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man}'' exciting scenes of march and fray. His experience 

 amid the various vicissitudes of the war, in camp and field 

 and prison, have been vividly portrayed by his pen in his 

 various publications. Still inspired by this love of adventure, 

 be proposes to undertake the novelty of a journey across the 

 Continent in the saddle. His objects are manifold. While 

 visiting scenes and becoming more familiar with his own 

 country, he will collect facts and information for a new book, 

 and at his various stopping-places he will lecture under the 

 auspices and for the benefit of the ' Grand Army of the 

 Republic,' to whose fraternal regard he is most warml}' com- 

 mended. Allow me then, ladies and gentlemen, without 

 further ceremony, to present to you the Soldier- Author, and 

 our comrade, Willard Glazier." 



I was much gratified on the morning of the ninth 



to find commendatory reference to my lecture in the 



leading journals of Boston, for I will frankly admit 



that I had had some mist^ivinirs as to the verdict of the 



critics, and rather expected to be "handled without 



gloves'^ in some of the first cities on the programme. 



Of the dailies which came to my notice the Globe 



said : — 



"A very fair audience considering the unfair condition of the 

 elements, was gathered in Tremont Temple last night to hear Cap- 

 tain Willard Glazier's lecture upon 'Echoes from the Revolution.' 

 The frequent applause of the audience evinced not only a sympa- 

 thy with the subject, but an evident liking of the manner in which 

 it was delivered. The lecture itself was a retrospective view of the 

 leading incidents of the Revolution. It would have been unfair to 

 expect to hear anything very new upon a subject .with which the 

 veriest school-boy is familiar ; but Captain Glazier wove the events 

 together in a manner which freed the lecture from that most 

 unpardonable of all ft\ults, which can be committed upon the plat- 

 form — dulness. He passed over, in his consideration of the Revo- 

 lution, the old scenes up to the time when Corn wal lis surrendered 

 up his sword and command to George Washington. * The year 

 1876,' said Captain Glazier, 're-echoes the scenes and events of a 

 hundred years ago. In imagination we make a pilgrimage back to 



