Vol. I. No. 36 
BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1904 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A WEEKLY: JOURNAL: DEVOTED-T0-THE: BEST: INTERESTS:OF THENORTHSHORE: 
a. 
Three Cents 
5. OF V.-FAIR. 
Third Annual Fair of Manchester Sons of 
Veterans Camp very Successful! 
It has been Fair week in Manches- 
ter. And like the two preceding fairs 
conducted by Col. H. P. Woodbury 
Camp, S. of V., the fair this week has 
been highly successful, both as a social 
event and as a financial venture. 
From the time that Senior Vice 
Division Commander Walter Penney 
of Lynn opened the fair on Tuesday 
evening till the last strains of ‘** Home, 
Sweet Home” were played by Long’s 
orchestra last night at the close of the 
grand ball, the fair has been the at- 
traction of hundreds. Each night the 
hall has been crowded and the grand 
ball Jast night was the crowning suc- 
cess of the week. 
The receipts of the week have not 
been up to the standard set by the 
fair two years ago, which was phenom- 
inally successful, but the fair commit- 
tee feel pleased with the success of 
FRANK W. BELL, 
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS, 
FRED K. SWETT, 
CHAIRMAN OF ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE. 
the event, and a goodly sum will be 
turned into the treasury. 
The object of the fair was to replen- 
ish the treasury of the camp to such 
amount so that upon any and all occa- 
sions they may be in such financial 
condition as to render substantial aid 
to the veteran soldier or his depen- 
dencies, and with such a worthy and 
popular object the fair could not be 
otherwise than a success. - 
Past Commander Frank W. Bell 
was chairman of the committee of 
arrangements having the fair in charge, 
and he was assisted bya large com- 
mittee composed of the following :— 
Jonnda-Prestesecretary Emest: KR: 
Sargent, treasurer; Waiter R. Bell, 
auditor; Edward W. Baker, Charles 
H. Morse, George F. Dyer, Richard 
J. Baker, Ralph Treddick, Harry C. 
Swett, Orrin A. Martin, Fred K. 
Swett, Thomas A. Baker, Curtis B. 
Stanley, Samuel L. Wheaton, Thomas 
O. D. Urquhart, Samuel Peabody, 
Herman C. Swett. 
{Continued on page 12, first column.] 
MASTERS OF 
ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
Sir Philip Sidney, 1554 — 1586. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
A cultivated mind, a generous na- 
ture and a courageous and chivalrous 
spirit united to form in Sidney a man 
of rare mould. He was learned and 
graceful, a favorite of ladies, and yet 
a man of affairs and a fearless soldier. 
His father was of that class of public 
men, all too rare in Queen Elizabeth’s 
day as in our own, who are too honest 
to be rich. The wealth that Philip 
chiefly inherited was of the mind, and- 
he early delighted himself in the 
society of men of genius, who in turn 
esteemed him greatly for his social 
and literary charms. 
Sidney was a poet in the innermost 
centre of his being; his mind and 
heart were tuned to all that was fair 
and of good report; his soul was en- 
tranced by beauty and in harmony 
with everything delightsome and mu- 
sical. He never heard the old ballad 
of Percy and Douglas but he “ found 
his heart stirred as with the sound of 
a trumpet.’”” But he was a poet, like 
Spencer and Raleigh, and in that age 
in which sentiment and action were 
so often blended, while seeking as 
soldier and statesman a place among 
the builders of England. 
Sidney’s ‘“ Defense of Poesie’’ was 
the first piece of formal criticism in 
English literature written by a man 
of genius. ‘ Poetry,” he said, “is of 
all human learning the most ancient, 
and of most fatherly antiquity, from 
whence all other learnings have taken 
their beginnings ; it is so universal 
that no learned nation doth despise it, 
no barbarous nation is without it.”’ 
One of his arguments for the nobility 
of poetry illustrates so well his prose 
style that it deserves to be quoted: 
«« Since the Holy Scripture hath whole 
parts in it poetical, and that even our 
Saviour Christ vouchsafed to use the 
flowers of it ; — I think — (and / think 
that I think rightly)—the laurel 
