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MASON COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. 
Jones, B.Sc., Director of Technical Instruction to the County 
Council of Stafford, and formerly Professor of Physics at 
University College, Aberystwith, who offers courses on “ Sound, 
Light, and Colour,” and “ Electricity and its Applications ” ; 
Mr. Wilson King, formerly American Consul in Birmingham, a 
course on “ American History ” ; Mr. Howard S. Pearson. Lecturer 
on English Literature and History in the Birmingham and Midland 
Institute, courses on “ The Characters in the ‘ Canterbury Tales,’ 
as illustrated in Contemporary History and Social Life,” “ The 
Puritan Movement and its Effect on English and American 
Literature,” and “ Alexander Pope and the Classical School 
of English Literature”; Bev. A. Jamson Smith, M.A., Head 
Master of King Edward’s School, Camp Hill, courses on “ The 
Earlier Stuart Period,” and “ The Social and Political Develop¬ 
ment of England between the Accession of Henry II. and the 
Death of Richard III.” ; and Mr. Whitworth Wallis, F.S.A., 
E.R.G.S., Director of the Municipal Art Gallery, Birmingham, 
lectures on “ Pompeii, Pompeian Architecture, and Pompeian 
Art.” In length the courses in this list vary from six to twelve 
lectures, and examinations may also be held at the close, though 
certificates will not be given on courses of less than ten lectures. 
The cost of such a course of, say, eight lectures would probably 
amount to from £45 to £50. 
All courses of lectures do not equally lend themselves to illus¬ 
tration, but in most of those upon both of the above lists the 
lantern is used, with the addition, in the Science lectures, of 
specimens and experiments. 
A few words may here be said as to the method to be adopted 
by any centre which may desire to have a course of lectures. 
There may already exist some body under whose auspices the 
lectures may be given, such as a Literary or Scientific Institution, 
or other Society, or Club, or a Technical Instruction Committee. 
If this is not the case, it then becomes necessary to form a com¬ 
mittee specially for this purpose, the first duty of which will be to 
form a guarantee fund to secure itself against possible pecuniary 
loss ; for in common with most educational work the lectures 
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