I am very glad to hear that Lord Lytton is
going to New York next month to deliver the inaugural lecture under a new foundation bearing the name of an early mayor of that city, Jonathan Peterson, and endowed by a lineal descendant of Peterson, Mrs. Phinny. The foundation is dedicated to the cause of Anglo-American friendship, and Lord Lytton has appropriately chosen for his subject the role of the English-speaking peoples. Public lectures have an immense vogue in the United States, and it matters a great deal more than is generally realized what type of Englishman goes there as inter- preter of his country. It would be hard to think of anyone more certain of making a good impression than Lord Lytton, particularly on so discriminating an audience as that at the Town Hall (the headquarters of the League for Political Education, with no civic associations at all) where the Peterson lecture is to be delivered.
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