THE COURIElL
Lincoln this year expects to take up the
questions of rest rooms for the comfort
and entertainment of wives and children
of farmers.
On the whole the year book of Ne
braska's clubs is directive, instructive,
suggestive a bureau of information, a
pleasure to the eye and a satisfaction to
the mind.
The State Federation is to bo con
gratulated upon the careful, thorough
work of the committee as evinced by the
book, and upon its chic appearance.
The fortnightly club of Lincoln has
issued its ear book for two years. It
will study Russian literature, history
and institutions. The book contains
the names of the officers and members,
the constitution of the club, outlines for
the study, the bibliography and chronolo
gy of the subject as well aB a diagram of
the Romanoff dynasty.
Okficeks -1803 99.
President Mrs. E. H. Barbour.
Vice President Mrs. A. W. Field.
Secretary Mre. C H. Imhoff.
calendar 1S93.
The Russian Race and Empire.
Physical Features and Their Influence
on Character and Institutions.
History of Government.
Poland.
Military Service.
Social Classes.
Serfdom Liberation of Serfs and
Emancipation of Slaves Compared.
1839-
The Orthodox Church.
Architecture.
Nihilism Compare Nihilism, Com
munism and Socialism.
Religious and Decorative Art.
Internal Improvements and Principal
Industries.
The Story of the Crimea.
Napoleon's Invasion of Russia.
The Russo Turkish Trouble.
Russian Mir.
Educational Systems.
Songs and Folk-Lore.
Judicial SjEtein and Press.
Siberia and the Prison Sjstem.
Painting.
Russia in the Far East.
Poushkin and His Immediate Ante
cedents and Contemporaries.
Gogol Character and Influence of
His Works.
Music
Dostoievsky Compare His Writings
with Tnose of Tolstoi, and Turgenief.
Turgeuief "Father and Sons." 4,On
the Eve."
Sienkievicz.
Tolstoi Influence of His l'eachinge.
Principal Cities.
Franco Russian Alliance Her Pres.
eat Relation to European Powers.
Coronation of Nicholas II. What
May Russia Hope From Him.
Extra Topics Position of Women in
Russia.
Why Uas Russia Been More Back
ward Than Other Nations?
Music
Historical aud Political Writers.
CHRONOLOOY.
(From "Russia: Story of the Nations"
Series.)
J. Heroic Period.
II. Russia Divided: Period of the
Appanages, 1031-1233.
III. Russia under the Mongols, 123S
1102. V. Establishment of the autocracy
and conbolidationof the Empire
until the death of Boris Godu
nov. 14G2-1G05.
VI. Ivan and Peter; the Regency of
Sophia.
VII. The reforiDBof Peter in abeyance;
reignBot Catherine I.; Peter;
Anne; Ivan VI., and Elizabeth,
1725-179G.
VIII. The plats of Peter developed;
Peter III.; Catherine II.. 1672
1796.
IX. Reigns of Paul, 1796-1801. and Al
exander I., 1801-1825; Russia in
collusion with the French ReT
olution and Napoleon.
X. Fruitless reactions followed by
reforms; reigns of Nicholas I.,
1825-1855; Alexander III.ISS1
1891. XL Nicholas II., 1894.
3IBLI0GRAI'nr.
Art
Atkinson Art tour to Northern Cap
itals of Europe.
Maske'l, W. Russian Art and Art
Industries.
Kugler History of Painting
History
Morfill, W. R-Story of Russia.
Rambaud, Alfd. History of Russia.
Gossip History of Russia.
Lamartine History of Russia.
Wolkonsky History of Russia.
Lariviere History of Russia.
Merimee History of Russia.
Ralston, W. R.S. Early Russian
History.
Green, F. V. The Russian Army and
Its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-1878.
Holland, F. E. Treaty Relations of
Russia and Turkey.
Kinglake, A. W. Invasion of the
Crimea.
Hawley War in the Crimea.
Motley Peter the Great.
Literature
Bazan Russia, Its People and Litera
ture.; Botta Handbook of Universal Liter
ature. Dupuy The Great Masters of Rus
sian Literature in the Nineteenth Cen
turj.
