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THE CHAUTAUQUAN
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF TRUE CULTURE. ORGAN OF THE CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE.
VOLUME III.
FROM OCTOBER, 1882, TO JULY, 1883.
THEODORE L. FLOOD, D. D., Editor.
THE CHAUTAUQUA PRESS, Meadville, PA.
COPYRIGHTED BY THEODORE L. FLOOD, IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C., 1883.
INDEX TO VOLUME III.
AGASSIZ AT PENIKESE, With. Prof. J. Tingley, Ph.D. 533.
AIR, The Worth of Fresh. 386, 449.
AMUSEMENTS—LAWN TENNIS. Robert Macgregor. 441.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1882-3, C. L. S. C. 113, 172.
ANSWERS. To Questions for Further Study. A. M. Martin. 288, 355.
ARIZONA. Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D. 255.
ART AND ARTISTS, Some German. 259.
ASSEMBLY OF 1882, California. 46.
ASSEMBLY, Pacific Coast C. L. S. C. 597.
ASTROLOGY—THE ROMANCE OF ASTRONOMY. R. K. Miller, M.A. 441.
ASTRONOMY, Discrepancies in. Bishop Warren. 458.
ASTRONOMY. Lecture by Bishop Warren. 596.
ATTEMPTS TO FLY IN THE AIR. From the French of F. Marion. 96.
BIBLE AND NATURE, The. Rev. J. B. Thomas, D.D. 573.
BOOK NOTICES. 177, 302, 486, 608.
BORROWING AND LENDING, Morals and Sorrows of. A. Denbar. 151.
BY-WAYS, In Some Medical. Andrew Wilson, F. R. S. E. 537.
CHANGE IN WORDS, CONSTANT. John Peile, M.A. 586.
CHAUTAUQUA EMERGING FROM WINTER. Rev. Victor Cornelle. 413.
CHAUTAUQUA RIPPLES. 538.
CIRCLES, LOCAL. 104, 163, 225, 282, 347, 403, 459, 525, 592.
CIRCLES, How to Conduct Local. Dr. J. H. Vincent. 289.
C. L. S. C., The. Miss Myrtie Hudson. 44.
C. L. S. C., Pacific Branch. 523.
C. L. S. C. WORK. 42, 102, 161, 222, 280, 345, 401, 457, 522, 590.
CLOTHING, The Advantage of Warm. 264, 332.
COMMENCEMENT OF 1882, C. L. S. C. 18.
COMET THAT CAME BUT ONCE, The. E. W. Maunder, F.R.A.S. 319.
COMETS. Richard A. Proctor. 142.
COMING CHAUTAUQUA DAYS. 600.
CONVERSATION, The Art of. 514.
CONJURORS. Thomas Frost. 518.
DEFECTS IN OUR AMERICAN HOMES. A Conference at Chautauqua. 399.
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, Results of the. John Lord, LL.D. 562.
DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS, Geographical. Alfred Newton. 588.
DREAM, AND PRACTICAL LIFE, A. 207.
DRIVING. 193.
DRINK, The Influence of Wholesome. 519, 577.
DUTIES IN THE FAMILY, Social. Frances Power Cobbe. 342.
EDITOR’S OUTLOOK: Art, The Study of. 416. Assembly, The Chautauqua. 56. Assembly, The Decennial. 294. Chautauquan, The. 540. C. L. S. C. as a Substitute for the College, The. 415. C. L. S. C. as a Substitute for the Public Library, The. 359. C. L. S. C. on the Pacific Coast. 476. C. L. S. C. in Troy, N. Y. 114. C. L. S. C. as an Educational Force, The. 293. C. L. S. C. Literature. 173. Co-Education. 235. Commencement, the C. L. S. C. 56. Coronation of the Czar, The. 604. Course of Study for 1883-84, The C. L. S. C. 540. Doré, Gustave. 360. Draper, Professor Henry. 234. Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret. 359. Education, Our National. 234. England’s Troubles in Ireland and Egypt. 115. English-Irish Troubles, The. 540. Gambetta. 293. Historical Studies in the C. L. S. C. 114. Irving, Washington. 416. Lectureship, The Joseph Cook. 360. Literature, The C. L. S. C. 173. Natural Method in Language at Chautauqua, The. 173. Passion Play, The. 293. Penn and his Policy, William. 173. Prohibition. 114. Prohibition in Politics. 541. Problem, The Educational. 478. Religion, Prospect for a Revival of Spiritual. 173. Roeblings, The. 604. Schools, The Common. 57. Social Life in the C. L. S. C. 603. Stewart’s Madame de Staël. 477. Temperance Question, The. 56. Ten Years at Chautauqua. 603. Trial by Jury. 476. Wagner. 415. Warren, Amos K. 605. Weed, Thurlow. 235.
