Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-02-08

For the Express.
Bayard Taylor and his Lecture.

For the Express.
Bayard Taylor and his Lecture.
BIT LADY.
We came twenty miles to bear Bayard
Taylor lecture, although W. had heard him
upon the same subject in Smith d Nixon's
Hall, last winter, in Cincinnati. But this
only made us more anxious to hear him
again. For then our mind was so engaged
with the lecture that we could not study
the lecturer. But last night having a seat
Immediately in front Of him We had good
chance to study Physiognomy as well as
Moscow. And we think a brief portrait |
ure of the man. will be almost as interest !
ing, as Of the lecture to those who were not |
there. he is apparently not more than
twenty eight or thirty years OF age,-he
has finely shaped head, oval fsce-broad,
full, white forehead-fine black glossy
hair-delicately arched, slender brows-
slightly Roman nose-thin nostril, and
finely cut lips-covered with brown silky
mustachios- eyes that seem black until
they look straight into yours, aud then
you discover they are Of that rich warm
brown of which you never see but two or
three pair in a life time. He is OF medium
size, with mall hands and feet. And it is
hard TO realize that this man is the ener-
getic traveller who has visited almost all
the principal cities in the world, and en-
dured hardships, and exposure, which even
the strongest and most hardy might shrink
from.
But his organization combines hneness
and apparent delcacy with great power of
eudurance-it is to most mems organiza-
tions, what italian silk is to heavy linen
possessing all of its strength, and none of
its coarseness--what pure gold is to rough
cast iron-the harder you hammer it. the
brighter it grows, never showing break
or flaw.
AS a lecturer he is graceful, easy and
agreeable, though his manner is perhaps
too cool. calm and unimpassioned, to suit
those who like a lecture for its excitement
rather than its intellectually. He has 40
exquisitely modulated voice, and an utter
ance and pronunciation so perfect that not
only each word. but each syllable is dis
tinct. full and round. Through the whole
course Of the lecture, but one word (statis.
} tics) was imperfectly spoken. His descrip.
tive power is clear, concise and elegant
leaving out all tedious detail, yet grouping
so many and varied objects together, il
such quick succession, as to make his styl'
J lively and fascinating. he makes an ex
, cellept selection of words and garland'
them together in such finished sentences
; that one word the more, or less, would ma
: their beauty.
But neither his graceful style. his COLDER
: utterance, nor his fine word-painting give
! him such power to fasten and retain the en-
tire attention Of his audience, as kind o
D inde6nable power-a kind Of mesmerism
> il | may use the phrase, which seems Il
. bring your mind, for the time. close to hi
/, own. We not only hear. but see what b.
I describes. We forget the present time ant
! place. and stand with him where Mos
COW first greeted his sight, we see Its hun
D dreds Of golden domes-some near fash
ing in our faces, some far away glitteriDI
like stars i'm the distance. Our mind goe
back with his to the time when Napoleon
stood upon tho same eminence with tn
Fresch army, and as the splendsr Of tn
city-bathed in the rosy light of the set
: ting sun cleaned before them-said to hi
: soldiers, "Ali this is yours"-little dream
ing that i, wood soon be wrapped In still
more gorgeous splendor, which shoul,
, cheat them Of their booty. Still following
! our facinsting guide we enter the city, ant
traverse its long streets with their "suddeI
j. transformations, and surprise. we wall
Y between lofty palaces. then suddenl.
= emerge into a country village, then per
!. hsps into the noisy ueigborhood Of lage
beer saloons, or we walk between 0rients
baxsars, then 10 the shade Of cool an,
!. fragrant gardens. or clustering Churches
I aud gliding among the cosmopolitan popu
o iation-spd We perbap. In an hours wall
b see type Of every nation between "tb
b Chinese Wall and Pixies Peak" Tn
{ American or tho Ffenchman with hi
o cylindrical hat. aud kid gloves, 18th
= belle with the smallest Of bonnets cling
Z Ing painfully TO the back Of her head, will
: erinoiise 40 extensive rs 10 sweep you oi
, the sidew alk"-iho yellow haired serf
J and the fat featured ChioamaD. "fesem
} bling a faulty Image Of yellow clay throw
> aside before the true Adam was made"
; All this. aud very much more. We zee o
. Moscow. We even teooms 30 much lost u
! time and place. that We oIa In the Russian
, customs at their annual festival. end "sa
! lutte every Que We meet with q kiss"-th,
boot black, the eoaehmap, the butler, ane
so on, up TO the Emperor, aud still bighe
Our celebrated traveller himself (for which
Wa beg hIs pardop) Hut nj last Gomez
the graceful. but most unweleoms close 0
tbs lecture. And va 20 home and dream
Of seeing our dIgniAsd lecturer In a rec
turban. aud Oriental gown.
PAais. Its. ", u. H.
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