address takes its title from a passage in Sir Thomas
More's "Utopia," in which Sir Thomas More pleaded for the culture of the mind by the citizens of his Utopian State. Miss Swanwick's subject, therefore, is the duty of cultivating the minds of our "dim common populations," and her immediate effort is directed to helping the plan for purchasing the Victoria Hall, and securing it for the permanent amusement and instruction of the people of South London. Mr. Hughes's letter to this journal on the subject is, we perceive, added as an appendix at the close of Miss Swan- wick's lecture. Our readers will find that lecture very agreeable reading, as well as very persuasive pleading. We trust that the sale of this address may itself add considerably to the fund for securing the Victoria Hall for the people of South London.
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