G.P.  Putnam’s Sons, New York and London. 
  Arthur Christopher Benson:  Along the Road, Silent Isle,
  From a College Window, Joyous Gard, Lord Vyet and Other Poems.

Little, Brown & Company, Boston, Mass. 
  Emily Dickinson, Laura E. Richards, Edward Everett Hale.

George H. Doran Company, New York, N.Y. 
  Sir Oliver Lodge, Arnold Bennett, J. Stalker, A.H.  Begbie.

Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, N.Y. 
  Percy C. Ainsworth, E.H.  Divall, Margaret E. Sangster,
  J.H.  Jowett, George Matheson.

Longmans, Green & Company, New York and London. 
  William James.

Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, N.Y. 
  Maurice Maeterlinck, Hamilton Mabie, Ian Maclaren,
  Jerome K. Jerome, G.K.  Chesterton, Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Small, Maynard & Company, Boston, Mass. 
  Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John B. Tabb, Ernest Crosby.

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, Boston, Mass. 
  Paul Hamilton Hayne.

Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York
  Charles Wagner, Edwin Markham, Helen Keller.

E.P.  Dutton Company, New York. 
  George Macdonald.

JANUARY

    Janus am I; oldest of potentates;
      Forward I look, and backward, and below
    I count, as god of avenues and gates,
      The years that through my portals come and go.

    I block the roads, and drift the fields with snow;
      I chase the wild fowl from the frozen fen;
    My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow,
      My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men.

    —­Henry W. Longfellow.

JANUARY FIRST

Bartolome Esteban Murillo, baptized 1618.

Paul Revere born 1735.

Betsy Ross born 1752.

Maria Edgeworth born 1767.

Arthur Hugh Clough born 1819.

    Old things need not be therefore true,
    O brother men, nor yet the new;
    Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,
    And yet consider it again!

    We! what do we see? each a space
    Of some few yards before his face;
    Does that the whole wide plan explain? 
    Ah, yet consider it again!

    Alas! the great world goes its way,
    And takes its truth from each new day;
    They do not quit, nor can retain,
    Far less consider it again.

    —­Arthur Hugh Clough.

    There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the
    other habits of indolence.  The first is a virtue; the other a vice.

    —­Maria Edgeworth.

    Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: 
    Let them bring me unto thy holy hill,
    And to thy tabernacles.

    —­Psalm 43. 3.

Almighty God, lead me in the search for life.  Teach me what is important and what is unimportant; what is false, and what is true.  Remove the hindrances that keep me from the worthiest deeds, and grant that I may have the peace that comes with surrender of self to thy will.  Amen.