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE, a famous French moralist and satirist, was born in Paris, August 30 (?), 1645, and died at Versailles, May 10, 1696. His fame rests on his great work, "The Characters of Theophrastus, Translated from the Greek, with the Characters or Manners of this Century."

If for widows you die, Learn to _kiss_ not to sigh.

"Widow Malone," II, 33-4,--_Charles James Lever_.

CHARLES (JAMES) LEVER, a noted Irish novelist, was born at Dublin, August 31, 1806, and died at Trieste, June 1, 1872. He wrote: "Confessions of Harry Lorrequer," "Charles O'Malley," "Arthur O'Leary," "Jack Hinton the Guardsman," "Tom Burke of Ours," "The O'Donoghue," "Con Cregan," "Roland Cashel," "The Daltons, or Three Roads in Life," "Luttrell of Arran," "The Fortunes of Glencore," "Davenport Dunn," "Sir Brooke Fosbrooke," "The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly," "Lord Kilgobbin," etc.

Ils sont si transparents qu'ils laissent voir votre âme.[2]

"The Two Beautiful Eyes,"--_Théophile Gautier_.

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, a renowned French poet and novelist, was born in Tarbes, Hautes Pyrenees, August 31, 1811, and died near Paris, in 1872. Among his famous works may be mentioned: "Young France," "Albertus," "Poems," "History of Romanticism," "A Journey in Spain," "Italy," "Constantinople," "Miltona," "The Golden Fleece," "Arria Marcella," "Mademoiselle Dafne," "The Nest of Nightingales," "The Loving Dead," "The Chain of Gold," "Jean and Jeannette," "The Tiger Skin," "Spirite," "Modern Art," "The Arts in Europe," etc., etc.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] He adorned whatever he touched.

[2] Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

--_Lady Blessington_.

MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON, a distinguished Irish descriptive writer and novelist, was born in Knockbrit, Tipperary, September 1, 1789, and died in Paris, June 4, 1849. Among her works are: "The Idler in Italy," "The Idler in France," "Conversations with Lord Byron," etc.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

"Monody on Mrs. Hemans,"--_Lydia H. Sigourney_.

LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, a noted American author, was born in Norwich, Conn., September 1, 1791, and died in Hartford, Conn., June 10, 1865. She wrote: "Letters to Young Ladies," "Letters to Mothers," "Scenes in My Native Land," "Voice of Flowers," "Letters to My Pupils," "The Daily Councelor," "Gleanings," (poetry), "The Man of Uz, and Other Poems," etc.

Socrates, like Solon, thought that no man is too old to learn; that to learn and to know is not a schooling for life, but life itself, and that which alone gives to life its value. To become by knowledge better from day to day, and to make others better, appeared to both to be the real duty of man.

"History of Greece,"--_Ernst Curtius_.

ERNST CURTIUS, a renowned German archæologist and historian, was born at Lubeck, September 2, 1814, and died in 1896. He wrote: "Peloponnesus," and his famous, "History of Greece."

The fire upon the hearth is low, And there is stillness everywhere, And, like winged spirits, here and there The firelight shadows fluttering go.

"In the Firelight,"--_Eugene Field_.

EUGENE FIELD, a noted poet and humorous journalist, was born at St. Louis, Mo., September 2, 1850, and died November 4, 1895. He wrote: "The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac," "The Holy Cross, and Other Tales," "Love Songs of Childhood," "A Little Book of Western Verse," and "A Second Book of Verse."

Nothing can make a man happy but that which shall last as long as he lasts; for an immortal soul shall persist in being, not only when profit, pleasure, and honour, but when time itself shall cease.

--_South_.

ROBERT SOUTH, a famous English divine, was born at Hackney, Middlesex, September 3, 1634, and died July 8, 1716. A collection of his sermons was published in 1692 in six volumes.

The Grecian history is a poem, Latin history a picture, modern history a chronicle.

--_Chateaubriand_.

FRANÇOIS RENÉ AUGUSTE, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND, a renowned French statesman, traveler, novelist and historical writer, was born at St. Malo, September 4, 1768, and died at Paris, July 4, 1848. Among his works are: "The Genius of Christianity" (his most famous work), "Atala," "René," and "The Natchez," also "The Martyrs, or Triumph of the Christian Religion," "A Journey from Paris to Jerusalem," "An Essay on English Literature," and translated Milton's "Paradise Lost."

Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfährt.[1]

"Oberon," II. 24,--_Wieland_.

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN WIELAND, a celebrated German poet and prose-writer, was born in Oberholzheim, Suabia, September 5, 1733, and died January 20, 1813. He wrote: "Agathon," "The New Amadis," "The Golden Mirror," and "Oberon," his most famous work. He also translated the greater part of Shakespeare into German.

Husband and wife--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

--_Ruffini_.

GIOVANNI DOMENICO RUFFINI, a distinguished Italian littérateur, was born at Genoa, September 6, 1807, and died at Taggia, November 2, 1881. He published: "Lorenzo Benoni" (a romance), "Lavinia," etc.; also, "Doctor Antonio," his most famous book.

