GEORGE AUGUSTUS SAW ON UNKNOWN AND UNKNOWN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 265, 14 November 1885, Page 8

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SAW ON UNKNOWN AND UNKNOWN.

When Olist.-iei liitkenp started " floupehold Words" ho gathered round him as contributors a lot of new men, and of that brilliant baud Mr George Augustus Bate j iri tho sole survivor. A npecial interest, I therefore, surrounds tho subject of Monday night's lecture. Discourses on Dickens, and evoa on llmckeriy, havo been given before in Auckland, but not by men within tho veil. Mr Salu was tho personal friend of both Dickons and hin equally illustrious compeor, the author ot the immortal novel, " Vanity Fair," and it is not a little remarkable that, as Sala was one of the earliest contributors to "Household VVorda," ho ho tilao wroto a series of articloß for the early numbers of Thackeray's magazine, tho "Cornhill." In Ihr lecture, thei'eforo, on Monday night, entitled "Two Princes of tho Pen : Dickens and Thuckoray," tho author of "Twice Round the Clock" will describo tho two great modern humourists in their habits as they lived ; and the personal and professional reminiscences with which tho lecture is to be interspersed will doubtless lead to a fuller appreciation of the character and work of the two famous novelists. For this farewell lecture family tickets willio issued,