The Guide to Reading Part 10

It does not matter how many, but how good, books you have.

--SENECA.

SEPTEMBER 17TH to 23RD

17th. I. Turner's The Harvest Moon, 13:249 II. Letty's Globe, 13:245-246 III. Mary, A Reminiscence, 13:246-247 IV. Her First-born, 13:247-248 V. The Lattice at Sunrise, 13:248

18th. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, b. 18 S. 1709 I. Macaulay's Dr. Samuel Johnson, 2-Pt. II:39-79

19th. HARTLEY COLERIDGE, b. 19 S. 1796 I. Song, 12:166-167 II. Sonnets, 13:227-230 III. Coleridge's Frost at Midnight, 14:22-25 IV. Love, 10:44-47 V. France: An Ode, 13:99-103

20th. WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE, d. 20 S. 1863 I. Antony to Cleopatra, 14:238-240 II. Hood's The Death Bed, 15:131 III. Autumn, 13:148-150 IV. Ruth, 14:157-158 V. Fair Ines, 12:168-169

21st. SIR WALTER SCOTT, d. 21 S. 1832 I. Sir Walter Scott, 17-Pt. I:65-73 II. The Maid of Neidpath, 10:39-40 III. Pibroch of Donald Dhu, 12:201-203 IV. Wandering Willie's Tale, 20-Pt. II:75-103

22nd. I. Wordsworth's My Heart Leaps Up, 13:274 II. Laodamia, 11:143-150 III. There Was a Boy, 14:156-157

23rd. Battle of Monterey, 23 S. 1846 I. Hoffman's Monterey, 10:206-207 II. Lovelace's The Gra.s.shopper, 12:30 III. To Lucasta, 12:129-130 IV. To Althea, 12:130-131 V. To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, 12:198

The words of the good are like a staff in a slippery place.

--HINDU SAYING.

SEPTEMBER 24TH TO 30TH

24th. I. Noyes's Creation, 15:204

25th. FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS, b. 25 S. 1793 I. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, 10:151-153 II. Poe's Annabel Lee, 10:56-57 III. To Helen, 12:176 IV. The Bells, 12:234-238 V. For Annie, 12:305-308

26th. I. Holmes's Latter-Day Warnings, 7-Pt. I:34-35 II. Contentment, 7-Pt. I:35-38 III. An Aphorism, 8-Pt. II:44-52 IV. Music Pounding, 7-Pt. I:80-81

27th. I. Holmes's The Height of the Ridiculous, 8-Pt. I:118-119 II. The Last Leaf, 14:167-168 III. The One-Hoss Shay, 11:236-241

28th. I. Morley's Haunting Beauty of Strychnine, 9-Pt. I:135 II. Guiterman's Strictly Germ-Proof, 7-Pt. I:141 III. Burgess's Lazy Roof, 8-Pt. I:149 IV. My Feet, 8-Pt. I:149

29th. eMILE ZOLA, d. 29 S. 1902 I. The Death of Olivier Becaille, 21-Pt. I:53-93

30th. I. Lowell's Without and Within, 8-Pt. II:72-73 II. She Came and Went, 15:134 III. The Sower, 14:144-145 IV. Sonnets, 13:251-253 V. What Rabbi Jehosha Said, 14:282-283

If you are reading a piece of thoroughly good literature, Baron Rothschild may possibly be as well occupied as you--he is certainly not better occupied.

--P. G. HAMERTON.

OCTOBER 1ST TO 7TH

1st. LOUIS UNTERMYER, b. 1 O. 1885 I. Only of Thee and Me, 12:339 II. Morris's October, 14:105-106 III. Bunner's Candor, 8-Pt. I:11-12

2nd. French Fleet destroyed off Boston, October, 1746 I. Longfellow's Ballad of the French Fleet, 10:202-204 II. Mrs. Browning's Sleep, 15:21-23 III. The Romance of the Swan's Nest, 10:79-83 IV. A Dead Rose, 12:191-192 V. A Man's Requirements, 12:192-194

3rd. WILLIAM MORRIS, d. 3 0. 1896 I. Summer Dawn, 12:172 II. The Nymph's Song to Hylas, 12:173-174 III. The Voice of Toil, 12:290-292 IV. The Shameful Death, 10:277-279

4th. HENRY CAREY, d. 4 O. 1743 I. Sally in Our Alley, 12:142-144 II. Van d.y.k.e's The Proud Lady, 10:296

5th. I. Poe's Ulalume, II:302-306 II. Arnold's The Last Word, 15:43 III. A Nameless Epitaph, 15:48 IV. Thyrsis, 15:86-97 V. Requiescat, 15:120-121

6th. GEORGE HENRY BOKER, b. 6 O. 1893 I. The Black Regiment, 10:207-210 II. Lamb's Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:129-132 III. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:136-143 IV. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt. II:143-145

7th. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, d. 7 O. 1586 I. The Bargain, 12:87 II. Astrophel and Stella, 13:178-180 III. To Sir Philip Sidney's Soul, 13:181 EDGAR ALLAN POE, d. 7 O. 1849 IV. The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Pt. I:1-53

A little before you go to sleep read something that is exquisite and worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall asleep.

--ERASMUS.

OCTOBER 8TH TO 14TH

8th. JOHN HAY, b. 8 O. 1838 I. Little Breeches, 7-Pt. I:45-47 EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, b. 8 0. 1833.

II. The Diamond Wedding, 7-Pt. I:107-114

9th. S. W. GILLILAN, b. O. 1869 I. Finnigin to Flannigan, 9-Pt. I:92-93 II. Dunne's On Expert Testimony, 9-Pt. II:13-16 III. Work and Sport, 9-Pt. II:87-92 IV. Avarice and Generosity, 9-Pt. II:144-146

10th. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, d. 10 0. 1872 I. Lincoln's Letter to Seward, 5-Pt. I:111-112 II. Walker's Medicine Show, 18:213

11th. I. Keats's To Autumn, 13:142-143 II. Carew's Epitaph, 15:48 III. Disdain Returned, 12:133-134 IV. Song, 12:134 V. To His Inconstant Mistress, 12:135

12th. ROBERT E. LEE, d. 12 O. 1870 I. Robert E. Lee, 16-Pt. II:62-73 DINAH MULOCK CRAIK, d. 12 O. 1887.

II. Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True 12:310-311

13th. SIR HENRY IRVING, d. 13 O. 1905 I. Sir Henry Irving, 17-Pt. II:39-47

14th. JOSH BILLINGS (H. W. SHAW), d. 14 O. 1885 I. Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats, 7-Pt. I:48-51 II. To Correspondents, 9-Pt. I:73-74 III. Russell's Origin of the Banjo, 9-Pt. I:79-82

And when a man is at home and happy with a book, sitting by his fireside, he must be a churl if he does not communicate that happiness.

Let him read now and then to his wife and children.

--H. FRISWELL.

OCTOBER 15TH TO 21ST

15th. I. Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, 12:272-273 II. Shakespeare's Over Hill, Over Dale, 12:19 III. Poe's a.s.signation, 4-Pt. I:81-101

16th. I. Nye's How to Hunt the Fox, 8-Pt. I:70-78 II. A Fatal Thirst, 7-Pt. II:148-150 III. On Cyclones, 9-Pt. I:83-85

17th. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, d. 17 O. 1910 I. Gloucester Moors, 11:320