Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — THE HANDSOMEST CALENDAR [ARTICLE]

THE HANDSOMEST CALENDAR

of the season {ln ten colors) six beautiful heads (on six sheets, 10x12 Inches), reproductions of paintings by Moran, issued by General Passenger Department, Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway, will be sent on receipt of twenty-five cents. Address p. a Miller, General Passenger Agent Chicago. The second of the aeries of historical programmes announced in the Chicago orchestra’s prospectus for the season on the part of local musical folk will be presented at this week’s concerts, to be given on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening at the Auditorium and at the usual hours, under the direction of Theodore Thomas. In these programmes, of which there are to be six in all, Mr. Thomas proposes to show the progress which has been made during the last 300 years In the way of orchestral composition—its development from its jnost primitive state up to the full flower of nineteenth century perfection. "Lives of the Etunted" is the title of a bool* by Ernest Seton-Thompson, the first writer who has ever adequately interpreted the nature of brutes, especially those to whom man appears as a beast of prey. Seton-Thompson never .falls to enlist our sympathies with the conquered beasts. The illustrations are harmonious and always suggestive of thought and feeling. * *