ought to own.

'Primer of the Peace Movement' is something that every circle You may feel that the subject is somewhat outside of the regular work, but possibly further thought will convince you that it is not. Unless our studies make us easier to live with and more capable of helping to make effective the idea of world brotherhood, we may be sure that we are on the wrong track." "I am inclined to think," remarked a Louisville mother, "that if we don't, we're not getting a 'broad outlook' but a hopelessly narrow one. We still have to submit to jingoism in government and to military schools in our educational system, but when fashion dictates that even our gentle, peace loving daughters shall walk to the harsh notes of a military heel, I rebel, peacefully you understand!” “Suppose you test the possibilities of a Sunday evening Peace Service," said Pendragon. "Let your program committees note the suggestions given elsewhere and see what they can evolve. This is a chance to start new lines of thinking in many communities."

"May I express our pleasure in seeing the photograph of the new 1907 banner?" remarked a member from Punxsutawney, Pa. "I speak for ten members of the graduating class in our circle, some of whom are planning to graduate at Chautauqua. All told, we have forty members and a fine circle. We have enjoyed Shakespeare greatly. We read Winter's Tale in one evening that we might take up Richard III, wishing another historical play. We had a long session New Year's Eve and watched the old year out in reading Tennyson's 'Death of the Old Year.' We invited another reading club and will have soon an evening of travel through England by stereopticon. Our school principal has the views taken by himself and gives a number of good lectures and his pictures are fine so we feel quite favored."

"This report from a 1907 circle really ought to be followed by one from a 1907 individual reader," said Pendragon, "but I think we must defer that until next month as today we have planned to hear from the Graduate Circles especially. There are far too many of them to give all a chance I fear, but we can hear from enough at least to show what variety of method is possible." "These letters," he continued, indicating a pile on the table, "are reports from absent graduate circles. It is encouraging to note that one and all approve the new form of THE CHAUTAUQUAN. We are anxious to know today three things: 1. What our graduate organizations are studying; 2. in what way they recognize the graduates of later years; 3. how they are helping to serve the community. Suppose we call first for the president of the New Haven Society of the Hall in the Grove, Mr. Tullar." "We have, as you know," replied the

delegate, "a Union of members in New Haven which represents at least one hundred and fifty Chautauquans, many of whom are in circles while others read alone. The Union brings all these members together at stated times and so is an important influence in extending the work. Our S. H. G. have been taking up this winter one English writer each month, and we plan to hold one public meeting to which we invite all Chautauquans. The heaviest snow storm of the season fell upon our open meeting this winter when we had an address on Wordsworth by a clergyman whose home had been among the haunts of the poet, but the lecture was so delightful that we hope to repeat it later."

"We have all been so much absorbed in the study of Shakespeare," reported the delegate from Belfast, Maine, "that our S. H. G. was for the time being merged with the Seaside Circle, but we have since been specializing on THE CHAUTAUQUAN articles and using the Travel Club Programs. At our annual meeting in September we welcomed the two graduates of the class of 1906, observing the salt ceremony used at Chautauqua in token of good fellowship and singing the Chautauqua song of '86. One of the graduates read aloud Mr. Griggs' delightful Recognition Day address and the other gave personal reminiscences of her visit to Chautauqua. We held a C. L. S. C. Rally in October which seems likely to result in a new circle and our churches united in a C. L. S. C. Vesper Service one Sunday afternoon, the address being given by our Unitarian minister who had spent some days at Chautauqua in August. We prepare a list of good books each year to be added to our public library, and we co-operate with the Improvement Society of our city."

"You'll observe that our S. H. G. is of a very different type from these energetic societies that have just reported," remarked an East Cleveland, Ohio, member. "We meet twice a year only. We are not a study club for our Chautauquans are scattered all over this big city, but our two meetings have in them an amount of Chautauqua fervor which has encouraged both the older and younger graduates to keep up their habits of study. We meet on the first of October, listen for the ringing of the Bryant bell, talk over our summer experiences at Chautauqua, and the plans for the winter and close with a prayer for 'Courage, Love, Strength and Contentment.' In June we have what is always a delightful social gathering when our undergraduates are specially invited. As to altruistic work, we have none officially but most of us are individually helping in civic improvements and one member is working toward a library in a poor town in the South. A year ago this town hadn't a bound book. Now it has two hundred."

"You must notice these programs of the Brooklyn, N. Y., Chautauqua Alumni," said Pendragon. "The alumni number seventy members and as they have decided this year to take up the regular course again after some years of study in various fields, they have divided the circle into neighborhood groups, holding a general meeting once a month, and taking special pains to bring the new graduates into the circle. Another program worth your attention is this of the Round Table of Kokomo, Indiana. Their membership includes graduates from '84 to 1906. The basis of organization, you see, is social, each monthly meeting offering a brief program dealing with some topic of interest, and so keeping the graduate members in touch with each other." "I see," he continued, "that the Kansas City delegate is here and as they have an unusually effective form of organization we must have their report."

"I can't say that we can claim any credit for special altruistic work in our S. H. G.," responded the delegate, "but we are trying not only to extend our boundaries but to cheer along our own members, so incidentally we are benefiting the community. Our meetings are of a social nature but, like the modern novel, they have a 'purpose.' In October, we have a reception for the new graduates. In January a literary meeting, when we invite all the circles. Our business affairs are attended to in May, and in June we have a picnic, always a most festive occasion. In March we had a banquet at the Coates House of sixty Chautauquans with Professor George E. Vincent, President of Chautauqua as our guest of honor. You all know how inimitable he is. We are still talking of his visit. You may like to see our program:

Chautauqua from a Business Man's View Point......C. L. Brokaw Chautauqua from a Clergyman's View Point.. Rev. Wm. A. Brown The Chautauqua Woman..