EDITOR’S NOTE-BOOK. 58, 115, 174, 236, 295, 361, 417, 479, 541, 605.
EDITOR’S TABLE. 117, 176, 238, 297, 363, 419, 481, 543, 607.
EDUCATION, The History and Philosophy of. Prof. W. T. Harris. 28, 79, 194, 262, 336, 446, 567.
EGYPT AND ENGLAND. Sheldon Amos. 33.
EGYPT FOR THE EGYPTIANS. Judge G. M. Barber. 562.
ENGLISH HISTORY, Pictures From. C. E. Bishop. 15, 66, 124, 184, 246, 309, 371, 432, 494.
ETCHING. 509.
EVIDENCE OF THE NECESSITY OF A REVEALED RELIGION, An Unnoted. Rev. R. H. Howard, M. A. 412.
EXAMINATION, Report of Chautauqua Normal. 177.
FASHION, Anecdotes of. I. D’Israeli. 323.
FASHIONS, Changes in. From the French of M. Augustin Challamel. 446.
FASHIONS, How to Regulate the. From the French of M. Augustin Challamel. 556.
FLORIDA, A Tropical River in. S. J. M. Eaton, D.D. 576.
FOOD, The Value of Good. 202.
FORCES, The Co-Related. 257.
FRENCH CIRCLE, The Prospectus of the. 475.
FRENCH, The Study of. Prof. A. Lalande. 111, 358.
GENIUS, What is. James Kerr, M. A. 254.
GEOLOGY, How to Teach. Colonel Daniels. 231.
GEOLOGY, Readings in. J. W. Dawson. 43.
GEOLOGY, Readings in. Edward Hitchcock, D.D., LL.D. 68.
GERMAN CIRCLES, Two. 592.
GERMAN, Six Reasons for the Study of. 475.
GERMAN DEPARTMENT C. L. S. C. Prof. J. H. Worman. 54.
GERMANY, Home Life in. 199.
GOD’S IDEAL OF A MAN. Rev. B. M. Adams. 157.
GRADUATES, Class of 1882, List of C. L. S. C. 298.
GRADUATES OF 1882, Chautauqua. 118.
GREEK LIFE, Studies in Ancient. J. P. Mahaffy. 126.
GREEK, Reasons for the Study of. Prof. H. Lummis. 169.
GREEK, Hints to Beginners in the Study of New Testament. Rev. A. A. Wright. 414, 476, 539.
GREEN, John Richard. Rev. H. A. Haweis, M.A. 575.
GYMNASTICS. 508.
HABIT OF TAKING PAINS. James Kerr, M.A. 392.
HEAVEN, The Employments of. Rev. L. T. Townsend, D.D. 570.
HISTORY, God’s Hand in. Bishop Simpson, LL.D. 70.
HOOD, Thomas. W. C. Richards. 409.
HOUSEKEEPING, German and American. 442.
INDIA, A Voice From. C. A. Martin. 47.
IRVING, Washington. Wallace Bruce. 390.
JEANNETTE, Story of the. 89.
JOYS OF HIGH COMPANIONSHIP. Arthur Helps. 561.
LANDSEER, Edwin and Charles. 466.
LANGUAGE IN ANIMALS. Richard Budd Painter. 323.
LECTURES, Local Circle. 529.
LECTURE BY ARTEMUS WARD. 549.
LETTER FROM ENGLAND, A. 524.
