The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-25

city gets the best young men and wo-
 men from the country, it will be the
 city's glory and the fault of the coun-
 try; the fault consisting in not devels
 oping this new scientific appreciation
 of agriculture and not keeping In
 touch with the social institutions Of
 our age. The farm labor problem will
 not be settled until farm artisans are
 trained who have the same pride the
 shop artisan has in his work
 pr. George Vincent expressed the fn-
 terest Chautauqua Institution his In de-
 veloping practical rural education and
 offered a six weeks course in such
 training next year and one teacher
 from Chautauqua county who wishes to
 teach elementary agricultural jnstruc-
 tion. Pomona Grange. which has a
 handsome memorial hall on Chautauqua
 grounds. immediately arranged for six
 such scholarships Thus is New York
 inviting her rural Mahomets to the
 Mountains. but so far Alabama has the
 only Mahomet of Agriculture who has travelled to the mountain and that was when Captain Hobson carried farm ex-
 perts through his congressional dis trict.
 For those visitors who were not par ticularly interested in social functions, c. L.. c. C. exercises. Bible work con- ferences or Grange problems and pro- jects, or whose boundless energy called for yet more worlds to conquer, Chau- tauaua provided a continued feast of literary lectures and musical attrac- tjons. Besides the usual popular and open air band concerts the musical pro- gram included Marks Victory Divine and Mendelssohn's magnificent oratoria, Eliza.
 The main literary series of this va ried week was an Charles Dickens Representative Novelist of the Eng lish,, by pr. Richard Burton, of the University of Minnesota. No account can give conception of
 Dr. Burton's happy manner on the plat form; his refined breeziness. which brings him in immediate touch with his audience, or his play of wit and humor He is so easy and natural that one feels like listener-almost like A particfpant-in a brilliant conversa- tion. In featuring on Dickens as a man, an artist moral force and re- former. Dr. Burton showed insight sympathy and intimacy, not only with the enormous scope of Dickens genius but with many of his multitudinous characters. pr. Burton lectured in Montgomery last winter and to those who heard him the mere mention of his name will recall his magnetic man ner of instruction.
 The greatest attraction of the week if not of the season, to those interested | in present day writers was the appear ance of Reverend Samuel M. Brothers of Cambridge, Mass. MT. Brothers Is | A Unitarian minister who suddenly | leapt into literary fame two years ago when his first book, The Gentle Reader" was published He Is now re- | garded by competent critics-Dr. Bur | ton among them-as the first real es- sayist in the English language since Robert Louis Stevenson's death. In his two lectures here MT. Brothers fully sustained his reputation for purity oi style and subtlety of humor. Though | a man of middle age, Mir Brothers probably has long term of literary l service before him. for he seems hearty | and wholesome both physically and mentally. His full, clear, refined voice | adds much to his force as & lecturer l His first lecture on "The Anglo -Ameri-
 can school of Polite Un-learning. de | picted an imaginary college to whicf | Britishers and Americans should bt
 sent before being permitted to visi l each others lands. MT. Brothers lis
 of the preconceived prejudices of eacf | people, his diagnosis of them and hi
 suggested remedies therefor, were tru'
 and exceedingly humorous. His secont
 essay, "On Being a Doctrinaire" wal | deeper, yet amusing. In brillIan
 manner he shows the necessity of ou
 Knowing unpleasant facts and en
 deavoring to translate our ideals 0
 reform Into action. The cultured critic