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CHAUTAUQUA LECTURE COURSE.

Mrs. Peattie's Paper on "Song and Legend of the Middle Ages."

The Chautauqua college of Omaha has reached most satisfactory proportions, and is engaged earnestly in a course of study concerning Europe in the middle ages. Among the accessories to the course of study is a lecture every Thursday evening on some subject designed to assist the text books being studied.

The subject last night was "The Song and Legend of the Middle Ages in France," by Elia W. Peattie. The lecture concerned itself particularly with the songs of the [trou?], and was intended, as Mrs. Peattie said, not as a review of the profuse literature of that period, but as a glimpse into the time itself through the lines of its poets and [?]. Mrs. Keysor is to have a paper on the literature of Italy during the same period, Mrs. Tucker will have one upon the legends and songs of Germany. There was an attendance last evening of between three and four hundred.