LIGHT, The Electric. A. A. Campbell Swinton. 325.
LITERATURE, Selections from English. Advice, on Giving. Joseph Addison. 424. Education compared to Sculpture. Joseph Addison. 125. Poet Described, The. 423. Practice and Habit. John Locke. 317. Thoughts and Aphorisms. Jonathan Swift. 318.
LITERATURE, Selections from Chinese. 503.
LITERATURE, Selections from Japanese. 505.
LONGFELLOW’S BIRTHDAY. 459.
MAMMALIA. From the French of Ernest Menault. 389.
MAN, The Ugly. 169.
MANNER. Lord Chesterfield. 141.
MANNERS, Street. 452.
MEMORIAL BELL. 457.
MONTANA. Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D. 394.
MIND, Ardor of. James Kerr, M. A. 532.
MUSIC AT THE DAWN OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA. Prof. E. E. Ayres. 95.
MUSIC IN EARLY TIMES. Prof. E. E. Ayres. 30.
NEW MEXICO. Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D. 327.
NOTES ON REQUIRED READINGS: April, 419. May, 482. June, 544.
OUTLINES OF C. L. S. C. STUDIES. November, 104. December, 167. January, 230. February, 288. March, 356. April,408. May, 463. June, 531.
PAINTINGS, Old. Robert Kempt. 570.
PEARLS, A Chaplet of. William Jones, F. S. A. 385.
PHOTOGRAPHY, The Applications of. 471.
PHYSIOLOGY. 374, 434.
PLAN, The Latest—Chautauqua Summer School for Children. 111.
POISON IN COMMON THINGS. Prof. P. A. Simpson, M.A., M.D. 137.
PORTRAIT COLLECTIONS. Walter F. Tiffin. 556.
PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY—Names of the Stars. 486.
QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY. 107, 167, 229.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. A. M. Martin. Astronomy. 286, 353. China, Corea, and Japan. 530. Evangeline. 463. Geology. First Lessons in. 48, 105. Greece, History of. 47, 105. Greek Course in English, Preparatory. 164, 228. Hampton Tracts. 407.
RAINDROPS, HAILSTONES AND SNOWFLAKES. Prof. O. Reynolds. 75.
RAMBLES IN DAKOTA AND MONTANA. W. A. Duncan. 598.
READINGS FOR 1883-84, C. L. S. C. 531, 589.
RE-UNION AT CINCINNATI, C. L. S. C. 591.
ROUMANIAN PEASANTS AND THEIR SONGS. C. F. Keary. 197.
ROUND-TABLE. 51, 109, 167, 231, 289, 356, 409, 464, 596.
RUSSIA, History of. Mrs. M. S. Robinson. 10, 61, 121, 179, 241, 303, 365, 427, 489.
SCANDINAVIA, A Glance at the History and Literature of. Prof. L. A. Sherman. 8, 63, 182, 244, 305, 368, 429, 487.
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, The Chautauqua. 54, 111, 414, 475, 539.
SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, The Chautauqua. 112, 602.
SCIENCE, The Six Follies of. I. D’Israeli. 257.
SCIENCE AND COMMON SENSE. Charles Kingsley. 321.
SCIENCES, The Circle of. Prof. J. T. Edwards. 601.
SCIENTISTS, Atheistic. John Stuart Blackie. 137.
SONGS, C. L. S. C. Anniversary Ode—1879. 458. Break Thou the Bread of Life. 590. Evening Praise. 523. Hymn of Greeting. 590. Join, O Friends, in a Memory Song. 402. A Song of To-day. 44. The Winds are Whispering. 346.
SPURGEON, Rev. Charles Haddon. A. A. Livermore, D.D. 565.
