A COMPREHENSIVE LECTURING TOUR.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13717, 26 April 1910, Page 7

A COMPREHENSIVE LECTURING TOUR.

Sir Ernest Shackleton recently described his astonishing oratorical experiences since his return from his feouth Pole expedition to a representative of the "Pall Mall Gazette." Tho explorer commenced his series of lectures in Great Britain and the Continent on November Ist, with an address at the Queen's Hal), and, with little intervals for rest, he has been lecturing ever since. "I must have covered some thousands of miles," he told the representative, "and spoken to et least a quarter of a million, people." He has visited practically every important town in the British Isles. On the Continent he has lectured in Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Hamburg, Breslau, Dresden, Leipsig. Frankfort, Munich, Kiel, and St Petersburg. This is, an astonishing record, considerably in advanco of the lecturing achievement of Dr. Nansen. "The part of my lecture that has seemed to pleaso most is the scene depicting the penguins bowing to ono another in quite human fashion. This has quite taken the fancy of the audiences, as also have the pictures depicting cur domestic life in winter quarters. An afternoon audience, I find, is scarcely as demonstrative as an evening audience. Or an average my audiences liave extended to 1500 people on each occasion. The Scottish audiences, I noted, have been quick to follow suggestions and grasp points, and I cannot understand the constant reproach on this scoro made against them. In Germany tremendous enthusiasm was shown when on the cinematograph the Queen's flag was seen rising over 'Farthest South. , "