Le style est l'homme même.[2]

"Discours de Réception,"--_Buffon_.

GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC, COMTE DE BUFFON, a famous French naturalist, was born at Montbard, September 7, 1707, and died April 16, 1788. His "Natural History," won for him world-wide fame.

Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa.[3]

"Orlando Furioso," Canto x, Stanza 84,--_Ludovico Ariosto_.

LUDOVICO ARIOSTO, an illustrious Italian poet, was born at Reggio, September 8, 1474, and died at Ferrara, June 6, 1533. His most famous work is: "Orlando Furioso."

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

--_Trench_.

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, a noted Anglican archbishop and poet, was born at Dublin on September 9, 1807, and died March 28, 1886. He wrote: "The Story of Justin Martyr, and Other Poems," "Sabbation," "Honor Neale, and Other Poems," "Poems from Eastern Sources," "The Study of Words," "English Past and Present," "A Select Glossary of English Words," "Notes on the Parables," "Notes on the Miracles," etc.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

"What is to be done?" Chap. xl. Note,--_Tolstoi_.

COUNT LYOF ALEKSÉEVICH TOLSTOI, the great Russian novelist, was born on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana in the government of Tula, Russia, September 9, 1828, and died in 1910. His most celebrated works are: "In What My Faith Consists," "Cossacks," "Sevastopol," "War and Peace," "Master and Man," "My Confession," "The Kreutzer Sonata," and "Anna Karénina."

A language cannot be thoroughly learned by an adult without five years' residence in the country where it is spoken; and without habits of close observation, a residence of twenty years is insufficient.

--_P. G. Hamerton_.

PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON, a distinguished English artist and art-writer, was born at Laneside, Lancashire, September 10, 1834; and died near Boulogne, France, November 5, 1894. Among his works are: "Etching and Etchers," "Thoughts About Art," "Painting in France," "The Quest of Happiness," "The Graphic Arts," "Contemporary French Painters," "Human Intercourse," "The Intellectual Life," and "A Painter's Camp in the Highlands."

A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky; There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the calm pleasures always hover'd nigh; But whate'er smack'd of noyance or unrest Was far, far off expell'd from this delicious nest.

"The Castle of Indolence," Canto i, Stanza 6.--_James Thomson_.

JAMES THOMSON, a famous Scotch poet, was born at Ednam, September 11, 1700, and died August 27, 1748. His most celebrated poems are: "The Seasons," and "The Castle of Indolence."

Woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it is violent.

"Basil," Act V, Sc. 3,--_Joanna Baillie_.

JOANNA BAILLIE, a celebrated Scottish poet, was born in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, September 11, 1762, and died at Hampstead, England, February 23, 1851. She wrote: "Plays on the Passions," and numerous poems and songs.

Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.

"My Summer in a Garden: Preliminary."--_Chas. Dudley Warner_.

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, an eminent American journalist and miscellaneous writer, was born at Plainfield, Mass., September 12, 1829, and died in 1900. Among his noted works are: "My Summer in a Garden," "Backlog Studies," "My Winter on the Nile," "Life of Captain John Smith," "Washington Irving," "A Roundabout Journey," "Their Pilgrimage," "Book of Eloquence," "A Little Journey in the World," "As We Were Saying," "The Golden House," "The Relation of Literature to Life," "Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada," "That Fortune," etc. In collaboration with Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) he wrote: "The Gilded Age." He was editor of the "American Men of Letters" series, and of "The Library of the World's Best Literature."

The desire of love, Joy; The desire of life, Peace: The desire of the soul, Heaven: The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

"Desire,"--_William Sharp_.

WILLIAM SHARP, a distinguished British critic and man of letters, was born September 12, 1856, and died in 1905. Among his works are: "Humanity and Man," "The Conqueror's Dream, and Other Poems," "Dante Gabriel Rossetti," "Shakespeare's Songs, Poems, and Sonnets," "Sonnets of this Century," "Shelley," "Romantic Ballads," "Sospiri di Roma," "Flower o' the Vine," "Sospiri d' Italia," etc.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

"Guesses at Truth."--_J. C. and A. W. Hare_.

JULIUS CHARLES HARE, a famous English divine and theological writer, was born at Valdagno, Italy, September 13, 1795, and died in England, January 23, 1855. He wrote: "Mission of the Comforter," "The Contest with Rome," "Vindication of Luther," and conjointly with A. W. Hare, "Guesses at Truth."

True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

--_Humboldt_.

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, a renowned German scientist, was born in Berlin, September 14, 1769, and died there May 6, 1859. He wrote: "Voyages to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent," "Observations on Zoölogy and Comparative Anatomy," "View of the Cordilleras and of the Monuments of the Indigenous Races of America," and "Cosmos," his most celebrated work.

O years, gone down into the past, What pleasant memories come to me Of your untroubled days of peace, And hours of almost ecstasy.

"_Reconciled_,"--Phoebe Cary.

PHOEBE CARY, a noted American poetess and prose-writer, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 14, 1824, and died in Newport, Rhode Island, July 31, 1871. With her sister, she published many books, among them, "Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love," and "Poems and Parodies."

