PUBLISHERS' NOTE. 



In the careful reports of Mr. Cook's Lectures printed 

 in the Boston Daily Advertiser, were included by the 

 stenographer sundry expressions (applause, &c.) inchoat- 

 ing the immediate and varying impressions with which the 

 Lectures were received. Though these reports have been 

 thoroughlj' revised by the author, the publishers have 

 thought it advisable to retain these expressions. Mr. 

 Cook's audiences included, in large numbers, representa- 

 tives of the broadest scholarship, the profoundest philoso- 

 ph}', the acutest scientific research, and generally of the 

 finest intellectual culture, of Boston and New England ; 

 and it has seemed admissible to allow the larger assembly 

 to which these Lectures are now addressed to know how 

 the} 7 were received by such audiences as those to which 

 they were originally delivered. 



