THE FINEST WALK IN THE WORLD.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1932, Page 15

THE FINEST WALK IN THE WORLD.

A "Wcllingtonian's Tribute,

This much-travelled lady, Mrs. L , writing to a-ffiend,-beseeches hernoi to miss the To AnnuOililford walk. TvliJch she claims to fulfil to the letter leg reputation as "the finest walk in ibe world,"

She refers in her letter to the amazing wealth of native flora, which indicates an abundant rainfall. She adds, however, "Don't be afraid of bad weather because every detail is studied for the comfort and convenience of visitors, and even if you did arrive, at Milford after striking a wet spell, you would find that they had everything you. wanted ready for you, even Baxter's Lung Preserver if you considered you had run the risk of a cold."

The fact that tho distribution of Baxter's Lung Preserver spreads right through the Dominion, embracing nil the most outlying parts, indicates hnw widespread is the confidence in this remedy and how Upp.u the. demand.

Every chemist and store in ]Yew Zo.-i-Innd. sells "Baxter's." Tht-po sizcr Is 6tl, 2s 6dj and Is Cd.—Advl.

the accomplished Abbe Dimnet, discussing with his auditors the art of thinking and the uses of leisure. famous names. On similar journeys through thoj Middle or Far West, as far south as the j Gulf of Mexico and San Diego, as far north as Seattle and Vancouver, tho English itinerant speaker may find himself on the tracks of one distinguished contemporary after another: a professor from Edinburgh or a member of the last British Government, an Irish dramatist or the master of some new stage technique, a former governor of an Indian province or the Foreign Minister of some country of pre-revo-lutionary Europe, an African explorer, a leading official of the League of Nations, au exponent of tbe gold standard, an expert in the management of prisons; or,- since proper names are the best examples, he need not bo surprised to hear echoes along the route of Professor Julian Huxley and Professor A. E. Zimmern, Mr. Lionel Curtis, Sir Norman Angell, Sir Arthur Salter, Dame Rachel Crowdy, Mrs. Mary Hamilton; while he will learn that the English lecturer with the longest and most varied platform experience in America is Mr. John Cowper Powys, author ,of "Wolf I Solent,"

Three points at least, I think, ought to be made with emphasis in any statement dealing with this subject. They are these: (1) An American speaking' tour is not a picnic. It means serious labour and exacts tho best that the lecturer has to give of knowledgo and experience. (2) The work is not confined, to the platform: if a speaker cannot travel easily, meet people cheerfully and openly at all hours and in every place, ho may know that America is no field for him. (3) Amoriceu audiences admire English styles of public speech and find pleasure in English voices. But they dislike full notes, and will not endure the reading of a lecture. They.insist-upon hearing without strain, and —quite rightly—they are grateful to the English speaker who knows that what is called standard English may sound in Amorican cars as a foreign tongue.