CHAPTER IX.
Different Ways of Advertising a Lecture—American Impresarios and Their Methods.
Buffalo, January 13.
When you intend to give a lecture anywhere, and you wish it to be a success, it is a mistake to make a mystery of it.
On arriving here this morning, I found that my coming had been kept perfectly secret.
Perhaps my impresario wishes my audience to be very select, and has sent only private circulars to the intelligent, well-to-do inhabitants of the place—or, I said to myself, perhaps the house is all sold, and he has no need of any further advertisements.
I should very much like to know.