First French Lecture Today.

M. Gaston Deschamps, who will give the first of the Cercle Francais lectures in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at half past four, arrived in Boston yesterday. He was given a dinner at the Somerset Club, and later in the evening a reception was held in the rooms of the Cercle in Cambridge, at which time he was presented with a medal.

The subject of the lecture this afternoonis; "Les Maitres du Theatre contemporain: Augier' Dumas fils, Meilhac et Halevy, Sardou." Admission will be by ticket until 4.25, when the doors will be thrown open to the public.