THE REV CHAS. CLARK

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6986, 11 February 1891, Page 2

THE REV CHAS. CLARK

delivered his second leoture last evening, at the Public Hall, to a large aud appreciative audience, his subject being "The Tower of_ London." It is only when one reflects that his attention haa been rivetted for two hours without a break that he can realise what a charm there must be in the lecturer and his subject, for there Is a great deal in the matter as well as in the manner — highly finished and artistic as that undoubtedly is. The great historical lecture is in many respects more appreciated by a miscellaneous audience than any Pickwickian selection or the most humorous of Thackeray's playful sarcasms. There Is something broadly national about the leoture on the Tower of LondoD, which has in various way 3 been indelibly associated with the history of the British from the days of Caesar to Victoria — as "fortress, palace, and prison," "the most ancient and most poetic pile in Europe," and the history of which affords a panoramic view of medieval English life such as cannot be found in any other page of history. The way in which the lecturer has interwoven with his subject so much that is dramatic, pathetic, and deeply interesting, displays hla art in compiling such a story as never fails to enthral the attention of all speaking the English tongue. Although the subject does not lend itself to much that is humorous, the rev gentleman continued to season it with a spice of his own pleasantry — sometimes quaint and original-^ that usually evoked a ripple of quiet laugh? ter. *■ ~ ; To-night the rev gentleman will lecture on "Thackeray and the Snob Family."