CHAUTAUQUA, 1885.

[B]Thomas Becket. By James Anthony Froude. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1885. Price, 50 cents.[C]Condensed Dictionary of the English Language. Edited under the supervision of Noah Porter, DD., LL.D. By Dorsey Gardner. New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company. Price, $1.80.[D]Mining Camps. By Charles Howard Shinn. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1885. Price, $2.00.[E]The Historical Reference Book. By Louis Heilprin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1885. Price, $3.00.[F]Workday Christianity. By Alexander Clarke. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Price, $1.00.[G]Fresh Fields. By John Burroughs. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1885. Price, $1.50.[H]Letters to Guy. By Lady Barker. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1885. Price, $1.50.[I]How to Get On in the World, as Displayed in the Life and Writings of William Cobbett. By Robert Waters. New York: R. Worthington, 770 Broadway. 1885. Price, $1.50.[J]Dearer than Life. By Emma Leslie. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. 1885. Price, $1.00.[K]Our Bodies, and How we Live. By Albert F. Blaisdell, M.D. Boston: Lee and Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham. 1885. Price, 60 cents.[L]The Heroes. Price, 30 cents. Madam How and Lady Why. Price, 50 cents. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1885.[M]Artistic Tableaux, with Picturesque Diagrams and Descriptions of Costumes. Text by Josephine Pollard. Arrangement of Diagrams by Walter Satterlee. New York: White, Stokes & Allen. 1884.[N]Quotations. A Shaksperean Game. By Alice M. Guernsey. Chicago: S. R. Winchell & Co. Price, 25 cents.[O]Elements and Compounds. A Chemical Game. By Alice M. Guernsey. Chicago: S. R. Winchell & Co. Price, 25 cents.[P]Ludlow’s Concentric Chart of History. By James M. Ludlow, D.D. New York City: Funk & Wagnalls. Price, $2.00.[Q]The Common School Compendium. For Home Students and Teachers. By Mr. L. J. Lanphere. Chicago: Fairbanks & Palmer. 1885.[R]Chinese Gordon, the Uncrowned King. His character as it is portrayed in his Private Letters. Compiled by Laura C. Holloway. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1885. Ribbon-tied. Price, 25 cents.

[B]Thomas Becket. By James Anthony Froude. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1885. Price, 50 cents.

[C]Condensed Dictionary of the English Language. Edited under the supervision of Noah Porter, DD., LL.D. By Dorsey Gardner. New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company. Price, $1.80.

[D]Mining Camps. By Charles Howard Shinn. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1885. Price, $2.00.

[E]The Historical Reference Book. By Louis Heilprin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1885. Price, $3.00.

[F]Workday Christianity. By Alexander Clarke. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Price, $1.00.

[G]Fresh Fields. By John Burroughs. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1885. Price, $1.50.

[H]Letters to Guy. By Lady Barker. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1885. Price, $1.50.

[I]How to Get On in the World, as Displayed in the Life and Writings of William Cobbett. By Robert Waters. New York: R. Worthington, 770 Broadway. 1885. Price, $1.50.

[J]Dearer than Life. By Emma Leslie. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. 1885. Price, $1.00.

[K]Our Bodies, and How we Live. By Albert F. Blaisdell, M.D. Boston: Lee and Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham. 1885. Price, 60 cents.

[L]The Heroes. Price, 30 cents. Madam How and Lady Why. Price, 50 cents. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1885.

[M]Artistic Tableaux, with Picturesque Diagrams and Descriptions of Costumes. Text by Josephine Pollard. Arrangement of Diagrams by Walter Satterlee. New York: White, Stokes & Allen. 1884.

[N]Quotations. A Shaksperean Game. By Alice M. Guernsey. Chicago: S. R. Winchell & Co. Price, 25 cents.

[O]Elements and Compounds. A Chemical Game. By Alice M. Guernsey. Chicago: S. R. Winchell & Co. Price, 25 cents.

[P]Ludlow’s Concentric Chart of History. By James M. Ludlow, D.D. New York City: Funk & Wagnalls. Price, $2.00.

