, 1873-05-03
A Hit at the Radioals---English
Radioals---Tho Gentle
Crusader, Frouao.
Wendell Phillips Mode Of Lecturlng~.-
Private Theatricals--"Chil-
dren's Parties.
Tho Young Girls Club --- The
Coming Anniversaries.

to puff up with tho old pride, and give nttor"
anco to tho accustomed pleasant prophecies Of
fclicitios and BuccoaaoB; In short,
began to chow BignB Of health in tho uHual Los
ton brag; whom, prcstol without herald OF
warning, now, grim goblin OF disease appears
to which tho physicians giyo tho long namo Of
oEnEDRo- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THO rural Visitor turns up Ills nose at thls long
name. and talks nbout "spottcd fover;" but tho
doctora come in With tl!oir eoonco, and carry tho
day with tho long namo, Which ia atudy
III accommodation to tho uninitiated. I
belioyo. however, 1t ID protty well sot~
tied TINT tho diaeaao ia only an aggra-
vatod form of brain-fovor, which ia slightly
epidemic, but not contagious, and tho result,
probably, Of tho grcat aoyority OF tho wfntor and
spring. A sudden chill and pain up tho spinal
column put the timfd at once into a foVor OF ap-
prohonsion, and it Is quito common to hear tho
following bit Of confidence moro than ouco On
round Of morning calls. II had a chill, yon |
know, aud dreadful pain in tho back Of my |
mock md roally" etc., etc. But oil this dooent
kcop the fair Dostonians from thoir beloved |
concert-going in all winds mud weathers. Tue
most recherche Of thcso aro
TIE AFTERNOON CONCERTS
of tho Harvard Society, which nro familiarly
epokcn Of Is "The Harvard Concorts." These |
take place In Music Hall, md horo, il tho sun
shines or tho ruins fall outside, tho usual num-
bor Of enthusiastic hoarcrs, most OF them
feminine, congregato, and go into .woll-
bred, esshetio raptures oyor tho classi-
oal performances. Mr. George William
Curtis, in tho " Easy Chair" Of February, tells
nll about these classical Harvard perform
ancos much botter than I can. How the Bach
music is "tho thing" and the Strauss melo-
A,,I 5,n-v 1.o1r
whether they know anything about the Bach
music or not, 70 into {" the dim and molan-
choly hail." on tho Harvard aftornoons," md
listen, or pretend to uston, to those classical
harmonioH.
"Do you Boo that old fellow with tho pig-tail 7"
saya Mr.. Curtis, In tho "Easy Chair, j" that's
old Wax-Candles. Do you suppose ho cares
about Bach2 It is tho fashion to como, and ho
comes. n 'twerc the faBllion to sit on the State
House stops, he'd piously seat himself, ind look
% if ho liked it." And III Eat in the " dim and
melancholy hall" tho other day, though thinltI
may Say that did not pretend to listen aftor old
Wax Candles fashion, but lent Bympathetio car,
still could not help taking in now md then tho
truth OF Alr. Curtin picture. didn't happen to
sit whore could SEQ Wax-Candloa, but directly
In front Of mo am very certain waro his
daughters.
FINE GIRLS
they we're. in vory fine loathors. Hair 10 Pompa:
dour, with miraculous bonnets on the top, and
otherwise miracle Of style and taato. But,
underneath ail that wonderful hcad-gear, such
drcary, weary faces, TINT was perfectly sure
Strauss waltz would have changed like magio.
But thoy sat on minuto after minute, little
martyrs that thoy wore stiting yawns behind
1he an b gov&ss & and nd Eng 18th to Tho
in tho inforvals. sob isn't it lovely 2" wns
tlleir inyariablo exclamation Immediately after
which littlo duty they would fell into On mi.
mated nonsonBiral talk, which had no referenco
which had ono morit, THAT Of heartiness. It is
bottor aign. however, to simulate an intorost
in what is over our heads than What Is under our
feot. Dettor, thnt 10, to have Harvard classical
But hero, In modern Athens, everything has the
upwnrd tendency to such degree that VIC are In
little danger Of boiug takon OF our feet alto-
gethor.
THE RADICAL CIuB
was at itB height watching tho faceB Of some Of
tho nice girla about mo,-nico girls who would
pelslst in boring themselves BY listening to
what good many oldor and visor people
couldn't mako hond or tail Of, simply becal1so 1t
was "the thing" or they thought it WAS, to bo
up to this brain-buBinesB. And this reminds mo
Of a remarls by one of these older md wiser
it wae, il e1tromoly suggestive OF my subject.
1t was perpretratod BY m occanionl visitor.
II hayo just come" naId this visitor, from the
don Of tho nnintelligiblo In pursuit Of tho UNIT
tainable." somo Of the Radicals had sufficient
sonBo Of hulnor to appreciate this mot at their
oxponso; but othors couldn't zee tho fun Of It at
oil, and were, In consequence, good doal in
cersed against tho author.
eating fact concerning Radical thinkers. All
yerso~readers, Of courae, arc familiar with tho
namo Of Groonwoll, whose .poo1ns came out m
this country with Nh introduction by John e.
Whittier, @ few yeara ago, 1t eeenda that
THE BROTHER or MIBs aREENwELL
wns Churcl-of- England Clergyman, who, be-
ginning to question tho established doctrines
and dogmas, became at length such q Radical
Free-Thiukor that he gayo up lucrative. liv-
and, finding Conservative England too hot for
him, OF painfully critical mud embarrassing, ho
cano to this country. sottling in Boston, ho
Washington streot, in which ho WAS assisted by
bis vito Very little known, and with
very few friends, ho followed this oco1l-
patton for two or throo years, until, / believe,
nome legacy, or othor friendly opening Ut home,
his now yiews Tho Radical Club WAS not then
in existence. II 1t had boon, what o boon s,1oh
modest aud honest lion would have boon there,
and how quickly he would have found hla M name
dunn, Evidently nlr. Greonwo]l, like eouo Of
our intellectual sophista Of to-day, didn't think
that hs could do moro good by remaining In tho
Church, and, ton years In advance Of his congro-
CATION, gradually drow thcm aftor him. As an
Example Of manly courage and honesty Mr..
ureenwcll certainly dosoryes crown. Radical"
ism In tie Church, and out Of 1t. has aproad az
rapidly in England, within tho last fow yoerH
that to-tay this courageous gentleman will flud
himaolf In by-no-meana small ind untnportnn1
Aid, III this connection, lam reminded Of thai
very clover and very readiblo now book by ths
English ossayist,
". II. GnEo.
"Enigmas Of Lifo ia tho title, md J. r. o. :,
lotter-prosa and binding, to tho, English pub
lishers. somo Of those essays tnko up, many, O.
tho Radlcal problems, aud chow what hadlca
belief and disbelief tlioro il in tho Church. O.
England. Last year or tho year before wo hat
"Jsitorary and aoeinl Judgments by tllisauthor
which, In literary and social ways Of thought wa
- liberal and prcgronaive a. the present volume
10 so frop, thoso quiet lions OF thought t.
fhQaa wlp roar mora loudly, let ua GAY U Wort