'A large and keenly appreciative audience assembled in Union Charch Ball on Wednesday evening to hear the Rev. ©. E. Dawent tell of his holiday at Home among the antiquities and unchanging joys of one of England's loveliest counties. Long residence in Si i has in po way blinded Mr. Darwent to the peculiar charm of English landscape. Neither has his temporary abandonment of photography caused hira to lose aught i skill and jadgement, His slides, without were good photography, well composed and exposed with a pice regard for delicacy and gradation, The colouring, carried out by " Japanese who bad never beea to England, to guide him, was la many cases really wonderful work, And if here and there the riot of colour in sommer seas on the Soseex coast has somembat batfied bim, the same may be ssid of many greater artist. working oe more sympathetic material than the photcgraphic basis of " lantern-s Mr. Darwent ssid that, as English counties go, Sussex is " very large one, seventy-five miles east to west, twenty-five miles north to south. By the aid of © map be described its physical features, the low-lying coast, bitten away by the buogry ses, yet rich and fertile, lined with charming seaside resorts, from Hastings to'Breezy Bognor," from' Beachy Head to Selses Bill; the swelling down, silent and smooth grasslands, now as in Saxon days, where there is more sweet peace and quiet
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