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 Belfast (Maine) Republican. — Miss Logan was 
 complimented by the largest audience of the season. 
 Her appearance on the platform is very pleasing. 
 She is of good stature and figure, was becomingly 
 dressed in black velvet, with open waist trimmed with 
 lace, revealing a full white neck. A few ornaments 
 of gold and brilliants were becomingly placed. Her 
 abundant blonde hair was arranged in heavy coils 
 about her head, with a few curls depending at the 
 back. A full face, clear complexion, features that 
 pass in expression from withering scorn or tender pa- 
 thos to rollicking fun, shapely hands and arms, pre- 
 sent her as she appeared on the platform. She spoke 
 without notes, with abundant and easy gestures, and 
 in a clear, well-modulated voice. The subject was 
 " Nice Young Men." The lecture was beautiful, 
 forcible and eloquent. She is a remarkably gifted 
 woman, who has had a varied career, and established 
 her fame and fortune by force of hei talents. The 
 lecture gave great satisfaction, and the speaker was 
 frequently applauded. 
 
 Boston Traveller. — Olive Logan had a great 
 audience on Thursday evenmg to hear her lecture on 
 " Girls." Miss Logan is so clever, that were she as 
 ugly as sin should be (but is'nt) she would captivate 
 all with her tongue ; and so handsome that were she 
 to talk the most arrant nonsense, we should all say 
 she is as wise as if she were the heir of the queen of 
 Sheba and King Solomon. 
 
4 GOOD WORDS 
 
 Boston Post. — Miss Olive Logan gave her famous 
 lecture last evening in Music Hall, as one of the Bay- 
 State course. The hall was filled in every part, and. 
 very many remained standing during the entire even- 
 ing. On the entrance of Miss Logan to the hall, she 
 was greeted with cheers from the audience, who 
 scanned her with curious interest. She was magnifi- 
 cently attired. She spoke for upwards of an hour 
 in a varying vein of fact, humor and wisdom that 
 held the undivided attention of her hearers. She 
 was fluent, never hesitating in any respect, while her 
 voice is pleasant, musical, and capable of modulation 
 to the sentiment that is being uttered. She lectures 
 alike with her eyes and body, and her gestures and 
 attitudes are oratorical and striking. That Miss 
 Logan should everywhere be greeted with applause, 
 and hailed with delight, is only a deserved tribute to 
 a lady who has intellect, ambition, personal beauty, 
 and a tongue of eloquence, qualities and possessions 
 that are exceedingly rare. 
 
 Boston Advertiser. — In person Miss Logan is 
 of medium height, with a plump, but good and grace- 
 ful figure. She has a blonde complexion and an 
 abundance of light hair : and, as might be supposed 
 with the added advantages of regular features, and 
 clear bright eyes, is altogether a very personable 
 woman. Her voice is quite sweet and pleasant, and* 
 her enunciation sweet and artistic. She is a good 
 speaker. She bears about in her own person, too, 
 the marks of a powerful, efficient and vigorous char- 
 acter. 
 
 Gloucester (Mass.) ADVERTiSER.—Miss Logan 
 is of fine figure, has an intellectual face, is thoroughly 
 in earnest, and her peculiar gestures, acquired on the 
 
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 stage, give an air of originality which is quite refresh- 
 ing after witnessing the styles which are so common 
 with other lecturers. 
 
 Hartford Courant. — Miss Logan's address, 
 manner and self possession are admirable. Her 
 subject was unique, and the lecture elicited frequent 
 and rapturous applause. 
 
 Norwich (Conn.) Advertiser. — It needed no 
 prophet to predict a large audience for Olive T>ogan 
 last evening. Every one who has a knowledge of her 
 popularity here was almost sure that, rain or shine, 
 Breed Hall would be filled. She has not changed 
 perceptibly since her last appearance here, and look- 
 ing back to that time it was as if she was filling a 
 second night's engagement. She was elegantly 
 attired, wearing the dress that set the Washington 
 critics into ecstacies. The subject of the lecture was 
 "The Passions." The lecture was replete with 
 illustrations, many of them amusing, a few pathetic, 
 and given with a tenderness that touched the hearts 
 of the listeners. The lecture was more successful — 
 it made a better and more lasting impression than 
 either of her previous efforts, and the desire to listen 
 to her again is even stronger than before. 
 
