"Little Journeys in Wonderland" Frank E. Janes: Frank E. Janes illuminated lectureship

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Little Journeys in Wonderland


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THIRD SEASON OF THE Frank E. Janes Illuminated Lectureship




Little Journeys in Wonderland



Presented by the

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 FRANK E. JANES ILLUMINATED LECTURESHIP




Possessed of the 
geist
 of speaking






A FOREWORD CONCERNING THE LECTURER




A Section of Dreamland





GIVEN
—


A speaker of brilliant gifts and rare eloquence;


The inborn traveler's nature;


A liberal education;


The culture coming from wide experience and broad reading;


A trained comprehension of men and affairs;


The gift of splendid observation;


The soul of a poet;


The keen mind of a modern man of the world;


A striking, splendid physique;





And you have the creator of the Frank E. Janes Illuminated Lectureship—the ideal traveler, and authoritative, reliable recounter of journeys.  At once you appreciate that a certain great western paper was not far afield when it said of Mr. Janes:  
He is a man of power and brilliance * * * in the fullest sense a great man.




His lectures are gems in themselves and a set of them is equal to a season of schooling or travel, so replete are they with breadth, beauty and instructive fact.  They are the results of many wanderings—are historical, critical, broad, keen, comprehensive, witty and fascinating.





Broad, comprehensive, scholarly, sublime addresses.
—


Wakefield Republican




The greatest thinker who ever appeared before our people.
—


Eustis Times






I sing and play thru forest glades, Down to the mighty river.


The Pictures



A
 prominent educator, upon seeing one of the programs offered by Mr. Janes and his party, said, 
Let me congratulate you.  This is something 
totally different
.  I can unqualifiedly commend it.




That says it.  These programs 
are
 totally different, and wholly splendid.  They are in no sense to be compared with the too well-known stereopticon outfits, for the splendid instruments used in these programs are of wholly secondary consideration.  To the selection of the superb pictures, and the procuring of wholly artistic and pleasing effect, every energy has been bent.




An artist of wide experience and striking ability is 
exclusively employed
 by the Lectureship for the true and splendid coloring of the pictures.  Every one is as carefully executed as an oil painting, and every feature of the picture is studied in order to reproduce nature with feeling and fidelity.  Other men may have colored slides, but few if any, devote the study, expense, cultured sense and energy to this phase of the illustrated lecture that this party does.  
Every picture is a masterpiece,
 exclaimed an enthusiastic patron.  If study, conscientious purpose and expense can make that true, it certainly is a fact concerning these productions.




The projected pictures are of great size, ranging from fifteen feet to forty feet in diameter, with all the beauty of nature, and the depth and perspective of a perfect stereograph.




Superbly Beautiful Pictures
—


Chester Herald.





RAPID TRANSIT DOWN SOUTH






THE OFFERING OF THE FRANK E. JANES ILLUMINATED LECTURESHIP LITTLE JOURNEYS IN WONDERLAND
AN INTRODUCTION



These lectures might appropriately be named 
Unknown America,
 for so little is known, by the average intelligent American, about his own country, outside of his own state or section, that he can hardly believe his eyes and ears when some of the wonderful beauties and splendid resources of this great republic are revealed to him.




No land, ancient or modern, excels America in beauty, resource or prospect.  None is so interesting, and Mr. Janes has always felt that there was a certain injustice in the annual exodus to Europe and the Orient to the neglect of the equal, and in very many cases the superior beauties of our own country, and he presents the following lectures as a kind of offering to his country and as a plea for a fuller appreciation of it.





TWIN FALLS OF THE SNAKE RIVER






I. EAST OF THE GREAT WATERS



T
HE average man will think that the country east of the Mississippi is too well known to be generally interesting to the much traveled, modern American, but Mr. Janes has sought out a series of pictures and worked out a lecture of such unique and rare beauty that they will be a revelation even to those living in the very neighborhood of some of the wonders and beauties that he has gathered.  The East is growing old and is rich in history, tradition, beauty and romance.  The trip starts in New England and takes a mighty swing into the furthest South, through Virginia, Florida and other of the southern commonwealths, then north again to some of the beautiful and historical sections of the great Mississippi valley.




The lecture is a gem in itself, but serves as an introduction, also, to the two great lectures that follow.






II. ON THE HIGHROADS OF EMPIRE



A
 jaunt along the highways and byways of the great Northwest, following the trail of Lewis and Clark in general trend.  Few Americans know of the rare beauties and marvelous possibilities of western America.  This lecture will be an education, and it will give a new conception of the wonderful country that stretches west and northwest from the Mississippi river.  This is not a trip into some well-known show scenery, but an


A GLIMPSE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT—NOW

 intimate, critical and thorough study of the conditions, opportunities and beauties of the country traversed.  If Mr. Janes' reputation rested upon nothing more than this lecture, it would be enough to establish him as a great traveler and splendid orator.