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

"Maxim 294,"--_Rochefoucauld_.

FRANÇOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, an illustrious French classicist and philosopher, was born at Paris, September 15, 1613, and died there March 17, 1680. His most celebrated works were: "Reflections, or Moral Sentences and Maxims," better known as "Maxims," and his "Memoirs."

Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,--not upper ten thousand.

"The Ways of the Hour," Chap. VI,--_Cooper_.

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, a famous American novelist, and historian, was born in Burlington, N. J., September 15, 1789, and died at Cooperstown, N. Y., September 14, 1851. A few of his celebrated novels are: "The Spy," "The Pilot," "Precaution," "The Pioneers," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Prairie," "The Red Rover," "The Water-Witch," "Homeward Bound," "The Pathfinder," "The Deerslayer," "The Redskins," "The Ways of the Hour," etc.

I would not live alway: I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.

"I would not live alway,"--_William Augustus Muhlenberg_.

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, a noted American philanthropist and Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born in Philadelphia, Penn., September 16, 1796, and died in New York, April, 1877. He wrote: "A Plea for Christian Hymns," and many well-known hymns, among them: "Saviour Who Thy Flock Art Feeding," "Shout the Glad Tidings," and "I Would Not Live Alway."

We all know Mr. Lowell's brilliant qualities as a poet, critic, scholar, and man of the world; but that in him which touches me most strongly belongs to his relations to his country--his keen and subtle yet kindly recognition of her virtues and her faults, and the sympathetic power with which in the day of her melancholy triumph, after the Civil War, he gave such noble expression to her self-devotion, sorrows, and hopes.

"James Russell Lowell, The Critic,"--_Francis Parkman_.

FRANCIS PARKMAN, an eminent American historian, was born at Boston, September 16, 1823, and died at Jamaica Plain, Mass., November 8, 1893. He wrote: "The Oregon Trail: Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life," "History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac," "The Pioneers of France in the New World," "The Jesuits in North America," "La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West," "The Old Régime in Canada," "Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV," "Montcalm and Wolfe," and "A Half-Century of Conflict."

The essayist rises higher than the poet--witty, tender; wise in human frailty, but never bitter.

"Personal Tributes to Dr. Holmes, the Writer," Vol. 7, p. 167 (1894),--_Hamlin Garland_.

HAMLIN GARLAND, a celebrated American story writer, was born in La Crosse, Wis., September 16, 1860. His works include: "Main Traveled Roads," "A Spoil of Office," "Prairie Folks," "Prairie Songs," "Crumbling Idols," "A Little Norsk," "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly," "Jason Edwards," "The Eagle's Heart," "Her Mountain Lover," "Hesper," "The Light of the Star," "The Long Trail," "Money Magic," "The Shadow World," "Victor Olnee's Discipline," "Other Main Traveled Roads," "A Son of the Middle Border," etc.

There's a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

"Forty Singing Seamen,"--_Alfred Noyes_.

ALFRED NOYES, a noted English writer, was born at Staffordshire, September 16, 1880. He has written, "Robin Hood," "Tales of the Mermaid Tavern," "The Winepress," "The Sea in English Poetry," "A Salute from the Fleet," "The Flower of Old Japan," "Poems," "Forty Singing Seamen," "Walking Shadows," "The Elfin Artist," (New Poems).

All reasoning is retrospect; it consists in the application of facts and principles previously known. This will show the very great importance of knowledge, especially of that kind called Experience.

"Knowledge,"--_John Foster_.

JOHN FOSTER, a famous English author, and dissenting minister, best known as the "Essayist," was born near Halifax, Yorkshire, September 17, 1770, and died October 15, 1843. His fame rests chiefly on his celebrated "Essays." He also wrote: "Essay on Popular Ignorance," "Discourse on Missions," etc.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

"Life of Addison,"--_Samuel Johnson_.

SAMUEL JOHNSON, a renowned English critic, essayist, lexicographer, and poet, was born in Lichfield, September 18, 1709, and died in London, December 13, 1784. Among his many works may be mentioned: "Life of Richard Savage," "The Vanity of Human Wishes," "Life of Dryden," "Plan for a Dictionary," "The Rambler," "Irene," "The Idler," "Shakespeare with Notes," "The False Alarm," "Taxation no Tyranny," "Rasselas," "English Poets," etc.

Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

"A Home Idyl,"--_John Townsend Trowbridge_.

JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, a celebrated American poet, novelist and general writer, was born in Ogden, N. Y., September 18, 1827, and died in 1916. He has written: "Martin Merrivale," "Neighbor Jackwood," "The Old Battle Ground," "The Drummer Boy," "The Three Scouts," "Coupon Bonds," "The Story of Columbus," "The Jack Hazard Series," "The Silver Medal Series," "The Emigrant's Story, and Other Poems," "At Sea," "The Pewee," "Hearts and Faces," "The Vagabonds," "The Book of Gold, and Other Poems," "The Start in Life Series," "The Tide Mill Series," "Poetical Works," "My Own Story," etc.

