No English man of letters has been better loved than Lamb; his contemporaries and their posterity vie with each other in a tender, protecting fondness for the humorist whose own life was so full of tragedy, the stammerer who was the wittiest talker of his age. And the peculiar quality of his humour remains unique to this day. In this talk Mr. Pearse will try to analyze the charm of his personality and the appeal of his wit.