The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-12

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"PLEAsED OR DIsPLEAsED IT'S child's
game, that children of larger growth play.
course of lectures-this present course of
Library Association-is an illustration. If
"displeased, let not the patronage of negro
minstrel troupes be the direction in which we
seek to''be pleased better" Let US maintain
the course, getting as much good, as much
that is pure and instructive, and refined and
elevating out Of it as we can, ignoring the
coarse and crude. Albeit the latter
offends us more, when offered in a
literary lecture, than greater gross
ness in the circus. The lecturer is not
expected to be clown. In him, q
vicious pronunciation is inexcusable, otstre
and coarse gesticulation reprehensible, slang
phrases odous, and vulgar illustration unpar-
donable. Not NAL apropos in the hired buff
foon of the ring, we save ourselves from such
annoyance by absence from the hippodrome.
We intend no critique. Anxious for the sue
cess of the efforts Of the Library Association
to minister to the edi6cation of our citizens,
as well as to the material financial aid of the
Library, we should not, even if it were our
forte, (which it isn't,) use the scalpel in all
the course. We shall praise wherein we can
find aught to justify it, and be silent when all
is intolerably bad. The fact that the lecturers
come, by invitation, shall secure an immunity
from disparaging criticism, that in the absence
of such invitation would not be given them, if
they failed to come up to the high standard OF
excellence, the scholarly sttainments, the puri-
ty of style, the eloquence Of manner, the
fitness of matter, the entire absence of crude
ness and coarseness that should have an
embodiment in that most effective popular
educator-the lecturer. Do the parties with
whom the Association is in correspondence,
that have been named to US, appear before it.
the remainder of the course will be well sus
tanned Gentlemen, eminent for their talents
and scholarship, and cultured taste, will ap-
pear before our citizens, and by the merit Of
their performances, demonstrate the fitness
and worth of the lecture as means of pub
lie instruction. In such event, we can give
unstinted praise, without any mental reserva-
ton on account of patent and lamentable de-
6ciency of learning, or lack of refinement
most excruciating. We need not then hang
commentator upon the frail thread ofdescrip-
ton well given, of plain narrative fairly pre-.
sented, of grave incident told without coarse
ness. We need not then extol q few beauties
found amid mass ofrubbish, or feel disposed
to withhold praise altogether, because much
that is good is Offset by much that is trash.
We need not then make the standard by which
to measure the lecturer remarkably low in or
der, not to be compelled to indulge in unmixed
censure, for elevating that standard to the
true level, required by good taste and scholarly
Judgment, the Taylors and Phillips and
Emersons of the country come up to it.
There is empiricism, we find, in lecturing
as in every other profession. And even real
abilities and prospective excellence doesn't
compensate an audience for the infection of
ill-trained style and indigested ideas. We
have nervous tremors upon the announcement
of q premedtated dose of wit and humor.
There is such large room for failure and SC
itesic oSueut even II success Is attained. mere
is poetry even in metaphysics, and speake,
need not be stupid because he is upon manly
and sensible subject. Let the public appre
citation for the fresh and taking be minis.
tered to as far as practicable, but save US from
the humorous altogether, if itinvolves coarse
ness and vulgarity, slang phrases and tn.
inability to pronounce English.
The individual who contracted severe cole
while sitting on HE own frost stsps, watching fo
the fellow that had stolen in 1.-THE key hole had NO
been INDUCING IN Pnksrton's wshsoaad oalissy,
Bittsrs, for although hsatfal and delightful slim
nlant, they do not intoxicate. Try them on>e. an,
you win never BE- without them For sals b,
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our people have learned TO prise that Invaluable
article known As Goes Dyspepsia Cure. It Ger
tainy acts like magic, for it viii cure the very wors
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