REV CHARLES CLARK'S LECTURE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 1951, 25 January 1875, Page 3

REV CHARLES CLARK'S LECTURE.

Thk Rev Charles Clark, of Melbourne, the celebrated lecturer and elocutionist, who has been received with so much enthusiasm throughout Australia, and created quite a furore in Auckland, will favour the people of the Thames with one of his lectures to-morrow evening at the Academy of Musio. His lecture enter-laiument-for it is not a mere lecture in the ordinary acceptation of the term—is entitled " Charles Dickens," and we need scarcely say that the subject is rendered surpassingly interesting in the hands of ooe who has attained a foremost position as a lecturer and reciter. When given before a Melbourne audience the admission was restricted to one guinea tickets for the Town-hall balcony, and even at that price the place was crowded to overflowing. The Australasian Sketches, alluding to the rev. gentleman, says: — " With a liberality as munificent in its results as it has been catholic in its direction, M r Clark for years in this and the neighbouring colonies gave up his platform services to the cause of charity Among the principal of his efforts in this way may be mentioned his deliverance of a lecture on Oliver Goldsmith, in the Town Hall, in aid of the Caster Fund, and two lectures on Charles Dickens and the Christmas Carols at the beginning of 1873 for the funds of the Albert-street Church. By the latter two alonedelivered, of course, at exceptional prices —over £600 was realised."'