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...Awfully cold. To church to hear Beecher! He is a great man, but a little off color. Walked home with Miss S. Mighty fine girl! Left for Boston by night train. Had rather dull journey. Was squeezed into a seat with a fat woman as far as New Haven. How much pleasanter and nobler life would be if all monstrosities were kept out of sight! Read "Endymion" nearly half through, and think it splendid. So racy and refined! How much nicer it is to read of lords, &c., than the common herd! I hate snobs...
...that have never attained to higher reading than the dime novel or New York Weekly. The most valuable information in the volume is the quotation of Emerson's Three Rules of Reading, - beyond this there is little that is instructive. There is, however, much that is amusing. Henry Ward Beecher, for instance, advises all readers to shun history, as being little better than a fairy tale. Joseph Cook also makes many characteristic remarks in two papers that he contributes. The Rev. E. E. Hale and C. D. Warner have the most interesting papers in the book, - especially the latter...
...Tuesday evening next, April 27, Henry Ward Beecher will deliver a new and popular lecture at the Ruggles Street Baptist Church, Boston. A good male quartette will sing before the lecture. Tickets can be obtained at Childs & Lane's, 116 Tremont...
...Barbour, formerly of Bangor Theological Seminary, has been elected Professor of Theology; Dr. R. W. Dale of Birmingham, Eng., is to deliver the Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching, next year; and Mr. Franklin B. Dexter has been selected to fill the newly endowed Chair of American History...
...invitation has been extended to the Rev. R. W. Dale, a distinguished Nonconformist minister of Birmingham, England, to deliver the next series of Lyman Beecher lectures in the Theological Seminary...