CHAPTER VII.
THACKERAY'S LECTURES.
In speaking of Thackeray's life I have said why and how it was that he took upon himself to lecture, and have also told the reader that he was altogether successful in carrying out the views proposed to himself.

Of his peculiar manner of lecturing I have said but little, never having heard him.

"He pounded along,--very clearly," I have been told; from which I surmise that there was no special grace of eloquence, but that he was always audible.

I cannot imagine that he should have been ever eloquent.

He could not have taken the trouble necessary with his voice, with his cadences, or with his outward appearance.