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CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOLLIBRARY, MUSEUM AND ARTS COMMITTEE

FREE LECTURES50TH ANNIVERSARY

1865—1914-15

PROGRAMME««W*Blw)lwl4..-/**.^

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OF THE 50TH SERIES OF FREE LECTURES

TO BE DELIVERED IN THE

PICTON LECTURE HALLOF THE

Public Library, William Brown Street,

Nov.-Dec. 1914 and Jan. to March, 1915

TOGETHER WITH AN

HISTORICAL ACCOUNTOF THE

FREE LECTURES MOVEMENT IN LIVERPOOL

Doors Open at 7-45 p.m. ; Lecture at 8 p.m.

Reserved Seats (in body of the hall) Threepence

Entrance by Side Door at 7-30 p.m.

CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED

Councillor Francis W. Bailey, m.r.c.s.

Chairman, Lectures Sub-Committee,

George T. Shaw, Chief Librarian.

LECTURES SUB-COMMITTEE, 1914-1915

Councillor FRANCIS W. BAILEY, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p. {Chairman)

Alderman FRANK J. LESLIE, f.r.g.s.

Chairman, Library, Museum and Arts Committee.

Councillor RICHARD CATON, m.d., j.p.

Deputy-Chairman, Library, Museum and Arts Committee.

Alderman JOHN LEA, j.p.

Councillor FREDERICK C. BOWRING, j.p.

Councillor THOMAS BURKE, j.p.

Councillor HENRY A. COLE.Councillor FRANCIS J. HARFORD, j.p.

Councillor JOSEPH LUCAS.

CHAIRMEN OF LECTURES SUB-COMMITTEE

from 1865 to 1914

EDWARD SAMUELSON, j.p. (1865-1873).

JOSEPH ARMSTRONG. (1873-1877).

THOMAS HOLDER, j.p. (1877-1880).

WILLIAM J. LUNT. (1880-1892).

WILLIAM H. PICTON. (1892-1895).

FRANK J. LESLIE, f.r.g.s. (1895-1899).

ARTHUR CROSTHWAITE. (1899-1900).

EDWIN BERRY. (1900-1901).

ARTHUR CROSTHWAITE, j.p. (1901-1908).

EDWARD W. TURNER. (1908-1910).

RICHARD RUTHERFORD, j.p. (1910-1913).

FRANCIS W. BAILEY, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p. (1913- ).

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Historical Account ^

OF THE

Liverpool Corporation FreeLectures

THE Corporation Free Lectures organised by the Library,

Museum, and Arts Committee have attained their fiftieth

consecutive session. This event is quite unique in the Public

Library movement in this country, and a short historical account of

our lecture work may therefore appropriately form the introduction

.> to the programme of special lectures arranged for delivery in the

J Picton Lecture Hall during the ensuing five months.

Lectures to which the Public are admitted free are regarded Libraries

to-day as necessary auxiliaries of Public Library work, and many Lectures.

*JCommittees of Public Libraries in the United Kingdom have

^ organized such lectures, while many more would do so if funds

J*,and accommodation could be provided. The Public Libraries Acts

<fi under which so many Libraries are established do not authorize

payments for Lectures. Liverpool was fortunate in securing a private

cT'Act of Parliament for the establishment of its Public Library and

^ Museum, and the promoters of that Act were wise enough and

enterprising enough to include in it a clause giving authority to

J organise those free lectures, the jubilee of which in this city we have

:-: now attained. *

When the question of founding a Free Public Library in Liverpool

$iwas under consideration, negotiations were opened with the Trustees

of the Royal Institution in Colquitt Street with the object of trans- Roya i

forming it from a Proprietary Institution into a Public Library,*astltut,oa -

pi Museum, and Art Gallery. The idea was quite natural, as the

Institution had been opened in 1817 to promote the increase and

diffusion " of Literature, Science, and the Arts "; and a commodious

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t^ry'Powerbuilding included a Museum of Natural History, an Art Gallery,

and Lecture rooms, wherein courses of lectures were given by meneminent in science and literature. The negotiations were unsuccessful,

but while the town did not secure the Royal Institution for its

Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, the objects of the Institution as

expressed by William Roscoe in his address at the opening of the

building, undoubtedly influenced Sir James Picton and his co-workers

when drafting the Act of Parliament for the establishment of a Free

Public Library and Museum in Liverpool, and the following clause

was inserted in the Act :

—

VII. It shall be lawful for the Council to provide, in the building

appropriated for the Public Library and Museum, suitable rooms for

lectures, and to cause lectures to be given on subjects of science or the

arts in such building, and to make such reasonable charges for admission

to such lectures as to the Council may seem fit;

provided that the

surplus of any money received for admission to such lectures, after

defraying the charges incident thereto, shall be placed to the credit of

the rate by this Act authorized to be levied.

No action was taken under this power until the year 1865.

Doubtless the heavy tax on the funds and the staff, both of which

were limited, that the work of organizing and developing the

new Library would entail, together with the want of a suitable

^ ^lecture hall in the premises in Duke Street where the Public

Hall. Library was first housed, accounted for the delay in using the legal

authority for lectures which the Committee had secured. That the

matter was not overlooked is proved by the fact that care was taken

to provide for a lecture hall capable of seating 350 people in the plans

of the building for the Library and Museum which Sir W. Brown

generously presented to Liverpool. This must have been one of the

first gifts of a building for a Public Library and Museum in England,

and it was certainly the first Public Library and Museum in this

country, built after the passing of the Public Libraries Act, to possess

a lecture hall. To-day the Liverpool Public Library, Museum and

Arts Committee possess two lecture halls, the one above referred to,

and the Picton Lecture Hall (opened 1882) capable of seating 1,200

people, and both are used in connection with the lecture work of

the Institutions.

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In the year 1861 there was founded The Liverpool School of

Science, to " promote a knowledge of Science and Art and the

application thereof to the various industries." The school was

successfully conducted in the lecture and class rooms in the new

Public Library and Museum building, but as time passed a want

was felt of popular lectures to supplement the instruction given in

the school. These the Committee of the School of Science could

arrange but could not afford to pay for;consequently, in the year

1865, the Committee of the Public Library and Museum were

approached to undertake the work. The Library Committee

considered that the suggestion came within the scope of their

commission, and arranged for four courses of 10 lectures on each

of the following subjects : Geology, Chemistry, Geometry, and

Natural Philosophy. Admission to the Lectures was, of course, free,

and the attendances numbered 2,666. The total cost was £100.

This was regarded as a success from the Library Committee's

point of view, and " confirmed the Committee of the School of

Science in the opinion which they entertained : that whilst there is

a fair demand for scientific instruction in Liverpool, the class which

seeks such instruction is unable to pay much for it." But it also had

to be reported that " the attendance at the lectures of the School of

Science had further diminished in consequence of the opening of the

free lectures." The Committee of the School of Science considered

that the continuance of a double course of lectures alike in aim and

character might prove injurious to both, and recommended that

" only one suitable programme of Scientific lectures should be

issued for the future and that that should emanate from the Library

and Museum Committee." This recommendation was adopted, and

since the year 1865 Liverpool has never been without its annual

series of Corporation Free Lectures.

The Liverpool Corporation Free Lectures as organized to-day

have been subjected to the criticism that through being single lectures

on many subjects they are less effective from an educational standpoint

than they would be if divided into courses of lectures on fewer

subjects. In view of this criticism it will be interesting, and may be

useful, to trace the developments of our lectures from 1865 to 1896,

when the present system was adopted.

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School of

Science.

First

LectureCourse,1865.

LectureDevelop*menU.

AutumnCourses.

As already stated, the first series of lectures in 1865 consisted of

40"lectures divided into 4 courses of 10 lectures each, and were on

strictly scientific subjects. During the succeeding 9 years, courses

of lectures in Literature and Art as well as Science were continued,

the number of lectures in the courses varying from 12 to 2. In 1875

40 lectures were given, of which 5 were single lectures and the

remainder short courses varying in number but not exceeding 6

lectures in one course.

In 1878 there were 41 lectures divided into 1 course of 3 lectures,

10 courses of 2 each, and 18 single lectures. In 1865 there were 40

lectures and 4 lecturers ; in 1875 40 lectures and 14 lecturers, while

in 1878 there were 41 lectures and 29 lecturers. Though the

popularity of the single lecture was established the Committee were

evidently reluctant to discontinue courses of lectures, as in 1878 they

divided the programme into two sessions, allocating courses of lectures

to the Autumn, and single lectures to the Winter months.

Neither labour nor money was spared to make the Autumn courses

of lectures popular, useful, and successful. Interesting subjects were

selected, eminent lecturers engaged, examinations held, and certificates

and prizes of books awarded.* Among the lecturers may be mentioned

Mr. Edmund Gosse, Mr. Hall Caine, Rev. Father Perry, Sir Robert

Ball, Dr. Dallinger, Dr. A. Russell Wallace, Sir O. Lodge, Rev. H.

R. Haweis, and ProfessorJ. G. Romanes. As this policy was continued

from 1878 until 1892 it must have met with encouraging success. But

with the growth of the University, and the development of other

educational agencies in the city, the needs of those people who wanted

the more detailed study of literary and scientific subjects that courses

of lectures afford, were supplied. Statistics show that the attendances

at the lectures were not maintained. Courses which had four or

five hundred people at the first lecture ended with an attendance

of sixty or seventy. On the other hand, the Winter series

of single lectures maintained their popularity. Consequently in

1893 the Committee discontinued the courses of lectures and made

the Autumn series consist of single lectures. In 1896, under the

Chairmanship of Mr. F.J.

Leslie, the Lectures Sub-Committee

abolished the division of Autumn and Winter series, and substituted

the present series extending from November to March.

-The prizes were subscribed for by generous citizens who desired to

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* Note.encourage this work.

The extension of the City boundaries in the year 1895 created District

the necessity for the Library Committee to extend both itsec ure *'

Library and Lecture work to the added districts. Therefore,

in 1897 the Lectures Sub-Committee revised their policy and increased

the total number of lectures from 50 to 67, allocating 38 to the

Picton Lecture Hall, and 29 to the outer districts. That number

has been annually varied, and in 191 3 28 lectures were delivered

in the Picton Lecture Hall, and 140 in the* outer districts of the

City.

In the year 1906 a further development of this work occurred Lectures to

by the introduction of special lectures for children. At firstCl"ldren *

6 lectures were provided, but that number was increased to 16

the following year, and in 191 3 21 were given. The Sub-Committee

exercise a care in the selection of both lectures and lecturers which

fully justifies the popularity of these lectures—a popularity which

taxes the seating capacity of all the halls they are delivered in.

The policy of the Lectures Sub-Committee may be defined as

an endeavour to present in popular form the results of the latest

developments and discoveries in literature, art, and science—including

travel, sport, and geographical exploration. As far as possible the

lectures have always been illustrated by diagrams, specimens, and

objects from the Museum, exhibitions of books, and scientific

experiments. The oxhydrogen light was first used in connection

with these lectures in 1876, and it is interesting to note that of the

two lectures it was then used to illustrate, one was by Sir William B.

