THE REV.H.R.DEWSBURY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4834, 25 September 1894, Page 2

THE REV.H.R.DEWSBURY.

: , The .MastertOn'Weflleynn Clmfoh^i^^B Rov. H. K. Dowsbiuy gave 'liist tareon" OharlesDicken^;-Huin^ ist und , MoniLTcach'oiv''.&nd;bad^iih'o^^^^^^ people of ,Mnstorton lmlf reali!M; t : ljo^^M^ treat in store not b.een;a building „ / <•' ' i;'/ The chafe to itiken by . Hutchisonj 5.51.,-, who ductory remarks, deploredtho\|^t|pi|||| 'days particularly football—^while of t|e highest literary natme, ,a 4 instance a lectui-e. of the v^in4l<3 given by tho^Eev.;Mi\.faewßbuiyweM^is|.v'';;; passed lightly'over./ ) | The Rev. lccturei", ceived with applause, - openo uppiv 'liovels; and, novelists.-, peoplo.intvuo tended, that all novelsjß MandS't : >'f;/ unwholesome, that a ficti6nf^<?as day 'of life!*--power of romance at* ■' • reading could be tolerat'e42jwd,it was'hero ; fill influence of the good; the debasing,and calculated: to''- stimnlate-ithombraiilifflls! ' nature. -V.';,: 'The works of longed most especially to the late Jf" 1 '; class, for throti^libu^.* ttiij his litorai'y career,he was'.ever 'writ-, ' v ; ing down public l evils''and social v' t abuses,. and, pmching ' Gospel , leading traits ;of- - characteiv feeemed to : ;hay6 I strength;-of > that whatever \Vns worth doing at ' must" bo : tittrißkted' hisScCess inf4^te ' lifo. . \ j Tho lecturer then rapidly-Jvc- ■- ''v^ . yeiwed the principal turning points :in the life; of Dickens, in 4 wlmt s ho ■ termed " soattei ed notices and rftjiid s comments," dealing with his subject •' k with marvellous ease-and feeling, ■. X ' and at the same time passing over -,' J " ( the ground with astonishing rapidity. •• „ Never once haltinff, 0L" referring to• : :.vv r aiiyhoto or reference, tho flow of Mr . Dewsbury's eloquence kept right on;V' ' passage aftor passage i'frain .tlio'v t author's works was recited to illus* „ ' • trate some point,''and 'tlie audienca ;l listened spell-bound, at times almost' ; J moved to tears by b'ucli Beleotio'uß as .-v'c "The'death of little Nell," and - V* : f again convulsed with langhtenvheii ; ■■■■.rify £ introduced to the immortal Sam 0 Welleiyor the scene between Di^vid/ 1 Copperfield and the waiter. 8 Particularly " did the lev. gentle- ' c man impress on his hearers, in his Q" ' concluding remarks, that genius ut could be pure and ; niirth unsullied oby any wickedness, contending that ~ | it in.spite of Feilding, Smollett,.and '> ut those writers who did not think it that. the works of Sir Walter Scott, 1 0 and above all, Oharles Dickons,'had .-v amply demonstrated this to bo true. ° Tlio ieoture was listenod to through- „ ontwithgi'catatteiitioii.tind although ':v: g the subject was ono familial'. . ■' -> r " Household Words, I "yetas delivered & f by the Bov. Mr Dewsbury, new > phases were Bhown,' and greatori

light brought to. bear, on ,the. lifo OHS ■: one, who—in the words of Mr Dewsbiuy—" stands unrivalled as a' novelist of incident and delineator of character,"