These old lectures are a man's best, commonly; they improve by age, also,like the pipes, fiddles, and poems I told you of the other day.

The lecture must have been a great quickener of conscience; for they would dare punishment and cheat Madame Joubert, under her own eyes, in order surreptitiously to add a new sin to their list.

But as this lecture is criticism rather than history, the few additional facts that might have been gained would not be important; while, after tracing in that quasi-autobiography the development of her mental and moral nature, I see no reason to change my conclusions based on the outward facts of her life and on her works.

These lectures have been a real amusement and one would be sorry enough that they should end, were it not for so good a reason.

" The lecture was a straightforward and eloquent account of Whitman's writings and doctrines, with extracts from "The Leaves of Grass;" and from beginning to end you might have heard a pin drop, particularly during one or two of the quotations.

Indeed, this lecture has become a study in psychology; it often breaks all rules of oratory, departs from the precepts of rhetoric, and yet remains the most popular of any lecture I have delivered in the forty-four years of my public life.

" My first small town lecture was another financial failure, and in the hall I paid and dismissed that highly respectable incubusmy agent.

Taught by Treitschke, whom they regard as their great national historian, and whose lectures on Politik have become a gospel, the Germans of to-day assume as an ultimate end and a final standard what they regard as the national German state.

The tone and gesture, the very look, must animate the whole;and these very written lectures, read and delivered so often, are no dead stalk, but a living stem, which puts forth new leaves and blossoms every spring.

Public lectures cannot be such lessons in Christian Science as are required to empty and to fill anew the individual mind.

From my own experience, a lecture is often a very dangerous method of teaching; it is apt to engender in the mind of men ungrounded conceit and sciolism, or the bad habit of knowing about subjects without really knowing the subject itself.

Your lectures to crowded and promiscuous audiences on a subject manifestly, in many of its aspects, political, interwoven with the framework of the government, are practical and powerful assertions of the right and the duty of woman to labor side by side with her brother for the welfare and redemption of the world.

As a man and a citizen, I thank you, because these three lectures have been for me a fountain of youth, of faith, of enthusiasm.

University-extension and Chautauqua movements, civic forums, free lectures to the people by boards of education and public libraries, summer schools, night schools for adultsall are illustrations of this movement, so vital to the progress of democracy.

A lecture need not be a connected story; perhaps it is better it should not be.

In Prussia, each is required by law to read one course, at least, gratis (publice); otherwise the lectures are privatim, a fee being paid by the hearer,say four or five dollars on the average for the term.

The lecture being a précis of Taylor's report there is no need to recapitulate its matter.

The lectures of the professors of the State Universitywhich is an examining body, with five affiliated colleges in five different townsare well attended by students of both sexes.

Our lectures are a real success.

White pretended that this was remuneration for some other work; but it was believed on good grounds that Badcock had begun what Parr had completed, and that these famous Lectures were mainly their work.

The influence exerted among the cultivated classes by the aesthetic movement (Ruskin, Morris, the Pre- Raphaelite painters; then Pater’s Lectures on the Renaissance, 1873) was also a sign of the times.

A lecture is a logical structure, and the form in which it is presented is the outline.

The Lincoln's-Inn Lectures were the fruit of this interview: such is the influence exercised by men of genius and imaginative power over those who have nothing to oppose to their unforeseen flashes of thought and invention, but the dry, cold, formal deductions of the understanding.