Forwood on " Arctic Exploration, its heroes and their discoveries."

Electric light has long since been substituted for lime light, and now

the bioscope film is superseding the lantern slide.

But while endeavouring to make the lectures entertaining, to

instructive and popular, the Sub-Committee never lose sight w^rkT^

of the fact that they are an important part of the Library

work. A list of books obtainable at the Reference and Branch

Libraries on the subject of each lecture is printed under the title

of the lecture in the programmes, and when possible the list is written

on a lantern slide and projected on to the screen just before the

commencement of the lecture.

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In^the year 1865 there was a total attendance of 2,666 people

at the 40 lectures then delivered—an average of 66 per lecture.

Last Session (191 3-14) 72,613 people attended 169 lectures—an

average of 430 per lecture.

In 1865 the amount expended on lectures was £100, and in

191 3 it was £1,100. Since the inauguration of these lectures 3,801

have been delivered to a total number of 2,324,090 people.

These figures may reasonably be regarded as a practical apprecia-

tion of the Lectures Sub-Committee's efforts and a remarkable

record of fifty years work.

G. T. S.

October, 1914.

Across Unknown SouthAmerica

BY

A. HENRY SAVAGE-LANDOR.with Lantern Illustrations.

Chairman : The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of Liverpool

i (Councillor Herbert R. Rathbone, b.a.)

SYNOPSIS :—Rio de Janeiro—Outfit of trie expedition—Brazilian

fears—Reported danger in the interior of Brazil—Difficulty of obtaining

reliable Brazilian followers—The terminus of the railway—Purchase of mules

—

The ride across the province of Goyaz—The capital of Goyaz—Criminals as

followers—With only six men where thirty were necessary—Constant mutinyof the followers—Narrow escapes from attempted murder—The River

Araguaya—In the wild province of Matto-Grosso—Amazing scenery

—

Geological surprises—The Salesian friars—Another disappointment—Setting

out for the unknown—The Central plateau of Brazil—Important geographical

studies—Across unexplored country—The Blue Mountains—Anothermutiny—Short of food—Falling back on Diamantino—Prison rather than

exploration—The River Arinos—Terrific rapids—A grand waterfall—Thecanoe weighing 2,000 lbs. being conveyed overland across a high hill range

—

Difficulties and adventures while navigating the river—A journey on foot of

41 days through the virgin forest between the rivers Tapajoz and Madeira

—

Criminal behaviour of followers—Food thrown away—Incapacity of four mento proceed—Lecturer and two men proceed toward the Madeira in order to

obtain food and relief—Painful marching—16 days without food—The first

meal—Return journey across the forest from the Madeira to the River

Tapajoz—Saved men and baggage—Descent of the Tapajoz River—TheAmazon—Dismissal of 4 men—From Para to Manaos—Journey up the

Madeira in order to rescue valuable baggage—Journey up the Solimoes,

Ucayally, and Pachitea Rivers—Across the Andes—The Incas and their

civilization—Inca ruins—The arrival in Lima—End of trans-continental

journey of 22,000 kilometres—Return to London after an absence of one year

and five months.

The undermentioned books on the subject of the above Lecturemay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries:—

Across unknown South America, by A. H. Savage-Landor. 2 v. Illustrated.A hunter naturalist in the Brazilian wilderness, by Theodore Roosevelt.

Illustrated. (Scribner's Mag., 1914).Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, by H. W. Bates. Illustrated.Three thousand miles through Brazil, by J. W. Wells. 2 v. Illustrated.Adventures, amidst the equatorial forests and rivers of South America, by

H. V. Stuart. Illustrated.The Andes and the Amazon, by C. R. Enock. Illustrated.The upper reaches of the Amazon, by J. F. Woodroffe. Illustrated.Through fivf republics, by P. F. Mar*in. Illustrated.Across South America, by H. Bingham. Illustrated.Latin America, by F. Garcia Calderon. Illustrated.The secret of the Pacific, by C. R. Enock. Illustrated.South American Archaeology, by T. A. Joyce. Illustrated.Stanford's Compendium : Central and South America, by A. H. Keane. 2 v.

Illustrated.Aborigines of South America, by G. E. Church.A botanist on the Amazon and Andes, by R. Spence. Illustrated.

Thursday,

November5th,

1914,

9

ember MEXICO, PAST AND PRESENT10th,

1914.

ARTHUR DlOSY, F.R.G.S.

with Lantern Illustrations.

Chairman : Francis Salisbury, Esq., i.s.o.

SYNOPSIS :—General description of Mexico, the southernmost country

of North America—How the Far East sent the Lecturer to the Far West

—

Ancient Mexico—Its wonderful civilisation destroyed by the Spanish

conquerors—Yucatan, the land of wonders—The mystery of Maya civilisa-

tion—Its stupendous remains—Three hundred miles of ruined cities—

A

highly-developed civilisation of the Stone Age—Pyramids, Temples, Palaces,

Sculpture—Asiatic origin or influence ?—The people of modern Mexico

—

Typical characteristics of the whites of Spanish descent, the half-breeds, the

Aztecs and the Toltecs, the Zapotecs, the wild people of the forests. &c.

—

Modes of travel—The enormous resources of Mexico—Their exploitation

—

Mexico City, the Federal capital—Lake Xochimilco—The Floating Gardens

—

Mount Popocatepetl—The dictatorship of General Don Porfirio Diaz—His

frequent re-election as President—His fatal error—His downfall—The murder

of President Madero—General Huerta's rule—The duel between him and

Dr. Woodrow^Wilson, President of the United States—General Carranza and

the "Constitutionalists"—"General" Villa, the ruffian

—"General" Zapata,

the brigand—A ray of hope for the future—Mexico's friendship for Britain.

The undermentioned books on the subject of the above Lecturemay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending LibrarieG:—

History of the conquest of Mexico, by W. H. PrescottSpanish conquest in America, by Sir A. Helps. 4 v.

Popular history of the Mexican people, by H. II. Bancroft.Mexico, by S. Hale. (Story of the nations). Illustrated.The myths of Mexico and Peru, by L. Spence. Illustrated.

The civilization of Ancient Mexico, by L. Spence. Illustrated.Mexican archaeology, by T. A. Joyce. Illustrated.

Unknown Mexico, by Carl Lumholtz. 2 v. Illustrated.

New trails in Mexico, by Carl Lumholtz. Illustrated.

Mexico : its ancient and modern civilization, by C. R. Enock. Illustrated.

Mexico of the 2oth century, by P. F. Martin. 2 v. Illustrated.

A white umbrella in Mexico, by F Hopkinson Smith. Illustrated.

Mexico to-day, by T. U. Brocklehurst. Illustrated.

Mexico as I saw it, by Mrs. Alec Tweddie. Illustrated.

The awakening of a nation : Mexico of to-day, by C. F. Lummis. Illustrated.

The ancient cities of the New World, by Desire Charnay Illustrated.

The Great European War Thursday,of 1914: ITS STRATEGY AND TACTICS

BY

F. E. TILLEMONT-THOMASON, c.e.,!F.r.g.s., f.ph.s.


Chairman : Stuart Deacon, Esq., j.p.

SYNOPSIS :—Birth of German Empire—the Gospel of efficiency : in

science, in trade, in warfare—1866- 1870—Military operations of Franco-

Prussian War—Germany's need for expansion and limited opportunities—the

dash for Africa—Blocking the Cape to Cairo route—peculiar genius of the

Kaiser Wilhelm II.—his supervision of everything connected with Germanexpansion—Two decades of preparation for War and the final struggle for

naval equality—German thoroughness and mastery of detail—Development of

German artillery since 187 1—French and Belgian preparations during the last

twenty years—Fortresses on the French side facing Alsace and Lorraine

frontier—Metz and Strasburg—Constant revision of French war plans

—

Germany's simpler problem—main features of German plan practically

constant—Belgian preparations during the last twelve years—Germanintentions better appreciated than is generally supposed since the formation

of the " Entente cordiale "—Internal difficulties in France during recent years

more complex than in Germany—Simultaneous occupation of Luxembourgand Belgium inevitable and foreseen—the German War plan—Austria's

failure—the unexpected resistance of Belgium, and still more unexpectedsuccess of Servia—of all the armies engaged in the great war,

Servia's the only troops having recent experience of similar warfare,

excepting Russia's in Russo-Japanese War—Kaiser's miscalculation, especially

with regard to fighting efficiency of British Army—German reliance onartillery—German operations in Belgium admirably planned, as also wasadvance on Paris—Psychology of German strategy—German strategy the best,

but not sufficiently well supported by German tactics—some errors of Germantactics—Germany's disregard of staying powers of Allies—mystery of GermanNaval programme—part played by air-craft, motor cars, and submarines

—

German object in provoking War and reasons why the British were obliged to

take part—Probable situation at close of War as regards Russia, France, Belgium,

Italy, and British Empire—forecast of the rearrangement of map of Europerequired to satisfy the two-hundred-year-old aspirations of Russia and Italy

—

probable fate of Germany, Austria, and German Colonies.


Germany and England, by J. A. Cramb.The Anglo-German problem, by Charles Sarolea.Germany and the next war, by Friedrich von Bernhardi.How the war began, by J. M. Kennedy and W. L. Courtney.Germany's swelled head, by Emil Reich.Sea, land, and air strategy, by Sir George Aston.Aircraft in war, by J. M. Spaight.France and the French, by Charles Dawbarn. Illustrated.The Belgians at home, by Clive Holland. Illustrated.Home life in Germany, by Mrs. A. Sidgwick. Illustrated.The Russian Empire of to-day and yesterday, by N. O. Winter. Illustrated.Why Britain is at war, by Sir Edward Cook.Pan-Germanism, by Roland G. Usher.Imperial Germany, by Prince von Bulow.Why we are at war, by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History.The War book of facts.

The great illusion, by Norman Angell.How Germany makes war, by Friedrich von Bernhrrdi.How Belgium saved Europe, by Charles Sarolea.

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November12th,

1914.

aesday, WlTH CAPTAIN SCOTT'Smember

17th, Northern Party1914.

BY

Dr. G. MURRAY LEVICK, r.n.


Chairman : Councillor F. C. Bowring, j.p.

SYNOPSIS : Voyage of the Terra Nova to Captain Scott's landing-

Finding of Amundsen at the Great Barrier—Experiences of the Northern

Party during the first year, with many lantern views of Antarctic scenery

during the sledge journey—Remarkable adventures during the second year,

when they lived for some months, four of which were quite dark, in a cave cut

out of the ice, subsisting on such seals as they could kill—Life at a Penguin

rookery.


Antarctic adventures : Scott's northern party, by Raymond E. Priestley.Illustrated.

Voyage of the ' Discovery/ by Captain R. F. Scott. 2 v. Illustrated.

Voyage of the 'Discovery' under the command of Captain Scott: Scientificresults. Illustrated.

Scott's last expedition, by Captain R. F. Scott ; ed. by L. Huxley. 2 v.

Illustrated.

Antarctic Penguins, by G. Murray Levick. Illustrated.

