All the Delights gf 
 Travel for Those 
 Who Stay at Home 
 
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 Seventh Year in 
 
 America 
 
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 Tirst Year in 
 
 England 
 
 C. Under the Direction of 
 Mr. Louis Francis Brown 
 Mr. Lyman G. Bo urn i que 
 

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THE 
 
 TRAVELOGUES 
 
 OF 
 
 Mr. Burton Holmes 
 
 Being Traveler' s Tales Tersely Told 
 
 in Graphic Speech, Vivified 
 
 by Pidures in Colour 
 
 and Pictures in 
 
 Motion 
 
 A Travelogue — 
 
 u The Gist of a journey, 
 Ground Fine by discrimina- 
 tion, Leavened with informa- 
 tion, Seasoned with humor, 
 Fashioned in literary form, 
 and Embellished by pictures 
 that delight the eye, while the 
 spoken story charms the ear." 
 
 A Travelogue is not a 
 
 lecr.ure — one listens to a 
 lecture ; one experiences 
 a Travelogue. 
 In a Travelogue one sees 
 what is being told about* 
 
 "Once seeing is better than a hundred times 
 telling about/' 
 
 — Japanese Adage. 
 
H 
 
 G LUTING the picture to the phrase, Mr. Holmes 
 **-^ in his Travelogues satisfies that universal yearn- 
 ing to SEE and KNOW the wonder and the 
 beauty of that WORLD of OTHERWHERE, 
 the earth-wide realm of the modern traveler. 
 
 "To travel is to possess 
 the <world. 
 
 — E. Burton Holmes. 
 
 ^ The telling of the Story 
 and its pictorial presenta- 
 tion move on in perfect 
 harmony, producing the il- 
 lusion of actual travel, the 
 auditor and spectator en- 
 joying a delightful sense of 
 " being there " — amid the 
 scenes of beauty or gran- 
 deur conjured out of the 
 darkness by the magic of 
 the speaker's words. 
 
 (§ The Illustrations, with a few exceptions, 
 are from negatives made by Mr. Holmes. 
 
 CJ The beautiful and realistic Colouring of 
 the illustrations is the work of the distin- 
 guished slide-colourists, Miss Katharine Gor- 
 don Breed and Mrs. Helen E. Stevenson. 
 
 CJ The Motion Pictures, made expressly for 
 each Travelogue, are by Mr. Holmes and 
 Mr. Oscar B. Depue. 
 
 C[ The projecting instruments and the cine- 
 matograph are operated by Mr. Depue. 
 
Mr. Burton Holmes 
 
 has the honour to announce, for 
 his first season in England, A 
 SERIES OF FIVE TRAV- 
 ELOGUES descriptive of the 
 following famous regions : 
 
 I 
 
 THE YOSEMITE VALLEY 
 
 ii 
 The YELLOWSTONE PARK 
 
 in 
 
 THE GRAND CANYON OF 
 ARIZONA 
 
 IV 
 
 ALASKA THE BEAUTIFUL 
 
 v 
 THE GOLDEN KLONDIKE 
 
 Each subject presented with 
 a remarkable wealth of 
 
 Original Illustrations 
 
 Magnificent Lantern Views 
 in Natural Colours and Real- 
 istic Motion Pictures Per- 
 fectly Projected 
 
Mr. Burton Holmes 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 FOR eleven years the travelogues of 
 Mr. Burton Holmes have enjoyed an 
 ever-increasing popularity in all of the larger 
 and many of the lesser cities of the United 
 States. Mr. Holmes' annual tours extend 
 from '.he Atlantic to the Pacific, and his 
 pictured tales of travel are eagerly awaited 
 from year to year by loval audiences to whom 
 he brings, each Autumn and Winter, the 
 essence of his Spring and Summer travel. 
 He is not a lecturer in the ordinary sense of 
 the word, for in his special line of work he 
 is unique. He is pre-eminently a traveler — 
 one who travels for the love of travel ; and, 
 though not an orator, he employs in telling 
 of his travels that convincing eloquence that 
 is born of actual experience. He is innately 
 a lover of the beautiful in nature, art and 
 architecture, and he employs in the making 
 of the illustrations for his travelogues an 
 artistic discrimination and a sense of compo- 
 sition that are the result of a nice appreciation 
 of illustrative values and of his long experience 
 in travel-photography. In everything said or 
 done by Mr Holmes there is reflected an 
 intense love of the picturesque and a sus- 
 ceptibility to the charm of the exotic. 
 
 His range of subject is as wide as the 
 world; but he will make his first appeal to 
 the eye and ear of the British public through 
 his latest and most beautiful series of five 
 travelogues, descriptive of the scenic wonder- 
 lands of North America, revealing by means 
 of pictures in words and pictures in colour 
 and in motion, the more striking experiences 
 of a journey from " Broadway to Bering Sea." 
 
