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Title: The Story of Chautauqua

Author: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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The Story of Chautauqua

[Illustration: Lewis Miller (1878)]

The Story of Chautauqua

By

Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, D.D.

Author of "The Story of the Bible," "Teacher Training
Lessons for the Sunday School," etc.

[Illustration]

_With 50 Illustrations_

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1921

Copyright, 1921
by
Jesse L. Hurlbut

_Printed in the United States of America_

_This book is dedicated to the honoured memory
of the two Founders of Chautauqua_

=Lewis Miller=
_and_
=John Heyl Vincent=

PREFACE

WHY AND WHEREFORE

AN ancient writer--I forget his name--declared that in one of the
city-states of Greece there was the rule that when any citizen proposed
a new law or the repeal of an old one, he should come to the popular
assembly with a rope around his neck, and if his proposition failed of
adoption, he was to be immediately hanged. It is said that amendments to
the constitution of that state were rarely presented, and the people
managed to live under a few time-honored laws. It is possible that some
such drastic treatment may yet be meted out to authors--and perhaps to
publishers--as a last resort to check the flood of useless literature.
To anticipate this impending constitutional amendment, it is incumbent
upon every writer of a book to show that his work is needed by the
world, and this I propose to do in these prefatory pages.

Is Chautauqua great enough, original enough, sufficiently beneficial to
the world to have it