4. Select Reading—Selections from His Letters.
5. Essay—Bryant as an Editor.
6. Recitation—The Planting of the Apple Tree.
Music.
The following will be found interesting subjects for essays for this Memorial Day: The Bryant Vase, Mr. Bryant’s Travels, Home and Social Life of Bryant, Methods of Work, Mr. Bryant’s Friends and Companions. Information can be gathered from Parke Godwin’s “Life of Bryant,” two volumes (D. Appleton & Co., publishers); Scribner’s Monthly, August, 1878; “Letters of a Traveler” (G. P. Putnam); Potter’s American Monthly, February, 1879, “The Bryant Brothers;” Atlantic Monthly, December, 1878, “The Death of Bryant,” poem by Edmund C. Stedman; Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia for 1878; Foreign Quarterly Review for August, 1832; Democratic Review for March, 1842; Blackwood’s Magazine for April, 1832; Griswold’s “Poets and Poetry of America;” Appleton’s Magazine, Vol. ix.; International Review, Vol. i., “The Writings of Bryant;” The Lakeside Monthly, Vol. viii., “Bryant as a Man.”
SECOND WEEK IN NOVEMBER.
An Evening on the Scientific Readings of the Month.
Roll-call—With quotations from eminent Scientists.
1. Essay—Springs and Wells.