New-York tribune., 1907-06-25
LECTURES ON POLITICS.
Educational League Engages N0ta-
bic List of Speakers.

The League for Political Education issued yes
terday its programme of lectures for next season.
This will be the fourteenth year of the leagues
istence. It has thousand members and
offers a notable list of public lecturers.
For twenty Saturday mornings. beginning No
vember O. lectures will be given in the Hudson
Theatre Lend a Hand" by DIR. Edward Everett
Hale, William Jennings Bryan. District Attorney
Jerome, Jacob A Riis, Booker T. Washington and
others. John Graham Brooks will lecture on The
Roots of Race Prejudice" Mrs. Margaret Deland
Will speak the Change in the Feminine Ideal"
and Jane Adams. Of Hull House. Chicago, will
also speak themes connected with the race
problem.
other lecturers on Saturday mornings will be the
Rev Charles F. Aked, pastor of the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church; Professor Henry van Dyke, of
Princeton Hamilton Wright Mabie, Louis Kauf-
man Anspacher' the Rev Heber Newton MiLlam m
Lloyd Garrison. whose subject will be The Feudal
South Edward Howard Griggs. Samuel Gompers
and the Rev. DIR. Parkhurst.
Professor John r. Clark. of Columbia, will lecture
on 'Monopolies and the People" The Relation
of the State Business will be the theme Of six
lectures by Professor Jeremiah W jerks. These
latter two will be delivered Thursday
mornings in the lecture room Of the league.
There Will be given on Tuesday mornings Sc
rieS Of lectures literary subjects. The Rev. DR..
Merle ST. CroiX Wright will deliver six lectures on
Il. Maeterlinck' Louis Kaufman Anspacher Will
give six lectures Russian Literature" and the
Rev. Thomas r. Slcer Will deliver six lectures on
shelley" Miss Agnes Repper, of Philadelphia,
viii give two lectures one OF which will be on The
Plague Of Letters" on Wednesday mornings at
II o'clock, there Will he given throughout the year
Il series CT lectures current topics.
These lectures will not he given by person,
heretofore, but the topics have been divided into
four groups, for each of which one person will be
responsible. The drama and fine arts will be
treated by Mrs. Rudolphine Scheffer Ely; public
affairs. by DR.. Sicer; literature, by Mrs. Charles
W. Wetmore elizabeth BislandD, and science by
a lecturer yet 10 be announced.
Educational excursions to places Of historical or
industrial interest in or near New York will be
given monthly. These excursions will be con-
Quoted. usual. by Mrs. Frank Bergen Kelley.
The Monday evening lectures will he continued
next season. Leslie Willis Sprague, leader Of the
Brooklyn Ethical Society, will give six lectures on
Social Forces IN the Victorian Novel This Will
he followed by six lectures by Mrs. Frank Bergen
Kelley, in cooperation with the city History Club,
New York City-Past and Present The Rev.
Frederick Lynch will deliver a course Of six
lectures on the Growth Of the Ideal Of Brother
hood
a development Of the growth of the league IS
ITS alliance with the City History Club. As the
league stands for educational work among adults.
the city History Club carries on similar work
among children. 1t has a large number of classes
all over the city in charge of experienced
teachers
The City History Club is now under the manage
ment of the League for Political Education. The
Offices Of the league and Of the city History Club
No % West 44th street, viii be kept open this
summer usual