WEEKLY PROGRAM FOR LOCAL CIRCLE WORK.
Reading edition
BRYANT’S DAY—NOVEMBER 3.
“Knowing that nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
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1. Select Reading—Autobiography of Early Life.
[This selection will be found in Parke Godwin’s “Life of Bryant;” also a part of it in St. Nicholas for December, 1876, under the heading, “The Boys of my Boyhood.”]
2. Essay—Bryant’s Time and Contemporaries.
3. Recitation—The Burial of Love.
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4. Select Reading—Selections from His Letters.
5. Essay—Bryant as an Editor.
6. Recitation—The Planting of the Apple Tree.
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The following will be found interesting subjects for essays for this Memorial Day: The Bryant Vase, Mr. Bryant’s Travels, Home and Social Life of Bryant, Methods of Work, Mr. Bryant’s Friends and Companions. Information can be gathered from Parke Godwin’s “Life of Bryant,” two volumes (D. Appleton & Co., publishers); Scribner’s Monthly, August, 1878; “Letters of a Traveler” (G. P. Putnam); Potter’s American Monthly, February, 1879, “The Bryant Brothers;” Atlantic Monthly, December, 1878, “The Death of Bryant,” poem by Edmund C. Stedman; Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia for 1878; Foreign Quarterly Review for August, 1832; Democratic Review for March, 1842; Blackwood’s Magazine for April, 1832; Griswold’s “Poets and Poetry of America;” Appleton’s Magazine, Vol. ix.; International Review, Vol. i., “The Writings of Bryant;” The Lakeside Monthly, Vol. viii., “Bryant as a Man.”
SECOND WEEK IN NOVEMBER.
An Evening on the Scientific Readings of the Month.
Roll-call—With quotations from eminent Scientists.
1. Essay—Springs and Wells.
2. Select Reading—Herbert Spencer on the value of Scientific Studies.
3. Essay—The Causes of Intemperance.
Intermission.
4. Essay—Corn; Its History and Habits.
5. A Talk on Siphons, and How They Work.
6. Essay—Water and Its Works.
THIRD WEEK IN NOVEMBER.
An English Evening.
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1. The Linguistic Tree Explained (see p. 28, “Art of Speech”).
2. Essay—Hints to Young Writers.
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3. Select Reading—Blair on Style and Its Characteristics.
4. Essay—Blunders of our Every Day Speech.
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5. A fifteen minute quiz on “Art of Speech.”
6. Essay—Figures of Speech.
MONTHLY PUBLIC MEETING.
Prayer.
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Roll-call—Responded to by quotations from Bryant.
1. Question Box.
2. Essay—Homer.
3. Map Exercise—The Retreat of the Ten Thousand.
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4. Recitation—Selection from Bryant.
5. Essay—Good English—How Attained.
6. A quiz on current history of the month.
7. General Review of “Questions and Answers.”