The pronouncing matches have unlocked the doors and the fortunate Meridenites are able to talk glibly on their Grecian rambles. A second circle, “Hanging Hills Class,” was organized last fall in Meriden. It has grown to twenty members, who are doing superior work. This class observed Longfellow’s Day appropriately. The ’89 outlook must be very promising in Meriden.——“A small twig of the great New England branch,” the “Endeavor,” of STRATFORD, calls itself, and a healthy fruit-bearing twig, if small, we should call any circle that can double its membership, as it has done, in less than a year. A splendid move has been made by the Chautauquans of NEW YORK CITY. The circles had never united there for public work until, April 9th, after a deal of planning and much labor the various local circles in the city, with one from JERSEY CITY, held a public meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle. Chancellor Vincent was secured to deliver the address. A large and enthusiastic audience, numbering about 1,200 persons, was present. “School after School, or the Every-day College” was the theme of the address. The friends who had prepared the meeting were more than jubilant over the way the interesting lecture “took” among their guests, and declared that though some of them had long been members of the C. L. S. C. all of them received new vistas of the work. After the lecture the Chancellor held a reception, at which the members of the following New York circles were received by him: The “Garfield,” “Irving,” “Unique,” “Spare Moment,” “Central,” “Park Avenue,” and the “Round-Table,” of Jersey City.——BROOKLYN has a “Pierian” spring, at which twenty-five devotees of the muses “drink deep” and joyously. Essays, debates, recitations, quizzes, poems, and chemical experiments are the draughts these friends draw from their well. So happy are they in their festivities that another year they hope to see a sister welling up by their side.——At RANDALL’S ISLAND, NEW YORK CITY, there is one of those steady, hard-working circles, which by their fruits so favorably impress the people who watch them. The “Excelsior” has been in existence for two years and has a roll of seventeen persons. A program full of good points is carried out at their regular sessions, which are interrupted only by Memorial services. The secretary finds, he writes, that the influence and example in regard to Chautauqua work is shown by an increased attendance and membership.——When circles increase in geometrical ratio—and a little over—year after year, it is not strange that a time should come when the leader inquires “What _shall_ we do?” At GLENS FALLS four graduates, eleven ’86s, twenty-three Pansies, and fifty-nine Plymouth Rocks—ninety-seven in all—form the circle. It is an unwieldy number to study together, but, writes the secretary, “We are fearful that division into smaller circles will greatly lessen the membership. We are considering for next year this plan: We shall have our