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=ITS PLANS ARE AS FOLLOWS=:
I.--TO ESTABLISH THREE COURSES OF READING, each embracing the best
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Course C--YOUNG FOLKS' COURSE.
The reading matter will consist of three books in each half of the
courses for adults, and two books and WIDE AWAKE in each half of Young
Folks' Course.
(_Clubs may be formed at any time._)
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Secretary of the Club, adopting such a name as may be agreeable to
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CORRESPONDENCE is solicited with all teachers.
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=Literary Notes.=
LAWRENCE SEVERN, an English writer, is bringing out a novel entitled
_Heaven's Gate: A Story of the Forest of Dean_, of which the scenes
are laid in and about Chepstow Castle and Tintern Abbey. The critics
who have been permitted to read this in manuscript are enthusiastic
in pronouncing it a story of great strength and exquisite style. D.
Lothrop & Co. announce it for March.
MUCH attention is attracted by the series of fine historical drawings
by Howard Pyle which are appearing in this year's WIDE AWAKE in company
with E. S. Brooks' historical stories. Studies so conscientious of
time, costume and portraiture ennoble the illustrator's calling.
THE proper place of the accent in the word "arbutus" has excited much
discussion. A rare instance of its proper accentuation in poetry may be
found in "The Gift of Spring," a graceful bit of verse by Charles Miner
Thompson, which appears in _March_ which D. Lothrop & Co. publish.
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_Volume 13, Number 22._ Copyright, 1886, by D. LOTHROP & CO.
_April 3, 1886._