The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-05 00:00:00

MR. MARK LEMON AT THE BRISTOL
ATHENAI UM.

On Fridaynight Mr. Mark Lemon made his second
appearame at the Atheneum during the present lecture
mason, and delighted a crowded audience by an admirable
reading of his story, " Hearts are Trumpa” Many of our
readers have, no doubt, seen the store in its dramatic
form represented upon the stage, and when wellome.
structed plays and • natural portraiture of man and
woman once more displace the sensational and sou-natural
dramas which Mr. Boucicault has brought into, it
lii to be hoped, only a temporary popularity, Hearts are
?romps will again take its place in theatres. Ma
Grey, Mrs. Miller, Joe Martin, Susan, Robert Ruby,ry
Captain Wagstaff, and the rest, genuine picture* of
human nature in its good and corrupt forms, will be
relished as they have been in times past by crowded and
gratified audiences. In the form in which it was pre-
sented on Friday night by its genial author, to • highly appre-
ektive section of the Bristol public, it seemed even more
attractive than in its sure familiar dramatised shape. But it
'met be remembered she author was the actor, and per-
meated all the characters, from the boy Trotter upwards.
It is not, we need not say, every theatre which can boast
of a company so thoroughly competent to the representa-
tion of the pereonages of this drama as is Mr. Lemon. la
the grave and in the gay, in the comic and the pathetic,
the reader was equally at home ; at times making his
audience explode in hearty laughter, and at times, in the
tenderer parts of the story, exciting deeper emotions than
those which laughter manifests. The reader was specially
happy in his representation—for the reading really
amounted to that—of Joe Martha, and the cease in Gold's
kitchen, where Joe lies behind the clothes home before •
blazing fire, and bears the lawyer make • declaration of love
and an offer of marriage to his sweetheart Susan, ex-
cited roars of laughter. The last scene, in which the interest
of the story eultuinates, was worked up with great dramatic
power, and, in short, the entire reading was admirable,
eliciting at ita conclusion several rounds of applause. Mr.
Lemon s two visits to Bristol have stanched the lecture
season at the Athenaeum, and we trust that in future ma-
gma he will do the same thing.— Wester* Deily Press.

CoLtror or Pancarroes.—At a meeting of the
00006 i of this corm:astir held cm Saturday, the 3rd last.,
Yr. L. White, 8.A., A.C.P., wee elected a member of the
soused, and the folio...in gentlemen were elected members
of the college :—Mr. now Brown, Holbrook, Ipswich ;
Mr. W.Cbappolow, 86 Ann's-road. North Brixton ; Mr. W.
Dove, Ripponden ; Mr. G. B. Franklin, Starygate School,
Leicester ; Mr. 0. P. Mays, Talbot House, Storrington ; Mr.
R A., Trieity. Jerry ; Mr. W. T. Road, traiming
ship. Waterier ; Mr. S. Whystt, Prosper-pleas, Draw.
VATOTAL PALACL—The entertainments on gia.
turday were somewhat muted by the performanceo of Doe
Jose Manuel, who appeared for the first time at the Palace.
ins, feats on the slack wire were very much Imp/ruled. He
will appear agaio this day. Bloodin g engagemeat
arcs on Thursday, on which day he will perform al the
Pekoe for the lest time.