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ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE REV. C. CLARK’S LECTURES.

If estimated at their proper worth, Mr Clark’s lectures would be attended by crowded audiences, for so intellectual an entertainment as his is rarely given in these parts. “ The Tower of London J ’ was the subject treated by him last night, and with the aid of a welldrawn plan of that historical building he carried his readers over tower and rampart, and for two hours, without the faintest appearance of wearying them, narrated the principal events connected with its history. Necessarily a dry subject for the most part, Mr Clark has a happy knack of introducing an anecdote, or making a humorous point where least expected, and so relieves his lecture of any heaviness, We will not follow through the long list of great names with which the Tower is associated, but point to Fitzclarence’s dream as an instance of his elocutionary power, and to the story of Sir Thomas Moore’s death as undoubtedly the recital of the evening. With a most effective peroration he concludes an admirable lecture, marked .with much original thought, keen criticism, and a spirit of the broadest tolerance, refreshing to hear from one of his cloth. The delight of his audience showed itself in the hearty and unanimous applause which called Mr Clark to the footlights at the conclusion of the lecture.

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Evening Star, Issue 3765, 18 March 1875, Page 2

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ENTERTAINMENTS. Evening Star, Issue 3765, 18 March 1875, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS. Evening Star, Issue 3765, 18 March 1875, Page 2

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