History affords few opportunities for a more interesting comparison than that of the unification of Italy with the unification of Germany, and the life of Cavour with that of Bismarck. Until the middle of the last century Italy and Germany were, as has been well said, merely geographic expressions. How these "expressions" were made to apply to more than geography is a fascinating if somewhat unedifying story.

Much the some problem, it is true con-confronted Cavour and Bismarck, but it is in the difference of treatment, and particularly in the history of the two nations in the years immediately after their unification that the chief interest lies. "Italy's appetite", said Bismarck, "had grown before its teeth." He saw to it that Germany grew teeth first.

Professor Langer will lecture on German affairs from 1849-1862 and the earlier career of Bismark this morning at 12 o'clock in Harvard 6.

There is at all times much of interest for any student vagabond to see in the Museum of Fine Arts, but for the next few weeks there is an added attraction in an exhibition of sculpture by Paul Manship.

Among the 40 works by this artist who is considered one of the greatest of living sculptors, which have been collected for this exhibition. It is difficult to pick out any one of two as particularly noteworthy. Certainly the most imposing are the two large statutes: Diana and Actaeon; yet it is in a small bronze the Dancer and Gazelles that the sculptor seems to have reached the peak of his art. There is a grace and skill in the composition and execution, a fragile beauty which leaves one almost in doubt whether such a thing can be done in bronze even when he sees it before his eyes.

While he is in the Museum the vagabond ought not to miss seeing the famous Persian rug known as the "Emperor's carpet" which will be on exhibition until Thursday. Entirely aside from the beauty of the rug itself, much of its interest lies in its history. Woven about 1550, probably at Ispahan, it was used in the palace of one of the Safidian monarchs and was later presented to Peter the Great of Russia. In 1698, Peter, wishing to express his appreciation of the hospitality of Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, to whom he had paid a visit presented it to his host, and for many years it hung on the walls of the great staircase of the Imperial Palace at Schorbrunn. It was recently sold in London to an American purchaser.

Lectures of interest are:

10 O'clock

"The Government of India." Colonel Vivian Gabriel for 25 years a high official in the Indian Civil Service, Sever 20, Government 10a.

12 O'clock

"Italian History in the Fifteenth Century," Professor Post. Fogg Museum, Fine Arts 9a.

"Wober the Romanticist." Professor Hill, Music Building, Music 3.