[Q]The Common School Compendium. For Home Students and Teachers. By Mr. L. J. Lanphere. Chicago: Fairbanks & Palmer. 1885.

[R]Chinese Gordon, the Uncrowned King. His character as it is portrayed in his Private Letters. Compiled by Laura C. Holloway. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1885. Ribbon-tied. Price, 25 cents.

Chautauqua is the original recreative and educational summer resort on Chautauqua Lake;

Chautauqua is the center of an elegant and literary social life;

Chautauqua is the first of many similar movements in all parts of the land, and the one from which they have received their idea and inspiration;

Chautauqua is the seat of the world-wide “C. L. S. C.” (the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle), which enrolls more than fifty thousand readers, and provides more than thirty distinct courses of reading and study for persons of all ages and degrees of culture;

Chautauqua is a place of rest and recreation; with grounds, high, dry, perfectly drained, clean, delightful; with three lovely natural plateaus rising from the lakeside to an elevation among the very highest on the lake. The sanitary regulations are scientific and effective. The healthfulness of the place is not excelled in America.

Chautauqua has a charming hotel, the Hotel Athenæum, one of the most elegant and substantial summer hotels on the continent. Its lovely outlook on the lake, its ample piazzas, spacious halls, parlor and dining room render it equal to any hotel outside of New York City.

Chautauqua provides cottage-boarding at all rates, and persons preferring cheap board to that of the more expensive and elegant Hotel Athenæum can easily find it.

Chautauqua isChautauqua. The name of the ground isChautauqua. The landing isChautauqua. The postoffice isChautauqua. The express office isChautauqua. It is not “Point Chautauqua” or “Chautauqua Point,” or “Chautauqua Lake,” but simplyChautauqua, N. Y.

Chautauqua is the children’s paradise. Games, romps, bathing, boating, calisthenics, roller skating under judicious control, bonfires, concerts, stereopticon exhibitions, a splendid museum of oriental curiosities and pictures, a useful “hour-a-day” during the Assembly season (if children wish it) of lessons, story-telling, and songs—all these make Chautauqua a most charming resort for children.

At the summer session of the Assembly the normal work is conducted in five departments, viz.:—

1. The Children’s Class, for young people, taught by the Rev. B. T. Vincent.

2. The Intermediate Normal Class, for advanced scholars and teachers, also taught by the Rev. B. T. Vincent.

3. The Sunday School Normal Class, in the two sections of the Bible and the Sunday School, taught by the Rev. J. L. Hurlbut, D. D., and Prof. R. S. Holmes.

4. The Advanced Normal, conducted by the Rev. A. E. Dunning and the Rev. Frank Russell.

5. The Primary Teachers’ Normal Class, for the instruction of teachers of little people. By Mrs. B. T. Vincent.

6. Among other exercises valuable and interesting to Sunday School workers are the following: Daily Bible Reading, under the direction of Dr. John Williamson, of Chicago, Ill.; Daily Devotional Services, led by the Rev. Dr. B. M. Adams, of New York; Occasional Question-drawers and Normal Councils, under the direction of Dr. J. H. Vincent; Sunday School Teachers’ Meetings on Saturday evenings, and the greatNormal Alumni Reunionon Thursday, August 13th.

Information concerning the Normal Course may be obtained by addressing either the Rev. J. L. Hurlbut, D. D., 805 Broadway, New York; or the Rev. A. E. Dunning, Congregational House, Boston, Mass.

Prof. J. H. Worman, Ph. D., Director.Prof. A. Lalande, Associate, School of French.

Prof. J. H. Worman, Ph. D., Director.

Prof. A. Lalande, Associate, School of French.

The College of Modern Languages, under the direction of the distinguished teacher and author, Dr. J. H. Worman, will open July 11th, and continue in session for six weeks.

Concerning Prof. Worman, it is not necessary that anything be said in this announcement. As a teacher he is unexcelled in this country. As an author of school books in language he is widely known.

