A NIGHT OF TRAVEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 5

A NIGHT OF TRAVEL.

LYCEUM CLUB EVENING. Beauty and history were joined together at the open evening held by the Camera Circle of the Lyceum Club yesterday. The speaker was the president of the club, Mrs. W. H. Parkes, who described, with the aid of a large number of very beautiful slides, the places she visited daring a recent tour of England and Scotland. London from the top of a bus—"the best way to see it"—said Mrs. Pai'kes, was an inexhaustible mine of interest and the views gave a wonderfully vivid idea of the enormous traffic in the streets. Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, St. Paul's, and the Houses of Parliament were shown from varying aspects, and were accompanied with brief but informative remarks upon some point of their history or some special phase of beauty. Ludgate Hill, the Royal Exchange, Crystal Palace and Hyde Park, the largest breathing space in London, were among others that were shown and several very fine ones of Wembley Exhibition. Perhaps the most delightful of all. were the views of the upper reaches of the Thames, secluded nooks of old-world peace and beauty. Oxford and Cambridge Universities, views of some of the .most famous of England's cathedrals, with brief word sketches bearing upon their history, castles steeped in romance, and spots made famous by their association with the lives of great men, all made a fascinating tale. Among these last were Stratford-on-Avon, and views of the Cold Lakes, even of the spot in which Wordsworth was said to have written many of his poems. "The lakes seem to have attracted many of the poets and writers of England," said Mrs. Parkes, and she enumerated several who had gone to live there for a greater or lesser time. From England she took her hearers with her up to Scotland and showed them many of the beauties to be seen there and many of its historical places, including Ayr, and scenes that were associated with Robert Burns. A very hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mrs. Parkes at end of her talk for having given such a delightful evening.