Mr. Copeland's Lecture.

"Journalism, Bohemia, the Bohemians and the pseudo-Bohemians," was the subject of Mr. Copeland's lecture in Sever 11 last night, but it would be impossible to reproduce the whole of the entertaining talk in which he led his hearers now close to his main theme and again farther from it into interesting generalities.

Mr. Copeland's remarks were the more interesting as he spoke from a considerable personal experience; and his lecture threw light on a subject the understanding of which, with most college men, is probably far from clear. Of journalism he spoke chiefly as it qualifies men to become Bohemians, or perhaps rather as it attracts those in whom the Bohemian instinct is strong; but this was merely incidental to his more important description of Bohemia and the Bohemians. The Bohemia with which he was dealing is not the country known to geography, but is "a condition rather than a place"; while the Bohemian is a person "employed in some precarious calling not dissociated from the arts." The characteristics of such persons, it is true, do not in all respects conform to the ideas of the polite world, which is thus led to judge of them harshly; but though there may be, and undoubtedly are, individuals in Bohemia who deserve such harshness, yet a judgment against all for the faults of the few, would be far from just. It must be acknowledged that with their occasional badness and their general dirtiness, the Bohemians as a class are delightfully friendly, sociable and hospitable.

Mr. Copeland closed his lecture by reading an extract from Stevenson and a poem of Thackeray's.