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Show GIVE3 PROMISE OF SUCCESS. Debut of Famona Presichor'e Son a an Orator. ! Frank De Witt Talmage, aged 24, and ' son of the famous Brooklyn preacher, has just made his oratorical debut in St. t Paul, and the pa- pers of that city naturally have a good deal to say about his style. As to the matter of his address his subject was "First Impr e s s-ions" s-ions" t here is not much room for difference of opinion. It is evi- denlly the result F. dk witt tai.maoe. of much reading and study, rather than of original observation, and therefore "smells of the lamp." Whatever freshness there was in the lecture must therefore have been in the delivery, and as to that the reporters are unanimous it was coldly, classically correct, and therefore not "magnetic."" Every gesture and tone showed evidence of the most rigid training. The young man is as yet a very clever pupil "in the school of oratory; but he is young and evidently in earnest, knows a good thing when he sees it, and so there is reason to hope that by and by, when ho gets ex-j ex-j cited on some great topic, ho will "come out streng and bring on the rousemetit." Through all the didactic portion of his lecture the points here noted were prominent, prom-inent, but near the close there was an encouraging break when he set forth his first impressions of the Grand canyon can-yon of the Yellowstone. Of course the son will long labor under the disadvantage disadvan-tage of being compared with the father, but it should be noted that the latter lias been some forty years in reaching his present eminence, an,d in intellect the son cannot begin where the father ;jrca oC, as fee , can in commerce. |