 Louis Francis Brown 
 Lyman G. Bournique 
 
El Capita??, 
 
The Yosemite Valley 
 
 AND 
 
 The Big Trees of California 
 
 HERE and there throughout the 
 world the traveler finds a spot 
 where Nature appears to have realized 
 an ideal. Such a spot is the Yosemite 
 Valley, one of Nature's scenic master- 
 pieces. Unlike many other famous 
 scenic regions, the Yosemite lends itself 
 admirably to photographic illustration. 
 In his Yosemite Travelogue, Mr. Bur- 
 ton Holmes leads his audiences into the 
 model valley of the world and reveals 
 to them its glorious cliffs in all their 
 majesty of magnitude, its towering trees 
 and sylvan vistas in all their richness of 
 colour, and its world-famous waterfalls 
 in all the capricious grace and beauty of 
 their incessant play. 
 
 Vivid suggestions of the pleasures 
 that attend a tour of the Yosemite are 
 given by pictured incidents and cine- 
 matographic records of experiences on 
 the steep mountain trails up which the 
 traveler makes his way to points of view 
 where thousands of beauty lovers have 
 been thrilled by panoramas of unspeak- 
 able sublimity. 
 
con- 
 
 
 oid Faithful" in Eruption 
 
The Yellowstone Park 
 
 AND 
 
 Its Active Volcanic Wonders 
 
 T_T IGH up among the Rocky Moun- 
 
 -■- -1 tains, in the northwestern corner 
 of Wyoming, there is a region that is a 
 veritable wonderland. It is known as 
 the Yellowstone Park, a glorious Na- 
 tional playground, several thousand 
 square miles in extent, where, amid 
 snow-capped peaks, pine-clad slopes, 
 verdant valleys, shimmering mountain 
 lakes, coloured canyons and exuberant 
 rapid rivers the traveler may witness 
 some of the most amazing and beautiful 
 volcanic manifestations in the world. 
 Mr. Burton Holmes, in his Yellowstone 
 Travelogue, tells of a tour through the 
 American Wonderland, showing the 
 noble serenity of the scenic back- 
 ground, the exquisite daintiness of the 
 tinted terraces built by the magic waters 
 of the hot springs, the marvelous colour- 
 ing of the quiescent pools, the sublime 
 nature-frescoes on the canyon walls, 
 and in all their uncanny beauty, the 
 various volcanic phenomena — from the 
 laughter-provoking bubblings of the 
 " Paint Pots " to the awe-inspiring out- 
 bursts of the gigantic geysers. 
 
A Glimpse of the Grand Ca?iyo?i 
 
The Grand Canyon of 
 Arizona 
 
 AND 
 
 The Snake Dance of the Moki Indians 
 
 "An inferno, swathed in soft celestial 
 fires; a whole chaotic under-world, just 
 emptied of primeval floods and waiting 
 for a new creative word ; eluding all 
 sense of perspective or dimension, out- 
 stretching the faculty of measurement, 
 overlapping the confines of definite ap- 
 prehension ; a boding, terrible thing, un- 
 flinchingly real, yet spectral as a dream; 
 :;: : - : :;: a stupendous panorama, a thou- 
 sand square miles in extent, that lies 
 wholly beneath the eye; :;: : - : * a labyrinth 
 of huge architectural forms, endlessly 
 varied in design, and painted with every 
 colour known to the palette in pure 
 transparent tones of marvelous delicacy. 
 Never was picture more harmonious, 
 never flower more exquisitely beautiful. 
 It flashes instant communication of all 
 that architecture and painting and music 
 for a thousand years have gropingly 
 striven to express. It is the soul of 
 Michael Angelo and of Beethoven." 
 
 — Charles A, Higgins. 
 
Alaska?! Art 
 
Alaska the Beautiful 
 
 The North American Norway 
 
 npHERK is no portion of the globe 
 ■*- richer than Alaska in the variety 
 and splendor of its scenery . Alaskan 
 channels or "canals" are as impressive 
 as the fjords of Norway. Alaskan 
 mountains surpass in height and rival 
 in grandeur the most famous peaks of 
 Switzerland. Alaskan islands are as 
 tair to look upon as those of Japan's 
 Inland Sea. Alaskan glaciers, mighty 
 ice-floods surging in snow-white splendor 
 into the somber fjords, are the most 
 marvelous and beautiful in all the 
 world. 
 
 After presenting in phrase and pic- 
 ture the experiences of a cruise amid 
 the pine-clad islands and through the 
 mountain-bordered inlets of this far-off 
 fjord-land, Mr. Burton Holmes leads 
 his fellow travelers along that famous 
 pathway of the gold-seeking pioneers, 
 over the White Pass and down the 
 raging rivers to the head of navigation 
 on the Yukon, where the steamers for 
 the Golden Klondike wait. 
 
The Prospector 
 
The Golden Klondike 
 
 AND 
 
 The Yukon Country 
 
 THE wealth and wonders of the 
 Canadian El Dorado were widely 
 celebrated at the time of the great Klon- 
 dike "gold stampede' in 1897 — but 
 the outside world knows very little of 
 the actual aspect of that far-off region as 
 it is to-day. The wilderness has become 
 a land of towns and cities ; the locomo- 
 tive thunders through the passes; palatial 
 steamers ply up and down the mighty 
 rivers ; mining machinery is replacing 
 the pick and pan of the old prospector. 
 Dawson has evolved from camp to city. 
 The poor men who " struck it rich " 
 have created a thriving commonwealth 
 where yesterday there was nothing but 
 a hostile solitude. The transformed 
 Klondike district is one of the most 
 amazing proofs of the progressive 
 prowess of our race. 
 
