Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-07
Yesterdays Lectures and Out
Door Sports.
Milton and TennysOn the Sub
jects of Study.
An Interesting day at the Seaside
School.
The Tennis Tournament-The Results of
the Contests-Notes and
Personals.

Yesterday morning Col. Homer B.
Sprague delivered his lecture on Para
disc Lost. 1t was a synoptical view of
the great poem from an unusual stand
point. Milton, like Homer and Virgil,
plunges IN nedias res, into the midst of
his narration, relating afterwards, by
way of episode the events that had gone
before. DR.. Sprague began at the chrono-
logical beginning, and related the events
in their order as described in the poem.
In this way he gave cleaver view OF the
succession and made continuous mar
rative. The lecture was beautifully
illustrated with colored diagrams, !show-
ing the successive stages in creation,
These views are original with DIR.
Sprague, who has made close study of
Milton's cosmogony, and has corrected
number of important errors in Mas
sons statement of Milton's conceptions.
The opening sentence of the lecture
characterized the poem as follows:
ga poem in epic form, the highest and
most difficult kind of composition; con-
sciously prepared for during thirty
studious years, and wrought out during
seven other 'yers of almost continuous
effort, by one, who without it would
have been reckoned amongst the fore
most poets and brightest thinkers of
England; it's moral the weightiest, it's
argument the loftiest, it's imagery the
sublimest, its music and march the most
majestic in literature, embracing in its
scope all space, all time, all matter, all
beings, "a world poem, an epic OF the
universe - such is Paradise Lost"
c. L. S. C.
Before the circle last evening H. M.
Du Bose spoke on "King Arthur and the
Knights OF the Round Table" He follow
ed in the main Tennyson's narrative as
given in the " Holy Grail and The Idyls
Ofthe kings"and predatory to an excell-
ent talk ON the NEUROLOGICAL history of
England he stated that he
believed the laureate to be the greatest
OF poets.
TENNIS,
Mems single handicaps were con-
tinued throughout the day.
G. Barnes won from r. P. Carter by
default.
X, Carter, Woodhouse, Lester, Lind
say, Germain and Arnold all won by
default.
Cawston beat Gassstt, 1864, 60.
Flint beat Allen go, go.
Church beat Cosby 6-5, "a.
Manning beat Van Doren 6-0,6-1.
Gilmore beat Corson 6.1 ,-6-2.
Barry beat G. Barnes $3.50.
Woodhouse beat X. Carter, $3.50.
Lester beat Lindsay 6-4, 4-6, 60.
Cawstan beat German "a, 81.
Gilmore beat Manning, 4-6, so, 6-3.
Ladies single handicaps were concluded.
Miss English beat Miss Tufts, 6-5, 4-6,
6-3.
Miss Shoemaker beat Miss Carter 6-1,
3-6, GA.
The finals were between Miss Shoe
maker and Miss English. Miss Eng
lish won, 1-6, Ga, rs.
Miss English had slight odds against
Miss Shoemaker but both ladies did
themselves honor as players.
The game between Miss Carter and Miss
Shoemaker was particularly spirited.
Miss Carter was heavily handicapped,
but every step was heavily contested by
both parties.
To-day mems singles will be finished
and then mems dOu bleS Will be opened.
NOTES AND PERSONALS.
On Saturday next Drs. Pendleton,
Frost and Read finish their series of
lessons on the Book of Hebrews
These lessons have drawn marked atten-
ton from among Bible students, who
attest their excellence.
''The Stranger at our Gates" tonight
by John Dewitt Miller, is discussion
on the immigration question. "What
can he say about that?"
"Give it up, replied prominent
Chautauquan, but I'll tell you what, He
wont say what anyone else would have
thought Of"
Tonight in honor of the tournament a
german and lawn tennis hop will be
given at the hotel ballroom. Prof. and
Mrs. J. w. Frazer will lead the german.
Mrs. R, H. Martin, Mrs. Gleason,
Miss Hurlbut, Miss Bradley, G. w. Bell
and C. S. Martin were at Redondo
yesterday witnessing the tennis playing.
Mrs. J. A. Fairchild, Miss Fairchild,
Ray L. Fairchild, Miss M. Jevne, and
Jessie Jevne are at Hotel Redondo.