REFERENCES.

Essays, Whipple; To the Memory of Hood, Lowell.

MEMORY GEMS.

Evil is wrought by want of thought
As well as want of thought.

There is no music in the life

That sounds with happy laughter solely;
There's not a string attun'd to mirth,
But has its chord of melancholy.

JEAN INGELOW.

1830-1897.

Among Miss Ingelow's well-known poems are Songs of Seven; The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire; A Reverie; Divided; Songs of the Night Watches; a collection of stories for children; and the novels Don John, A Motto Changed, etc.

MEMORY GEMS.

"When our thoughts are born,

Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray

And shame their mother."

"Tears are the showers that fertilize this world, And memory of things precious keepeth warm The heart that once did hold them.”

SEVEN TIMES ONE.

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover,
There's no rain left in heaven.

I've said my "seven times" over and over,—
Seven times one are seven.

I am old, so old I can write a letter;
My birthday lessons are done,

The lambs play always; they know no better;
They are only one times one.

O moon! in the night I have seen you sailing

And shining so round and low.

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You were bright,—ah bright-but your light is failing, You are nothing now but a bow.

You, moon! have you done something wrong in heaven, *
That God has hidden your face?

I hope, if you have, you will soon be forgiven,
And shine again in your place.

O velvet bee! you're a dusty fellow;
You've powdered your legs with gold.
O brave marsh Mary-buds, rich and yellow,
Give me your money to hold!

O Columbine! open your folded wrapper,
Where two twin turtle-doves dwell;
O Cuckoo-pint! toll me the purple clapper
That hangs in your clear, green bell.

And show me your nest, with the young ones in it;

I will not steal them away;

I am old; you may trust me, linnet, linnet,

I am seven times one to-day.

"The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one."'— Goldsmith.

CHAPTER IX.

FAMOUS EARLY BRITISH NOVELISTS.

"A blessing on the printer's art!
Books are the mentors of the heart."

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.

WILLIAM M. THACKERAY.

CHARLES DICKENS.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

MARY ANN EVANS.

"To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books; they presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness.' Fuller.