Show ALEXANDER FORBES The Distinguished War Correspondent Corres-pondent of the London Daily News On the evenings of the 2Sth and 29th of the present month M Archibald Forbes the most noted of war correspondents will lecture at the Theatre in this city It may b almost useless at least it should b for every person should be acquainted ac-quainted with the history of this remarkable re-markable manto give a few noted events in his career but a a reminder re-minder t those who are acquainted with it and for the benefit of those epitomized who are not sketch we give the following He was a student at the Univdr sity of Aberdeen which he left through distaste and enlisted in the Royal Dragoons with whom he serve for five years Possess lug naturally a literary in ilination he turned hL atten tion t journalism and later to that branch of it which comes within the province of a war correspondent respondent The wisdom thus displayed dis-played vas fraught with the greatest great-est reult for he now stands unrivalled unri-valled in his line without a living or dead competitor who begins t approach him During the last ten years he has been in seven distant campaigns five in Europe one in Asia and one in Africa During this period lie has visited India three times talked with King Thee bas in the capital of native JBurniah seen St Petersburg gay and St Petersburg sad looked in ou M Stanley at Zanzibar eaten a Christmas Christ-mas dinner at the head of the Khyber Khy-ber Pass had fever in Xapaul on the Danube in Cyprus and in Zululand Zulu-land has been wounded twice has been a prisoner in at least half a dozen different countries has been once half killed by a mob hn transmitted trans-mitted the earliest details of several important battles and has been mentioned in dispatches for the saying say-ing of lives in action His career a a war correspondent has been one of constant activity of daring bravery and endless adventure In fact he is a remarkable man His letters are wonderfully graphic and a interesting as a novel and his energy and daring have enabled him to furnish news to his paper of wars long before it would have arrived through the ordinary channel however expeditious ex-peditious His lectures are pronounced pro-nounced fully a interesting a his letters and have been delivered to large audiences and with the greatest success In New York they were listened to with the most profound attention and met with prolonged applause The papers give lengthy notices of them and speak in the most glowing terms particularly of that entitled Royal People I Have Met which will be delivered here iI i I |