PROFESSOR CHILD'S first Chaucer reading, on Monday last, drew out a large audience, although not so large a proportion was composed of students as would naturally be supposed. Unlike the classical translations, these readings come but once a year, and then only occupy three or four evenings at most. Were not the interest in English literature at Harvard at so low an ebb, it would indeed be a matter of surprise that any member of the University should fail at some time during his residence in Cambridge to attend one of these ever-memorable Chaucer readings.
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