MASSACHUSETTS is getting her circles into the press. Scarcely a paper from within her borders comes to our sanctum which does not contain at least one item of Chautauqua import. The _Melrose Journal_ of MELROSE reports the organization of a circle of fifteen members in that city.——The _Woburn Journal_ notices the work of the circle there in a very appreciative notice: “The fortnightly meetings of the First Woburn Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle are being well attended and the exercises are very profitable intellectually and the students are doing good work. Two weeks ago the Rev. Charles Anderson gave a very interesting talk on Prof. Schliemann’s recent explorations in Mycenæ, and Hissarlik, the supposed site of ancient Troy. At some meeting in the near future the Rev. A. E. Winship, a true Chautauquan, connected with the ‘New West Education Commission,’ a thorough scholar and a very interesting speaker, will lecture on ‘Literary Clubs’ before the members of the circle.”——The _Saturday Union_, of LYNN, speaks of the thorough work their circle is doing in chemistry.——The _Ipswich Chronicle_ highly commends the Milton memorial held by the “Masconomo” circle of that city. By the way, the name of this circle brings back an interesting bit of early Massachusetts history. It was the Indian Masconomo, or Masconnomet—from whom the circle is named—who, in 1638, “sold his fee in the soil of Ipswich” for £20, to John Winthrop, Jr. And here was established the town which the Indians called Agawan (“fishing station”), and to which the white men gave the name of Ipswich.——The _Salem Gazette_, too, gives notices of two branches of the C. L. S. C. in that city. About forty members are in each of these societies.——Several new circles we have the pleasure of adding to our visiting book. At MERRIMAC a circle of seventeen members has been formed, with the happy title of the “Hale” circle. The first circle, so far as we know, which has honored itself by assuming the name of our esteemed counselor. They should be glad they waited; so good a name does honor to anybody, and ought to be an omen of future prosperity.——The “Eaton” circle, named in honor of the Rev. G. F. Eaton, begins life with seventy members. Its home is WALTHAM—city of watches. If the spirit of the town is to be the spirit of the circle, wonderful results will certainly be forthcoming.——Last October a few of the many students in the C. L. S. C. in WORCESTER organized a local circle. By the perseverance of these few, others have been persuaded to take the course, until the circle numbers about sixteen. They have taken the name of the “Warren” local circle, in honor of Bishop Warren.——At PROVINCETOWN a company of ten, five ladies and five gentlemen, met on the evening of the sixteenth of December last, to form a local circle. The meetings have occurred every week since; the circle has adopted the name of “Mayflower.” The meetings are full