Nathaniel Lee, the subject of Professor Murray's lecture in Harvard 3 at 11 o'clock this morning, was one of the many minor dramatists of the Restoration period and years following it, who wrote a multitude of plays well enough received at the time, but come down to us with at best one or two books under their arms.

Lee was the son of a Presbyterian divine who had held many offices under the Commonwealth, notably being chaplain General Monk. After graduating from Trinity College. Cambridge, he came to London under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, with the intention of earning a living as an actor. But though, it is said, he was a fine reader, his seemingly incurable stage fright made an actor's career out of the question."

Like so many other actors, successful and unsuccessful, he then turned to writing plays, which are of interest not for what they are themselves so much as for the reflection of the life of the times--a condition, true, it seems, of most Restoration plays.

By the age of 30, Lee had achieved a considerable reputation not alone for his writing but for his activities in the dissolute society of the Earl of Rochester. As the grew more disreputable, his patron age, gradually disappeared, and a year later, his mind was completely unhinged. Five years were spent in Bethlehem Hospital where he to some extent recovered but not very long after leaving the Hospital he died in a drunken fit.

It is always interesting to speculate on what night have happened it sorataing else had not. Would Lee: placed in a different period of history have risen to greater heights heights hlated at in some of the passages of his plays or would he not have written plays at all. Who knows: "It" is always there to block the progress of our speculation.

Other lectures of interest being given today are.

9 O'Clock

"Frenca Polities in Relation to Public Finance." Professor Munra, New Lecture Hall. Government 1.

10 O'Clock

"Jonathan Trumbull and Francis Hopkinson," Professor Murdock Harvard 2. English 33.

12 O'Clock

"English Gothic Architecture." Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall. Fine Arts 1a.

"The City Manager Plan of Government." Professor Munra. Harvard 6. Government 17a.