TOWN HALL EAST OXFORD. CONTINUATION OF LECTURE, Mr Thos. Crook will carry his audience further on m the wondrous land of Egypt. SUNDAY MARCH 21 and will explain how the mummies were discovered. — proving it one of the most wonderful events that has happened during the past thousand years. EGYPT AND THE NILE. THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION MR CROOK will give the remainder of bis Illustrated LECTURE AL 7. 30. Syllabus. Chaldea and Egypt the nurseries of Science and Religion. Comparison between the Stream of Egyptian Tradition • and the course of tlie RiverNile. The significance of the plans of Ancient Egyptian Temples, traces of their influence on Jewish aud Christian Churches. The. sacred Isle of tlie First Cataract. Phils and its glorious ShrinesV Th_ beautiful myth of Iris and Orisis. Pharoah's Led. A modern EngineeriDg. Scheme; The Temple of ""iklfow. -Thebes and its sublime remains. Luxor, Ancient and modern. Ainenhotep 111. The Palace of Rameses. 111., at Mediuet Abou. Karuak and the Ramesseum. The Tablet of Abjdos. Denderah and its Temple of Hathor, the Venus of Ancient Egypt. Down the Nile to Cairo. Tbe Mosque of the 1000 Column?., The Citadel. Alexandria, the home of Philosophy. Pompey's Pillar. The Bombardment of 1882, The Pharos and the Pharoahs. Peroiation. MR CROOK'S vivid word pictures will be rendered doubly interesting ' hy admirable photographs, many of them coloured, shown by meaus of the Oxi-oxygen Limelight. •Admission Silver coin. HARVEST THANKSGIVING SERVICES. '"WESLEY AN CHURCH WEST OXFORDMARCH 21st. 1897. SALE OF PRODUCE MONDAY 22nd. At 7. 80. THE friends are kindly requested to send m their offerings on or before SATURDAY 20th. G. HOUNSELL. TENDERS. TENDERS are invited for the purchase of one acre of land laid down m English grass and clover, m Church Street, lately occupied by Mrs Sheehan. Tenders to be sent m to the office of this paper, on or before March the 22nd. NOTICE. HAVING been told a few days ago that A CERTAIN PERSON has reported/ that lam no longer taking m work— l wish to notify to all my friends and the PUBLIC generally, that I am carrying on my BUSINESS m ALL its BRANCHES as HERETOFORE. JOSEPH LOUGH, February Ist. 1897.
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Oxford Observer, Volume VIII, Issue VIII, 20 March 1897, Page 2
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