The New York herald., 1877-11-20
Oakley HALLS LECTURE.

"rHE GREAT PopuSK WILL CASE" TO BE
TRIED IN NEW YORK IN DECEMBER.
Ex-Mayor Hall, as has been announced, is about 10
take the Lyceum platform and lecture throughout the
country, beginning at Boston. A HERALD reporter
meeting representative OF Messrs. jarrett Palmer,
wno will manage tho lecture course, obtained from
HIM the sformation that the ex-Mayor will certainly
appear on the platform as announced In Sundays
HERALD. "Ihe people" said the representative, who
modcstly desired his name withheld from tho public
''iSe new comers, ana THIS capacity Mr.. Hail Is
new. The idea OF beginning in Boston Is that Mr.
Hall was law student AT Harvard in the same class
with President Hayes. and went England from Bos
ton. Other lectures Will follow the one announced
ana there Is to DO lecture specially adapted to Now
York State, to be called 'Ihe Great Poaunk wil
case, containing funny aud caustc suggestions Tor
iuture legislation"
THE COMING LECTURE
In reply to further questions Tho modest agent
"Mr. Hail must know las the Cape Cod fishermen
phrase ~ 'goodisn heap about the humbuss and
salient points oil trials winch last tending drive
rcn men 10 die IN New Jersey. Iammany affairs
have become stale, ana the Crucible' drama was u
mistake. The lecture VIII be different HIS subject
rs an imaginary trial. but patterned precisely after the
pure and unaduIlcrated, as IL may any week wit
messed, and no where with more variety OF fun, bur
lesque, romance and pathos than IN th.s city, the
triai Deing The vehicle IN which the ideas OF lee
ture rde INSIDE with the rhetoric outside and the Ian
guaso behind"
that no lawycr-lecturer ever thought ol doing II
before. See what variety OF thought and uage
can be Introduced. Now Ju or talks, tnen u witness
now one counsel who rs oratorica then another who
Is quaint and Soon Shinglish; again others VINO are
comic, and finally the Judge charges sentcntiously
Then think oil tho scene the jury room, scene
which was the only good one In Hail's drama oil
sCrucibie.'n
sKETcH
"lt VIII, then, be u truly representative sketch
said the HERALD reporter.
"Whyh SAID the representative, letting himself out
litte metaphoricaliy, 'It rs lord mayors dinner
10 the guild OF literature; SO many the
First oil ALL the trial takes place in the Pantheon or
History, amid the Illuminated windows, monuments
and irescoes which are all POLITICALLY portrayed Then
Father Time presldes chief justice; rosyhngered
Aurora Is clerk Harpocrates the god oi silence the
crier; CUPID, the Interpreter, Ciio, tho shorthand
writer; Apollo, the cnief usher. aud Fame Is tho
plaintiff Her counsel s distinguished advocate not
unknown the by eight COMMISSION. There
fifteen historical defendants, each represented by
as many shining lights OF the Bar from Cn cago 10
Boston Tho egh cen Christian centuries, winch are
personied, compose strict jury Tor selection.
editor, who has been hity years in public
llfc il the expert witness. ono OF the counsel IS
the Jete n0ir OF many court room. The jury
pass upon the respective claimants after due cna.
leneing the jury the questions and answers by
the way great poet Is also wtness Interruptions
and exceptions. repartees, Uloquence by counsel
from tho bench, stupdiiies aud fun in the
Jury room ana happy result generally. The whole
conceived ana executed IN complimentary and schol-
aiy spirit, with ho little Information and ustratIon
but, OF course, abounding with touches OF irony"
when Will MI. Han appear IN New York;"
s.rne 'PoduLk VIII Case tor the region OF Now
York, Will come upou the boards early IN December"