f its
students.

One of the lecturers at this season was Professor Caleb T. Winchester of
Wesleyan University. It was a privilege to listen to his scholarly yet
delightful account of a ramble in the English lake country, with
estimates of the literary lights who made that region famous. Dr. Wm. H.
Milburn, the blind chaplain of the United States Senate, Dr. Russell H.
Conwell, with his lecture of "Acres of Diamonds," Dr. Edward E. Hale and
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore also gave lectures. Dr. Hale read his story, _In
His Name_; and at the close of his reading came a general rush for his
autograph. I happened to be in charge of the platform, and tried to
excuse the speaker from adding to his burdens, but he declared his
willingness to meet the demands of the people and wrote in every album
offered. In the crowd was a little girl, shabbily dressed, who had no
album, but brought a scrap of brown paper which she had picked up. Dr.
Hale looked at the torn fragment, then took the copy of his story from
which he had been reading, wrote on its fly-leaf his name, and handed it
to the little girl.

[Illustration: Athletic Club]

[Illustration: Boys' Club Headed for Camp]

Two lecturers from the South attracted attention. One was the Rev. J. W.
Lee, an able, broad-minded man; the other was the unique evangelist,
Rev. Sam P. Jones, whose utterances were sometimes eloquent, sometimes
jocose, sometimes shocking, but always interesting. Dr. Willis J.
Beecher of the Auburn Theological Seminary, Dr. John Hall of New York,
and President William F. Warren of Boston University were also among the
speakers.

Readings were given by Will M. Carleton, George W. Cable, and General
Lew Wallace, from their own writings. An immense crowd packed the
Amphitheater to hear General Wallace read from his _Ben Hur_ the story
of the Chariot Race. But candor compels us to say that it was not
very thrillingly rendered. One who listened said, "He never got his
horses off the walk." Other readers were George Riddle of Boston and
Professor R. L. Cumnock of Northwestern University. This summer Mrs.
Frank Beard collected and conducted an Oriental Exhibition.

Almost every year Frank Beard was at Chautauqua, teaching a class in
art, making pictures in the children's class, giving one or two crayon
lectures, and occasionally on Sunday evenings an illustrated Bible
reading. As already intimated, that was the age when there was a craze
for autographs, and everybody