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Soverrler I, 1913. 



Savoy comic operas he added more 

 largely than any man of his day to the 

 gaiety of nations. 



President Garfield, born November 

 19th, 1 83 1, was the second President of 

 the United States to die by the hand of 

 an assassin. He is a conspicuous ex- 

 ample of sheer ability, overcoming all 

 obstacles. Left fatherless and practi- 

 cally penniless when a child, he worked 

 his way up to the highest post in the gift 

 of the nation. 



Lord Hawke smashed the French fleet 

 off Quiberon Bay on November 20th, 

 1759. The battle was fought during 

 a terrible storm. Plawke was a tactician 

 of the first rank ; Rodney and Hume 

 were his pupils, and Nelson himself 

 learned in his school. WhilsL Hawke 

 was crushing the fleet which threatened 

 England, in the storm and wrack off 

 Quiberon, a London mob was burning 



him in efiigy for permitting the French 

 ships to break his blockade ! 



Marion Evans (George Eliot) was 

 born in Warwickshire November 22nd, 

 1819. "Adam Bede " and "The Mill 

 on the Floss " gave her undying fame. 

 John Bunyan, the author of " Pilgrim's 

 Progress," was born near Bedford on 

 November 29th, 1628. He fought in the 

 Civil War, and after it was over became 

 a local preacher. He was arrested in 

 1660 for breaking the law which op- 

 pressed dissenters, and was imprisoned 

 for twelve years. He wrote much dur- 

 ing his confinement, but it was later, 

 when he was re-arrested after three years' 

 liberty, that he wrote the famous " Pro- 

 gress," mostly in gaol. 



Dean Swift, the eccentric genius who 

 wrote " Gulliver's Travels," was born on 

 November 30th, 1667. 



Death of Sir Henry Havelock, November 24, 1857. 



Havelock had seen some forty-two 

 years' service before the grand oppor- 

 tunity of his life came. Born in Castle 

 Wearmouth, in Durham, in 1795, Plave- 

 lock entered the army in 181 5. He saw 

 much fighting in India and Afghani- 

 stan, but was only a lieutenant after 

 twenty-three years' service. In 1856 he 

 was in command of a division in Persia. 

 In 1857, at the outbreak of the Mutiny, 

 Havelock was sent to India, and began 

 to organise the column for the Relief of 

 Lucknow. This, after innumerable diffi- 

 culties, he accomplished in September, 

 1857. The efforts he had undertaken were 

 too much for him, and he died at Luck- 

 now, and was buried in the Alun.bagh. 

 Forbes thus describes the burial of the 

 great soldier : — 



Next morning they buried him in the 

 Alumbagh Enclosure, under the mango 

 tree, which still spreads its branches over 

 his tomb. There stood around the grave 

 Colin Campbell, and the chivalrous Out- 

 ram, the staunch old Walter Hamilton, 

 and the every-ready Tytler ; and the 

 " boy Harry," to whom the campaign 

 had brought repute for reckless daring. 



and the loss of a father ; and the de 

 voted Hargood, his " heart in the coffin 

 there with Caesar " ; and the heroic Wil- 

 liam Peel ; and that " colossal red Celt," 

 the valiant, ill-fated Adrian Hope ; and 

 honest Dick Pearson, the dead General's 

 bugler, weeping for the loss of the best 

 friend the Ross-shire lad had ever 

 known. Behind stood in a wide circle 

 the soldiers of the Ross-shire Buffs, and 

 of the Madras Fusiliers, who had done 

 the dead chief's bidding in many a hard 

 fight, and in whose war-worn hearts, as 

 they looked down on the last of their 

 old commander, was stirring many a 

 memory of his ready praise of valour, 

 and of his ceaseless regard for the wel- 

 fare of his soldiers. The volleys of the 

 firing party were the good soldier's 

 fittest requiem ; and so Henry Havelock 

 was buried. 



Guarded to a soldier's grave. 



By tho bravest of the brave. 



FTo liath gained a nobler tomb 



Than an old cathetlral qrloom. 



Nobler mourners paid the rite 



Thau the crown that craves a sight. 



England's banner o'er him waved. 



Dead, he keeps the realm he saved. 



