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
$4.50 a day. You may board in Boston in a "gigmanic" style for
$8 per week, including all domestic expenses. Eight dollars per
week is the board paid by the permanent residents at the Tremont
House,--probably the best hotel in North America. There, and at
the best hotels in New York, the lodger for a few days pays at
the rate of $1.50 per day. Twice eight dollars would provide a
gentleman and lady with board, chamber, and private parlor, at a
fashionable boardinghouse. In the country, of course, the
expenses are two thirds less. These are rates of expense where