The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-11

Headlines aud Lectures-Dicke1s. Dolby .sd
tho Dollars.
The second advent OF Diokens In the United
States promises o fine harvest not only to him
self but TO the whole fraternity Of readers and
lecturers, Dickens, Dolby and the dollars. The
success of Dickens will give new impulse to
readers and lecturers and new departure to
them all. They will get new hints and new
ideas from the reader OF " Pickwick," which
they will also turn into dollars, the alpha and
omega, the beginning and the end, of the uni
versal Yankee nation, according to "Martin
Chuzzlewit" Their field of enterprise is also
enlarged from the REIMBURSEMENT OF the legiti-
mate drama by our theatres as an old humbug
which does not pay, and the general adoption
Of pretty girls in scanty drapery, and Of gilt
tering spsngies, blue lights and smiling god
desses in the clouds, and sparkling fountains
and revolving wheels Of fire.
The winter season. which Is the appointed
harvest season of concerts, readings and lee
lures in city, town and country, thus opens
most auspiciously for these intellectual pas
times. Therefore, following the inviting ex-
ample Of Boz we would suggest TO the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher that in his readings Of
m~S,rwood" he might gather in more dollars
ian he has drawn from the Ledger, the New
York theatre or Plymouth church; to Mr..
Horace Greeley. that in his readings
Of his "Reminiscences Of o Busy Life
he might DO kept more busy iu "counting
out his money than was the king in his parlor
mentioned by Mother Goose and to Wendell
Phillips, that in changing his base from the
almighty niger" to the almighty dollar" he
would only have to undertake a course of
readings from the Psalms OF David, the Song
of Solomon, the Sermon on the Mount and the
Epistles Of st. Paul. We have q host OF other
literary characters, male and female, who
might lay in good stock Of dollars during the
winter by a nice adaptation OF their respective
qualities to this or that line Of readings, d Ia
Dickens and the dollars.
In the line Of lecturers we have some first
class stars on hand. There is Professor
Agassiz, whoss instructions on the arcana OF
the animal, vegetable and mineral world are
more interesting than the "Arabian Nights !"
there is Professor Hall, already on lecturing
tour on the wonderful natural phenomena
within the icebound regions Of The Arctic
Circle there is Du Chaillu, the intrepid ex-
plorer Of the before unknown wonders Of
equatorial Africa, an earnest honest and
popular deyotee in his vocation; there is
Professor Doremus, the American Faraday
in chemistry, msn of science, whose lectures
and beautiful illustrations are delightful 10
witness. We cannot say much Of Professor
LOOMS, Of Yale, but we think that
old Columbia might tara out pro-
lessor on meteorology, aud 80 forth, who,
in his calculations Of the late portentous show
ers of falling stars. earthquakes. volcanic erup-
lions, hurricanes aud innndalions. might realize
from his labors more dollars than the most
popular danscuse or niger minstrel on the
boards. Then we have been thinking that
General Sherman, who is fine speaker might
turn his late observations among the Indians
Of the Plains, Spotted Tail, Lame Bear, Yellow
Thunder and such, 10 good account in a
series OF splendid Indian lectures ~ on ofset
to this everlasting talk in Congress about uig-
gers. II would be better than a voyage TO
Jerusalem.
Lastly, there Is our benevolent Mr.. Bsrgh,
President Of the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty TO Animals good man. From such
cruelties, however, IS the laying OF green tur-
ties on their backs TO blink ut the sun, tho
tying up OF chickens legs and the fastening OF
the live HOLSTERS claws with wooden pegs, II
he were to turn his attention 10 the crueliies
which cause thousands Of men, women and
children to perish prematreiy in poisonous
holes and corners, what public benefacior he
might become - q lecturer, TO say nothing Of
the dollars AT oil events, In the example and
the success Of Dickens as reader, and Of
Agassiz as lecturer, and In the occasion and
the agents and the materials now before us
for readings and lectures on grand scale,
there Is a field open for thousand reapers TO
divide the harvest and the dollars with Dolby
and Dickens.