To accommodate the growing circles of the C. L. S. C. a regular Chautauqua Assembly has been established at Long Beach, Southern California. This locality, after deliberation, was chosen as being central and accessible. It is twenty-two miles from Los Angeles by rail, on a splendid ocean beach ten miles long, where tourists and invalids may enjoy surf bathing the year round, with all the accommodations of civilization, in a mild climate, tempered by the ocean in winter and summer. Six months ago Long Beach was little more than a sheep ranch. Now it has a great hotel, and lesser ones, forty cottages, and over a hundred tents. Artesian water is brought three miles and delivered in iron pipes on many streets. On the 21st we had a regular field day, and good audiences. At 10 a. m. a lecture on the “Chautauqua Idea” was delivered by Dr. Clark Whittier, of Riverside, and other speakers. At 3 p. m. a regular Round-Table was held by Rev. S. J. Fleming, of Ontario, California, and a masterly lecture by Prof. G. F. Bovard, of the University of Southern California, followed. At this meeting a committee on permanent organization was formed, and Dr. Clark Whittier was elected president. Plans are made to organize, if possible, a C. L. S. C. in every pastoral charge, school district, mine, and Y. M. C. A. in the seven southern counties of California. We mean aggressive work on the borders of the great Pacific. A LOCAL CIRCLE ASSEMBLY. The first Local Circle Assembly of which we have heard was held on June 30th, at Lake Grove, Auburn, Me. Six different circles in the towns of Lewiston, Auburn, and New Gloucester were represented, and with their invited guests made a gathering of several hundred people. This was the first out-of-door C. L. S. C. Assembly ever held in Maine. The occasion was one of great interest. A program of delightful exercises was carried out. There was a grand banquet and a long list of witty and entertaining after-dinner speeches. Among the pleasant features of the occasion was the following kindly letter from Dr. Vincent to the Assembly: NEW HAVEN, CONN., June 18th, 1884.