Prof. Lalande, a Parisian, a thorough Frenchman, a born teacher, captivates his pupils while he leads them on to a mastery of his native tongue through his aptness to teach, distinct enunciation, and personal enthusiasm.[S]

For full information concerning theCollege of Modern Languagesfor the coming season, address as follows: German, Italian, and Spanish, Dr. J. H. Worman, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; for French, Prof. A. Lalande, Bridgeport, Conn.

[S]Indiana Cottage, 253 North avenue, Chautauqua, N. Y., will furnish for $55.00 for the six weeks (July 11th—August 24th) of the Chautauqua Schools of Language, room and board, including all the comforts of a quiet home, with a private table to be presided over by Prof. A. Lalande, where nothing but French is to be spoken.

(Summer Term of Six Weeks.)

Professor Shumway writes to the Chancellor of Chautauqua University:

My Dear Doctor Vincent:

It gives me great pleasure to be able to offer this summer, at Chautauqua, a course in Latin and Greek of unusual merit. Of the assistant teachers, Mr. Otto is already favorably known to our pupils of last summer, and to many correspondence students as an energetic and thorough teacher. Dr. Bevier will be a great acquisition for Chautauqua. He was graduated from Rutgers with first honors, having also during his course won honors in Latin and Greek at the inter-collegiate contest. After graduation he studied at Johns Hopkins University (which conferred on him the degree Ph.D.), and then continued his studies in Europe. He was a student at the American School at Athens, Greece, and is now an enthusiastic and successful teacher. He is the author of a paper on theOlympieion(in the report of the School at Athens, published by Professor Goodwin, of Harvard).

Although our session in Latin last year began a week late, and we suffered from other disadvantages, I believe our numbers in Latin reached a total unparalleled in the history of Chautauqua.

What was, however, especially gratifying, was the improved quality of scholarship manifested by students.

For this summer we offer the following course:

1.Roman Law(using the Institutes ofJustinian) with information. Not only every lawyer, but every teacher of Latin to-day should familiarize “thon”self with Roman law, lying, as it does,at the base of Roman civilization.

2.The Latin of the early Church Fathers.—Recent publication and discussion have brought into such prominence the influence of the early Latin Fathers on church doctrine thatevery clergyman, present or prospective, will do well to examine this question for himself.

3.Comparative Philology(using Halsey’s Etymology; Ginn, Heath & Co.)—(Every student preparing to enter either of these three classes shouldat oncecommunicatewith the principal, that there may be no delay at the opening of the session, in securing apparatus.)

4.Plato.—Apology and Crito, Tyler’s Ed. (Appletons.)

5.Cicero.—De Natura Deorum, Stickney’s Ed. (Ginn, Heath & Co.)

6.Homer.—Odyssey.

7.Vergil.—Æneid.

8.Horace.—Chase’s Ed. (Eldridge & Bro.)

9.Cicero.—Orations.

10.Xenophon.—Anabasis.

11.Cæsar.—De Bello Gallico(two hours per day).

12.Beginners in Greek.Harkness’s Text-Book, last ed. (Appletons.)

13.Beginners in Latin(THREE HOURS PER DAY BY THE INDUCTIVE METHOD, WITH CONSTANT USE OF LATIN QUESTION AND ANSWER).

🖙 Latin students must have the “Hand-Book of Latin Synonymes.” (Ginn, Heath & Co.)

🖙Special rates will be made for correspondence pupils, and all are urged to attend.

I hope you will give us at Chautauqua zealous students, who will concentrate their work on Latin and Greek, and especially two classes:Teachersof Latin and Greek, and those who are absolutelyBEGINNERS. A clear-headed student who doesn’t know a word of Latin, can, by devoting six weeks to it,FIVE HOURSper day (BeginnersandCæsar) orONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY HOURSin six weeks—quite as much time as the average school gives in one year—make decided progress.

It is thought that teachers of Latin and Greek will find of value not only the method, but also the inspiration which indubitably does arise when teachers gather.

It is perhaps hardly necessary to add thatthe use of Latin not only in elucidating text, but also in discussing syntax, derivations, synonymes, history, geography, archæology, etc., is an essential feature of our work in Latin. Worthy of the attention of teachers is the fact that our colloquial work is not the mere parrot-like repetition of phrases of the text.

