Contents
| [REQUIRED READING] | |
| German History | [1] |
| Physical Science | |
| Chapter I—The Air | [3] |
| [SUNDAY READINGS.] | |
| [October 7.]—“Tendencies to Error.” | [6] |
| [October 14.] | [7] |
| [October 21.] | [7] |
| [October 28.] | [8] |
| Political Economy | [9] |
| Readings in Art | |
| I.—Sculpture: Its Varieties and Materials | [11] |
| Selections from American Literature | [14] |
| Modern State of Ancient Countries | [14] |
| The Design of the New England Plantations | [14] |
| Extracts from “Essays to Do Good” | [15] |
| Spiritual Knowledge | [16] |
| Where Lies the Music? | [17] |
| Waverley Novels | [17] |
| The Ivy | [19] |
| C. L. S. C. Commencement | [20] |
| Monterey Assembly | [28] |
| Monteagle Assembly | [29] |
| Monona Lake Assembly | [30] |
| Island Park Assembly | [31] |
| Lakeside Assembly | [31] |
| Mountain Lake Park Assembly | [31] |
| New England Assembly | [32] |
| How We Came Together | [32] |
| Vegetable Villains | [33] |
| Slavonic Mythology | [34] |
| From the Baltic to the Adriatic | [36] |
| In Flowery Fields | [38] |
| Failings | [39] |
| Gone! | [40] |
| Social Wreckage | [40] |
| At Rest | [42] |
| Eccentric Americans | |
| I.—The Sailor, Peddler, Farmer, Preacher | [43] |
| C. L. S. C. Work | [47] |
| Local Circle Notice | [47] |
| Outline of C. L. S. C. Studies | [47] |
| Popular Education | [48] |
| Questions and Answers | [49] |
I.—One Hundred Questions and Answers on “History of Greece,” Vol. II., | [49] |
| II.—Fifty Questions and Answers on American Literature | [51] |
| Editor’s Outlook | [52] |
| Editor’s Note-Book | [54] |
| Editor’s Table | [56] |
| C. S. L. C. Notes on Required Readings For October | [57] |
| Notes on Required Readings in “The Chautauquan” | [60] |
| Chautauqua Children’s Class, 1883 | [62] |