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Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835), a popular Victorian poet.

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Correctly titled “Recessional,” this poem was written by Kipling in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee (the sixtieth anniversary of her reign).

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A long narrative poem (1817) by Irish poet Thomas Moore.

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A boys’ adventure novel (1869) by Harry Castlemon, pen name of Charles Austin Fosdick.

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Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), English essayist and critic.

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Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920), English novelist concerned with current social issues.

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Sinclair Lewis’s hometown in Minnesota and the inspiration for Gopher Prairie.

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American author (1868-1924) of sentimental romances.

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Robert Adam (1728-1792) and his brothers John and James were Scottish neoclassical architects and furniture designers who exerted a major influence in England and America.

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Country dance from Moneymusk, Scotland.

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James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893), Republican politician who lost the 1884 presidential election to Grover Cleveland.

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William McKinley (1843-1901), twenty-fifth president of the United States, assassinated during his second term. ‡American Christian Church minister and best-selling novelist (1872-1944).

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Series of inexpensive editions of world classic literature produced by Maine publisher Thomas Bird Mosher (1852-1923).

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Heavy twilled silk fabric.

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William Morris (1834-1896) was an artist, designer, writer, and socialist who believed that beauty could improve social conditions; his 1891 novel News from Nowhere describes a pastoral utopia.

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Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905), Dame Ellen Terry (1847-1928), Eleonora Duse (1859-1924), and Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) were great actors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Popular magazines of the time that specialized in literature and the fine arts.

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Adelina Patti (1843-1919), operatic coloratura soprano.

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Illustrated French newspaper.

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Large, expensive automobile.

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Young girl (German slang).

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Thin, diaphanous fabric.

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The science of improving the human race through selective breeding.

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A Doll’s House (1879) was a shocking and influential play by Henrik Ibsen, in which the heroine walks out on her comfortable marriage and her “doll’s house” to learn to be a full human being.

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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British statesman who served as prime minister four times; the dominant Liberal of the Victorian era. ‡Affordable old-master prints.

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Wass willst du?: what do you want?; morgen: good morning; die Frau istja: the wife is indeed; wie lang. how long; so spät—warum: so late—why; Nun aber. Well now (German).

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Das Schmertz—die Weh: the pain—the hurt; und so weiter. et cetera; sie weint immer. she cries all the time; haben: have (German).

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Greek form of Khufu, an Egyptian pharaoh from the twenty-sixth century B.C. who built the Great Pyramid at Giza.

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Rutabagas.

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Certificate of Confirmation.

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“Has the drugstore sent my black bag here? OK—good. What time is it? Seven? All right, let’s have a little supper first. Got any of that good beer left—is there any beer left?” (German).

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“Quiet now! Soon you’ll be sleeping like a baby. There! There! Soon it will feel better” (German).

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“Here, and hold this—this lamp—like this!” (German).

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“Just a bit more” (German).

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A play on the name of Mack Sennett (1880-1960), American director of slapstick films.

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The dialect of Boeotia, a region of ancient Greece that the Athenians considered barbaric.

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From Tennyson’s 1836 poem “St. Agnes’ Eve.”

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Of the Abbey Theatre, established in 1904 by William Butler Yeats and Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory.

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Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), English actor, producer, and influential scenic and lighting designer.

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Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) and Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth baron of Dunsany (1878-1957).

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One-act farce (1914) by Irish-born playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).

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One-act drama (1894)