 Providence Journal. — She possesses transcen- 
 dently excellent qualities as a reader, and to hear her 
 lecture is to enjoy an entertainment thoroughly de- 
 lightful. 
 
 Providence Press. — Miss Logan is fresh, genial, 
 sparkling, and almost as witty as one of Beecher's 
 sermons. Her stage experience was invaluable to 
 her, giving her an ease and finish of manner that are 
 quite captivating. 
 
6 GOOD WORDS 
 
 New-York Evening Post — Olive Logan lec- 
 tured last evening at Steinway Hall, on " Nice Young 
 Men," to the largest audience which has been seen at a 
 lecture this season. The lecture was the second of 
 the Mercantile Library course and w^as a brilhant suc- 
 cess financially. It was received with almost contin- 
 uous applause and laughter. 
 
 New York Tribune. — An intellectual, brilliant, 
 handsome woman, talking sensibly and gayly, at her 
 own fireside in her own drawing-room — or for that 
 matter in any body else's — is delightful to see and 
 to hear ; for she dresses vi^isdom in the robes of wit ; 
 quickens all that is fine in the minds and tempera- 
 ments of her hearers : imparts to life that warm glow 
 of enjoyment which l^urns up and destroys the chaff 
 of the commonplace in their thoughts ; and so makes 
 them happy in oblivion of care. Transport such a 
 woman from the drawing-room to the rostrum, and 
 she is even more delightful, if she be equal to the sit- 
 uation. Miss Olive Logan, who spoke last night at 
 Steinway Hall stood the test perfectly well, and 
 showed herself to be a diamond worthy of the richest 
 setting. Miss Logan is not only a keen observer, 
 but she has the faculty of making others see things 
 in the same clear light that illumines them for herself. 
 If she observes a comical character, she can paint it 
 with a few sharp touches, and in speaking she can 
 embody and portray it to the eye not less than to the 
 mind. Her perception of the humorous element in 
 life, also, is remarkably acute, and what she perceives 
 " in this kind " she is able to convey, in word, tone, 
 gesture, facial expression, and that charm of manner 
 which is so indescribable yet so sympathetic and de- 
 licious. Her humor is of the right growth, too, for 
 it springs out of a kind and tender heart. In satire, 
 and in felicity of phrase for the expression of satire. 
 
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 we may add, few speakers are commensurate with 
 Olive Logan ; and no speaker whom we have chanced 
 to hear puts into the acidity of censure so much of 
 the kindness of charity. 
 
 New-York Sun. — Miss Logan spoke an hour by 
 the watch, ])ut ten minutes by the sensations of her 
 audience. 
 
 Philadelphia Dispatch. — Last Monday evening 
 we enjoyed the delight of hearing, from the Hps of 
 Olive Logan, the most charming lecture it has ever 
 been our good fortune to listen to. Lectures more 
 erudite and profound we have heard, but none more 
 instructive — none half so entertaining. Miss Logan's 
 delineation of character is superb, her philosophy is 
 sound, her hope is cheering, and her faith in the 
 bright side of everything is sublime. Of all the Star 
 Course this is emphatically the " star" lecture. We 
 never expect to hear its equal for humor, or for pathos. 
 We came away from the Academy on Monday night 
 feeling better and happier than we have felt for, years. 
 
 Baltlmore Gazette. — An immense throng gath- 
 ered last evening to hear Miss Logan repeat her 
 brilliant lecture on *' Girls." This was her third 
 appearance before a Baltimore audience, and the en- 
 thusiasm of the vast assemblage was, if possible, 
 even greater than before. Miss Logan's popularity 
 in Baltimore is almost without a parallel. 
 
 Washington Republican. — Lincoln Hall was 
 crowded last evening to its fullest capacity. The 
 stage was well filled, and even standing-room was 
 sold, and chiefly because it was the fascinating Olive 
 Logan who was to lecture. The lecture was on " The 
 Passions," a new subject with Miss Logan, but one 
 
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 from its immense scope that allows her active fancy- 
 to make the etchings deep and clear without cumbrous 
 detail or tedious painstaking. Throughout the lec- 
 ture ran a vein of humor of that cream and straw- 
 berry quality that tickles the intellectual palate with 
 a delicate feeling of delight. Our Olive is a decided 
 success, and we hope she will soon come again. 
 
