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completed by the fulfilment of engagements at Hurst- 

 pierpoint again, Beading, Upper Norwood, Hull, Not- 

 tingham, Stamford, Perry Bar, Driffield, Bradford (3), 

 Eedditch, and Ambleside ; forty-two lectures in all 

 during the first part of the season. 



The second part was busier still, and the total num- 

 ber of lectures given very nearly equalled the record 

 -of the preceding season. 



The first lecture given in the new year was also the 

 first of a private series six in all delivered by special 

 request at the house of a well-known London banker. 

 They formed, in fact, the pieces de resistance of a course 

 of social conversaziones, to which a large circle of friends 

 were invited, and which were one and all thoroughly 

 successful. All were given between the 3rd and the 

 15th of the month, at four o'clock in the afternoon; 

 and universal regret was expressed when the course was 

 concluded. 



Still more interesting was the lecture given on 

 January 5th, which initiated a series of twelve at the 

 Eoyal Normal College for the Blind, at Upper Nor- 

 wood. It seemed rather a contradictory arrangement 

 sketch -lectures to those who could not see. But the 

 sketches were nevertheless executed just as usual, and 

 were explained to the patients by the attendants ; so 

 that, although unable to see the drawings for them- 

 selves, they were yet enabled to form a tolerably clear 

 idea of what those drawings were meant to represent. 

 And they were all thoroughly delighted, both with this 

 .and with the subsequent lectures of the course. They 



