Professor Cooke's Lecture.

Professor Cooke is a universal favorite, and a large and appreciative audience assembled in Upper Boylston Hall last evening to hear his third lecture on Italian cities. The subject was "Rome," and it was treated in an instructive and entertaining manner.

Professor Cooke was warmly greeted, and after a few introductory remarks, said that it would be impossible in a lecture, or in a course of lectures, to give anything but a most superficial account of the "Eternal City." It would take months, nay years, to gain a knowledge of its churches, temples, paintings and antiquities. He would be obliged to confine himself to one subject-namely, the topography of Rome. He would walk with his listeners from one place of interest to another, starting at the northern portion of the city, and going a circular path towards the east, showing them the views he had collected. Rome, he said, had changed much in the last twenty-five years, and now there is a new and flourishing city built in among the relics of Ancient Rome.

Some sixty views were then thrown in rapid succession by the calcium light on to the white wall, and Professor Cooke, in his entertaining way, commented on each as it passed. All the pictures were interesting, and many of them beautiful. Among them may be mentioned several fine views of the Coliseum, showing its construction and the recent excavations, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantions, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantine, a view from the Capital looking back over the Forum, the Via Sacra, several views of the Tiber, and, last of all, St. Peter's, showing the dome in all its beauty.

The lecture was heartily enjoyed by all present, and another large audience will undoubtedly meet Prof. Cooke on the occasion of his next lecture.