 Albany Journal. — None but those who delight 
 in nothing but the ponderous would fail to enjoy Miss 
 Logan's lectures. 
 
 Troy Times. — Miss Logan is a literary enthusiast, 
 reveling in sentiment, wit, pluck, and independence, 
 seeking and demanding place and character for her 
 sex, and commanding them for herself, by ability, 
 industry and careful culture. That she is a noble 
 and good woman, we believe ; that she is a great 
 artist we know. 
 
 Rochester Democrat. — As a lecturer we think 
 Miss Logan is far more entertaining than any other 
 woman on the rostrum, an opinion which her bound- 
 less popularity confirms. 
 
 Buffalo Courier. — The lady impresses us rather 
 as a brilliant, well bred woman of the world, not 
 afraid to clothe her thoughts with the modulations of 
 voice, facial expressions and gestures of the accom- 
 plished actress, but not presuming to lay down the law 
 on subjects in which women are not expected to be at 
 home. In social circles we have heard elegant and witty 
 ladies talk as Olive Logan did last night, and this 
 truth to nature, at the same time employing all fem- 
 inine arts in oratory, makes her what she unquestion- 
 ably is, the most entertaining lecturess before the 
 public. 
 
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 Pittsburg Gazette. — She is at home on the stage, 
 perfectly composed, and whatever the secret of her 
 power, controls the passions and emotions of the au- 
 dience as would the truest orator or warmest histri- 
 onic genius. 
 
 Cincinnati Commercial. — One of the most 
 brilliant writers in our country, Miss Logan, possesses 
 a dramatic delivery which renders her peculiar among 
 her sex. 
 
 Chicago Times. — The audience was filled with 
 admiration and delight at the eloquence of the beau- 
 tiful little woman. It will not be denied by those 
 who heard her that she at least has proved her right 
 to occupy the platform beside the most skillful ora- 
 tors of the opposite sex. 
 
 Chicago Tribune. — She is one of those advanced 
 women born before their time. She is clever, bright, 
 witty, sarcastic even to bitterness. Her shafts fly in 
 all directions ; she spares none, and shoots at folly as 
 it flies, no matter whence it comes. Her voice is 
 clear, ringing, well-modulated, and capable of inflec- 
 tion. She has more brains than beauty, yet she is 
 not homely. Her form is tall and graceful, and the 
 upper portion sways and bends at pleasure. Her 
 acting, for she acts, would do credit to any boards. 
 
 Denver News. — From the first to the last sentence 
 of her lecture she swayed all by that marvelous 
 power of eloquence which she possesses. Her lec- 
 ture contained the moral of a sermon, aud the dram- 
 atic amusement of a theatrical afterpiece. 
 
 Sacramento Record. — No matter what you may 
 choose to call Olive's talk — whether regarded as a 
 
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 lecture, a stump speech, a "parlor entertainment," a 
 theatrical exhibition, or any other kind of show, it 
 was well worth the money. 
 
 San Francisco Pioneer. — Miss Logan has a 
 marvelous power over her audience, exciting it alter- 
 nately to smiles and tears, as readily as though she 
 had the risible and lachrymal halyards of the audi- 
 ence in her hands. 
 
 St. Paul Pioneer. — The largest and most bril- 
 liant gathering of the flower of St. Paul society that 
 we ever remember having seen at a lecture, welcomed 
 the beautiful and brilliant Miss Logan last evening. 
 Beautiful and brilliant she surely is, in the highest 
 degree as she stands before her audience attired in 
 rose colored silk, laces and diamonds, firing off a con- 
 tinuous fusilade of pun, epigram, anecdote and elo- 
 quence. There were passages in Miss Logan's lec- 
 ture which for real, womanly eloquence, we have 
 never heard surpassed — while in the matter of artistic 
 acting, whether in fun or pathos, we doubt if there is 
 a woman before the public as a speaker who can at 
 all approach her. 
 
