A very large audience was present in Sanders Theatre last evening at the authors' reading under the auspices of the Cantabrigia Club for the benefit of a Radcliffe scholarship fund. The affair was in every way a pronounced success. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe presided and introduced the readers very gracefully. Doctor Hale and Miss Wilkins were at the last moment prevented from being present, and sent letters of regret.

Perhaps the most popular numbers of the evening were those given by Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith and Miss Ruth McEnery Stuart. The former is well known as the author of "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" and other delightful sketches of Southern life. He read two of the selections from "Colonel Carter" in a truly charming vein, capturing his audience completely. Miss Stuart also read one of her sketches of Southern life-"Maria's Mo'nin'." The sketch itself runs in a vein of contagious humor, and Miss Stuart read it in a manner calculated to bring out all there was in it. Charles Follen Adams, in his Dutch dialect poems, has long been known, and last evening his success was as great as ever.

The other readings were by Rev. Herbert D. Ward, Mrs. Anna Eichberg King, Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, and Geo. W. Cable.