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 and ready purse of John Lowell, Jr., has so provided Boston for nearly sixty years; he will own a warm place in the hearts of a vast multitude of his fellow-countrymen; and will do inestimable good.

"Many are the friends of the golden tongue"; and all enjoy hearing men talk who know what they are talking about, and have learned how to tell it; and by a little thoughtful provision, not only on his part, but by a few men and women who have their city's welfare at heart—in each city—our whole land could, ere long, sit at the feet of the best teachers in their various chosen fields; and could have the never-to-be-forgotten delight of drinking at the fountain-head—while the expense to the donors would never be felt. The ablest professors in all our colleges and universities—provided they know how to talk—could thus edify and benefit, not a mere handful, as now,—but a nation, and so multiply their influence and the good they are now doing a hundredfold; and the press would be their great ally in the work. Indeed, thanks largely to the efforts of one live newspaper—the World—New York has to-day lectures