 Kansas City Times. — Miss Olive Logan lectured 
 last night on " Girls." The house was densely 
 crowded. Attracted by the great fame of the lecturer 
 all the seats were taken a week beforehand. The 
 fair lecturer abounded in illustration and anecdote. 
 There was, however, running through all her discourse 
 a vein of serious thought — not brought prominently 
 to the front, but never for a moment forgotten — to 
 which all her fine periods and sparkling metaphors 
 were only intended to lend attractiveness and force. 
 Her head is finely modeled, with plenty of Eve in it, 
 not broad, rather aiiy and graceful, and is much used 
 
CONCERNING OLIVE LOGAN. ii 
 
 in gesture and more in emphasis. Of the lips it may- 
 be said that they delight in whispers. Perhaps Miss 
 Logan really hates no living woman, and this is a 
 great admission. All this her face says, and there- 
 fore it must be a rare face, and withal, radiant too. 
 Her voice is very frank and soft. She is not properly 
 an orator, but as an advocate — one who would be 
 generous and tearful, and pleading, and sarcastic, and 
 grotesque, and comical, and womanly — she would be 
 most potent. As Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 
 she would have given the butcher not one kiss for his 
 vote, but a dozen, and then have carried all Clare 
 market like a tornado. 
 
 St. Louis Republican. — Miss Logan, speaks 
 fluently, without the aid of manuscript, and talks all 
 over. She appears to enjoy herself amazingly, and 
 has a happy faculty of communicating her enjoyment 
 to others. Her voice is clear, ringing, and peculiarly 
 sympathetic, and her manner is altogether charming. 
 There was not one of the audience who was not de- 
 lighted wdth the novel entertainment. 
 
 Louisville Courier - Journal. — The lady's 
 manner is strikingly attractive, magnetic and popular; 
 she has an assimilative power that brings her strongly 
 en rappoft with the audience, and compels them, 
 whether or no, to attend closely to what she has to 
 say ; there is nothing so evident in it all as its piquancy, 
 though she has undoubtedly the faculty of moving to 
 tears as well as to smiles. She is as bright as a rip- 
 pling stream. 
 
 Nashville (Tenn.) Union. — Masonic Hall was 
 thronged last night to hear Olive Logan on " Girls." 
 The audience was completely charmed. 
 
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 Knoxville Press. — We do not wonder that critics 
 have given us so many widely varying descriptions of 
 Olive Logan. We had never conceived it possible 
 that we should find so many different presentations 
 of personal characteristics in one woman. She is 
 truly a marvel, beautiful as she wills to be, and 
 always happy in whatsoever delineation of sentiment, 
 emotion or passion she undertakes. Her capabilities 
 as a lecturer seem to be unlimited, and after ten min- 
 utes acquaintance with her, the auditor fears no fail- 
 ure in whatever undertaking, whether of description, 
 of mimicry, of anecdote, of logic, or of genuine, 
 heart-subduing oratory, she may embark. Say what 
 we will, she is herself a triumphant vindication of 
 her own philosophy. She conquers as she goes. 
 
 Chattanooga Herald. — Fo-morrow morning 
 Miss Olive Logan (or, as she is better known in pri- 
 vate life, Mrs. Wirt Sikes) will leave Chattanooga, 
 where she has enjoyed such brilliant success. The 
 half has not been told about this remarkable woman's 
 power over an audience. She is a phenomenon in 
 her way. And she is a good woman as well as a 
 great artist. 
 
 Memphis Avalanche. — She took the fair portion 
 of the audience last night by storm, and was scarcely 
 less a favorite with the sterner sex In her wonder- 
 ful power of mimicry, her vivacity, her grace, and the 
 gusto with which she relates an anecdote, she is 
 charming beyond description. " Girls " formed the 
 subject of her lecture, and it is almost incredible what 
 a host of good things she managed to say in the 
 seemingly short time she stood before the audience 
 Olive Logan has proved to be all, and more than all 
 our fancy painted her. 
 
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 Little Rock, (Ark.) Journal. — The largest 
 audience ever seen in Little Rock, gathered to hear 
 Olive Logan lecture last night. Every seat was sold 
 long beforehand, and over three hundred additional 
 chairs were crowded into the hall. The audience 
 was enthusiastic to the last degree. 
 
