"The entire cost per lecture for the subscriber amounts to three cents, the initiation fee, which must be paid only for the first year, being five dollars, and annual membership costing ten dollars. Membership last year numbered 1,721, and the total attendance for the year reached 79,102. It is estimated that for this year the membership will exceed 2,000."

Distinguished Foreigners to Lecture.

Foreigners who will lecture at the Institute this year include Jules Bois, whose subject is "French Culture"; Professor Ernesto Quesada, of the University of Buenos Aires, who is to give two courses at the University in the second half-year, and will lecture on the "Social Organization of the Argentine Republic"; S. K. Ratcliffe, editorial writer on the Manchester Guardian, who will deliver four lectures on "Makers of English Life and Thought," and Louis U. Wilkinson of Oxford, whose subject is "The Evolution of Modern Reform in England."

Commenting on its work, the latest report of the Institute says:

"Three years ago the Institute of Arts and Sciences as a division of a university was an untried experiment. There was grave doubt on the hand as to whether such a system of popular lectures on a subscription basis would receive adequate support in New York city, which already offered so many free lectures, and also the best in the filed, of drama and music. There was doubt on the other hand as to how far the university could undertake the popularization of knowledge without detracting from or interfering with the regular academic work and standards.

"But the gratifying fact has stood out that the Institute has discovered for the university a constituency of earnest, thoughful people who are ready to receive eagerly and sympathetically and in surprisingly large numbers, not as dillettantes, but as serious students, the best that the university has to offer them."