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''Yorkshire Echoes'' is an article published in [[The Yorkshire Evening Post]] on 16 november 1893.

== Article ==
[[File:the-yorkshire-evening-post-1893-11-16-p3-yorkshire-echoes.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The Yorkshire Evening Post]] (16 november 1893, p. 3)]]

The matter of [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. Conan Doyle]]'s lecture in Leeds, last night, was better than the manner. [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Mr. Doyle]] is a fine, tall, broad-shouldered man, with a voice deep and strong, but rather unmanage able. His style of delivery was ponderous and slow; there was a little difficulty about his "tr's" which slightly suggested a lisp. He is not, as I say, a fascinating lecturer, but his subject was interesting, and was exploited with freshness and vigour. Only I should take exception to the title, "[[Facts about Fiction]]." There were no facts to speak of, [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Mr. Doyle]] simply gave us a critical opinion and comparison of modern fictionists and their work.

It was typical of the man that he should show a generous and unstinted appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson, George Meredith, [[J. M. Barrie]], and some of the exponents of the New Humour, saying that in these modern writers' hands the best tradi- tions of English literature were safe. Most noticeable, perhaps, was [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Mr. Conan Doyle]]'s lavish praise of Olive Schreiner. He lauded "The Story of an African Farm" as a masterpiece of literature, and one of the two really great works written in this century by women. The other book, it is interesting to state, was in [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Mr. Doyle]]'s opinion Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights."

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