Your ob’t servant,

Edgar S. Shumway,Principal of ChautauquaAcademia.

Rutgers College, February 23, 1885.

Dr. W. R. Harper, of the Institute of Hebrew, Director.

The Chautauqua School of Hebrew will open August 4, at 2 p. m., and continue until August 31, at 12 m.

The tuition fee is $10.00. This sum includes admission to the grounds.

Elementary, Intermediate, Progressive, and Advanced Classes will be organized. For further information, correspond with Dr. W. R. Harper, Morgan Park, near Chicago, Ill.

The Chautauqua College of English and Anglo-Saxon is under the direction of Prof. W. D. McClintock, who has by steadiness, fidelity, tact, and rich scholarship commanded the respect and enthusiastic devotion of his pupils during several summers at Chautauqua. For particulars concerning the Summer School of English, address Prof. W. D. McClintock, Millersburgh, Ky.

The Teachers’ Retreat is a three weeks’ meeting of secular school teachers, opening July 11, 1885, for lectures, illustrative exercises, biographical studies, and scientific experiments, combined with the recreative delights of a summer vacation and the quickening influence of the summer school. The teachers in the “Retreat” for this season are: Dr. J. W. Dickinson, of Boston, Dr. J. T. Edwards, of Randolph, N. Y., W. C. J. Hall, Esq., of Jamestown, N. Y., Prof. R. L. Cumnock, of Evanston, Ill., Prof. C. R. Wells, of Syracuse, N. Y., Prof. W. D. Bridge, of New Haven, Conn., Prof. Henry Lummis, of Boston, Prof. E. A. Spring, of Perth Amboy, N. J., Mrs. A. L. Blanchard, of New York City, Miss Mary A. Bemis, of Fredonia, N. Y., Prof. Walton N. Ellis, etc.

Lessons in experimental science, microscopy, kindergarten, elocution, the science and art of pedagogy, penmanship and book-keeping, mineralogy and geology, calisthenics, phonography, stenograph reporting, botany and forestry, drawing, painting, needle-work, clay modeling, voice culture, harmony, organ instruction, etc.

Tickets of admission to the Chautauqua Teachers’ Retreat for the three weeks in July, $5.00. This ticket admits to all general Amphitheater exercises, lectures, concerts, etc., and to the following: The special and general exercises of the “Chautauqua Foreign Tourists’” ideal excursion through Italy, brilliantly illustrated with the stereopticon; fourteen lessons in pedagogy; fourteen lessons in the practical application of pedagogical science; four tourists’ conferences; four expositions of method in chemistry; one exposition of method in penmanship; one exposition of method in elocution; two admissions to each of the several classes in the Schools of Language; two lectures on school method, by Prof. Edward E. Smith, superintendent of schools in Syracuse, N. Y.; one exposition of method in standard phonography; one exposition of method in reporting by the stenograph; ten half-hour drills in school calisthenics, etc.

For circulars, address W. A. Duncan, Esq., Syracuse, N. Y.

Rev. George P. Hays, D. D., of Denver, Director.

Dr. Hays will open at Chautauqua this season a “School of Church Work,” for the benefit of the laity in all denominations and in all branches of Christian activity. [See announcements in May issue ofAssembly Herald.]

Among the most instructive and entertaining features of the Chautauqua season is the annual “foreign tour” to some of the “lands beyond the sea.” The “Ideal Foreign Tour” this year will be made throughItaly. Foreign tourists’ conferences, parlor soirees, stereopticon illustrated lectures, and a large library of well-selected works on foreign travel, with a large variety of engravings, photographs, etc., will furnish abundant enjoyment and profit to all the members of the Teachers’ Retreat and the members of any department of the Schools of Language.

Prof. R. L. Cumnock, Director.

The school will open on the 13th of July, and continue in session six weeks. The instruction in elocution will be thorough, practical and progressive. Four classes will be organized: Juvenile, General, Advanced, Ministerial.

For further particulars, address Prof. R. L. Cumnock, Evanston, Ill.

