John Bright’s sister, Mrs. Margaret B. Lucas, said at a temperance
meeting that women are the greatest sufferers by drink, and the hardest
to convince as to the necessity of total abstinence.
* * * * *
The business interests of the Hotel Athenæum, at Chautauqua, will
receive special attention among Southern people from Mr. A. K. Warren,
who is, with his wife, visiting a number of Southern States during
February and March.
* * * * *
The New York _Herald_ speaks of official titles in this way: “Governor
Pattison, of Pennsylvania, is reported as requesting that the title
‘His Excellency’ may be discontinued in his instance, it being a mere
title of courtesy without legal sanction. The governor is correct.
There is but one State in the Union which has established titles by law
for its chief executive officers. That is the State of Massachusetts,
whose constitution was adopted several years prior to the framing of
the Constitution of the United States, and provides that the governor
shall be entitled ‘His Excellency,’ and the lieutenant-governor ‘His
Honor.’”
* * * * *
Prof. A. Lalande, teacher of French in the Chautauqua School of
Languages, is ready to furnish any person by correspondence with
any information they desire about the department of French in the
Chautauqua School, how to begin French, how to study at home, what
books to read, etc. His address is 1014 Second Street, Louisville, Ky.
* * * * *
A friend in Canada writes: “Tell the readers of your magazine that New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia have formed a part of Canada ever since July
1, 1877, and that they are not separate provinces.”
* * * * *
In this number of THE CHAUTAUQUAN we commence to publish a series
of C. L. S. C. songs set to music. They may be used to enliven the
sessions of local circles, and in the home their weird strains will
carry the lovers of music in memory to the shores of our much-loved
Chautauqua Lake.
* * * * *
The required readings in “English Literature,” for March, will be found
on pages 317 and 318 of this number of THE CHAUTAUQUAN. “Practice and
Habit,” by John Locke; “Thoughts and Aphorisms,” by Jonathan Swift. In
the introductory note, the types say “English History”—it should be
_English Literature_. The readings on Astronomy, page 319, “The Comet
That Came But Once,” is a very fine article by E. W. Maunder.
* * * * *
The widow of General “Stonewall” Jackson and her daughter, a young lady
of nineteen, now reside at Cleveland, O. Mrs. Jackson left the South
because she was there compelled to mingle with society, and could not
find the retirement and rest that her health demanded.
* * * * *
The _Guardian_, an English religious journal, publishes the following
lines “On Bishop Benson’s Elevation” to the see of Canterbury. They are
signed Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrew’s:
As Abram’s name to Abraham,
In earnest of undying fame,
Was changed by voice from heaven,
So, raised to the Primatial Throne,
May Benson turn to _Benison_,
Proclaim henceforth in richest boon
_Blessing_ received and given.
* * * * *
The latest attempt to organize a Sunday-school Assembly is in the
Southern States. The place is Monteagle, in Grundy county, Tennessee,
on the top of Cumberland Mountain. The association own one hundred
acres of land which is now being laid out by a competent landscape
gardener. The Monteagle Hotel, with accommodations for five hundred
guests, adjoins the grounds. The Assembly has been chartered under
the laws of the State of Tennessee. The board of management, with R.
B. Peppard, Esq., of Georgia, as president, and Rev. J. H. Warren, of
Tennessee, as chairman of the executive committee, propose to hold
their first assembly about the middle of next July.
* * * * *
Women are to be employed as clerks in the French post-offices,
beginning their operations in the Money-order Department.
* * * * *
“Whether we like the fact or not,” says an English journalist, “a very
large number of women have now to make their own way in life; and
surely it is only fair that if they must compete with men, they shall
receive in youth the kind of instruction which will prepare them for
their future struggles.”
* * * * *
A Washington correspondent of a New York paper makes this interesting
comment on two prominent men: “One of the quaintest friendships in
Washington is that between Generals Sherman and Johnston. The two
Generals hob-nob most amicably. ‘And when I was pursuing Joe Johnston,
sir, through Georgia,’ says Sherman, whacking the table, ‘he made me
pursue him on his own tactics, sir!’ General Johnston is a handsome
man, with the old campaigner cropping out all over him. He has a trim
military figure, and a smart military moustache, and a quick military
walk, and a very military comprehension of the necessity of being on
time on all occasions.”
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The following note explains itself: “Philadelphia, Pa.—I regret to
announce that the positive order of my physician to abandon for the
present all literary work, forces me reluctantly to discontinue my
“Journey Around the World” with my Chautauqua friends. With assurances
that I shall miss my monthly visit to your columns, and best wishes
for all the good work so nobly forwarded by your magazine, I remain,
very cordially yours, Mary Lowe Dickinson.”
