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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2307, 26 August 1881, Page 4

Mr Q-. A. Sal a, in the “ Illustrated London News,” gives the following lively account of a lecturing adventure before a New York audience :—Mr Archibald Forbes has made, it would seem, a distinct and brilliant success as a public lecturer in the United States. The first Transatlantic address of the famous war correspondent was delivered at Ohiokering Hall, Fifth Avenue, New York, a very spacious saloon, which would seat, I should say, some 2500 auditors. I lectured there myself last December with indifferent success. I had dictated my lecture in the morning to a shorthand writer (who charged me the modest sum of forty dollars, or eight pounds, for “ taking” me) ; but when I ascended the platform at Ohiokering Hall I found to my horror that I had forgotten my spectacles, and I was unable to read one word of the manuscript transcribed from the shorthand writer’s notes. Hut there was the audience thirsting for my blood, in a lecturing sense ; so I put my hands in my pockets and began to talk (I scarcely know about what) ; and when I found by my watch that I had been talking for an hour and a half, I thanked the audience for their kind conaider?.tion, bade them good-night, and wont home to bed quite happy. But the dire agonies that I had suffered ! Whenever I found myself rapidly drifting to a dead stop, I always took care to bring in something about Queen Victoria and the Prince and Princess of Wales; and those allusions never failed to “fetch” my auditors. I made a little “running” by reciting the penultimate stanza of Campbell’s “ Last Man,” but the efflux of time happily saved me from adopting that which I bad determined should be my last desperate resource, the recitation in extenso of Byron’s “ Isles of Greece.” An unusual event took place recently at Pembroke College, Cambridge. During the evening service in the chapel one of the undergraduates was baptised and received into the Church of England. He had been brought up as a Baotist, but has become orthodox during hie University caseer. At the Surrey sessions recently a husband and wife were sentenced to twelve months and six weeks respectively for stealing some sheet and pillow cases from a boarding-houao. When the sentence was passed the female prisrner throw her arms round her husband’s neck, and clung to him from the dock, down the stops, up to the cell doors, where they were with difficulty separated.

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