Is Hissing: Mannerly?

To the Editor of The Register : Sir : - The communioation in last week's Register, in relation to hissing Booth, recalls to the writer's mind another incident very similar to that one. Ia 1870, or about that time, Charles Sumner leotured before the S. L. Association on the FranccPrussian war. The lecture was given at the M. E. church. The house was crowded, and for cearly two hours the audience litened with intense interest. A few now left their Beats to retire, and a little stir was created. Mr. Sumner paused a moment to remark that his subject is one of wide scope, and he hoped the audience would be patiënt 30 minutes more and he would be through. At thig remark some idle swell in the rear centre gallery, and near the writer, opened with a sinister hoo-o-o. Suddenly a score or more of student and others sittinjj near drowned him with a ehower of hisseR. The hisses were purely intended for the disturber and not for the speaker. Mr. Sumner, however, feit that it was intended for himself , and f rom what the writer learned afterward, it remained so in his belief. ___