This club has been from its inception until the present time a prominent feature of the social and literary life of Flint. The club study has always been exclusively devoted to "the works of Shakespeare and Shakespearean literature," as the first of the simple laws and regulations adopted at organization set forth should be the rule.

Three plays are read by the club each season, the casts for which are arranged by a specially appointed committee. A carefully prepared paper on the play selected for study is read at the first meeting, by the member delegated for that duty. Selections from the authorities and commentators are quoted; the critic on rendering, comments on the reading at the end of each act, the critic on pronunciation reports; then the views of each member on the rendition and on the text are requested. The club as always worked seriously. However, at the end of the reading of plays, "off nights" have been given, to which guests have been invited. Many clever papers, original skits and burlesques, reminiscent of "Portia," "Hamlet," "Desdemona," and the rest, have made the Shakespeare Club's open evenings occasion to be recalled with joy. The membership is limited to forty, club meetings being held at the homes of members.

THE BANGS SHAKESPEARE CLUB.

The Bangs Shakespeare Club, which came into being by the initiative of Egbert L. Bangs, of whom mention has been made in "Res Literaria,' is a younger club then the one first mentioned, but has always contained among its membership names equally well known and prominent in literary circles of the city. Although started as a Shakespeare club, the scope of study has been wide and varied, including mythology, sociology, nature, music, philosophy and general literature. The present year's program is mainly devoted to Russian literature. Shakespeare, however, is not entirely neglected, receiving attention from time to time. The management and making of a program each year is left to a committee of three, and the chairman of the committee is for the year the presiding office of the club meetings. At present Miss Florence Fuller is ex officio president of the club.