O Traveller who hast wandered far 'Neath southern sun and northern star, Say where the fairest regions are! Friend, underneath whatever skies Love looks in love-returning eyes, There are the bowers of paradise.

"The Bowers of Paradise,"--_Clinton Scollard_.

CLINTON SCOLLARD, a popular American poet and author, was born in New York, September 18, 1860. He has published: "Pictures in Song," "Old and New World Lyrics," "Under Summer Skies," "Lyrics and Legends of Christmastide," "Odes and Elegies," "From the Lips of the Sea," "Poems--A Selection from the Harvest of Thirty Years of Song," "A Christmas Garland," "A Knight of the Highway," "A Son of a Tory," "The Lutes of Morn," "Lyrics of the Dawn," "Footfaring," etc.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.

"Speech," January 29, 1828,--_Lord Brougham_.

HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, LORD BROUGHAM, a distinguished British statesman and author, was born in Edinburgh, September 19, 1778, and died at Cannes, France, May 7, 1868. His most important works are: "Lives of Men of Letters and Science," "Speeches," and "Sketches of the Statesmen of the Time of George III."

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center.

"To Shakespeare,"--_Hartley Coleridge_.

HARTLEY COLERIDGE, a celebrated English poet, and man of letters, (son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge), was born at Bristol, September 19, 1796, and died in 1849. His writings include: "Biographia Borealis," "The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire," "Essays and Marginalia," and some exquisite sonnets, published in the _London Magazine_.

When change itself can give no more 'Tis easy to be true.

"Reasons for Constancy,"--_Sir Charles Sedley_.

SIR CHARLES SEDLEY, a noted English dramatist, was born at Aylesford in Kent, September 20, 1639, and died August 20, 1701. Besides his tragedies and comedies, he wrote a famous song, "Phyllis."

In the first days Of my distracting grief, I found myself As women wish to be who love their lords.

"Douglas," Act I, Sc. i,--_John Home_.

JOHN HOME, a well-known Scotch dramatist, was born in Leith, near Edinburgh, September 21, 1722, and died at Merchiston near Edinburgh, September 5, 1808. His most celebrated plays are: "Alfred," "The Fatal Discovery," "Agis," and his tragedy, "Douglas." He also wrote, "History of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1755-56."

Where are the cities of old time?

"The Ballade of Dead Cities,"--_Edmund William Gosse_.

EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE, a famous English poet, essayist, and critic, was born in London, September 21, 1849. He has written: "On Viol and Flute," "The Unknown Lover," "Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets," "Life of Jeremy Taylor," "French Profiles," "Coventry Patmore," "Life of Sir Thomas Browne," "Father and Son," "Henrik Ibsen," "Two Visits to Denmark," "Portraits and Studies," "Collected Essays" (5 vols.), "Life of Swinburne," "Lord Redesdale's Further Memories," "Three French Moralists," "Diversions of a Man of Letters," "Malherbe," etc.

How few take time for friendship! How few plan for it! It is treated as a haphazard, fortuitous thing. May good luck send us friends; we will not go after them. May favoring fortune bind our friendships; we will take no stitches ourselves. Yet friendship requires painstaking. No art is so difficult, no craft so arduous. Roll a ball of clay and expect it to become a rose in your hand, but never expect an acquaintanceship, without care and thought, to blossom into friendship.

--_Wells_.

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS, a distinguished English author, was born at Bromley, Kent, September 21, 1868. Among his many works may be mentioned: "The Wheels of Chance," "Certain Personal Matters," (essays), "The War of the Worlds," "The Sleeper Awakes," "Love and Mr. Lewisham," "Anticipations," "The Sea Lady," "Mankind in the Making," "The Food of the Gods," "A Modern Utopia," "The War in the Air," "Ann Veronica," "The New Machiavelli," "Marriage," "The Passionate Friends," "An Englishman Looks at the World," "The World Set Free," "The Peace of the World," "The Research Magnificent," "What is Coming?" "Mr. Britling Sees it Through," "The Soul of a Bishop," "Joan and Peter," "The Come Back," etc.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.

"Letter," July 1, 1748,--_Earl of Chesterfield_.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, a famous English man of affairs and of the world, was born in London, September 22, 1694, and died March 24, 1773. His "Letters to His Son" won for him everlasting literary fame.

A reply to a newspaper attack resembles very much the attempt of Hercules to crop the Hydra, without the slightest chance of ultimate success.

"Gilbert Gurney," Vol. II, Chap. I, _Theodore M. Hook_.

THEODORE EDWARD HOOK, a famous English wit and novelist, was born in London, September 22, 1788, and died August 24, 1841. He wrote: "Macwell," "Gilbert Gurney," "Gurney Married," "Births, Deaths and Marriages." "His Sayings and Doings," were published in 1824, 1825 and in 1828.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.

--_Jane Porter_.

JANE PORTER, a distinguished English novelist, was born at Durham, September 23, 1776, and died at Bristol, May 24, 1850. Among her stories are: "Thaddeus of Warsaw," "The Scottish Chiefs," "The Pastor's Fireside," etc.

