--_Talleyrand_.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD, a celebrated French diplomat,
was born at Paris, February 13, 1754, and died at Valencay, May 17,
1838. His "Memoirs" were first published in 1891-92 in (5 vols.); his
"Correspondence with Louis XVIII, during the Congress of Vienna," in
1881, his "Diplomatic Correspondence," in 1889-91 in (3 vols.) and
"Unpublished Letters of Talleyrand to Napoleon, 1800-1809," in 1889.
O golden Silence, bid our souls be still,
And on the foolish fretting of our care
Lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!
"Silence,"--_Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr_.
MRS. JULIA CAROLINE (RIPLEY) DORR, a noted American poet and novelist,
was born in Charleston, S. C., February 13, 1825, and died in 1913. Her
works include: "Afternoon Songs," "Daybreak, an Easter Poem," "Poems,"
"Lanmere," "Expiation," "Farmingdale," "Bermuda," "Sibyl Huntington,"
and "A Cathedral Pilgrimage."
Oh, for the simple life,
For tents and starry skies!
"Aspiration,"--_Israel Zangwill_.
ISRAEL ZANGWILL, a renowned English-Jewish novelist, was born in London,
February 14, 1864. He has published: "The Premier and the Painter," "The
Bachelors' Club," "The Big Bow Mystery," "The Old Maids' Club,"
"Children of the Ghetto," "Merely Mary Ann," "Ghetto Tragedies," "The
Master," "The King of Schnorrers," "Without Prejudice," "The Mantle of
Elijah," "The Next Religion," "Plaster Saints."
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign
masters--pain and pleasure.
--_Jeremy Bentham_.
JEREMY BENTHAM, a distinguished English writer on ethics and
jurisprudence, was born February 15, 1748, and died in 1832. His
collected works (11 volumes) were published in 1843, and include: "A
Fragment on Government," "View of the Hard Labor Bill," "Rationale of
Punishment and Rewards," "Introduction to the Principles of Morals and
Legislation," "The Panopticon, or the Inspection House," "Manual of
Political Economy," "Poor Laws and Pauper Management," "Constitutional
Code," etc.
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the
world.
--_R. W. Griswold_.
RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD, a distinguished American journalist and
prose-writer, born in Benson, Vt., February 15, 1815, and died in New
York, August 27, 1857. His works include: "Poets and Poetry of America,"
"Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century," "Prose Writers
of America," "Female Poets of America," etc.
Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.
"Dreamland,"--_Silas Weir Mitchell_.
SILAS WEIR MITCHELL, a distinguished American physician, poet and
novelist, was born in Philadelphia, February 15, 1829, and died January
4, 1914. He has written: "In War Time," "Poems," "Hephzibah Guinness,
and Other Stories," "Hugh Wynne," "The Adventures of François," "The Red
City," "Westways," "Complete Poems," etc.