A French Play.

Following the example of the Departments of Classics and of English, the Department of French will give this year as previously announced, three performances of Racine's "Athalie," the most perfect work of its kind in French literature and the most complete example of that particular literary form, the tragedy, which is typical of the classical school in France in the seventeenth century.

The play will be given in Sanders Theatre on the evenings of December 6, 8 and 10, by a company of students, graduates and instructors in Harvard University and Radcliffe College, assisted by ladies of Boston and Cambridge. The choruses will be sung by one of the leading societies of Boston and the orchestra will be composed of members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The music will be Mendelssohn's.

The cast will be very large, and students who desire to take part, whether they speak French or not, may apply to the chairman, Professor de Sumichrast, or to any Instructor of the Department.