Within the rose I found a trembling tear, Close curtained in a gloom of crimson night, By tender petals from the outer light.

"Within the Rose I found a Trembling Tear,"--_Boyesen_.

HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN, a celebrated American novelist, was born at Frederiksvarn, Norway, September 23, 1848, and died in New York, October 4, 1895. He has written: "Idyls of Norway and Other Poems," "Tales from Two Hemispheres," "Ilka on the Hilltop and Other Stories," "A Norseman's Pilgrimage," "Gunnar," and "A Daughter of the Philistines."

When he writes of himself, how supremely excellent is the reading. It is good even when he does it intentionally, as in "Portraits and Memories." It is better still when he sings it, as in his "Child's Garden." He is irresistible to every lonely child who reads and thrills, and reads again to find his past recovered for him with effortless ease. It is a book never long out of my hands, for only in it and in my dreams when I am touched with fever, do I grasp the long, long thoughts of a lonely child and a hill-wandering boy-thoughts I never told to any; yet which Mr. Stevenson tells over again to me as if he read them off a printed page.

"Mr. Stevenson's Books," _McClure's Magazine_, Vol. 4, p. 289 1895,--_S. R. Crockett_.

SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT, a distinguished Scotch novelist, was born in Little Duchrae, Galloway, September 24, 1862, and died in 1914. He has written "The Stickit Minister," "The Lilac Sun-Bonnet," "Lad's Love," "Joan of the Sword Hand," "The Dark o' the Moon," "The Banner of Blue," "An Adventure in Spain," "Maid Margaret," "Cherry Riband," "Flower o' the Corn," "Kit Kennedy," "The Red Axe," "The Bloom of the Heather," "The White Plume of Navarre," "Anne of the Barricades," "Patsy," "Sandy," etc.

The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed.

"Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,"--_Felicia Hemans_.

FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE HEMANS, a noted English-Irish poet, was born in Liverpool, September 25, 1793, and died at Redesdale, near Dublin, May 16, 1835. Her most famous works are: "Tales and Historic Scenes in Verse," "Songs of the Cid," "Lays of Many Lands," "The Siege of Valencia, the Last Constantine," and "Domestic Affections."

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human nature to surrender it voluntarily.

"The Clockmaker,"--_Thomas Chandler Haliburton_.

THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (SAM SLICK), a famous Canadian author, was born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, September 26 (?), 1796, and died near London, August 27, 1865. He is best known by his famous "Sam Slick" papers.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least injury without damage; it is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by the least flaw.

--_Bossuet_.

JACQUES BÉNIGNE BOSSUET, a renowned French theologian, was born at Dijon, September 27, 1627, and died April 12, 1704. He wrote: "Discourse upon Universal History Down to the Empire of Charlemagne," "History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches," and the "Defense of the Famous Declaration Which the Gallican Clergy Approved Regarding the Power of the Church." His "Complete Works," in 46 volumes, were published 1815-19.

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! Like an eagle caged I pine On this dull unchanging shore: O give me the flashing brine, The spray and the tempest's roar!

"A Life on the Ocean Wave,"--_Epes Sargent_.

EPES SARGENT, a celebrated American journalist, author and dramatist, was born in Gloucester, Mass., September 27, 1813, and died in Boston, December 31, 1880. His works include: "Change Makes Change," "The Priestess," "Wealth and Worth," "Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition," "Songs of the Sea," "Life of Henry Clay," "A Life on the Ocean Wave," etc.

Logic makes only one demand, that of science. But life makes a thousand. The body wants health; the imagination cries out for beauty; and the heart for love. Pride asks for consideration; the soul yearns for peace; the conscience for holiness; our whole being is athirst for happiness and for perfection.

--_Amiel_.

HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL, an eminent Swiss essayist, poet, and philosophical critic, was born at Geneva, September 27, 1821, and died there, March 11, 1881. His writings include: "Millet Grains," "Study on Mme. de Staël," "The Literary Movement in Romanish Switzerland," etc. His famous "Journal" appeared after his death.

The dews of summer nights did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby.

"Cumnor Hall,"--_William J. Mickle_.

WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE, a noted Scottish poet, was born at Langholm, Dumfriesshire, September 28, 1735, and died at Forest Hill, October 28, 1788. He wrote: "Syr Martyn," "Almada Hill," "Cumnor Hall," etc.

Cobden is a man of an extremely interesting mind; quite the opposite of an Englishman in this respect, that you never hear him talk commonplaces, and that he has few prejudices.

"Correspondence,"--_Prosper Mérimée_.

PROSPER MÉRIMÉE, a renowned French essayist and litterateur, was born at Paris, September 28, 1803, and died at Cannes, September 23, 1870. He wrote: "Historic Monuments," "Historic and Literary Medleys," "Mateo Falcone," "Guzla," "Plays of Clara Gazul," and his most celebrated works: "Colomba" and "Carmen."

Time's corrosive dewdrop eats The giant warrior to a crust Of earth in earth and rust in rust.

"A Danish Barrow,"--_Francis T. Palgrave_.

FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE, a distinguished English poet and art critic, was born September 28, 1824, and died in 1897. He wrote: "Essays on Art," "Lyrical Poems," "The Visions of England," "The Life of Jesus Christ Illustrated from the Italian painters of the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries," "Idylls and Songs," "Hymns," "Amenophis and Other Poems," "The Golden Treasury," etc.

"I have often noticed that almost everyone has his own individual small economies--careful habits of saving fractions of pennies in some one peculiar direction--any disturbance of which annoys him more than spending shillings or pounds on some real extravagance."

"Cranford, Chap. V,"--_Mrs. Gaskell_.

MRS. ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL, a famous English novelist, was born in Chelsea, September 29, 1810, and died November 12, 1865. Among her notable works are: "Mary Barton," "Ruth," "Lizzie Leigh," "Sylvia's Lovers," "Wives and Daughters," "The Life of Charlotte Brontë," and "Cranford," her most celebrated work.

Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.

"School for Scandal," Act iii, Sc. 3.--_Sheridan_.

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, the renowned British dramatist and parliamentary orator, was born in Dublin, September 30, 1751, and died at London, July 7, 1816. His dramatic works include: "The Rivals," "The School for Scandal," "The Critic," and "The Duenna." His most famous speeches are: "The Perfumery Speech" and the "Begum Speech."

Der Unterliegende ist immer philosophisch gestimmt.[4]

--_Sudermann_.

HERMANN SUDERMANN, a celebrated German novelist and dramatist, was born at Matziken, East Prussia, September 30, 1857. Among his works are: "Dame Care," "In the Twilight," "Honor," "The Cat Bridge," "The Destruction of Sodom," "Brothers and Sisters," "Home," "Battle of the Butterflies," "Iolanthe's Wedding," "Once on a Time," "The Undying Past," "Das Hohe Lied," "Strand-kinder," "The Indian Lily," "Der gute Ruf," etc.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] I have often thought that however learnedly you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.

[2] The style is the man himself.

[3] Nature made him, and then broke the mould.

[4] The losing side is always philosophically inclined.

OCTOBER

OCTOBER

I have read somewhere or other,--in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,--that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

"On the Study and Use of History," Letter 2,--_Bolingbroke_.

HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE, a distinguished English statesman, author, and orator, was born at Battersea, October 1, 1678, and died there, December 12, 1751. His principal works are: "Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism," "Letters on the Study of History," "The Idea of a Patriot King," and "A Dissertation on Parties."

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.

"Letter to the Whig Convention, 1855,"--_Rufus Choate_.

RUFUS CHOATE, an eminent American lawyer, orator and statesman, was born at Essex, Mass., October 1, 1799, and died at Halifax, N. S., July 13, 1859. His "Works" (2 vols.) were published in 1863.

But I account it worth All pangs of fair hopes crost-- All loves and honors lost,-- To gain the heavens, at cost Of losing earth.

"Sir Marmaduke's Musings,"--_Theodore Tilton_.

THEODORE TILTON, a noted American journalist, lecturer, editor, and verse-writer, was born in New York City, October 2, 1835, and died in 1907. He wrote: "Thou and I," "The Sexton's Tale, and Other Poems," "Suabian Stories," "Tempest-Tossed," "Sanctum Sanctorum: or An Editor's Proof Sheets," etc.

Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams: On the day of his death, hearing the noise of bells and cannon, he asked the occasion. On being reminded that it was "Independence Day," he replied, "Independence forever!"

"History of the United States," Vol. vii, p. 65,--_Bancroft_.

GEORGE BANCROFT, a famous American historian and statesman, was born in Worcester, Mass., October 3, 1800, and died in Washington, D. C., January 17, 1891. His most famous work is the "History of the United States."

But Petrarch's highest merit by no means consists in this new classic elegance; it consists in the fact that he was the first to write freely of all things in the same way that a man speaks. He was the first to throw aside all scholastic crutches, and prove how much more swiftly a man could walk without leaning upon them.

"Machiavelli and his Times," (transl.) Vol. I,--_Pasquale Villari_.

PASQUALE VILLARI, a distinguished Italian historian, was born at Naples, October 3, 1827, and died in 1914. His principal works are: "Niccolo Machiavelli and His Times," "Ancient Legends and Traditions Illustrating the Divine Comedy," "Essays Critical, Historical and Literary," "Teaching History," "The School and the Social Question in Italy."

Amongst the masses--even in revolutions--aristocracy must ever exist; destroy it in nobility, and it becomes centered in the rich and powerful House of Commons. Pull them down, and it still survives in the master and foreman of the workshop.

--_Guizot_.

FRANÇOIS GUIZOT, an illustrious French historian and statesman, was born at Nîmes, October 4, 1787, and died at Val Richer, near Lisieux, September 12, 1874. He wrote: "History of the English Revolution," "Corneille and his Time," "The History of Civilization in Europe," "The History of Civilization in France," "Memoirs," "Shakespeare and His Times," "History of France for my Grandchildren," etc.

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

--_Jonathan Edwards_.

