“while visiting the ‘Morning Star,’ as she lay at the wharf before starting on her noble life work, I found the C. L. S. C. books in the captain’s library. I never before so fully realized the bond of sympathy between Chautauquans. Mrs. Bray, the captain’s wife, told me that she and her husband belonged to the class of ’85. They take the readings together while far out on the deep.” CONNECTICUT has a goodly array of items for the month. NORWICH sends us several of its capital programs; peculiarly attractive is the one for Milton’s Day.——BRISTOL reports a circle of twenty-four members, organized in October last, and boasts, most justly, of ten school teachers in its ranks. All the regular work arranged for circles they have been performing, and report most pleasant special meetings on Bryant and Milton Days.——WINSTED has sent us a New Year greeting. A happy circle they are, with their enormous membership of sixty-one members, and “not one lazy one in our ranks,” the secretary writes.——At NEW BRITAIN the Milton Day service was very pleasant. The professor of English literature in the State Normal School gave a talk on Milton, and the evening closed with a question match. The plan of reviewing each work read has been adopted at BRISTOL, R. I. An unusually interesting review was prepared on the “Art of Speech.” The epitome which the writer gives of the opening chapter will not only be interesting, it may serve to disentangle some one’s ideas on the puzzling growth of English: With Chapter first our toil begins, ’Tis like a penance for our sins To try to read it over. We read it once, we read it twice, With close attention read it thrice, Its meaning to discover. We find, at last, that English speech Through long succeeding years, doth reach Back to primeval ages. From Aryan root it sprang at first— How long ago, tell us who durst— And grew by easy stages. Teutonic trunk and German branch And Saxon twig grew strong and stanch, And Norman foliage crowned it; From Latin grafts it gained new strength And from Greek scions, too, at length Grew thrifty leaves around it. The fruits upon the wondrous tree, If we should test, we soon should see Have many foreign flavors. From Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese, Italian, Indian, and Chinese, Have they derived their savors.