Many organizations are now preparing outlines for study for the year 1907-8. In the preparation of such work we call especial attention to the ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT Chautauqua Home Reading Course, AMERICAN YEAR 1907-8 Beginning with September, 1907, readers are assured a course of extraordinary interest. It combines studies of conditions with a survey of significant historic events and influences in American life. The Home Reading Faculty for this year includes John Graham Brooks, of Cambridge, Mass.; Katharine Lee Bates, of Wellesley; Horace Spencer Fiske, University of Chicago; Jane Addams, Hull House Social Settlement, Chicago; John R. Commons, University of Wisconsin; and others. Subjects for the American Year are as follows: AS OTHERS SEE US-A Study of American Progress in the Light of Foreign Criticism. Some chapter titles are: Who is the American? Our Chief Offenses, Why are We "so Touchy?" A Berated Press, What we may Learn from our Censors. RACES AND IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA-Race elements in National Life. The author made a special investigation for the National Civic Federation, and brings down to date the facts regarding relations of state, church, and industry to race problems. AMERICAN LITERATURE as an expression of national life. A treatment of our literary product which gives new understanding of what we have accomplished. PROVINCIAL TYPES IN AMERICAN FICTION-A suggestive survey of novels and short stories representing various regions of the United States. AMERICAN PAINTING-Important artistic development reviewed and illustrated by reproduction. NEWER IDEALS OF PEACE-The spirit of our times viewed from the official standpoint by a far-seeing observer and investigator of modern social conditions. Correspondence Invited Dept. CL Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, N. Y. Constitutional Convention at Guthrie; The Railroad Unrest and the A Reading Journey In English Counties 257 Katharine Lee Bates 271 The Sea Group: Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. English Men of Fame.... William Ewart Gladstone. John Graham Brooks 329 Progress in Elementary Education in England...John Howard Whitehouse 336 Entered according to Act of Congress, Sept. 26, 1906, by THE CHAUTAUQUA PRESS in the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. Yearly Subscription, $2.00. Single Copies, 25c. Entered September 9, 1904, at the postoffice at Chautauqua, New York, as second class matter, under Act of Congress, March 2, 1879. |