The South Pole, by R. Amundsen. 2 v. Illustrated.

Voyage of the ' Why Not ' in the Antarctic, by J. B. C. A. Charcot. Illustrated.

The heart of the Antarctic, by Sir E. H. Shackleton. 2 v. Illustrated.

Out of the jaws of death, by Douglas Mawson. Illustrated. (Strand Mag., 1914)-

Voyage of the ' Scotia ' in Antarctic Seas, by R. N. R. Brown, &c. Illustrated.

Handbook of Polar discoveries, by A. W. Greely.

Two years in the Antarctic, by A. B. Armitage. Illustrated.

In the South Polar Regions (' Southern Cross ' Expedition), by L. C. Bernacchi.Illustrated.

The siege of the South Pole, by H. R. Mill. Illustrated.

Antarctica, by N. O. G. Nordenskjold and J. G. Andersson Illustrated.

First on the Antarctic Continent, by C. E. Borchgrevink. Illustrated.

Cruise of the ' Antarctic' to South Polar Regions, by H. J. Bull. Illustrated.

Through the first Antarctic night : Voyage of the ' Belgica,' by F. A. Cook.Illustrated.

Voyages of discovery and research, by Sir J. C. Ross. 2 v. Illustrated.

Story of the adventures of Capt. Scott; ed. by C. Turley. Illustrated.

CHANGE OF LECTURE

Polar Exploration 3uesdTNovember

EXPERIENCES IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC 17th,

REGIONS 1914.

BY

WILLIAM S. BRUCE, ll.d., f.r.s.e.,

Leader of Scottish National Antarctic ('Scotia') Expedition,


Chairman : Councillor F. C. Bowring, j.p.

(Notice.—The lecture entitled ' With Captain

Scott's Northern Party,' which was selected for

delivery on the above date, has had to be cancelled

owing to the lecturer, Dr. Murray Levick, being

recalled to the Navy,)


Polar exploration, by Dr. W. S. Bruce.Scottish National Antarctic Expedition : Scientific results of voyage of the

' Scotia,' under the leadership of Dr. W S. Bruce. Illustrated.Voyage of the ' Scotia ' in Antarctic Seas, by R. N. R. Brown, &c, with preface

by Dr. W. S. Bruce. Illustrated.Handbook of Polar discoveries, by A. W. GreelyAntarctic adventures : Scott's northern party, by Raymond E. Priestley.

Illustrated.Voyagb of the ' Discovery,' by Captain R. F. Scott, a v. Illustrated.Voyage of the ' Discovery ' under the command of Captain Scott : Scientific

results. Illustrated.Scott's last expedition, by Captain R. F. Scott ; ed. by L. Huxley. 2 v.

Illustrated.The South Pole, by R. Amundsen. 2 v. Illustrated.Voyage of the

1 Why Not ' in the Antarctic, by J. B. C. A. Charcot. Illustrated.The heart* of the Antarctic, by Sir E. H. Shackleton. 2 v. Illustrated.Out of the jaws of death, by Douglas Mawson. Illustrated. (Strand Mag., 1914).

In the South Polar Regions (' Southern Cross ' Expedition), by L. C. Bernacchi.Illustrated.

Cruise of the ' Antarctic' to South Polar Regions, by H. J Bull. Illustrated.Through the first Antarctic night : Voyage of the ' Belgica,' by F. A. Cook.

Illustrated.In Northern mists, by Fridtjof Nansen. 2 v. Illustrated,Farthest North, by Fridtjof Nansen. 2 v. Illustrated.Nearest the Pole, R. E. Peary. Illustrated.The North Pole, by R. E. Peary. Illustrated.Farther North than Nansen, by the Duke of the Abruzzi. Illustrated.Arctic exploration, by J. Douglas Hoare. Illustrated.A thousand days in the Arctic, by F. J. Jackson. 2 v. Illustrated.New land, by O. Sverdrup. 2 v. Illustrated.

The Romance and Tragedyof the Volga

RUSSIA'S LARGEST RIVER IN EUROPE

with Lantern Illustrations and GramophoneRecords of Russian Music.

Chairman : CouncillorJ.

Harrison Jones, j.p.

SYNOPSIS :—The Valdai Hills, the source of the Volga—The Forest

regions, Tver, Novgorod, Archangel, Voloyda—Rybinsk, the fish town

—

Barges and shipping on the Volga—Romano-Borosoglebsk—Importance of

Russian peasant industries—Yaroslaff, its history and trade with Archangel

and England—Kostroma and the Romanoffs—Visit to its forests—Ippataieff

Monastery—its history—Russian monks—Tartars attacking the Monasteries

—

Volga steamers—Nijhni Novgorod and Kremlin—Weird superstitions

—

human sacrifices—Makarieff Fair, a Russian holiday—Largest mediaeval fair

in the world—Minin and Posharsky—how they saved Russia from the Poles

—

Finnish tribes—Mordvi—Votjoks and human sacrifices—Kazan, the city of

blood and human bones—Ivan the Terrible,—how he captured the Tartar's

stronghold—Simbersk—Sheegoole Hills—The Volga robbers—the Vikings of

* the Volga—Samara and the great famine—Stenkel Rjazin's Headland—his

capture of Astrachan, Tsaritsin, and other towns—The Amazon robbers of

the Volga—The Doorman Gorge—The robbers' subterranean treasure

chambers—Kamishen—The great robber haunt of the Don Cossacks—Cossack

types—Peter the Great's canal to unite with the Volga and the Don—Tsaritsin

and its origin—its petroleum depots—Batir, the terrible Tartar General

—

Lake Elton—its millions of tons of salt—Volga fishermen—Astrachan—its

fisheries, trade, and vineyards—its Cathedral—the Caspian and its wealth

—

its enormous Mercantile Marine—Once joined to the Black Sea.

Boatman Song—" Rise thou, Oh sun so red !

"

Folk Song—" Down the Volga River, from Nijhni-Novgorod."Boatman Song—" Down the River Volga."

Song—" By the river by the stream the green grass did grow !

"

Folk Song—" That is not the wind."


Things seen in Russia, by W. Barnes Steveni. Illustrated.Home life in Russia, by A. S. Rappoport. Illustrated.Economic history of Russia, by James Mavor.The Russian Empire of to-day and yesterday, by N. O. Winter. Illustrated.Russian life in town and country, by F. H. E. Palmer. Illustrated.Russians under the great shadow, by L. Villari. Illustrated.Russia and reform, by Bernard Fares.The Russian people, by Maurice Baring.Russia of the Russians, by H. W. Williams. Illustrated.Russia, the country of extremes, by Mme. N. Jarintzoff. Illustrated.A trip ur the Volga, by H. A. M. Butler Johnstone. Illustrated.

Thursday,

November19th,

1914.

BY

W. BARNES STEVENI

Songs of the Volga—on Gramophone.

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Stalking Big GameWITH A CAMERA IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA

BY

A. RADCLIFFE DUGMORE, f.r.g.s., f.r.p.s.

WITH LANTERN ILLUSTRATIONS.

Chairman : Alderman Arthur Crosthwaite, j.p.

SYNOPSIS :—Introduction stating aims of expedition for the pictorial

preservation of wild animals which are doomed to extermination at no very

distant date—First part of journey from Nairobi to Olgerei River, encounters

with rhinoceros—Photos of them charging fifteen yards away—Photos of

Kilima-njaro, the highest mountain in Africa—Second part of journey over

Athi plains—Immense herds of hartebeeste and zebra—Buffalo photographed

—

Scenes on rivers—Flashlight pictures of animals at water hole—Exciting

experiences with lions—Being stalked by them—Photos at twelve yards of

big herd of giraffe—The Tana River showing herds of hippopotamus—Thejourney around the North side of Mount Kenia, Africa's second highest

mountain, across the Equator to Meru—The Natives, showing dances,

costumes, &c.—To the Northern Guaso Nyiro, where photos were made of

Grevy's Zebra, and many other animals, including the very rare Giant bush

pig—Through lack of food had to return to nearest settlement—Then to

make a last attempt with lions—Lucky night when twelve were seen within

nine and fourteen yards—Many photos made, showing the lions at their

own kill.

The undermentioned books on the subject of the above Lecture

may be obtained at either the Refexence cr Lending Libraries:—

East Africa and its big game, by Sir J Willoughby. Illustrated.

African game trails, by Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated.My African journey, by Winston S. Churchill. Illustrated.

British East Africa, by Lord Hindlip.Across widest Africa, by A. H. Savage-Landor. 2 v. Illustrated.

The East African Protectorate, by Sir C. Eliot. Illustrated.

With flashlight and rifle in Equatorial East Africa, by C. G. Schillings. 2 v.

Illustrated.Exploration and hunting in Central Africa, by A. St. H. Gibbons. Illustrated.

British Central Africa, by Sir Harry Johnston. Illustrated.

To the mountains of the moon, by J. E. S. Moore. Illustrated.

Tropical Africa, by Henry Drummond. Illustrated.

The man eaters of Tsavo, by J. H. Patterson. Illustrated.

Through Masai Land, by Joseph Thomson. Illustrated.

In wildest Africa, by C. G. Schillings. 2 v. Illustrated.Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries, by David Livingstone. Illustrated.

The Uganda Protectorate, by Sir Harry Johnston. 2 v. Illustrated.

The Kilima-Njaro Expedition : a record of scientific exploration in EasternEquatorial Africa, by Sir Harry Johnston. Illustrated.

In the grip of the Nyika, by J. H. Patterson. Illustrated.

Among swamps and giants in Equatorial Africa, by H. H. Austin. Illustrated.British and German East Africa, by H. Brode. Illustrated.Travels in the coast lands of British East Africa, by W. W. A. Fitzgerald.

Illustrated.In African forest cnd jungle, by Paul Du Chaillu. Illustrated.The foundations of British East Africa, by J. W. Gregory. Illustrated.The great Rift Valley, by J. W. Gregory. Illustrated.Discovery of Lakes Rudolph and Stefanie : Count Teleki's exploring expedition,

by L. von Hohnel. 2 v. Illustrated.The rise of our East African Empire, by F. D. Lugard. 2 v. Illustrated.Through unknown African countries, by A. D. Smith. Illustrated.The land of Zinj : an account of British East Africa, by C. H. Stigand. Illus.Native life in East Africa, by K. Weule. Illustrated.In darkest Africa, by Sir H. M. Stanley. 2 v. Illustrated.

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Tuesday,

November24th,

1914.

Through Ancient Picardie

A RAMBLE OVER ENGLAND'S BATTLEGROUND

SYNOPSIS :—The charm of Picardie—St. Valery sur Somme—

A

beautiful harbour—The fishing fleet—William the Conqueror's invading

fleet there—England's battle-ground—Battles of Crecy and Agincourt

—

Shakespeare on Agincourt—Description of the Battle—Abbeville—Maids and

men of Picardie—Origin of football—begun on a human head—Ramparts of

Montreuil—Amiens, the Capital of Picardie—its magnificent Cathedral

—

beautiful carvings—Ancient Beauvais—Loftiest church in the world—Laon

and its Cathedral—Legend of the oxen—Coucy—Greatest feudal castle of

France—Story of the Chatelain of Coucy and the Lady of Fayel—Castle of

Pierrefonds—Fishers of the coast—Legend of Methusalem—The simple ones

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of Berk sur Mer.

