Remember, then, that to accommodate London working-hours, all the classes begin as late as seven o’clock in the evening.  There are some Women’s Classes in the afternoon, but they are under a wholly different management.  From seven to ten every evening, Lord Thurlow’s house is, so to speak, in full blast.  Mr. Ruskin is the earliest professor.  He comes at seven on Thursday, to teach drawing in landscape from seven till half-past ten.  Work begins on other evenings and in other classes at half-past seven.  Four other teachers of drawing are at work with their pupils on different evenings of the week.  Monday and Thursday are the Latin days, Monday and Wednesday the Greek,—­all taught by graduates of the Universities.  The mathematics are Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry in two classes, and Trigonometry.  There was a class in Geology the winter I knew the College,—­there had been classes in Botany and Chemistry.  There were also classes in French, in German, in English Grammar, in Logic, in Political Economy, and in Vocal Music, a class on the Structure and Functions of the Human Body, and some general lectures or studies in History.  There were also “practice classes,” where the students worked with others more advanced than themselves on the subjects of the several exercises,—­there were preparatory classes, and an adult school to teach men to read.

Now this is rather a rambling conspectus of a curriculum of study.  But it teaches, I suppose, first, what the right men would volunteer to teach,—­second, what the working-men wanted to learn.  It is pretty clear, that, if the plan succeeds, it will bring up a body of young men who will know what is the advantage of a systematic line of study a good deal better than any of them can be expected to know at the beginning.  Meanwhile here is certainly a very remarkable exhibition of instruction to any man in London for a price merely nominal.  After he has once paid an entrance-fee,—­half-a-crown, as I have said,—­he may join any class in the College whenever he wishes, on the payment of a very insignificant additional fee.  For the drawing-classes this fee is five shillings.  For the courses of one hour a week it is two shillings sixpence, for those of two hours it is four shillings.  The drawing-classes are a trifle more costly, because the room for drawing is kept open ready for practice-work every evening in the week.  There is also open for everybody every evening a Library, and the Principal’s Bible-class is open to all comers.

So much for the instruction side.  Now to describe the social side, I had best perhaps give the detail of one or two of my own visits at the College.  Walk into the front room on the lower floor of any house in Colonnade Row in Boston, where the entry is on the right of the house, and you see such a room as the present “Library” was when Lord Thurlow lived there.  Here is the office of the College.  Here I found Mr. Shorter, the Secretary, in a corner, at a little desk piled with catalogues,