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LANTERN LECTURES

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BRITISH EMPIRE."

1. In the following Memorandum I venture General

to suggest a plan for the organization of a aim of the system of lantern lectures, illustrating life in Memoran-

dum. different parts of the British Empire, as an educational means of strengthening the feeling of Imperial unity and citizenship. The plan is designed to give the masses of the people in the United Kingdom a clearer understanding than they at present possess of the social conditions and economic opportunities of life in the Colonies. At the same time, it provides for the exhibition in the 'Colonies of interesting and well-chosen pictures of life in the Mother Country. The audiences in view are both adult and juvenile. The same sets of slides would (with trifling exceptions) appeal to both kinds of audience. But it is proposed that, in explana- tion of the pictures, two sets of lectures should be prepared, in order to meet the needs of older and younger hearers respectively. Special stress, however, is laid on the importance of encouraging this form of visual instruction in schools throughout the Empire, as ideas and associations can generally be better fixed in the the mind during the impressionable years of 'childhood than in later life.

2. The object in view is to give every citizen Details of of the Empire an opportunity of seeing what the ang- the different parts of the Empire are like; of gested

plan. realising its immense variety, its interest and

(a) Combi. beauty, and its resources; of hearing the story nation of of its growth; and of learning what duties its visual in- possession entails. Much can be learnt through struction the eye as well as through the ear. By means fully pre- of a combination of beautiful and accurate pic- pared ex- 4nd of striking and well-arranged lectures, planatory

with care-

in simple language and with skilful lectures.

of essential detail, it would be possible renemal interest throughout the Empire much dangerous ignoranos. In

in point of manship during

scheme in

to the success of the plan, three be essential: (1) the lantern on the highest level of excellence curacy, colour, and artistic work- the lectures, designed to be read the slide, should be pre- care by persons who are the subject but also ex- lecturing to the kind of leotarer are interfed ; of the hides, the keering date, and the subsediment ment of the details of the of experience, would,

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