Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12
DR.. EISENBERG
TALKS OF CAESAR
LAST OF THE UNIVERSITY COURSE
OF LECTURES AT AUDI
TORIUM LAST NIGHT.

DR.. Eisenberg delivered the fourth and
last of his Shakespearian series of lee
lures at the Auditorium last night.
Julius Caesar was his topic and he
acquitted himself in a mastery m
The attendance was quite large and the
audience manifested it's appreciation of
the lecturers efforts by frequent bursts
of applause. The speaker proceeded to
put the characters of the play before his
hearers. First, Caesar, who put away
at the supercal the kingly crown.
Naughty, as he gazes upon Cassius with
the lean and hungry look one also could
imagine that a dull presentiment of i'm
pending fate swept over him. * s. 3 *
Towering o all about him stands the
phllosophlc, patriotic, noble Brutus.
Wrapped up so strong in his own integ-
rity of purpose. he fails to appreciate
the method of the INSCRIPTIONS Cassius,
who leads Brutus on to the assassina-
ton of Caesar. Cassius hates Caesar
with a venomOus personal loathing, ac-
tuated by envy that the great julius has
grown so great. and that he, Cassius,
has. despite his ability as a soldier, re-
manned but a common man. He cannot
see how a man of such feeble temper
should so get the start of this majestic
world and bear the palm alone. Exult-
ing he laughs inwardly when the great,
calm. honest Brutus is caught in the
tangled web of Cassius' weaving. Moth
ing more cleverly illustrates Shake
speare's mighty and lesson teaching
contrast. drawing as the difference be-
tween the character of Cassius and that
of Brutus. No wonder that as Marc An
tony stood sad though victorius over the
dead body of Brutus, this was the no.
blest Roman of them ALL He did what
he did for the general good Brutus was
ar intense lover of Rome His entrance
- f1,n r,1 ;coa ~ o>,,1I NOT hox -o Lnn~
productive of any good to himself. for he
stood high and mighty in the affections
of both Caesar and of the citizenship of
the Roman empire. His ancestors had
shed their blood for liberty of the COM
mon people. When he was made to be-
lieve hat Caesars growing power
threatened Roman liberty he became
ready to Stay his best loved, for Brutus
loved Caesar, and greatly admired him
for the bravery and ability which the
! great soldier Enthusiastically possessed.
LAS an illustration of his tenderness,
see his treatment of his dearly belove
wife and his boy. Lucius. His scorn of
fear lies in his permission of Antony to
speak at Caesars funeral If Brutus
had permitted Cassius to kill Antony
as the latter knelt weeping over Caesars
corpse. he history of the entire world
might have been changed. His life and
stoical death stamped him as being no
bier than his day and generation. II
one could search into the hearts of men
it is little to be doubted that in the grim
hours, when his army dwindled and Phil
ippi doomed up, the heart of the great
Brutus cracked with grief in the knowl-
edge hat the 'murdefous taking off OF
I Caesar had been a fatal error and had
probably cursed generations yet .un-
BORN
The lecturer also INDUCED in some very
clever representations. The series of lee
lures have been very interesting.