JONATHAN EDWARDS, a famous American divine and theological writer, was born in East Windsor, Conn., October 5, 1703, and died at Princeton, N. J., March 22, 1758. Among his works may be mentioned: "The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended," "An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which Is Supposed to Be Essential to Moral Agency," "A Dissertation Concerning the End for which God Created the World," and "The Nature of True Virtue."

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

--_Diderot_.

DENIS DIDEROT, a famous French philosopher and encyclopædist, was born at Langres, October 5, 1713, and died July 31, 1784. He wrote: "Philosophic Reflections," "A Skeptic's Walk," "The Nun," "Rameau's Nephew," "Little Papers," etc.

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770,--_Horace Walpole_.

HORACE WALPOLE, a famous English author and letter-writer, was born in London, October 5, 1717, and died there March 2, 1797. His works include: "Anecdotes of Painters in England," "The Castle of Otranto," "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III," "The Mysterious Mother," "Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George II," etc. His chief fame rests upon his celebrated letters, 9 vols., which were published in 1857-59.

No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.

"Sonnet, Versöhnung, a Belief,"--_John Addington Symonds_.

JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS, a distinguished English critic and historian of literature, was born at Bristol, October 5, 1840, and died at Rome, April 19, 1893. He wrote: "Studies of the Greek Poets," "Sketches in Italy and Greece," "Introduction to the Study of Dante," "Shakespeare's Predecessors," "Sketches and Studies in Italy," and his greatest work: "The Renaissance in Italy."

"Freedom!" their battle cry-- "Freedom! or leave to die!

"The Black Regiment,"--_George H. Boker_.

GEORGE HENRY BOKER, a noted American poet and dramatist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 6, 1823, and died there January 2, 1890. His plays include: "Anne Boleyn," "The Betrothed," "Calaynos," "All the World's a Mask," and "Francesca da Rimini." Also, "Poems of the War," "Sonnets," "Königsmark and Other Poems," etc.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

"The Ripest Peach,"--_James Whitcomb Riley_.

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, a celebrated American poet, was born at Greenfield, Ind., October 7, 1853, and died July 22, 1916. Among his writings are: "The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems," "Green Fields and Running Brooks," "Child Rhymes," "Love Lyrics," "The Golden Year," "Songs of Summer," "The Rose," "The Riley Baby Book," "Songs of Friendship," "Songs of Cheer," "Old Schoolday Romances," "Songs of Home," "Down Around the River and Other Poems," "A Summer's Day and Other Poems," "All the Year Round," "Knee-Deep in June and Other Poems," "The Prayer-Perfect and Other Poems," "A Song of Long Ago," "When My Dreams Come True," "Away," "Do They Miss Me?" "Friendship," etc.

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business, Than, loafing around the throne.

"Little Breeches,"--_John Hay_.

JOHN HAY, a famous American poet and prose-writer, was born in Salem, Ind., October 8, 1838, and died in 1905. His literary fame rests on his famous "Pike County Ballads."

Thy Soul ... Is as far from my grasp, is as free, As the stars from the mountain-tops be, As the pearl in the depths of the sea, From the portionless king that would be.

"Stanzas from Music,"--_Edmund Clarence Stedman_.

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, a distinguished American man of letters, was born in Hartford, Conn., October 8, 1833, and died in 1908. He wrote: "Nature and Elements of Poetry," "Poets of America," "Victorian Anthology," "Victorian Poets," "Poems Now First Collected," etc.

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil and of tears-- Toil without recompense, tears all in vain! Take them, and give me my childhood again!

"Rock Me to Sleep,"--_Elizabeth Akers Allen_.

ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN, a noted American poet, was born at Strong, Me., October 9, 1832, and died in 1911. She wrote: "The Silver Bridge and Other Poems," and a volume of "Poems," the best known among them being: "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother."

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

"Woodman, Spare that Tree!"--_George P. Morris_.

GEORGE POPE MORRIS, a celebrated American journalist and song-writer, was born in Philadelphia, October 10, 1802, and died in New York City, July 6, 1864. He wrote: "Poems," "The Little Frenchman," "Briercliff," and his famous song, "Woodman Spare That Tree."

It was acknowledged by Hume, that it was only in solitude and retirement that he could yield any assent to his own philosophy.

"Essays,"--_Hugh Miller_.

HUGH MILLER, a distinguished Scottish geologist, was born at Cromarty, October 11, 1802, and died near Edinburgh, December 2, 1856. His most notable works are: "The Old Red Sandstone," "Footprints of the Creator," "Testimony of the Rocks," "Poems," "Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland," etc.

There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked,--and laughed! It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room,-- My daughter! O my daughter.

"The New Arrival," St. I.--_George Washington Cable_.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE, a famous American novelist, was born in New Orleans, La., October 12, 1844. He has written: "The Silent South," "The Creoles of Louisiana," "Old Creole Days," "Dr. Sevier," "Strange True Stories of Louisiana," "The Busy Man's Bible," "John March, Southerner," "The Negro Question," "Strong Hearts," "Kincaid's Battery," "Gideon's Band," "The Amateur Garden," etc.

