ered, and what progress has been made in uncovering them? 5. Write essays on the following subjects:-Roman Theatrical Entertainments. Forms of Roman Worship. FOURTH WEEK. 1. Short History of Art, from page 107 to page 183, inclusive.-Early Christian art. 2. Chautauqua Text-Book No. 32, from page 22 to page 33. 3. Questions and Answers on the History of Art, from 105 to 150, inclusive. 4. Questions for further study:- Briefly describe the Roman catacombs. Who was Orpheus? What is meant by Mosaics, and how are they formed? What is the Vatican at Rome? Give a short description of Westminster Abbey. 5. Write essays on the following subjects:-The Catacombs, other than those at Rome. Persecutions of the early Christians. Note.-Members of the C. L. S. C. are requested to send answers to "questions for further study," to A. M. Martin, General Secretary of the C. L. S. C. At Chautauqua the C. L. S. C. fires are kept burning the year round. In September, the month following the Assembly, the Chautauqua Local Circle takes up the C. L. S. C. work, and holds regular meetings until the summer again comes around, and with it pilgrims from every quarter come to the Chautauqua shrine. The Chautauqua Local Circle has enrolled a regular membership of twenty-one, nearly all of the class of 1882, and, in addition, the past year there were thirteen local members. The officers of 1880-1 were Mr. A. D. Wilder, President; Mrs. T. S. Park, Secretary; and Mr. E. C. Norton, Treasurer. The membership has remained about the same since the first organization, October 1, 1878. The meetings are held Tuesday evenings. For an opening exercise each member is requested to repeat a Scripture text. This is followed by prayer and the reading of the minutes. The class conductor then proceeds with the lesson. At the beginning of the month the work is divided into lessons for each week, as nearly equal as possible. Class conductors are then appointed, one for each lesson. Sometimes at the end of the month the conductors prepare a summary of the lessons, giving a review of the month's work. Other members are, from time to time, given characters or subjects connected with the lesson on which to write short essays. Summary of methods of work: 1. Class conductor selected monthly for each lesson. 2. Occasional reviews at end of month by class conductors. 3. Members prepare essays on topics connected with the lessons. The social meetings among members of the C. L. S. C. are proving exceedingly pleasant and attractive features. An entertainment given to the members of the Covington, Kentucky, Local Circle, is agreeably described by a correspondent, as follows: "Our Circle, composed of seventeen members, were entertained on Tuesday evening last, by Mrs. John D. Park, one of our number residing three miles in the country. The kind hostess provided for the inner man in her inimitable style, and the diligence with which those hungry Chautauquans attacked the refreshments was proof positive of the excellence of the repast. The meeting was a special one, and by request of our hospitable hostess, all were assigned some part on the program. Our hearty welcome and reception by Mrs. Park and her family was very gratifying, and to our surprise and delight Cincinnati's pioneer violinist, Tosso, gave us some of his choicest selections. The especial gem of the evening was a poem written by Mrs. Mattie W. Cragg, dedicated to our C. L. S. C., which possessed much true merit," ized, January, 1875, and has since resolved itself into a Local Circle of the C. L. S. C. Mrs. J. F. McSheen is President, and Mrs. R. J. Kelley, Secretary. The membership is sixteen in number, and is composed wholly of married women. Meetings are held every Tuesday afternoon. Review questions are prepared in advance, printed on the type writer, and assigned to the different members, about eight questions or topics being considered each week. A portion of the meeting is devoted to reading aloud. A critic is appointed on pronunciation, and about fifteen minutes given to corrections. From the review questions on Roman History we take the following as examples: "Name the four great battles in which Hannibal defeated the Romans." "Sketch Jewish history from 536 to Syrian war." "What influence did Greece exercise upon Roman civilization, worship, etc.?" "Describe the effects of increase of wealth upon the Romans." "Were the Romans an intellectual. nation, and why?" "What was the condition of women in Rome?" Summary of methods of work: 1. Questions assigned in. advance for home study. 2. Reading aloud at meetings. 