THE GORE LITERARY SOCIATY.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 367, 20 June 1884, Page 2

THE GORE LITERARY SOCIATY.

paper giVe a hint to the President of the L tf ore Literary andCßebTail^llMcjesyOl > , would advise him to impress strongly ou all the menders the ,advisabijity ,of .becoming,. fact, I wbuld almost go further and make it i f a *f;"?^ »w» before admittance .tpinemberUn J -lcoking over the array of books on the shelves one finds fifc material for al- ; most evtry profession (the military in the , shape of tli^rfalv|i;JonTAri«y), o»t i<< c y%^4 "There iaoneifook'particalarry l - winch I believe is there (if notit ought to be), namely, Dean Alford't^Q'aeeu^ English \ vvhich I would recommend to the Society, ' 'from' -tin* President down waids.-—lt sounds • fi ,veiy stringely to a foreigner, when listening » 10 the sai)e£o¥Jbfiiaersr of I attcto A, Sftftttfila TB hear such wwds as "winder," "sofar," '-, "*.4 da^'l etc - The D ean saystfchat. the ad- ; dition of the ris ten times worse than the I Cockney's l^. misplacement - , qf :1 ,ih£ji. . In the,, „ . House df Commons, OxfWd Uriiversity men 1 J ' « .are more addicted to that error than others : —more .shame to Oxford 1 i" I entirely agree with a late correspondent '■' 'of- joars regaMing tbe Gfinstifuliofil^frjtthe Society.' 1 admit it may be a Literary ' Society^ but I doubt whether it can be called aj debating one. I always understood ' . tl 2#v il * a debate one member took^the ' ■ . f^fiiymative and the other the negative side "~ of-thfe question, and the rest of the members giving thei| cSDiniions ijo?'o axiixon then;_EaTe-'-T y their vqtdsr 'On looking over l the / prbgrafeme \ i. >k$W nd one debate * AMd original fSaper^ and readm^s ad itittdkdt SAd as far as I caiji learn the members stte-not allowed to debase, Pflly in the readings to criticise, 1 'aria as w '. snd&uj; the readers who are criticised. In . ,^, opinion Parliamentary fule^ can never ! suit a 1 Society jsueh ..,as t^p, .Gere one... Let. ■ ,„ h itibe njore, conVemtFonai; ' S f %«BfflSi- lsf M pondent'sayS^lWmj'e^e;,'! I"'^1 "'^ i««i fi rfb? F fw ; _ __Gor4 June 16th, ISM, T w « w ■«