* * * * *
Prof. W. F. Sherwin, of Cincinnati, tarried with us an hour recently,
when we found him in a very hopeful frame of mind concerning the
future of Chautauqua. We gleaned the following from his conversation
about the musical part of the Chautauqua program for 1883: Chautauqua
College of Music Scheme for 1883: Musical Directors, Prof. W. F.
Sherwin, Cincinnati, O.; Prof. C. C. Case, Akron, O. Departments:
(1) Grand chorus, (2) Special class in English glees and madrigals,
(3) Harmony, (4) Voice culture, (5) Elementary singing-school, (6)
Children’s class. Directors in charge: July 14 to 22, W. F. Sherwin;
July 22 to August 6, C. C. Case; August 7 to 18, W. F. Sherwin; August
19 to close of Assembly, C. C. Case. There will be occasional lectures
and “conversations” upon various topics of practical interest, and
the usual number of concerts, matinees, organ recitals, etc. Prof.
Davis, of Oberlin College, is engaged as organist, and he will be ably
assisted in the instrumental department. There will be a quartette
of eminent soloists whose names will be announced in due time.
Arrangements are in progress for a Reading Circle which shall be to
musical people what the C. L. S. C. is to general literature. The
details of this are being arranged by Prof. E. E. Ayres, of Richmond,
Va., and will be published when complete. On the whole it looks as if
the Musical Directors were determined to make that department superior
to what it has ever been in the past, and we hope that musical people
will sustain their efforts.
* * * * *
There will be a total eclipse of the sun on the 6th of May. The
astronomers are making arrangements to observe it on two little islands
in the South Pacific Ocean. An expedition is to be sent from this
country to one of these islands, and French and English astronomers
will also go there. The principal objects are to obtain further
knowledge of the strange surroundings of the sun, which are ordinarily
hidden in the overpowering blaze of his central globe, and to search
for the planets which are supposed to exist between Mercury and the
sun. The total eclipse will last nearly six minutes. Unfortunately, the
total phase can be observed only from two little islands in the South
Pacific Ocean.
* * * * *
It is reported that Dr. Benson, the elect-Archbishop of Canterbury,
recently had a long interview with General Booth, the leader of the
Salvation Army, and expressed himself as being in sympathy with that
organization. “Go on,” he said; “do all the good you can; get at the
people. We rejoice, only we would like it to be done somehow or other
in harmony and in unison with the Church of England.”
* * * * *
In the list of C. L. S. C. graduates which appeared in THE CHAUTAUQUAN
for February, the name of the Rev. Caleb A. Malmsbury appears among the
names from Ohio. It should have been in the New Jersey column. Mary
Maddock, of Ohio, whose name did not appear in February, graduated with
honor; and the name of Mary E. W. Olmsted was among the honored ones
from Colorado. Her name should be in the Ohio column. What a State Ohio
is, in education, civil government, etc!
* * * * *
Maria Louise Henry, in a recent number of _The Atlantic Monthly_,
philosophizes on the works of Thackeray and George Eliot in this way:
“Thackeray had no real desire to make men permanently dissatisfied
with themselves, or the world. He held that the world was not a bad
place to be born into, provided one learned what not to expect from
it, and could find a way to accommodate one’s self to one’s place
in it.” Speaking of George Eliot: “Her creed is a kind of modern
stoicism, or stoicism plus certain modern ideas. It must be admitted
that such a creed has in it much of truth and nobleness. The only
life worth living is the life toward self, of infinite aspiration, and
toward others of infinitely active compassion. She will not allow,
with Thackeray, that we can strike an average of goodness, and make
ourselves content with that.”
* * * * *
For seven hundred years Lambeth Palace has been the London residence
of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is surrounded by ten acres of
beautiful grounds, to which the poor of the neighborhood are admitted
in large numbers by free season tickets, good throughout the year.
* * * * *
The four monograms on the C. L. S. C. diploma represent the four grades
of the C. L. S. C. First, the S. H. G., the “Society of the Hall in the
Grove,” made up of all graduates who, having completed the four years’
course of reading, receive a diploma; second, the O. W. S., the “Order
of the White Seal,” to which all belong who have on their diplomas four
white seals, or white crystal seals; third, the L. T. R., the “League
of the Round Table;” all members who have on their diplomas seven
seals, whether white, white crystal, or special, become members of the
“League of the Round Table.” All who add to these seven, seven more
seals, become members of the G. S. S., the “Guild of the Seven Seals,”
which is the highest grade in the C. L. S. C., and which is divided
into degrees according to the number of additional seals.
