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_A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF TRUE CULTURE. ORGAN OF THE CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE._
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.
_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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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
_Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle for 1882-83_.
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 after a time, and bore rule for some years before his death, his dominions passed to Roman, prince of Volhynia, whom the Gallicians had invited to bear rule over them when Vladimir had fled from the realm.