Vicomto G. d'Avenel, the noted French, historian, has been selected to deliver the Hydo Lectures before the Cercle Francais next February.

M. d'Avenel began his career as secretary of the Departmental and Communal Administration in the Ministry of the Interior, but he soon left public life to devote his attention to research work in economics. He is well known as the historian of the economics life and material civilization of France from 1200 to the present day, in which he made elaborate tables showing the cost price of everything in the period treated. Some of these tables have been published in four large volumes by the French Ministry of Public Instruction and have been twice awarded the Prix Rossi by the Academie des Sciences Morales and Politiques. M. d'Avenel's other most famous works are: "Richelieu et la Monarchie Absolue," given the Grand Prix Gobert by the French Academy; "Le Mecanisme de la Vie Moderne," and "Les Francais de Mon Temps."

M. d'Avenel will treat in his lectures of the economic history of France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The following is a list of the lectures:

Wednesday, February 6--"Les decouvertes dues a la nouvelle histoire economique et privee."

Friday, February 8--"Les paysans et l'agriculture, depuis le Moyen Age jusqu'a nos jours."

Monday, February 11--"Le Socialisme d'hier et la genese de la propriete individuelle recente."

Wednesday, February 13--"L'ouvrier, le manoeuvre et le domestique, anciens et actuels: leurs salaires."

Friday, February 15--"Le budget des depenses de l'ouvrier et du paysan, depuis sept cents ans."

Monday, February 18--"L'influence de l'Etat et celle des mouvements de la population sur le prix du travail."

Wednesday, February 20--"Les riches du passe et du present."

Monday, February 25--"De quoi se composaient les fortunes des riches et des bourgeois d'autrefois."

These lectures are maintained on the interest of a fund of $30,000 established in 1898 by J. H. Hyde '98.