POPULAR LECTURE COURSE AT THE WASHINGTON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH: HALL CAINE, MADAME ANNIE GREY, MRS BALLINGTON BOOTH, MAJOR J.B. POND, IAN MACLAREN. Under the Auspices of the Baptist Young People's Union of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, Borough of Brooklyn.

Brooklyn New York: The Baptist Young People's Union of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, (1898)., (1898). Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-7/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in light green wraps titled and decorated in darker green on the front cover. There is a small spot at the bottom corner of the front cover. [12] unnumbered pages, including the rear blank leaf, printed in brown and illustrated with portraits of each of the lecturers. The top corners of the pages are creased. Very good. RARE program for the 1898 & 1899 series of lectures at the Washington Avenue Baptist Church. Starting the schedule is a reading by Hall Caine "Mr. Hall Caine will read for the first time in America an , Unpublished Novel complete, entitled , 'Yan of Iceland'." This is followed later in the month by a "Song-Lecture Recital on 'Robert Burns: His Pathos and Humor told in Poetry and Song' "Madame Annie Grey, Scottish Vocalist". Then, the following year, "Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth" offers a "Lecture entitled The Criminal Problem. Discussed from Mrs. Booth's knowledge of it from her work among the poor and in our prisons." The American impressario and lecture manager James B. Pond offers a lecture entitled "'Men of Brains' or 'Twenty Years as a Lecture Manager'." and finally "Ian MacLaren" offers "New Readings from the Annals of Drumtochty." The lecturers were secured for the Baptist Young People's Union by James B. Pond.…