MEMORY GEMS.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.

-George Washington.

Of all human things, nothing is more honorable, or more excellent, than to deserve well of one's country.

Cicero.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

-Pope.

Think truly, and thy thoughts

Shall the world's famine feed;
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;

Live truly, and thy life shall be

A great and noble creed.

-Horatio Bonar.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with

thoughts.

-Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Bishop Berkeley.

When the heart is right, there is true patriotism.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

-Young.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them

good citizens.

-Daniel Webster.

What ought not to be done, do not even think of doing.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

-Epictetus.

-Lowell.

The fittest place where man can die,
Is where he dies for man!

-M. J. Barry.

When thought and love are active there can be no

sadness.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Let us be content to work,

-Emerson.

-Tennyson.

To do the thing we can, and not presume
To fret because it's little.

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

-Bryant.

-Shakespeare.

This above all to thine own self be true.

Act-act in the living Present,

Heart within, and God o'erhead!

-Longfellow.

God gives all things to industry; then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and to keep.

--Benjamin Franklin.

Charity.

Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;

Though they may gang a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human:

One point must still be greatly dark,
The moving why they do it!
And just as lamely can ye mark
How far, perhaps, they rue it.

Who made the beart, 'tis He alone
Decidedly can try us,

He knew each chord-- its various tone,

Each spring its various bias:

Then at the balance let's be mute,

We never can adjust it :

What's done we partly may compute,

But know not what's resisted!

-Robert Burns.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.

NOTE.-Biographical sketches given in Part One are not repeated here; and vice

versa.

Essays,"

P. 5. Lord Francis Bacon (1561-1626). A noted English jurist, philosopher, and author. Among his works are the “Advancement of Learning," and the "Novum Organum."

P. 10. Horace Mann (1796-1859). Celebrated American lawyer, legislator, and reformer. His work lay chiefly along the lines of temperance and education. His lectures form a permanent and important part of educational literature.

P. 11. Sir Galahad (Găl' a-had). One of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table; son of Sir Launcelot and Elaine; so pure in heart and life that he was successful in finding the Holy Grail, a quest in which the other knights failed.

P. 13. Holy Grail. Supposed to be the cup or dish used by Jesus and his apostles at the Last Supper. It was brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea, but soon disappeared. It became the quest of the Knights of the Round Table. No one was able to find it unless his life was perfectly pure and holy.

P. 13. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). A famous English poet; for more than forty years poet-laureate to Queen Victoria, who made him a peer of England. "In Memoriam" is his strongest poem.

P. 14. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887). A famous American preacher, orator, editor, and philanthropist; for many years pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. A great orator and delightful writer.

P. 15. The Knight of the Cloak. Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618). For a long time a favorite of Queen Elizabeth of England, who, also, called him, "Sir Squire of the Soiled Cassock."

P. 22. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). "The Wizard of the North," so called because of his marvelous literary work. Noted Scotch author. Voluminous writer of historical novels and poems of great interest and excellence.

P. 24. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). A famous American man of letters, poet, essayist, and diplomat; editor of Atlantic Monthly, 1857-62; Professor of Modern Languages, Harvard University; Minister to Spain, 1877; Minister to England, 1880.

P. 32. George Eliot. The pen name of Marian Evans (Mrs. John W. Cross) (1819-1880). A celebrated English novelist and essayist; a woman of strong intellect and a forceful, masterly writer. Author of "Romola,” "Middlemarch," "Adam Bede," "Silas Marner," etc.

P. 42. Sam Walter Foss. An American poet of the present day; his verse is marked by fine feeling and an intimate knowledge of nature.

P. 71. Louise De la Ramèe (1840-). An English writer of novels and charming tales for children. Among the best of the latter are: "A Dog of Flanders,” "The Child of Urbino," "The Nuremberg Stove," and "Findlekind.”

P. 74. Charles M. Dickinson.

An American poet, editor, and diplomat of the present day. At the present time (1904), Minister to Constantinople. His poem, "The Children," has many times been erroneously credited to Charles Dickens.

P. 82. Benjamin Harrison (1740–1791). An American statesman. One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

P. 82. Francis Bret Harte (1839-1902). An American poet and novelist. Became famous as a writer of prose and verse depicting the life of the early California settlers. Noted for his keen insight into human nature and his graphic pen.

P. 84. Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820). One of the earlier American poets. Author of many clever society poems, but best known from his stirring, patriotic poem, "The American Flag."

P. 87. Allan Rogers. A clever American writer of the present time; member of the Atlanta Constitution reportorial staff.

P. 92. B. F. Taylor (1819-1887). A popular American writer and lecturer of the nineteenth century.

P. 92. George Pope Morris (1802-1864). An American poet and journalist. The whole of the poem, "Woodman, Spare that Tree," is well worth memorizing. P. 110. Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-). An American poet and literary critic. Has published several volumes of verse and many criticisms of high repute.

P. 117. Jean Ingelow (1830-1897). An English writer of prose and verse full of beautiful ideas. Children know her best as the author of "The Songs of Seven."

P. 120. Francis Mahony (1804-1866). A native of Cork, Ireland; an accomplished scholar and an able writer of prose and verse. Pen name was "Father Prout."

P. 122. Eliphalet Nott (1773-1866). An American divine and writer; at one time President of Union College.

P. 126. Wilson Flagg (1805-1884). An American naturalist and author; favorite theme was New England country life and scenery.

P. 128. Phoebe Cary (1824-18/1). An American author of miscellaneous verse who wrote much for children; best loved for her beautiful hymns.

P. 134. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Noted English essayist and novelist. Author of " Vanity Fair," "Pendennis," "The Newcomes,"

Virginians," etc.

"The

P. 134. Sir William Jones (1746-1794). An English lawyer, philologist, and poet of the dramatic order.

P. 136. Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872). An American poet and artist. "His poems were pictures and his pictures were poems."

P. 141. Washington Irving (1783-1859). A distinguished American author; the first to make American literature respected abroad. Author of "Life of