2. Readings in French History in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. 3. Sunday Readings for April 6 in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. * * * * * _Second Week_ (ending April 15).—1. “Preparatory Latin Course” from the first paragraph on page 202 to the “Georgics” on page 236. 2. Readings in Art in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. 3. Sunday Readings for April 13 in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. * * * * * _Third Week_ (ending April 22).—1. “Preparatory Latin Course” from the “Georgics,” page 236 to the middle of page 272. 2. Readings in Commercial Law and American Literature in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. 3. Sunday Readings for April 20 in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. * * * * * _Fourth Week_ (ending April 30).—1. “Preparatory Latin Course,” from the middle of page 272 to the end of the volume. 2. Readings in United States History in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. 3. Sunday Readings for April 27 in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. LOCAL CIRCLES. Now that Longfellow’s Day is gone, we have no Memorial Day until April 23rd. So many and so delightful are the ways of celebrating Shakspere’s, that it is to be hoped that every circle will do something extra. To read from Shakspere, to have an essay on his life, another on his characteristic as a writer, and a scene from a play, all followed by an elaborate supper, is the usual order. Do something new this time. Try Shaksperean tableaux—an evening of them, with music, is delightful. If the expense of the “properties” needed for successful tableaux is too heavy, dispense with the supper, and let the cost of butter, sugar, eggs, the meats and fruits, be contributed for buying an apparatus which, once owned, will always be ready for use. Get Mr. George W. Bartlett’s little book on parlor plays, published by Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, and with little expense you will be able to prepare an excellent arrangement for the tableaux which in Shakspere are “as thickly strewn as leaves in Vallambrosa.” Or, if you wish to be strictly literary, take one character as Hermione, or Portia, or Cornelius, and read everything that has been said on it. Study one character thoroughly. Try a Shaksperean carnival. Do something fresh. Do not fall into the danger of wearing out the pleasure of Memorial Days by monotony of program. There are an infinite variety of means for brightening and freshening, not only special occasions, but the ordinary ones as well. One of the most entertaining devices we have had comes in a breezy letter from =Titusville, Pa.=, a place about fifty miles from Chautauqua, where there is an excellent circle of fourteen members. Our friend writes: “We make it a point to commit our text-books to memory and recite from them; but aim to bring in all the outside information possible, and to present and draw out ideas suggested by our books, rather than simply to recite over what we have been reading in them. In Greek history we found Adams’s Historical chart very useful.