Come to think of it, a bullfrog isn’t a bad emblem of wisdom — better, perhaps, 
than the proverbial owl. Rana looks as if he has a lot of good philosophy. 
Samuel Scoville Lectured in Stamford. 
Samuel Scoville, Jr., a lawyer, writer 
and naturalist, of Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania, well-known everywhere, lec- 
tured in Stamford, his native home, on 
Thursday, March 15. Mr. Scoville’s 
mother was the daughter of Henry 
Ward Beecher and his father was for a 
long time pastor of the Congregational 
Church of Stamford. Harriet Beecher 
Stowe was his great aunt. From such 
an oratorical and literary family we 
naturally expect skill along those lines. 
Mr. Scoville is not an elaborate 
speaker but goes directly to his subject 
with a simple and pleasing manner 
without any oratorical flourishes in 
either gesture or voice. His treatment 
of the subject is pervaded by a delicate 
humor which does not bring forth 
hearty laughter but a gentle ripple of 
appreciation. 
He is certainly a naturalist. He has 
studied things at first hand and delights 
in nature. He imitated birds, told in- 
terestingly of various flowers and of 
four-footed animals. His treatment of 
the subject is not that of a specialist 
but of the so-called old-time all-round 
naturalist. It was pleasing to learn 
that the species is not extinct. 
The New York Philharmonic Society. 
During its eightieth season the 
Philharmonic Society of New York has 
given sixty-eight subscription concerts 
in Greater New York. Stransky con- 
ducted thirty of these, Hadley one, 
Mengelberg thirty and Bodansky five, 
and one other concert was divided in 
direction between Mengelberg and 
Bodansky. Henry Hadley also con- 
ducted his own compositions at several 
of the Stransky concerts. Stransky 
also conducted Philharmonic concerts 
at Princeton, Yale, Smith College, and 
in Worcester, Holyoke, Springfield and 
New London, while Mengelberg direct- 
ed performances in Boston and at Yale. 
Four concerts were given under Stran- 
sky and Hadley in Brooklyn at the 
Commercial High School, under the 
auspices of the People’s Institute. In 
addition to these Philharmonic concerts 
the orchestra played three times in 
New York under Richard Strauss and 
twice under Van Hoogstraten, once for 
Madame Ducarp under Stransky, and 
forty men of the orchestra played at 
Father Finn’s concert in Carnegie Hall. 
In commemoration of the conclusion 
of its eightieth season the Society gave 
two special performances of Bee- 
thoven’s Ninth Symphony, with quar- 
tette and chorus, one at Carnegie Hall 
on Wednesday evening, April 26, and 
the other at the Metropolitan Opera 
House on Sunday evening, April 30. 
Florence Hinkle, Merle Alcock, Lam- 
bert Murphy and Royal Dadmun con- 
stituted the quartette and the chorus 
included the full strength of the Ora- 
torio Society of New York. Mengel- 
berg conducted. 
There will be very few changes in the 
Philharmonic personnel next season, 
contracts with most of the present 
members of the orchestra having been 
renewed. Soloists engaged for the first 
half of the season so far. include Josef 
Hofmann. Heifetz, Schelling and 
Casals. 
FtHodvino- resurrection. 
Through sunshine and through showers, 
The most elociuent of sermons 
Are in the Easter flowers 
— Emma Peirce. 
