THE
BURTON HOLMES
LECTURES

Copyright 1901
BY E. BURTON HOLMES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The "Edition Original" of The Burton Holmes Lecturesis Limited to One Thousand Sets.

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Mr. Holmes has been asked to supply data for a biographical sketch.He replies that his biography will be found in his lectures, each lecturebeing a chapter from his life of travel. Thirty chapters of this autobiographyappear in these volumes,—thirty preliminary chapters,—forMr. Holmes hopes that his life of travel is but just begun.

Elias Burton Holmes was born in Chicago in January, 1870, inheriting alove for travel. In 1883 he acquired a love for photography. In 1886 hetraveled abroad and took pictures. He has been traveling and takingpictures ever since. In 1890 he appeared before his first audience,—themembers of the Chicago Camera Club, reading and illustrating an accountof a tour "Through Europe with a Camera." In 1893 he made his firstprofessional appearance in the recital hall of the Auditorium, Chicago,describing a journey to Japan. Kind friends and curious acquaintancesinsured the success of this venture, and encouraged Mr. Holmes to enterupon a career in which the labor has been a labor of love. For five successivewinters the Burton Holmes Lectures were among the features of theamusement season in the cities of the Middle West. In 1897, on the retirementof Mr. John L. Stoddard from the field which he had created andoccupied for nineteen years, Mr. Holmes found himself prepared to carryon the work begun by Mr. Stoddard.

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