THE CHAUTAUQUAN A Monthly Magazine, devoted to the Promotion of True Culture—Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. VOLUME II. From October, 1881, to July, 1882. THEODORE L. FLOOD, D. D., Editor. PRINTED ON THE CHAUTAUQUA PRESS, MEADVILLE, PA. COPYRIGHTED BY THEODORE L. FLOOD, IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, Washington, D. C., 1882. INDEX TO VOLUME II. CHAUTAUQUA BOOK-A-MONTH READ- DIRGE, A. By Felicia Hemans. 278. AFRICA. By Rev.J.O. Means, D. D. 21. CHAUTAUQUA, 1882. 303, 368, 502. CHAUTAUQUA' CHILDREN'S CLASS OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON. By Jas. Clark CHAUTAUQUA NEWS FOR 1882. 560. CHAUTAUQUA NORMAL CLASS. Grad- EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. 60, 125, 185, 244, ALPHABET OF MENTAL SCIENCE. By CHARACTERS IN DICKENS. 441. uates for 1881. 247. 306, 374, 437, 499, 557, 613. EDITOR'S OUTLOOK: The Second Vol- ume of THE CHAUTAUQUAN; Bishop CHRISTIAN CITIZEN, The. By Hon. E. O. Haven; The Chautauqua As- sembly for 1881; President Garfield; The C. L. S. C. Course of Study for 12, 135, 230, 264, 328, 1881-1882; The Chautauqua School of Theology. 57. The New Version and the Christian ler, D. D. 580. Ministry; In Memoriam; American Reformers Abroad; Dr. J. G. Hol- land; A Noble Deed. 123. CITY LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES. Judge Tourgee's Story; The Spoils By a non-resident American. 233. System; Method of Study; The Irish C.L. Š. C. ANNOUNCEMENT FOR '81 AND Question; Physical Culture. 182. The C. L. 8. c. in Canada; Dr. Thomas, Frothingham, and Cam- BEHIND THE SCENES. By May H. Field. c. L. S. c. COURSE OF READING FOR J. H. Vincent, D.D., presiding. 301. pello; How to Awaken the Church- es; Novels and Novel-Reading; Our 408. BELOVED DISCIPLE, The. Poem. By c. L. S. C. LOCAL CIRCLE LEADERS' Industrial Education; Insanity as a BIBLE HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF MOD- C. L. S. C. NOTES AND LETTERS. By Defence for Crime; The Theological Situation; The Atlanta Exposition. ERN RESEARCH. By Rev. J. E. 304. The Chautauqua Assembly for 1882; BIOLOGISTS ON VIVISECTION. By R. H. C. L. S. C. ROUND TABLE, Rev. J. H. Polar Explorations; The Outlook for Vincent, D. D., presiding. 42, 109, BLUEBELLS. Poem. The Recent Tribute to Garfield; The COME UP_AND BE DEAD. Poem. By Persecution of the Jews; Recreation for the Laboring Classes. 435. The C. L. S. C. Class of 1882; The Anti-Polygamy Bill; Books for the COMPENSATION. Poem. By "B." 232. Children; New Temperance Meth- BRITISH AND INDIANS AT CHAUTAU- od; Longfellow. 497. The ASSEMBLY HERALD and CHAU- TAUQUAN; The C. L. S. C. Diploma; Four Years in the C.L.S.C.; Charles R. Darwin; Ralph Waldo Emerson; с Chautauqua for 1882; The Labor Troubles; Organic Union in Church- es; The Temperance Question. 611. CÆSAR AND COLUMBUS. By J. Bald- DECEMBER AND JUNE. Poem. By "B." EDITOR'S TABLE. Questions and An- swers. 61, 126, 186, 245, 308, 376, 438, DIFFICULTIES IN SCRIPTURE. By Rey, ELECTRICITY THE FORCE OF THE FU- TURE. By John A. Bower. 91, PROPHECY FULFILLED. By Jennie L. MISSING SCIENCE, A. 289. Eno. 415. Gilman, M. A. 5, 67, 129, 189, 251, PRIMARY TEACHERS–Successful in the competitive Examinations at Chau- ham, Mass. 248. From Addison. 389. MY RETURN TO ARCADY, AND HOW I My LOST YOUTH. Poem. By Henry W. READINGS ON MATHEMATICS. By Prof. Longfellow. 496. J. Tingley, LL. D. 391, 456. MYTHOLOGY IN HISTORY. By C. F. RELIGIOUS ODDITIES IN INDIA. By Keary. 273. Rev. W.F. Oldham. 164. GEOLOGY. By T. G. Bonney, M. A., F. ROYAL HAND BELL RINGERS, The. 370. GEOLOGICAL DIAGRAMS. Announce- NATIVE ELEMENT IN AMERICAN LIT- 468. SACREDNESS OF PROPERTY. By R. W. SACREDNESS OF THE SECULAR CALL- NEW EDUCATIONS. By Bishop H. W. ING. By Rev. J. Baldwin Brown, HALF HOURS WITH BEST AUTHORS. NEVER, FOREVER. A Tribute to Long-SANCTUM KING, The. Poem. By Will fellow. By Mrs. Emily J. Bugbee. Carlton. 