The Portland daily press., 1864-02-29
P. r. BARNUM'S
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Troy Daily Times, Dec. C, 1862


MR. BARyUM's LEcTURE.-In the annals of the
Young mems Association we hardly know of
more thoroughly successful lecture than that of
p 7. Barnum last evening. The admission fee
of so cents did not prevent the accumulation of
an audience that filled every seat in Rand's Hall.
more brilliant, appreciatiye and delighted as
semblage never gathered in the room Mr.. Bar
mum held them for nearly two hours, without
manifestation of WEAKNESS, and sent them home
in the best humor, with enlarged ideas as to the
art of money making.
The good points of the lecture are thoroughly
unreportable No sketch could do justice to Mr.
Barnum's inimitably-told anecdotes and person.
al "reminiscences The more serious portions of
the lecture were admirable in their maxims and
advice. They eyinced, also, a scholarship and
elegance of diction in the manner in which they
were put together that few gave Mr.. Barnum
credit for. His delivery was deliberate and clear,
and was rendered appropriate to each part of the
theme. We had known the speaker as won
derful Snowman, but as a successful lecturer he
appeared in new and triumphant role
Albany Kaickerb0cker, Dec, 1862.
BARSuM BEATs Decentralization hundred
of our first ladies and gentlemen crowded lived
die Hall on Thursday evening, to hear the great
Snowman discourse on the art of making money
This is four hundred more than Henry Ward
Beecher drew to the same hall last week Bar
NUNS lecture gave immense satisfaction In
deed, it was the lecture of the season. II was
not only a great pecuniary triumph for our
Young Mems Association, but the shrewd, prac-
teal suggestions and rules for success in BUSH
ness, illustrated by the drollest witticisms and
the most original side-spltting anecdotes, were
worth double the price paid for admission The
audience was kept in a roar of laughter from be-
ginning to end, and left in the best possible hui
mer.
Troy Daily Hhig Dec. 6, 1862.
Every seat in Rlnd's spacious Hall was occu-
pied last evening by an audience as refined and
intelligent any that ever greeted public lee
turer in this city. Both speaker and the subject
were interestng-the former to be seen, the lat
. ter to be listened to. People outside of the Me-
tropolis have heard so much of Barnum and of
the various enterprises-both good and bad
with which he has been connected. that, in the
minds of many persons, he had come to be re-
garded in the light of a curiosity-a genuine Ia
sus nature. But far from it. 0fa commanding
personal appearance, face beaming with good
nature, and eountenance remarkable for sharp
ness and acuteness, the ''great Snowman looks
anything but the humbug or charlatan
At eight O'Clock he made his appearance ON
the stage, accompanied by the President and
Corresponding Secretary of the Association and
met with good reception.
After the customary introduction, Mr. B. pro-
ceeded to address the audience in a clear, prac-
teal, off-hand manner. We merely present
few of the leading points discussed by the speak
era full report being impossible, as he spoke
for full two hours
Here follows a report of the lecture.l
London Morning Herald, jan. 7h
Mr.. Barnum last night repeated his enter
tainment at St. James Hall to very crowded
audience, who entered very heartily into the
mass of American jokes, which excited much
applause. The hour named for commencing was
eight o'clock, but, though We reached the hal
at quarter before that hour, we could not OBJ
tain a seat where it was possible to see or hear
we'll
London Morning .4irertiser, Dec. 30h
Mr.. Barnums lecture breathes wholesome.
healthy air, is varied in subject and delivered
in such genial and pleasant style as to consti-
tute an intellectual treat which one does not
meet with every day even in London.