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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

“Alice in Wonderland,” Chap. ix.—Lewis Carroll.

Lewis Carroll, nom de plume of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a distinguished English clergyman and writer on mathematical subjects was born January 27, 1832, and died in January, 1898. His principal works are: “A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry,” “Guide to the Mathematical Student,” etc. Also: “The Hunting of the Snark,” “Rhyme and Reason,” “Euclid and His Modern Rivals,” “Game of Logic,” “Mathematica Curiosa,” and his two popular tales for children, entitled “Alice in Wonderland,” and “Through the Looking-Glass.”

Morgen, Morgen, nur nicht heute;

Sprechen immer trage Leute.[7]

“Der Aufschub,”—Weisse.

Christian Felix Weisse, a noted German poet and writer, was born at Annaberg, January 28, 1726, and died at Leipsic, December 16, 1804. He wrote: “Sportive Lays,” “Lays of the Amazons,” “Songs for Children,” etc.

Onward, Christian soldiers,

Marching as to war,

With the cross of Jesus

Going on before!

Christ the royal Master

Leads against the foe;

Forward into battle,

See, His banners go.

Onward, Christian soldiers,

Marching as to war,

With the cross of Jesus,

Going on before!

“Onward, Christian Soldiers.”—S. Baring-Gould.

Sabine Baring-Gould, a renowned English antiquary and novelist, was born in Exeter, January 28, 1834; died January, 1924. Among his numerous works may be mentioned: “Lives of the Saints,” “Yorkshire Oddities,” “In the Roar of the Sea,” “The Deserts of Southern France,” “A Garland of Country Song,” “Old Fairy Tales Retold,” “Napoleon Bonaparte,” “A Study of St. Paul,” “A Book of the Riviera,” “A Book of the Rhine,” “A Book of the Pyrenees,” “Devonshire Characters,” “Cornish Characters,” “The Land of Teck,” “Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings,” “The Church Revival,” and his most famous work, “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.”

A man after death is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

“Conjugal Love,” Par. 31,—Swedenborg.

Emanuel Swedenborg, the famous Swedish mystic philosopher and author, was born in Stockholm, January 29, 1688, and died there March 29, 1772. His notable works include: “Principles of Chemistry,” “Conjugal Love and its Chaste Delights,” “Opera Philosophica et Mineralia,” “Domini Jesu Christi Servus,” etc.

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

“Age of Reason,” Part ii, note,—Thomas Paine.

Thomas Paine, an eminent American publicist, was born at Thetford in Norfolkshire, England, January 29, 1737, and died at New Rochelle, New York, June 8, 1809. The most important of his Works are: “Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance,” “Common-Sense,” “The Age of Reason,” “The Rights of Man.”

A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.

—Charles Rollin.

Charles Rollin, a noted French historian and professor of belles-lettres, was born at Paris, January 30, 1661, and died September 14, 1741. His chief works are: “On the Study of Belles-Lettres,” “Ancient History” (12 vols. 1730-1738), and “History of Rome.”

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world’s—

Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee,

Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,

No man hath walk’d along our roads with steps

So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue

So varied in discourse.

“To Robert Browning,”—Walter S. Landor.

Walter Savage Landor, the celebrated English poet and prose writer, was born at Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, January 30, 1775, and died at Florence, September 17, 1864. His best known works are: “The Pentameron,” “The Hellenics,” “Popery, British and Foreign,” “Poems,” “Antony and Octavius: Scenes for the Study,” “Heroic Idylls, with Additional Poems,” and his most famous work, “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.”

Nur eine Mutter weiss allein, was lieben heisst und glücklich sein.[8]

“Frauen Liebe und Leben,” 7.—A. von Chamisso.

Adelbert von Chamisso, a famous German lyrist, was born at the castle of Boncourt Champagne, January 30, 1781, and died at Berlin, August 21, 1838. His most celebrated work is “Peter Schlemihl,” which has been translated into all the principal languages of Europe.

When thou a fast would’st keep,

Make not thy homage cheap,

By publishing its signs to every eye;

But let it be between

Thyself and the Unseen,

So shall it gain acceptance from on high.

—Bernard Barton.

Bernard Barton, a noted English poet, was born in Carlisle, January 31, 1784, and died in Woodbridge, February 19, 1849. He published: “Metrical Effusions,” “Devotional Verses,” “Household Verses,” etc.

Gather leaves and grasses,

Love, to-day;

For the Autumn passes

Soon away.

Chilling winds are blowing

It will soon be snowing.

“Gather Leaves and Grasses,”—John Henry Boner.

John Henry Boner, a well-known American poet and literary worker, was born at Salem, N. C., January 31, 1845, and died in 1903. He is best remembered for his volume of verse, “Whispering Pines.”