 Mr. Burton Holmes, in his Klondike 
 Travelogue, brings to his audience the 
 very life and atmosphere of this new 
 advance post of English-speaking en- 
 terprise and vivid impressions of a 
 voyage down the Yukon River, across 
 the Alaskan vastnesses to Cape Nome 
 on the shores of the Bering Sea. 
 
OCT 25 1! 
 
 Under the Title of 
 
 The Burton Holmes Lectures 
 
 Thirty of the Travelogues of Mr. Burton 
 Holmes are issued in a superbly illustrated 
 
 EDITION OF TEN VOLUMES 
 
 Each volume containing three complete 
 lectures, each lecture illustrated by more 
 than a hundred pictures reproduced from 
 Mr. Holmes' original negatives. 
 
 Cfl The arrangement of subjects is as follows: 
 
 I. INTO MOROCCO. A Land of Yesterday. 
 
 FEZ, THE METROPOLIS OF THE MOORS. The 
 City of Abd-el-Aziz. 
 
 THROUGH THE HEART OF THE MOORISH EM- 
 PIRE. From Mequinez to Rabat. 
 II. ROUND ABOUT PARIS. Quaint Corners of the French 
 Capital. 
 
 THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Part I -The Art Palaces, 
 the Esplanade des Invalides, and the National Pavilions. 
 
 THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Part II-The Trocadero 
 and the Champ de Mars. 
 III. THE OLYMPIAN GAMES IN ATHENS. Modern 
 Greece in 1896. 
 
 GRECIAN JOURNEYS. By Caravan Around the Pelo- 
 ponnesus. 
 
 THE WONDERS OF THESSALY. The Meteora 
 Monasteries and the Vale of Tempe. 
 IV. CITIES OF THE BARBARY COAST. From Algiers 
 to Constantine. 
 
 OASES OF THE ALGERIAN SAHARA. To Biskra 
 and Touggourt. 
 
 SOUTHERN SPAIN. Gibraltar, Ronda, Seville, and 
 Granada. 
 V. THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. On the Eve of An- 
 nexation. 
 
 THE EDGE OF CHINA. Hongkong, Macao, and Canton. 
 
 MANILA. Within the American Lines in iSqg. 
 VI. THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. The American Won- 
 derland. 
 
 THE GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA The Biggest 
 Beautiful Thing in the World. 
 
 MOKI LAND. The Pueblos of the Snake Dance. 
 VII. THROUGH EUROPE WITH A CAMERA. The 
 Ficst Effort of the Author. 
 
 OBERAMMERGAU IN 1900. Three Weeks in the Vil- 
 lage of the Passion Play. 
 
 CYCLING THROUGH CORSICA. The Home of the 
 Vendetta and the Birthplace of Napoleon. 
 VIII. ST. PETERSBURG. Springtime in the Imperial Russian 
 Capital. 
 
 MOSCOW. The Mother-City of the Muscovites. 
 
 THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. Through a Land 
 of Promise, from the Urals to Lake Baikal and the River 
 Shilka. 
 IX. DOWN THE AMUR. Streystensk, Blagovcschensk, 
 Khabarovsk, Vladivostok. 
 
 PEKING. A Study of the Chinese Capital After the Siege. 
 
 THE FORBIDDEN CITY. A Revelation of the Secret 
 and Sacred Recesses of Imperial Peking. 
 X. SEOUL, THE CAPITAL OF KOREA. The Metropo- 
 lis of the " Hermit Nation." 
 
 JAPAN. The Country - An Unbeaten Track from Nikko 
 to the Rapids of the Tenryu River. 
 
 JAPAN. The Cities— From Tokyo to the Sacred Island in 
 the Inland Sea. 
 
 Cfl For information concerning this publica- 
 tion, please address the Managers of Mr. 
 Burton Holmes, Queen's Hall, London. 
 

 
 
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 HE interesting places described 
 in these Travelogues may be 
 conveniently reached as fol- 
 lows: From New York to Chi- 
 cago, the Erie Railway takes 
 one through an attractive country. 
 Prom Chicago (whence one should not 
 fail to go over the Chicago and A'ton 
 Line to the St Louis World's Fair in 
 1904) one reaches the Grand Canyon of 
 Arizona via the Santa Fe Railway; the 
 Yellowstone Park via the Northern Pa- 
 cific, leaving the Park, if desired, via 
 the Oregon Short Line to the Pacific 
 Coast ; from Chicago to California, one 
 may go over the Northwestern Line and 
 the Southern Pacifc, which maintains 
 a rapid summer service between San 
 Francisco and the Yosemite Valley — 
 one night by rail and a delightful day's 
 drive by " Limited '" stage. 
 •J Alaska is most comfortably visited 
 on the S. S. "Spokane," one of the 
 cruising steamers of the Pacific Coast 
 S. S. Co., sailing from Seattle and Vic- 
 toria, 8. C. 
 
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