3. Correction of errors in pronunciation. There are now thirteen local circles in Cincinnati, Covington, Newport, and their vicinity, and two more are about to be organized. These circles are under the general management of a joint committee that holds stated meetings at the Methodist Book Concern in Cincinnati. The committee is made up of representatives from each of the local circles. At the meetings reports are made as to the progress of the circles, and plans of work are discussed. The committee also arrange for a course of lectures during the winter. The officers of this general committee are Miss Eleanor C. O'Connell, President; Miss Mamie Standish, Vice President; Miss Mary E. Dunaway, Corresponding Secretary; Miss Clara H. Looker, Recording Secretary; and Miss Nellie Allen, Treasurer. The names of the thirteen local circles, and the representatives from each in the general committee, are as follows: Chevoit Baptist Church, Miss M. Dunaway, and Miss Mina Goforth; Covington, Mrs. Bean, and Miss S. Craig; College Hill, Miss Jessie Strong; Cumminsville, Mr. C. Crawford; Grace M. P. Church, Miss Nellie Allen; German Circle, Mr. H. E. Schotter; Milford, Miss Mary Stuntz; Mount Lookout, Miss Lydia Cranston; Newport, Miss Mamie Standish; St. Paul's M. E. Church, Mrs. I. W. Joyce; Walnut Hills, Miss BessieHicks; Wesley Chapel, Miss E. C. O'Connell; York Street M. E. Church, Miss Clara Looker. One of the most enjoyable and profitable summer gather-ings of 1881 was the Loveland Assembly of the C. L. S. C., held at the Loveland camp grounds, near Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 12th and 13th. Its sessions were marked by an earnest enthusiasm that occasioned the most favorable comments from those outside the charmed circle. The exercises of the first day were opened with an appropriate address by Dr. Runyan, the director. In the afternoon Rev.. A. B. Morey, of Cincinnati, gave a lecture on the Mammoth cave. He described in fitting and graphic language this famous natural curiosity. He first depicted the instructive features, and then gave a description of its picturesque and poetic attractions. He spoke of the optical illusions of "Gorm's Dome," the "Grand Hall," covering over an acre,. the "Star Chamber," the "Bottomless Pit," the "Fat Man's Misery," the eyeless fish of the "Dead Sea," the magical reverberations of the Echo River, the beautiful stalactites and stalagmitic formations of the "Cathedral," and many other attractions of the wonderful cavern. He also described the sensation of exhilaration caused by the dry bracIn Alpena, Michigan, a ladies' literary club was organ- ing atmosphere of the cave impregnated with saltpetre and ozone, and the curious effect upon the eye of the bright sunshine, and the colors of nature, upon emerging into daylight. Later in the day Rev. Henry Tuckley gave a talk on "A Trip to England." The evening was given to a lecture by Rev. A. B. Leonard, his subject being "The Twain One." He exalted woman, and regarded marriage as a divine institution. He thought the possibilities for woman's highest development had never been reached, and forcibly and eloquently advocated giving her the ballot. The second day the first lecture was delivered by Rev. Sylvester Weeks, on "The Books we Read." He claimed that all education not founded on religion is unproductive. He was glad that the C. L. S. C. recognized God in history, and had for one of its mottoes, "Let us keep our Heavenly Father in the midst." He exalted the Bible above all books, and said sixty generations of infidelity had vainly spent their venom to destroy it. The next lecture was by Rev. Dr. J. H. Vincent, his subject being "On the Heights." He invited his audience to the Yosemite Valley, and vividly described the wonders of the scene. Next he transported them to Switzerland, and up dizzy heights, on and on to the white crowned monarch of all mountains, Mount Blanc. He said that travel takes the narrowness and nonsense out of the soul, and makes people charitable and large-hearted. There are also heights in the spiritual world. Michael Angelo was higher and more whitely crowned than Mount Blanc. He eloquently referred to the monuments of art in Egypt, and closed with an inspiring picture of the Holy Land. During the afternoon a C. L. S. C. Round-Table conference was held, and Dr. Vincent also gave a very sensible talk about "Our Young Folks." One of the social features was a supper, on the hotel lawn, for the C. L. S. C. members, followed by speeches and songs, and mutual good wishes. In the evening Rev. O. S. Royal gave a learned exposition of "The old Manuscripts of the New Testament," and the closing exercise was an interesting lecture by Mr. John S. Van Cleve on "Shelley." Miss Eleanor C. O'Connell, Mrs. I. W. Joyce, and Miss Mamie Standish deserve special mention as committee for the complete arrangement and admirable management of the C. L. S. C. reunion. MONTEREY C. L. S. C. ASSEMBLY. the session, for half fares, adding to this free transportation