000 05833cam a22003733u 4500
001 76861
003 UtSlPG
005 20260610134759.0
006 m
007 cr n
008 260607r20251901utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d
010 _a38000641
040 _aUtSlPG
041 7 _aen
_2iso639-1
050 4 _aCT
100 1 _aPond, James B.
_q(James Burton),
_d1838-1903
245 1 0 _aEccentricities of genius
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-12
505 0 _aOrators: The Triumvirate of Lecture Kings. John B. Gough. Wendell Phillips. William Lloyd Garrison. Charles Sumner. Chauncey M. Depew. Gen. Horace Porter. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll. Frederick Douglass. Booker T. Washington -- Pulpit orators: Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott. Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis. Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon. Rt. Rev. Bishop Henry C. Potter. Very Rev. S. Reynolds Hole. Rt. Rev. Dr. Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon. Very Rev. Charles William Stubbs, D.D. -- Women lecturers and singers: Susan B. Anthony. Julia Ward Howe. Anna E. Dickinson. Mary Livermore. Lucy Stone. Clara Louise Kellogg. Emma Abbott. Helen Potter. Annie Grey. Maud Ballington Booth. Mary Proctor -- Humorists: Josh Billings. Thomas Nast. Petroleum V. Nasby. Samuel L. Clemens. Mark Twain and George W. Cable. Mark Twain, Nasby, and Josh Billings. Paul Blouet (Max O'Rell). Bill Nye. James Whitcomb Riley -- Explorers, travellers, and war correspondents: Sir Henry M. Stanley. George Kennan. Frederick Villiers. Dr. Frederick A. Cook. Robert E. Peary. Capt. Joshua Slocum. John L. Stoddard -- Actors and dramatic critics: Joseph Jefferson. William Winter. Sir Henry Irving. Charlotte Cushman. Ellen Terry -- Literary lecturers: Matthew Arnold. John Boyle O'Reilly. Hamilton W. Mabie. Ralph Waldo Emerson. William Dean Howells. George William Curtis -- Orators: The Triumvirate of Lecture Kings. John B. Gough. Wendell Phillips. William Lloyd Garrison. Charles Sumner. Chauncey M. Depew. Gen. Horace Porter. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll. Frederick Douglass. Booker T. Washington -- Pulpit orators: Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott. Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis. Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon. Rt. Rev. Bishop Henry C. Potter. Very Rev. S. Reynolds Hole. Rt. Rev. Dr. Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon. Very Rev. Charles William Stubbs, D.D. -- Women lecturers and singers: Susan B. Anthony. Julia Ward Howe. Anna E. Dickinson. Mary Livermore. Lucy Stone. Clara Louise Kellogg. Emma Abbott. Helen Potter. Annie Grey. Maud Ballington Booth. Mary Proctor -- Humorists: Josh Billings. Thomas Nast. Petroleum V. Nasby. Samuel L. Clemens. Mark Twain and George W. Cable. Mark Twain, Nasby, and Josh Billings. Paul Blouet (Max O'Rell). Bill Nye. James Whitcomb Riley -- Explorers, travellers, and war correspondents: Sir Henry M. Stanley. George Kennan. Frederick Villiers. Dr. Frederick A. Cook. Robert E. Peary. Capt. Joshua Slocum. John L. Stoddard -- Actors and dramatic critics: Joseph Jefferson. William Winter. Sir Henry Irving. Charlotte Cushman. Ellen Terry -- Literary lecturers: Matthew Arnold. John Boyle O'Reilly. Hamilton W. Mabie. Ralph Waldo Emerson. William Dean Howells. George William Curtis.
508 _aChuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Eccentricities of genius : memories of famous men and women of the platform…" by Major J. B. Pond is a collection of reminiscences and character sketches written in the late 19th century. From the vantage point of a leading lecture manager, it surveys orators, preachers, actors, humorists, explorers, and authors who animated the lyceum and the stage, mixing backstage anecdotes with public portraits. The emphasis is on the quirks, habits, and magnetism that made them draw crowds, and on the culture of the lecture platform itself. The result is a lively insider’s tour of the era’s great public voices. The opening of the volume presents title matter, a contents and illustration list, and a playful preface stitched from other writers’ prefaces, then shifts to Pond’s own origin story: a frontier, abolitionist upbringing; a printer’s apprenticeship; time in “Bleeding Kansas”; and later journalism in Utah that led to managing Ann Eliza Young’s sensational lectures and a swift national stir. He recounts acquiring the Redpath Bureau, his credo for approaching famous people, and signals the book’s scope across orators, clergy, women lecturers, humorists, explorers, actors, and authors. The first profiles elevate the “triumvirate” of Gough, Beecher, and Wendell Phillips, then sketch Garrison, Sumner, Depew, Horace Porter, Ingersoll, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington with brisk judgments and vivid anecdotes. The section on Beecher becomes an intimate travel memoir, including Southern appearances where initial hostility turned to ovations—most memorably in Richmond—showcasing Beecher’s courage, persuasive power, and gift for reconciliation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aBiography -- 19th century
653 _aAuthors -- 19th century -- Biography
653 _aLecturers -- Biography
653 _aEntertainers -- Biography
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/eccentricitiesof00pondiala/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76861
999 _c117586
_d117586