CURRENT NOTES 



The one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan 

 Poe was celebrated by the University and the Poe Memorial As- 

 sociation of Baltimore by public exercises in McCoy Hall, on the 

 evening of January 19. A lecture on the life and works of the 

 poet was delivered by Professor William P. Trent, of Columbia 

 University. Short addresses on various phases of Poe's career 

 were made by Reverend Oliver Huckel and Mr. John P. Poe, of 

 Baltimore, and an original poem was read by Miss Lizette Wood- 

 worth Reese. 



MR. C. HOWABD WALKER, of Boston, gave two lectures in McCoy 

 Hall, January 21 and 22, on "Recent Developments of Architec- 

 ture in America." 



PROFESSOR A. V. WILLIAMS JACKSON, of Columbia University, 

 gave a course of lectures on the "Religion of Persia," in McCoy 

 Hall, at 5 o'clock, January 26, 27, 28, February 2, 3, 4. This 

 course is one of the annual series arranged by the American 

 Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions. 



DR. FABIAN FRANKLIN, of Baltimore, will give twelve public 

 lectures on "The Central Doctrines of Political Economy," in 

 McCoy Hall, at 5 o'clock. The dates and topics are as follows: 

 February 10, "The Method and Spirit of Political Economy"; 

 February 12, "The Idea of the Margin in Political Economy; the 

 Theory of Value"; February 17, "The Law of Diminishing Pro- 

 ductiveness and the Doctrine of Rent"; February 19, "The Prin- 

 ciple of Population; Malthus and his Critics; Past and Future"; 

 February 24, "Savings and Interest; Labor and Wages; Enter- 

 prise and Profit" ; February 26, "The Teachings of Henry George" ; 

 March 17, "Money"; March 19, "Foreign Trade; the 'Balance of 

 Trade'; Free Trade and Protection"; March 24, "Monopoly"; 

 March 26, "Some Ethical Questions"; March 30, "Specimen 

 Fallacies"; March 31, "A Retrospect." 



The Percy Turnbull Memorial lectures will be given this year 

 by Professor Ramon Menendez Pidal, of the University of 

 Madrid. They will be delivered in French. The general subject 

 will be "L'epopee castillane a travers la litterature espagnole." 

 The special topics and dates are as follows: March 5, "Leg 

 origines de 1'epopee"; March 8, "Castille et Leon"; March 9, "Le 

 poeme du Cid"; March 11, "Le Cid et Chimene"; March 12, "Le 

 romancero"; March 15, "Le theatre des xvi et xvn siecles"; 

 March 16, "La matiere epique dans la poesie moderne." 



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