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YALE PUBLIC LECTURES.


Announcement of the List of Speakers
and Subjects for the Year 19O1-19O2
The schedule of the Yale Public Lee
lures, given in cooperation with the
New Haven University Extension Cen
ter, has just been announced, There
will be forty lectures in the course
thirty regular lectures and ten Sheffield
lectures. The thirty lectures cover
wide range Of topics in literature, histo-
ry, art, music and social and economic
subjects. The thirty lectures regularly
comprising the series will be given in
College Street Hall, with the exception
of those for October and IA, which,
on account of the Bi-centennial chorus
rehearsals, will be held in the First
Methodist church, corner of Elm and
College streets. The ten Sheffield lee
lures will be held after the holidays in
North Sheffield. Hall The subjects
will be announced later as will also the
subjects Of four of the literary lectures.
The first lecture, on Democracy, by
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, editor of the
Outlook, will be given October at eight
o'clock. The other lectures follow:
October II, Professor William Lyon
Phelps will lecture on The Metaphysi-
cal Poets of the Seventeenth Century
l., The Founders of the School, Dr.
John Dome, the Dean of st. Paurs."
October IA, Mr. George Riddle will give
a reading from King Lear" October
16, Professor John F. Weir will lecture
on Nuremberg and Albrecht Durer.
October IS, Professor Phelps will deliv-
er the second lecture on "The Meta
physical Poets of the Seventeenth Cen
tury;' October IS, on "The Religious
Metaphysicals-Her Vaughan and
Crashaw." October %, Professor
Phelps will deliver the third lecture of
this same series-"The Courtly Meta
physicals-C arew, Lovelace, Sucking
and Cleveland" November 6, Profess
sor D. Cady Eaton will lecture on
History in Art-Art Glimpses of Ger
man History" November s, Mr..
Charles f. Underhill will give
Shakespearean reading from the "Mer-
ry Wives of Windsor" November 1S,
Professor Eaton will deliver a second
lecture on History in Art" November
is, Mr.. Ernest Ingersoll of the Univer-
sity of Chicago lectures on "A Battle
for Life. or How the Wild Animals of
the United States Have Been curiously
Affected by the Civilization of the Con-
tinent." November 20, Professor Ea-
ton will deliver third lecture on His
tory in Art-Art Glimpses of German
History" November %, Professor E.
Washburn Hopkins lectures on the
Early Lyric of India" and on the 25th,
on the Famine Question in India"
December 9, Professor Bliss Perry ed
itor of the Atlantic Monthly, will lee
ture on "Thackeray." December 6.
Professor John Graham Brooks of Har-
ward and the University of Chicago,
lectures on "The Place of Ethics in La
Dor Problems.
The lectures to take place after the
holidays have not yet been fully ar
ranged. There will be four lectures on
music by Professor Edgar S. Kelley on
January 30 and February 5, u and 10;
and two lectures on Roman Archaeol-
ogy." by Professor Tracy Peck on Jan
uary Is and % March 10, Rev. DR..
Washington GLADDEN. will lecture on
Thomas Carlyle and on February "a
Rev. Dr. Newell p. Hills will lecture
on "Ruskin." April 7, DR.. Henry Van
Dyke of Princeton will lecture, subject
undecided.
Season tickets for the forty lectures
may be obtained at the Free Public Ii
orary at three dollars each