a considerable number of engravings, from original drawings, together with at least two good maps, were demanded, it was calculated that the book, to yield a profit, could not be sold for less than 5/-, a price which it was thought would be prohibitive; and so the work was abandoned.
Lectures
"The Philosophy of a Candle." - Such was the title of a lecture give(sic) by Mr. Butler, of the Eversfield Library on the evening of Jan. 24th, in the St. Leonards Temperance Hall; and a very amusing, as well as instructive lecture it was. It afforded a number of illustrations of the properties of combustion, the different illuminating powers of separate and combined gases, the formation of carbon, and a variety of other matters connected with what may be called the birth, life and death of a candle.
"Why Should I Join the Temperance Movement?" was the title of a practical - not to say eloquent lecture in the Temperance Hall on the 29th of January by the Rev. Robert Maguire, Incumbent of Clerkenwell, London. He explained that his inducement to give another lecture so soon after the one previously delivered was because his family were then staying in the town.
"The Progress of Evangelization in Italy" formed the topic of a lecture in the St. Leonards Assembly Room on Sept. 29th by the renowned Father Gavazzi. Master of the English language as this Italian orator evidently was, his utterance to an English ear was not very distinct, although there was not wanting either animation or eloquence. Of the latter, however, there was judged to be much less than was his general want. This might be partly accounted for by the fact of his audience being exceedingly small, partly by the all-absorbing topics of the American civil war and Polish insurrection, and partly by the Italian nation having become to some extend a reality. A second oration was delivered in the evening on "Italy, its Past, Present and Future". The audience was equally sparse, and if for no other cause, probably because the subject had dwindled into less significance than formerly.
The Moon was ably dealt with at the St. Leonards Temperance Hall on the 4th of November by Mr. J. E. Butler, to a numerous and attentive audience. The moon's distance from the earth, her relative size, the extend of her orbit, the opaqueness of the lunar orb, its power as a solid body to reflect the sun's light and its consecutive phases known under the terms "new moon", "quarter moon", "gibbous moon" and "full moon" were all familiarly explained and illustrated.
Vision. This was the subject of a pleasing lecture delivered at the Working-mens' Institute on the 16th of December by C. H. Stone, Esq., M.D. The lecture was illustrated by means of the phenakistiscope, an instrument whose curious effects it was evidently the Doctor's chief object to exhibit.
On Temperance On this subject, Mr. de Fraine delivered at the Temperance Hall on the 4th. of March one of the most eloquent and practical addresses it had ever been the writer's pleasurable opportunity to listen to.