Prof. Cumnock will give two public readings at Chautauqua during the season.

Mrs. A. L. Blanchard, of the American Art School, New York, will conduct this department at Chautauqua the coming season. She will give thorough instructions in free-hand drawing, all branches of painting, crayon portraiture, and art needle-work.

Isaac V. Flagler, of Syracuse University, will preside at the organ. A full program for ten organ recitals will be given in an early program. Many of the organ selections are not to be found in this country elsewhere, and will be played for the first time at Chautauqua. They were sent to Prof. Flagler by the composers, whose acquaintance he made in Europe.

The principal purposes of organ-playing will be demonstrated theoretically and practically by Mr. Flagler.

1. Playing for divine services.

2. Playing for concerts and exhibitions.

3. Playing accompaniments.

Especial attention will be given to manual and pedal technique, and the art of registration, or the employment of such stops as will display not only the different degrees of power, but also the utmost variety of tone color. Terms for a course of lessons on the organ at Chautauqua, $10.00.

This department will be in charge of Miss Mary A. Bemis, a pupil of Mrs. Kraus-Boelte, of New York, and for years teacher in this department at Chautauqua. An opportunity will be given, as last year, to observe the children under training by Miss Bemis. After each recitation, parents and teachers may receive practical instruction in the use of kindergarten material and the application of kindergarten principles to home and school life.

This department will be in charge of Prof. W. D. Bridge, of New Haven, Conn., for thirty years a shorthand writer, and for many years a practical shorthand reporter. For the last four years he his been engaged constantly with Dr. Vincent as shorthand secretary and assistant. Classes for beginners and advanced pupils in “Standard Phonography” will be organized. There will also be organized in this department of shorthand one or more classes in instruction on the “Stenograph,” the newly invented machine for practical reporting. A competent teacher will be in attendance from July 11th to August 24th.

Terms: $10.00 for either department, “Standard Phonography,” or the “Stenograph,” in classes; seventy-five cents per hour in private.

For full information concerning this department, address Prof. W. D. Bridge, New Haven, Conn., up to July 1st; after that, at Chautauqua, N. Y.

Will open Saturday, August 1st, and continue for several days, with conferences on important missionary topics, conducted by earnest men and women; with lectures, sermons and platform meetings.

The arrangements for musical entertainment this year will exceed those of any former year in the history of Chautauqua.

The season of 1885 may justly be called the “summer of song” at Chautauqua. Among the attractions are the following:

A grand chorus under the direction of Prof. W. F. Sherwin, of the New England Conservatory of Music, in Boston; Prof. C. C. Case, of Akron, Ohio; and Prof. A. T. Schauffler, of New York City;

The famous Schubert Quartette (male), of Chicago, will be present from August 8th to 22d;

Miss Dora Henninges, of Cleveland, Ohio,mezzo soprano, will be at Chautauqua from August 4th to 18th.

Prof. Isaac V. Flagler, of Syracuse, N. Y., will preside at the great organ during the season;

Miss Adele M. Dodge, of Williamsport, Pa., will preside at the piano.

Mr. H. N. Hutchins, of Chicago, Ill., one of the greatest cornetists in America, will be at Chautauqua from August 4th to 18th.

The original company who so charmed Chautauqua three years ago with their matchless music, will be at Chautauqua July 11-18, and July 28-August 5. In this company are four of the original members of the earliest Fisk Jubilee Company, our old friends: Miss Jennie Jackson, soprano; Mrs. Maggie L. Porter-Cole, soprano; Miss Minnie W. Tate, contralto, and Miss Georgia M. Gordon, soprano.

