Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — Tapper Pronounced a Failure. [ARTICLE]

Tapper Pronounced a Failure.

The speculation of bringing Mr. Martin F. Tuppier to this country to interpret his own writing before public 1 ' autliriiees,- Is already un assured (uilure r Mf-Xupper is a dapper little gentlemah, 'wall advanced in year?, and wears whitish whiskers, which correspond With bU hair. Kb dresses in dark clothing, uses spectacles, and has a mild vtoiee of little power, and he utterly fails to render even his own writings in a happy manner. There are a dozen readers who could recite Tunper’s Philosophy With better effect than himself. He has how appeared twice in his so-called readings before the public—the first time in this city al Cliickering Hall, the second lime lust evening at the Brnohiyta Academy of Music. There was a fair audiaoca hero, and noneat ail worth mentioning across the river. To draw it mildly, Topper bored his hearersawfully. His short phems were of the lovey-dovey order, and his dramatic prose heavy and dull as a leather pancake. Everybody

thought it must be true when he stated that his eesafi in verse upon “ Love” was written when he was eighteen yean old. Oue-half the the reeven worse. *IT»e people voted the heading a bore before It was one-third through, ana only the meet courageous of the 800 present remained unto the end- Altogether, it was a dismal affair; and to those who have agreed to' pay Tapper $30,000 for bis American tour it must, seem melancholy,—AT. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune.