Since the earlier days, the Lyceum has taken on an entertainment phase, which, while not wholly related to the lyceum idea, serves admirably in meeting and filling the desire there is and ever will be in the human heart for the joyous pleasures of life. The entertainment side of the Lyceum belongs to the realm of the heart paramountly, if not wholly, while the work of the lecturer appeals to the intellect and the conscience, and so the “three thirds” which make men up—the Mind, the Heart and the Conscience—are accorded that which strengthens and enriches. Herein have we all of life’s philosophy, brought to us with mental conviction, with emotional delighting, and spiritual moving. We get glimpses of what may be called the Trinity of Man. There is no side of us which does not respond. Let all this triune service of the Lyceum be clean and high; let not the desire for financial gain hush one worthy voice, or turn aside from the straight path a single lofty purpose, and the Lyceum shall be maintained so long as time endures, because it shall be of the blessed things which are not born to die. Lecturers and entertainers may come and go as individual factors of lyceum work, but the Lyceum as an idea, a force, an inspiration, shall go on forever. The traveler looking upon Niagara sees the onward rush and surge of countless drops of water. They sweep by and pass on, and return not again. Still other countless millions of drops follow them, and forever follow, and so in spite of separateness, there is perpetuity and permanence. Niagara is immortal. The teachers, heroes, apostles, prophets, singers and entertainers, come and go, and pass out to the great sea beyond, but others come with word and song and smile, and forever shall they come, and so as with Niagara, there is perpetuity and permanence. The Lyceum Platform is immortal. [Illustration: WARD BAKER. “Music is God’s voice heard in a language without words.” Among the strong popular companies which will visit the South next season, is the Boynton Concert Company, and one of the leading performers of this Company is Ward Baker. Mr. Baker is one of the few musicians who play to the soul and the heart, as well as to the technical ear. ] Echoes from the Field. Frederick Warde opens his Southern tour May first. * * * * * Alton Pachard, the popular chalk talker, is entertaining Southern audiences with his unique and excellent program. * * * * * “Standard attractions,” is the decree the committees are pronouncing, and “the survival of the fittest” will be the result. * * * * * Ida Benfey is adding to her laurels in the South. She recently gave George Eliot’s beautiful story of “The Mill on the Floss” before an audience of nearly four thousand people, in Nashville, as one of the numbers of the Lyceum Course. * * * * *