Excerpt from English Traits and Representative Men His own letters to Carlyle of the year 1845 give us a clue to the Representative Men lectures. He speaks of their being got ready for delivery at the Lyceum, Boston. This opened the way for the English lectures, and a course on this subject followed at the Manchester Athenaeum in the late autumn of 1847. Speaking of the earlier Boston lectures, his son writes The Lyceum was Emer son's Open pulpit. His main occupation through life was reading lectures to who would hear, at first in courses in Boston, but later all Over the country. The Lyceum became a recognised institution in the towns of New Eng land during these years, and Emerson was its accepted chief speaker and homilist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.