
AN EVENING WITH DICKENS. 
RECITAL: ‘‘THE CHIMES.” 
By JOHN HARWOOD, 19th December, 1905. 

Mr Harwood’s visit this year makes his fourth in succession. 
These evenings are looked forward to with real pleasure, and 
those anticipations are never falsified. 
In giving ‘The Chimes” he has added to his list of good 
things ; this has not been given in public since Dickens himself 
used to read it—now nearly forty years ago. 
Mr. Harwood posesses a very easy style of delivery, and neither 
his voice nor manner is ever strained. Without the aid of 
costume or scenery he is able to bring each scene vividly before 
his audience, and delineates each character so as to keep it dis- 
tinct and recognizable. He has an agreeable absence of self- 
consciousness, and this, though losing self, enables him to 
display effectively his dramatis persone, and thus attain the 
highest mark of the delineator. 

ANNUAL DINNER. 
Friday, 22nd December, 1905. 

This year the Dinner was held at Cronkshaw’s, and about 
twenty-five Members were present. 
The President (W. Lewis Grant), occupied the chair, and 
gave the first toast, ‘The King.” The other toasts which 
followed were—‘‘ The Club,” ‘‘ The Town and Trade,” and the 
‘* Local Institutions.” 
Song, music, recitation tended to increase the pleasure, and a 
harmonious and social evening was enjoyed by those present, 
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