The Burton Holmes lectures; . born in Chicago in January, 1870, inheriting alove for travel. In 1SS3 he acquired a love for photography. In 18S6 hetraveled abroad and took pictures. He has been traveling and takingpictures ever since. In 1S90 he ajipeared before his first audience, — themembers of the Chicago Camera Club, reading and illustrating an accountof a tour Through Europe with a Camera. In 1893 he made his firstprofessional appearance in the recital hall of the Auditorium, Chicago,describing a journey to Japan. Kind friends and curious acquaintancesinsured the success of this venture,
The Burton Holmes lectures; . born in Chicago in January, 1870, inheriting alove for travel. In 1SS3 he acquired a love for photography. In 18S6 hetraveled abroad and took pictures. He has been traveling and takingpictures ever since. In 1S90 he ajipeared before his first audience, — themembers of the Chicago Camera Club, reading and illustrating an accountof a tour Through Europe with a Camera. In 1893 he made his firstprofessional appearance in the recital hall of the Auditorium, Chicago,describing a journey to Japan. Kind friends and curious acquaintancesinsured the success of this venture, and encouraged Mr. Holmes to enterupon a career in which the labor has been a labor of love. For five succes-sive winters the Burton Holmes Lectures were among the features of theamusement season in the cities of the Middle West. In 1897, on the retire-ment of Mr. John L. Stoddard from the field which he had created andoccupied for nineteen years, Mr. Holmes found himself prepared to carryon the work begun by Mr. TO MY THREH Half-Tour and Colored Inserts byWhuIle En(;kavin(; Co., Cliuagu. . .Decorative Titles by Arthur Dodds,Rochestevy . Typogrnphy, Ele,tro-iyping, Pressitork tiiid Bnidiiig by ; Company, Lri>., Battle FOREWORD To transfer the illustrated lecture from public platform toprinted page is to give permanent form to the ephemeral. Toset down in formal black and white the phrases framed forthe informality of speech is to offer them to a keener scrutinythan they were meant to bear. To reproduce m miniature,by means of the half-tone engravers art. pictures that wereintended to meet the eye, enriched by color and projected ina darkened auditorium, is to reduce mountains to mole-hillsand to dim the brilliancy of nature to a sober gray. In these volumes The Burton Holmes Lectures undergo atrying transformation. The words and the pictures are thesame, but the manner of presentation must affect the valueand force o
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