President—Lewis Miller, Akron, Ohio.

Superintendent of Instruction—Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., New Haven, Conn.

Counselors—Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D.; Rev. J. M. Gibson, D.D.; Bishop H. W. Warren, D.D.; Prof. W. C. Wilkinson, D.D.

Office Secretary—Miss Kate F. Kimball, Plainfield, N. J.

General Secretary—Albert M. Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Contents

Transcriber’s Note: This table of contents of this periodical was created for the HTML version to aid the reader.

[REQUIRED READING]
Readings from Roman History[437]
Commercial Law
IV.—Real Estate[439]
Sunday Readings
[May 4][440]
[May 11][441]
[May 18][441]
[May 25][442]
Readings in Art
II.—The Painters and Paintings of Northern Europe[442]
Selections from American Literature
Thomas Bailey Aldrich[446]
Bayard Taylor[446]
Celia Thaxter[447]
United States History[448]
The Divine Sculptor[451]
Reminiscences of Wendell Phillips[451]
Hesitation and Errors in Speech[454]
Astronomy of the Heavens for May[455]
The Amusements of the London Poor[457]
The Dead-Letter Office[460]
Agassiz[462]
Trained Nurses[466]
Eight Centuries with Walter Scott[467]
A Private Charity of Paris[471]
Self-Dependence[472]
Duties of Women as Mistresses of Households[473]
Military Prisoners and Prisons[475]
C. L. S. C. Work[477]
The Chautauqua University[478]
Outline of C. L. S. C. Readings[478]
Local Circles[478]
The C. L. S. C. in Canada[481]
Questions and Answers[482]
Chautauqua Normal Course[484]
Editor’s Outlook[485]
Editor’s Note-Book[488]
C. L. S. C. Notes on Required Readings for May[491]
Notes on Required Readings in “The Chautauquan”[494]
Talk About Books[495]