belonged! Guadalajara was finally awarded the "island."

ARTHUR W. NORTH,
in _The Mother of California._



JANUARY 7.


CALIFORNIA.

A sleeping beauty, hammock-swung,
Beside the sunset sea,
And dowered with riches, wheat, and oil,
Vineyard and orange tree;
Her hand, her heart to that fair prince
Whose genius shall unfold
With rarest art her treasured tales
Of life and love and gold.

CLARENCE URMY,
in _A Vintage of Verse._



JANUARY 8.


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