Vogue Russian Novelists.
Wolkonsky Russian History andjjit
erature.
Brandes Impressions of Russia.
Religion
Stepniak The Russian Peasantry.
Dalton On Religious Liberty in Rus
sia: Open Letter to the Head of the
Russian Synod.
Frederic The New Exodus: A Etudy
of Israel iu Russia.
Heard Russian Church and Russian
Dissent.
Life, People, Institutions
Dixon, W. H. Free Russia.
Stepniak Underground Russia.
Wallace, D. M. Russia.
Vogue The Tsar and His People.
Leroj-Beaulieu Empire of the Tears
and the Russians.
Green, F. V. Sketches of Army Life
in Russia.
Stevens Through Russia on a Mus
tang. Taj lor By-Ways of Europe.
Taj lor Greece and Russia
Stadling In the Land of Tolstoi.
Tweedie Through Finland in Carts.
Oliphant, L. Russian Shores of the
Black Sea.
Murray, E. C. G. Russians of To
day. Stead-Truths About Russia.
Kennan Siberia and the Exile Ss -
tem.
Dragomanov Russian Peasanrj
Miscellaneous
Hapgood Isabel F. The Epic Songs
of Russia.
Rae Contemporary Socialism.
Ballou Due North; or, Glimpses of
Scandinavia and Russia.
Browne Land of Thor.
Bryce Trans-Caucasia and Ararat.
Buckley Midnight Sun. Russia Be
fore and After the War.
PLANS FOK CLUII WORK.
Following a general plan for a study
of Greece, recently given in this depart
ment, is subjoined a special outline on
the Grecian drama and poets. It cov
ered two j ears of work by the Fort
nightly club of Seneca Falls, New York,
secretary, Mrs. L. E. Lathrop, and may
be culled from to make a one year's
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The Greek Drama
The Sphinx.
Greek Music.
Greek Mj ths.
Pallas Athene.
Greek Religion.
The position of women in Athens.
Greek plajs in English and American
colleges.
The temple of Apollo at Delphi.
The City of the Violet Crown.
Greek games.
Thebes.
Greek education.
Greek architecture.
Ajax Telamon.
Customs acd manneis of tho Athen
ians.
The Greek poets.
Lorn nos.
Philoctetes, CruEoe, and Enoch Arden.
The Homeric Ship.
Homer and the Critics.
Helen.
The Importance of the Oath.
Troy and its Royal Familj.
Hera.
TheOljmpian Sjstem.
Achilles and Hector a Contrast.
Armor and Weapons of the Iliad.
The Underworld of Homer.
Schliemann's Explorations.
Hephaistion tho Artist.
Homer's Admiration for the Horse.
In a neat brochure, with white coveis
lettered in gold and tied with bright
colors of the great white empire, the
English-American Reading class of
Buffalo, New York, presents its study
plan of Russia for the coming year.
Tho meetings of this club are "held
weekly, cue long paper, as a rule, or, on
on occasion, a group of shorter ones
presenting the different phases or the
same topic. At the end of each meeting
quotations from some desigrated author
are given. Corresponding secretarj-,
Mrs. A. L. Loebrick, 172 Fourteenth
street, Buffalo.
The Great White Empire. Quota
tions from Geoffrey Chancer.
Primitive Russia. Quotations from
John Gower.
Princes and Principalities. Russia in
slavery. Quotations from James I. of
Scotland.
Russia consolidated. Ivan tho Great.
Ivan the Teirible. Quotations from
Edmund Spencer.
Songs and Legends. Quotations from
Sir Philip Sidney.
Moscow and the Kremlin. Quotations
from William Shakspere.
Peter the Great. Quotations from
Christopher Marlowe.
The Semiramis or tLe North. Quota
tions from Ben Jonson.
Religions, past and present. Quota
tions from Beaumont and Fletcher.
Quotations from John Alilton.
Alexander I. Quotations from Jeremy
Taylor. J
Don QiXote of Autocracy. Quota
tions froa Increase and Rev. Cotton
Mather.
The people. Manners and customs.
The Aristocracy. The middle clas.
Thepeasant. Quotations from George
Alexander the Earnest. Quotations