Professor James Ford Rhodes will deliver a lecture on "Edward Gibbon" in Emerson D at 8 o'clock this evening.

After attending the Universities of New York and Chicago. Professor Rhodes entered business, but soon retired and moved to Boston, and soon began writing history. He has now become the foremost writer of history of the United States, and has recently completed his greatest work. "The History of the United States since the Compromise of 1850." The degree of I.L.D. has been conferred upon him by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other universities. President Eliot's words, in delivering the degree, were: "The historian of the slavery debate, and of the Civil War and its issues; and accurate and impartial delineator of public characters, social conditions, and past states of public opinion." Professor Rhodes has been president of the American Historical Association, and is a highly honored member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of other New England bodies. His great power lies in his ability to reconstruct past times and public sentiment. Professor Rhodes's lecture tonight on "Edward Gibbon" should be especially interesting inasmuch as it is the study of one notable by another.