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," Part II, Sect. ii,--_Sir Thomas Browne_.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, a celebrated English antiquary and physician, was
born in London, October 19, 1605, and died in 1682. His principal work
is "Religio Medici." After his death a collection of his fugitive pieces
was published, followed by "Christian Morals," a collection of
aphorisms.
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in
the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be
celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary
festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance,
by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be
solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns,
bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent
to the other, from this time forward for evermore.
"Letter to Mrs. Adams," July 3, 1776.--_John Adams_.
JOHN ADAMS, an illustrious American statesman and publicist, and second
President of the United States, was born at Braintree (now Quincy),
Massachusetts, October 19, 1735, and died there, July 4, 1826. His most
celebrated work was: "Defence of the Constitution and Government of the
United States."
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks
To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
"The Story of Rimini,"--_Leigh Hunt_.
LEIGH HUNT, a famous English poet, critic, and essayist, was born in
Southgate, October 19, 1784; and died at Putney, August 28, 1859. The
most important of his works are: "The Story of Rimini," "Recollections
of Byron," "A Legend of Florence," and "Sir Ralph Esher."
Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord!
Star of Eternity! The only star
By which the bark of man could navigate
The sea of life and gain the coast of bliss
Securely.
"The Course of Time," Book ii, Line 270,--_Robert Pollok_.
ROBERT POLLOK, a noted Scottish poet, was born at North Moorhouse,
Renfrewshire, October 19, 1798, and died September 17, 1827. He
published "Tales of the Covenanters," and his famous poem, "The Course
of Time."
It is no easy task for anyone who has been studying his life and
works to set reasonable bounds to their reverence and enthusiasm,
for the man.
"Alfred the Great,"--Ch. 24,--_Thomas Hughes_.
THOMAS HUGHES, a celebrated English essayist and story-writer, was born
at Donnington Priory, near Newbury, October 20, 1823, and died in 1896.
He wrote: "Our Old Church: What Shall We Do With It?" "Rugby," "The
Manliness of Christ," and his two celebrated works, "Tom Brown's School
Days," and "Tom Brown at Oxford."
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
"Epilogue" to the "Heir at Law,"--_George Colman, the Younger_.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER, a famous English dramatist and humorous
poet, was born in London (?), October 21, 1762, and died there October
17, 1836. He wrote: "Broad Grins," "Poetic Vagaries," etc. Among his
comedies are: "The Iron Chest," "John Bull," and "The Heir-at-Law."
A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
"The Ancient Mariner," Part V,--_Samuel Taylor Coleridge_.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, a renowned English poet and philosopher, was
born at Ottery, St. Mary, Devonshire, October 21, 1772, and died July
25, 1834. Among his famous works are: "Fall of Robespierre" (a play),
"Moral and Political Lecture Delivered at Bristol," "Conciones ad
Populum," "The Plot Discovered," "Poems on Various Subjects," "The
Destiny of Nations," "Ode to the Departing Year," "Pears in Solitude,"
"Wallenstein," "Remorse, a Tragedy," "Biographia Literaria," "Aids to
Reflection," etc. "The Ancient Mariner," was published in 1798, in a
volume of "Lyrical Ballads," with Wordsworth.
If cruelty has its expiations and its remorses, generosity has its
chances and its turns of good fortune; as if Providence reserved
them for fitting occasions, that noble hearts may not be
discouraged.
--_Lamartine_.
ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE LAMARTINE, an eminent French poet, was born at
Milly, near Macon, October 21, 1790, and died at Passy, March 1, 1869.
His greatest works were: "Poetic and Religious Harmonies," "Jocelyn,"
"Poetical Meditations," "New Poetical Meditations," "History of the
Girondins," "The Fall of an Angel," "Confidences," "New Confidences,"
and the "History of the Restoration."
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain-side
Let freedom ring.
--"America"--_Samuel Francis Smith_.
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, a noted American clergyman and hymn-writer, was
born in Boston, October 21, 1808, and died in 1895. He wrote: "Mythology
and Early Greek History," "Knights and Sea Kings," "Poor Boys Who Became
Great," and his famous hymn, "America."
Heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to
execute.
"Junius" Letter XXXVII.
SIR PHILIP FRANCIS, a celebrated Irish-English public man and writer,
was born in Dublin, October 22, 1740, and died in London, December 23,
1818. He won celebrity by the "Letters" signed "Junius," which appeared
in the Public Advertiser of London, from 1768 to 1772.
Scatter the clouds that hide
The face of heaven, and show
Where sweet peace doth abide.
Where Truth and Beauty grow.
"Morning Hymn,"--_Robert Bridges_.
ROBERT BRIDGES, a renowned English author and poet, was born October 23,
1844. He has been poet-laureate of England since 1913. He has written:
"Essay on Milton's Prosody," "Critical Essay on Keats," "The Growth of
Love," "Eros and Psyche," "Prometheus the Firegiver," "Demeter, a
Masque," "The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English and French," "Ibant
Obscuri," and some notable plays, among them: "Nero" (Parts I and II),
"Palicio," "Ulysses," "Christian Captives," "Achilles in Scyros,"
"Humours of the Court," "Feast of Bacchus," etc.
