SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17015, 11 December 1920, Page 12

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.

If Si- Arthvj Cor.an Doric had not co:«e j to this side of the giobo for die j pur peso of putting before tiio public tl ofUi | tot-' o' his thirtv years of research l -1 tho subject of fpiritualism h* could *•*««£ ; TKaTarccr.t Tories o: r.dver.f.m- and of fU- I varied experience during interejtmj We ; ; j.- cv . , rc; , j. avo travelled more widely tn«-> i S-ir Arthur. Frcm tho Arctic Circle ! <> J, ° Torrid I'Ji.o l:o has ventured, of«en und*r the most primitive conditions, lie has txa veiled through South Africa and Axaexica, ftr.d hr.s only delayed his vi«it to this part o--the world becs.use of the gre.it oenmnds upon his time and energies. . From his boyhood days as a. student at tne Edinburgh University Sir Art rY" | Con an l)oy> has denred deep into , psvehie research, and as *■"*. re; j suit nothing could niter his- conviction ot , the truth of its icachinjrs. Yet while he nt>® j studied de:ply ho has iound time for /"f"? : ocewnatii'us that have- benefited fc» ' c; ; countrymen to ti great dejreo. _ £» n«» , been t'ne rmun xon of tho dotvu-t'O-cirn. ine j worl: ho did in the Press and on the• public. | platform to champion ike martyred, rnco? o: i the Cane l wi'.l ever star.d as n monumcn. -o his m enter v. , « » Dnri'--_- thc« late war Sir Arttiur wor.;ca j sssidnouoly to help his tellow-countp-meii. j and the book? he has written on what he ; in France and Flankers st;i.nd out aroongs the ere;:: number that have been written, j Durir.y the Boor war he did such magnin- ] cen* u service as chief physician, to .the I/aMfrham File! Hospital that ho was rewarded with a title. j» - Despite all fcir Arthur Conaii Doyle h==>* all the simplicity of the truly He has a personality tbtu charms nil who come within its Tr:dius, r.-ncl ic is this personality that adds to t~e ln-t'-r1 of cverv word he utters on tho public plat torn:. That Ins coming to Chrifitchureh is eagerly anticipated wi:s emphasised in a practical way by the extremely Iteavy hooking 1 yesterday when the plana for his two lecture?, to ho given at the Theatre Royal on "Wednesday an ! Thursday next, tvss opened. Sir Arthur will arrive on "Wednesday, nr.<l -.vill p'ay for ,«i few days before goinsr on to Dunedin.