The Washington herald., 1908-03-01
DIR. GRIGGs TO LECTURE.
VIII Talk on Julius Caesar at
Church of Our Father.

VIII Talk on Julius Caesar at
Church of Our Father.
-The individual and the state: julius
Caesar" viii be the topic of the lecture
TO be given Wednesday at the Church OF
Our Father by Edward Howard Griggs,
for the benefit of the Washington Play
ground Association. This will be the
third Of the course Of six lectures on
Shakespeare 10 be given BY this gifted
speaker.
This is the second season the play
ground association has secured the Scrv-
ices Of DR.. Griggs. His course last year
on The great moral leaders proved so
popular that the lecture hall Of the
Church OF the Covenant was over
crowded Through the courtesy OF the
officials Of the Church Of Our Father. an
auditorium twice as large. admirably
adapted FOR the purpose. and convenient.
ly located. has been secured.
Edward Howard Griggs stands by him
self in the field Of education He is alto
gether an uncommon man. doing an un-
common work. Many attempts have been
made 20 place the finger upon the source
OF his peculiar charm and power. Some
have said that il rests I'm his insight into
the human heart-that he IS "a seer: 9th
ers that he has added the artists warmth
and the openmindedness, of the truth
seeker to the wisdom OF the philosopher
He is compared 10 great speakers like
John 3. Cough and Henry Ward Beech
er; TO great thinkers Ike Carlisle and
Emerson. His personality is distinct and
irresistible. His gifts, his graces, his ac-
complishments are not conventional. they
are entirely personaI
For the last FIVE years Mr. Griggs has
been the leading public teacher in Amer
lea, speaking day and night. winter and
summer. IN all parts OF the country. 10
audiences that have assembled 10 hear
him. Each year the demand for his serv-
ices becomes more persistent and wide
spread. until now there is no prospect of
satisfying 1t. and he Is confronted with
the embarrassing necessity OF selecting
from the mass OF invitations those fields
Of work that promise 70 be most per-
manently fruitful. The amount OF the
fee in no sense controls his choice. and
those who want him seem almost as lit
tie concerned with the cost OF getting
him.
The material OF his lectures Is probably
wider than any one has hitherto used for
public teaching. He is not merely
teacher OF literature. or OF history. OF of
art. or OF ethics. His subject is human
life, and he knows that light upon this
supreme subject is TO be found in every
great field Of knowledge and living.
For the work Of public lecturing. Mr..
Griggs possesses in a marked degree the
usual essential platform qualities-a
strong, clear. pleasing voice. sincerity Of
manner and power 10 present his ideas in
simple. forceful. but appropriate language.
But with him these are incidentals-they
are tools that he uses. and uses effect
higher qualities. Beauty and truth. form
and content. facts and imagination-these
combinations in art and human life ere
the main materials of his message.
Dr.. Grigss is not only one Of the fore
most lecturers before the public to-day.
but Is a writer as well. He has. in the
last ten years. contributed three success
ful works TO the American literature
His New Humanism' is the careful ex-
preston in written form of his teaching
and thinking up TO the time of his leav-
ing California in 1883
"A Book OF Meditations." Mr. Grigg's
second contribution to literature. is en-
tirely different in character. II is made
up Of paragraphs and poems taken from
his personal notebook These excerpts
reveal the man, his varied but conse-
Grated daily life.
Or. Griggs new book, entitled Moral
Education" has already been heartily
welcomed. especially by teachers and par
ents