FIRST WEEK IN FEBRUARY.
1. Essay—The Life of Plato.
2. Selection—“Translators of Homer.” From the “Prose Writings of William Cullen Bryant,” vol. ii.
3. Fifteen minutes’ talk on Home Decoration.
4. Select Reading—Extracts from the Life of Pericles, found in “The Young Folks’ Plutarch.”
Music.
5. Essay—Lavoisier and the Phlogiston Theory
[In the “History of the Inductive Sciences,” by Whewell, a good reference will be found.]
6. What we have all seen (mentally, perhaps,) at New Orleans this week. [Reports being made by each one of what he has read, heard or witnessed.]
7. Report of Critic, who is to be appointed at the beginning of the evening, and who is to note and correct all mistakes.