Murat Halstead

The lecture of Murat Halstead, before the Students' Lecture association was probably the least brilliant of any that will characterize the course this season. However much of a flambeau the fiery Murat may be in the political editorial field, he is rather a failure than otherwise, as a rostrum light. He is poor in diction, indistinrt to his hearers on the rim of the audience and bad in his gestures and posturing. He seemed to be suffering from some internal distress located just below the belt. The furious Murat may be right at home at the business of blistering Grant and Lincoln, as he did during the war, or the U. S. senate at a period yet all too fresh in his own recollection as well as that of the senators who refused to confirm him Minister to France, but is out of place on the rostrum.