Mr. Parker's Lecture.

In his lecture last evening before the Classical Club, Mr. Parker carefully considered the reign of Nero, and compared the true historical facts with those given in "Quo Vadis." He characterized this book as misleading in many ways, but most of all in the description which it gives of the condition of society during the last years of Nero. The emperor and his court were corrupt beyond description, but to extend this licentiousness into all ranks of society is wholly in contradiction to the facts.