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Show Grace Greenwood's Lecture. "Grace Greenwood," one of the most talented lecturers who have ever occupied occu-pied the Lyceum platform, has kindly volunteered to speak in behalf of the sufferers by tho lafft frarfuf calamity at Chicago. As she leaves on Monday for San Francisco, and as no other opportunity has presented itself, the committee have decided to announce her for this evening. President Young has generously offered the gratuitous use of the theatre for tho purpose, and the hope is entertained that the proceeds pro-ceeds of the lecture may materially increase the fund eo liberally contributed contri-buted by our citizens in aid of those who have been rendered homeless by the late conflagration. Mrs. Lippincott has selected as her subject, "The Heroic in Common Life," and those who are familiar with the matchless ability of this gifted lady, will not need to be assured that the intellectual treat awaiting them ie of thor highest order. - Asido'from the unusual attractions of tho. entertainment, entertain-ment, its object should secure a crowded crowd-ed house. The lecture will commence at half-past seven o'clock; tickets fifty cents each. , . . . . v The Cecil fMd.: Whig thus speaks of tho lady and the lecture she will deliver de-liver this evening: "The Heroic in Common Life," on Monday night, which closed the scries of lectures for the season, was one of the best and wc think the very best of the course. The lady has certainly the art of expression to a remarkable degree of perfection, knowintr cxactlv where to stop, when, sho has made a point. Nothing can exceed 1 the beauty and pathos of hef fonder passages. G race Greenwood's lectures arc not designed merely to please and tickle the fancy . of tho audience for the moment; but aro sermons, and thoso who listen to them go away wiser, resolved to act their parts in life more nobly, more horoicly in tho future. All honor to Grace Grconwood. A type of the noble, pure hearted womaui - v Sho in evidently a strong advocate of matrimony but? for- that matter, what woman is not and never fails to leave with her audienco one or two pictures of her matchless skotching of the beauty and joy of maternal life? On Monday evening, alter depicting -the ftime of a celebrated femalo sculptor, sculp-tor, who can produce her ideal of beauty in the cold but peerless marble, sho drew ,tho contrast between the imago wrought out of tho frigid stone, and the real in flesh and blood,, with flaxen hair, round, smooth limbs, and rosy checks, contemplated by the mother, as hor chubby, sleeping child lays cuddled in its crib. Grace thought there was more solid renown in originating origin-ating such a form of real beauty, than any Nenusjof stone ever fashioned by ; the chisel of genius. Wc don't know j but the gifted lecturer was correct; and it must bo a great satisfaction to every woman to know that she is a ; born artist wilh a fair prospect of' achieving imperishable honors. |