THE CHAUTAUQUAN. _A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF TRUE CULTURE. ORGAN OF THE CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE._ VOL. IV. APRIL, 1884. No. 7. Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. _President_—Lewis Miller, Akron, Ohio. _Superintendent of Instruction_—Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., New Haven, Conn. _Counselors_—Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D.; Rev. J. M. Gibson, D.D.; Bishop H. W. Warren, D.D.; Prof. W. C. Wilkinson, D.D. _Office Secretary_—Miss Kate F. Kimball, Plainfield, N. J. _General Secretary_—Albert M. Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa. Contents Transcriber’s Note: This table of contents of this periodical was created for the HTML version to aid the reader. REQUIRED READING Readings from French History IX.—Louis XVI. 377 X.—The Great French Revolution (1792-1796) 380 XI.—Napoleon I. (1796-1814) 381 Commercial Law III.—Agency 382 Readings in Art I.—Italian Painters and Paintings 384 Sunday Readings [_April 6_] 388 [_April 13_] 389 [_April 20_] 390 [_April 27_] 391 Selections from American Literature Thomas Wentworth Higginson 392 Henry James, Jr. 393 William Dean Howells 394 Charles Dudley Warner 394 United States History 395 Light at Eventide 397 The Cooper Institute 398 Green Sun and Strange Sunsets 400 Anthony Trollope’s Autobiography 400 Sabbath Chimes 402 Eight Centuries with Walter Scott 403 Geography of the Heavens for April 405 Edgar Allen Poe 407 British and American English 410 Still Young 412 The Gospels Considered as a Drama 412 Prohibition in Maine 415 The Industrial Schools of Boston 417 Echoes from a Chautauqua Winter 419 C. L. S. C. Work 421 Outline of C. L. S. C. Readings 422 Local Circles 422 Questions and Answers 425