Twice the editor has had the privilege of visiting the "Craigie House." It is a real pleasure to look through this historic old mansion, made famous as Washington's headquarters and as Mr. Longfellow's home for so many years. The lower room to the right as you enter, is the study, and in this room there is much of interest to be seen; among other things, the arm chair presented to Mr. Longfellow by the children of Cambridge, and finely bound copies of all his works and many of the original manuscripts. In the dining room is a portrait of the three daughters,

"Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with Golden Hair," painted by Thomas Buchanan Reed, but Mr. Longfellow's picture in "The Children's Hour" is so vivid that you almost see the "blue-eyed banditti" rushing through the three unguarded doors to take possession not only of the room but of Mr. Longfellow himself. Miss Alice now occupies the old home and is very courteous and attentive even to strangers. The other daughters are married and live near by. There were two brothers, Charles and Ernest. Charles was a soldier in the

Civil War, and was very badly wounded on the Rapidan. Ernest is an artist.

The large piazzas are on the East and West sides of the house, while the front faces the South, and looks through what is now Longfellow Park to the Charles River near by. Many of Mr. Longfellow's most beautiful poems, as "The Day is Done," "The Two Angels," "The Children's Hour," "From My Arm Chair," "To the River Charles," "To a Child," and others, speak a tender remembrance of the happy associations clustering around the old mansion.

"Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country dwelt."

"Up and down these echoing stairs,
Heavy with the weight of cares
Sounded his majestic tread;
Yes, within this very room
Sat he in those hours of gloom,
Weary both in heart and head."

"Thou best taught me, Silent River! Many a lesson, deep and long; Thou hast been a generous giver;

I can give thee but a song."

Introduction to Birthday Exercises

FEBRUARY.

Boy dressed similarly to January.

I am the month of Birthdays of Great Men,
Though I am the shortest, quite,-
Lincoln and Longfellow, Lowell, Charles
Dickens,

And Washington, star of our night!

Four pupils advance, each carrying a picture held high by means of a rod.

No. 1.-Carrying picture of Lincoln.

Honored the president, great and heroic, Who by a stroke of his pen,

Ennobled our land and freed from their bondange

A race of down-trodden men!

No. 2.-Bearing Lowell's portrait.

Loved and honored for words of beauty
That give men a glimpse of heaven,
And teach them those lives alone are worthy
That to highest thoughts are given!

At this point, introduce a quotation or two from Lowell's poems, especially the words of the leper in Sir Launfal's Vision, including the words, "Who gives himself with his aims feeds three."

No. 3.-With Longfellow's portrait.

Our own dear Cambridge poet, Whom the children love so weil, And great minds truly honor,

Wherever they may dwell.

Selections from this poet ioilow.

No. 4. With picture of Washington.

Greatest of all our heroes!
Through him was freedom won;
And as our first great president
He led the good work on.

-The Teacher's World.

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Mr. Horace E. Scudder, until recently editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and an author whose works are widely read, died at Cambridge, Mass., on January 11, after an illness of nearly a year. He graduated at Williams College in 1858, and early turned his attention to literary pursuits, especially in writing for young people. He was editor of The Riverside Magazine, which some of us remember with pleasure, and afterwards wrote the "Bodley Books." Mr. Scudder was the author of a "Life of Noah Webster," a brief biography of Washington, and probably the most important of all, "The Life and Letters of James Russell Lowell," just issued. The young people of to-day will probably know Mr. Scudder best as the editor of the excellent Riverside Literature Series, of which over one hundred and fifty numbers have been issued. All who had any dealings with him, either by correspondence or in his office at Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s will recall his uniform courtesy and genial manner. Mr. Scudder will be greatly missed among a wide circle of friends.

Those Green Slips

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Possibly some of these slips may fall into hands where they do not belong. That is a mistake which we hope may not occur but if it does, smile and be pleasant about it and we shall gladly correct the error.

Only Once

"Professor, do you expel students often ?"

"No, only once."