22nd. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, b. 22 D. 1869
I. Miniver Cheevy, 7-Pt. I:147
II. Vickery's Mountain, 14:303
III. Richard Cory, 14:309

23rd. MICHAEL DRAYTON, d. 23 D. 1631
I. Idea, 13:182
II. Agincourt, 10:176-181
III. Stevenson's The Whaups, 12:70
IV. Youth and Love, 12:231


Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to
waste none of them in reading valueless books; and valuable books
should, in a civilized country, be within the reach of every one.
--JOHN RUSKIN.

DECEMBER 24TH TO 31ST


24th. Christmas Eve
I. Guiney's Tryste Noel, 15:202
II. Rossetti's My Sister's Sleep, 15:137-139
MATTHEW ARNOLD, b. 24 D. 1822
III. Dover Beach, 14:279-280
IV. Philomela, 12:56-57

25th. I. Milton's Ode on The Morning of Christ's Nativity, 13:42-43
II. Thackeray's The Mahogany Tree, 12:252-254
III. Thackeray's The End of the Play, 14:283-286