Professor Kittredge is without doubt the most distinguished scholar in the country who cannot boast the degree of Ph.D. there is a current superstition that he has never won it because none of his colleagues is learned enough to examine him. However, that may be, perhaps his lack of this burdensome dignity has helped to keep him free from the taint of pedantry and make him and entertaining lecturer in spite of his scholarship. It is safe to assert that his public lectures on the five great Shaksperian tragedies, to be given in Sanders Theatre this month will be much more than mere instructive discourses. With his large resources of critical knowledge, and his faculty for shrewd comment, he will be able to crowd into each talk material that has filled volumes; and his art for pointing facts with amusing allusions will popularize what might be merely an academic subject. Asking for an analysis of "Hamlet" in an hour and a half is much like proposing a lecture to "Explain the universe in Ten Minutes", but if anyone is qualified for the task, it is Professor Kittredge. The Dowse Institute is both fortunate and wise in securing him for this year's series.