BROOKLYN DEBATING SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 11

BROOKLYN DEBATING SOCIETY

.At the meeting of tte Brooklyn Liior- > ( ary and Debating. Society livst a very enjoyable and intefestiwg popular lecture was given bsftre a. large ; and: appreciative audience, bv Mr Rtchird .Brown, entitled "Aiiir-ricar. Sum-OHSt? 7 and' Their Humour. 5 ' Mr. O'Connor occupied the chair. The ietrtare, whicli lasted for no? r! ( y tsva liootr, was listened to by the -wtbclose attention, punctuatsy? ho'sv and. again with laughtor, ivMcli tho lecturer drew forth by his awd ftintty stories. In the lecturer's opiaim*. -Mark Twain stood easily first as Antcftea's greatest \ humorist. He. (M'ai-k TiVftiii) knew that people liked being amused, and further that they item willing ta' pay for it; and so he catered, for their wants and succeeded, as was evidenced by tho ready salo of mew editions of Mark Twain's works-. Bret Ha.r-te also was one of America's popular writers, and ho v was a man who recognised the greatness of lifo and of fonvmonplaco things'. Mr. Brown was rtesistel Miss Ta-sker, who .reoit«d jn Kentucky" ; Miss Paimor, Pitw man and His ■ Watch" ; Mr. FlmcTiw, wlio read an extract from Oliver Vivndol Holmes, "The C'aivfesi-rtn of the Breakfast Table" ; and M.y, Hoolo, ''1 !i« Painting of the Fen-tie" (tflkoii. from "Tom Sawyer"). At, the amirtHsmn of tho lecture a hearty vote <>f tl'ra.nl;s was moved and carried by acclamation,