The undermentioned booVs on the subject of the above Lecturemay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries:—

Peeps into Picardy, by \V. D. Crawford and E. and A. E. Manton. Illustrated.

By-roads and battlefields in Picardy, by G. M. Musgrave.Picturesque Picardy, by Sir W. Armstrong. Illustrated. (English Illus. Mag.,

1886-7.)

Stained glass tours in France, by C. H. Sherrill. Illustrated.

Cathedrals of Northern France, by F. Miltoun. Illustrated.

Picardy for painters and others, by G. R. Tomson. (Longman's Mag., v. 2. 1888.)

Literary rambles in France, by M. Betham-Edwards. Illustrated.

The History of France, by Dean Kitchen. 3 v.

Medieval F rance (^V -^^)' by G. Masson. Illustrated.

Henry v, the typical medieval hero, by C. L. Kingsford. Illustrated.

Geographie pittoresque et monumentale de la France : La France du Nord.v. 1 : Picardie. Illus.

Travels in France, by Arthur Young; with introduction by M. Betham-Edwards.Chronicles of Fkoissart.

England in the later Middlf Ages, by Kenneth H. Vickers.

Letters and papers i .ustrative of the Wars of the English in France duringthe reign of Henry vi ; ed. by J. Stevenson. 3 v.

History of England and France under the House of Lancaster, byLord Brougham.

History of the Battle of Agincourt, by Sir H. Nicolas.

Lancaster and York, by Sir J. H. Ramsay. Illustrated. 2 v.

Thursday,

November26th,

1914.

PERCY ALLEN.


Chairman : Vice-Chancellor Sir Alfred Dale, m.a., ll.d.

Tuesday,

December1st,

1914.

A Million Miles of TravelIN DISTANT COUNTRIES

BY

HARRY DE WINDT, f.r.g.s.

with Lantern and Cinematograph Illustrations.

Chairman : Alderman FrankJ.

Leslie, f.r.g.s.

Chairman, Library, Museum and Arts Committee.

SYNOPSIS :—A million miles of travel !—20,000 miles without steam

—

Crossing the Balkans—Montenegro—Austria's waning provinces—Belgrade

—The Servians in action !—Sofia—Constantinople—A ride to India fromTiflis in the Caucasus—A perilous sea trip and mountain journey—Across

Persia—Teheran—The Shah and his wonderful jewels—Corpse caravans—

A

strange desert city—And Baluchistan !—A tight place with hostile Baluchis

—

Kelat and its murderous ruler—Quetta and the sacred city of Benares—Thegreat island of Borneo—Sarawak, the white Raja's kingdom, and how it

was acquired—Raja Brooke's wonderful little country—The HeadhuntingDyaks—Their strange customs and dances—A strange mode of execution—

A

famous Dyak warrior—The convict island of Sakhalin—Life on a Russian

convict ship—Dangerous criminals—A terrible life and climate—The " GoldenHand "—His adventurous history—Shooting the " White Sable "—Pekin

and the Great Wall of China—Across the great Gobi Desert—A city of

death—Irkutsk—the Siberian Paris—Yakutsk and Arctic solitudes—A hell

upon earth for political prisoners—A perilous journey across Polar wastes—TheTchuktchis and their savagery—Life on board a whaler—Through Alaska,

and the Klondyke, the wonderful land of gold—

" Old Pete " and his case

for mosquitos—Dawson City—The White Pass railway—Across the Rockies

by rail—New York.


My restless life, by Harry de Windt.Pictures from the Balkans, by J. Foster Fraser. IllustratedThrough savage Europe, by H. de Windt. Illustrated.The land of the Black Mountain : Montenegro, by R. Wyon and G. Prance.

Illustrated.Constantinople, by W. H. Hutton. Illustrated.Turkey and the Turks, by W. S. Monroe. Illustrated.My life in Sarawak, by the Ranee of Sarawak. Illustrated.My adventures in Sarawak, by the Ranee of Sarawak. Illustrated. (Wide

World Mag., 1914).Adventures among the Dyaks of Borneo, by F. Boyle. Illustrated.Head hunters, black, white, and brown, by A. C. Haddon. Illustrated.British Malaya, by Sir Frank Swettenham. Illustrated.From Pekin to Calais by land, by H. de Windt. Illustrated.The heart of a Continent, by Sir F. E. Younghusband. Illustrated.Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan, by H. de Windt. Illustrated.Round about Armenia, by E. A. Brayley-Hodgetts. Illustrated.Through China with a camera, by J. Thomson. Illustrated.The ' overland ' to China, by A. R. Colquhoun. Illustrated.Siberia as it is, by H. de Windt. Illustrated.The new Siberia : visit to the penal islands of Sakhalin, by H. de Windt.

Illustrated.Finland as it is, by H. de Windt. Illustrated.From Paris to New York by land, by H. de Windt. Illustrated.Through the gcldfields of Alaska to the Bering Straits, by H. de Windt.

Illustrated.Highways and byways of the Pacific Coast, by C. Johnson. Illustrated.Home life in America, by K. J. Busbey. Illustrated.Lady's life in the Rocky Mountains, by I. L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop). Illustrated.

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Wonders of Insect LifeDece

3rd,

J. BEST, B.Sc, 1914.

with Cinematograph Illustrations.

Chairman : Councillor Henry A. Cole.

SYNOPSIS :—J. H. Fabre, the insect Homer—his study of the science

of insect life. Dytiscus, or water-beetle, and its characteristics—Dytiscus

and its fearless young—young Dytiscus fights Salamander. The Mosquito

born in stagnant water—male Mosquito does not bite—female Mosquito the

torment of man—in tropical countries the Mosquito's bite causes yellow

fever—how to kill the larvae of Mosquito. Another enemy of man, the

common Flea—larvae or young Flea. Water-flea a small crustacean on sea

beach—at low water it takes refuge in sand—as tide rises it comes out andfalls easy prey to seagull. Insects invaluable to agriculture—The GoldBeetle—its protective devices—Bombardier Beetles—Gold Beetle useful to

man—works havoc among pests of the garden—Caterpillars, snails, slugs,

worms among the Gold Beetle's victims. Insect workers—The Ant—perfect

female Ant—male Ant—workers or neutral Ants—how Ants exchange ideas

—

Ants and their young—the nests of Ants—larvae kept in nursery—pupae or

chrysalis—young Ants fed by workers—the Ant a good fighter—army of Ants

attacking Caterpillar. The Ant's master—The Ant Lion, its method of

catching its prey. The Stag-beetle, giant among insects—its feats of strength.

The Common house-fly—the most unpleasant of all insects—dangerous germcarrier—its head, eyes, and wings. The Tse-tse fly, common to Africa—its

ravages—transmitter of sleeping sickness. Another dangerous insect peculiar

to hot countries—The Scorpion—its appearance, habits, ferocity—how it

defends itself—the sting of Scorpion and its fatal effect upon small animals.

A more peacable and harmless insect—The Scarab—a sacred beetle venerated

by the Ancient Egyptians—its size and where found—how it works—Theantennae seen from underneath—how it stores its food—its weapons of offence

and defence—a boxing match.


Social life in the insect world, by J. H. Fabre. Illustrated.Fabre, poet of science, by C. V. Legros.The life and love of the insect, by J. H. Fabre. Illustrated.Some nature biographies, by J. J. Ward. Illustrated.Insect biographies with pen and camera, by J. J. Ward. Illustrated.Our insect friends and foes, by F. Martin Duncan. Illustrated.The life story of insects, by G. H. Carpenter Illustrated.Insects : their structure and life, by G. H. Carpenter. Illustrated.True tales of the insects, by L. N. Badenoch. Illustrated.Romance of the insect world, by L. N. Badenoch. Illustrated.Nature's craftsmen : ants and other insects, by H. C. McCook. Illustrated.Sharp eyes : among insects, &c, by W. H. Gibson. Illustrated.Death dealing insects and their story, by C. C. Morrell. Illustrated.Ants, by W. M. Wheeler. Illustrated.Flies and disease, by G. S. Graham-Smith. Illustrated.

7

A Voyage in SpaceBY

HERBERT HALL TURNER, d.sc, f.r.s.

Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford University

with Lantern Illustrations and Experiments

Chairman : Richard Caton, Esq., m.d., j.p.

Deputy-Chairman, Library, Museum and Arts Committee.

SYNOPSIS :—Various imaginary voyages—Gravity the main difficulty

—

Galileo, Newton, Halley—The Earth rotates—Pendulum—Movement of

Comets—Gyroscope—Methods of flying—Air thins out—Refraction—Kites

and Balloons—Meteors—How distances are measured—Liquid and solid

air—Invention of the Telescope—Its uses—The Spectroscope tells us of the

nature of Stars and of their movements—Our Moon and the Planets,

possibilities and improbabilities of human life—The Sun—Origin of its heat

—

Radium—Sunspots—Nebular hypothesis—Eclipses of the Sun—Prominences <

and the Corona, present knowledge—Sun's magnetism—Solar disturbances

—

Our Sun is a Star—Distance to the next—Is it a double or a variable Star ?

—

All stars are moving—Our Sun and we with it are voyaging in Space—Recent *

knowledge about different journeys taken by the Stars—Is our Sun one of a

cluster of Stars ?


Pioneers of Science, by Sir Oliver Lodge. Illustrated.The evolution of worlds, by Percival Lowell. Illustrated.Story of nineteenth-century science, by H. S. Williams. Illustrated.Short history of natural science, by A. B. Buckley. Illustrated.Wonders of physical science, by E. E. Fournier Illustrated.Galileo, his life and work, by J. J. Fahie. Illustrated.Newton's laws of motion, by P. G. Tait.Gravitation, by Sir G. B. Airy.Some unrecognised laws of nature, by I. Singer and L. H. Berens. Illustrated.The atmosphere, by A. J. Berry. Illustrated.Liquid air and the liquefaction of gases, by T. O'Conor Sloane. Illustrated.Spectroscopy, by E. C. C. Baly. Illustrated.Great Astronomers : Galileo, Newton, Halley, &c ,

by Sir Robert Ball. Illus.Problems in Astrophysics, by A. M. Clerke. Illustrated. *

The visible universe, by J. Ellard Gore. Illustrated.Astronomical discovery, by H. H. Turner. Illustrated.Modern astronomy, by H. H. Turner. Illustrated.The story of the sun, by Sir Robert Ball. Illustrated.The moon, by Richard Proctor. Illustrated.The system of the stars, by A. M. Clerke. Illustrated. *

The great star map, by H. H. Turner.The story of the comets, by George F. Chambers. Illustrated.Halley's comet, by H. H. Turner. Illustrated.Radioactive substances and their radiation, by Sir E. Rutherford. Illustrated.

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Tuesday,

December8th,

1914.

Sarawak and its People Thursday,

by December

Her Highness the RANEE OF SARAWAK. 10th >

1914.with Lantern Illustrations.

