: The Chautauquan Vol. 03 April 1883 by Chautauqua Institution Chautauqua Literary And Scientific Circle Flood Theodore L Editor - Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Periodicals; Chautauqua Institution Periodicals

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SUNDAY READINGS The Law of the Household 377 The Law of the Household 378 Finding and Bringing 379 Finding and Bringing 380 Faith the Soul Saving Act 380

They Grow to Flowers, Or to Weeds 383 Habit of Taking Pains 384 A Chaplet of Pearls 385 The Worth of Fresh Air 386 The Mammalia 389 Washington Irving 390 Hours of Rest 392 The Resources of the United States 393 Montana 394 Tales from Shakspere Much Ado About Nothing 395 The Head and the Heart 398 Defects in Our American Homes 399

C. L. S. C. Work 401 C. L. S. C. Testimony 402 C. L. S. C. Song 402 Local Circles 403 Robin and I 407 Questions and Answers Fifty Questions and Answers on Hampton Tracts, No. 5, "A Haunted House," and No. 9. "Cleanliness and Disinfection." 407 Outline of C. L. S. C. Studies 408 Thomas Hood 409 An Unnoted Evidence 412 Loss and Gain 413 Chautauqua Emerging from Winter 413 Chautauqua School of Languages 414 Editor's Outlook 415 Editor's Note-book 417 Editor's Table 419

REQUIRED READING FOR APRIL English Literature The Poet Described 423 On Giving Advice 424 Education Compared to Sculpture 425 New Books 426

REQUIRED READING

FOR THE

APRIL.

HISTORY OF RUSSIA.

THE TATAR INVASIONS--1224-1264.

The Russian principalities, weakened by civil wars, had no time for federation or concentration against the race that, moving with the swiftness of wild horses, darkened the horizon of the realm with their coming in 1224. Their aspect was rude, gross, and frightful: collectively, they were like an army of goblins. An English writer, who had perhaps witnessed one of their attacks, describes them: "They have broad and flat visages of a tanned color, yellow and black; thin hayre upon the upper lip, and a pit upon the chin. Their speeche is sudden and loud, speaking as if out of a deep hollow throat. When they sing, you would think a cow lowed, or a great Ban dog howled. They suffer not their children to eat till they have shot near the Marke, within a certain scantling." The bellowing of their cattle, the neighing of their wild horses, the grinding of the wooden wheels of their wagons, heightened the din and terror of their approach. In appearance and in warfare they were, in effect, half a million maniacs, mounted on horses as frenzied as themselves. Such conception of government as they had, took form in companies or hordes, who lived together in consenting communities, guarded by hosts of mounted archers. The poet, Matthew Arnold, in "Sohrab and Rustum," gives a vivid enumeration of a Tatar host, as it mustered "by the broad-flowing Oxus," many centuries prior to the period whereof we write:

"Kalmucks and Kuzzaks, tribes who stray Nearest the pole; and wandering Kirghizes, Who come on shaggy ponies from Pamere:

The Tatars of the Oxus, the king's guard, First, with black sheepskin caps, and with long spears; Large men, large steeds, who from Bokhara come, And Khiva, and ferment the milk of mares. Next, the more temperate Toorkums of the south, The Tukas, and the lances of Salore, And those from Attruck, and the Caspian sands-- Light men, and on light steeds, who only drink The acrid milk of camels, and their wells. And then a swarm of wandering horse, who come From far, and a more doubtful service owned-- The Tatars of Ferghana, from the banks Of the Jaxartes--men with scanty beards, And close-set skull-caps; and those wilder hordes Who roam o'er Kipschak and the northern waste."

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