ce 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; illustrate with photographs.
Raphael; sketch of his life; his pictures; illustrate 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; Dickens'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_: Shelley's "To a Sky-Lark."

_Paper_: "The Birds and the Milliner."

_Reading_: From "The Tragedies of the Nests," by John Burroughs.

_Song_: "Spring Hath Waked the Song-Bird," by Mendelssohn.

_Reading_: From "Bird Courtship," by John Burroughs.

_Recitation_: "The Robin Singing in the Rain," by Kate Upson Clark.

_Song_: "Swing, Robin, Swing."

For some of these readings others may be substituted if preferred. Here
are a few suggestions, which can readily be amplified: "Baby Days" and
"The Tricks and Manners of a Cat-Bird," by Olive Thorne Miller; "Bird
Life and Its Romance," by John Lea, and numerous magazine articles which
may be found in an "Index to Periodical Literature," contained in all
public libraries.

Among the many poems appropriate to the occasion are: "O, Swallow,
Swallow, Flying, Flying South," from Tennyson's "Princess" and
Wordsworth's "To a Sky-Lark."

Some lovely songs are: "From Twig to Twig," by Rubinstein; "The Passage
Birds' Farewell," by Mendelssohn, and "The Nightingale," by Schumann.
Liza Lehman has also written some fascinating bird songs, including "The
Wood Pigeon," "The Yellowhammer" and "The Owl."

A really valuable paper on "Bird Music" might