617. SEPOY REBELLION. By Rev. Wm. But- SHE WAS A PHANTOM. Poem. By Wm. NIGHT WITH A COMET, A. By Prof. SIMILE, A. Poem. By Matthew Prior. NIGHT STORM. Poem. By E. L. Her- SOME WONDERS OF THE SEA. By Rev. J. G. Wood, M. A. 100. IN THE VALLEY. Poem. By Metta S. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. 494. Benson. 352. OBEDIENCE. Poem. By Mary Har- STORIES FOR THE CHILDREN. By John ODE TO Duty. Poem. By Wm. Words- OF THE INEQUALITY AMONGST Us. By JESUS CHRIST IN CHRONOLOGY. By Michael DeMontaigne. 239. OF THE ART OF CONVERSATION. By TEN IMPORTANT EVENTS. 65. TEMPERANCE AMONG THE MODOCS. By Rev. A. N. Craft, A. M. 585. OIL EXCHANGE OF AMERICA. By Major By Miss Frances E. Willard. 288. ON A ROCK BOUND COAST. A Poem. To-Day. Poem. By “E. T. F.” 600. OLD BATTLE FIELDS. Poem. By I. KING'S DAUGHTER, The. By A. H. Bur- OLD FAMILIAR FACES, The. Poem. By SWERS. By A. M. Martin, Esq. USEFUL AND AGREEABLE, The By Man's Antiquity and Language, and LAVENGRO-A Dream or Drama; a General History. 172. Scholar, a Gypy and a Priest. By The History of Ancient Literature. George Borrow. 165, 212, 279, 344, 222, 296. Books First and Second of McKen- zie's “Nineteenth Century.” 357. VOICES OF THE FRAMINGHAM BELLS. LEISURE HOURS. From the Spectator. "The Art of Speech,” Vol. II, Stud- Poem. By Phæbe A. Holden. 343. ies in Elocution and Logic. 428. LINES BY THE LATE DEAN OF WEST The Chautauqua Library of English History and Literature, Vol. III, LOCAL CIRCLES. By A. M. Martin, The Wars of the Roses, 484. Esq. 50, 117, 175, 225, 299, 359, 430, ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE WORD WADSWORTH CLUB. By Edward Ev- LOVING FACES. Poem. By “R. H. S.” OUR LATTER DAYS. Poem. By Sarah WANTING. Poem. 365. LOOK-UP-LEGION. By Rev. E. E. Hale. WHAT WOMAN HAS DONE IN ART FOR PARENTAL RECOLLECTIONS. Poem. By "WIDE-AWAKE." WHAT TO READ. By Wm. Cowper. 274. PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS. By Canon MAN WITH THE DRUMMER Boy, The. F. W. Farrar, LL. D. 419. PLATFORM AND PERSONAL EXPERI- WORMS AND THEIR WORK. WORDS, FACTS, AND PHRASES. 377. MATTER AND VITALITY. By the Rev. ENCES. By John B. Gough, Esq. THE CHAUTAUQUAN. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF TRUE CULTURE. ORGAN OF THE CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE. Vol. II. OCTOBER, 1881. No. I. Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. glimmer into warmth; Athens ascending into daylight, and Egypt sinking into shadow; learning setting over Greece President, J. H. Vincent, D. D., Plainfield, N. J. to rise upon Italy; and dying at Rome to be rekindled at General Secretary, Albert M. Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bagdad: these are visions to dazzle the eyes, and people the Office Secretary, Miss Kate F. Kimball, Plainfield, N. J. fancy of a poet.* Counselors, Lyman Abbott, D. D.; J. M. Gibson, D. D. ; Bishop H. W. Warren, D. D.; W. C. Wilkinson, D. D. History is to be regarded in an educational light, as it opens new sources of information. A scholar may be six thousand years old, and have learned brick-making under REQUIRED READING. Pharaoh. Never lived such a citizen of the world; he w:18 Assyrian at Babylon, Lacedæmonian at Sparta, Roman at MOSAICS OF HISTORY. Rome, Egyptian at Alexandria. He has been by turns a traveller, a merchant, a man of letters, and a commander in-chief; presented at every court, he knew Daniel, and INTRODUCTION. sauntered through the picture-gallery of Richelieu. Dryden called history a perspective glass, carrying the mind to a vast First, wild and wildering as the