The Circle..

Piano Solo.

Chautauqua and Philanthropy.

.Mrs. G. W. Campbell .Miss Nettie Hamilton .Mrs. Fred Cunningham

.Rev. Chas. W. Moore having a County Alumni

"I believe we are rather unique in organization." The speaker proved to be from Jefferson County, New York,-"but that doesn't discourage us in the least. Some of you will try it perchance one of these days and be surprised to find how interesting it is. We have nearly one hundred members, and have been holding yearly meetings for eight years. We meet once a year in September, being entertained at different towns in

nd have a luncheon together and always a most interesting

program. You would realize how deep into our lives Chautauqua has gone if you could attend one of our meetings and see how many of the older graduates take an active part."

"Just what our achievements may develop into," commented a member from Benton Harbor, Michigan, “I can't say. We have organized two other circles in this county, at Eau Claire and Berrien Springs, and there seems to be no reason why we may not have equal success elsewhere. We believe it an important work for the S. H. G.'s to undertake. Who should be able to interest people in Chautauqua, if not those who have found help in its work? We have been studying THE CHAUTAUQUAN and Shakespeare's plays and also MacMaster's history of the United States. The two subjects make connections with each other much oftener than you might think. We are helping to build a hospital so our S. H. G. stands for service to the community.

Pendragon next called for brief reports from various delegates, interspersing these with items from letters revealing the widespread character of this graduate work. Glencoe, Minn., reported twenty-five graduates studying Shakespeare. Ashville, New York, no formal S. H. G., but a few graduates having secured books fron! the State Library to supplement the C. L. S. C. course, persuaded eight people to read as a study class, though not yet ready to join the general circle; in Westfield, New York, a young S. H. G. helps to foster the alumni spirit while at least twenty of the graduates do their studying with the undergraduate circles. At Sinclairville in the same state, a very small community, the old Chautauquans have met yearly since '86, twenty-five of them, to sing the old songs and recall old memories. Tarentum, Pennsylvania, graduates have secured a dozen new members this year and are working with them on the regular C. L. S. C. course,—a fine instance of persuasive power. The S. H. G. of Syracuse, New York, is responsible for the "White" Circle and each year sends out circulars to persons who might be won over to the C. L. S. C. The Des Moines, Iowa, Chautauquans are reaching the community at many points with their many circles and the Chautauqua League which brings them all together at occasional intervals. Fostoria, Ohio, has a stalwart S. H. G. who have formed themselves into a Shakespeare Study Club with a permanent and accomplished leader. They meet every Monday night and study carefully three plays a year. In October they gather together all the graduates for a reunion and banquet at the Log Cabin Hotel at Meadow Brook, a nearby suburb.

Pendragon glanced at the graduates who still awaited their chance to speak. "Time will fail us, I fear," he said, "to tell of the good work of Creston, Iowa, Wichita, Kansas, Shelbyville, Illinois,

Cincinnati, Coudersport, Pennsylvania, Holley, N. Y., Troy and Toledo, and the new S. H. G. at Norwalk, Ohio, and other organizations from the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. We must close, I think, with the report of the Marion, Iowa, S. H. G." The Marion delegate explained that their S. H. G. belonged to the city federation. "We believe it's a great thing," she said, "to keep in touch with other clubs whether they are taking our course of reading or not. We can always get ideas from others and they often use Chautauqua material in their clubs. We all help to support the public library and our S. H. G. sees that a bound volume of THE CHAUTAUQUAN is placed in the library each year. Then we contribute to the federation lecture course. Two lectures on 'Story Telling' and on 'Tuberculosis' were immensely suggestive to us. Our regular study work is the English Reading Journey supplemented by Shakespeare's play of 'Richard III.' We are very enthusiastic and trying to learn all we can about England."

News Summary

DOMESTIC.

February 7.-John D. Rockefeller gives $32,000,000 to the General Education board.

16.-Senate: The Administration's plan to settle the Japanese school question is approved by the adoption of the conference report on the Immigration Bill.

20.-Senate: By a vote of forty-two to twenty-eight the title of Reed Smoot to his seat is confirmed. Prof. Harry Pratt Judson is chosen president of the University of Chicago.

25.-Texas Senate exonerates U. S. Senator Bailey of charges made against him.

26.—John F. Stevens, chief engineer of Panama canal, resigns.

FOREIGN.

February 9.-Thousands of prominent English women join in a great street demonstration in favor of woman suffrage. A Russian imperial decree provides for the issue of $35,000,000 in four per cent. bonds to meet expenses for famine relief.

12. The British Parliament is opened by King Edward, who proposes in a speech reform of the House of Lords and of Ireland's government. He also pays tribute to America for her assistance to the sufferers in the Kingston earthquake.

13.-Suffragettes make determined attempts to enter the House of Commons and fight fiercely with the police; sixty arrests are made.

OBITUARY.

February 7.-Viscount Goschen, celebrated English statesman. 10. Sir William Howard Russell, editor of The Army and Navy Gazette and a well-known war correspondent.

12.-Ex-Governor Frank W. Higgins, of New York, dies at his home in Olean.

15.-Giosue Carducci, the Italian poet and critic, to whom the Nobel prize for literature was awarded last year, dies at Bologna,