The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-11-18

lotte With His First Lecture.
The following art icl- which is taken
from the Charlotte Chronicle o. No
vembrr 18th, will lr. rpnd with inter
est here in Henderson where Mr.. Hen
~ formerly lived:
Col. W. X. Henry last night delight
ed a cultured and fairly large audi
ence at the Academy of Music with
his lecture "Osler's Dead Line of
Forty
The introductory remarks which
Col Henry offered before beginning
his lecture proper, and the confiding
manner in which he accepted the
Mecklenburg Declaration aud prom
ised to advertise Charlotte wherever
he went, captured everybody present
1ambeginning continental tour"
said he, "at least I'm starting on one
i don't know just how far will
get Qaughter.)
"A man saw me once it st. Louis
and wanted to know If they raised
men in North Carolina my size. Yes,
replied somebody, but he is only
small man compared with the rest of
them So you see | will be advertis-
ing Charlotte.
MASTERPIECES OF ART.
1t would be impossible to describe
the great collection OF reproductions
OF the world'sgreatest and sublimest
art that has been gathered together
for this lecture. There are paintings
from practically every great brush
artist of the world, and the variety
is So great that after viewing these
pictures for awhile one becomes daz-
zled with their sheer splendor and
wonder of detaiE
TheDpictures which Col. Henry uses
in bis lecture are very excellent repro
ductiOns of the originals. All of
them are in colors and thrown on "a
large screen makes it possible for the
audience to get a fine view of each
painting. The lenses and the hand
work done on the slides used to throw
these paintings on tba canvas are
Themselves works of art so perfectly
do they perform their functions.
The pictures presented are divided
into several groups, beginning with
the Egyptian, the Syrian the Baylo-
man, the Greecian and the Roman
periods, and then On down the ages
to the days of Napoleon, Frederick
the Great, the French Revolution,
and into our own times, with excel
lent pictures of Washington and Pat
rick Henry, and other scenes dear to
the heart of all true Americans.
There were many pictures also from
the Italian painters, showing Pope
Leo XIII, scenes from ST. Peters and
st. Paul's, the Vatican, and other
historic places, all depicted SO clearly
that the spectator missed no detail
of the great works Of architecture
and sculpture that were reproduced
on the canvas.
The fact that the pictures, as they
were shown last night, were SO thor
oughly appreciated by the audience
is taken to augur well for Col. Hen
ry's success on the road and before
popolar audiences. There are few
people who are not interested IN a
good picture. and hence this form Of
entertainment never wearies, and the
possibility of sitting and viewing the
art galleries of the world, as it were,
pass in review, is great privilege to
the average American citizen. These
reproductions have been gotten at
great expense from the galleries at
Berlin, the Louvre, London, Nation
al Art Gallery and numerous Others,
there being one picture the reproduc
tion of which Col. Henry's publishers
were some six or eight months in Sc
curing.
THE LECTURE ITSELF.
! And then there was the lecture ol
Col. Henry, a well-worded introduc.
ton, followed by brief remarks about
each masterpiece, with the observa.
ton usually that the men taking the
most active part in the historic OF
other scenes presented, were all over
the Osler dead line of forty.
"The women" said Col. Henry,
never get to be over seventeen, and
therefore / do not try To discuss them
in my lecture and book"
Col. Henry had formal and pol.
ished lecture which he was going "a
give with the presentation of the pic.
lures, lIr said. but ON acrount OF the
haste with which he had BEEN he.
-ieged INJECTING ready for the initial
pre- esItafion, l.. had decided rather
To Just offer some remarks about
each picture as it was thrown on the
canvas But if &hat the speaker de.
nominated just n few scattering ~.
marks were fair specimen. his lee.
ture can well be said to be "A gem.
His talk abounded last night in beau.
tiful climaxes OF English, inspired by
the painting on the CANVAS, and de.
livered with a thrill of oratory and
of power that ranks the speaker as n
man OF great oritorical ability. Gems
of yerss, snatche- Of orations by the
worlds grrntest sI,sake-s and refer.
ences OF historical characte-. in which
the lecture abounded made the lee.
ture itself a collection Of word paint.
ings, as il were. that is well worth
listening to, in addition TO the lecture
which Col. Henry has so carefully
prepared for the occasion
A list OF the pictures shown would
be impossible, as there were over 2OO
of these, and they were allo the best.
There il no doubt that this lecture
will meet with general success wber.
ever Colonel Henry shall give 1t,
/ and his forthcoming book, on which
is based the lecture, will meet with
general praise.
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