The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-27
NEW CENTURY LECTURES
This Seasons Program Especially
Observation-Disclosures on Mt.
Pelee Comes First.

The committee of the New Century Lee
lures has received many congratulate ons
on the uniform excellence of the course
announced for this season. 1t is thought
that, taken as a whole, it is the best
course of the kind ever offered in Min.
neapolis." There are no weak sisters in
the whole ten lectures. Every one is SO
good that it is difficult to make COMPARE
sons. So t...., - Is, z
The most novel lectures in the course,
perhaps are the one by Frank r. Rob-
ertson, which opens the course, Saturday
evening, Jan. II, and the one to be given
later by Mrs. Charles W. Rhodes of Chi,
cago-= Mr.. Roberson's lecture will consist
of an adequately illustrated. account of the
eruption of Mont Pelee last May and the
havoc it wrought, together with some &C
count Of the West. Indies in general. y Mr..
Robertson was one of the first Americans
to reach ST. Pierre after the catastrophe,
and there is no lecture on this subject of
supreme interest that compares with his,
It will have the advantage of being the
first oral, splendidly Illustrated account OF
the great disaster to be heard in Mime
apolis. Mr.. Robertson is a very pleasing
lecturer, having the. faculty of arousing
and sustaining interest in a marked de-
gree. $780, >. KILL.
The lecture Mrs. Rhodes on Wagner
and the Bayreuth Festival Is so much
in a class by itself that a few words OF
voted -Wagnerian student and goes every
year 2to theeS Bayreuth festival She con-
ceived ethe{ brilliant E idea Of giving her
American friends who are not able to go
to Bayreuth a satisfactory substitute Tor
the real thing Accordingly she worked
up a lecture designed to be profusely
illustrated with colored lantern pictures
and with the operas illustrated by music:
Mrs. Rhodes gives a portrayal of Wagner
life and brings her auditors to Bayreuth,
where, with them, she enters the theater.
and by means Of her double Illustrations,
succeeds in giving a most realistic con-
ceptiori of the great musical festival. The
%do1phe aiSs5; FAMOUS s~
9'a Ths fo,l6kMiasg? a sddBhnmary Of the New
Century Lectures speaks for itself:
Frank R. Robertson, 1.-The West Indies,
Mont Pelee and the Destruction of st.
fPierre' Gllustrated), SATURDAY evening
Jan. II. 81. g. ~. - ! -: -
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw,i. "The = New
Man, Saturday evening, Jan! "a: = i; =.
! Burton Holmes, Sweden: : The Capital
the Country and the Canals; Friday eve
ming. JAM 80. Gllustrated.) ,1ss.~= ~, p
night sun Saturday evening, Jan 81.
! GHustrated.) .'@%T@~ =, = - j>%l&.fi i
i mrs. Charles w. Rhodes, Wagner AND
! the Bavreuth Festival" Saturday evening,
Feb:s7 :(Illustrated) -. -.
! = Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson,= u:
S. NJ, THE Navy and the Nation,
Wednesday evening. Feb. 49,. E:es.1.i =. Z,
DE-. Emil 6. IIirsch." The Bible as An
cient Hebrew . Literature, "wednesday
evening, Feb. 20: ~ - ;,
+ Hamilton Wright Mabie, American So.
ciety and Literature" Friday evening
4 March 6. 49,. -. - -, - Z.
Mayor Samuel M Golden Rule) Jones
Of Toledo Ohio, 1.-The Ideal Municipality. >
! President woodrow Wilson OF Prince.
ton University, What It Means to BE ar
American" -. $3.50. 49,.
The last two lectures though positive
engagements, have not yet been assigned
to fixed dates a. i -. go. -.
The lectures will be given IN the audi
ltorium of Plymouth church. = g.