The annual business meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York was held on Wednesday of last week. President Eliot, ex-President Noah Porter, of Yale; Prof. W. G. Turner, of Yale; ex-President McCosh, of Princeton; George W. Cable; Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Athens, were elected honorary members. The following subjects will be discussed at the club's monthly meetings: "The Advisibility of a Universal Language," "Practical Politics," "Robert Elsmere." Bronson Howard will lecture on "The Construction of a Play," and M. Coquelin will lecture in French on "Shakspere and Moliere." The club includes among its members many of the Alumni of both Harvard and Yale as well as many other noted literary and scientific men from all parts of the country.
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