The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-22
A Fine Programme Planned for
the Coming Season
AN INTELLECTUAL STIMULUS
Los Angeles Women More Active Than
:, Usual This Year
the Student and Give Basis
for Social intercourse

Literary clubs and classes, like schools
take summer vacation and resume worn
in the fall. October is the time for the
clubs to begin work and the Los Angelo.
women seem more active than usual this
year. The Ebell society has new quar-
tiers ON Main street, gthe Y. NJ. C. A. and
the Y. W. c. A. both open classes for
study as usual. The Ruskin Art club
still lives and the Friday Morning club
list has been largely added to during the
vacation and the board OF managers has
a fine years programme planned. This
club remains in its old quarters during
the year, 33o,s South Broadway. The
prospectus OF classes to be held in the
club rooms is at hand. The Shakespeare
work will occupy Monday aftern Don.
Mrs. Kate Upper Galpin will continue
to act as its conductor.
The FIRST play selected for reading is
Romeo and Juliet.
This class gives opportunity for tn.
discussion OF points arising from home
study. Scenes are read by those m en-
bers of the class who care to give time to
their careful study with reference to oral
Interpretation. but the plays as whole
are not read in class. Sufficient study Of
words. historical and classical illusions,
and figures of speech is exacted to insure
critical reading Of lines; impressive pas
saRes are committed to memory; familiar
quotations are located and carefully pre-
pared papers are read from time to time
Particular atteton is given to character
study and to tbs philosophy and ethical
signincancs of the plays studied.
6omesof the points considered in the
plays are the following:
Complication and solution in the plot;
the principal revolution; introduction;
the moment of excitation; the stage of
emulation of interest; the climax; the
tragic moment; the stage of reaction !;
tie moment Of last suspense; the catas-
trophe.
Unities OF time place and action.
Does the plot determine the develop.
mont OF the characters, or vice versa?
Violations of the laws Of necessary or
probable conduct or sequence.
Ideas in conflict.
Two classes will be conducted in the
Friday Morning club rooms by Mr.. and
Mrs. r. A. Maynard, who have recently
come to Los Angeles. The first will be
Wednesday morning, and will cover the
periods in European history as suggested
by Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship.
The following outline offers no end of
delightful mornings for those who under
take the reading suggested.
THE HERO AS DIVINITY.
Odin, Scandinavian mythology. Greek
and American mythology.
History-Our Teutonic ancestry.
Poetry-The Nibelungen Lied, Wsg-
ner's operas; Longfellow, Tales of Way
side Inn; Matthew Arnold. Balder Dead
Longfellow, Hiawatha; Mrs. Browning 9
Poems Of Mythology.
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Gunnar.
THE HERO AS PROPHET.
History-The middle ages; crusades
and their effectr.
Poetry-Edwin Arnold, Pearls of the
Faith; Leasing, Nathan the Wise; The
Book Of Job.
F:ction-Bulfnch, Romances of the
Middle Ages; Kingsley. Hereward and
Hyratia; Scott, Ivanhoe; Wallace, The
Prince OF India.
THE HERO AS POET.
Dante, Shakespeare. (Gostbe
History-Rise of modern painting; the
renaissance; the Elizabeth age.
Poetry-Dante. Divine Comedy; Shake
speare, Henry VIII; Goethe, Faust; By
ron, Prophecy of Dante.
Fiction Scott, Kenilworth; George FL
lot, Romols; Lytton, kienzi: More,
Utopia; Cervantes, Don Quixote.
THE HERO AS PRIEST.
Luther, Knox.
History = Reformation; Puritanism +;
Thirty years war; Jesuitism.
Poetry-roleridge Wallenstein; Brown.
ing. Paracelsus.
Fiction = Scott, Quentin Durward /;
Reade. The Cloister and the Hearth; Mrs.
Charles, The Schonberg- Gotta Family.
THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS.
Johnson, Rosseau, Burns. (Carlyle.)
History-Causes of the French revolu-
ton; glImpses of the French revolution,
Poetry-Burns. Coleridge, line Fall of
Robes pierre.
FIction-Dickens, Tale of Two Cities;
Victor Hugo. Ninety-three.
THE HERO AS KING.
Cromwell, Napoleon. Modern revolu-
HIstory-The Puritans; the Com m on
wealth; France under the first empire.
Poetry-Milton, Lowell, chances Be-
hind the Curtain; Wordsworth, Poems
on Napoleon and the Revolution.
Fiction-Hugo, Les Miserables: Bum
yam, Pilgrims Progress; Max Ring, John
Milton and His Times.
The second class is in Economic His
tory. and will be held Wednesday even
ing to accomm odale gentlemen who wish
to follow the course. AS few have time
for extensive reading, this course gill be
given in ectuTes followed by discussion.
The principles OF political economy will
be brought out in connection. with the
men who developed the science and the
conditions of their times.
Beginning with Adam Smith each of
the great thinkers down to tho present
+ time Will BIO studied and his contribution
to tine science discussed. Among these
will be considered John Ruskin. Arnold
ha0 u ri Mar i
current writers.
The various measures employed for i'm
proving economic conditions will be
studied, among them the corn laws and
their abolition. factory legislation, rise
and development of labor unions, inter-
state commerce regulations and like
measures.
1t will be the aim of the leaders to
show the organic DEVELOPMENT of indus
trial conditions and to trace the laws
which underlie the great movements
characterizing the century. The eco
nOnic revolution based on the introduce
ton of machinery will be gwen especial
attention. Every opportunity to bring
tbe literature OF the century INTO relation
with the subject will be utilized. To
this END many novels. poems and ESSAYS
will be suggested for reading.
These classes are really collegiate work
and offer unusual opportunities for guild
ance of study outside OF regular schools.
With all tho above work TO choose from.
those who wish intellectual stimulus can
hardly fail 10 gain it if they put them
selves IN connection with one or more o.
these clubs or classes. intellectual
sympathy is the first basis for socia
life. and persons feeling themselves
strangers in Los Angeles can feel at home
more easily than otherwise by entering
some of these activities, TO which all ar,
welcome.