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Commander Peary has been engaged in Arctic discovery for over fifteen years, and has made several attempts to reach the North Pole. He is the author of "Northward Over the Great Ice," and of various contributions to geographical and popular magazines on Arctic exploration. In his lecture this evening he will give a summary of the geographical results obtained during his last expedition to the Arctic regions. The lecture will be illustrated by the stereopticon...
...Famous Parodies and Burlesques by Sheridan. Thackeray, Bret Harte Calverley (author of "Fly Leaves,") J. K. Stephen (author of "Lapsus Calami,") and others. Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 8 p. m. The reading will be interspersed with a few remarks on the value of parody as criticism...
...Sidney Lee, Litt D., will lecture in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock, on the subject, "Foreign Influences on Shakespeare." Mr. Lee has done much research work in Elizabethan literature, and has contributed many articles on Elizabethan authors and statesmen to the "Dictionary of National Biography," of which he is editor. He is the author of "Statford-on-Aveon from the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare," and "A Life of William Shakespeare." The lecture will be open to the public...
...American Museum of Natural History will lecture in the Union at 7.15 o'clock this evening on "The Study of Birds in Nature." The lecture will be illustrated by eighty stereopticon views. Mr. Chapman, who is a noted naturalist, is the editor of "Bird--Lore" and the author of a number of ornithological works. The lecture tonight will take the place of the regular Tuesday evening Union entertainment...
...celebrated English literary critic, editor of the "Dictionary of National Biography," and author of "A Life of William Shakespeare." He will lecture in several of the larger cities of the United States during his stay in this country, and is now giving a course of eight lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston on "Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century...