for camp equipage. The camp grounds are beautifully kept, and are laid out with convenient streets and avenues, which are nicely graded and gravelled. Long rows of neat tents and cottages, well-furnished, stand ready for tenants, while campers are given ample accommodations. There are seats and platforms for outdoor meetings, a well-kept restaurant and boarding-house, a grocery, meat and fruit market, a well appointed bath house, and, best of all, a new, commodious hall for indoor meetings, with rooms for committees, etc., built by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for the express accommodation of the C. L. S. C. Ah, if the Sundayschool Assembly of '79 had only possessed such a gathering place, how it would have mitigated the sufferings and mollified the feelings of the eastern element then present! But now, if visitors come with warm clothing, ready for the possible, nay probable, foggy days, and are comfortably housed or tented, there is no reason why they should find the weather inhospitable. We hope yet to welcome large deputations from our alma mater, who shall go homeward in due time, singing the praises of Monterey. The Assembly of '81 convened on the 29th of June, a goodly number of earnest, intelligent, and congenial people,-not a crowd, but quite an increase upon last year's attendance. The President, Rev. Dr. Stratton, was unavoidably detained in Oregon till the second week of the Assembly, but his place was filled by Prof. H. B. Norton, of the State Normal School, who gave us an opening address of great beauty and appropriateness on the services which science has rendered to religion. He says that the C. L. S. C. opens to people of limited time, the busy housemother, the ever-toiling mechanic or farmer, a wide course of study and noble avenues of thought. An objection had been urged to it, that it takes science and scientific methods into our religious thoughts to an unwise degree. He took the ground that science is the handmaiden of religion, and reviewed in a vivid manner the grand scientific discoveries and inventions of the century, showing that they have wonderfully aided the growth of religious enterprises. The Lord promised that his followers should do greater work than he did, and that promise has been literally fulfilled. Where Christ healed a leper here and there, modern science has enabled us to almost banish the disease from the earth. The rapid increase of the bread production of the world is a greater miracle than the feeding of the five thousand. Theology has made great progress. Men have grown practical, and are more concerned about deeds than words. Re in conclusion, but a joyful progress Godward. We hope to be able hereafter to present further abstracts of some of the more important lectures delivered during the Monterey Assembly. During almost the entire session Mr. Norton ably occupied the chair, taking the entire bill of fare with the utmost patience and fortitude. It is surely right that this thriving western scion of the great C. L. S. C. should report itself at headquarters, although it has a local habitation, and an assembly of its own. The quaint old seaside town of Monterey has become, by universal consent, the home of the California C. L. S. C., andligion should not be an idle clinging to old positions, he said the second assembly, just held there, has greatly strengthened and confirmed the attachment. The old town has what some one has called "the unction of hoariness," and is of itself an inviting field for historical research. The assembly ground, "Pacific Grove," is as picturesque and charming as stately pines scattered over softly undulating ground, a background of noble mountains, and a foreground of beautiful bay, opening out to the illimitable sea, can make a bit of mother earth. It is true that the climate, considering that it is California, has had rather an unpleasant reputation. Bleak, cold, foggy are the terms which have been applied to it, and it must be confessed that Monterey does have "spells of weather:" but something, as usual, can be said on the other side, and they who have sojourned there when for weeks the sun has shone gloriously, the sea been scarcely ruffled by a breeze, and the pines have whispered peace to the tired spirit, would feel themselves most ungrateful did they not bear testimony to the rare charms of Monterey. A thousand conveniences for a grand camp-meeting are found at Pacific Grove. It is accessible; the railroad brings one almost to the ground, and, during The Assembly remained in session two weeks, with growing numbers and increasing interest. Classes for scientific instruction and practical study met daily under capable leaders. Delightful excursions were frequently made. Dr. Anderson led his pupils to the seaside to illustrate