Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1908 — Bishop Quayle’s Lecture. [ARTICLE]

Bishop Quayle’s Lecture.

Bishop William A. Quayle entertained a large audience at the Christian church Monday evening He came here In response to an invitation from the Ladies’ Literary Club, and the recollection of his address belore me graduating class a year or two ago coupled with his reputation 1 as a heading lecturer, was sufficient . to draw as auditors many of the people of Rensselaer who are interested in literary or educational matters. The lecture was preluded by a piano solo by Mrs. M. D. Gwin, which was very highly appreciated. The speaker was then introduced by Chas. W. COen. He had chosen as his subject, "King Lear," the Shakespearean tragedy. . in his delineation of the characers In that p|py the lecturer introduced to his audience some extreme characters of the present day, most of them rare but of sufficient number »o that almost all in the audience had met up with thqm some time in their 41ves. The lecturer was inclined to speak rather lightly of almost all classes of people, and even in portraying the actors in the Lear tragedy he devoted almost all of his attention to the evil, the shriveled and the contemptuous. The lecture served the purpose of entertainment and would be an aid In the study of those particular characters of extreme viciousness of the period of the play’s conception, and his ridicule of some of the frailties of some of the people of the dry might; to correct some of them. But hd Whs Inclined to treat with distaste and even insult some integrals because of unfavorable impressions he has formed of feeble parts. In this respect he proved himself both unfair and untruthful, and worse than either of these, Ignorant of his subject. There was much of good in the lecture, and some opportunity for thought and the audience that listened to it was amused, pleased and possibly to some extent instructed.