Part 25 (1/2)

III--IRELAND

The beautiful country; the Lakes of Killarney; the northern coast; pictures. A brief resume of Ireland's history; St. Columba; St.

Patrick. Historic features; cathedrals and churches; the Round Towers.

The Irish poet, Moore. Music: ”The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls;”

”Those Evening Bells;” ”The Last Rose of Summer;” ”Oft in the Stilly Night.” Brief sketches of some of Ireland's great men--Burke, Sheridan, O'Connell, Swift, Goldsmith, etc. Music: Moore's ”Canadian Boat Song.”

IV--ROBERT BURNS

Description and pictures of the village of Ayr; the House Where Burns Was Born; the Brig o' Doon.

Sketch of Burns's life.

_Songs_: ”The Banks and Braes of Bonny Doon;” ”My Heart's in the Highlands;” ”Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad.”

Reading from ”Tam o' Shanter.”

Reading of four short poems: ”Highland Mary”; the ”Mountain Daisy”; ”Mary Morison,” etc.

Reading from ”The Cotter's Sat.u.r.day Night.”

_Songs_: ”Comin' Through the Rye;” ”John Anderson, My Jo, John;” ”Auld Lang Syne.”

V--WOMEN AND SOCIAL RELATIONS

Papers and talks on: Our Grandmothers' Ideas of Woman's Place and Our Own; Woman as a Wage-Earner; The Mother as a Business Woman; Music; The Conscience of the Woman Purchaser; Would Woman's Social Usefulness Be Increased by the Ballot? Music.

VI--THE MADONNA IN ART

Paper or talk on the earliest painters; crude representations on walls and canvas. Botticelli and his pictures; ill.u.s.trate with photographs.

Raphael; sketch of his life; his pictures; ill.u.s.trate with well-known examples, such as the ”Sistine Madonna” and the ”Madonna of the Chair.”

The Madonnas of Murillo; ”The Immaculate Conception.” The modern Madonnas; pictures by Gabriel Max and others. The Madonnas of Burne-Jones and his school. Intersperse with suitable Christmas music.

VII--THE CITY OF LONDON

_Papers_: Its Early History. Remains of Oldest Buildings: Bits of the Roman Wall, St. Bartholomew's Church, St. Stephen's Hall, The Jerusalem Chamber, The Tower, with William the Conqueror's Church. Literary London: The City in Shakespeare; Johnston and the Clubs; Milton and Addison; d.i.c.kens's London. Famous Landmarks: Parliament Buildings, Westminster Abbey, The Churches, St. Paul's, The Tower, Grey Friars, The Royal Palaces, The Museums, The Art-Galleries, The Parks.

VIII--BIRDS

_Song_: ”Hark, Hark, the Lark!”

_Reading_: From ”Our Neighbors, the Birds,” by Mabel Osgood Wright.

_Reading or recitation_: Sh.e.l.ley's ”To a Sky-Lark.”