I've wandered east, I've wandered west, Through mony a weary way; But never, never can forget The luve o' life's young day!

"Jeannie Morrison,"--_William Motherwell_.

WILLIAM MOTHERWELL, a Scottish poet and antiquary of great fame, was born at Glasgow, October 13, 1797, and died there, November 1, 1835. His most famous works are: "Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern," and "Poems, Narrative and Lyrical."

Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Isle of Beauty, fare the well!

"Isle of Beauty,"--_Thomas Haynes Bayly_.

THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY, a noted English poet and novelist, was born in Bath, October 13, 1797, and died at Cheltenham, April 22, 1839. He wrote 36 dramas, including among them: "The Aylmers," "Perfection," and "The Legend of Killarney."

Be humble and gentle in your conversation, of few words, I charge you, but always pertinent when you speak, hearing out before you attempt to answer, and then speaking as if you would persuade, not impose.

"Advice to his Children,"--_William Penn_.

WILLIAM PENN, a distinguished writer, and the founder of Pennsylvania, was born at London, October 14, 1644, and died July 30, 1718. Among his notable works were: "A Sandy Foundation Shaken," "Truth Exalted," "No Cross, No Crown," "Reasonableness of Toleration," and "Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People Called Quakers."

Come in the evening, or come in the morning; Come when you're looked for, or come without warning.

"The Welcome,"--_Thomas Osborne Davis_.

THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS, a famous Irish poet and journalist was born in Mallow, County Cork, October 14, 1814, and died in Dublin, September 15, 1845. His "Poems" and his "Literary and Historical Essays" were collected in 1846.

Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, Where heartsome wi' thee I ha'e mony days been; For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more.

"Lochaber No More,"--_Allan Ramsay_.

ALLAN RAMSAY, an eminent Scottish poet, was born in Leadhills, Lanarkshire, October 15, 1686, and died in Edinburgh, January 7, 1758. His most noted works are: "Fables and Tales," "Tartana; or, The Plaid," "The Evergreen," "Fair Assembly," "The Tea-Table Miscellany," "Health," "Thirty Fables," and "Gentle Shepherd," his most celebrated work.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray,"--_Oscar Wilde_.

OSCAR WILDE, a famous Irish poet and author, was born in Dublin, October 15, 1856, and died in 1900. Among his works are: "Poems," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," etc.; also three noted plays: "Lady Windermere's Fan," "A Woman of No Importance," and "The Importance of Being Earnest."

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

--_Tillotson_.

JOHN TILLOTSON, a distinguished English archbishop, was born in Sowerby, Yorkshire, October 16, 1630, and died in London, November 22, 1694. His manuscript sermons were published after his death, with the "Rule of Faith," by Ralph Barker.

The fourteenth of February is a day sacred to St. Valentine! It was a very odd notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on this day birds begin to couple; hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending on this day letters containing professions of love and affection.

--_Noah Webster_.

NOAH WEBSTER, the eminent American lexicographer and journalist, was born at West Hartford, Conn., October 16, 1758, and died in New Haven, May 28, 1843. He published "Sketches of American Policy," "Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language," "A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language," and his _magnum opus_, "American Dictionary of the English Language."

In the Cross of Christ I glory, Tow'ring o'er the wrecks of time; All the lights of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime.

"The Cross of Christ,"--_Sir John Bowring_.

SIR JOHN BOWRING, a famous English author and diplomat, was born in Exeter, October 17, 1792, and died there, November 23, 1872. Among his writings are: "Specimens of the Polish Poets," "Specimens of the Russian Poets," "Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain," "Servian Popular Poetry," "The Flowery Scroll: A Chinese Novel," "The Kingdom and People of Siam," "Cheskian Anthology," and "A Visit to the Philippine Islands."

Kingsley's three masters were--in poetry, Tennyson; in social philosophy, Carlyle; in things moral and spiritual, Frederick D. Maurice; he was a much more passionate reformer than Tennyson; he was far more genial and social than Carlyle. Not that he imitated any of the three.

"Studies in Early Victorian Literature,"--_Frederic Harrison_.

FREDERIC HARRISON, a renowned English essayist, and publicist, was born in London, October 18, 1831. He wrote: "Order and Progress," "The Study of History," "Oliver Cromwell," "The Meaning of History," "Choice of Books," "Annals of an Old Manor House," "Chatham," "Life of Ruskin," "Memories and Thoughts," "Carlyle and the London Library," "My Alpine Jubilee," "National and Social Problems," "Among My Books," "The Positive Evolution of Religion," "Autobiographic Memoirs," "The German Peril," "On Society," "Jurisprudence and Conflict of Nations," "Obiter Scripta," "Novissima Verba," etc.

O sweet delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

"Verses: Noon,"--_Helen Hunt_.

HELEN FISKE JACKSON ("H. H."), a noted American poet and miscellaneous writer, was born October 18, 1831, and died in 1885. Among her publications are: "Poems," "Bits of Talk," "Hetty's Strange History," "A Century of Dishonor," and "Ramona," her most famous work.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.

"Religio Medici,"