Anna Dickinson And "the Greeks."

The Chieagn Post gives Anna Dioknson the following"(avorablo montiou:" Speakinu; of Anna Dickinson, is thor nything ia woman'u mind whioh preents her kerping a contract, written, gned, nnd sealed with her öwn hand? Oí course not For instance '. Sparta, The Greek Kalend, ) 1871. 5 I, Sappho, do lierel)y agree to read my iscour.se on the ''Naiads and the Dryads, 'or the benefit of the ] lector BcnevolentVssociatton Ln Athons, one weck from this venlng, In conslderatlon of 200 cash aud xpensës. Bappho. Woll, s:ippose that whon Sappho arvcd at Aiions, and had rested an hour r moro in n firet closs hotel, and there vero yet sevtral hours befurö lecturc me, - suppose that the Chnirman of jo Lectura Commiltce of the II. IJ, A. ulied at the hotel, sent Lia oard up to applio, and reoeived from the maid tho rsAOTj "I cannot be seen unlil eight clock 1" The gentlemanly an'Jiropo ould regret his untimely intruñpn aud 0 home. Suppose, however, when he nd his collaagnes called at eight o'cloc.k ;o escort Sappho to the Amphictynnio [all, Indy oime down stairsanc! oonescended to aay "good eveninsr," wberepon a oourageoue anthropos remarked : 1 have no doubt we shall derive very luch enjnjtnent fr.im your discoure ou ïo 'Nninds and the Dryads.' " Theu applio : "But I am not going to deliver niy iscoure on tbc 'Naiads and the Drvds.' :' "Ah ! indeed, - but we have announo d tin? 'Naiads and ihp Dryads ' " "Ifó iii-ittcr. I shall deliver 'The orrows of Dido whether you have or ot." Tho anihropos have no ohoice but to e rilent, TUey reich t!i? (iorr. ';Wlit'r(. in yonr c:irriiír'. sir ?" 'Thü Amphiotyonio Hall i ba'f quai'ü's distance. We thought you woulfi not üko tlis trouble of eateriog veliicle and alightrig fo footi.'' "Whcn a oairiage arrive?, air, I shill e ready to accompnuy 3-011. Mcanwhiln shall retire to my room " She dcliverod hor lecture with great Dimttion. The audieiieo were dis ip)Ointed n hearing about ''The Sorrown f Dido,'' be'8ude they had mndo their ïimls up to listen with unu-mal d1 o tlte "Naiads nnd the Diysids " Sap)ho receivcd her $200, Bignod tho re eipf, and bude tho committee good ight at the door. She had an engagflïent for tbe saina amour.t, to deliver the Naiads and tbc Dryads" in Corinth a 'eiv eveni-igs later, aod to Corinth went Dtimbcr of tho Atheoians, who were dvigod by telograph that the latier disourse vvould ctually be given there. apph) displaycd the sanie courteouH emeanor in (Jorintli which had marked ier arrival iu Alhena. When she mountrt the rostrum, the Corintbians were stonislied to hear a beuutifully writton )ioso poem upon tho "Sorrows of Dido," ïotwitbstanding the written agreement nd the huge oapitals arourid tho fer.ces onoerning another diecourso. The visting Athenians returned to their liomes isappointcd, wrathful, and cold, - fur . was winter time, and they sleighed oth wayH' Sappho had an engagement n The!es, to deliver her lecture on the Naiads and the Dryads," for 8200, raand transportation, during tho folowing week, :md to Thebes went a deliatiio fiom Coriuth, of literary pooplo who wii-hed to hear the announced disourso there. Sappho was somowhat ruso[ue in her roception of tho Theban ommittee, who asked hor if there was ny doubt about tho lecture she really otended to deliver. "I Bball give you 'Tho Sorrowa of Dido,' Bir." "Madam, womade an airreement witb 'ou for your discusaion of a different opic." "Very well, sir. But I shall not deiver any other lecture than 'Dido' d rhebeaí 'Madaru, we agroed to give you 200 lor the privilege ot hearing you lecture on the 'Naiads and Dryads.' " "If you wish to have ine deliver 'The Sorrowa of Dido' on tho same term?, I will do bo. But I will not do any tb ing else, It is dow fivo miuutes aftcr eight oclock." She delivered "The Sorrows of Dido" to a ful! house, including the enrnged Oonnthians. We have been led to the for?going remarks by loarningthat our brilliant friend Anna Dickinson, engaged to read her discourso on "Men's Rightb" to tho peo pie of Peoria, Rockford, and Belvidero, on different occasions. In each, despite the agreemeut, she gave ".Joan of Are," and ladies and gentlemen who took tho trouble to go from Belvidere to ford to recelve tueir second disappointtnont at her liands havo a vcry contemptuous nolion of womau'a ability to keep ber word. The lady appeara to have given the public ot these oities grave offense by ungallantries in tho matter of seclusion and carriages, as did Sappho to her Greek committees. It is further alloged thut ín this very city Miss Dickint-ou broke her contract with one society, and soon after entored ioto an agreemont with another, and we know 6he kept it. The disappointed 60oiety said somothing about müroenary motives, but of OOurae that, is nooaense. If a man breaks his lectura engaements, ho ia sued. Why should not Alies DiokinS id be sued liko any other man ?