Salutations—sincere and abundant—to all the members of the Circle who have opportunity this month of meeting in the green woods or by the lake-side at one of the “Summer Assemblies.” Hold “Round-Tables.” Talk and plan, and then report the new things you think of. If you can not go to any of the great Assemblies, hold a comfortable little “C. L. S. C. Grove-Rest” or “Go-to-the-Grove” picnic in your own neighborhood. One such humble gathering may be the seed of a grand Assembly one of these days. * * * * * A member of the class of ’87 asks concerning the mountain known as Quarantania. This is a high bluff on the west of the Jordan, near the north end of the Dead Sea, and believed to be the Mountain of Temptation. * * * * * “Hand Book of Abbreviations and Contractions, current, classical and mediæval; also of secret, benevolent, and other organizations, legal works of the United States and Great Britain, and of the Railroads of the American Continent.” By the Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, A.M., D.D. Chicago: The Standard Book Company. A _multum in parvo_ for the general reader. The title fully unfolds the character of the volume. * * * * * “A Complete Hand Book of Synonyms and Antonyms, or synonyms and words of opposite meaning. With an appendix.” By the Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, A.M., D.D. Chicago: The Standard Book Company. This compact, neatly printed, well-bound volume is one of the most valuable of the “Standard Hand-Book Series,” edited by Bishop Fallows, of Chicago. For the English reader or writer desiring carefully to discriminate between words and phrases, anxious to use language most appropriately, we know of no single volume equaling this hand-book for utility and general adaptation to his needs. * * * * * To a member of the circle who is really a very large-hearted and noble man, as I have since found him, but who is “decidedly opposed to teaching religious truths in schools of any kind,” and who objects to being required to read the “Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation,” I have made the following reply, which I insert here, as it may meet similar cases: