OLIVER WENDELL TIOLMES CENTENARY.
(To TIM EDITOR OT TUN " SPXCTATOR."1 Sin,—It may interest some of your readers who were friends or are admirers of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to know that a suit- able recognition is to be made of the one hundredth anniversary of his birth in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was born and where he lived during his early manhood, his father, Dr. Abiel Holmes, being then the minister of the first church in Cambridge.
The anniversary itself will not occur until August next, but the Cambridge Historical Society will devote to its recognition its regular spring meeting, which occurs on April 27th next. This meeting will be held in Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. President Charles W. Eliot, of the University, will preside, and other speakers will be Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, of Concord, son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and an associate of Dr. Holmes in the famous Saturday Club ' • Colonel Thonnut Wentworth D Higginson, a lifelong friend of r. Holmes ; Dr. David Williams Chewer, who was the assistant if Dr. Holmes when the latter was a Professor in the Harvard Medical School; and the Rev. Samuel M. Crothers, D.D., of Cambridge, one of our foremost humorists.
Several selections will be sung by the Harvard Glee Club, and Mr. Charles Townsend Copeland, an instructor of elocution of the University, will read two poems by Dr. Holmes,—namely, "The Last Leaf" and "The Chambered Nautilus."
Special invitations for this meeting will be issued to prominent men of letters in this country and in England, and also to graduates of the Harvard Medical School of the thirty-five years, 1847-1882, when Dr. Holmes was a Professor in that school of anatomy and physiology.—I am, Sir, &O.,
FRANK GAYLORD COOK,
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