21st. ALEXANDER POPE, b. 21 My. 1688
I. On a Certain Lady at Court, 13:272-273
II. The Dying Christian to His Soul, 15:169
III. The Universal Prayer, 15:166-168
JAMES GRAHAM, Marquis of Montrose,
d. 21 My. 1650
IV. The Execution of Montrose, 10:270-277
22nd. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, b. 22 My. 1859
I. The Dancing Men, 22-Pt. I:63
23rd. THOMAS HOOD, b. 23 My. 1799
I. Flowers, 12:53-54
II. I Remember, I Remember, 12:269-270
III. The Song of the Shirt, 12:292-295
IV. The Bridge of Sighs, 15:124-128
V. The Dream of Eugene Aram, 11:265-273
24th. RICHARD MANSFIELD, b. 24 My. 1857
I. Richard Mansfield, 17-Pt. II:61-79
25th. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, b. 25 My. 1803
I. The Rhodora, 14:115
II. The Titmouse, 12:66-69
III. The Problem, 14:268-271
IV. Lincoln’s The Whigs and the Mexican War, 5-Pt. I:3-6
V. Notes for a Law Lecture, 5-Pt. I:7-10
26th. I. Bret Harte’s Melons, 7-Pt. II:41-50
II. The Society upon the Stanislaus, 7-Pt. II:57-59
27th. I. Lady Dufferin’s The Lament of the Irish Emigrant, 15:128-130
II. Hawthorne’s Wakefield, 3-Pt. I:85-99
All the best experience of humanity, folded, saved, freighted to us
here! Some of these tiny ships we call Old and New Testaments, Homer,
Aeschylus, Plato, Juvenal, etc. Precious Minims!
--WALT WHITMAN.