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they will or no. Resistance to the natural law of altruism 

 is the chief cause of war and want. 



Monday, March 30, 1896. — The last lecture in the 

 course was given this evening in Plummer Hall by Rev. 

 D. S. Clark. He gave an interesting account of his trav- 

 els in Constantinople and on the Bosphorus. Illustrated 

 with lantern views^shown by Rev. J. F. Brodie. 



Monday, April 6, 1896. — Regular meeting in the Li- 

 brary room. Mr. Gilbert L. Streeter read the second 

 part of his paper on ''Salem before the Revolution." 



On Wednesday afternoon, May 6, 1896, an address 

 was delivered by Miss Kingsley, at Academy Hall, under 

 the auspices of the Institute, upon Warwickshire, and 

 the Personality and Surroundings of Shakespeare. Vice- 

 President Rantoul filled the chair and, in presenting the 

 distinguished lecturer, spoke substantially as follows : 



On the 16th of February, 1874, the Reverend Charles 

 Kingsley, accompanied by Miss Kingsley, his daughter, 

 paid us the honor of a visit and began here his lecture- 

 tour of the United States. I shall attempt no character- 

 ization of Mr. Kingsley. There is no need of that. The 

 American Cyclopedias of Biography and the Encyclopedia 

 Britannica unite in assigning him to the front rank in the 

 literature of our common tongue. He was a Devonshire 

 man, born in that beautiful southern county of England 

 from which this Colony drew so many of its sturdy pio- 

 neers. And his ancestors bore their honorable part with 

 the Ironsides of the south of England amongst the Puritan 

 patriots of Cromwell's day. His mother was half Ameri- 

 can, a native of Barbadoes. 



If I presume to postpone for a moment the pleasure 

 you are anticipating, it is to say that Mr. Kingsley was 