SUNDAY READINGS. Selected by Dr. J. H. Vincent. Abraham to the Occupation of Canaan, From. W. F. Collier, LL.D. 190. Action, The Reproductive Power of Human. Henry Melvill. 3. Beginning to Abraham, From the. W. F. Collier, LL.D. 188. Bible and other Religious Books, The. George F. Pentecost, D.D. 251. Bible and Science, The. George F. Pentecost, D.D. 252. Book, History of God’s. Rev. Frank Russell, A.M. 186. Christmas Songs. 134. Christ and the Apostles. S. A. Allibone. 249. Christian Described, A. Rev. W. Jay. 439. Communion with God. R. S. Storrs, D.D. 5. Communion with God, The Privilege of. R. S. Storrs, D.D. 6. Conflicts of Life, The. Bishop Edward Thomson, DD., LL.D. 133. Design of the Discrepancies of the Scriptures. J. W. Haley, A.M. 90. Dispensations in History and in the Soul, Three. Bishop Huntington. 313. False Balance Detected by the True, The. William Arnot, D.D. 311. Faith the Sole Saving Act. Rev. William Taylor, D.D. 381. Finding and Bringing. 379. God Magnified in his Works. G. Chaplin Child, M.D. 135. Goodness of a Good Man, The. 131. Growing. F. E. Havergal. 131. Having, Doing and Being. James Martineau. 130. Israelites after Reaching the Promised Land. W. F. Collier, LL.D. 191. Life of the Israelites from Saul to Christ. W. F. Collier, LL.D. 248. Love. Julius Muller, D.D. 1. Manners. Abel Stevens, D.D., LL.D. 501. Pardon—Forgiveness. Bishop Merrill. 94. Religion in Common Life. John Caird, D.D. 496. Speculations in Theology. Rev. R. S. Storrs, D.D. 329. Tears of Jesus, The. J. H. Grandpierre, D.D. 2.
TALES FROM SHAKSPERE. Charles Lamb. All’s Well that Ends Well. 515. As You Like It. 453. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. 275. King Lear. 271. Macbeth. 338. Midsummer Night’s Dream. 210. Much Ado About Nothing. 395. Romeo and Juliet. 84. Taming of the Shrew. 81. The Tempest. 39. Twelfth Night. 152. Two Gentlemen of Verona. 583. Winter’s Tale. 213.
TALK FROM HEADQUARTERS. Concerning Chautauqua. 474.
TAXIDERMY. 507.
TENNYSON AND MRS. CARLYLE. 588.
TESTIMONY, C. L. S. C. 103, 162, 223, 402, 524.
THEY GROW TO FLOWERS OR TO WEEDS. Maxims. 383.
THRIFT. Charles Kingsley. 218.
TOUR ROUND THE WORLD, A. 99, 147, 216, 267, 466, 510, 551.
TRANSIT OF VENUS, The. 239.
UNITED STATES, The Resources of. 393.
WEBSTER, Daniel. A Letter from Prof. W. C. Wilkinson. 292.
WEBSTER, Daniel, _versus_ Stephen Girard. 472.
W. C. T. U. BORN AT CHAUTAUQUA, The. 156.
POETRY
AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. By the author of “John Halifax, Gentleman.” 326.
BEYOND. Mrs. Emily J. Bugbee. 557.
CELIA SINGING. Thomas Stanley. 442.
CHAUTAUQUA CHIMES. Addie Glover Carter. 47.
CHEERFULNESS TAUGHT BY REASON. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 514.
CHILDREN, Our. Genevieve Irons. 150.
COMING OF SUMMER, The. Harriet Mabel Spalding. 536.
CONTENT. A. E. A. 196.
COUNSEL. Alice E. Jennings. 573.
DAFFODIL, The. Ada Iddings Gale. 558.
DAFFODILS AT SEA. J. S. Howard. 448.
DEATH’S CHANGED FACE. Frederick Langbridge. 537.
GARDEN REVERIE, A. I. L. Cosham. 18.
GLINT OF MOONLIGHT, A. I. L. Cosham. 129.
GOD’S HEARTHSTONE. Wallace Bruce. 95.
HOURS OF REST. Anna H. Drury. 392.
IN THE FOREST. S. Reid. 81.
JUNE. Ellen O. Peck. 507.
KNEELING FIGURE IN MALVERN PRIORY, On the. Chas. Grindrod. 141.
LAST SNOW OF WINTER, The. Sarah Doudney. 518.
