SECTION E. 



FINE ARTS. 



During the winter Mr. William K. Burbank continued his 

 Thursday evening class in drawing from the antique. On Fri- 

 day evenings and Saturda}^ forenoons Mrs. Melusina H. Var- 

 ick's classes kept up their work in wood carving with unabated 

 interest. Mrs. Maud Briggs Knowlton's Saturday evening class 

 in wash drawing from still life showed no diminution of zeal. 

 To all these instructors the Institute owes much. At the close 

 of the season, in June, an exhibition of the work done by the 

 classes was held in the rooms, and attracted many visitors who 

 were enthusiastic over the work of the Art Section. All the 

 classes resumed work in the fall, although upon Mrs. .Varick's 

 inability to be present with the work of the wood carving class, 

 the direction of the work was placed in the hands of Mr. Ed R. 

 Robinson and Miss Annie F. Abbott. 



Rev. Charles J. Staples completed his course of lectures on 

 English Eiterature. His subjects were as -follows : Januar}' 15, 

 William M.Thackeray; February 11, William Wordsworth; 

 March 12, Robert Browning. 



In the fall Mr. Staples began the following course of "Read- 

 ings in American Eiterature — -Studies in Spirit and Style." 



I. Benjamin Franklin. 1706- 1790. December 4 — Poor Rich- 

 ard's Almanac and the Autobiography. 



II. James Fenimore Cooper. 1 784-1851. December 18 — 

 Deerslayer and the East of the Mohicans. 



III. Washington Irving. 1783-1859. January i The 



Sketch Book. 



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