strife distance, and taking in the remotest objects of antiquity. Of earthly winds and seas, How many battles by sea and land the student has witResounds the long, historic life nessed! He clambered with the Greeks along the rocky Of warring dynasties : shore of Pylus; he heard the roar of falling houses when the Uncertain right and certain wrong In onward conflict driven, Turks stormed Rhodes; three times he was beaten back The threats and trampling of the strong with Condé by that terrible Spanish infantry, which tossed Beneath a brazen Heaven. off the French fire like foam from a cliff'; he recognized The cavernous unsounded East Dante in the struggle of Campaldino; stood by the side of Outpours an evil tide, Cervantes when an arquebus carried away his left hand; Drowning the hymn of patriarch priest, and stooped with a misty lantern over the bleeding body of The chant of shepherd bride. Moore. The lies; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. Athenian fish-bell often invites him to the market to cheapen THE CHARMS OF HISTORY.-History presents the pleas a noisy poulterer, or exchange compliments with a bakeress antest features of poetry and fiction; the majesty of the of inordinate fluency. A monk illuminating a missal, and epic; the moving accidents of the drama; the surprises and Caxton pulling his first proof, are among the pleasant enmoral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robin tries of his diary. He still stops his ears to the bellowing son Crusoe is not stranger than Cresus; the knights of of Cleon; and remembers, as of yesterday, the rhetorical Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights frown of the old tapestry, and the scarlet drapery of Pitt. of lance and armor, than the Carthaginians, winding down To study history is to study literature. The biography of the Alps, cast upon Livy. Froissart's hero has all the mi a nation embraces all its works. No trifle is to be neglected. nute painting of Richardson's. The poetic element is the A mouldering medal is a letter of twenty centuries. Antiqlife-blood of the narrative. The gazette glows into the uities, which have been beautifully called history defaced, drama; the pen-and-ink scrawl into the portrait.* compose its fullest commentary. In these wrecks of many THREE PHASES OF HISTORY.-History may be considered storms, which time washes to the shore, the scholar looks patiently for treasure. The painting round a vase, the in three lights—a pleasurable, an educational, and a moral: scribble on a wall, the wrath of a demagogue, the drollery (1) As it entertains the fancy; (2) opens new sources of in of a farce, the point of an epigram-each possesses its own struction; (3) and cherishes, or enlarges the feelings of vir interest and value. A fossil court of law is dug out of an tue. In the first light, its poetical relationship is clearly orator; and the Pompeii of Greece is discovered in the commarked. Imagination creates no grander episodes than the edies of Aristophanes.* rise and fall of empires. To watch the first smiles and motions of national life in its cradle; to trace its growth, the The third aspect of history is the moral, as it cherishes maturity, and the decline of kingdoms; to observe one side the feelings of virtue, and enlarges their action. Southey of the world brightening in the sun of civilization, while felt confident that Clarendon, put into his youthful hands, the other is vapory and cold; to see, in the course of years, would have preserved him from the political follies which the flourishing region become dim, and the dark country he lived to regret and outgrow. Guicciardini, also, has *Willmott'e "Pleasures of Literature." *Willmott's "Pleasures of Literature," |