People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — A HANDSOME COMPLIMENT. [ARTICLE]

A HANDSOME COMPLIMENT.

JfW. 'J lfßae’g Lecture at' SloHttrrllo H *h the Cordial Approbation or Competont Critte* Mrs. Emma Mont Meßae lectured at Monticello at the May festival given there on Monday, and The Herald of that city says: -If all the faculty of Purdue University measure up to the same standard intellectually as Mrs. Emma Mont Mcßae that institution is well equipped. Our people had a demonstration of her fitness for the chair which she holds at Purdue in her lecture Monday night in the opening of the May School course. Her subject was “The New Democracy in Literature,” and while it was more didactic in style than if designed purely for popular entertainment, it was a delight to all who followed her from deginning to close. Her purpose was to show the growth of the humane idea in literature or how the brotherhood of man, almost unknown as the theme of song or story in early ages, had developed in books from “The Gentle Shepherd” of Alien Ramsay until it now pervades modern literature. Mrs. Mcßae speaks without a leaf of man-script or any notes whatever and with a charming and easy delivery which carries her hearers with her whether the fields are new or old into which she leads them. She is evidently, a lady of wide reading, and her lecture showed a power of generalization which is said to be a rare element of the feminine mind. It was an effort of very high order and reflected credit not only upon her but the institution which she represents. She expressed herself privately as much pleased with her audience, saying she had never had better attention or more intelligent appreciation.’’ See notice of her engagement here in another place.