LOSS AND GAIN. Mrs. Emily J. Bugbee. 413.
MAY. Luella Clark. 473.
MY WINTER GARDEN. Harriet Mabel Spalding. 320.
MY OWN GIRL. Frederick Langbridge. 161.
NIGHTINGALE, To the. Drummond of Hawthornden. 436.
PETITION TO TIME. B. W. Proctor. 207.
PETROCCHI, Sonnet of. Translated by Strong. 557.
PROPHECY, A. Rev. Benjamin Copeland. 582.
QUAINT OLD GARDEN OF MY CHILDHOOD. Clara Thwaites. 155.
RENUNCIATION. A. C. M. 569.
ROBIN AND I. C. B. 407.
SATISFIED. J. C. A. 452.
SONGS IN WINTER. David Buxton. 561.
SONG. Sir John Denham. 338.
SONG OF THE ROBIN. Miss A. M. Starkweather. 532.
SONNET, The. William Wordsworth. 466.
SORROW OF THE SEA, The. Alexander Anderson. 322.
SOWERS, The two. Alexander Anderson. 509.
STAGES. Benjamin Bulkeley. 193.
STRANGER, The. Ada Iddings Gale. 123.
STRIVING. Henry Burton. 75.
SUN-WORSHIPPERS, The. Hattie A. Cooley. 279.
SURPRISE, A Sweet. Mary R. Dodge Dingwall. 346.
THINKING OF MICHAEL. Alexander Anderson. 17.
THREE AGES. John Albee. 193.
TWO GRAVES, The. Henry Hogan. 78.
WEARY HEART, The. Rev. Frank S. Child. 263.
WE MUST NOT FORGET OUR DEAD. Mary R. D. Dingwall. 271.
THE CHAUTAUQUAN.
_A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF TRUE CULTURE. ORGAN OF THE CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE._
VOL. III. DECEMBER, 1882. No. 3.
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.
_President_, Lewis Miller, Akron, Ohio.
_Superintendent of Instruction_, J. H. Vincent, D. D., Plainfield, N. J.
_General Secretary_, Albert M. Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa.
_Office Secretary_, Miss Kate F. Kimball, Plainfield, N. J.
_Counselors_, Lyman Abbott, D. D.; J. M. Gibson, D. D.; Bishop H. W. Warren, D. D.; W. C. Wilkinson, D. D.
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Contents
Index to Volume III. INDEX Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Officers 121
REQUIRED READING: History of Russia 121 The Stranger 123 Pictures from English History 124 Studies in Ancient Greek Life 126 A Glint of Moonlight 129
SUNDAY READINGS. December 3 Having, Doing, Being 130 Growing 131 December 10 The Goodness of a Good Man 131 December 17 The Conflicts of Life 133 December 24 Christmas Songs 134 December 31 God Magnified in His Works 135
Atheistic Scientists 137 Poison in Common Things 137 Manner 141 On the Kneeling Figure in Malvern Priory 141 Comets 142 A Tour Round the World 147 Our Children 150 Morals and Sorrows of Borrowing and Lending 151 Tales from Shakspere—_Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will_ 152 Quaint Old Garden of Our Childhood 155 The W. C. T. U. Born at Chautauqua 156 God’s Ideal of a Man 157 My Own Girl 161 C. L. S. C. Work 161 C. L. S. C. Testimony 162 Local Circles 163 Questions and Answers 164 Outline of C. L. S. C. Studies for December 167 Questions for Further Study 167 C. L. S. C. Round-Table: How England Maintained Her Nationality During the Middle Ages 167 Reasons for the Study of Greek 169 The Ugly Man 169 C. L. S. C. Announcement for 1882-’83 172 Editor’s Outlook 173 Editor’s Note-Book 174 Editor’s Table 176 Books Received 177 Report of Chautauqua Normal Examination—1882 177 New Books for Boys and Girls 178
REQUIRED READING
FOR THE
_Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle for 1882-83_.
DECEMBER.
HISTORY OF RUSSIA.
BY MRS. MARY S. ROBINSON.
