LECTURING IN VICTORIA.
(From the leader .) Lecturing in Victoria is becoming a profitable occupation Whether they offer new creeds for old ones, propose to do away with creeds altogether, or teach English history by a new and popular method to audiences whose knowledge of their conn' ry has grown misty with their years, lecturers appear to be equally successful, and that they have this power to attract is an unmistakable sign of the enlightenment of the age. It is not so long ago that the lecturer was generally regarded in Victoria with disfavor rather than otherwise, judging by the scanty attendance and the lukewarm interest manifested in the subjects treated of. It had come to be regarded almost as a settled conviction with the public that lecturing was an institution that would never pay here. To the question, How is it that it cannot pay here since it pays very well in England and America ? no answer was forthcoming. We have something like an answer now. Given the right sort of men as lecturers, and subjects that the public are really interested in, and lecturing, it is evident, does pay. That, at least, seems the conclusion to be drawn from the success that has attended the lectures of the Rev C. Clark and Mr C. Bright.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 321, 23 June 1875, Page 3
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216LECTURING IN VICTORIA. Globe, Volume IV, Issue 321, 23 June 1875, Page 3
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