AMERICAN HUMOURISTS
At the Y.M.C.A. last night, Mr. Richard Itroini delivered a .leettiro' on, the subject of American Humourists, 'there vvas a good attendance. Mr. Brown traversed the works of some of t'lie American writers whom ho regarded ns -coming within the catee.orv of hu* Monrist. Ho spoke of Mark Twain as Hie greatest, of these-— greater ihan Ar-tc-iiius Ward—but tie wb.eeil the English l!unwufist..3 ahead of the Americans. Tlio Americans, ha said, made jokes, but the JirigHsh drew characters which lived in nnv>'s memory, like tl:e characters and Dickens an# Thackeray,
During the evening reritaficms wpt« given by- Mr. Spencer, Mioses Arnold, I'ctrie. and Fix, Votes of tb.anfcs wereaccorded the lecturer ami the euier'tniner.6. aud a collection in aid of the Hutt Disaster Fund was taken up.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 2
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128AMERICAN HUMOURISTS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 2
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