Introductory note on Charles Darwin (#2) (Volume 29, Harvard Classics)

Many amazing things happen in the Malay jungles. For example, Darwin tells about a crab that climbs trees and walks down the trunks for an occasional bath in a pool. (Volume 29, Harvard Classics)

Introductory note on Plutarch (Volume 12, Harvard Classics)

Twice warned of the danger that threatened him on the Ides of March, although "the earth rocked and the stars fell and headless men walked in the Forum," Cæsar goes to the doom awaiting him in the Senate Chamber. (Volume 12, Harvard Classics)

Ides of March, March 15.

Introductory note on Sir Thomas Malory (Volume 35, Harvard classics)

"This gentlewoman that ye lead with you is a maid?" demanded the knight. "Sir," said she, "a maid I am." "Then she must yield us the custom of this castle." (Volume 35, Harvard Classics)

Malory, recorder of King Arthur stories, died March 14, 1470.

Introductory note on Alessandro Manzoni (Volume 21, Harvard Classics)

Manzoni has pictured in this thrilling romance of the seventeenth century nobility, the pompous and sporting life of those good old days when nobles lived sumptuously in spacious castles surrounded by vast estates. (Volume 21, Harvard Classics)

Introductory note on George Berkeley (Volume 37, Harvard classics)

Berkeley believed in a great religious future for America. He lived three years in Rhode Island, and made plans for a college in Bermuda. (Volume 37, Harvard Classics)

Bishop Berkeley born March 12, 1685.