THIS REV. CHARLES CLARK'S LECTURES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11684, 17 March 1900, Page 8

THIS REV. CHARLES CLARK'S LECTURES.

Tlis Rciv. Charles Clark «aye his final lect.r,-.-on Dickens at the Princess Theatre laH niMit before a good and highly appreciative audience, ihe lecture, which was delivered for the first time m the colony, was quite as enjoyable is any of tlsose which preceded it, and it evoked yind Ue''n OUlI Tl S °f mse °f tl'« heartiest ."Tid Ihe laudatory references to the genius of c great novehst whose sympathies, the lecturer said, responded to every touch of humi-i feeling, were fully endorsed'bv the audience who were also greatly impressed by the chote lar.suap ,n which Mr Clark clothed his ideas as wel. as by Ins faultless elocution. The recitrils ■ incidental to the lecture were from -T| p- S, I^'.- ■ Bleak House," an ihe Pickwick Papers,' and these were all J , J? Ick™», wi"i B«oh vividness. The recital -veetr w °\ "?°? T Jo-'' ">o crossing r.\ieejiei, was mdeca deonlv nfthotic- but ;H nothing that Mr Clark I,L'attemptSl has his t.,leiit as an orator been exhibited to better -id vantage .than> in the famous trial seen of En ! dell versus P,ckw,ck. This was marvellously well done, especially the delivery of the nri dress of Sergeant linzluz to the jnrv whfd," lie^huLur I t'L'M^T W" «c«'^. But brought ou^ a^tW^udt^ ~^!7 S.«"dVuthor. t0 a§ain PCniSe the wori" »' «>»*