_CHAPTER IV._
THE HEROIC AGE—GROWTH OF THE RUSSIAN STATE, TO THE DEATH OF IAROSLAF (1054).
The glory of the Russian arms, the splendor of the Russian State, attained their maximum in the reign of the great Iaroslaf. Its form of government continued to retain the Variag-Slav elements, but was compacted and confirmed by the ideas brought into the country with the influx of Greek priests and men of letters. The prince long remained, as in the primitive times, first among his equals, the drujina—the head and chief of a family of soldiers. He had great respect for the counsels, and for the demands of these. Vladimir’s men complained, in that they had to eat from wooden bowls. He forthwith provided them with silver ones. “I can not buy myself a drujina with silver and gold,” he said, “but with a drujina I can obtain silver and gold, as did my father and my grandfather.” The Roman empire of the east represented another form of government. Its sovereign was the heir of Constantine and of Augustus; the vicar of God upon earth, the human representative of the Sovereign of the universe. The Greek emperor derived his power, not from the consent of his subjects—a phrase unknown in his dominions,—but rather from the Being who conferred it as a prerogative, a divine right. His person, his regalia, were sacred. The populace of Constantinople believed that when God gave the empire to their city, he gave it also the regal vestments at the hands of an angel. Leo, king of the Kazarui, was said to have been smitten with a fatal ulcer for his temerity in putting the Byzantine crown upon his head. This Roman, and antecedently Asiatic conception of government, as vested in the person of the imperator who made the laws, executed justice, received the adoring homage as well as the unquestioning obedience of his subjects, essentially modified the nobler, freer idea of government, as held by the Variag princes; but the change was wrought gradually, and was hardly perceptible during the epoch of the ascendency of the Russia of the steppes, the supremacy of Kief. It came into prominence, as we shall see, in the Russia of the forests, when Suzdal, and later Moscow, became the nuclei, the centers of the realm in a subsequent epoch. Iaroslaf compiled a code of laws, the Russkaia Pravda, the Russian right, or verity, a code that, though subsequently modified by Byzantine influence, remained for centuries the basis of the national jurisprudence. The laws of the Pravda are in effect those of ancient Scandinavia. Private revenge and avenging are recognized, as are also the judicial duel and the ordeals; fines are fixed for various crimes. The primitive form of trial by jury is established, but none of the harsher penalties are prescribed that were introduced later by the corrupted Greeks. Prisons, torture to wring confession, corporal cruelties, flogging and capital punishment were unknown in the Russia of the eleventh century. Its laws were milder, more humane than those of Charlemagne. The Slav had not become debased by the vices of the Roman empire of the east, nor by the ferocity of the Tatars. “A white Arab,” a child of nature, uncorrupted by the iniquities of an ancient civilization, with his ardent Oriental temperament, he retained as yet much of the simplicity, the freedom from duplicity, that won the recognition of Homer, Choerilius and Strabo.
The introduction of Greek Christianity was a fact of immeasurable significance to the Russian realm. It proscribed the Papal Church from Russian territory, and thereby isolated it from the nations of the west. This isolation precluded the Russian people from the religious sympathy, the material support of the Pope, and of the other European nations, in crises of peril, or periods of emergency, such as that of the appalling Tatar invasion. They could look for no help beyond their own resources, their own strength. The difference of religion served also as a perpetual barrier, a continually irritating antagonism between the Russian and the Polish Slavs. On the other hand, as the new faith was introduced by means of the Slavonic, the mother tongue, Russian society was spared the sharp division between the clerical, the learned, the high, Latin-speaking class, and the lower classes that compose the bulk of every nation; a division that contributed immensely to the founding of caste and to the arrogations of a hierarchy throughout Latin Christendom. In Russia was reared a national church, subject to no foreign, no alien sway, entangled with no foreign alliances or foreign politics. Thus was secured an absolute national and ecclesiastical independence. “No dragonnades, no frightful inquisition, no Saint Bartholomews, no myriads of martyrs, no hideous tortures, such as those invented and practiced by Jesuits and Romish priests, have ever defiled the venerable ministry that traces its origin to Ephesus and Saint John.”