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DEKKER, THOMAS.  Born at London, about 1570; died about 1641.  Little is
  known of his life; imprisoned several times; had literary quarrels
  with Ben Jonson.  Lived in the great period of the English drama (the
  age of Shakespeare); wrote many of his plays in collaboration with
  other writers of the period.  Among his best-known plays are “The
  Shoe-makers’ Holiday” and “Old Fortunatus.” The Happy Heart.

DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN.  Born at New York City, Aug. 7, 1795; died there
  Sept. 21, 1820.  Author of “The Culprit Fay” and “The American Flag.”
  The Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife.

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ELIOT, GEORGE (Mary Ann Evans Lewes Cross).  Born at Arbury Farm,
  Warwickshire, Eng., Nov. 22, 1819; died at Chelsea, London, Dec. 22,
  1880.  Educated at Nuneaton and Coventry; assistant editor of the
  Westminster Review 1851-3.  Lived with George Henry Lewes from 1854
  until his death in 1878; married John Walter Cross in 1880.  Among her
  books (mostly novels) are “Adam Bede,” “The Mill on the Floss,” “Silas
  Marner,” “Romola,” “Felix Holt,” “The Spanish Gypsy,” “Middlemarch,”
  “Daniel Deronda,” and “Impressions of Theophrastus Such.” You May
  Count That Day.

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.  Born at Boston, Mass., May 25, 1803; died at
  Concord, Mass., Apr. 27, 1882.  Graduated at Harvard College 1821,
  working his way; taught school; began to study for the ministry 1823;
  licensed to preach 1826; trip to the South for his health 1827-8;
  Unitarian minister in Boston 1829-32; European travel 1832-3; settled
  at Concord 1834; lectured extensively for over thirty years. 
  Contributed to the Dial 1840-4; visited Europe 1847-8 and 1872-3. 
  Lectured at Harvard 1868-70.  Some of his works are “Nature,” “The
  American Scholar,” “Essays” (first and second series), “Representative
  Men,” “English Traits,” “The Conduct of Life,” and “Society and
  Solitude.” Duty; Fable.

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FOLEY, JAMES WILLIAM.  Born at St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 4, 1874.  Educated at
  the University of South Dakota.  Member of Masonic Order and Past Grand
  Master of Masons.  Had early ranch experience; knew Theodore Roosevelt
  during his ranching days.  Began newspaper work on the Bismarck, N.
  Dak., Tribune 1892.  During the Great War he served seventeen months
  in army camps as an entertainer and inspirational lecturer, traveling
  fifty thousand miles and addressing a quarter of a million men.  For
  fifteen years he has been lecturing and writing.  His work includes
  books of verse, humorous sketches, and plays.  At present associate
  editor of the Pasadena, Cal., Evening