The entire program has not been completed, but the following lecturers are engaged:

Dr. Geo. C. Lorimer, of Chicago, Ill.;

Dr. B. G. Northrop, of Connecticut;

Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, of Boston, Mass., who will lecture on Wendell Phillips, and a Dream of To-morrow;

Miss Kate Field, of Boston;

Dr. Geo. Dana Boardman, of Philadelphia, Pa.;

Rev. Robert Nourse, now of Washington, D. C.;

Philip Phillips;

Rev. J. W. A. Stewart, of Ontario;

H. K. Carroll, Esq., editor ofThe Independent, N. Y.;

Col. Homer B. Sprague, Boston, Mass., who will deliver two lectures on Shakspere, and two on Milton;

Miss L. M. Von Finkelstein, of Jerusalem;

Bishop R. S. Foster, of Boston, Mass.;

Dr. J. M. Buckley, of New York;

W. M. R. French, the brilliant crayonist;

Dr. C. F. Deems, of New York;

Edward Everett Hale, of Boston;

Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, of Minnesota;

It is hoped that John B. Gough and Frank Beard may be present. Other names will be announced in due time.

The distinguished English orator and scientist, George Sexton, M.A., LL.D., will deliver several lectures on scientific subjects.

The full program of theChautauqua Assemblyand theSchoolswill be ready in a short time. Questions addressed to Dr. J. H. Vincent, Plainfield, N. J., or W. A. Duncan, Esq., Syracuse, N. Y., will receive prompt attention.

The Florida Chautauqua is a success. Four months ago we had a dubious feeling that such an undertaking would fail of any real support in a clime which has always been so averse to adopting progressive ideas. Our healthy Chautauqua tree, we feared, would be enervated by tropical sunshine; but it has taken root with surprising readiness. And its growth is assured by the hearty northern support it is receiving. This support is a striking feature of Lake de Funiak. You see it in the pretty cottages that are being built about the grounds. They are generally owned by northerners. Wallace Bruce has a cottage there; Pansy is building one; Mrs. Harper, of Terre Haute, Ind., another; Dr. Hatfield, of Chicago, one, and Mrs. Emily Huntingdon Miller another. One delightful spot has been turned into an “Artist’s Corner” by Joaquin Miller, Mr. Durkin, Harper Brothers’ well known artist, and Mr. Gross, of Covington.

The attraction which Lake de Funiak has for literary and artistic people is easily explained. The country is enveloped in a mist of most fascinating story. Ponce de Leon and his warriors once searched its forest, and, perhaps, who knows, bathed in the lake’s clear waters.

It has an ideal climate. The lake lies on a ridge eighty by thirty miles in extent, and three hundred feet above sea level. “Too cold to raise oranges here,” the natives say, and sure enough it is, though east, at a lower altitude in the same latitude, orange groves are abundant. The beautiful LaConte pear, peaches, apples, and quinces, are the favorite fruits of this ridge. The result is that here in this overheated, indolent land, is formed an oasis with an even temperature, unknown to the mosquito, and unvisited by the cyclone.

No better place could be found for gathering the “material” in which the artist and the writer revel. These mammoth forests of pine, magnolia, cypress, palmetto, and oak, are broken by the settlements of a peculiar people. Northerners find here a fresh field of study for pen and pencil.

And it is a fresh field for the Chautauqua Idea. During the progress of the Assembly the people of the surrounding country were in a constant wonderment over the peculiar performances, but when they understood what was meant, their coöperation was the heartiest, and their interest was untiring. The earnest workers who have undertaken to introduce the Chautauqua plans, if they are still in the first stage, are yet sure of abundant results.

In arranging the Florida Assembly the effort has been to have everything truly Chautauquan. Naturally we think of the Auditorium first, and at Lake de Funiak the situation is superb. The lake, which is about a mile in circumference, some sixty-four feet in depth, and its water of extraordinary clearness and purity, has a setting of grassy banks which slope upward from the lake some fifty feet to the edge of the forest. Into this bank, looking out over the lake, is built a square auditorium, large enough to seat 4,000 people, enclosed and furnished with an iron roof. All of the various Chautauqua developments have found their way there. The platform, presided over by the Rev. A. H. Gillet, the C. L. S. C., the normal work, a school of Greek, a kindergarten, school of cookery, and an art school. Prof. Sherwin was there, presiding over the chorus. Messrs. Fairbanks & Palmer opened a bookstore. There were Chautauqua singers, songs, speeches, and ideas, and they all took root. The beautiful situation, the desirable company that is building the new town, the vigor of the management, and its sound financial backing, evidence the future of Lake de Funiak. What more beautiful southern home could those of us who migrate southward from this land of snow and ice wish, than under the pines of Ponce de Leon’s fountain, surrounded by a band of the most earnest workers in the world, and in daily reach of the best thought which money and skill can bring together? Or if we can find time and money for but a month’s study of Florida and her people, what more delightful headquarters?

