The Republican journal., 1869-11-18

BOsToN, Nov. Is, 1869.
This is progressive world of ours, and it
is to be supposed that now they have got q
Freedman's Bureau for the protection of color
ed individuals, and society for the proven
ton Of cruelty to animals, that the next step
will establish a Society for the protection of
poor whites. You seem to think there is
necessity for such Society when you 90 out
before eight o'clock on a cold morning in
November, and meet upon the trost-covcrcd
side walk, a little girl, over whose head
scarce five summers have rolled, walking
along with bare feet and scantily covered
body, purple with cold, and crying with hun
ger. | have seen such case within the
week, and it seemed to me that there was a
wrong somewhere.
Edwin Booth, the eminent tragedian, has
been playing an engagement at the Boston
Theatre for the past two weeks to literally
overlooking houses. Every seat was sold
many days in advance, and those who came
at the eleventh hour were obliged to take
what the man at the Jubilee so anxiously en-
quired for-the stand-up seats. In Hamlet
the protoundest and most puzzling Of all
Shtkespeare's creations-which is considered
by able critics to be Booths master piece,
and in the conception and rendering of which
he is thought to have no living superior-one
has the best opportunity of seeing how the
great actor looks. He has not the broad
shoulders and fine physique that constitutes
a really handsome man, but is slight, slender,
wavy hair, and aristocratically small hands
and feet. In his mourning robes, which are
made in the fashion of q courtier's dress of
that period he is no longer Edwin Booth,
but Hamlet, the young, half-mad Prince of
Denmark. His grief is so natural; his atti-
tudes so perfect; his gestures so full of mean
ing; his despair so heart-rending, that your
pity and admiration are both aroused Pity
for the Prince you cannot help Identifying
him with, and admiration for the wonderful
genius Of both the play and player.
ITO die. To sleep, pcrchance TO dream
what new meanings, what terrible sgnii-
cameo the words had as they came from the
lips of this man.
If he is great as Hamlet to my mind he is
greater as Richard III. He is so subtle so
! crafty, so thoroughly the hunch-backed vii
lain Of England. Never for one moment
does he forget his deformiy and lameness.
And in his duel with the Earl of Richmond
when, after he has been wounded unto death,
he drags himself across the stage, fighting
desperately, you can't help wishing he would
live, so hearty is your appreciation of his in
domitable will.
At Selwyn's Theatre, Shakespeare's gor-
geously attractive drama of midsummer
Nights Dream" is to be put upon the stage
this week, at an expense Of $4,000. The
celebratedMorlacchi troupe have been cngag-
ed, and the dresses ard costumes imported
from London.
An old adagc says, ''augh and grow fat, :"
on which principle BCstonians are likely TO
become quite corpulcnl. For the lectures of
this week have been of a nature to make even
the soberest indulge n a smile. We have
had Petroleum V. Nasty, who discoursed to
us on the woman's rights question, telling
us that che was born a conservative, and
rocked in an old-fashion cradle, as his parents
would have nothing 70 do with new tangled
iews-harps on strings. Being conserva-
tive he adored woman. But he wanted her
to keep her place, and dabbling with politics
wasn't her place. And" said he woman
would lose her self-respect if she mixed with
politicians '.Most men do
Then we have had Mark Twain, the well
known author of the Innocents Abroad, who
made a very spicy and entertaining lecture
out of so uncivilized 4 subject rs Our Fellow
Savages in the Sandwich Islands" And
lastly, but not least, Mr.. De Cordova in his
famous lecture of Within vs. Snt1in. 1t is
a breach Of promise case, and carries you
back to the days when you read Dickens
Pickwick Papers Snitiin is a spruce elder
ly gentleman, particular rs to patent leather
boots. He became acquainted with the
Within family by gallantly assisting Miss
Within to arise from the pavements. To
| repay this debt of gratitude hes afterwards
| made frequent visits to them, at their home,
| on Madison Ayenue-bnt on disseminating
them finds himself involved in lawsuit to
the amount of $4,000. A friend comes to
the rescue, and through his mediation q COM
promise is effected, and Sniffin marries the
old lady herself. Mr.. De Cordova's other
lectures, 'sThe Sham Family at Home Miss
Jones' Wedding, &C." are equally as good.
They are rich, racv and Astounding with hui
NOR.
Bostonians are enjoying q course Of I'M
usually interesting Sunday evening lectures
| by the Rev. N. A. Murray. The very name
of the lecturer fills Music Hall to repletion,
but those who are fortunate enough to secure
an entrance, listen to good and great thoughts
| for their instruction.
| The weather, which has been so fearfully
cold, has so far relaxed its hold, as to give
us Il snow storm, the first of the season. 1t
was slight affair, and the snow didn't last
so long as it was coming down. PERcIE.
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