2. Pictures from English History, in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. 3. Sunday Readings, in THE CHAUTAUQUAN, selections for December 24 and 31. 4. Questions and Answers on Preparatory Greek Course in English, from No. 76 to No. 100. QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY. By ALBERT M. MARTIN, GENERAL SECRETARY C. L. S. C. 1. How large is the county of Westchester, in the State of New York, which is about half the size of Attica? [Page 7.] 2. Why did the Romans give the name “Greeks” to the Hellenes? [Page 12.] 3. Give two examples of Spartan laconisms of speech. [Page 13.] 4. What are the literary tidings from modern Greece that seem to foretoken close at hand a signal renascence of Greek literature? [Page 20.] 5. Who was blind Melesigenes? [Page 36.] 6. Who was pronounced the wisest of men by an oracle, and by what oracle, and in what words? [Page 37.] 7. How is the monk Planudes apparently relieved of the imputation concerning the authorship of the biography of Æsop ascribed to him? [Page 39.] 8. What are some of the reasons for supposing this biography is a falsifying one? [Page 39.] 9. What is meant by “the Sacred Hetacomb?” [Page 45.] 10. Describe the ceremony of taking a prisoner by the mantle in token that he is to suffer death. [Page 81.] 11. Describe the scythed chariots of the Persians. [Page 83.] 12. From what author is the quotation, “When Greek joined Greek, then was the tug of war?” [Page 88.] 13. Describe the Persian slingers. 14. What is the origin of the familiar expression, “War even to the knife?” [Page 99.] 15. What occasioned the singular effect upon the men of the eating of honeycombs as related by Xenophon? [Page 119.] [NOTE.—Answers are not required to questions for further study. The questions here given relate to subjects alluded to in the required reading for the month. After each question the page is given of Wilkinson’s Preparatory Greek Course in English, on which a reference is made to the subject. Members who are able to procure answers to all the questions for further study in this number of THE CHAUTAUQUAN will receive an acknowledgment if the replies are forwarded to Albert M. Martin, General Secretary C. L. S. C., Pittsburg, Pa., so as to reach him by the first of January. Answers will be published in the February number of THE CHAUTAUQUAN. The answers should be brief, and need not be sent unless to all the questions.] C. L. S. C. ROUND-TABLE.[F] Dr. Wm. M. Blackburn, of Cincinnati, was at once introduced, and delivered the following address: “HOW ENGLAND MAINTAINED HER NATIONALITY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.”