Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-02-20
MARION CRAWFORD
GREAT NOVELIST AN D
 LECTURER.
E, xot Speak at the Opera |uouse Friday Night for Want ofan AudIence-A Synop- sis of His Lecture on
 Lee XIII.

Marion Crawford, the cele-
 rated Italian American novelist
 Id lecturer, did not lecture at tEe
 |nprs house Friday evening, as ad-
 srtised, for want of an audience.
 otbe shame and disgrace of the
 e,ule of Pine Bluff, only about
 |aentv people assembled at the
 nora house Friday evening to hear
 tp lecture. Of course MT. Craw-
 0rd dismissed his audience without
 9si,ering his celebrated lecture,
 hr he could neither do justice to
 Himself nor his audience with so
 nall a number present.
 Nr Crawford lectured in Little
 Rock Thursday night to crowded
 house under the auspices of the Lit
 ts Rock Lyceum Association. The
 Arkansas Democrat of the 18th, |gres the following synopsis of Mir. |Cravtord 5 lecture:
 The speaker was introduced in 6 [fsR brief remarks by James Mitchell president of the Byceum As ocia- |tioD, and was greeted with ap- |plause when he arose to address l |the audience upon the subject of Leo XIII in the Vatican. In the Beginning he reviewed the eondi- |t0ns existing under Plus K. Leo's predecessor. He said that not Rithstanding the sentiment that this nineteenth century has been |0ae Of peace, the revolutionary idea has been the potent cause of more |earnage than during any previous |period of the worlds history The accession of the young Plus XI marked one of the greatest revo- lutons of all, and pronounced de- |pmtures from the puerility that had Distinguished the administrations of a preceding line Of weak occupants |Oi the pontifieal chair. Plus great |ly improved the city of Rome, and gave to in much of his own beauty Iand individuality, transforming it from medieval to a representative nodero city. Much of his good work was undone by certain car dlual, a remarkable man, the terror 'oi Rome, and would-be terror of Italy. But the cardinal died and the speaker was one of the few prviliged to gaze upon the wizened, broken. remnants ol the man who was the last of the romantic era. A month later Plus K died, and then ID 1878 Leo XIII was elected. The aamnlstration of this great man mas been most remarkable one in lne Advancement aud development Ol national prestige, of which he aas been the patron. Leo was born la lolO in a little village a few mics south of Rome, of a parentage u no wise distinguished The speaker gave most vivid and inte- ,sSVlng personal picture of the pope. ne IS mountaineer by character, a al, slnewy aud erstwhile strong man physically speaking, there is a $, sIeat Similarity between the Pope, 0'aostone and Lincoln, in stature, muscular development, all with an ua'e ar of melancholia. Lincoln "as developed under a reign of hard so'a ', 1acts, Gladstone received a
 Sa coileglate education before he gsOaine Known, and Leo was brought ai' ap unoer the surveillance of spirit Y " 'nll'ence, and during the throes sa a revolution. His youth was os psl' in simple surroundings. His ss a'eer was straight, answering ..,l,. su the first. From priest to bsAolsnop bn' his course was gradual s' sure. At this time there was a ,..a' struggle going on between the