The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-26
 TO LECTURE HERE
 ON MARCH 4TH
To Take the Place of Fran cis Wilson; Widely Known
 As War Correspondent

Again a change has been made in the Bridgeport High school alumni association's lecture program. On March 4th, Francis Wilson, the we'll known actor was to lecture. MT. Will son has been very i'll and recently started south for the betterment of his health. He is not expected to re- turn east until the first part of April If it is possible, on his return he will be secured to lecture in this city. The lecture will be one of the pro gram numbers and those holding season tickets will be entitled to six lectures instead of five.
 The committee has been very fortunate in securing the great Eng fish poet, Cecil Roberts. MT. Roberts is very popular in England, in fact he is known as "the idol of Lon don'' and since his coming to America has made a favorable repu- tation for himself. MT. Roberts may be termed a marvel. He is not yet thirty years of age, yet he has oc- complished what one would call the work of a wel1-spent life time. Edward J. O'Brien, the American literary critic, said of him, Cecil Roberts is the best poet I have found in England. He has genius for friendship and a passion for things American. A brilliant publicist and a wonderful tchieP with his tongue. As war correspondent he and Philip Gibbs were the two most distinguish ed among the English war chron- iclers."
 At the age of twenty, MT. Roberts was literary critic on the Liverpool Post. He held this position for two years and then at the outbreak of TSy~ %I,o ,+ five years he has had wide ex- perience with both the army and navy. Abroad and at home he Is known for the splendid records he made while special. correspondent with the Dover Patrol and the Mil ford Haven conveys, as official cor respondent with the Royal Air Force and with the British armies on the western front. Besides serving in the capacity of correspondent he was as sistant director of overseas trans port, statistical officer, American ue- partment of the British ministry of munitions and examining officer to the Civil Liabilities commission. Since the war he has written and lectured, much, on the new world which he sees rising from the ashes of the old.
 = Roberts poem on the disaster creat- ed quite a sensation in America and was widely quoted.
 The subject of MT. Roberts lecture will be Through Eyes of Youth D Although his repertoire consists of several other lecture subjects the one he will use here has excited the greatest interest since his coming to this country several months ago. Among the other subjects are: 'The Younger Generation" '"The Wonder Age" and "Picturesque Denmark '' While planning the latter he was the guest of the Danish king. The youthful genius is what Henry Van Dyke calls the "poet of the five senses.' His mood is genial and re- freshing. This is found in Spring 1 time at Goodman Dean, the opening verse of which, follows:
 How marvellous and fair thing,
 It is to ses an English spring. l He cannot know who has not seen, | The cherry trees at Goodman Dean; l Who has not seen the blossoms lie 1 Like snowdrifts against a cloudless sky
 And found the beauty of the way l Through woodlands odorous with | May;
 1 It is rare, a holy sight
 1 To see the hills with blossoms white To feel the air about one flowing | With silent rapture growing,
 1 In the hidden heart of things
 That yearn, that flower, put fortf wings,
 And show their splendor one by one
 Beneath the a1I-rejoicing sum-" Among his volumes of poems are
 Through Eyes of Youth,'' Youth O
 Beauty War Poems,'' ''Twenty-Si,
 Poems" and ''Charing Cross.'' Tn;
 latter was dedicated to John Mans
 field. He also published a move
 entitled "The Chelsea Cherub," and
 study of the air force known as 9Th,