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MT. Wm. Hill, principal of the Female Depart ment of the Barton Institute, delivered an admirable lecture on Saturday evening the causes of the in feriority of American literature. The audience was larg. and fashionable, and the speaker managed to engage it's attention for nearly two hours by rapid eloauent and learned dissertation best writers

 This is the first lecture of course, the second one of which will be delivered week or two hence Mr. Hills manner of delivery is well calculated tc east the attention of his hearers and his rapid trans iton from the gravity of argument to the lighter matter of sarcasm and pathos is exceedingly inter- estinR,