e the forerunner of a new and brilliant era in the drama; it
was received in London with enthusiasm.

VI--THE BEGINNING OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL

But it was perhaps the rise of the English novel which made the time
most notable. Samuel Richardson wrote "Pamela," the first novel in which
the interest centered exclusively upon the heroine, and followed it with
"Clarissa Harlowe," which was immediately popular all over the
English-speaking world. Both books were intended as moral tales by their
author, whose sympathy with women was genuine and intelligent. The work
done in science by Bishop Berkeley, and that of Sir Isaac Newton, with
an account of the great controversy, should be studied. Take up also the
music of Handel, then living in London, and the art of Wren, who was
completing St. Paul's.

A study of the many famous clubs and coffee houses frequented by the
writers of the day should be made here. There is much of interest in the
life of the times, the duels, the gambling, the coaches and quaint inns
and hostelries.

London itself is a most interesting subject; it was just being rebuilt
after the great fire, and its churches should be especially noted as
they almost wholly conform to the ideas of Wren. Describe the prisons,
especially Newgate and the debtors' prisons.

There is an abundance of material on all these subjects, and many
pictures. The book on coaching suggested below will give many ideas on
vehicles and inns. Chapters in McCarthy's history will be found readable
also. Among other reference books are these:

"Social life in the Reign of Queen Anne." J. Ashton. (Scribner.)

"Queen Anne and Her Court." P. F. Ryan. (Dutton.)

"The Reign of Queen Anne." Justin McCarthy. (Harper.)

"John and Sarah, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough." Stuart J. Reid.
(Scribner.)

"Coaching Days and Coaching Ways." W. Outram Tristram. (Macmillan.)

"Among English Inns." Josephine Tozier. (The Page Company.)

CHAPTER XVIII

OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

In order to understand the state of education in our land to-day it is
necessary to know something about the beginnings in our early history.
So the first meeting should be on the founding of schools in Colonial
and Revolutionary days.

One paper should tell of the earliest grant of money made by Parliament
in 1619 for a university in Virginia. The Indian wars prevented the
carrying out of the plan for a time, and meantime the first schoolmaster
came over to the