Chairman : Alderman John Lea, j.p.

Chairman, Arts Sub-Committee.

SYNOPSIS :—First English colonizers—their methods compared with

thoseTof other nations—England's necessity of overseas possessions—the story

of the Malayan Archipelago—Sir Stamford Raffles—James Brooke's arrival in

Singapore—reasons which determined his voyage to Sarawak—disturbed state

of the country—his disapproval of ordinary methods of coercing dark races

into submission—his original plan of founding a Government in Sarawak—his

nephew, the present Rajah joins him in Sarawak—helps his uncle to reduce

country to peace through co-operation with its native population—success of

Government obtained by making use of most of the native laws as he found

them, letting legislation wait upon occasion and favouring the righteous claims

of the inhabitants of the country who were not Europeans—Sarawak as it

gradually expanded and grew peaceful under such a regime—description of

its people—its trade and commerce—fatal policy of turning such countries

into Chartered Companies—dividends due in Europe killing any emulation

amongst the natives to trade for their own benefit—summing up generally of

the position of the adjacent states.


My life in Sarawak, by the Ranee of Sarawak ; with preface by Sir FrankSwettenham.

My adventures in Sarawak, by Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak. Illustrated.(Wide World Mag., 1914.)

Life of Sir James Brooke, by Sir Spenser St. John.The Raja of Sarawak, by Gertrude L. Jacob. 2 vRajah Brooke, by Sir Spenser St. John.Ten years in Sarawak, by Charles Brooke.Sarawak : its inhabitants and production, by H. Low. Illustrated.The natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, by H. Ling Roth. 2 v.

Illustrated.The Private Letters of Sir J. Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak; ed. by J. C. Templer.

3 v.

Sir Stamford Raffles : England in the Far East, by H. E. Egerton.Life in the forests of the Far East, by Sir Spenser St. John. 2 v. Illustrated.The Far Eastern tropics, by Alleyne Ireland.The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, by C. Hose and W. McDougall. 2 v. Illustrated.Notes on Sarawak and Northern Borneo, by W. M. Crocker. (Royal Geographical

Soc. 1881.)

In the heart of Borneo, by C Hose. (Royal Geographical Soc. 1900.)

Head-hunters : black, white, and brown, by A. C. Haddon. Illustrated.Adventures among the Dyaks of Borneo, by F. Boyle.Two years in the jungle, by W. T. Hornaday. Illustrated.Ten years in Sarawak, by Charles Brooke. 2 v. Illustrated.Sarawak : its inhabitants and production, by H. Low. Illustrated.British Malaya, by Sir Frank Swettenham. Illustrated.

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Fifty Years Progress

in BiologyBY

W. A. HERDMAN, d.sc, f.r.s., f.l.s.

Derby Professor of Natural History, University of Liverpool.


Chairman : Councillor C. Sydney Jones, j.p., m.a.

Chairman, Museums Sub-Committee.

SYNOPSIS :—Biology fifty years ago. The early days of Darwinism.

Pre-Darwinian Biology—the work of the field-naturalist—Linnaeus and the

naming and classification of animals and plants—Cuvier and the comparative

anatomists—Sir Richard Owen and the remains of extinct animals. Charles

Darwin and the early evolutionists—Huxley and Hooker and other Darwinians.

Laboratory work and biological stations. Heredity and other recent develop-

ments of Biology. The application of Biology to agriculture and sea-fisheries

investigation. Man's food from the land and from the sea. Theinterdependence of animals and plants. The circulation of materials in nature.

The ultimate foods of the sea and their effect upon our fisheries. Someexamples of recent sea-fisheries investigation. The practical value of Biology

^connection with the health and prosperity of man.


The wonderful (19TH) Century, by Alfred Russell Wallace.Lives and labours of leading naturalists, by H. Alleyne Nicholson.Heroes of Science : Zoologists, by P. Martin Duncan.The descent of man, by Charles Darwin. IllustratedThe origin of species, by Charles Darwin. Illustrated.Pioneers of evolution from Thales to Huxley, by E. Clodd.Makers of British botany; ed. by F. W. Oliver. Illustrated.The foundations of the origin of species, by Charles Darwin.Fifty years of Darwinism : addresses in honour of Charles Darwin. Illustrated.Principles of Biology, by Herbert Spencer. 2 v.

The origin of life, by J. Butler Burke. Illustrated.The evolution theory, by A. Weismann. 2 v. Illustrated.Darwin, and after Darwin, by G. J. Romanes. 3 v. Illustrated.Story of nineteenth-century science, by H. S. Williams. Illustrated.Darwiniana, by T. H. Huxley.Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection, by E. B. Poulton.Studies, scientific and social, by Alfred Russell Wallace. 2 v. Illustrated.The origin and nature of life, by Benjamin Moore.Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems, by A. Weismann. 2 v.

Darwin and modern science, by A. C. Seward. Illustrated.Lancashire Sea-fisheries Laboratory : reports ; ed. by W. A. Herdman.Four addresses before the Linnean Society, by W. A. Herdman.Liverpool Marine Biology Committee : reports, by W. A. Herdman.Some problems of the sea, by W. A. Herdman.Science of the sea; ed. by G. Herbert Fowler. Illustrated.The philosophy of biology, by James Johnstone.British fisheries, by James Johnstone. Illustrated.Lancashire Sea Fisheries Memoirs, bv W. A. Herdman, &c IllustratedThe resources of the sea, by W. C. Mcintosh. Illustrated.

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Thursday,

January

14th,

1915.

Bulgaria and the

Czar Ferdinand

Tuesday,

January

19th,

1915.»

BY

OLIVER BAINBRIDGE.


Chairman : Sir Edward Russell.

SYNOPSIS :—Early history of Bulgaria—Roman remains—Origin of the

Bulgarians—Primitive Customs of the old Bulgarians—Power of the Bulgarians

—The first Bulgarian Empire—Simeon's power—Ancient Bulgarian

literature—The Czar Peter—Samuel receives his crown—Basil the " Bulger

Slayer "—Fall of the first Bulgarian Empire—Bulgaria under the Greeks

—

Native insurrections—The second Bulgarian Empire—The crowning of

Kalojan by the Cardinal—The charming Czar Asen II—Increase of trade

—

The Czar Terterij I.—The advance of the Turks—Fall of the second Empire

—

Bulgaria under the Turks—" Tooth money "—The Phanariote Bishops

—

Bulgarian atrocities—Gladstone's pamphlet—MacGahon the American

correspondent—Treaties of San Stefano and Berlin—Prince Alexander—The

Servian War—Alexander kidnapped—The abdiction of Alexander—Bulgaria

to-day—The Czar Ferdinand.

The undermentioned books on the subject of the above Lecture3x1ay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries:—

The Balkan tangle, by Oliver Bainbridge. Illustrated.Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, by E. Sellers. (Fortnightly Rev. v. 94: 1910.)The Peasant State, by Edward Dicey.Trouble in the Balkans, by J. L. C. Booth. Illustrated.War in Bulgaria, by Valentine Baker Pasha. 2 v.

Pictures from the Balkans, by J. Foster Fraser. Illustrated.With the victorious Bulgarians, by Lieut. H. Wagner. Illustrated.Encyclopaedia Britannica. nth ed. v. 4 : Bulgaria, by J. D. Bourchier.The crisis in the Near East, by P. H. H. Massy. (19th Century, v. 64 : 1908.)The Balkan question; ed. by Luigi Villari.The Balkans : Bulgaria, &c, by W. Miller. Illustrated.Bulgaria, past and present, by J. Samuelson. Illustrated.Struggle of the Bulgarians for national independence under Prince

Alexander, by A. von Huhn.The Eastern crisis, by W. E. Gladstone.Cambridge Modern History, v. ii : The growth of nationalities.The Balkans from within, by R. Wyon. Illustrated.Peace theories and ihe Balkan War, by Norman Angell.The Balkan Peninsula, by E. de Laveleye.The growth of freedom in the Balkan Peninsula, by J. G. C. Minchin.By-paths in the Balkans, by F. W. von Herbert.

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The Evolution of Beautiful

SceneryBY

JOSEPH McCABE.


Chairman : Councillor Joseph Lucas.

SYNOPSIS :—Exhibits views of the most beautiful spots on the earth,

with scientific explanation of their development—The lakes of Cumberland

and Westmoreland and of North America—The Alps, their age, formation,

and beauties—The Norwegian fjords—The Bay of Naples—The Thames

Valley—The West of Scotland—Tropical forests, etc.—The beauties of

Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.


Earth sculpture, by James Geikie. Illustrated.

The evolution of earth structure, by T. Mellard Reade. Illustrated.

The scientific study of scenery, by J. E. Mann. Illustrated.

The scenery of England and the causes to which it is due, by Lord \vebury.Illustrated.

The scenery of Switzerland and the causes to which it is due, by Lord Avebury.Illustrated.

Landscape in history, by Sir A. Geikie.

The scenery of Scotland, by Sir A. Geikie. Illustrated.

Types of scenery and their influence on literature, by Sir A. Geikie.Illustrated.

The building of the British Isles : a study in geographical evolution, byA. J. Jukes-Browne. Illustrated.

The face of the earth, by Edward Suess ; transl. by H. B. C. Sollas.Illustrated. 4 v.

Landscape geology, by H. Miller. Illustrated.

The origin of mountain ranges, by T. Mellard Reade. Illustrated

The eeauties of nature, by Lord Avebury. Illlustrated.

Fragments of earth lore, by James Geikie. Illustrated.

The story of the hills, by H. N. Hutchinson. Illustrated.

Romance of modern geology, by E. S. Grew. Illustrated.

Volcanoes : their structure and significance, by T. G. Bonney. Illustrated.

The building of the Alps, by T. G. Bonney. Illustrated.

Ice-work, past and present, by T. G. Bonney. Illustrated.

The work of rain and rivers, by T. G. Bonney. Illustrated.

The Alps, by Sir Martin Conway and A. D. McCormick. Illustrated.

Highways and byways in the Lake District, by A. G. Bradley. Illustrated.

Rock-climbing in the English Lake District, by O. G. Jones. Illustrated.

The Pacific Coast scenic tour, by H. T. Finck. Illustrated.

Naples, by A. and Sybil Fitzgerald. Illustrated.

Scotland, picturesque and traditional, by G. E. Todd. Illustrated.

The Norwegian fjords, by A. H. Cooper. Illustrated.

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i he Romance of RhodesiaBY

G. de H. LARPENT, B.A.


Chairman : Councillor Ernest C. Given, M.Inst. C.E.

Chairman, Libraries Sub-Committee.

