LECTURES.

Evening Star, Issue 4035, 1 February 1876, Page 2

LECTURES.

The first of a course. of;lectnres on “ Yankee' Hpmor” was delivered in the Temperance TTalj last night by, Mr t harles 'Bright, of Melbourne. The cnar wafi •'■ - : ’- T7-; t ; i fdr, If. S. Chapman, who introduced thelecturer ah anold personalfriend of hfa- own," and remarked that he had not known him as'a lecturer, bntthe “ proof of the pudding-; was in the eat ng,” and the audience would be' able to judge in accordance with the'qld' maxim, ? .However, hecould ,pwn knowledge'that Mir Bright was hi gentleman! of very extensive iMormation , apdvVery vr large Hfp s Very' experienced writer, ~,jl£ €6 ’these J qualifications he .added ; among lawyers .‘‘the gift of t|ie gab‘Tr-and an. ,£e had been lecturing fbra r cb»sid-irAM&- ttmfifii Victoria. «od ‘bad' given];y'ry cbnsid* ra' le saiisfab ion he W.tfld VedmOd to imVS'ffcdded - thb lawyers' gift, of ready hia aueu-Sive-acqiqreil khWl dge—He; foy’ohh', Kau no. doubt, that .Mr. hife audience, and achieve sbmethingHvorlhv bf their heHfibg. ah old friead',bf Somethioj^ - like eighteen ySsrs* standing, be felt, cohtnß»? r able interest in tbh l^tu^iiubceSsi ‘ ;: 5 "- 1 In .the j)b. tioh‘ of . hid Ihotme MrV Biiglittm od theprotoriw' of ihn^cah'Kfittiof 1 aaexhibited in the'writ hgs of Sjjtm SHc/k^ash-’ 1 ’ ington Irvin/, J. ;R iLhweU, Arte idis IWarii, and Mark Twain, 1 hhd dieW his illuKfratiohs wholly fr -m the t»6 J lmt' f mehtiobed’huth6ra;’ l His ’selections, which wefb admir blyohoseti, tu-i delivered with a keeii 'appreciation of the vein in Which they arerwritteni. anp with.no inocnaiderable elocutionary power, though ncs., quite of the Slevated. standard: we: wireled jto, expect. The i hea’ty, laugh.ten, w.hich 1 - the recital of Artexnna’a. account of hiafllncM, , inXJtahnnd the advent «f Mark Twadn’a.-dtscriptipn pf lecture ' showed the c Mr Bright’s efforts.;. WeinpUne to the that • their, pleasure bavp been {intensified if . h«;lectureJ»ad : .M-sit; j w!'Bj»tt luatedj two ayda bidlshofirß, - Uttle too 7 Thfi.htteqdftajjfi I se-ip,waß. la^ge,.; ,i the, chew i&b ■ ( the.lecijwe i defiipif * Bnght will dig dpaply, mixußter, of Aucklahd, 'dmd

leyan Hall* lecture, on • audience was lecture was full dHEfilUng mt rJra lecturer Turned nSfiie pre-h > of bsHI tenaKl \ ' gm by Amtri J '■ MtEdwaHKle IjMpuA Beoo EnjfflHtff I »|the hSffi.jjWfe obtorii.. f ; the; and the rmion of that Thesodalconditionof Scotland w«iuwstou ; in a maimer that tOuohed most unmistakably the risible faculties of the auditory. 3me cruelties of “ Beeton" the martydon of “Pstiick Hamilton” and “Wiahart,” mid the \ -T&atlgKJflffr M WHiy ***i>iini m myty Mffwrwww**ffrred 'tn in suitable terms. The heroes that 'f. • Scotland has furnished In tige of Britain since thoJTnlonwere mussM-ui ' 'to^eiT of_thankTto - • poeeq byMr--J.. OTOxn,andcamedlyMcclamatlom AVoteof vv