FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT.

CENTRAL LIBRARY.

PROGRAMME OF EXHIBITIONS
At the Central Library and Branches,

1899-1900.

Each exhibition will continue for at least one week from

the dates given below.

BRANCHES AND STATIONS. Exhibitions open on the first Wednesday of each month and continue for two weeks.

FREE PUBLIC LECTURES IN THE

CITY OF BOSTON

TO BE GIVEN IN THE

LOWELL INSTITUTE.

(Founded in 1836 by John Lowell, Jr., and Established in 1839.)

THE TRUSTEE of the Lowell Institute under the will of John Lowell, Jr., maintains annually in the city of Boston various Courses of Free Public Lectures. For the sixty-first season (1899-1900) four distinct Series are provided, to all of which Admission is Free, but only by ticket and under certain conditions. A Prospectus may be obtained by sending to the Curator, 491 Boylston St., Boston, a stamped, addressed envelope.

I. PUBLIC COURSES OF LECTURES IN
HUNTINGTON HALL.

THE THIRD COURSE will be six lectures by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, LL.D., on AMERICAN ORATORS AND ORATORY.

1. Puritan Oratory (The Reign of the
Clergy).

II. Revolutionary Oratory (The Rise of the
Lawyers).

III. Academic and Congressional Oratory
(Everett, Webster, Choate, Clay, etc.).
IV. Anti-Slavery Oratory (Garrison, Phil-
lips, Douglass, etc.).

v. Lyceum Oratory (Beecher, Gough, Chapin, Curtis, etc.).

VI. Present Tendencies of Oratory (Ameri

can Oratory as Compared with English, Irish and French). Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7.45 P.M., beginning Wednesday, Nov. 15th.

THE FOURTH COURSE will be six lectures by Henry Childs Merwin, Esq., on THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRACY AND EQUALITY IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING RACE. (For synopsis of this Course, see November Prospectus.) Mondays and Thursdays at 7.45 P.M., beginning Monday, Nov. 27th.

THE FIFTH COURSE will be six lectures by Addison E. Verrill, M.A., Professor of Zoology in Yale University, on THE GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDA ISLANDS. (For synopsis of this Course, see November Prospectus.)

Tuesdays and Fridays at 7.45 P.M., beginning Tuesday, Nov. 28th.

TICKETS FOR THE LECTURES in Huntington Hall may be obtained Free (by adults) at the Cadet's Armory: for Colonel Higginson's Course on Saturday, Nov. 11, at 10 AM.; for Mr. Merwin's Course, on Saturday, Nov. 25, at IO A.M., and for Professor Verrill's Course on the same day at 12.30 P.M.

II. ADVANCED COURSES,
Under the auspices of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.

COURSES OF LECTURES on various literary, scientific and technical subjects will be given during the season by Professors in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A special circular giving full particulars, with instructions how to secure tickets, may be obtained by sending a stamped, addressed envelope to Professor H. W. Tyler, Secretary, Lowell Free Courses, Mass. Institute of Technology,

Boston.

III. LECTURES FOR TEACHERS, Under the auspices of the Boston Society of Natural History.

COURSES OF LECTURES on scientific subjects, for teachers, will be given during the winter by the Lowell Institute, under the auspices of the Boston Society of Natural History. Full particulars, with instructions how to secure tickets, may be obtained by sending a stamped, addressed envelope to The Secretary, Lowell Free Lectures, Boston Society of Natural History, Boston.

IV. LECTURES FOR WORKINGMEN, Under the auspices of the Wells Memorial Institute.

COURSES OF LECTURES on subjects of practical importance to workingmen will be given by the Lowell Institute under the auspices of the Wells Memorial Institute, 987 Washington St. Full particulars may be obtained by sending a stamped, addressed envelope to The Secretary, Lowell Free Lectures, Wells Memorial W. T. SEDGWICK, Curator. Institute, 987 Washington St., Boston.

Station A. Lower Mills Reading Station M. Crescent Avenue Delivery

Station E. Neponset Delivery Sta- Station Q. Upham's Corner Delivery

Published monthly by the Trustees of the Public Lib rary of the City of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, at

a subscription price of twenty-five cents per annum.