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Lecturer and Author

jects would be most interesting and with the material in the hands of Dr. White may pcssibly be published by the Federal Suffrage Association at a later day.

During the three winters preceding 1916 Mrs. Colby gave courses of lectures in Washington which were notable for the breadth of vision indicated and the labor necessary to prepare them. The following list of subjects of one course will show the nature of these lectures. The others were of a similar character.

"Delia Blanchflower," Mrs. Humphrey Ward's new Woman Suffrage Novel.

"Austria-Hungary, Its History and Conditions."

"Florence Nightingale."

"Women in the Building of America."

"Woman's Work in English Fiction," Clara H. Whitmore, A. M.

"Bohemia, and the Burning of John Hus."

"Euripides, and his Types of Greek Women."

"The Lion with Seven Darts in His Paw."

"Hroswitha Who Wrote Dramas a Thousand Years Ago; and Women of the Monasteries."

"Fanny Burney and Dr. Johnson." "Rudolph Eucken, and the New Religious Idealism."

"The Great Mother," C. H. J. Bjerregaard.