s name would now stimulate the curiosity of scores of
persons. On English literature, a much larger class would have
some preparedness. But whatever topics you might choose, I need
not say you must leave under them scope for your narrative and
pictorial powers; yes, and space to let out all the length of
all the reins of your eloquence of moral sentiment. What "Lay
Sermons" might you not preach! or methinks "Lectures on Europe"
were a sea big enough for you to swim in. The only condition our
adolescent ear insists upon is, that the English as it is spoken
by the unlearned shall be the bridge between our teacher and
our tympanum.

_Income and Expenses._--All our lectures are usually delivered in
the same hall, built for the purpose. It will hold 1,200
persons; 900 are thought a large assembly. The expenses of
rent, lights, doorkeeper, &c. for this hall, would be $12 each
lecture. The price of $3 is the least that might be demanded for
a single ticket of admission to the course,--perhaps $4; $5 for
a ticket admitting a gentleman and lady. So let us suppose we
have 900 persons paying $3 each, or $2,700. If it should happen,
as did in Prof. Silliman's case, that many more than 900 tickets
were sold, it would be easy to give the course in the day and in
the evening, an expedient sometimes practised to divide an
audience, and because it is a great convenience to many to choose
their time. If the lectures succeed in Boston, their success is
insured at Salem, a town thirteen miles off, with a population of
15,000. They might, perhaps, be repeated at Cambridge, three
miles from Boston, and probably at Philadelphia, thirty-six
hours distant.

At New York anything literary has hitherto had no favor. The
lectures might be fifteen or sixteen in number, of about an hour
each. They might be delivered, one or two in each week. And if
they met with sudden success, it would be easy to carry on the
course simultaneously at Salem, and Cambridge, and in the city.
They must be delivered in the winter.

Another plan suggested in addition to this. A gentleman here is
giving a course of lectures on English literature to a private
class of ladies, at $10 to each subscriber. There is no doubt,
were you so disposed, you might turn to account any writings in
the bottom of your portfolio, by reading lectures to such a
class, or, still better, by speaking.

_Expense of Living._--You may travel in this country for $4 to
$4.5