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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 8

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. Mr.' Stanley' Ranktii,; well known in musical circled, is confined to lied by illness. \ , •In instancing the erroneous ideas some people had of astronomy, Professor Ernest W. , Brown, F.R.S., of Yalp Uni'vcrsifcy, in giving a lecture at Victoria College' on Wednesday, quoted an incident from Eider Haggard s "King Solomon's Minos," which he described as .. ono of ' the best stories over , written, but Haggard was weak'in. aetronomy. It -\vus that passage wliere Sir Henry Curtis and Alan Quartermain encounter some troublesome natives; and wishing to impress them with their power decide to take- advantage of an eclipse of the eun which they knew to be due the next day./ Unfortunately he described the meeting with the natives as occurring in :all the glory of a full moon, and spent a couple of pages in describing it very beautifully. Of course, such n,'thing could not be. A page or two later he wont on to describe the eclipse, which the author stated had taken a full hour. As they .very well know, no total eclipse lasted more than eight minutes, but the hour was needed for the development of the .story, and' literary license permitted Rider Haggard to take it! (Laughter.) ;

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