Concerning the life of Milton, the following information is received from a distinguished Professor of English Literature in one of the great universities of America: “The book you ask for is ‘Milton,’ by Mark Patterson, B.D., Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. It is in the ‘English Men of Letters’ series, edited by John Morley. It is pleasantly written, interesting, animated, and to the point. A very large work is the ‘Life of Milton in connection with the History of the Times,’ by David Mason, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh.”
In the organization and conduct of Local Circles, there are developed many ingenious and useful schemes, devices, exercises, etc. I shall always be glad to receive suggestions from persons who devise and test such novelties of method.
A California friend writes: “There are doubtless many reading the C. L. S. C. Course who have not the advantage of Local Circles, and who, beside, have no friends who are interested in the work with whom they might correspond. Why would it not be a good plan to form a C. L. S. C. Correspondence Circle for such as wish to improve themselves in that way?” Persons desiring such correspondence may send their names, with postoffice addresses, to Miss K. F. Kimball, Plainfield, N. J.
Members of the C. L. S. C. in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have sent a fragment of Plymouth rock, which is to be attached with great care to the banner-staff of the C. L. S. C. Our correspondent says: “Perhaps it would be of interest to members of the C. L. S. C. in general to know that the rock is said by geologists to have been brought here from the far north during the glacial period, and is the only one of its kind on the coast.” Our correspondent adds: “Our Circle received with much pleasure your proposal for the C. L. S. C. picnic at Plymouth in 1884, and are ready to enter into any plan which you may suggest.” We hope to have that picnic in June.
A New England woman writes: “I know mothers with from four to six little children, who take the Chautauqua course, and find that economized time is a gain in all things, while their homes are as scrupulously tidy, and their social relations as well sustained, as if they had not undertaken it.”