... A Boswell and is not allowed to be, who has wild notions that
he is really a greater man than Johnson and occasionally
blasphemes against his idol, but who in the intervals is truly
Boswellian.
"Essays in English Literature,"--_Saintsbury_.
GEORGE EDWARD BATEMAN SAINTSBURY, an eminent English critic and literary
historian, was born at Southampton, October 23, 1845. Among his numerous
works are: "Primer of French Literature," "Short History of French
Literature," "Marlborough," "Elizabethan Literature," "Essays in English
Literature," "Essays on French Novelists," "Nineteenth Century
Literature," "Sir Walter Scott," "A Short History of English
Literature," "Matthew Arnold," "History of Criticism and Literary Taste
in Europe," "History of English Prosody," "History of English
Criticism," "The English Novel," "First Book of English Literature," "A
History of the French Novel," Vol. 1 (1917) and Vol. 2 (1919).
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
"Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy, Remarks on Thomas
Brown,"--_Sir James Mackintosh_.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH, a distinguished Scottish lawyer, philosopher, and
politician, was born at Aldourie, Inverness-shire, October 24, 1765, and
died in London, May 30, 1832. Among his writings are: "History of
England," "Life of Sir Thomas More," "Modern British Essayists," and
"Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy."
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill,
And naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
"The Hermit,"--_James Beattie_.
JAMES BEATTIE, a noted Scottish poet, was born in Laurencekirk,
Kincardineshire, October 25, 1735, and died in Aberdeen, August 18,
1803. His writings include: "The Minstrel," "Dissertations Moral and
Critical," "The Evidences of the Christian Religion Briefly and Plainly
Stated," "The Elements of Moral Science," and his famous "Essay on
Truth."
Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it
brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and
ache for the dark house and the long sleep, there is exhibited in
its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens.
"On Mitford's History of Greece," (1824)--_Thomas B. Macaulay_.
THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD MACAULAY, a renowned English historian, essayist,
poet and statesman, was born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, October
25, 1800, and died at Kensington, December 28, 1859. His most famous
works are: "Lays of Ancient Rome," and the "History of England."
Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze
We lift our heads, a race of other days.
"Centennial Ode," Stanza 22,--_Charles Sprague_.
CHARLES SPRAGUE, a noted American poet, was born in Boston, October 26,
1791, and died there, January 22, 1875. He wrote: "The Family Meeting,"
"The Winged Worshippers," and "Curiosity." A collection of his works
entitled "Poetical and Prose Writings," was published in 1841.
Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest
forth, in thy awful beauty, the stars hide themselves in the sky;
the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou,
thyself, movest alone.
"The Poems of Ossian," "Carthon Ossian's Address to the
Sun,"--_James Macpherson_.
JAMES MACPHERSON, a famous Scottish author, known as the author of the
"Ossian" poems, was born at Ruthven, Inverness-shire, October 27, 1736,
and died February 17, 1796. He published the "Poems of Ossian,"
consisting of "Fingal, an Epic Poem in Six Books" (1762), "Temora, an
Epic Poem in Eight Books" (1764); he also wrote: "History of Great
Britain" (1775).
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
"The Strenuous Life,"--_Theodore Roosevelt_.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, a celebrated American politician and author, and
twenty-sixth President of the United States, was born in New York City,
October 27, 1858, and died January 6, 1918. He has written: "Essays on
Practical Politics," "The Naval War of 1812," "Life of Thomas Hart
Benton," "The Wilderness Hunter," "The Winning of the West," "Gouverneur
Morris," "Ranch Life and Hunting Trail," "History of New York City,"
"Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," "The Outdoor Pastimes of an American
Hunter," "African Game Trails," "Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography,"
"History as Literature," "Life History of African Big Game," "A Hunter
Naturalist in the Brazilian Wilderness," "Fear God and Take Your Own
Part," "A Book Lover's Holiday in the Open," "The Foes of Our Own
Household," etc.
Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:--
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in our own.
Ye Weary Wayfarer. Finis Exoptatus.--_Adam Lindsay Gordon_
(Lionel Gordon).
ADAM LINDSAY GORDON (LIONEL GORDON), a noted Australian poet, was born
October 28, 1833, and died June 24, 1870. His volumes of verse include:
"Sea Spray and Smoke Drift," "Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric," "Bush
Ballads and Galloping Rhymes."
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he
reads as a task will do him little good.
"Life of Johnson," Vol. II, Chap. VI (1763),--_Boswell_.
JAMES BOSWELL, a famous Scottish biographer, was born in Edinburgh,
October 29, 1740, and died in London, May 19, 1795. He wrote: "An
Account of Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli," "Journal of a Tour to
the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson," etc. His "Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson"
is considered the most interesting biography that has ever been written.