Will Give His Latest

Robert J. Burdette, who speaks here Thursday evening in 1he Y. M. C. A. Lyceum eourse, giving his new !ecture, "Our Mission in Mars,"' is perhapfa the most witty lecture on the stage to-day. Of him the Portland, Oegon, News, says : "Robert Jones Burdette- that 's his name in lul-gave his very enjoyadle discourse od The Mission of tlie Funny Man' at th; PaviUion last night. Mr. Burdette has a rather rapid delivery, but 110 twist on his words. His voice is dear, well pitched, and doesn't leak. It bears the tone of the Pennsylvanian and at the tail end of a sentence han something like pathos. He talks straight ahead as tliougli lie did not expeet laughter or applause, but t hey get thère all the same. He has a (lolightful way of chuckling just a liltle as he goes along- anticipating wliat he is, about to relate. Thci Ia no bufíoonery about liim. He is rul! of pure humor and ;ipt ïlustration. He never commlte the ciinie oi explaining a joke. He cao ie serioua at times and deal) in truth to au enjoyable degvee. We do not propose to report his lecture. ïhat vould not be fair. He must Ie heard, and those who do not henr him will 'mise something that they should not lose. As a Uumorous lectnrer Mr. Burdette discounts ary ancaU upon the rostrum to-day." The Chicago Tlmee-Herald talks of him in this way : "However, it is not. even owing to a careful avoidance of all the objectionable olements of the humor of the day that Mr. I'.urUette has won lor himse'f the unbounded popularity that has no aU liands ieen accorded to him. It is simply owtag to the facfc that he is by mature a humortót in the t'ruest mea-ning. Burdette is endowed with o. teense of humor tliat üglits up everything lie touches. He is never guilty of produciug a s ketoli wherein be is not perceived to be the man of sení-e. although appavently 'altogethcr given up to caprice.' ' The Chelsea Herald tljus companients a couple of Ann Arbor ladiee : St Mary's choir, of Chelsea, was reïnforced last Sunday by Miss KInney. of Ann Arbor, who is a singer with a finely cultivated voice. Miss Kinney sang at the offertory Millard's 'Ava Maria.' and she thrilled the large congregation by her exquisite renderlng of the beautiful plece. in the evenluL she favored'the congregation with ■in '0 Salutarie,' whlch slie also sang in splendid style. Miss Kinney 'ü voice 1-. remarkale for it dulcet' qualiry. Mis Burnfs, the organist, accompa11 Led the singer in her usual 'oril'.iant Btyl. Both ladies were hospitab'y eutertained by Mr. and Mrs. '.'IiarUs j:. "Whitaker."