Contents
Transcriber’s Note: This table of contents of this periodical was created for the HTML version to aid the reader.
| Some Damascene Pictures | [559] |
| The Boston Museum of Fine Arts | |
| Second Paper | [562] |
| Sanitary Conditions of Summer Resorts | [564] |
| Wayside Homes | [567] |
| Sunday Readings | |
| [July 5] | [570] |
| [July 12] | [570] |
| [July 19] | [570] |
| [July 26] | [571] |
| “We Salute Thee, and Live” | [571] |
| A Group of Mummies | [572] |
| A Trip to Mt. Shasta | [573] |
| Reassurement | [576] |
| Will It Pay? | [577] |
| Geography of the Heavens for July | [578] |
| How Air Has Been Liquefied | [579] |
| American Decorative Art | [582] |
| Some Modern Literary Men of Germany | [585] |
| Historic Niagara | [586] |
| Two Fashionable Poisons | [589] |
| Our C. L. S. C. Column | [591] |
| Glimpses of the Chautauqua Program | [592] |
| Local Circles | [593] |
| The C. L. S. C. Classes | [600] |
| The Summer Assemblies | [603] |
| Editor’s Outlook | [606] |
| Editor’s Note-Book | [609] |
| Talk About Books | [611] |
| Chautauqua in Japan | [612] |
| Program of Popular Exercises | [613] |
| Special Notes | [616] |
SOME DAMASCENE PICTURES.
BY BISHOP JOHN F. HURST, D.D.
One is forcibly struck with the Damascene bazars. They thread the old city in all directions. Some of them are new, and some very old. The most of them are covered ways, where either side is divided into small booths, or shops. The bazar has its specialty—the brass bazar, the silversmith bazar, the goldsmith bazar, the shoe bazar, the silk bazar, and all the rest. Then there is another order of division, such as the Greek bazar and the Frank bazar. There is sometimes, however, a breaking up of all orders, for goods of very varied character you can sometimes get in the same bazar. The oldest of these quaint marts date back many centuries, and are mere holes, or rickety houses, where buying and selling have been going on for many a generation. The venders love these old places. I imagine their fathers, and even remote ancestors sat in the same spot, and did business in much the same way, and chaffed about the prices in quite as much hyperbole, four or five centuries ago, as their children do to-day, when a Frank drops into the busy way, and halts, and asks a question concerning the beautiful wares.