Smyrna times., 1868-11-11
.MiSceIIUneOWS.
LECTURERS AND THEIR SUBJECTS

The Merchants Monthly, of Phila., has the
following:
John B. Cough, is one of the most attrac-
tive lecturers, most certain of drawing a good
house, and therefore most in demand. He
has already declined over eight hundred invi-
tatons for the coming season, and has Just
started on a lecturing tour, having engage
ments up to May next and has made several
for 1869 and 1870. He is to lecture in Phila-
delphia, in December, on Circumstances"
new lecture, and Curiosity" which he has
delivered few times, but which has lately
been rewritten. He lectures only when the
| proceeds are devoted to some benevolent pur
pose.
Henry Ward Beecher will lecture only enough
to unbend his mind from arduOus pastoral and
| literary labOrs. 1t has been said that he fixed
his price large, to prevent too many applica-
| tions.
George W. Curtis, besides his course of lee
lures at the Cornell University, Ithaca, n. Y,
will lecture but few times more this season.
+. H. Chaplin is great favorite and an ear
nest and eloquent speaker whose reputation
and Romance" and Pacific America-Its
Society and History" are two of the lectures
which he is prepared to deliver.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has commenced a
course of six lectures in Boston, to continue
weekly; he has also several other engagements,
all he cares to make.
Bishop Simpson, the Eloquent Methodist
Divine, is grand and glorious; his magnificent
efforts are highly appreciated by thinking peo-
pie. His health prevents his making any en-
} gagements at present.
E Rev. w. Morley Punshon, NJ. A., has the
, reputation of being the most eloquent orator
of England. His chief forte is in his style of ex-
preston aud force of utterance. Statehness
of statement, finished periods, short, rounded
and full, dramatic ease and power, directness
and impassioned fervor are some of his charac-
teristics.
Rev. Francis Vinton, will commence in No
: vember. He will lecture on 1.-The Gentle
man." The Gentle-woman," Dante and
d his Times' and " "Exaggeration of Public
l. Opinion"
Rev. Stephen Tying, Jr., after this month
will lecture in this vicinity.
= Bishop Thomas Nj. Clarke, of Providence
n r. l., is prepared to lecture on |" Man the Liv
ing Machine Laws of Human Progress,
r characteristics of Modern Thoughts" anC
other subjects
q Rev. Henry c. Potter, of Grace Church
ld New York, will make engagements for Janua
.. ry or February. His subjects are 1.-THE Ty
a ranny Of Responsibility, 1.-The New Era O
n Chivalry," Travels and Travellers"
e, "a Hon. Charles Sumner will lecture, if posi-
IA BILE, before the meeting of Congress.
Ol- OeH. Odul6l pAhildhC ASN
=. ture in preparation. -.
q L. w. Whipple has several engagements i
'' some of our principal cities: He has Loaf
six ing and Laboring,'' "Shoddy," "Courage,
se y, and "Joan of Arc" for the coming season.
nd George Alfred Townsend, the i" brillian!
les Descriptionist," will lecture on The Nrgl
ur Capital" THE Pennsylvania Dutch" an
Dry "The Lands to the North Of Us.
Mr.. Higginson has new lecture, entitle
OF &C Iitaratnre and Democracy" and will ais
9ril repeat his old one, Aristocracy OF the DO
The lar" He has engagements in the west unit
red Wendell Phillips dislikes long trips and hi
the all the engagements he cares to make.
and Horace Greeley is making up an extensiy
and list of engagements His subjects will
adapted to his audiences and the times, an
ck- he will answer as many calls as his other d'
ieie ties will permit. .,.
loo intends to make next year his last as q lectu
-. Theodore Tilton of the Independent, j.
o Ses favorite with progressive audiences. III
and Art of Using the Mind " and 'The Americ'
; DO Women" are subjects on which he propos
-. George Vandenhoff the reader, interests a.
SpHi amuses his hearers, but is rather steep IN
and prices 90. oe :,
S%ataa Henry Nichols, an Englishman, recites frC
memory selections from modern authors.
,nsv James n. Murdock will be at liberty to |
dred ture in December and in the latter part OF t
SsE sss winter s'An Evening with Sir Walter Scott
one :. Shakespeare and the Bible are some OF
9 pay subjects He will also give miscellaneous a
third Mrs Kemble, the greatest Of modern Shal