A School of Pedagogyhas been arranged in theChautauqua University. Its purpose is to assist the directors of popular education, and especially teachers, in the study—1st, of the subjects taught in the schools; 2nd, of the principles and art of teaching; and, 3d, of the history of education. Two courses of study and of reading will be arranged. One course may be completed in a year, the other in two years. Books to be studied and read will be suggested. Examinations for promotion and certificates will be made at the close of each year. The design of the course of studies and reading is to prepare school directors and teachers for the work of organizing and teaching the schools in accordance with the best methods. Any person may become a member of the School of Pedagogy by paying the Matriculation Fee of $5, unless it has already been paid in connection with some other department, and the Tuition Fee of $10. The Tuition Fee is a yearly fee. All fees are payable in advance, to R. S. Holmes, Registrar of the Chautauqua University, Plainfield, N. J., from whom all particulars in reference to the school may be obtained.

Miss Susan Hayes Ward, in her article in the March impression ofThe Chautauquan, spoke disparagingly of electro-silicon as a cleaner for silver. Some good housekeepers represent it to be both a very useful and safe cleaning material. In all such cases, however, the person using the article must be the judge. But in this case we favor the opinion of the good housekeepers.

The Easter cards of the season just past were very bright and beautiful, and many of them exceedingly rich. Prang’s cards, as usual, took the lead in artistic design and fine finish. They issued a very large number of new designs, and some very taking novelties in satin and plush.

At Siloam Springs, Benton Co., Arkansas, another Chautauqua has been established. A joint stock company, with ample capital, has been organized, and a state charter secured. Prof. E. Dolgoruki was elected director-general. Siloam Springs is a place of 2,000 inhabitants, near the southwest corner of the state, one mile from Indian Territory. An amphitheater large enough to seat 2,500 persons is in process of erection, and efforts are being made to secure a good and diversified program for the coming session, which opens June 11, 1885, and continues three weeks.

In the March number ofThe Chautauquan, among the errata, appears the following: “Arann, the Rev. J. M., notAraun.” It seems it is not right yet; it should be Avann.

Transcriber’s Notes:Obvious punctuation errors repaired.Page 437, “transfered” changed to “transferred” (and transferred it to their own home)Page 451, “crochety” changed to “crotchety” (crotchety but kind)Page 455, “insistance” changed to “insistence” (ill-timed insistence)Page 458, “tation” changed to “station” (the station agent was kind enough to say)Page 459, “corrider” changed to “corridor” (a corridor nearly two hundred feet long)Page 468, “fnnctions” changed to “functions” (the authority and functions of)Page 474, “Broomfield” changed to “Bromfield” (36 Bromfield Street, Boston)Page 479, “Eebruary” changed to “February” (February 20, 1885)Page 480, “wvies” changed to “wives” (two merchants’ wives)Page 487, “fnlly” changed to “fully” (when we are fully persuaded)

Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 437, “transfered” changed to “transferred” (and transferred it to their own home)

Page 451, “crochety” changed to “crotchety” (crotchety but kind)

Page 455, “insistance” changed to “insistence” (ill-timed insistence)

Page 458, “tation” changed to “station” (the station agent was kind enough to say)

Page 459, “corrider” changed to “corridor” (a corridor nearly two hundred feet long)

Page 468, “fnnctions” changed to “functions” (the authority and functions of)

Page 474, “Broomfield” changed to “Bromfield” (36 Bromfield Street, Boston)

Page 479, “Eebruary” changed to “February” (February 20, 1885)

Page 480, “wvies” changed to “wives” (two merchants’ wives)

Page 487, “fnlly” changed to “fully” (when we are fully persuaded)

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