But the subject, you say, does not yet define itself. Whilst it
is "gathering to a god," we who wait will only say, that we know
enough here of Goethe and Schiller to have some interest in
German literature. A respectable German here, Dr. Follen, has
given lectures to a good class upon Schiller. I am quite sure
that Goethe'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