CHARLES DICKENS RECITAL

Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1030, 24 August 1901, Page 2

CHARLES DICKENS RECITAL

Mr Horace H. Hunt notifies that he will give a recital from Dickens’, in the Volunteer Hall, Hamilton, on Wednesday next, the 28th inst. This gentleman brings with him a high reputation which he has uniformly sustained for a number of years. He is undoubtedly doing good work if only that he is creating an interest in the writings of Dickens, which is an unknown quantity to the great majority of the rising gene ration, and for that matter to many who have attained to middle life. That this is so, is to a great exteut, due to the fact that their tastes have been vitiated by the tons of modern rubbish which has been scattered bread cast over the land of late years. A man can hardly read Dickens' without acquiring a taste for refined humour and a better knowledge of human nature, which he so graphically depicts from both its bright and seamy side. The Press notices which we have perused are unanimous in their praise of the excellence of Mr Hunt's interpretation of the great author’s characters. His readings range from the quaint humour of the Pickwick Papers to the thrilling depiction of the death of Paul Dombey, which may most certainly he classed as one of the most powerful pieces of writing in the English language.