his lessons upon algæ, and Dr. Wythe gave similar illustrations of his department, biology. The facilities for the study of both coral and marine botany are admirable, and are wisely improved. Dr. Wythe, of the Pacific Medical College, San Francisco, is so familiar with protoplasm, and bioplasm, and microscopic work generally, as to fairly amaze the ordinary student, and his daily lectures were largely attended. Miss Norton, of the State Normal School, worked heroically with botany classes and herbariums, assisted by those enthusiastic botanists, Mr. and Mrs. Lem mon, of Oakland, California. Professor Keep, of Alameda, gave excellent instruction in conchology. He has prepared a valuable little manual on the subject for the use of schools. Professor Norton discoursed upon entomology, a subject on which our California fruit-growers are becoming painfully alive. Professors More, of the State Normal School, and Moses, of the State University, lectured most acceptably upon historical subjects; Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon on the wonderful growths of the Sierras, and Mrs. Field, of San Jose, on American literature. Dr. Stratton came in rather late in the day, but with admirable lectures upon Race Origins, and the Schliemann discoveries. The two Sabbaths of the Assembly were occupied with delightful religious services, and made memorable by two noble sermons, one by Dr. Patterson, of Oakland, the other by Dr. Dwinelle, of Sacramento. The whole session was characterized by great harmony, and was much enjoyed by all the members. The weather was perfect, the attendance good, the lectures instructive, and the spirit of devotion to study most encouraging to the founders of this excellent association. The cordial words from Dr. Vincent were duly appreciated, and the decision of the Executive Committee to synchronize the course of study for the coming year with the parent society met with warm approval. Our faithful Secretary, Miss Washburn, was reluctantly allowed to resign, on account of an intended stay of many months at the east, and Miss M. E. B. Norton was elected in her place. The society received many valuable donations to the Museum of Natural History, which is to be collected and kept at Monterey. The Herbarium contains already two hundred plants named and classified. Dr. Wythe gave biological charts, Mr. M. W. Woodward, a valuable historical chart, and Mr. Lemmon a collection of Sierra cones. feel confident that from these beginnings will grow a grand museum and a library of reference. The Assembly closed with renewed purposes of work, and with most favorable prospects. A WADSWORTH CLUB. We I. The four mottoes of the Wadsworth Clubs, of which the "Look Up Legion" is by far the largest, are Look up and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in, and Lend a hand. II. They translate into familiar English the three central statements of eternal life,-Faith, Hope and Love. And because Love is the greatest of these three-Love has two mottoes, one of them to express Love in action, while the other expresses Love in resolve. III. A complete and genuine Wadsworth Club carries also the wish and expectation of enlarging the numbers of those interested in the improvement of mankind, or the coming in of the Kingdom of God. The phrase "ten times. one is ten," is much in the mouths of the Wadsworth people. It means this, that a certain Wadsworth Club, once imagined, found at the end of three years, that, on the average,. each of them had enlisted ten friends to the service of Faith, Hope and Love. Each of these had the same eagerness as the first ten had,-and so at the end of three years more, there were one thousand apostles of Faith, Hope and Love. In three years more there were ten thousand,—and in threeyears more, a hundred thousand,—by the same multiplication. It does not require much mathematics to see that in three years more there would be a million such apostles,and then ten million, and a hundred million,-in two more such periods. The story of "Ten Times one is Ten," is a "story of the possible reformation." Its imaginings end, when, at the end of twenty-seven years, or nine periods of three years each,—the original 1 has had nine ciphers added to it. These prove to be, in the whole world, 1,000,000,000people devoted to extending the gospel of Faith, Hope and Love. "This proved to be the number of the perfect world." IV. The reader will see, then, that the leader of a Wadsworth Club studies two objects. He wants to arrange his club so that it shall be helping the society of men around, and, so that its members shall be rallying other members or interesting them in doing the same thing. V. In undertaking to describe to the readers of THE CHAUTAUQUAN, Some of the more successful efforts in both these