Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4

A Prayer by the Sea 206 Geography of the Heavens for January 207 Yale College and Yale Customs 208 New Zealand 211 The Laureate Poets 212 The Bells of Notre Dame 215 The New York Custom House 215 The Christian Revolt of the Jews in Southern Russia 218 The Inner Chautauqua 220...

Chapters

9. Canto II. Stanzas 2 to 9.

How shall we arrange a program? It is a constantly recurring query for instruction committees. A skillfully planned program insures an interested society, but it is no easy unde...

6. CHAPTER IV.

HESTIA (VESTA).[1] In the domestic life of the Greeks Hestia, the hearth goddess, occupied an important position. She was one of the twelve great divinities, and her expressive...

7. CHAPTER I.—THE HALL.

In studying how to make home beautiful, we must not forget that, first of all, there must be a home; and that in a true home, the household, and not the house, is of primary imp...

8. CHAPTER III.

Royal favors skip from small to great and back again by no law of ethics or æsthetics, and if we flatter ourselves that we can account for the choice of some candidates for the...

4. CHAPTER IV.—THE COST OF INTEMPERANCE.

If we consider the manifold afflictions which in the after years of so many millions of our fellowmen outweigh the happiness of childhood, we can hardly wonder that several grea...

5. CHAPTER IV.—PUBLIC LIFE OF THE GREEK CITIZEN.

The aristocracy of the older Greek society was one based on the exclusive owning of land, and of civic rights, and was not marked by titles, but by the name of the clan. Thus at...

3. Chapter I.—The Hall 203

A Prayer by the Sea 206 Geography of the Heavens for January 207 Yale College and Yale Customs 208 New Zealand 211 The Laureate Poets 212 The Bells of Notre Dame 215 The New Yor...

2. Chapter IV. 190

1. Chapter IV.—The Cost of Intemperance 183