Seven lecture courses on a variety of subjects, including American history, ancient history, church architecture, modern painting, economics-particularly the economics of war-are announced by the Lowell Institute for its seventy-eighth season; and additional courses are in preparation.

As is customary, the lectures will be by men prominent in their respective fields, they will be free and public and will be given, as in past years, in Huntington Hall, Rogers Building, 491 Boylston street Boston.

Besides the Huntington Hall lectures, there will be a free evening school for industrial foremen; the so-called collegiate courses, which are now given, at a small fee for each course, under the auspices of the Commission on Extension Courses, whose office is at 19 University Hall, Cambridge, where also application may be made for registration in the Teachers' School of Science; and a course of free lectures in King's Chapel on current topics in theology.

The free public lectures, to be given in Huntington Hall, as so far arranged, are here outlined:

The first course, given on Wednesday evenings, at eight o'clock, will be ten lectures on American history.

1. "Pilgrims and Puritans," by Professor Wendell, October 11.

2. "The Colonies as an Imperial Asset of Great Britain," by Charles M. Andrews, professor in Yale University; October 18.

3. "Patriots and Loyalists," by Samuel Eliot Morison of Boston; October 25.

4. "The Making of the Constitution," by Max Farrand, professor in Yale University, November 1.

5. "High Finance, 1789-1800," by Professor Channing; November 8.

6. "The United States in the Time of Washington and Jefferson," by Professor Channing; November 15.

7. "Andrew Jackson," by John Spencer Bassett, professor in Smith College; November 22.

8. "The South in the Building of the Nation," by Ulrich B. Phillips, professor in the University of Michigan; November 29.

9. "The West," by Frederic L. Paxson, professor in the University of Wisconsin; December 6.

10. "Abraham Lincoln," by Professor Hart; December 13.