The idea of fostering art by a thirty per cent. duty put on foreign pictures is ludicrous in the extreme. American artists will become superior by study, not by the pictures of foreigners being excluded. People of taste will not buy a poor work, which they do not like, because it is cheap. They will go without or buy the foreign picture, in spite of the duty. Painting is not manufacturing, even if the average American rates it so, and sees in a work of art only so many dollars and cents. * * * * * The name of Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly has been abridged by the Legislature to the more general name of Chautauqua Assembly, by which corporate title it will be hereafter known. * * * * * The July number of THE CHAUTAUQUAN will be the last number in the present volume. The next volume will begin with the October number. EDITOR’S TABLE. Q. Name the present sovereigns of European countries. A. Great Britain, Victoria; Austria-Hungary, Franz Josef I.; Belgium, Leopold II.; Denmark, Christian IX.; Germany, Wilhelm I.; Prussia, Wilhelm I.; Bavaria, Ludwig II.; Italy, Umberto I.; Netherlands, Willem III.; Portugal, Luis I.; Norway and Sweden, Oscar II.; Spain, Alfonso XII.; Russia, Alexander III.; Turkey, Abdul Hamid II. Q. Is it not probable that those comets which are supposed never to reappear will do so after an indefinite period? A. It can not now be said that any comet revolves in a hyperbolic orbit, and thus it is possible that ultimately all will return to our system. Q. Who discovered the revolution of the earth about the sun? A. Copernicus revived the theory, but made the orbit a circle; Kepler showed it to be an ellipse. Q. How can this theory be proved? A. It does not admit of ocular demonstration, but can be shown to fit all cases, and can be proved to be the necessary consequence of the law of gravitation. Q. How do you pronounce “Tucson,” the name of a city of Arizona? A. “Took-sōn´;” locally, often “too´sun.” Q. Who are the first novelists of the times? A. William Black, W. D. Howells, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Henry James, Jr., Wilkie Collins. Q. If a tree were to fall on an island where there were no human beings would there be any sound? A. No. Sound is the sensation excited in the ear when the air or other medium is set in motion. Q. What are the governments of the different European states? A. There are four empires: Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Austria; two Republics: France and Switzerland; ten limited monarchies: Norway, Sweden, Great Britain and Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Q. What is the distinction between talent and genius? A. Genius is the particular bent of the intellect which is born with a man; talent is a particular mode of intellect which qualifies its possessor to do something better than others.—_Crabbe._ Q. What is the origin of the word mosaic?