LESSONS FROM THE YOUNG IDEA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5189, 20 December 1884, Page 3

LESSONS FROM THE YOUNG IDEA.

I The great success that has attended Proj fessor Tyndall's lecture upon his own J School Days has induced other. " men of | light and leading "'to take up siiniiar^suibj jects. The following " features " are aft j but arranged : — Professor Sir William Owen. — " How I

learned, as a child, the atory of Mother Hubburd giving her poor dog a bone." Professor Euskin. — " The Beautiful and the True, in their relation to the amusing game of Leap-frog." s , Professor Sir Frederick Abel. — " Nursery Explosions ; or., How I Blew up my j Nannie." ' 1 Professor Huxley. — "Melting Momenia before the Kitchen Fire; or, My Little Sister's Dolls, and the Survival of the Fittest." \ Professor Kichardson. — " Tho Drinks of my Childhood; a few Stray Thoughts about Ginger Beer, Liquorice Water, and (So-called) real Turkish Sherbet." J Sir Henry Thompson. — "Personal Expe- • ritfnees of Penny Jam Tarts and Bath Buns ; an Introduction to a series of Lee- ' tures upon School Confectionery." | And Lord Tennyson. — " How I saw a Drury Lane Pantomime, aa a child, from tho Sixpenny Gallery, and vowed that 60 years should not pass before I could truth- j fully assert that I had written and pro- • duced a play called ' The Promise of May.' " j