Memphis, Tennessee; secretary, E. M. Schwalmeyer.
Oxford, Mississippi; secretary, Miss Mattie E. Dennis.
Also from the following places, though officers are not given: Fort Worth and Bonham, Texas; Petersburgh, Virginia; Slaughterville, Kentucky; Spartansburg, South Carolina.
Two circles from Washington, D. C.; secretary of one is Frank P. Reeside, 1219 D. Street, S. W.; of the other, Miss Nettie Love. Making seven circles now reported as at work in Washington, D. C.
In Independence, Missouri, there is a circle of forty-seven members.
From Nashville a lady writes: “The ‘Nashville’ local circle of the C. L. S. C. was organized at the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. the latter part of September, with a membership of about twenty. We have had three very interesting meetings, consisting of essays, lectures, questions on the lessons, etc. We meet every two weeks at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. We intend to give all the time we can to the work. All the members are deeply interested.”
The secretary of a new circle in Salem, North Carolina, says: “We organized a circle in Salem on November 3, consisting of twenty-eight members, which has since increased to thirty-two. A president, vice-president and secretary were appointed. These officers, with a committee of two on instruction, are to arrange programs for entertainment at the monthly meetings of the circle. For the first meeting of the circle the program consists of reviews, in the form of questions given to each member, readings and recitations, also music. We began the readings in October, and have divided ourselves into a number of small circles for the more careful study of the weekly readings. So far we greatly enjoy the readings, and hope to derive profit from them, both in the increase of knowledge and improvement of literary taste.”