5/26 The one to which I recently listened, in the New England Conservatory of Music, was certainly the most entertaining of any humorous lecture to which I have ever listened, and it left the audience _talking_, with such bright, happy faces, I can see it now in my mind. And they _continued_ to repeat the happy things you said; at least my own friends did. It was not a "plea for cheerfulness," it _was_ cheerfulness. I hope you may give it, and make the world laugh, a thousand times. "He who makes what is useful agreeable," said old Horace of literature, "wins every vote." You have the wit of making the useful agreeable, and the spirit and genius of it. |