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THE CHAUTAUQUAN.

_A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF TRUE CULTURE. ORGAN OF
THE CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE._

    VOL. III.      FEBRUARY, 1883.      No. 5.




Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.

_President_, Lewis Miller, Akron, Ohio.

_Superintendent of Instruction_, J. H. Vincent, D. D., Plainfield, N. J.

_General Secretary_, Albert. M. Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa.

_Office Secretary_, Miss Kate F. Kimball, Plainfield, N. J.

_Counselors_, Lyman Abbott, D. D.; J. M. Gibson, D. D.; Bishop H. W.
Warren, D. D.; W. C. Wilkinson, D. D.


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Contents


                                REQUIRED READING
  History of Russia.
    Chapter VII.—Galitsch and the Great Republic of Novgorod       241
  A Glance at the History and Literature of Scandinavia
    IV.—The Eddas: Later Swedish History                           244
  Pictures from English History
    V.—The Battle of Pancake Creek                                 246

                                 SUNDAY READINGS.
  [February 4.]
    Social and Religious Life of the Israelites from Saul to
        Christ                                                     248
  [February 11.]
    Christ and the Apostles                                        249
  [February 18.]
    The Bible and Other Religious Books                            251
  [February 25.]
    The Bible and Science                                          252

  Grace                                                            253
  What Genius Is                                                   254
  Arizona                                                          255
  The Six Follies of Science                                       257
  The Co-Related Forces                                            257
  Some German Art and Artists                                      259
  The History of Education
    IV.—Persia                                                     262
  The Weary Heart                                                  263
  Advantage of Warm Clothing                                       264
  A Tour Round the World                                           267
  “We Must Not Forget Our Dead”                                    271
  Tales from Shakspere
    King Lear                                                      271
    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark                                      275
  The Sun-Worshippers                                              279
  C. L. S. C. Work                                                 280
  Local Circles                                                    282
  Questions and Answers                                            286
  Outline of C. L. S. C. Studies For February                      288
  Answers to Questions For Further Study in the December Number    288
  C. L. S. C. Round-Table—“How to Conduct Local Circles”           289
  A Translation
    Of All the Greek Passages Found in Volume I of Timayenis’s
        History of Greece                                          292
  Daniel Webster                                                   292
  Editor’s Outlook                                                 293
  Editor’s Note-Book                                               295
  Editor’s Table                                                   297
  Graduates of the C. L. S. C.                                     298
  Books                                                            302




REQUIRED READING

FOR THE

_Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle for 1882-83_.


FEBRUARY.




HISTORY OF RUSSIA.

By MRS. MARY S. ROBINSON.


_CHAPTER VII._

GALITSCH AND THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF NOVGOROD.

We have briefly traced the history of the principality of Kief and that
of its rival, Suzdal. Another powerful state, in the twelfth century
was Galitsch, the modern Gallicia, the Red Russia of former days, a
region south of Poland. This province, peopled by the Khorvats, or
white Kroats, had ever remained Slavonic in nationality. Its princes
were elected by popular assembly, and retained their dominion by its
consent. The intercourse of Galitsch with her neighbors, Hungary
and Poland, led to the formation of a powerful aristocracy, which
succeeded, first, in controlling the popular assembly, and later
in superseding it by an assembly composed exclusively of nobles.
When Iaroslaf Osmomuisl, the same whose praise is sung in the song
of Igor, put away his wife, Olga, for his paramour, Anastasia, the
nobles compelled him to burn the latter alive, to banish her son, and
to recognize Olga’s Vladimir as the rightful heir. The young prince,
however, followed in the dissolute ways of his father, and went so
far as to take for his second wife the widow of a priest, in defiant
violation of a law of the Greek Church. The boyars summoned him to
deliver the woman over to punishment. The prince, alarmed, fled to
Hungary with his family and his treasure; and though in the vicissitude
of events, he was recalled