Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-10-22

a. he sSmebody In Particular.
Especial Corrcspondsncel
NEw Nogx. SEPT. 2s.-It is more than
twenty yean-twenty.two, to be exact
tInce the business Of lecturing grew TO
such dimensions that IN agency or bureau
for the convenience Of Lecturers and Of the
lyceums that wanted them became u ne.
oessity. james Redpath. the famous Jour.
nalist aud antator, saw the necessity and
established bureau. Now there are
several such Institutions that do business
estimated At a million Of dollars year.
II II true that leeturing, a. business.
was played out" some ten years ago, eS.
ceptlng for few Of tho greatest public
iavoritcs Henry Ward Deecher, after he
became famous, could always command
t5QO a night, even when mon Of less fans
could yet no engagements whatever, be-.
cause the public were tired Of lectures
And what was true Of him was true Of q
few Others.
II II wefo not for the gradual and re.
markahle revival of public interest In the
old fashioned lecture IL would he hardly
worth while 10 recall the elder days, but Il
4 true that the business today IL ~ flourish.
ing NJ Il was In it, best days, with few i'm.
portHnt Differences. II " not as easy today
for men aud women who have not achieved
some sort of fame beforehand to get n
hearing on the lecture platform, but for
those In whom the public il interested Der.
ionaily therc ia more money In loctufing
today than ever before.
The list u names In lscdpath's lrst
circular IL interesting reading, especially
In comparison with some Of the equally
Interesting lists Of the present season.
Among the former were Professor Agassi1,
George William Curtis, Biyarl Taylor
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Frederick Doug
lass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles sum
ner, Horace Greeley, Wendell Phillips, u
", Chaplin. Petroleum V. Nasty, Josh iii.
lngs, Marx Twain, y. 4. narnuin. Anna
Dickinson, Olive Logan. Paul Du Chaillu,
Rev. g. II. iltpworth, George Francis
Train. Hannibal llamlin, Robert Collycr,
Colonel iiigginson, Rev. n De Witt Tai.
mage. Theodore 1ilton and many others
Soon afterward John u. Cough and Henry
Ward Bocchrr were added to the list.
More than half VI these, who were all NJ
The zenith Of their fame only score ot
ycau ago and WHO woro easily In the fret
rank, arc now dead OF the survivors,
some have lost their prestige. aud only
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