The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-11-07
cHAUrAUQUA LITERARY AND ScIEN-
TIFIC CIRCLE.

seHoly SiOoOu VII mug uoo @0eA oAtCA lC-
cording the largest attendance in its
history. 1t was estimated that over 5O,-
600 different persons this year attended
the concerts, lectures and entertain
ments. With $1,000 people in daily
attendance at the Mother Chautauqua,l
with several hundred thousand persons
attending her branch Assemblies, with
:, 800 students in her summer schools
and with $4,000 readers of her literature
and in her circles, Chautauqua has been
truly called 'The Largest Institution
for Higher Education in the World"
Chautauqua is purely an educational
private profit. By broadening the
communities, it has exercised a wide
influence for the public good in the
uited States and other countries.
1t has become household word. 1t
has high ideals, and has had the practi-
cal wisdom to make them real and
operative. Chautauqua has touched
and broadened the intellectual life of
many a community-nay, more, it has
given to many community its first
intimation that there is an intellectual
tfe.
OF the Summer Chautauqua every
body knows. OF the Winter Chautau-
qua Course of Home Study not so many
know, although over two hundred and
sixty thousand readers have taken
idvantage of its instruction. Its social
influence has penetrated almost every
city, town, village, and many foreign
Countries. During the past summer
one hundred and twenty-five Chautau-
qua Assemblies were held in thirty-five
states and territories, the attendance
It which aggregated a million of people
The Chautauqua Literary and Scienti-
ic Circle was organized at the Chautau-
gua Summer Assembly in 1878. Its
purpose is to provide systematic
course of reading in history, literature,
science and art. 1t secures to those
3ho have been denied college opportu-
lties the college students general out
'ook upon the world and life. 1t also
lives college graduates an opportunity
20 review the studies of earlier years.
he Circle is not a college either in its
curses of study or its methods. But
IS influence in many homes has been
10 awaken an interest and enthusiasm
N the higher education among young
md old.
\ regular four years course is pro-
ided, each year being distinct from the
est. The member does not bind him
elf by any pledge. The individual
reader may pursue the entire course
done, but circles of three or more are
commended. These circles OF clubs
odd weekly meetings and pursue regu-
programmes of readings, discussions.
lapers, etc. over forty supplementary
curses are provided for special stu
tents. \ monthly magazine called the
hautauquan is published with read
.ngs. notes. programmes and announce
ments. Special review outlines are
Liven i'll the books and required read
mgs. Twenty minutes a day will cover
the required reading, and the total eX-
tense amounts to $500 year, less than
fifteen cents a week for a period of
nine months. A diploma is awarded at
The end of the four years course, and
seals are bestowed for written review
work aid for extra reading The
3dvantage of systematic plan of study
IS apparent to any one who has had
occasion to compare the results of a
YEAR of desultory reading with the out
come of a twelvemonth in which the
books and magazine articles read,
whether few or many, have been
chosen with definite aim in view
thautauqua gives to every day peo-
Fe the opportunity to enjoy the
advantages of an education beyond that
furnished by the common school, and
rings the facilities for self-culture to
the family fireside.
The c. L. 5. c. Course for the coming
winter is of unusual interest. The four
lequired books, newly edited and illus
rated and just issued are
j. Men and Cities of Italy In three
Parts.
p Studies in the Poetry of Italy.
frank J. Miller University of Chicago,
md Oscar Kuhns, Wesleyan Uniyer-
Sity.
;. Imperial Germany. Sidney Whit
uan.
l. Some First Steps in Human Prog
fesS. Frederick Starr, University of
hicago
The course also includes the follow
ing subjects, which will appear in The
I hautauquan Magazine:
l. Formative incidents in American
Diplomacy. BY Professor E. E. Sparks.
:. A Reading Journal in Central
Europe
3. The Inner Life of Great Men.
j. Critical Studies in German Liter
ature.
Men and Cities of Italy," the first
book of the year, will present in graphic
pictures the life of the Roman En-
pre the picturesque days of the Ital-
an Republics, when Italy led the
world in art and literature, and, fl
nally the stirring days of the strug-
lies for Italian unity. A companion
look to Men and Cities will be
studies in the Poetry of Italy, In
the Roman section, Prof F. j. Miller
If the University Of Chicago, who has
oeen a favorite Latin teacher at Chau-
tauqua for more than fifteen years, de-
Scribes wildly the life and times of the
greatest Roman poets, illustrating
aese by typical passages from their
works. given with a fulness which
rings the student into living acquaint-
ance with these great men of the past.
In the same manner Prof. Oscar Kuhns
Of Wesleyan University introduces us
to the later Italian poets, and as he has
written his manuscript under the sunny
'kies of Italy itself, the book has all
the inspiration which might be expect
I'd from such favorable conditions.
While the students are thus living
over again the life of Italy's past in
these two charming volumes. The
Chautauquan will take him upon a
reading journey through present-day
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