THE ESSAYIST.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIV, Issue 12323, 13 October 1900, Page 3

THE ESSAYIST.

We live in an age of literary and mutual improvement societies where the literary aspirant tries his wings and seeks to write elegantly and graphically on all sorts of, sub-' jects, from Shakspero’s plays to the ait of photography, or from, the description oil a holiday jaunt to the latest discoveriea.in astronomy. ■ The literacy ag- int jdistitution, does excellent work in -checking . vanity by its good-nahured oritidems. Tha scribbler who imagines himself an Cmb-lyb Mdcaxtfey, finds himself severely handled if lie builds up' a fabric” with “ fine writing ’’ without a good and solid foundation of fact ’ and. sense.. -He-gets; to,learn knowledge of a ,subject will carry him orudli further than well-sounding phratesj pretty figures of speech or poetio imagery, ThCso ate all well in their way,, but, people, like to heaiv. something new or an assurance, of wcflrh authenticated ,facts .from., someone who. has, studied his subject. Deuce w “ plain, iia* Varnished t-al 0 ’’cf.somati'ing, which eaim«B; be contradicted .tells muchrmo% ~Witiii iSlft feneral hearer or. reader than any amount ofimsy rhetoric. This was recognised by T. Pickup, Esq., ex-councillor, Family Hotejl,Glenelg. He writes -. —“ It is now five-.yeari ago that I suffered- fr-m my liver, and kid*, neys. I had severe pains across my loins and, Under the .shoulder-blades, which made mevery depressed -and disinclined to afftehd tetv business. Doctors, failing, .to, rtiieve ffia.. .% • made up my, mind to > try..,Warne#a- Sain, pure. 1 -gavp it. a fair, ■trial,, .taking' Sfi. about ten bottles, with ‘the .tfe*- , suit that lam perfectly cured.”- 211 j ■