* * * * *
Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, D. C., has made arrangements to
bring the remains of John Howard Payne to America. He died in Tunis,
in Northern Africa. How appropriate this kind deed of Mr. Corcoran,
when we remember that Mr. Payne was the author of that beautiful song,
“Home, Sweet Home.”
* * * * *
The Rev. Dr. Vincent has engaged a number of eminent educators,
preachers and lecturers for the Chautauqua program in 1883. Among
them are Joseph Cook, A. G. Haygood, D.D., C. N. Sims, D.D., Judge
A. Tourgee, Prof. J. T. Edwards, D.D., Lyman Abbott, D.D., President
Seelye of Amherst, President Angell of Ann Arbor, President Cummings of
Evanston, Ill., President Payne of Delaware, O., President W. F. Warren
of Boston, Hon. Will Cumback, Bishop H. W. Warren, Anthony Comstock,
Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, Rev. Dr. W. F. Mallalieu, Prof. Cummock, Prof.
W. C. Richards, Dr. J. S. Jewell, Miss Frances E. Willard. There will
be a school of cookery in July by Mrs. Emma P. Ewing and Miss Susan G.
Blow of St. Louis, Mo.
* * * * *
The members of the Class of ’82, living in the vicinity of Cincinnati,
_i. e._, in Southeastern Indiana, Northern Kentucky, and Southwestern
Ohio, who wish to join, or receive information concerning the C. L. S.
C. Alumnal Association, lately organized in Cincinnati, will please
send their names and addresses to the president of the association, Mr.
John G. O’Connell, 503 Eastern Avenue, Cincinnati, or the secretary,
Miss Mary Grafing, 215 West Front Street, Cincinnati. The next meeting
of the graduates will be held in March, and a very pleasant time is
anticipated.
* * * * *
Two eminent men died in February: The Hon. Marshall Jewell, of
Connecticut. He had been governor of his State and Postmaster General.
The Hon. William E. Dodge (whose son is married to a daughter of Mr.
Jewell) died on the 11th of February. At his funeral the venerable Dr.
Mark Hopkins paid this tribute to his memory: “I have no statistics at
hand showing what are the gifts of the princes of Europe for charitable
objects. So far as I know the gifts of our late friend were greater
than those of princes, not only in money, but in personal devotion.
Judged by the standard of service to God and his fellow man, William E.
Dodge was more than a prince among men.”
* * * * *
“The Revival and After the Revival.” This is a timely book. It is
designed for people who do not believe in revivals, for ministers
and laymen, young and old. The author, Rev. Dr. J. H. Vincent, has
taken the only tenable ground for the Church to hold on revivals.
He discusses revivals on all sides, from all standpoints, in this
little volume of seventy-four pages. The æsthetic, and those who are
indifferent to the demands of good taste in revivals should read it.
Its circulation will tend to make revivals a more permanent blessing
to the Church. Send for a copy to the publishers, Phillips & Hunt, 805
Broadway, New York.
* * * * *
There is a local circle of _deaf-mutes_ in Jacksonville, Ill. The
exercises are conducted by spelling on the fingers. Mr. Frank Read,
editor of the _Deaf Mute Advance_, kindly sent us the report of
this circle, which will be found among “Local Circles.” If these
fellow-Chautauquans conduct their circle and make it interesting and
profitable without voice or hearing, should not thousands of others who
are reading the same course with them, find the sense of hearing and
the use of nature’s language invaluable helps in doing the work? In
our sanctum we wave our friends in Jacksonville a _genuine Chautauqua
salute_, and bid them “God speed!”
* * * * *
It was a new _role_ for the Rev. Dr. Talmage to be the chief figure
in a theatrical poster on bill-boards last month in Brooklyn, N. Y.
It is gratifying that the hand of _Justice_ removed the caricatures,
and put an injunction on the managers and prevented the performance.
Caricaturing good men and Christian ministers is an old habit of
artists. In 1517 Martin Luther was represented by a German caricaturist
in a miserable picture, entitled “Luther Inspired by Satan;” and John
Calvin was caricatured as being tied with ropes to a pillar and branded
with an iron lily on the shoulder; the name of the picture was “Calvin
Branded.” This picture was scattered all over France. Dr. Talmage is in
good company, even if he is caricatured more than any other clergyman
in America. “Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute
you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake,” said
Jesus Christ.