SYNOPSIS :—In the days of Monomotapa—Traditional gold mines and

the ruins of ancient Cities—Quaint paintings on rocks and caves—The

mystery of their origin—Livingstone excites British enthusiasm for the

conversion of the native races and for the suppression of the slave trade

—

The scramble for the partition of Africa—Cecil Rhodes on the Diamond

Fields—dreams of British expansion to the north—The race for the

hinterland—At the court of Lobengula, ruler of the Matabele warrior

tribe—The Royal Charter of 1889—Following in the track of the pioneers

—

Troubles come not single spies, but in battalions—The war song of the

Shangani Patrol—Rhodes without a hat—From Cape to Cairo—The romance

of gold—There is more wealth on, than under, the surface of the ground

—

The legend of the maize—Tobacco growing—Curing barns and warehouses

—Types of native cattle—Grading up with imported pedigree stock—Anorange grove—The sport of kings—A right and left in lions and elephants

every man a volunteer—The Locust and the Tse-tse Fly—A native

baby—The most majestic waterfall in the World—Where Rhodes rests

entombed in the Matopos.

The undermentioned books on the subject cf the above Lecturemay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries:—

Prehistoric Rhodesia, by R. N. Hall. Illustrated.

Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia, by R. N. Hall. Illustrated

Southern Rhodesia, by Percy F. Hone. Illustrated.

Cecil Rhodes, by his Secretary, Philip Jourdan.Cecil John Rhodes : a Monograph and a Reminiscence, by Sir Thomas E. Fuller.

Illustrated.

Medieval Rhodesia, by David Randall-Maclver. Illustrated.

The Great Plateau of Northern Rhodesia, by C. Gouldsbury and H. Sheane.Illustrated

Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia, by F. C. Selous. Illustrated.Monomotapa (Rhodesia) : its Monuments and its History, by A. Wilmot.

Illustrated.

A History of Rhodesia, by Howard Hensraan.The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia, by R. N. Hall and W. G. Neal. Illustrated.Rhodesia and its Government, by H. C. Thomson. Illustrated.The Diary of a Soldier of Fortune, by S. P. Hyatt. Illustrated,The Union of South Africa, by W. B. Worsfold. Illustrated.The Eldorado of the Ancients, by Carl Peters. Illustrated.Rhodesia, by C. W. Boyd, &c. (British Empire Ser.)Rhodesia of to-day, by E. F. Knight.

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Thursday, ADVENTURES IN THE AlRJanuary

28th,

1915. B. C. HUCKS.


Chairman : Harold D. Bateson, Esq., j.p.

SYNOPSIS :—My career as an aviator—Aviation in the early days—The

development of the industry from being purely a sporting undertaking to the

hard commercial proposition that it is to-day—Flying experiments and

adventures—Looping the loop and flying upside-down—Sensations experienced

in carrying out these manoeuvres for the first time—The use of these fantastical

types of flying to the technical side of aviation—The future of aviation.

The undermentioned books on the subject of the above Lecturemay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries J

—

Heroes of the air, by Claude Grahame-White. Illustrated.

Aerial navigation of to-day, by C. C. Turner. Illustrated

Flying; with some practical experiments, by Gustave Hamel and C. C. Turner.Illustrated.

Les martyrs de l'aviation, par R. Depagniat.

Conquest of the air, by A. Berget. Illustrated.

Birdflight as the basis of aviation, by O. Lilienthal. Illustrated.

How to fly; or, the conquest of the air, by R. Ferris. Illustrated.

The development of Aerial Navigation, by Henry H. Suplee. Illustrated.

(Cassier's Mag., v. 35 : 1909).

Aerial warfare, by R. P. Hearne. Illustrated.

My airships, by A. Santos-Dumont. Illustrated.

Aerial locomotion, by E. H. Harper and A. Ferguson. Illustrated.

Romance of modern invention, by A. Williams. Illustrated.

The art of aviation, by R. W. A. Brewer. Illustrated.

Stability in aviation, by G. H. Bryon. Illustrated.

The mechanics of the aeroplane, by Capt. Duchene. Illustrated.

Aerial flight, by F. W. Lanchester. 2 v. Illustrated.

The problem of flight, by H. Chatley. Illustrated.

Airships and their value in war, by Colonel F. N. Maude.

The aeroplane in war, by C. Grahame-White and Harry Harper. Illustrated.

Aircraft in war, by J. M. Spaight.

Sea, land, and air strategy, by Sir George Aston.

Vehicles of the air„ by Victor Longheed. Illustrated.

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The Theatre of the WarBY THE

Rev. T. T. NORGATE, f.r.g.s., f.r.h.s.


Tuesday,

February

2nd,

1915.

Chairman : Alderman Maxwell H. Maxwell, j.p.

SYNOPSIS :—Object of the lecture—To give some idea of the countries

which are constituting the Theatre of the War—Serajevo, the capital of

Bosnia, where the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand forms the

excuse for the attack by the Dual Monarchy on the Kingdom of Servia

—

Austria-Hungary—Russia, the champion of the Slav races of which Servia is

one—Montenegro—Intervention of Germany—Description of that part of

the Theatre of the War included in the German Empire—The Grand Duchy

of Luxemburg—Plucky little Belgium—Scenes from North-eastern France

—

Illustrations of Russian and Polish life.


How the war began, by J. M. Kennedy and W. L. Courtney.

The Belgians at home, by Clive Holland. Illustrated.

Why we are at war, by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History.

Pan-Germanism, by Roland G. Usher.

Germany and the next war, by F. von Bernhardi.

Pictures from the Balkans, by J. Foster Fraser. Illustrated.

Home life in Germany, by Mrs. A. Sidgwick. Illustrated.

The Russian Emfire of to-day and yesterday, by N. O. Winter. Illustrated.

The War book of facts.

Belgian life in town and country, by D. C. Boulger. Illustrated.

The Land of the Black Mountain : Montenegro, by R. Wyon and G. Prance.

Austro-Hungarian life in town and country, by F. H. E. Palmer. Illustrated.

Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France, by E. W. Rose. 2 v.

Illustrated.

Home life in France, by M. Betham-Edwards. Illustrated.

Servia and the Servians, by Chedo Mijatovich. Illustrated.

Through Bosnia and Herzegovina, by J. de Asboth. Illustrated.

Poland : the land, people, &c, by G. Brandes.

Luxembourg and its people, by G. Renwick. Illustrated.

Thursday,

February

4th,

1915.

Old English Music and

Musical InstrumentsBY

ARNOLD DOLMETSCH.with Musical Illustrations.

Chairman : Edward R. Pickmere, Esq., j.p.

The whole of the illustrations are to he played, by the

Lecturer and Mrs. Dolmetsch

on the Old Instruments for which the music was written.

i. For the Lute— ' All of greene willo'

z. For the Cithren and Lute— ' The Lord Zouche's maske '

3. For the Recorder and Virginals—Two popular tunes

(a) ' Wastron Wynde.'(b) ' Rogero.'

4. For the Treble Viol and Virginals—Spagnioletta, "The Piper's Galliard"...<\ 1585

5. For the Virginals—Three pieces.

(a) ' La volta'

(b) ' Coranto '

(c) ' The Lark '

6. For Treble and Bass Viols—Fantazie, " La Caccia"

7. For the Lyra-Viol—Three pieces,

(a) Symphony(b) Almain(c) Saraband

8. For the Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord—Divisions on a ground

9. For the Violin and Harpsichord—Sonata

10. For the Harpsichord—Toccata

Early Elizabethan

c. 1580

Time of Henry VIII

c. 1590c. 1590

C 1590

Thomas Morley, 1595

Dr. Ch. Coleman, c. 1650

Dr. Ch. Coleman, c. 1650Anonymous, c. 1650

Chr. Simpson, 1665

Henry Purcell, c. 1675

Henry Purcell, c. 1680


may be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries:—

Old English instruments of music : their history and character, by F. W. Galpin.Illustrated.

Musical instruments, historic, rare, and unique; the selection by A. J. Hipkins,the coloured plates by William Gibb.

A history of music in England, by Ernest Walker.English music, 1604-1904 : lectures at Music Loan Exhibition. Illustrated.

Music on the Shakespearian stage : musical instruments, &c, by H. Cowling.Illustrated.

The history of music, by Emil Naumann. 2 v. Illustrated.

Popular music of the olden time, by W. Chappell. 2 v. Illustrated.

The story of British music, by F. J. Crowest.Les Ancestres de violin et violoncello, les luthiers, &c, by L. Grillet. 2 v.

Illustrated.

Early history of the violin family, by Carl Engel. Illustrated.

The history of the violin and other instruments played on with the bow, byW. Sandys and S. A. Forster. Illustrated.

The pianoforte and its music, by H. E. Krehbiel. Illustrated.

A general history of music, by Charles Burney. 4 v.

General history of the science and practice of music, by Sir John Hawkins. 5 v.

Illustrated.

The Romance of Australia TuesdayFebruary

THE TRANSFORMATION OF A CONTINENT 9th,

1915.

H. S. GULLETT.


Chairman : Alderman James Heald.

SYNOPSIS :—The accidental beginning—Building better than they

knew—From Botany Bay to Canberra, from Colony to Nation—The shepherd

—The squatter—The selector—The gold digger—The bush-ranger—The

little clearings always expanding—The diminishing Bush—The dreams of the

Pioneers—The Federal ideal—The Australian Nation—What a " White

Australia " means, an all-white, all-British Continent, with one flag, one

language ; another Europe, but all peopled by Britons, a whole Continent

without internal frontiers, passports or tariffs—The development of English

traditions amidst new conditions—A real democracy in the making—The" Social Laboratory " of the Empire—A nation of self-made men, Jacks who

become Masters, and Miners who become Prime Ministers—The Australian

Navy—Compulsory service—Compulsory arbitration—The Wages Board

—

The industrial ambitions of Australia—Australia's glorious climate—Sunshine

for strength—The great empires of old had sunny skies—Australia has the

climate of Greece, Rome, Babylonia, Egypt, Carthage—Blood tells, and

sunshine stimulates sentiment—Australians are Anglo-Saxons and loyal to

the core—Of all the Colonies, Australia comes nearest to England in thought

and in reality.

The undei mentioned books on the subject of the above Lecturemay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries:—

The New World of the South, by W. H. Fitchett. 2 v. Illutrated.

Australia, painted by P. F. S. Spence; described by F. Fox.xIllustrated.

History of the Australian Colonies, by E. Jenks.

Advance Australia, by Frank T. Bullen. Illustrated.

Australasia, by J. D. Rogers (Lucas : Historical Geography, v. 6).

In the Australian bush, by R. Simon. Illustrated.

Stanford's Compendium : Australasia, by J. W. Gregory. 2 v.

Thirty years in Australia, by Ada Cambridge.Romance cf Empire : Australia, by W. H. Lang. Illustrated.

Fifty years in the making of Australian history, by Sir H. Parkes. 2 v.

Across Australia, by B. Spencer and F. J. Gillen. 2 v. Illustrated.

The Commonwealth of Australia, by B. R. Wise.Australian life in town and country, by E. C. Euley. Illustrated.History of South Australia, by E. Hodder. 2 v.

Romance of Australian exploring, by G. F. Scott. Illustrated.Australia, the making of a nation, by J. Foster Fraser. Illustrated.

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Thursday, LlFE IN ANCIENT EGYPTFebruary

}""' P. S. P. HANDCOCK, m.a.

Barrister-at-law, lecturer of the Palestine Exploration Fund, formerly of the British Museum.