III THE LAND OF THE CAVALIER, ROSE AND GUITAR



O
NE of the striking peculiarities of this triumvirate of lectures is that while they are really one lecture and must be heard in their entirety to be fully appreciated, they are absolutely different from each other.  This last lecture deals with the history and beauties of the great southwest, and the countries that went to make up the Western


 Spanish Empire.  It is rich in tradition, legend, history and little-known facts, and the splendid pictures make a fitting accompaniment for the polished, comprehensive and beautiful lecture with which they are connected.  The very haze and thrill of the romantic country lying under the fervent western sun, and the maze and mystery of the land of vanished races is woven into this production.  It seems like a dream-dimmed page of Yesterday.



An eloquent, powerful speaker, who has ensnared beauty and truth in a maze of wonderful words.





A HOME WHERE THE DESERT USED TO BE





The Bavarian Passion Play



T
HIS is not one of the series of 
Journeys in Wonderland,
 but it is especially fitted to presentation of Sunday nights.  It is a thing of beauty and contains some great truths concerning the Passion of our Lord, and the mighty drama that the Bavarian peasants have evolved from it.  This lecture can be had by especial arrangement with the management.




The most powerful speaker that ever appeared in our city.—


Chester
 (Nebr.) 
Herald.





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The Instruments and their Manipulation



W
HILE the mechanical part of the programs offered is a feature secondary to the high tone and finish of the lectures and the rare beauty of the pictures, it is vital to the management that there be no flaw nor failures in it, and strict attention is given to the mechanical equipment, and its manipulation.




The instruments are especially constructed and of the very highest quality.  The lenses are of foreign manufacture, perfectly matched and of high cost, and the lights are of double power.  Both the unexcelled lime, or calcium light and the electric arc lamp are used.  The superb instruments are in the hands of a salaried lady operator who has been with Mr. Janes continuously for seven seasons, and there has never been a program marred or broken into during all that time, through any mismanagement or trouble with the instruments.



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The pictures succeed each other with the certainty and smoothness of clock work, till it looks like the marching of the armies of nature across the great canvas.




Beautiful Pictures as an Accompaniment to a Wholly Delightful Lecture.
—


Fremont Tribune.





PETRIFIED BILLOWS—
BAD LANDS







Surer Proof Than Adjectives




Grand Canyon of the Platte





A
FTER he is gone some of the people of Fremont will appreciate that a man of power and brilliance has been among them; that a great man has gone.—


Daily Tribune.




He is possessed of the 
geist
 of speaking.—


Chas. A. Young, A. B., Ph. D., Editor Christian Century, Chicago.




Frank E. Janes, who is rapidly winning distinction as a platform orator, delivered one of the best addresses heard here in many years.—


North Bend Eagle.




Great truths so put that they uplift and thrill.—


Evening Capitol News, Boise, Idaho.




Mr. Janes' study of the poetry of Robert Browning was one of the occasions of the year at the Woman's Club.  The largest audience of the year greeted him and the applause following some of his brilliant and eloquent periods was loud and prolonged.  The scene at the close of the session was like a levee in the speaker's honor.—


Fremont Daily Herald.




A man of fervor and power.—


Boise Daily Bulletin.




A rare voice.—


H. Trumbull Sutton, Professor Oratory, Cotner University.




A most brilliant orator.—


Olin, Iowa, Report.




His thought is embellished in figure and clothed in beautiful sentence.  He is of the type of men that help the country.—


Marshalltown, Iowa, Free Press.




I can always commend Mr. Janes and his lectures unqualifiedly.
 — 
W. L. Stephens, Superintendent City Schools, Lincoln, Nebr.




I have had Mr. Janes and his beautiful pictures three times for my institutes during my term.  He is an able orator and his productions are 
totally different.
  The most interesting features of our program.
— 
Chas. Arnot, County Superintendent Dodge County, Nebr.




He again impressed his hearers with his remarkable versatility and unusual intellectual achievements.—


Daily Tribune, Fremont, Nebr.




He held his audience spell-bound from beginning to end with his wit and eloquence.—


Upland Eagle.




With a voice that might be envied by any man on the platform and an elegant use of his mother tongue, he carried his audience from one flight of mighty oratory to another until the ludicrous story of the persimmons, and a most beautiful allegory drew the lecture to a close.  Such treats as this come but a few times in a life time.—


Eustis News.




A new and powerful man in the lyceum world.  Destined to be a power.
— 
Newton Wykoff Preston, Professor History and Literature, Fremont College.




A Brilliant Young Orator.
—


Omaha Bee.





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