di-rections, I have taken for granted their good sense and general intelligence. I trust that they have passed beyond the mere copying stage. Because I describe a club in the Five Points of New York, I hope it will not be supposed that I want to see all its methods imitated in an encampment of school boys among the Thousand Isles. I shall be more fortunate than I ever have been, if a multitude of readers do not ex- Club life is a habit of our time. It would be easy and rather agreeable to write an essay, to-day, why this is so. At the present moment it is enough to say that the work of the Spirit of God is most successful when men bear one another's burdens. To do this is to fulfil the whole law of Christ. "Together" is the central word of the Gospel. And as fast and as far as men are entwined by its spirit-pect me to say everything on every page. There is a very so fast and so far do they dislike lonely duty and scorn lonely pleasure. They associate themselves for their amusements, for their improvement, or for their service. Now, if you look at a Club as an individual, it may be either selfish or unselfish. It may mean to "have a good time," as the English of Dryden said, and as the Yankees say now. Or, it may mean to combine its "good time" with service to mankind. Whenever a Club includes this last business in its definite and avowed objects, it becomes a "Wadsworth Club." Service to the outside world—as a definite and intended object -is the distinctive feature of these Clubs. Thus, a base-ball club would become a Wadsworth Club, if after a meeting for practice it resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to go down to the Widow Tizzard's and dig out the rock which sticks up above the gravel, and which was the real cause of the breaking of the spring of John Lemist's wagon last Sunday. If the club continued its organization for the benefit of other people it would continue to be a "Wadsworth Club." large class of critics,-not ill-natured critics, either,-who seem to read with reference simply to what is left out. They cry out at the end of a sentence: "Why, he makes no reference to sin!" or, "He has not once alluded to the original nature of man;" or, "Why does he say nothing of the Declaration of Independence;" or, "He does not allude to Plymouth Rock." They read a single sentence and say, "I should not know from this that there was any God in the world." I cannot help the existence of such people. I first learned of them when I was first at a boarding-house table. If you began to say "I am going to read my Bible," somebody cut you off at the third word, and before you finished the sentence, cried out, "Going, going, going, you are always going somewhere. Yesterday you went to Fresh Pond, and to-day you are going to Salem." I have long. since ceased to protest against such hearers or readers. But, in writing to THE CHAUTAUQUAN, I shall not address myself to them. I shall take it for granted that the "Court knows something." That was a phrase of Judge Marshall's. And I shall try to say one thing at a time, and not try for more. It will be good luck, if any reader takes one distinct idea from any one paper-much better luck, indeed, than the average reader has in the average essay; so that I dare not aspire to even this. VI. Asking these indulgences, and making in advance these protests, I now tell the true story of one Wadsworth Club. It will probably happen that nobody else will have occasion to do the thing which the founder of this Club has done in exactly this way. All the same, the spirit of the thing may well leaven a thousand adventures. Mrs. Fearless, as I will call her, is a widow, left, with one son and one daughter, both young, to find her duty in the world. Some divine call has led her to watch closely young women who have broken down in the temptations of our cities,-have fallen into a life of vice, and yet would fain leave it if any one would "lend a hand." To "lend a hand" is a Christian duty in Mrs. Fearless's religion, and in this matter, while she prays, she tries to find the place in which a widow, working for her own living, may help these poor girls for whom she prays. What she does,-if looked at from the outside,-is this: She keeps a light burning in her front entry all night. Gradually it is whispered round, I suppose, among the fallen women, so-called, of the inland city in which Mrs. Fearless lives, that this light is burning for all who need it. If, any night, any such girl wants an adviser or friend, she may ring that door-bell and will find one there. -sons. Of course this is not her only means of access to such perWhoever knows one of them is in the way of knowing more than one. It is easier to come to Mrs. Fearless to tell one's story than to come to any man, though he were doctor, magistrate, or