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“STAfCEB IK Rome.”— Herman Melville, who,” eaid an enthusiastic Athenian admirer of his beautiful writings—u entranocd the Amerioan public by the freshness and -mellow style of his South Sea adventures in the coralislanded world ,* who made the namof Fayaway a tynonyme for native grace; wft5 roamed and sailed and laughed with Doctor Long Ghost of Omoo memory ; who drew the moonlit, mystic picture of Mardi, through which as through mist- like atmosphere float the forms of Yillah, the shadowy maiden, Yoomy the equally shad-owy poet, Babbalanja the dreaming philosopher with hie flexible clbud-wreath pipe, ‘andOthers more’—very nominee umbra—shadow* ofa shade; who domed os still more with the white gleam of Moby Dick, through whose five hundred weird pages * all thoughts, all passions, feelings and delights,’ chase eaoh other 4 like shadows o’er the plain'—and in whom we have the wildest and strangest mysticisms, mingled with the frankest and freest oommon Bense and practical knowledge of the world and its ways, and the truest, most genuine American Demo cratic feeling”-—will appear to-night before a Cincinnati audience to discourse in the lectorium (Smith A Nison's Hall,) of the Young Men’s Mercantile Library Association upon the Statuary of Rome. Mr. Melville’s lectures are saidto be admirably written, but none of onr exchanges discourse upon the style of his delivery. If he would avoid the objection usuallyurged against our lecturers, he will speak dti-tinctiy, and with animation, that all may hear.The public is extremely desirous to see and hearMr. Melville, and anticipate a rich literary repeat this evening. .* ■ , ,J . ■ , • y.T«
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Feb 02, 1858
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