Anthony Hope's Reading.

The first of the series of readings and lectures to be given by the Cantabrigia Club for the benefit of the Radcliffe Scholarship fund was held last night in Sanders Theatre. The audience though large showed an almost ludicrous want of humor, preferring to read sentiment and pathos into Mr. Hawkins's selections, rather than to laugh at the delicate and delightful wit which makes them so charming. Even two selections from the "Dolly Dialogues" did not quicken the audience entirely. This was the more strange considering that Mr. Hawkins read well and that all but one of his selections were humorous. They were as follows: 1. The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard; 2. From the Prisoner of Zenda, "If Love were All." 3. From the Heart of Princess Osra, "The Wager of the Marquis de Merosailles." 4. From the Dolly Dialogues, "Cordial Relations," "Retribution," "The Other Lady."