 Savannah, (Georgia) Republican. — We never 
 heard Miss Logan before, but we were prepared for 
 something spicy. This we got, and more. She is 
 at once a wit, a philosopher and a philanthropist. 
 People never would complain of " women's talking 
 in public," if they would talk as sensibly and well as 
 she did last night. We only wish we had in this 
 country a thousand more just like her. 
 
 Savannah News. — Miss Logan is a woman of 
 prodigious industry, and the most brilliant capacities, 
 which enable her to accomplish with ease tasks at 
 which most women would shrink appalled. She is 
 in the first hey-day of her powers. As a lecturer her pe- 
 culiar histrionic gifts, inherited from her father, make 
 it easy for her to produce the most ludicrous comical 
 effects, or the finest bursts of eloquence, while she 
 retains a colloquial manner so quiet and graceful as to 
 make the listener wonder what it is which charms him. 
 
 Macon Telegraph. — We cannot imagine that 
 any one, however depraved, callous, worldly, or self 
 opinionated he or she may be, can hear Miss Logan 
 without benefit. She is a power in the land, fortun- 
 ately for good. 
 
 Augusta Chronicle — For the first time since 
 
 ' the building of the city, a woman has lectured in 
 
 Augusta. Miss Olive Logan gave her justly cele- 
 
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 brated lecture on " Girls" last night, and for nearly 
 two hours the audience was delighted with a melange 
 of wit, wisdom, pathos and eloquence, sparkling with 
 anecdotes and set off by satire. 
 
 New-Orleans Picayune. — A brilliant audience 
 greeted this accompHshed lady's first appearance in 
 our city, and the profound enjoyment she inspired 
 throughout the lecture has dealt a fatal blow to the 
 local prejudices in which female cultivation and inde- 
 pendence have been suffered to droop and die. With- 
 out a trace of the repulsive misanthropy in which fe- 
 male lecturers generally have indulged, this talented 
 woman claims for her own sex an enlargement from the 
 shackles in which society has bound up her mind and 
 her muscle, aud argues that she should be admitted 
 to the dignified and refined usefulness for which she 
 was created. In this respect her efforts tend to the 
 reformation which is being effected in Great Britain 
 by Tyndall, Huxley, Sir William Thomas, and other 
 enlightened educators of Europe. Miss Logan's 
 qualities, we think pre-eminently fit her for the posi- 
 tion she has assumed. Possessed of rare histrionic 
 abilities, well drilled in the art of rhetoric, with a soft 
 yet full and flexible voice, graceful in her movements, 
 and quick in her perceptions of the listener's emo- 
 tions, she captivates even the unwilling sympathies 
 of her audience, and weaves around them a web 
 from which they would not be loosed. 
 
OLIVE LOGAJf'S BOOKS. 
 
 I. Chateau Frissac : or, Home Scenes in France. 
 D. Appleton & Co., New York. Cloth, .$1.50. 
 
 II. Photographs of Paris Life : Politics, Art and 
 Fashion in the French Capital. Tinsley & Co., 
 London. Morocco, $2.50. 
 
 TIL Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes. 
 Parmelee & Co., Philadelphia. 600 pages, cloth 
 $3.50 ; calf, $3.50. 
 
 IV. The Mimic World, and Public Exhibitions ; their 
 History, Morals and Effects. New World Pub- 
 lishing Co., Philadelphia. (This Work is a Revised 
 Edition of the Last Named.) Cloth, $3.75; extra 
 morocco, $5.50. 
 
 V. Apropos of Women and Theatres. Carleton & Co., 
 New York. Cloth, I1.50. 
 
 VI. Get Thee Behind Me, Satan I A Home-Born Book 
 of Home-Truths. Adams, Victor & Co., New York. 
 Cloth, $1.50. 
 
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 Christnifis Stories. 
 
 I. John Morris's Money. - - - - Paper, 25c. 
 
 II. Somebody's Stocking. - - _ _ " 15c 
 
 III. The Good Mr. Bagglethorpe. - - " 15c. 
 
 For any of Miss Logan's works, apply to The American- 
 News Company, 116, 118, 120 and 122 Nassau St., New York. 
 
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