Arthur S. Phelps

              1910's
Popular Lectures
BY
ARTHUR S. PHELPS, A.M., D.D.

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HOW THE WORLD LOOKS
HUMOR
HISTORY
HOME


STUDENT—Three degrees from Yale
TRAVELER—Over thirty countries and every State

WRITER   PUBLIC SPEAKER


HUMOR
GOING SOME—

A laugh-provoking and rousing lecture, painting the causes of failure and laying down the laws of success in the life of the young man of to-day.  Has been delivered in many universities, high schools and men's organizations.



A CHEERFUL LIE FROM A GOOD FRIEND
Arthur S. Phelps comes from a long line of scholars and orators, and he inherits the platform grace and ability of his ancestors.  His rare good sense makes the best use of his great fund of material in every lecture or address he delivers.  He is Beecherian in his happy use of illustration, and genuine New England humor shines between the lines of his discourse.

Very cordially
ROBERT J. BURDETTE




How the World Looks


A GREEK TEMPLE

A MODERN WANDERER IN CLASSIC GREECE
HUMOROUS   DESCRIPTIVE   INSPIRATIONAL

The imagination—Amusing experiences in Southern Italy—Naples—Pompeii—Corfu—Eleusis—Greek soldiers—Athens!  —Parthenon: a new theory—Sunset—Theatre of Dionysus—Stadium—Athletics—Delphi—The lecturer's runaway—Guest of a Prince.



A TRIP TO THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
ORIGINAL COLORED VIEWS.

Through Golden Gate—Glories of the tropic sea—1,000 miles south of the Equator—Tahiti—Luxuriant Papeete—Moorea—The cocoanut palm—Cannibal—Elephantiasis—South Sea music—Shark fishing—Pt. Venus—Old Glory.


THE ISLANDS OF THE COCOA-PALM


BROUGHER SAYS:

The Rev. A. S. Phelps, D. D., is one of the most brilliant platform speakers in America.  He is a thorough student, a fine scholar, a master of fine English, and is gifted with the power of popular address.  He has an inexhaustible fund of good stories, which he uses to good effect in illustrating his lectures.  And thus he holds the attention of his audience from the time he begins to speak until he quits.  He is always worth hearing.

Yours sincerely
J. WHITCOMB BROUGHER Pastor Temple Auditorium, Los Angeles



JAPANESE FAIRYLAND
PICTURES MADE BY THE DAINTIEST COLOR ARTISTS OF JAPAN

History—Approach—LIFE: Experiences at a native hotel—A girl's toilet—TRAVEL: Rickshaw—On foot—Kago—WORK: Shops—Fishing—Rice—Silk—Tea—TEMPLES: Torii—Great Daibutsu statue—Autumn maples—Asakusa—Lotus—Three monkeys—Marriage tree—NATURAL SCENERY: Nara deer—Wet day—Snow—Views of Fuji—PLAY: Firemen —Boys—Wistarias—Wrestling—Inland Sea—Moonlight.


A CABLE OF HUMAN HAIR




INDIA'S ROMANCE
STRANGE AND WONDERFUL TINTED VIEWS

The most interesting land in the world—Hindu god—Calcutta (Great banyan—Mahoram)—Darjiling (Mt. Everest—Clouds from Phalut)—Benares (Devotees—White lepers—Burning Ghat scenes—Angry Fakirs—Snake charmers)—Scenes of the massacre—Delhi (Sun-dial—Native fuel—Pearl Mosque)—Agra (Views of the Taj—Shah Jehan and Mumtaz Mahal)—Jeypore—Self-torture—Wild beasts—Elephants—Parsi towers—Minakshi's jewels—Toddy—Devils—Famine—Wheel of Life.


DIPPING CORPSE'S FEET IN GANGES


From Father Endeavor Clark:

It has been my great pleasure to hear Dr. Arthur S. Phelps preside over a Christian Endeavor banquet as its toastmaster, and I never heard a toastmaster scintillate more good humor, wit and common sense in the same length of time.

FRANCIS E. CLARK President of the United Society of Christian Endeavor


A WEARY TRAIL




AMERICA'S WONDER-SPOTS
BRILLIANTLY ILLUSTRATED

Wonders of Mammoth Cave (Fat Man's Misery, Martha Washington, Sailing 250 feet below ground)—Yellow-stone's glory—Niagara and Hudson—Yosemite's depths and heights—Big trees—Grand Canyon, the mightiest gorge on earth—Alaska's glaciers and miners.




FOREIGN DEVIL (The one on the pedestal)

DODGING THE EQUATOR
FASCINATING COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS

A trip, dodging from country to country, belting the globe.  Beautiful Honolulu—Japan, the Lilliput land—In the teeth of the Monsoon—Beheading Chinamen—Philippine water-works—Singapore—Rice-fed Penang babies—Mysterious India—Tropical Ceylon—Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt—Holy Land—Wandering among the oddities and glories of ancient and modern Europe—The British Isles through American eyes.





HOME
AMERICA'S UNCROWNED QUEEN—
The place of the Mother in modern American life.  The genius, ethics, influence and glory of motherhood.  Shall parents teach children the mysteries of sex?



HISTORY
IN THE GOOD OLD PURITAN DAYS—
A humorous and historical narrative of the people that started us.  The typical Puritan—Freak singing—Mayflower passengers—First winter—Harvard College—Roger Williams and Providence—Governors Theophilus Eaton, Phipps and Winthrop, and their ways—Indian massacres—The Witchcraft story—Cotton Mather, one of America's greatest citizens—Epitaphs.



JOHN WILLIS BAER, LL.D., says:

We do not have a man in all of our splendid list that grips the student body more certainly … His audiences are never disappointed.

Yours cordially
JOHN WILLIS BAER President Occidental College