Through the Year With Famous Authors Part 41

JEAN DE LA BRUYeRE, a famous French moralist and satirist, was born in Paris, August 30 (?), 1645, and died at Versailles, May 10, 1696. His fame rests on his great work, "The Characters of Theophrastus, Translated from the Greek, with the Characters or Manners of this Century."

If for widows you die, Learn to _kiss_ not to sigh.

"Widow Malone," II, 33-4,--_Charles James Lever_.

CHARLES (JAMES) LEVER, a noted Irish novelist, was born at Dublin, August 31, 1806, and died at Trieste, June 1, 1872. He wrote: "Confessions of Harry Lorrequer," "Charles O'Malley," "Arthur O'Leary,"

"Jack Hinton the Guardsman," "Tom Burke of Ours," "The O'Donoghue," "Con Cregan," "Roland Cashel," "The Daltons, or Three Roads in Life,"

"Luttrell of Arran," "The Fortunes of Glencore," "Davenport Dunn," "Sir Brooke Fosbrooke," "The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly," "Lord Kilgobbin,"

etc.

Ils sont si transparents qu'ils laissent voir votre ame.[2]

"The Two Beautiful Eyes,"--_Theophile Gautier_.

THeOPHILE GAUTIER, a renowned French poet and novelist, was born in Tarbes, Hautes Pyrenees, August 31, 1811, and died near Paris, in 1872.

Among his famous works may be mentioned: "Young France," "Albertus,"

"Poems," "History of Romanticism," "A Journey in Spain," "Italy,"

"Constantinople," "Miltona," "The Golden Fleece," "Arria Marcella,"

"Mademoiselle Dafne," "The Nest of Nightingales," "The Loving Dead,"

"The Chain of Gold," "Jean and Jeannette," "The Tiger Skin," "Spirite,"

"Modern Art," "The Arts in Europe," etc., etc.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] He adorned whatever he touched.

[2] Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

--_Lady Blessington_.

MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON, a distinguished Irish descriptive writer and novelist, was born in Knockbrit, Tipperary, September 1, 1789, and died in Paris, June 4, 1849. Among her works are: "The Idler in Italy," "The Idler in France," "Conversations with Lord Byron," etc.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

"Monody on Mrs. Hemans,"--_Lydia H. Sigourney_.

LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, a noted American author, was born in Norwich, Conn., September 1, 1791, and died in Hartford, Conn., June 10, 1865.

She wrote: "Letters to Young Ladies," "Letters to Mothers," "Scenes in My Native Land," "Voice of Flowers," "Letters to My Pupils," "The Daily Councelor," "Gleanings," (poetry), "The Man of Uz, and Other Poems,"

etc.

Socrates, like Solon, thought that no man is too old to learn; that to learn and to know is not a schooling for life, but life itself, and that which alone gives to life its value. To become by knowledge better from day to day, and to make others better, appeared to both to be the real duty of man.

"History of Greece,"--_Ernst Curtius_.

ERNST CURTIUS, a renowned German archaeologist and historian, was born at Lubeck, September 2, 1814, and died in 1896. He wrote: "Peloponnesus,"

and his famous, "History of Greece."

The fire upon the hearth is low, And there is stillness everywhere, And, like winged spirits, here and there The firelight shadows fluttering go.

"In the Firelight,"--_Eugene Field_.

EUGENE FIELD, a noted poet and humorous journalist, was born at St.

Louis, Mo., September 2, 1850, and died November 4, 1895. He wrote: "The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac," "The Holy Cross, and Other Tales,"

"Love Songs of Childhood," "A Little Book of Western Verse," and "A Second Book of Verse."

Nothing can make a man happy but that which shall last as long as he lasts; for an immortal soul shall persist in being, not only when profit, pleasure, and honour, but when time itself shall cease.

--_South_.

ROBERT SOUTH, a famous English divine, was born at Hackney, Middles.e.x, September 3, 1634, and died July 8, 1716. A collection of his sermons was published in 1692 in six volumes.

The Grecian history is a poem, Latin history a picture, modern history a chronicle.

--_Chateaubriand_.

FRANcOIS RENe AUGUSTE, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND, a renowned French statesman, traveler, novelist and historical writer, was born at St.

Malo, September 4, 1768, and died at Paris, July 4, 1848. Among his works are: "The Genius of Christianity" (his most famous work), "Atala,"

"Rene," and "The Natchez," also "The Martyrs, or Triumph of the Christian Religion," "A Journey from Paris to Jerusalem," "An Essay on English Literature," and translated Milton's "Paradise Lost."

Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.[1]

"Oberon," II. 24,--_Wieland_.

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN WIELAND, a celebrated German poet and prose-writer, was born in Oberholzheim, Suabia, September 5, 1733, and died January 20, 1813. He wrote: "Agathon," "The New Amadis," "The Golden Mirror,"

and "Oberon," his most famous work. He also translated the greater part of Shakespeare into German.