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    "ocrText": "The S. S. McCLURE\nISOBEL STRONG, the step-daughter and amanuensis of Robert Louis Stevenson, has prepared two\ncompanion lectures, one entitled In Stevenson's Samoa,\" and the other Stevenson in\nSamoa.\" These lectures portray Samoa as Stevenson knew it, personal incidents of his life there,\nLECTURE BUREAU\nand the character, manners and customs of the natives.\nIsobel Strong is a woman who has travelled extensively in England, France, America, Hawaii, New\nZealand, Australia and Samoa. With the keen observation of a quick-witted woman, the rare gift of narra-\nANNOUNCES TO THE PUBLIC THAT BY MEANS OF EFFICIENT\ntion, the instinct of the story-teller, accentuated by her wide experience in life in different countries, a\ncharming presence and a sweet voice, she is pre-eminently fitted for the lecture platform.\nORGANIZATION AND VALUABLE CONNECTIONS IN AMERICA\nAND EUROPE, IT IS PREPARED TO INTRODUCE UPON THE LEC-\nSEUMAS\nMAC\nMANUS (Seumas being Gaelic for Shamus or James) is the name of a new\nTURE-PLATFORM MEN AND WOMEN DISTINGUISHED IN LIT-\nIrish writer of wide popularity. His sketches of Irish peasant life have the vital touch, the rich\nERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, INVENTION AND TRAVEL.\nflavor of actual life in Ireland, and abound in native humor. His \"Through the Turf Smoke\" has\ngone through four editions, and his stories are appearing in Harper's, McClure's, Saturday Evening Post\nand other periodicals. Arrangements have been made whereby Mr. Mac Manus will give readings, under\nour auspices, from his sketches of contemporary Irish life and character.\nEDWIN MARKHAM in his famous poem The Man with the Hoe,\" created an epoch in American\nliterature. For the first time the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the submerged masses of\nburden bearers in our social order, had found a voice and it was as the voice of a prophet. The\nH AMLIN GARLAND, whose \"Life of Grant,\" as well as his occasional stories and poems of\nthe prairie and the trail are well known to readers of McClure's Magazine, has prepared three new\ndistinguished author will lecture during the coming season on \"The Man with the Hoe: the Poem\nlectures. The subjects are (1) \"The Epic Story of General Grant,\" a swift, closely knit,\nand the Problem.\"\ncarefully studied account of the wonderful life of this great man and soldier (2) \"Tales of the Trail,\"\nbeing Mr. Garland's account of his many trips to a wild country, giving the poetry, the drama, the toil, the\nCHARLES E. TRIPLER has the distinction of being the first experimentor to succeed in pro-\nmethods and signs of the trail ; (3) Prairie Song and Western Story,\" in which, by readings\nducing Liquid Air in comparatively large quantities, and at small expense. The new discovery\nfrom his own poems and stories, Mr. Garland brings back the life of the West that has vanished, and quaint\nopened up a wide range of startling possibilities as a motive power, curative agency in medicine and\npioneer types appear and re-enact the drama of prairie life as it was forty years ago in Iowa and Minnesota.\nmeans of refrigeration. Mr. Tripler will lecture giving \"Experiments in Liquid Air.\"\n(MR. RAY STANNARD BAKER, author of the article on Liquid Air in the March\nnumber of McClure's Magazine, will also give a limited number of lectures on the same\nsubject.)\nTISSOT PAINTINGS.\nAt last the art of photographing colors has become a practical and ac-\nJOHN KENDRICK BANGS.\nThe fabled Stygian darkness was pierced by flashes of felicitous\ncomplished fact. The immense gain to photography is obvious. We are having these famous\nhumor in A House-Boat on the Styx.\" American literature possesses many rich works of humor,\npaintings reproduced on glass slides by means of color-photography, for stereopticon use by us when\nand among the foremost of these rank the writings of John Kendrick Bangs. He will give an enter-\nwill be flashed upon the white screen a splendid pictorial history of the Life of Christ. The descriptive\ntainment consisting of choice selections from those amusing stories and sketches for which he is justly\nlecture will be given by no less a writer than Mr. Cleveland Moffett who has visited Palestine in preparing\nfor this work.\nfamous.\nEDGAR W. TOWNSEND.\nLights and Shadows of the Bowery,\" being readings\nfrom \"Chimmie Fadden,\" \"Major Max,\" A Daughter of the Tenements,\" and \"Near a Whole City\nJ.\nMARTIN MILLER, was special war correspondent in the Philippines of sixteen leading Am-\nfull.\" In these readings will be included the quaint philosophies of Chimmie Fadden,\" a Bowery\nerican newspapers. He has prepared a superbly illustrated lecture entitled \"Farthest America.\"\nproduct; reflections by the delightful Major Max, and the inconsequential Mrs. Max : descriptive bits of\nAmong the pictures shown will be : Kansas Trenches, Lines round Manila, North Dakota and Ten-\nthe lowly but picturesque lives of the people in A Daughter of the Tenements,\" and some of the tragedies\nnesee Regiments, Suburbs of Manila after the fire of February 22nd, views of the Natives, also finely colored\nin New York's Ghetto and its neighborhood related in 'Near a Whole City-full.\"\nTropical Landscapes, and generally such illustrations as are appropriate.\nDR\nFREDERICK A. COOK has recently returned from important explorations in the south\npolar regions, conducted under the authority of the Belgian government. His lecture entitled\nS. S. McCLURE LECTURE BUREAU.\n\"Through the First Antarctic Night,\" presents an absorbing narrative of this expedition,\nand is profusely illustrated with stereopticon views made from excellent photographs of natives, animals\nand scenery in the Antarctic. Among the topics to be presented are A new land of midnight suns and\nmidday moons-Habits and customs of an unknown race-1600 hours of darkness, and 1600 hours of sun-\nlight-A polar highway-Drifting 2000 miles on an ice-field-Tempests-Experiences of the exploring party."
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