Chairman : Professor R. C. Bosanquet, m.a., f.s.a.

SYNOPSIS :—Racial origin of early Egyptians—their language—food

—

dress—education of children—children's toys and games—marriage customs

—

trades and industries—farming and cattle breeding—Arts and crafts—pottery

—the paintings on pottery—Architecture—Egyptian temples—models of

Egyptian houses—Painted frescoes on the walls of ancient tombs—The

Pyramids—recent excavations there—the meaning and object of Egyptian

pyramids—Valley temples—Early Egyptian sculpture—the work of the

metallurgist—Burial customs—Mummification—meaning and object of

mummification—origin of mummification—Life after Death—Osiris and

the Judgment.


Manners and customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by Sir J. G. Wilkinson. 3 v.

Illustrated.History of the Ancient Egyptians, by J. H. Breasted.

The land of the Pharoahs, by A. Moret. Illustrated.

Life in ancient Egypt, by A. Erman. Illustrated.

The dawn of civilization : Egypt and Chaldaea, by Sir G. Maspero. Illustrated.

Story of the Pharoahs, by J. Baikie. Illustrated.

Exploration in Bible Lands, by H. V. Hilprecht. Illustrated.

History of Egypt, by W. M. Flinders Petrie, &c. 6 v. Illustrated.

Short history of ancient Egypt, by P. E. Newberry and J Garstang. Illustrated.

Dwellers on the Nile, by E. Wallis Budge. Illustrated.

Short history of ancient peoples, by R. Souttar.

Ancient Egypt, by Canon Rawlinson and A. Gilman. Illustrated.

Egyptian life and history according to the Monuments, by M. E. Harkness.Illustrated.

In the time of the Pharoahs, by A. Moret. Illustrated.

The Treasury of ancient Egypt, by A. E. P. B. Weigall. Illustrated. \Egypt : ancient sights and modern scenes, by Sir G. Maspero. Illustrated.

Art in Egypt, by Sir G. Maspero. Illustrated.

Development of religion and thought in ancient Egypt, by J. H. Breasted.

Egypt of yesterday and to-day, by P. Withers. Illustrated.

History of ancient Egypt, by Canon Rawlinson. 2 v Illustrated.

History of Egypt, by J. H. Breasted. Illustrated.

Shor^ history of the Egyptian people, by E. A. Wallis Bridge. Illustrated.

The literature of the Ancient Egyptians, by E. A. Wallis Budge. Illustrated.

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My Thousand MilesALONG THE GREAT SLAVE ROUTE

EXPERIENCES OF TRAVEL IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA

BY

JOSEPH BURTT, f.r.g.s.

WITH LANTERN ILLUSTRATIONS.

Chairman : Councillor Richard Rutherford, j.p.

SYNOPSIS :—Why I went to West Africa—The crimes of centuries

—

Slave routes on the map—A tropical island—The slave at work—His master

—Growing the cocoa bean—The deadly West Coast—Primitive natives—The

black man's smile—Gentle children of the wilds—A native beauty—A hairy

relation—The path to the interior—The ship of the veldt—The carrier and

his load—An African chief—A caravan of rubber—Watching for a lion

—

Regions of cruelty and death—Bones and shackles—Cannibal raids—Tasting

the victim's blood—Slaves on the track for the coast—Elephants at play—Our

day's march—Flowers by the path—An African boy—The native^village

—

Eating ants—The witch doctor—A freed slave.


In wildest Africa, by C. G. Schillings. 2 v. Illustrated.Across widest Africa, by A. H. Savage-Landor. 2 v. IllustratedChiefs and cities of Central Africa, by O. Macleod. Illustated.Emin Pasha in Central Africa.African game trails, by Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated.To the Central African Lakes and back, by Joseph Thomson. 2 v. Illustrated.Fighting the slave-hunters in Central Africa, by A. J. Swann. Illutrated.Exploration and hunting in Central Africa, by A. St. H. Gibbons. Illustrated.In darkest Africa, by Sir H. M. Stanley. Illustrated.How I found Livingstone, by Sir H. M. Stanley. Illustrated.Through the dark continent, by Sir H. M. Stanley. Illustrated.In dwarf land and cannibal country, by A. B. Lloyd. Illustrated.Dawn in darkest Africa, by John H. Har^-ii. Illustrated.Alone in West Africa, by Mary Gaunt. Illustrated.Travels in West Africa, by Mary H. Kingsley. Illustrated.West African studies, by Mary H. Kingsley. Illustrated.The story of West Africa, by Mary H. Kingsley.Affairs of West Africa, by E. D. Morel. Illustrated.The advance of our West African Empire, by C. B. Wallis. Illustrated.Historical geography of the British Colonies, by Sir C. P. Lucas. v. •*

:

West Africa.George Grenfell and the Congo, by Sir Harry Johnston. 2 v. Illustrated.The history of a slave, by Sir Harry Johnston. Illustrated.Red Rubber, by E. D. Morel.Travel and adventure in the Congo Free State, and its big game shooting, by

Bula N'zau. Illustrated.Pioneering on the Congo, by W. Holman Bentley. 2 v. Illustrated.

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Tuesday,

February

16th,

1915.

Thursday, Tq KaIRWAN THE HOLYFebruary

18th, MY EXPERIENCES OF MOSLEMS AND MOORS19J5.

BY

SAMUEL WELLS, f.r.g.s., f.r.a.i


Chairman : Councillor Thomas Burke, j.p.

SYNOPSIS :—Out of the fog into the sunshine—A white squall on the

tideless sea—The land of the Bey—Glimpses of Tunis—Palaces and tombs

—

Walls of blue china—Time versus money—An Arab Night's entertainment

—

Home, sweet home—A day at Carthage—An Empire's dust—Delenda est

Carthago— St. Augustine's home—To Susa—Camel Caravan—Across the

Desert—Foot-prints of Pilgrims—First view of the Holy City—Kairwan past

and present—Shut in, shut out—200 mosques and marabouts—My guard

—

Imprecations—The call to prayer—The Gate of Paradise—The holiest spot

in Africa—Writing on the Wall—Mohammed and his 180 million followers

—

The Faithful—Encompassing the City—Four miles of saintly tombs—In

Bedouin land—Insect horrors and the locust harvest—The Crescent and the

Cross—Farewell to Africa.

The undermentioned books on 1be subject of the above Lecturemay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries:—

Tunisia, by Herbert Vivian. Illustrated

The Moors, by Budgett Meakin. Illustrated.

To Kairwan the hOly, by A. A. B> ddy. Illustrated.

In the land of mosques and marabouts, by Mrs. Greville-Nugent. Illustrated.

Tunis, past and present, by A M. Broadley. Illustrated.

Travels in Tunisia, by A. Graham and H. S. Ashbee. Illustrated.

In the land of mosques and minarets, by F. Miltoun. Illustrated.

North Africa, by A. H. Keane. (Stanford's Compendimu.) 2 v. Illustrated.

Morocco, by A. S. Forrest and S. L. Bensusan. Illustrated.

By the waters of Carthage, by Norma Lorimer. Illustrated.

Under the palms in Algeria and Tunis, by Lewis Wingfield. 2 v.

The country of the Moors : Tripoli to Kairwan, by E. Rae. Illustrated.

Carthage anh Tunis, by Douglas Sladen. 2 v. Illustrated.

In the desert, by L. March Phillips. Illustrated

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In Crystal Wonderland

FRED W. SAXBY

Illustrated by Lantern Slides and Experiments on a

special Electric Lantern-Polariscope

Tuesday,

February

23rd,

1915.

Chairman : Ronald Stewart-Brown, Esq., m.a., f.s.a.

Deputy-Chairman, Libraries Sub-Committee.

SYNOPSIS :—What is a crystal ?—phenomena of its birth and growth

—

characters of its substance and the manner of its cleavage—influence of mole-

cular structure on its optical properties—Phenomena of unequal elasticity to

the ether waves—Nature of double refraction, and polarization of light.

Chemical frost figures—how produced—influence of the normal crystal onthe production of chemical frosts and crystalline films. All frosts built of

crystalline needles—reasons explained—Photographs of needle groups obtained

from solutions and by fusion—Evolution from simple to highly complexgeometric figures—Elaborate forms obtained from small drops of mother-

liquor by various methods of evaporation—in the cold, by heat, and in vacuum—Floating crystalline rosettes and how to obtain them—Influence of the

nucleus in the production of crystalline systems—twin, triplet, and multiple* systems—the forces at work in their architecture—Lines of Force in frost

figures comparable with astronomical phenomena—Photographs of micro-

polar films by three-colour process—Exhibition on special Electric Lantern-

jPolariscope of crystalline films in the making—Sections of rare and beautiful

crystals and the ' faults ' in them—Choice specimens of the lapidary's work

—

Flowers cut in crystal with gorgeous colour effects, etc.


Elements of crystallography, by G. H. Williams. Illustrated.Minerals and how to study them, by E. S. Dana. Illustrated.

Text-book of mineralogy; with treatise on crystallography; ed. by E. S. audJ. D. Dana. Illustrated.

Inorganic chemistry, by Sir H. E. Roscoe. Illustrated.Treatise on crystallography, by W. J. Lewis. Illustrated.Crystallography : a treatise on the morphology of crystals, by N. Story-

Maskelyne. Illustrated.Mathematical crystallography, by H. Hilton.The molecular tactics of a crystal, by Lord Kelvin.The theory of light, by T. Preston. Illustrated.Marvels in the world of light, by C. T. Ovenden. Illustrated.The wonders of light, by E. J. Houston. Illustrated.The microscope : its history, application, &c., by Jabez Hogg. Illustrated.

• The microscope and its revelation, by W. B. Carpenter; ed. by W. H. Da! linger,Illustrated.

Popular handbook to thk microscope, by Lewis White. Illustrated.Modern microscopy, by M. I. Cross and M. J. Cole. Illustrated.System of crystallography, by J. J. Griffin. Illustrated.Mineralogy, by H. A. Miers. Illustrated.

* Mineralogy, by Frederick H. Hatch. Illustrated.Tract on crystallography, by W. H. Miller. Illustrated.Siv lectures on light, bv John Tyndall. Illustrated.Crystallography, by L. J. Spence. (Encyclopaedia Britannica. nth ed. v. 9),

31

Dvorak the BohemianBY

Rev. H. H. McCULLAGH, B.A.

with Musical Illustrations.

Chairman : Sir J. S. Harmood Banner, d.l., m.p.

The Musical Illustrations by

Pianoforte : Miss Helena McCullagh. I Violoncello : Miss Mary McCullagh.

Violin : Miss Isabel McCullagh. I Vocalist : Miss Edith McCullagh.

Trio in F minor for pianoforte, violin, and violoncello op. 65

(Two movements).

Dumky Trio for pianoforte, violin, and violoncello op. 90(Second movement).

Romantische Stucke for violin and pianoforte op. 75(Nos. 2 and 3).

Adagio from Concerto for violoncello op. 104

Recitative and Air for Soprano from " The Spectre's Bride " op. 69

" Where art thou, father ?"

" Mine did I once a lover call."

