65. Q. What does experience, as the opportunities for observation widen, induce the writer to believe? A. That every human being can do something if he has a chance, and is intended to fill some gap in the universal plan. 66. Q. What does Edward Denison say of the crime of begging? A. It does not consist in the mere solicitation of alms. The gist of the offense is the intention of preying upon society; and of this intent the asking alms is only evidence—not proof. 67. Q. What is the root of a very large proportion of the suffering of the poor in the cities of America? A. Drunkenness. 68. Q. What is one of the first duties of a visitor in entering a tenement house? A. To use his senses. 69. Q. What knowledge means physical salvation, and thus a better prospect for understanding the spiritual? A. How to make even the smallest home clean and attractive, and to get the largest return from every dollar earned. 70. Q. What is one of the earliest and most important topics which should engage the attention of the visitor? A. That of helping people to save. 71. Q. What drives people into solitude? A. Trouble of any kind, and especially any misfortune which has a tendency to lower a person in the social scale. 72. Q. What is said of many of the poor who most deeply need visitors? A. They are lonely persons, and the fact of finding a friend at last is encouragement to them and the beginning of better times. 73. Q. What is almost the only true help of the worldly sort which it is possible to give the poor? A. To teach them how to use even the small share of goods and talents intrusted to them. 74. Q. What truth has been made clear in regard to the expenditure of money and goods alone? A. That it does not alleviate poverty. 75. Q. What has experience taught differently from the assertions that certain evils can not be helped, and that we may as well let things alone? A. That evils can be helped, and to let things alone is to lend ourselves to wrong. THE CHAUTAUQUA UNIVERSITY. CAN LANGUAGE BE TAUGHT BY CORRESPONDENCE? BY PROF. R. S. HOLMES, A.M.