Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Lecturing, Religious Authority, Animal Behaviour, Zoology

    Discussing the need for clergymen to develop their oratorical skills in the theatre, the author points out that he does not intend clergymen to rehearse comic parts, although these would 'serve admirably to train up a candidate for the Metropolitan Tabernacle in the way he should preach, or lecture on Shrews and the Gorilla'—a reference to Charles H Spurgeon's lectures on those subjects.