. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... egetables fordinner, and a few greens for supper; the sum thuseconomized she spent on the wretches who were lyingupon straw, that while eating her dry bread in themorning she might feel the satisfaction that the poorreprobates would, owing to her, be able to add some-thing to their dinner. Books and flowers, whose soothing, uncomplainingcompanionship had been dear to her from childhood,became th
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... egetables fordinner, and a few greens for supper; the sum thuseconomized she spent on the wretches who were lyingupon straw, that while eating her dry bread in themorning she might feel the satisfaction that the poorreprobates would, owing to her, be able to add some-thing to their dinner. Books and flowers, whose soothing, uncomplainingcompanionship had been dear to her from childhood,became the solace of her captivity. Thomsons Sea-sons, a favorite book, had been in her pocket on thenight of her imprisonment. She sent for Plutarch, whohad made her a republican at eight years of age, andwhose Lives might help her to bear with fortitudethe reverses of her own ; for Humes History of Eng-land, and for Tacitus. To her regret she could notprocure Mrs. Macaulays History of the English Rev-olution, a work at that time greatly admired byFrench Republicans, and which she would fain havematched by a rival production in her mother tongue.—From * Madam Roland. {Copyright by Roberts Broth-ers.). BLOOMFIELD, Robert, an English poet andshoemaker, born in Suffolk, December 3, 1766;died in Bedfordshire, England, August 19, father, a poor tailor, died when the son wasa child, and the boy at the age of eleven wasplaced with a farmer. Two years later he wentto London, where an elder brother was living, andwas apprenticed to a shoemaker. His principalpoem. The Farmer s Boy, was composed while hewas working in a garret with several other a line of it was put upon paper until thewhole had been composed. When at last he wasable to procure paper, he had, as he says, noth-ing to do but to write it down. After repeatedfailures to get the poem printed, the manuscriptwas shown to Mr. Capel Loft, a kindly patron ofletters, who, in 1798, secured its publication. Itssuccess was g
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