19133 At Manchester 



of the "Recreations of the Brotherhood of Ancoats." 

 To this unique institution Charles Rowley, a dynamic CkarUs 

 little man extremely vigorous in spite of his eighty ^""'^'^ 

 years or over, has devoted more than half his life, 

 thus contributing enormously to the pleasure and 

 instruction of his fellow townsmen. In the opera 

 house of Ancoats, a suburban quarter, he presents 

 each Sunday a lecture, a concert, or perhaps other 

 entertainment, all handled with a spirit of helpfulness 

 and a rich dash of humor, so that every entertainer 

 in these "recreations" goes away with a large respect 

 for the man's personality. And regularly since my 

 visit he has sent me his printed programs, varied 

 sheets adorned by clever cartoons. 



Sunday morning I spoke in the Friends' Church 

 on international conciliation, a matter on which we 

 all found ourselves in full agreement. For there is 

 little final difference between idealistic pacifists like 

 the Quakers who condemn war for its own sake as 

 contrary to morals ahd religion, and inductive 

 pacifists who, studying war's effects, condemn it as 

 thoroughly bad from every point of view. 



During my stay in Manchester I attended a dinner Branies 

 given to Georg Brandes, the distinguished literary 

 scholar of Copenhagen. At its close he read an essay 

 in English on Shakespeare, an excellent tribute but 

 delivered with a less perfect accent than I should have 

 expected. 



In Liverpool we were first guests of Professor Liverpool 

 William A. Herdman of the chair of Zoology, and 

 afterward of Professor Emmott of the chair of Law, 

 formerly a professor at the Hopkins. I spoke twice 

 at the University, once under the auspices of the 

 Eugenics Association on heredity and selection, the 



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