Such fate to suffering worth is given,

Who long with wants and woes has striven,
By human pride or cunning driven

To misery's brink,

Till, wrenched of every stay but Heaven,
He, ruined, sink!

E'en thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate,
That fate is thine no distant date;
Stern Ruin's plowshare drives, elate,
Full on thy bloom,

Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight,
Shall be thy doom.

BANNOCKBURN

AT Bannockburn the English lay, -
The Scots they were na far away,
But waited for the break o' day
That glinted in the east.

But soon the sun broke through the heath1

And lighted up that field o' death,

When Bruce, wi' saul-inspiring breath,
His heralds thus addressed: -

"Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed,

Or to glorious victory!

1 This word is always pronounced in Scotland as the rhyme here

requires.

Daniel De Foe, 1661-1731, political pamphleteer, republican agitator, and writer of fiction; wrote an argumentative poem "The Trueborn Englishman," "Hymn to the Pillory," "Journal of the Great Plague," and his immortal "Robinson Crusoe," besides very many political tracts.

Matthew Prior, 1664-1721, poet and diplomatist; his best-known works are 66 Henry and Emma," "Solomon," and his numerous

love-songs.

Bernard Mandeville, 1670-1733, physician and ethnologist; author of "The Fable of the Bees."

Sir Richard Steele, 1671-1729, founder and editor of "The Tatler;" contributor to "The Spectator;" humorist and moral essayist. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748, dissenting clergyman and religious poet; famous for his psalms and hymns.

Thomas Parnell, 1679-1717, poet; "The Hermit is his only considerable production.

Edward Young, 1684-1765, poet; author of "Night Thoughts."

George Berkeley, 1684-1753, Anglican bishop, theologian and philosopher; of his works "The Theory of Vision," and "The Minute Philosopher" are best known.

Allan Ramsay, 1685-1758, Scottish poet; the most familiar of his productions is "The Gentle Shepherd," with its scenes of rural life.

John Gay, 1688-1732, poet and dramatist; author of "The Shepherd's Week," a pastoral poem; his most popular play is "The Beggar's Opera."

Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761, "the father of the English novel; "

Jonathan Edwards

author of "Clarissa Harlowe," "Sir Charles Grandison," and "Pamela." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 16901762, traveler, and author of celebrated "Letters."

John Byrom, 1691-1763, numerous short didactic poems.

Joseph Butler, 1692-1752, Anglican bishop; author of the famous "Analogy of Religion."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773, famous in literature for his cynical "Letters to his Son," which were never intended for the public eye. A later series of letters "to his Godson" is now (1890) for the first time published. Both collections are luminous with reflections upon the men and affairs of his time. Henry Home, Lord Kames, 1696-1782, Scottish jurist; renowned for his "Elements of Criticism."

James Thomson, 1700-1748, Scottish poet; author of "The Seasons," and "The Castle of Indolence."

Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, American divine and metaphysician his principal work is "The Freedom of the Will;" grandfather of Aaron Burr.

Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, English novelist; "Tom Jones," "Joseph Andrews," and "Amelia" are his more important novels.

David Hume, 1711-1776, Scottish philosopher and historian; he wrote "A Treatise on Human Nature," "A History of England," and many moral and philosophical essays.

Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768, clergyman and humorous writer; author of "Tristram Shandy" and the "Sentimental Journey."

William Shenstone, 1714-1763, English pastoral poet; "The Schoolmistress" is his best work.

Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, scholar and poet; "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," " Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College," "Ode on Adversity," and many shorter poems.

Horace Walpole, 1717-1797, author and wit; "Castle of Otranto," and "Letters and Memoirs."

Gilbert White, 1720-1793, English clergyman; distinguished for his "Natural History of Selborne."

William Collins, 1721-1759, English

lyrical poet; "The Passions" and the "Ode to Liberty" are the best remembered of his poems. William Robertson, 1721-1793, Scottish historian; "History of Scotland," "History of the Reign of Charles V.," and other works. Tobias Smollett, 1721-1771, novelist and historian; "Peregrine Pickle," "Roderick Random," and "Humphrey Clinker are his best-known novels.

Adam Smith, 1723-1790, Scottish political economist; author of "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."

ADAM SMITH

Sir William Blackstone, 1723-1780, English jurist; author of "Commentaries on the Laws of England."

Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804, English Unitarian clergyman and natural philosopher; friend of Franklin; his best-known work is "Matter and Spirit."

James Beattie, 1735-1803, Scottish poet; author of "The Minstrel." John Horne Tooke, 1736-1812, politician and philologist; author of "The Diversions of Purley."

James Boswell, 1740-1795, famous for his "Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson."

William Paley, 1743-1805, English theologian; celebrated for

his "Evidences of Christianity," and his "Elements of Moral Philosophy."

Sir William Jones, 1746-1794, Oriental scholar, and author of many short poems of great beauty.