NOVEMBER 



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NOVEMBER 



Leacock. Stephen B. 

 Lemay, L. P. 

 Lesage, Alain Ren6 

 Lever, Charles James 

 London, Jack 

 Lorimer, George Horace 

 Loti, Pierre 



tens, Maarten 



McCutcheon, George B. 



.M;K donald, George 



M;irryat, Frederick 



; assant. Henri 



Guy de 



Meredith, George 

 :mee. Prosper 

 Mitchell, Silas Weir 

 Moodie, Susanna 

 More, Sir Thomas 

 Morris, subhead Gouver- 



neur Morris 

 Munroe, Kirk 

 Murfree, Mary Noailles 

 Nicholson, Meredith 

 Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret 

 Oliver Optic 

 Page. Thomas Nelson 

 Parker, Sir Gilbert 

 Perrault, Charles 



Porter, Gene Stratton 

 Porter, Jane 

 Porter, William Sydney 

 Quiller-Couch, Arthur 



Thomas 



Rabelais, Francois 

 Ramee, Louise de la 

 Read, Opie Perclval 

 Reade, Charles 

 Reid, [Thomas] May lie 

 Rice, Alice Hegan 

 Richardson, Samuel 

 Rlggs, Kate Douglas 



Wiggin 



Rinehart. Mary Roberts 

 Rives, Amglie 

 Roberts, Charles G. D. 

 Roe, Edward Payson 

 Rohlfs, Anna Katharine 



Green 

 Saint-Pierre, Jacques 



Henri Bernardin 



Sand, George 

 Scott, Walter, Sir 

 Seton, Ernest Thompson 

 Sienkiewicz, Henryk 

 Sinclair, Upton 

 Smith, Francis 



Hopklnson 

 Sterne, Laurence 

 Stevenson, Robert Louis 



Balfour 

 Stockton, Francis 



Richard 

 Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth 



Beecher 

 Sue, Marie Joseph 



Eugene 

 Tarkington, Newton 



Booth 

 Terhune, Mary Virginia 



Hawes 

 Thackeray, William 



Makepeace 



Thompson, James 



Maurice 

 Tolstoi. Lyoff [Leo] 



Xikolayevitch 

 Trollope. Anthony 

 Trowbridge, John T. 

 Turgenleff, Ivan 



Sergeyevitch 

 Van Dyke, Henry 

 Verne, Jules 

 Wallace, Lewis 

 Ward, Elizabeth Stuart 



Phelps 



Ward, Mrs. Humphrey 

 Watson. John 

 Wells, H. G. 

 Weyman, Stanley John 

 Wharton. Edith 

 White, Stewart Edward 

 Whitney. Adeline Dutton 



Train 

 Wieland, Chrlstoph 



Martin 



Wilson, Augusta Evans 

 Wister, Owen 

 Yonge. Charlotte Mary 

 Zangwill, Israel 

 Zola, Emile 



lOVEM ' BER has had fewer good words 

 spoken for it, perhaps, than any other month. 



When chill November's surly blast 

 Made fields and forests bare, 



wrote Burns, and Taylor, in his November, tells 

 how- 

 Wrapped In his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like 



a Puritan, atandeth 

 Stern in the Joyless fields, rebuking the lingering 



color. 



On the other hand, Thoreau, a lover of nature 

 in all its moods, writes appreciatively: 



As fruits and leaves and the day Itself acquire 

 a bright tint Just before they fall, so the year 

 near Its setting. October In Its sunset sky ; No- 

 vember the later twilight. 



In temperate regions November, more than 

 any other month, seems the season of death. 

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No softening snow hides the bareness of the 

 fields, and shrill, gusty winds whirl about the 

 dead leaves which have lost the last vestige of 

 their gorgeous October color. Autumn seems 

 over, and winter has not begun. The Anglo- 

 Saxons, who had a way of naming things simply 

 and picturesquely, called November the "wind 

 month" or the "blood month," the latter name 

 probably having reference to the killing of ani- 

 mals for the winter supply of meats. The 

 month is by no means without its special at- 

 tractions, and many a lover of out-of-doors 

 finds the hary, mystical days of Indian summer 

 (which see) the most delightful season of the 

 year. 



History of the Month. November was one of 

 the months to which the Romans never 

 troubled themselves to give a specific nann 



