PROGRAMS FOR LOCAL CIRCLE WORK.
Reading edition
FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY.
1. Review of the Persian War.
[Giving cause of the war, date and location of each battle, leaders on both sides, and a brief outline of the life of each leader.]
2. Recitation—“Picture of Modern Greece,” by Lord Byron. From “The Giaour.” Found also in Chambers’s “Cyclopædia of English Literature.”
3. Essay—Torricelli and Pascal.
Music.
4. Select Reading—“Ancient Greece,” by Lord Byron. From “Childe Harold.” Canto II. Stanzas 2 to 9.
5. Essay—The Proposed New Word, “Thon.”
6. Question Box.
7. Talk on the New Orleans Exposition.
SECOND WEEK IN JANUARY.
1. Roll-call—Responses by Mottoes.
2. Essay—Use and Abuse of Food.
3. Fifteen minutes’ talk on “Temperance Teachings of Science.”
4. Recitation—“Pericles and Aspasia,” by the Rev. George Croly, found in Chambers’s “Cyclopædia of English Literature.”
Intermission.
5. Essay—Herodotus.
6. Select Reading—“Cautions to be Observed in the Reading of Ancient Greek and Roman Historians.” By Addison.
7. One-half of the “Questions and Answers” for January.
8. Conversation on the Topics of the Times.
THIRD WEEK IN JANUARY.
1. Talk and Questions on the Month’s Readings.
2. Essay—Thucydides.
3. Recitation—“Psyche and Pan.” By Mrs. Browning.
Music.
4. Select Reading—“On the Athenian Orators.” By Macaulay. [The last third of the article, beginning, “Oratory is to be estimated—”]
5. Essay—Visible Forms of Electricity.
6. Chemical Experiments.
MONTHLY PARLOR MEETING.
Music.
1. Roll-call—Quotations from Readings of the Month.
2. Paper on Plato’s Republic, carefully prepared, followed by discussion of the subject by the members.
[Articles upon it may be found in Mahaffy’s “History of Classical Greek Literature,” and in De Quincy’s writings.]
3. Recitation—“Marriage of Psyche and Cupid.” By Mrs. Browning.
Music.
4. Essay—Apples.
[It need not be entirely practical; allusions may be made to the apples of mythology and history.]
5. Select Reading—“Dissertation on Roast Pig.” By Charles Lamb.
Music.
6. Question Match—Answers relating to Greek History and Literature given to all questions in The Chautauquan of the present volume.