The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-16
SEYMOUR'S FIRST LECTURE
Lady Jane Grey's Romantic story the
Theme-Next In the Series to be
Given Tomorrow Afternoon.


The sad and romantic story of Lady Jane
Grey was the theme of an eloquent and in
teresting lecture delivered yesterday af-
ternoon by Charles w. Seymour, the we'll
known dramatic and historical lecturer. In
the Seattle high school auditorium His
subject was handled in such a manner as
to enlist the closest and most sympathetic
attention of the ripest scholar and at the
same time TO give even the youngest pupil
present a more vivid and enduring coneep-
ton of the wonderful gil who for twelve
days was nominally, at least, queen Of
England
One of the most valuable features of Mr..
Seymour's admirable lectures is the pow
erfui sidelight which he flashes on pass
Ing events and associated localities. Prob
ably no student who heard him yesterday
afternoon failed TO get better grasp than
ever before on the historic tower or Lon
don in Its relation 10 the civic and military
administration of the period. No one who
heard the lecturer attentively could fail
TO profit by his incisive analysis of the
condition OF England al the time OF Henry
Wills death.
At the same time his treatment of his
main subject loses nothing in breadth,
power or interest, while his discourse
abounds with passages of rare and suggest
i've beauty. well calculated to inspire a
taste for classic English and to serve as
Few who heard him yesterday will ever
forget the picture he drew of Lady Jane
In the tower. awaiting the hour OF execu-
ton. and the thoughts of her childhood 5
home. with its memories of sunshine and
flowers the lark In the clear, blue sky, and
the belt of good greenwood.
The whole lecture was harmony. and to
mar ii by disconnected or discordant quota
lions would be almost dissertation. The in
terest and applause were just such as are
most fiattering 70 r speaker, entirely I'M
premeditated and spontaneous; now rip
pie OF laughter from the boys and girls Al
the lecturer told of Bloody Nary's love-
sickness for Philip Of Spain or the tangled
!ntricacies of Henry Wills domestic al
fairs: anon moist eyes and dead silence
as the ''goodhy, sweetheart" of young
Seymour was waited with kiss TO his girl
wife in the tower: and al the close warm
round OF commentator from al audience
10 whom claqueurs and articles were
strangers.
Mr.. Seymour's lecture was IN many re-
I spects a model monograph IN history, worth
more to the average pupil than chapters
| OF dry-as-dust Rotations and historical
tables He traced the career OF Jane Grey
with mastery hand her beautiful and
precocious childhood At Brnadgate; the
| plain stone lodge in Letesstershire: the
| tribute which Roger Ascham paid her in
| his "Schoiema ster;" the intense selfish
| ness of the England OF the middle half Of
| the sixteenth century; the scheme of John
| Dudley. Duke OF Northumberland. 70,
| changing the succession as fixed by Henry;
| the marriage Of Jane Grey to his fourt h
| son: the mysterious death Of Edward
| James heroic refusal az the crown, chang
| Ell into acceptance only under stress o.
| the plea that IL she persisted in her re-
| fusaI all who were dear 10 her would be
| seized for high treason; the Yomp OF cor
| onation. Mary's movements in che North
| and triumphant march 10 London: and
| then the sad final scenes eliminating al
| the scaffold,
| The next lecture IN the series will be a,
| the high school auditorium tomorrow after
| neon at go o'clock.