YANKEE HUMOR.

Evening Star, Issue 4040, 7 February 1876, Page 3

YANKEE HUMOR.

Mr Bright lectured on the above subject at the Temperance Hall on Saturday sight. The audience was not so large as we had expected to «je. Artexhus Ward and Mark Twain wore thei two humorists cho>en by the lecturer as his types. That excessively quaint piece of the *‘ Genial Showman,” entitled “ Joy in the House of Ward,” caused by the arrival of the two little “episodes,” was most happily rendered, and kept the audience in roars of laughter. Selections from Mark Twain's Works were then of hia “Autobiography, ” “ Roughing It, ” the “ Inn ocents atHome,”the “ Innocents Abroad,” and some others. In these the lecturer was apparently quite at home, and the dry- caustic style of the Californian writer could not; have had a better exponent than it bad in’ Mr- Bright; his description of the noble red nven, who tamed out to Ije Irish, and who ibiially sent Mark down Niagara Falls, being irresistibly laughable. We are glad to hear 'that, at the request of many old Victorians, Mr Bright will dehverfa lecture to-morrow evening, taking Victorian celebrities as his subject.