Chapter III: Part 3

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. 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