From Dedication of Ovids's _Metamorphoses_, "English by George Sandys" at Henrico College, Virginia, 1621-1625. "Imprinted at London, 1626." _George Sandys born at Bishopsthorpe, England, 1577_ March Fourteenth Content to miss the prize of fame, If he some true heart's praise can claim, He lives in his own world of rhyme, The great world's ways forsaking; Cares not Parnassian heights to climb, But valley bypaths taking, Where even the daises in the sod, Like stars, show him the living God. CHARLES W. HUBNER (_The Minor Poet_) _Thomas Hart Benton born, 1782_ March Fifteenth Abhorrence of debt, public and private; dislike of banks, and love of hard money--love of justice and love of country, were ruling passions with Jackson; and of these he gave constant evidence in all the situations of his life. THOMAS HART BENTON _Andrew Jackson born, 1767_ _Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1871_ _Through Mr. Justice Campbell of the Supreme Court, Secretary Seward promises the Confederate Commissioners that Fort Sumter would be speedily evacuated, 1861_ March Sixteenth The great mind of Madison was one of the first to entertain distinctly the noble conception of two kinds of government, operating at one and the same time, upon the same individuals, harmonious with each other, but each supreme in its own sphere. Such is the fundamental conception of our partly Federal, partly National Government, which appears throughout the Virginia plan, as well as in the Constitution which grew out of it. JOHN FISKE (Massachusetts) _James Madison born, 1751_ March Seventeenth "THE GALLANT PELHAM"--ROBERT E. LEE Just as the Spring came laughing through the strife, With all its gorgeous cheer; In the bright April of historic life, Fell the great cannoneer.... We gazed and gazed upon that beauteous face, While round the lips and eyes, Couched in their marble slumber, flashed the grace Of a divine surprise. JAMES RYDER RANDALL _Lieutenant-Colonel John Pelham killed at Kelly's Ford, Va., 1863_ _Roger Brooke Taney born, 1777_ March Eighteenth John C. Calhoun, an honest man, the noblest work of God. ANDREW JACKSON He had the basis, the indispensable basis, of all high character, and that was unspotted integrity--unimpeached honor and character. If he had aspirations, they were high and honorable and noble. There was nothing grovelling or low, or meanly selfish that came near the head or the heart of Mr. Calhoun. DANIEL WEBSTER (Massachusetts) _John Caldwell Calhoun born, 1782_ March Nineteenth