1889.1 General Monthly Meeting. 409 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, February 22, 1889. 



Colonel J. A. Geant, C.B. C.S.I. F.E.S. Vice-President, in the 



Chair. 



Harold Crichton Browne, Esq. F.K.G.S. 



In the Heart of the Atlas. 



(Abstract deferred.) 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, March 1, 1889. 

 John Eae, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Edmund Gosse, M.A. Chirk Lecturer in English Literature, Trinity 



College, Cambridge. 



Leigh Hunt. 



The lecturer began by a consideration of Leigh Hunt's present 

 position in the history of literature. He then analysed his personal 

 character, illustrating it with several unpublished anecdotes. He 

 proceeded to review Leigh Hunt's life, mainly from the point of 

 view of his literary activity, and briefly described in detail his 

 leading works in prose and verse. In conclusion, he made a critical 

 examination of Hunt's style at various periods of his career, and 

 summed up with a resume of his principal merits as a prose-writer 

 and as a poet. 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 4, 1889. 



Sir James Crichton Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



John Cope Butterfield, Esq. F.C.S. 

 Charles Cave, Esq. 

 Mrs. E. S. Dewick, 

 Miss K. D. Doulton, 

 Joseph Gordon Gordon, Esq. 



