A. It is derived from a Greek word signifying belonging to the muses, or polished, highly-finished, elegant. Q. What is the tasimeter? A. An instrument for measuring minute extensions or movements of solid bodies; also used for measuring minute changes of temperature. Q. Is the “White Seal Course” to be read the first year, or during the four years? A. Information concerning C. L. S. C. studies can be obtained more directly, and exactly, from Dr. Vincent or Miss Kimball. Q. In what year was Mrs. Browning born? A. 1809. Q. Where can we find an account of the late religious movement in the east under Chunder Sen? A. The Rev. Joseph Cook in his late course of lectures in Boston, gives an account of Chunder Sen and his work. The lecture may be found in _The Christian Advocate_, or _The Independent_. Q. Why is it said that such and such planets are the ruling ones for the year, as we see it in the almanac? A. Those which in their revolution come nearest to the earth and in consequence appear most brilliant, as well as exert a greater attraction, are said to be the ruling planets. Q. Who was the “Arthur,” of Tennyson’s “In Memoriam.” A. Arthur Hallim, a very dear friend of Tennyson’s, who died when 22 years old. He is said to have shown a superior literary ability in the few works which he left. Q. Who first adopted the year of 365¼ days? A. Julius Cæsar. Q. Is the constellation “The Southern Cross,” visible at Honolulu? A. It is not. Q. What is the origin of the story which Longfellow puts into the mouth of the Notary Public? A. It is an old Florentine story. Rossini in his opera, _La Gazza Ladra_, has used it in a modified form as his plot. Q. How are we to reconcile the statement made in Packard’s Geology, that the earliest race of man existed 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, with the Bible chronology which places Adam’s creation at 6,000 B. C.? A. The controversy concerning the age of man is fully treated in Draper’s “Conflict Between Religion and Science,” published by Appleton; and by Dawson, in his “Origin of the World,” Harper & Brothers. Q. Mention a good short work on Rhetoric. A. Kellogg’s “Text-Book on Rhetoric;” published by Clark & Maynard, 5 Barclay street, New York. Q. Is the word Kimon or Cimon, pronounced with hard or soft _C_? A. Soft _C_. C. L. S. C. NOTES ON REQUIRED READINGS FOR JUNE. HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF SCANDINAVIA. P. 487, c. 1—“Voltaire.” See notes on Scandinavia in THE CHAUTAUQUAN for May. P. 487, c. 1—“U´krane.” A former south-east province of Poland lying on both sides of the Dnieper. Now it is identical with Little Russia, having, since 1793, belonged to the Russian government. It was to this country that Charles XII. turned after his disastrous march toward Moscow in 1707-8. Within its borders his army was reduced by cold, hunger and fatigue, until at last, in the battle of Poltava, Charles was wounded, and his army defeated and scattered.