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Tonight, we'll read excerpts from the Feast of Autologus, including an autumn dinner and the

Magnificent Mushroom, published in 1900 and edited by Elizabeth Robbins Penel.

Penel was an American travel writer, columnist, biographer, and memoirist.

Her biographies included the first in almost a century of the

proto-feminist Mary Wallstonecraft and also one of her uncle, the folklorist Charles Godfrey

Leland. Coincidentally, Charles Godfrey Leland compiled the book

Elgonquin Legends that the recent newscast episode Badger

The Mischief maker was based on.

Let's get cozy. close your eyes.

Relax your body.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now. Now, take a few deep breaths. An autumn dinner. dinner.

Why sigh if summer be done?

And already gray skies, like a pall, hang over the foggy town.

The sun may shine, wild winds may blow, but every evening brings with it the happy dinner hour. With the autumn days, foolish Dinner Hour.

With the Autumn Days foolish men play at being pessimists, and talk in platitudes of the cruel

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