The New York herald., 1868-11-11
The Lecture Season.

The lecture season has fairly commenced In
New York With the close of the Presidential
campaign the mouths Of political stump speak,
ers are closed, at least for a time. Speeches
are no longer the order of the day, and lectures
take their place. Lectures, indeed, arc gene
rally less popular in New York than in Boston
The majority of New Workers prefer to seek
their winter evening entertainments either in the
ballroom, in the concert hall, at the theatre or at
the opera. But while amusement seems TO be
the main object with most Of our citizens, and
the most ample and various provision is made
to supply this demand, there are large classes
OF people who delight in that combination OF
instruction with amusement afforded by 'sthe
lecture" How amply and variousy their
wants also will be supplied Is manifest from
the advertisements and reports Of lectures
daily published in the HERALD. An indica-
ton Of the predominant taste of that portion
of the public who frequent the lecture room
may be found in the fact that out of three leo
lures which were fully reported In our columns
yesterday two were scientific and one WAS
humorous. We allude to Mr.. De Cordova's
amusing picture of ''The Spratts at Saratoga"
to SThe Creation, According to Chemistry,
Geology and Astronomy, as Compared
with the Mosaic Record" by Professor
Doremus, and to DIR. Lemerciers .sPrs-
sentation and Description Of the Organic
Structure Of the Human Body" The skele-
tons and elastic models by which DR.. Lemer-
cier illustrated his lecture, and the brilliant
chemical experiments Of DR.. Doremus added
greatly to the interest with which their
respective audiences listened to these learned
lecturers. The subject of DR.. Lemercier's
second lecture, which will be delivered ON
Thursday evening, in the great hall of the
Cooper Institute, is to be ''The Senses !" the
third, ''The Brain" on Friday; the fourth.
''The Anatomy Of the Gorilla" on NJ Monday;
the fifth, The Anatomical and Physiological
Study Of the Horse" on Tuesday, and the
sixth, vegetable Anatomy and Physiology"
on Wednesday next. Many other scientific
lectures may be expected during the season
from eminent sapans, and it is probable that
the name OF Agassiz himself will crown the
list
Among the lectures announced for this even
ing is ore at the Cooper Institute, by Rev.
w. ii. Anderdon, on '"rhe Young Man of Our
Day."
Tonight, also, Nine. Olympic Audouard
Ohe Countess de la Morliare), the brilliant
French authoress, viii begin, at the theatre oi
the Union League Club, her series of con-
fcrences, with an account of ''Victor Hugo and
His Literary Career" We learn with pleasure
that Nine. Audouard has added to her pro-
gramme a lecture on s'The Mormons," whom
she has recently visited.
There promises to be no lack Of lady leo.
tarers during this season. Miss Anna Dickin-
son leads of the procession of our American
feminine Cor unfeminine) orators, and her
recent bold advocacy Of miscegenation theories
has increased the curiosity Of certain public
to hear what she will say next. She has accus-
toned her auditors to such highly spiced elo-
quence that 1t is puzzing TO guess with
what strong ingredient she will now find il
necessary to season it.
The Mercantile Library Association. tho
Young Mems Christian Association and seve-
raj other fourishing societies have made
special arrangements for popular lectures on .
great variety OF topics. Ralph Waldo Emcr-
son, Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beeoher,
Whipple, Cough, De Cordova, Mark Twain and
multitude of familiar names figure in the long
catalogue ofJecturers who are going to com
pete this winter even with 0p5ra 6on6e and
with the other manifold theatrical attractions
and distractions of New York.