A few of the young men, of whom I was one, conspired to get possession of the Lyceum.

They turned out in force for the election of officers, chose me President, and we got Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker and Ralph Waldo Emerson and other shining lights of a newer philosophy, much to the indignation of the old Whig magnates.
But the lectures were very successful, and at the end of my Presidency, which lasted two or three years, we had an ample balance in our treasury.
If I were to give an account of my professional life for twenty years, I must make another book.

It was full of interest and romance.

The client in those days used to lay bare his soul to his lawyer.

Many of the cases were full of romantic interest.