ROBERT BROWNING, 1812.

GROW old along with me!

The best is yet to be,

The last of life, for which the first was made;

Our times are in His hand

Who saith, "A whole I planned,

Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"

Robert Browning.

BROWNING! Since Chaucer was alive and hale

No man hath walk'd along our roads with step
So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue

So varied in discourse.

May 8.

Landor.

A MAN at college gets contact with men, larger views, acquaintances, education (either general or special), training for law, physics, business, engineering, — what

not.

S. Weir Mitchell.

BLESSED be woman for her faculty of admiration, and especially for her tendency to admire with her heart, when man, at most, grants merely a cold approval with his mind.

Hawthorne.

GREAT men are still admirable. There is nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

THE Voice of one who goes before to make
The paths of June more beautiful, is thine,
Sweet May!

Carlyle.

H. II. Jackson.

May 10.

FLOWERS never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. Beauteous soul, when a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

Jean Paul Richter.

Love, kissed by Wisdom, makes twice Love,
And Wisdom is through loving, wise.

Such perfect friends are Truth and Love

That neither lives where both are not.

Coventry Patmore.

GIVE me that man

That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts,

As I do thee.

Shakespeare.

IT has been well said that "in much of the world's best work the unconscious element is the most precious." A man's life-work may be a failure from human standpoints, even from his own standpoint, and yet an invisible something has been added by him to the priceless stock of human worth and fidelity.

May 12.

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, 1828.

T. L. Eliot.

UNTO God's will she brought devout respect,

Profound simplicity of intellect,

And supreme patience. From her mother's knee
Faithful and hopeful: wise in charity,

Strong in grave peace; in pity circumspect.

YOUR eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glows
'Neath billowing skies.

'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.
Deep in the sun-search growths, the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky;
So this wing'd hour is dropt to us from above.

D. G. Rossetti.