"The Molpe" says Professor Gilbert Murray, "is the fountain-head of poetry in the European world." This ancient form of nature-worship, long antidating in Greece the period known as the Heroic Age, and combining in its expression in singing and dancing the worship of the aesthetic as well as that of the material, is so to speak, the primitive poetry of all European people at least, and as such underlies their later literature.

From the molpe, there gradually grew the drama, and the other forms of literature, as we now know them. From it arose on the shores of the Aegean the story of Orestes, one of the most poetical of Greek characters; from it there sprung up among the Norsemen of the Baltic the ancient saga of Hamlet.

It is the very interesting subject of the companion of Hamlet and Orestes which will form the subject of a lecture by Professor Gilbert Murray to be given at 8 o'clock this evening in New Lecture Hall.

Turning from the realm of the purely poetical to that of the scientific, a student vagabond might well find much of interest in a lecture on the influence of river-borne mineral matter upon the oceans and oceanic life given by Professor Daly in Geology 4 at 12 o'clock in the Geological Lecture Room.

Professor Daly has taken a great interest in oceanography during recent years, and will present the results of his own investigations concerning the deposits of the sea.