The Monticellonian., 1916-06-29
DRIVER TO BE HERE
NOTED CHAUTAUQUA LECTURER
TO SPEAK AT OUR ASSEMBLY
THIS SEASON.
A STUDENT OF WORLD PROBLEMS
The Successor of Frank Crane at the
Famous Peoples Church in Chicago
Mrs. Driver Gives Intimate
Pen Picture.

Famous Peoples Church in Chicago
Mrs. Driver Gives Intimate
Pen Picture.
Chautauqua patrons the country
over are quite familiar with the work
Of DR.. J. NJ. Driver. the noted lecturer
whose voice has been heard perhaps
on as many Chautauqua platforms as
that of any living man, and whose
presence on any Chautauqua program
is looked forward to as an event of
great interest
DR.. Driver is a truly great man who
has won the position he holds as schol-
al and lecturer He has filled many
important positions and was the pop
ular successor of Drs. H. W. Thomas
and Frank Crane at the famous Peo-
pies church of Chicago, MeVicker's
theatre. During the memorable days
OF his pastofate vast throngs assem-
bled every Sunday morning.
He studied in Boston, Leipsic. and
Rome and has visited and observed
conditions in every European country
and in the four corners of the earth.
His books have been read in all
English-speaking countries; he has be.
come famous as composer, but his
best-known work is that of a lecturer.
His lecture subjects cover vast
range of human interests and have
held the close attention of the mil
lions of Lyceum and ChautauQua pat
rons from one end of the country to
the other.
DR.. Driver is a Methodist preacher
In regular and good standing, and has
been continuously since 1887. His
home is in Chicago but he is known
the world over, and resides every
where
All that has been written and said
about Dr.. Driver has come from the
outside and is the public's view of
him. Someone has said that "if you
would know man, ask his wife
Or. Drivers wife has written a char
acterization of her husband which
presents a view of The man which is
intensely interesting.
Mrs. Driver Writes.
Think of the strain of wifehood
with man who doesn't grow old,
or get tired and scarcely sleeps
Just works, works, works, studies,
studies, studies; who fears naught,
reads everything and forgets moth
ing, who goes everywhere and
knows everybody.
Mrs. Roosevelt silently stares at
Teddy" with a look that seems
to ask: well, what next?p Here,
too At hotel, theatre, opera, so.
cial fete, especially her in Chi
cago, what confusion Of
tongues" But DR.. Driver is per-
fectly at home in ten languagesi
It's all so bewildering, upsetting,
sometimes I'm embarrassed, but
oftener I'm scared and want to
run.
Often, at social gatherings, the
talk Is so varied, but I'm never
afraid of my husband making
faux pas. History, biography,
politics, science, philosophy, the
oloey war art, letters-as Mr..
Opie Read says: CDR. Driver fair
~ bulges out with vital data on
all subjects" and a well-known
bureau manager, speaking of DR..
Driver, said. "He knows so much
1t gives me the headache" Well,
J 1t often gives me the heartache.
My husbands a man of moods
and lenses; perhaps l should say
M hn Or, "
and-tuned human being | ever saw.
nor can age wither him, or custom
stale his infinite variety. What
comic pictures he draws, humor-
Gus poems writes, fantastic tales
invents; what puns, jokes, jests,
grimaces, epigrams, witticisms,
humorismsi
And then his music! Such mel
odies, harmonies, rhapsodies, SYM
phonies, miSereres-ah, miser-
reresi When we lost our Edna
apd Jamie so tragically | thought
his improvisations would kill me.
Once he wept and played, and
poured out his soul to the piano
from the dusk of one day TO the
dawn of the next. Our next-door
neighbor, a doctor, said: Let him
alone; but for that he'd become
insane"
But, normally, DIR. Drivers not
moaning Job, nor a wailing Jer-
emiah; he's Italianesque-a being
of air and sunshine and infinite
spaces. He's raptured with the
beautiful, the majestic, the sub
lime in thought and form and
sound and color; birds, flowers,
perfumes, music, pictures, statu-
airy, forests, mountains, the ocean,
cloud-f1ecked and star-decked sky,
the Shakespearean tragedy, Ger
man, French and Italian opera,
old towers, temples, cathedrals,
the airy graces and dainty hues of
Titan and Raphael
He has score or more of leetur,
subjects, the better-known of whiel
are: America Facing the Far East
Young America and His Mission,
1.-The Anglo Saxon and the Futur
Rulership of the World"
DIR. Driver speaks here on the sec
ond night of the Chautauqua Hi
subject will be "Watchman. What @
the Night" great new lecture.
II you could buy enthusiasm, In
spiration and happiness in package
on the market the counter Wher