lecture audience had not yet been introduced from the platform to the poets of America. He thought these poets deserved an introduction as they had often yielded to him a large amount of pleasure, he could not resist the opportunity of introducing some of those friends in whose company he had spent so many pleasant hours. No country, he said, could help having poets, and America, of all lands, the least so. It was true that it had much that was antagonistic to poetry. It had a rabid, unhealthy go-aheadism; it had a heap of vulgarity and conceit, and even beat us hollow in court; and of all humbuggism that of America was the most consummate. But those were the tricks of its boyhood - the uncultivated impulses of nature which experience would correct. Yet in spite of all these accounts of the time, a great future for American poetry was one of the things that must be.
Another Quarterly Meeting, which was held on the 12th of November, elicited from the committee's report that the exodus of workmen and visitors, so usual during the spring and summer, together with outdoor overtime labour of mechanics, had further reduced the number of members from 173 to 164, and that during the autumn it had again risen to 172. There was, however, a balance due to the treasurer of £6 16s., and outstanding liabilities to the amount of £13. 6. 6.. In consequence of this deficiency, the Committee were anxiously considering the best mode of increasing the ordinary income.
A Humerou Lecture by Mr. Grossmith, on the second of November, was the first of the winter session, and as there was a loss on his lecture of the preceding winter session, in consequence of rough weather, Mr. Coleman offered beforehand to buy the profits for a guinea and a half. Such being a certainty against an uncertainty, the committee accepted it.
A Concert by Mr. Dawes was the last public event of the year in connection with the Institution. This took place on the 17th of Decembr. The arrangement was for the expenses and profits to be equally divided between the Institution and Mr. Dawes, and the result was a benefit of 12s. to the Institution.
Archery Meetings
The first meeting of the season was as usual on her Majesty's birthday anniversary. A German Band was in attendance, and the winners of prizes were Miss. Parish, the Ladies' prize and honorary star; the Rev. J. Simpson, the gentlemen's prize and honorary star; and Miss. La Font the visitor's prize.
The Grand Meeting - so designated was held as customary on Aug. 17th, the birthday anniversary of the Duchess of Kent, when prizes were won by Miss Bartleet, Mr. Ernest Barteet, Miss Julia Brown, Mr Lionel Bartleet,-
