The calendar in the Pocket University Guide to Daily Reading is based on is 1922’s. In 1922, Memorial Day fell on May 30th. You’ll recall we read Hale’s The Man Without a Country last Monday. Today’s Daily Readings are from May 25th. Born on May 25 in the year 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Daily Readings
Born this day in the year 1857, Richard Mansfield. Daily Reading May 24 Richard Mansfield, Vol. XVII Pt. II: 61-79 Volume XVII is Autobiography: Writers, Actors. Mansfield was an actor. The selection is his “Man and the Actor” which appeared in Atlantic Monthly (1906). This was a bit surprising. From Amazon: This work has been
Once again, nothing happened today. I beg to differ. Today in the year 1474, Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, was born. (From Mary E. Hazeltine. Judith K. Sollenberger, ed. Anniversaries and Holidays: A Calendar of Days and How to Observe Them Second Edition, Completely Revised. American Library Association, Chicago. 1965.) The crappy old book tells me
Born today in the year 1855, George Edward Woodberry. That infallible source never ceases to amaze. This is one of the strangest biographical sketches I have ever read. The DDG search results are odd, too. DDG returned nine sites on the first page. That infallible source was #1, but one-third of the hits are quotation
On this day in 1904 Henry M. Stanley died. Stanley is the Stanley of Stanley & Livingston, I presume. Let us turn to The Boy’s Book of Explorations: True Stories of the Heroes of Travel and Discovery in Africa, Asia, and Australia; From the “Dark Ages” To the “Wonderful Century” (1909). (Link goes to Archive
Today in the year 1822, U.S. grant was born. Daily Readings 4/27 General Ulysses Simpson Grant, 16-Pt.II: 3-30 The reading is from The Pocket University, Autobiography Greatest Americans, Volume XVI. Amazingly, I do not have Grant’s autobiography in my collection of crappy old books. Aside: You know what’s weird? This whole crappy olden days ordering
On this day in 1870 William H. Davies was born. Here we go again. William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies (3 July 1871[2] – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or hobo, in the United Kingdom and United States, but became one of the most popular poets of his
GDR 4/12/20 Excerpts from Franklin’s Autobiography I do not have the Pocket University Library volume that contains the excerpts, so I’ll pluck some pages from the Autobiography. And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to His kind providence,
Human virtues are plants which never strike a deep root unless shaken by misfortune. Virtue consists in the directing of our intellectual and physical energies to a praiseworthy end; but if our energies be naturally feeble, or dwindle and wither away through lack of exercise, our virtue, by a necessary consequence, must become dwarfish and
Charles Beard: Punished for Seeking Peace His reputation was savaged because he had the temerity to question the ‘Good War’ narrative. [Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, March 21, 2019] Bacevich’s review of Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism (Richard Drake, Cornell University Press, 2018) caught my attention because
The days of the cave man have passed. Physical strength no longer gives prowess to the individual. What the twentieth century demands is the trained intellect. The man who knows is the man of the hour. The Standard Question Book and Home Study Outlines, The Frontier Press Company, Buffalo, New York. 1919. This is the