7. Practice talking to yourself about the things you have read. Put facts and dates into sentences. Now and then write out these sentences, or speak them off. Recite a lesson to yourself every day. Make a speech with yourself as audience. Put facts into recitative lullabies, by which you sing baby to sleep. Don’t do too much of all this, lest it weary you, but do a little of this sentence-framing and solitary speech-making, and nursery-crooning every day. You will then have a local circle of you, and yourself and your own soul. Now one’s self makes very good society sometimes; there are so many powers and voices and thoughts and projects in a single soul. 8. Lift your soul up to its height, now and then, and breathe a thought of the heart that may grow into a prayer as you recall the great Circle of which you are a member. Think in silence of their multiplied and varied circumstances, perils, temptations and necessities. Think of the disheartened, the bereaved, the suffering, the doubting; those who have great power, but do not know how to use it; those who are sick of sin and worldliness, and do not know how to get into the path of holiness and peace. Think of all these, and then pray. Let your heart swell toward God in sympathy and longing. Thus will you find in your solitude the presence of the Spirit invisible and eternal, whose name is love, and whose home is heaven, and whose children are the lowly and meek and devout, who love souls—the world full of souls—and who daily bear them in tender sympathy to the throne. They who do these things can not be alone. * * * * * If it were not for my love of beautiful nature and poetry, my heart would have died within me long ago. I never felt before what immeasurable benefactors these same poets are to their kind, and how large a measure, both of actual happiness and prevention of misery they have imparted to the race. I would willingly give up half my fortune, and some little of the fragments of health and bodily enjoyment that remain to me, rather than that Shakspere should not have lived before me.—_Lord Jeffrey (from a letter to Lord Cockburn, 1833)._ OUTLINE AND PROGRAMS. OUTLINE OF REQUIRED READINGS FOR APRIL. _First Week_ (ending April 8).—1. “Chemistry,” chapters XVIII, XIX and XX. 2. “History of the Reformation,” from page 1 to 27. 3. “The Circle of the Sciences,” in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. 4. Sunday Readings for April 5, in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. * * * * * _Second Week_ (ending April 15).—1. “Chemistry,” chapters XXI and XXII. 2. “History of the Reformation,” from page 27 to 55. 3. “Home Studies in Chemistry and Physics,” in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. 4. Sunday Readings for April 12, in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. * * * * * _Third Week_ (ending April 22).—1. “Chemistry,” chapter XXIII. 2. “History of the Reformation,” from page 55 to 88. 3. “Easy Lessons in Animal Biology,” in THE CHAUTAUQUAN.