minister. What happens is that they come, that she offers to them the shelter of this house. "You must stay here," she says, "till you can find a better home." Staying there they fall into the ways of her family. They read the Bible with her, they join in her family prayers; they go to church with her; they are in her Bible class. Yes, dear Mrs. Practical, and they also go to the washtub with her, and to the ironing-table. They run the sewing-machine with her, and, if she have an order for a dozen shirts, at short notice, they help her to make them. They help her, as far as they can, in such finite things, and she is helping them-with the infinite treasure of love-in infinite things. By and by there comes a letter from Mrs. Wilderspin, 'way off in Montana. Perhaps Mrs. Wilderspin has heard of Mrs. Fearless through the Free Masonry of the Wadsworth Club. This is the letter: Dear Mrs. Fearless: Will you never come and see me? Shall I never show you our sunsets, and teach you what cabin life is?" [Then the letter goes on to the postscript, and the postscript says:] "I open my letter to ask you whether some one of your lambs, who were lost and have been found, may not like to come out to us. All our life is so simple here. There is no such misery as you have around you in New Altoona. I am sure she would find rest here. She will have to work. We all work. But she will have enough to eat, enough to drink, fire in the winter, and cool breezes in the summer. And she shall have a home." And Mrs. Fearless reads this letter to Diantha Morris, who has been her faithful right hand in the laundry and in the wash-room for six months. And Diantha Morris says at first she can never leave such a home and such a friend. But as she thinks she sees it is better. And, in a few days, she packs her trunk with her little treasures, kisses dear Mrs. Fearless with the tears in all eyes, and goes to find a new friend there in the mountains. One brand has been saved from such burning of remorse and horror. This sort of thing happens in Mrs. Fearless's house perhaps thirty times a year. I do not know, but I think that from the radiation of that central light, at the end of three years it will be found that as many as ten candles have been lighted. I think it will be found that, not in the same way, but in some way, ten of these women who have touched the hem of a Savior's garment, and have been healed, will be trying to raise others to look up and not down, to look forward and not back, to look out and not in, and to lend a hand. Here is a single story of one of Mrs. Fearless's visits. Some one had sent to her to ask her to go and find a girl who had fallen, or had been misled, into the worst of life, and was the inmate of one of the worst of houses in what I have called the city of New Altoona. That is not its real name. Mrs. Fearless made the visit, as requested, urged the poor girl, as best she could, to abandon this wretched career, but found her hard as the rock against any such advice. "Mrs. Fearless," said she, "I have chosen my life, you have chosen yours. Leave me to mine, and go your way." So poor Mrs. Fearless went. But, as she went, the poor girl saw in her hand the pretty vellum covers of a book, which Mrs. Fearless had just received from a friend through the postoffice, and she asked what the pretty book was. It was Mrs. Greenough's poem of "Mary Magdalene," and Mrs. Fearless, seeing the girl attracted by the cover, and by the title, lent it to her. It is but a short poem, and Mrs. Fearless said she would come for it in the evening. The poem, as perhaps the reader knows, is simply the story as we read it in the Gospels, wrought out with illustration of scenery and character, such as a poet uses to make a story real. When Mrs. Fearless called for her book in the evening, her new friend was ready to go with her. She had read the story twice of a Savior's forgiveness to such as she, and it was enough. "Dear Mrs. Fearless, where you go, I will go. What you bid me do, I will do." So they left that hell together, and came together into that simple heaven I tried to describe. Laundry, sewing-machine, ironing-table, all there, yes! But yet a heaven of love in comparison with the hell of passion we have left behind. Do you not think I was glad to copy Mrs. Fearless's letter which told me that story, and to send it to the author of this Gospel poem. She was on the other side of the world, but there is no distance in these miracles of Christian love. VII. I have no need to tell any more details of Mrs. Fearless's story. And I hope the reader understands that I do not propose to any other woman to do that same thing in that same way, unless God opens the door before her. But God is opening the door for woman or man to do something in the way of "lending a hand." It is the business of each man or each woman to say what that is. The advice we give in the Wadsworth Clubs, is to attempt one thing rather than many; to attempt something close at hand; and to do something which can be done with very little fuss or publicity, or machinery. For these reasons we think it, on the whole, better to do something which ten or twelve people can be interested in, than something that requires the combination of hundreds, with their constitution, their by-laws, their president, secretary, and treasurer; and all the creaking machinery of an elaborate organization. But, as I said when I began, or tried to say, the form is nothing, the spirit is everything. It is enough if the Club works for Faith, Hope, and Love, and if it understands that Love is the greatest of the three. Thou canst not pray so well at home as at the church. There thou findest many fires to kindle thy zeal: the example of others, the reverence of the ceremony, the presence of God, the place itself.-St. Augustine. The Rabbins enjoined the saying "Amen" after any little prayer as a thing pleasing to God and profitable to men, comparing it to setting our name to an epistle written in another's hand, which then becomes ours when we sign it. -Dean Comber. Chautauqua, on the lovely Lake Chautauqua, in Western New York, is the site of the famous summer Assembly where studies in the sciences, in the Scriptures, in languages and the arts, occupy a good portion of every day for from three to six long weeks. Whole families go there to spend the "season," and, of course, in the families are children-little children and big, boys that might as well be girls, and girls that might as well be boys, for all the difference it makes in the freedom and joyousness of their young lives. And there are the after-boys and the after-girls, who are not yet men and women, but who manage to unite the proprieties of age with the buoyancy and gladsomeness of youth. Recreation is one of the principal features of this delightful summer retreat. Wandering through the woods the little people gather ferns, mosses, and wild flowers; in the Lake they may bathe or fish, and over its crystal surface row or sail. Now they are on the croquet or lawn-tennis ground. Now in the game of archery-bows bend and arrows fly. Then come also calisthenic exercises, the rollerskating rink, fire-works, bonfires, camp-fires, electric lights, the illuminated fountain, the illuminated fleet, balloons rising gracefully into the skies, and every source of pleasure that a healthy nature could demand. There is at Chautauqua, every morning during the season, 8 Children's Class in the Children's Temple. The lessons, concert drills, crayon sketches, hearty songs, rare readings, scientific experiments-all these and many things besides, enchant, enchain, and instruct the little folks. Here, too, at Chautauqua, by the lakeside, is a model of the Holy Land in earth and rock, where one can walk all over the land from Dan to Beersheba. The Dead Sea, the Jordan, the Sea of Galilee, valleys, hills, mountains, and cities, all properly located, enable one to take an actual tour of Palestine. Near by, in the lower park, is the beautiful Model of Jerusalem, by Dr. Wythe. On the hill is a half-section model of the Great Pyramid of Egypt. A little beyond is the Jewish Tabernacle, with curtains, altars, golden candlesticks, and other furniture. Here, too, is the Archæological Hall and the Educational Museum, full of entertaining things, delightful to eager young eyes. Chautauqua is the seat of the "C. L. S. C.," the great home school for grown people-for mothers and fathers, for older brothers and sisters, who, being out of school, can go no more. The C. L. S. C., (Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle) provides a course of study for such persons to pursue at home. More than twenty-five thousand people belong to this great Circle, and the children, who come by the hundred to Chautauqua every summer, have asked why there might not be a circle organized for them also, to suggest attractive and useful reading, to help them in the otherwise wearisome studies of the day school, and to cultivate a taste for the right kind of reading. Now, as we have a "C. L. S. C." for the grown people, we intend to have a C. Y. F. R. U. (Chautauqua Young Folks' Reading Union) for the young people. The C. Y. F. R. U. was organized Thursday morning, August 18, 1881, at Chautauqua. It is designed to encourage among children and young folks right habits of reading and exploration in general literature, science, and the arts; to promote observation, inventiveness, helpfulness, and handiness in practical matters; to prepare young people to enter and enjoy society; to direct in legitimate recreations, and in every possible way to fill the earliest years of life with everything that tends to health, cheerfulness, reverence, self-control, unselfishness, fidelity to duty, and that highest wisdom which the good and great of all ages have commended. For the promotion of these objects a series of readings is announced for the members of the C. Y. F. R. U. They are of three classes: 1. The Required; 2. The Suggested; 3. The Supplemental. Members may take one or more of these classes. 1. The Required Readings for 1881-82, beginning with October, comprise at least sixteen pages a month of historical, scientific, and practical reading matter from Harpers' Young People, New York, (weekly,) price $1.50 a year, or from the Wide Awake, Boston, (monthly,) price $2.50 a year, or from some other periodical which may be recognized on consultation with the President of the C. Y. F. Ř. U. Each number of Harpers' Young People will indicate the articles required by the C. Y. F. R. U., and the Wide Awake will contain a monthly "supplement" devoted to such articles. Members are not required to take more than one periodical, although credit will be given for all additional readings. The Required Reading embraces also the following books: "Stories from History;" (Lyceum Library-two volumes); "Behaving; or Papers on Children's Etiquette," and Faraday's "Chemistry of a Candle." 2. The Suggested Readings, in addition to the Required Readings, include the remaining articles in each number of the periodical from which the Required Readings are taken, and the following books: "Politics for Young Americans," by Charles Nordhoff; "Old Tales Retold," by Miss Larned, and "The Story of English Literature," by Mrs. Lillie. 3. The Supplemental Readings. Several of the Churches have already organized "Reading Circles" for the encouragement of denominational reading, such as the "Lyceum Reading Union" of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the "Reading College," organized by the Baptists at Point Chautauqua. The C. Y. F. R. U. will recognize such courses as Supplemental Reading, and will provide the seal of the "golden cross" for such supplemental reading, to be appended to any certificate which may be given for the completion of the Required Readings above. 4. The C. Y. F. R. U. will accept the supplemental or denominational course of reading in place of the Required Reading above, where persons are not able to subscribe for the more expensive periodicals. 5. All persons are at liberty to pursue these courses of reading, but those who desire to be formally enrolled as members of the C. Y. F. R. U., to receive the President's annual addresses and the class memoranda, should report their names and postoffice addresses to Dr. J. H. Vincent, Plainfield, N. J., inclosing the annual fee of nine cents in postage stamps, to pay postage, clerk hire, etc. On the outside of every letter place the letters C. Y. F. R. U. PREPARATORY CLASS, C. L. S. C. The following are recommended to young persons who are scarcely prepared to take the more advanced studies of quite sufficiently advanced for them. the C. L. S. C., and who feel that the C. Y. F. R. U. is not Young people between fifteen and eighteen years of age, and older people whose education has been limited, will do well to read the following books during the year 1881-82, (beginning October, 1881): 1. Dickens' "History of England.' 2. "Life and Her Children," by Miss Buckley. 3. "The Boys of '76." 4. "Grammar-Land." 5. "The Story of English Literature," by Mrs. Lillie. Persons desiring to take this course of reading will find the price of the books (and the whole list at reduced rates, if ordered at once), by addressing Phillips & Hunt, 805 Broadway, New York, or Walden & Stowe, Cincinnati and Chicago. Persons desiring to be registered as members of the Preparatory Class of the C. L. S. C., taking the above reading, should report to Dr. J. H. Vincent, Plainfield, New Jersey. On the outside of the envelope write, "Preparatory Course, C. L. S. C." Owing to the great difficulty of selecting books for the Preparatory Course for both sides of the continent, it was agreed at one of the Round-Table sessions at Chautauqua, in August, that the California committee should select ten books and the Chautauqua management ten, and that any five of the twenty will constitute a course of reading for one year. In addition to the five named as the preferred list for 1881-82, the Chautauqua management names the following: 1. "Old Tales Retold, or Stories from Ancient Mythology.' 2. "Chemistry of a Candle," by Faraday. 3. "Politics for Young Americans," by Chas. Nordhoff. 4. Young's "History of Greece." 5. Young's "History of Rome." These, with the list above, make the ten selections for the Atlantic side. Now, let the Pacific committee add ten. |