Turning for the present from the allures of science and literature, the Vagabond finds himself today face to face with a quandary which obstructs his desire to pursue the Fine Arts.

The hour of twelve will see the Vagabond in the neighborhood of Appleton Chapel, casting his bewildered gaze first towards the Fogg Museum where Professor Post finishes his series of lectures on "Florentine Painting of the Fifteenth Century," and then towards nearby Robinson Hall, where Professor Conant speaks on "The Early Christians and their Architecture." After a number of indecisive starts first in one direction and then another, by which erratic motion passersby may penetrate the disguise of the Vagabond, the matter must in all probability be settled by the tossing of a coin.

The term "Christian Art" was first used by Alexis Rio in the nineteenth century to denote all art manifestations in Christendom from early times to our own; the term "Early Christian Art" is reserved for art in the western Christian countries down to the Carolingian period, after which the Romanesque wave swept over Europe. In his study of early Christian architecture, therefore, Professor Conant will take the vagabond who chooses Robinson Hall to Rome and Ravenna, where the chief monuments of the period survive.

The early Christian temple was different in spirit from pagan shrines in that the former was a place to meet for worship, whereas the latter was considered the actual residence of the divinity. The result was a lack of self-consciousness and a simplicity that is of much interest to the student of the arts.

Early Christian architecture was a product of the need and the environment. The disintegration of the Roman empire was accompanied by a weakening of classical prestige, while a young and vigorous religion was working out its own ideals and standards of art.

In Professor Post's lecture, on the other hand, the vagabond who has chosen to spend the 12 o'clock hour at Fogg, will hear of an art equal to any that the earth has ever produced, which was reaching its culmination in those two giants of the Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Art in the interest of its embryonic development, and art in its full flower are the offerings spread before the connoisseur. Let the individual vagabond choose for himself.