The evening times., 1899-09-04

The period to be specially studied this year
was the Victorian Era, and the general
tone of the lectures was characterized by
a spirit of what has been called sane i'm
perialism." The subjects were, of course,
very various, and included literature, nat
ural science, and economics, as well as
history and the fine arts.
Prof. Dicey began with two lectures in
which he compared the English with the
American constitution, pointing out in
the latter the difficulties besetting Fed
eral system. He had much TO say in praise
OF the spirit and energy which had formed
nation out of a mass of incongruols
elements in SO short time, and some
thing also in condemnation of the politi-
cal corruption arising from the boss prin-
ciple, and the appalling prevalence OF
lynching in some of the States. Sir
Alfred Lyall followed with two lectures
on India in the first of which he sketched
British relations to the independent States
within, the foreign powers without, and
the buffer frontier country. The second
lecture dealt with the present internal
government, concluding with the express
ion Of a hope that elf-government would
be the ultimate development.
Lord Strathcona gave glowing account
of the progress of Canada, and other lect-
urers dealt with the Eastern question, the
slEuSSle tTetuOu lldly uIuSl SdSOuI
and Garibaldi, the unifcation of Germany,
the development of the warship, and other
subjects. Two lectures were given on
Imperialism in Poetry" The most pop
lar subject was perhaps the literature OF
the Queens reign. Three lectures were de-
voted to Tennyson, and wellknown men,
such as F. W. Myers. Arthur Sidgwick
and De Selincourt, dealt with other great
writers. Many lectures were delivered un-
a ~ Iza II "a, a-l
also classes bearing more directly upon the
practical work of the teacher, conducted
! by Mr.. Loveday, who has been studying
the psychology of the question in Germany,
and who gave a clear and not too theo-
retical exposition of the science as applied
to actual schoolchildren. Prof. Earl Barnes,
of America, gave also very curious and
interesting series of lectures on the results
of his late experiments in testing the de-
velopment of ideas in children.
In short, to give general idea of the
scope of the lectures, 1t is only necessary
to mention the following subjects which
were all handled by men of prominence in
the different fields of art, science, or learn
ing: Painting and Sculpture, "Archelol-
ogy," Music" Journalism Local Gov
ernment," and several others. Then a
lively debate on war and peace was held
one evening in the Union, the Extension
as character forming agency in compari-
son with peace as the promoter of in
teilectual and industrial supremacy.
The Prince and Hats.
Those who are knowing in such things
Prince of Wales is not the absolute arbiter
that once he was in matters pertaining to
mems fashions, but that he is still recog-
niZed as master where hats are concerned.
II this be so Englishmen are in for a
change Of headgear, for the Prince of
Wales, now taking his cure at Marenbad,
has been buying hats the color, shape,
and decoration of which are all new. Ac-
cording to the Daily News" 1.-The Prince
has kind of passion for buying hats and
giving them to his friends. He bought
nine at Marienbad and they are of new
pattern, and some Of them of a new color.
The color is green and the material soft
felt, and stuck in the back-as IL the
wearer, in his hurry, had put his hat on
wrong-is a little tuft of capercailzfe
feathers. Most of them are capercailzie,
but there is latitude for choice. Perhaps
the motive is that the capercailzie should
not be blotted out of existence, like the
egret. And the hat must always have
reference to sport The head of wood
| cock as sort of centre for its own fine
| feathers, two teeth of wolf with a tuft
| of VOLTS bristle-teeth and bristles Of a
dog will do If the rarer articles are not
obtainable-the curled tail feathers of a
black cock; these are the chief varieties
of ornament up to this But later ad-
vices which describe the hat as being Of
''the real Tyrolese STYLE" speaks of the
trimming as consisting of "a tuft of the
beard of chamois stuck behind like a
sort OF inverted shaving brush
| The Daily News" indeed, accuses the
Prince of being mere plagiarist of the COM
poser Offenbach, who thirty-five
years ago, after tour in the Tyrol,, re-
turned to Paris with full equipment OF
a Tyrolese sportsman, and appeared on
/ tho hnu1oyord uooripO tho Oroon hat with