DICKENS AND THACKERAY

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1623, 6 November 1885, Page 2

DICKENS AND THACKERAY

To say that Mr Sala's lecture on Wednesday evening last was successful beyond ewn t\w. h\«\\ expoeaf ion justi He'd by the fame of the great journalist conveys nfter all but an imperfect notion of the pleasure, and the deep and adsorbing interest with which it was listened to from the opening to the close. The hall was well ailed, yet throughout the two hours and a half over which the lecture extended the audience remained l»onnd in a stillness, that was broken only by ocoasi onal bursts of Stirling applause. One hnrdly knows which most to admire, the matter or the manner of the lee« tnre, or which it was that most enchained ihe audience, and hold it spellItonnd from the beginning to the end of the discourse. But the time fl«*w, and when the end came there was luit one feeling, that it had heen all too short. It would J«e scarcely less than presumptions to attempt a detailed cri ticismof the lecture, and we must there fore be content with reproducing it as fully as circumstances will allow, which we will do in our next issue. This, however, may >>c fairly said flint never has a public audience in Rt-ef-ton risen with such a delightful sense of the pleasure and prnfit of th»» «vening as they did />n the occasion in question. It will be seen that Mr Sala has been prevailed upon to give one more lecture in Reefton, aud by general desire he has selected " Russia," a Riilyect full of strange and almost weird interest.