The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-14
PROF. EATON'S FINE LECTURE
GIVEN IN NORTH SHEFFIELD HAIL
YESTERDAY.
Mantua and Gonzngns Was the Subject
and ii Large Audience Heard the Inter-
esting Address-Iiiustratedb by Thirty

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and n Large Audience Heard the Inter-
esting Address-Iii Illustrated by Thirty
! Views. 70.
Prof. D. Cady Eaton gave a most in
teresting lecture last night in North
Sheffield hall on "Mantua and the
Gonzagas." The lecture was the first
of series of Sheffield lectures to be
given in the hall every Tuesday and
Friday up to March 81, and was very
largely attended. Thirty beautiful ster-
eopticon views were shown on the can
vas which added to the interest of the
lecture. Prof. Eaton spoke in part as
follows:
when Dame Nature fashioned the
Rocky mountains she for some good
reason omitted excavations at the foot
of the ranges, where mountain streams
might unite and form lakes for the de-
lectation of summer travellers, and the
esctacy of rowing artists, on whose
banks hotels might spread themselves
and from whose shores steam or electric
contrivances might start, carrying
nearly perpendicularly up to the top of
commanding peaks there to shiver all
night between Icy sheets and at sun
rise to poke blue noses into impenerta-
BILE banks of evaporating fog.
| Acting in the same independent man
ner Dame Nature has, on the other
hand, supplied the Alps most abundant
ly with all these requisites for summer
recreation, lakes, broad deep and beau
tiful; select sites for hotel, high peaks
| whose side came sheer down to the wa
| ters edge and whose heads wear we'll
into the morning nightcaps of opaque
mist Nor has Dame Nature shown
| Partially between the north and south
| sides of her pet mountains. On the
north, and standing eastward from
Lake Geneva or Lake Neuchatel, the
traveller, in turn, at Lakes Thun, Bri-
entz, Lucerne, Tug, zurwich, and Con-.
stance can do every sort of modern
thing the guide book suggests, for thrift
has seized every vantage for hotel, boat,
rail and view.
Then, crossing over into Italy, and
beginning westward from Venice, the
modern traveller can do the same things
over again at Lakes Garda, Isea, Como,
Lugano and Maggiore. Then he may
recross the Alps and find himself once
more on Lake Geneva, and at the COM
Portable hotel from which he started.
All these lakes, both ON the north
and on the south of the Alps, have
streams of azure blue flowing out of
them. From Lake Geneva PUSHES the
River Rhone, and it Is worth the jour-
ney to see the deep blue crystal clear
ness with which the river swirls through
the lively city All the other lakes of
Switzerland feed the Rhine, and all the
lakes of northern Italy feed the River
Pc.
From the Lugo di Garda starts the
River Mincio. In all italian histories
the Mincio figures. 1t seems to have
marked the line between eastern and
western power. Along its course were
fought many of the fiercest battles of
ITALIAN wars. Within quadrilateral,
of which the Mincio Is the western
boundary, Austria made her last stand
against the third Napoleon fighting for
llulld uuILd. w no HIS IiOL HGdFu OF
read of the.elbows Of the Mincio? The
Mincio flows nearly south, and with but
small crossings of its elbows, for about
fifteen miles. Then 1t makes a grand
crook to the east for five miles and
reaches Mantua. 1t crooks all around
Mantua and spreads out into lakes
about the city. Leaving Mantua it gets
itself together again, crooks off in a
southeastern direction for about ten
miles more and then flows peacefully
into the great River Po."
Prof. Cady then spoke of the famous
frescoes of Mantegnia, and gave some
excellent views of his work on the can
vas. He discussed Ludovico, who at |
the end of the fifteenth century EN-
ployed Mantegnia and after showed !
beautiful painting of Mantegnia fam
lily. by himself Continuing Prof Eaton |
said: Valuable as these frescoes are |
to the histories of art they are still |
more valuable to the student of history,
They show a reign In Italian family
of the fifteenth century with full
ness of character and a completeness
Of detail as no written history could
showed it, BY Mantegnia wonderful
fGdllSll were presented u lH6 court OIL
Ludovico as by personal Introduction
We recognize the supreme authority of
the head of the house We would profit
by the advice Of the wise and affection
ate mothers. We are honored by the
confidence family affairs were conduct
I'd in those days and how strong were
still the severe customs Of former per-
eds. 1t Is long way yet to Titians
md Veronice's superb canvasses Of We
litian splendor which makes one doubt
whether modern life has anything to
n comparison, and still longer way to
Frank Halls and Rembrants parades
# Dutch burgomasters, which make us
Ong for their counterDarts and t. up
lcld virtue and to reclenish patriotism.
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FOUR LECTURES BY MR.. CLAPP ,
n the University Extension Center
Course. L.
Henry A. Clam will deliver q cni1rsa | Z