Gipsy Songs ... op. 55

(a) " I chant my lay."

(b) " Songs my mother taught me."

(c) " Tune thy strings, oh gipsy."

Biblical Songs op. 99

(a) " By the waters of Babylon."

{b) " Sing ye a joyful song."

The undermentioned books on the suoject of the above Lecturemay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries:—

Studies in modern music, by W. H. Hadow. Ser. 2 : Dvorak.

Masters in Music : Dvorak.

Antonin Dvorak, by H. E. Krehbiel. (Century Mag., v. 44: 1892).

Anton Dvorak, by J. F. Runciman. (Saturday Rev., v. 81 : 1896).

Famous composers and their works, by J. K. Paine, &c. v 4 : Anton Dvorak.

The story of chamber music, by N. Kilburn : Brahms and Dvorak.

From Grieg to Brahms, by D. G. Mason : Dvorak.

Grove's Dictionary of music and musicians, v. i

The history of music, by E. Naumann. 2 v. Illustrated.

Handbook of musical htstory, by J. E. Matthew.

Music and musicians, by Albert Lavignac

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Thursday^

February

25th,

1915

Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'A LECTURE-RECITAL

BY THE

Rev. A. R. RUNNELS-MOSS, m.a.

Chairman : Edgar A. Browne, Esq., f.r.c.s.

SYNOPSIS :—Charles Dickens and his work—The message of ' AChristmas Carol '—The story reproduced in all its essentials and in the words

of Charles Dickens—the characters delineated—the scenes and incidents

portrayed

—

Scene i.—In Scrooge's Office.

2.—The advent of the Ghost.

J5 3-—The first Spirit.

5> 4-—A Schoolboy again.

5J 5-—Old haunts and memories.

JJ 6.—The second Spirit.

5) 7-—At Bob Cratchit's.

5> 8.—A Merry Christmas party.

55 9-—A weird journey through Space.

5510.—The last of the Spirits.

J) ii.—Gloating over the spoil.

35 12.—The vacant chair.

55 13-—A churchyard and the vanishing Ghost.

55 H-—Christmas Chimes and the end of it all.


Christmas Books, by Charles Dickens; introduction by C. Dickens the Younger.Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster.

Charles Dickens, by George Gissing.

The Dickens Country, by F. G. Kitton. Illustrated.

Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton.

The novels of Charles Dickens, by F. G. Kitton.

Scenes and characters from the works of Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens, by F. G. Kitton. Illustrated.

Chai es Dickenc, oy A. C. Swinburne.

Dickens as revealed in his writings, by Percy Fitzgerald.

The minor writings of Charles Dickens, by F. G. Kitton.

The real Dickens Land, by H. Snowden Ward. Illustrated.

Dickens and the Drama, by S. J. A. Fitzgerald. Illustrated.

Dickens and Father Christmas, by T. Watts-Dunton. (Nineteenth Century, v. 62 :

1907)-

Charles Dickens in Chancery : account of the proceedings in respect of the' Christmas Carol,' by E. T. Jaques.

33

Tuesday,

March2nd,

1915.

ThMwch Wild Life on the Bioscope

4th,

, 1915, RICHARD KEARTON, f.z.s., f.r.p.s.


Chairman : Councillor Francis W. Bailey, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p.

Cbatrman, Lectures Sub-Committee.

SYNOPSIS :—Demonstrates that both birds and insects are capable of

reasoning—compares man-flight with bird-flight—Mechanical contrivances

(biplanes, monoplanes and airships) in flight—different species of birds on the

wing—How Humble Bees work and shelter from the rain—Butterflies feeding

upon honey—Animals swimming, climbing, and watching their enemies

—

How spiders of different species capture their food—Intimate peeps into the

home life and habits of our rarest birds—The great Skua in its remote breeding

haunts in the Shetland Islands—how it salutes a friend and attacks a human

intruder—the male Richardson's Skua assisting its mate in the work of

incubation and enjoying a meal of Scotch scone—A trout under water—Seals

basking in the sunshine and taking to the sea—A snipe brooding her young

ones—The shy and wary Dabchick attending to her household affairs in a

quiet'pond—The Dartford Warbler feeding her young ones whilst she climbs

to^a sprig of heather above the nest and hangs absolutely upside down—Wild

rabbits at home—The timid and dainty Pied Wagtail or Dishwasher tripping

over boulders of chalk with supplies of food for her chicks.

The undermentioned books on the subject of the Above Lecturemay be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries:—

Wonders of wild nature, by Richard Kearton. Illustrated.

With nature and a camera, by R. Kearton. Illustrated.

Wild nature's ways ;by R. Keartou. Illustrated.

Wild life at home, by R. Kearton. Illustrated.

The Fairyland of living things, by R. Kearton. Illustrated.

Nature's carol singers, by R. Kearton. Illustrated.

Our bird friends, by R. Kearton. Illustrated.

Home life in birdland, by O. G. Pike. Illustrated.

Woodland, field, and shore, by O. G. Pike. Illustrated.

Peeps into nature's ways, by J. J Ward. Illustrated.

Marvels of nature, by J. J. Ward, illustrated.

Camera and country-side, by A. R. Dugmore. Illustrated.

Romance of animal arts and crafts, by H. Coupin and J. Lea. Illustrated.

Insect biographies with pen and camera, by J. J. Ward. Illustrated.

Bird-flight as the basis of aviation, by O. Lilienthal. Illustrated.

Artificial and natural flight, by H. Maxim. Illustrated.

34

Milton and Music(" THE MASQUE OF COMUS ")

BY

SIR FREDERICK BRIDGE, c.v.o., m.a., mus . doc

King Edward Professor of Music, University of London;Organist of Westminster Abbey

with Musical Illustrations.

Chairman : Sir William B. Forwood, d.l., j.p.

The Vocal Illustrations by

Miss Amy Taggart and Mr. J. C. Brien.

The Instrumental Parts by String Quartet

:

Leader : Mr. R. Klass.

i .

—

Overture { l?] a u^*101^ i William Lawes

{(b) Almain

J (d> 1645)

2.—Song, The Attendant Spirit, " From the heavens now I fly " Henry Lawes(1595-1662)

3.—" The King's Hunting Tigg " Dr. John Bull

(1563-1628)

4.—" SelUnger's Round " Arranged by William Byrd

(1538-1623)

5.—Song, The Lady, " Sweet Echo " Henry Lawes

6.—" The Royal Consort " (Andante) ... William Lawes

7.—" The Royal Consort " (Allegro) William Lawes

* 8.

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Song, The Attendant Spirit, " Sabrina fair " Henry Lawes

9.

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Song, Sabrina, " By the rushy-fringed bank "

Adapted from Henry Lawes by Sir F. Bridge

10.

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Saraband William Lawes

§ 11. (a) Jigg ... ... ... William Lawes

(b) " The Mitter Rant " John Jenkins(1592-1678)

12.—Song, The Attendant Spirit, " Back, shepherds, back !" Henry Lawes

13.—March, " The Lord Zouche's maske " Giles Farnaby(b. 1560)

14.—Song, The Attendant Spirit, " Noble lord and lady bright " Henry Lawes

1 5.—Saraband William Lawes

16.—Song, The Attendant Spirit, " Now my task is smoothly done " Henry Lawes


may be obtained at either the Reference or Lending Libraries

The Music to Milton's Comus; ed. by Sir F. Bridge; with introduction by W.Barcliy Squire.

The Poetical Works of John Milton ; ed. with Notes, &c, by David Masson(including Comus : a masque). 3 v.

Milton's Comus: being the Bridgewater Manuscript; with notes and a shortfamily memoir, also Essay on " Comus: its author and its players," by

^Lady Alix Egerton. Illustrated.

The Musick in the Masque of Comus, composed by T A. Arne.Milton, by Sir Walter Raleigh.The Life of Milton, by David Masson. 9 v.

General History of Music, by C. Burney. v. 3 : with the air " Sweet Echo."

jIn Memoriam : Henry Lawes, by J. Bannister. (Manchester Quarterly, v. 9 : 1890.)

Henry Lawes : his character, works, and place in musical history.(Fraser's Magazine, v. 51 : 1855.)

Henry Lawes. (Temple Bar, v. 109 : 1896.)

The Age of Milton, by J. H. B. Masterman.

35

Tuesday,

March9th,

1915.

3 0112 105935909DISTRICT LECTURE CENTRES.

Other series of Corporation Free Lectures arearranged for delivery in the following Districts ofthe City, viz. :

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OCTOBER to DECEMBER, 1914.

(1) Sefton Park : Gregson Memorial Institute, Garmoyle Road

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Monday, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26 ; Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 (for children);

Dec. 7 (for children).

(2) Aintree : Council Schools, Rice Lane

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Monday, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26 ; Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 (for children);


(3) Kirkdale : Co-operative Hall, Walton Road

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Tuesday, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27; Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24; Dec. 1 (for children);


(4) Everton : Branch Library, St. Domingo Road

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Tuesday, Oct. 20, 27; Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24; Dec. 1 (for children);


(5) Aigburth : Parish Hall, Dundonald Road

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Wednesday, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28 ; Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 ; Dec. 2 (for children).

(6) Tue Brook : Council Schools, Lister Drive

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Wednesday, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28 ; Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 ; Dec. 2 (for children);


(7) West Derby: Village Hall—Thursday, Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29; Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26.

(8) Scotland Road : St. Martin's Hall-Friday, Oct. 9, 16, 30 ; Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27 ; Dec. 4.

JANUARY to MARCH, 1915.

(9) Wavertree : Town Hall

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Monday, Jan. 11, 18, 25 ; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22 ; Mar. 1, 8 (for children)

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Mar. 15 (for children).

(10) Kensington : Lundie Memorial Hall, Beech Street

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Monday, Jan. 11, 18, 25 ; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22 ; Mar. 1, 8 (for children);


(11) Garston : Assembly Hall, Corporation Baths, Speke Road

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Tuesday, Jan. 12, 19, 26 ; Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23 ; Mar. 2, 9 (for children);


(12) Edge Hill : Assembly Hall, Corporation Baths, Lodge Lane

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Tuesday, Jan. 12, 19, 26 ; Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23 ; Mar. 2, 9 (for children);


(13) Anfield: Council Schools, Anneld Road-Wednesday, Jan. 13, 20, 27; Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24; Mar. 3, 10 (for children);


(14) Toxteth : David Lewis Club, Great George Place

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Wednesday, Jan. 13, 20, 27; Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24; Mar. 3.

(1 5) Sandhills : Gordon Institute, Stanley Road

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Thursday, Jan. 14, 21, 28 ; Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25 (for children)

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jMar. 4 (for children).

(16) Walton : Assembly Hall, Corporation Baths, Queen's Drive

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Friday, Jan. 15, 22, 29; Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26; Mar. 5.

LECTURES FOR ADULTS COMMENCE AT 8 P.M.

CHILDREN'S LECTURES AT 7 P.M.

ILLUSTRATED BY LANTERN VIEWS, SELECTIONS OF MUSIC, &c.

Programmes may be obtained gratis at the Reference Libraryor the Branch Libraries and Reading Rooms.

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