Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-11-12

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HOME LECTURERS.


\ recent article in the Vaiclmon. called
out by the modest announcement Of Lieut.
Marry that he is prepared to lecture during
the winter for Sl20 night and expenses.
commends itself to every one as sensible and
iutcious. In SAKE and Eastman We have
poets known to the world. They are men
who have established for themselves per-
mNneut fame and character for Vermont
literature wherever works of superior merit
arc read. In selecting the names of two or
three Of the gentleman given in the list of
lecturers, in the article referred to, do not
intend or design to make invidious compare
sons they are all gentlemen of recognized
ability.
Prof g. n. Boordman, of Middlebury Col
lego. is man Of large stature and of COM
handing presence. He has heavy. full,
dccp-toncd voice, cultivated and correct His
essays in leading Quartcrlios, his sermons
and public addresses arc all characterized by
sound learning and accurate research, bv great
fluoncy Of language by splcndor of imagina-
ton, by loitincss Of thought, by sympathy
with the nature Of man. and by transitions
always graceful. In his description of nature.
he rises to the height of a true poet 81
should like to live in a world of John VIII
Gun ilhhAhHs says 4AliAu Cunningham. 30
would You of Prot. Boardmans How lovely
would be the hills, how romantic the noun
tains, how clear the skies how beauteous the
light Of the half-rsen sum- how full! of prom
Use the wales, and Of music the streams The
song of the birds would be forever heard, the
bound of the deer forever seen; thistlcs
would refuse to grow, and hail showers to
descend; while, amid the whole. woman
would walk, pure and unspotted creature,
clothed with loneliness as with a garment, the
flowers DESTROYS of being pressed by her white
feet, the wind feeling enriched by her breath,
while the eagle above would hesitate to pounce
upon the lambs, charmed into a dove by the
presence Of beauty and innocence. And in
all, whether he speaks of nature, literature.
or science, he goes up to the mark at once.
J. X Colby, Esq, of St. Johnsbury, is
gentleman well known to the patrons of learn
ing drought the State. As teacher. he is
learned, upright, deliberate, resolute and i'm
partial. He Is possessed of inyincible re-
serve whenever reserve is necessary Of great
discernment in determining the character and
procliyities Of his pupils of distinguished
seli-command and camness. and Of unbend-
ing purity of life and expression. He is mas
ter Of all he teaches and of all the subjects
ne writes upon, and as a lecturer he cannot
fail of investing his subject with interest and
instruction.
Rev. Franklin d. Aver, Of ST. Johnsbury.
IS young man, not more than twenty-six. a
graduate of Dartmouth College and of An
dover Theological Seminary Yeras ago he
was distinguished as writer in the excel
sior Club at st, Johnsbury. and this is no
small praise, for the club numbered such as
are now eminent as editors, lawyers, divines
and essayists. As a writer, Mr.. Aver is
man OF taste and Judgment. lie is master of
the imaginative and beautiful; he has the fac
ulty of treasuring whatever he pronounces
good, either as an idea or smile, and in its
Transportation it loses nothing Of its original
hro or lustre his style is easy and remark
able for richness of expression. His own
ideas of man and his duties to the world. of
the world itself, of religion, of social order.
all attest that he is not deficient in strength
yet In all these, it is manifest that he leans
less to the austere and the gloomy than to
the gentle and the charming, As a lecturer
he is sure to- interest, and to gain the attcn-
ton of an audience FAA
Hest Randolph, Nor. sh, 1858.