DONALD MACDONALD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 211, 5 September 1900, Page 4

DONALD MACDONALD.

Donald Macdonald, the gifted Australian war correspondents will start Ms brief four nights' season in' Auck-1,, land at the Opera House to-morrow evening, when it is safe to anticipate'; , an enormous, audience to greet the popular lecturer; in. view of his phenomenal success in the chief Austra-. lian cities. Of his opening lecture, { "Scenes and Sensations of: Battle," the; » Sydney "Herald" 'says: ' During-r: some of his descriptions on Saturday night the enormous audience' was roused to a great pitch. We shall ~ not hope to listen to anything more; ■ impressive than that1 description of F the Devons' charge on Waggon Hill. He would be dull indeed who was not - : ; transported out of' himself by-the-strong words of the lecturer, and-'. asthe audience listened it seemed^ to tie. '-:■ taken to the very scene of that great feat of arms. One could picture for oneself those fresh-faced Devonshire boys, all the days of their life in their faces, waiting for the summons to death. We have not heard anything so beautifully simple as this before. It may be that the subject is so great that we give exaggerated praise to its nari'ator; but we must be grateful for genius, however it comes -to , us. Mr., Macdonald brings before us vividly >; the most heroic days England hal " known since the Crimea, and, as v?e follow him, we feel once more that tumult of emotion which pressed at 9V hearts when England was hard beset. •; The box plan is rapidly filling at Wild". man & Lyell's. .