Correspondence.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 84, 20 August 1868, Page 3

Correspondence.

a PENNY READINGS, TO TIIR KDITOII OTf TIIM HTAU, Fin, — Alilioukli Uio hitlch of rcivllngfl which nvo now l>i!l»H given lit tho Town Hall ard rapidly drawing to a oloho, It may ;iot ho quite out of place, nor yot too Into, to make ono or two oiiHorvatloiiH wlili rogiird to iho concluding onon. While admitting (ho wllllngnenfl to do tliolr best of tliono who lake a prominent part In thono entertainments ; that their motive Ih Rood fn coming forward nnd endeavouring to nmunc, and at tlio anmo time Inotruct t ho people of ililh olty, it munt bo greatly noticed that tlio Hufoetlonfl given, more nHpcclally tho/io which aro of a pootio nalurc, are too long, nnd, in doino innlunccfi, not. Nt all cttiltaltto for «m.h ciitortitlnmcnlH m Penny Hcndingfli where short ohnptorH and fikctciic.i from tlio 'jioiih of liutnouroun and mitlrlcal wrltcrw would far t otter meet (ho approbation of fliioh Uvpu ainlloiuioo as thono rciulirigfl attract^ I ' Very long plccow, Hiiali a« Borne that have heen rlvoii during the hat monthi nro apt to tiro (OMpcolnlly tliono wlio linvo the plounuro of filimding all tho Umt)> nnd (Mwonlftiik oi! impaiiuiico to honhown, vh!«l» m«»t ho rftdier (U'tcn-lng fct (ho reader, I holiovo I flliould not Htand alone In miylng, that rmulingn from such hooka un t( I'nlcclia Maori," which, although well read Innt nlpht, are not wiltahlo for tho occiiblodh roforrcil to, nor |« 'Wort D'Arlhur," whleJUvaH al«o woll rond, hut not at nil approdqMJi It would ficom nit though all that luul to no nuhl about populfir entcrtiilnmcnlfl hnd already bt-on mild in tho oponJug 1 nMnam-n, nnd would it not h« ' fldyliiabio lo omit, them in lite two eoncludinK readlngß, and I (should imnglno It would have been better had It been arranged that two opening nddroiiACfl only Hhould bo (lollvorcd, one at tho commencement and tho other at tho end of tho hitlch, which would probably have been quite nufllclent lo explain (ho uhofulucnn and good effect of Penny llcndingH. i In conclualon, 1 would like lo mention tho

desirability o£ having all tho programmes printed on light paper, aa many last night woro blue or green, and tho darknesa of bucli paper provontd many people from being nblo to read them, Your obedient servant, A. N. Aug. 19, 1808,