The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-07

Mr.. B0urclcault's "Winter Evenings"
Mr.. Dion Bourcicault author Of several successful
comedies, commenced series of 'Evs nirgs" at Hope
Chapel on Tuesday evening The house was not quite
filed. The usject of his Evening" was European So
ciey" Fe desired to say that these no lectures.
He never lectured anybody He reviewed the rise and
progress Of Euro society and claimed that all siv
ration sprang from religion and all the earlier forms
arose from Egyptian and Syrian customs. From the
combination and resolving Of religious beliefs and the
democratic political sentiment arose the Roman EN-
pre. He said that the Roman Empire an empire Of
Cities and the territory of many celebrated nations
this time occupied very subordinate position, and the
age heroism dtin yuished for poteness The
Roman matron only noble slave. Her only idea
bring forth Roman citizens Tho impurity Of the Ro
man character may be traced to the fact that their
al bachelor parties they wsre and
the disgusting senseess things In tbs world But
. reform came with the Christian religion and new 50
cial system was organized. The Roman Empire
swept away by the Eruption OF bar hordss They
settled the country. and left the citizens in wonder
Then the sentiment of chivalry: ard from this
springs all civ izaop of the present day BIZ chvary
woman was raised to her proper position and the affinity
between chvary and Chr Instantly might easily be traced.
The young knights taught TO love God and the ladies'
Ciyixston is ship, of which the keel and
rudder and Christianity the breath which carries 1t along
II look to the ussdss shall find that the origin
of the of royalty from the fact the needy
baross would wait IN the court art to i'm plore a Of The
king European society consists almost entirely Of
London and Paris. Be he to these pon s Mr..
Bourccanlt said he wsud sweep around Spain Italy
In yachting tour he Ian led at CAdz, and This gave
him opportunity 10 see Spansh society He
Spain 70 respectable gentleman with the govt The
coery f Am RIGA ru ne The prospects of spain .nd she
bad not progressed hiDce that time Ote travels 10 Spain
ke II James hsroe,, with trusty rotinue armed
to the teeth. spanish society is full of fogmalty When
you pay vi II chair placed for YOU and aoothsr for
They still hChere to the Mo rsh forms.
could Lot discover but peculiar features in the
spanish characterize oking and love making Asn,-
thing in England is dons without eating and in America
without drink, 20 the Spaniards do nothing without
smoking. Their love making Is peculiar In the upper
classes Tee the 6af Der OF Seville In reality The
have general informa ton, aud exprss every
pas ion with their You cannot oe nd OF them
you will only listen TO her. Madni ia like Paris ani this
Is the CITY exception to the fm may Of the country In
Italy but few foreigners enter the best society italians
oistipgu she'd fer snsuay deceit and want of prn
cpe The Spar lard ids because he Is pyoudthe TIA
liam will not work because he crafty his sensual APP
pc lite by stealing You u,ay b. robbed Sp in but it
smile. In st Petersburg they copy Paris to ridiculous
extent Germany nay copy some Partisan forms,
and makes him still the only masculine people in Europe
Paris reminded the lecturer of beautiful coquetts,
always flirting wi III somebody and IL thers NOBODY
frt with, coquetiing with herself The Bouevards form
tht which encirces the great body The lecturer
gave sketch Of tie early history of Paris The Court
of France . great mass of selGshness aud blckest
morally when il seemed The most brilliant intellectually.
Th, the state of things voai,e and Rousseau
attacked the system and brought about the revolution
1859 The power the State passed into oth,r hands,
blu. not those Of the people The old feuda preudices
triurphed Persian society has come to th the Church
and The Arstocracy have mace against the
people. Paris is civiced into five cities quarters. The
quar- Saint Gerr ain is the home of he old arstoeracy
where they and the Church ly, in cert of niunmyf
existence The lecturer had presented letter ofiuroiuc
ton to Countess Montomorenci who liv ID vary
house IL very m. bat in 'h.se lodgings mi the
of this set educated by eccesisstis and thay
to be at liberty. They never wear dismonds ana the
fashions Of Z, gland and America do from this
part Of the city. Tboy from the Quarter Saint
Honore which is the seat of all the literary nd artistic
society Of fars Here all the people worth knowing in
Paris meet and wit lscateB in the very air Ga the
Boulssal es NEE the Partisan lon-a gentleman who
is entitled to live 10 coed society bat prefers bad
parry. He shoots drives and is q member Of the jockey
club But the life OF tue lion is shor.; he generally
ruined in sbout four years Tnis style Of people affect
avery thing Enslish-dTess sly e
The Quarter sai HoLore is the editorial burea from
which proceeds all the ia hion in Europe and America
TIE pcliteness Of the French nation only potensss
of words He has feeiiog No man can make love
like Frenchm because he feels it. Ths
in Paris are superior in style TO the The Partisan
is coclney the widest Of the word He knoys
nothing beyond Paris This is the case with all
classes. The Quarter Ste Genevieve is the home OF
the Lar9eoisie They nsy be stupid, but they
tho husns At he QUARTER sant Antoine we end the
s'ttans-a jolly careless, happy people ready to fight
for change in The cove nment and rot carirg what
become Of it. The QUARTER ST Jacques is occupied BY
the Students Toe least said Of taera the be ter He
b levtd they improved BIZ age Passing TO London,
find different state of things The peerage of Eogland
IL continually being recruited from the ind of the
people The painter Co.ley Is Lord Lyn hurst. and Pax
tan gardener, is a titled man TIE lecturer drew
pleasant picture OF Ersls1 arlstccrats in the country
when The state and formality is laid aude and
tIsse1 1t with tie eremony observed in London. The
lecturer said IL the might be fcupi in the fact
that the En- sli noble at hons anywhere but
10 the country from this come To tie second class
between the nobility and The shopkeepers These form
the snobocrecy, and it combines all that is
in English society. Punch has happily hit eff this class.
And he rp aker could only request his auditors to be
heve all that he said Next in order the clubs
The, Political and IA. hiopabe, and military, and
naval, and literary These clubs have called into exist
singula, beog cal ed the club man. He gener
ally dGche OF of the pro essons-does nothing.
and has eight ndred dollars year for doing
IT, He belongs TO club, ana writes lis letters there.
Nobody knows any thing more about him. Below club
cety in London all Ia Saxon; above it find the old
Nor preudices. Mr. Bourccault defsrde the Cock
ney character and hoped he would not be COMPOUNDED
with the sleek, fawi ing shopkeepers Mr. Bourccault
closed with pleasant sketch Of Lor don merchant The
full Ct mart things and naDy witty ones.