LAST FRENCH LECTURE.

M. Deschamps closed his series of lectures on the Contemporary French Drama yesterday with a talk on "The Future of the French Drama." He summarized the striking features of dramatic evolution in France thus: The drama is clearly inclining more and more toward truth of character, toward an accurate copy of real life; and yet at the same time there comes from all sides an imperious call for beauty. On the one hand, the acting and the miseen-scene, as well as the talent of the playwrights, contribute to reality; on the other, magnificence of scenery and nobleness of acting contribute to a material and a moral beauty. This intimate union of Truth and Beauty will be extremely beneficial to the French Drama. The stage will become more and more a large tribune, from which will resound the echo of all the high productions and aspirations of the new century. If the Stage continues faithful to the tradition of reality, and at the same time, is steadfast in its return to romantic magnificence, it can and undoubtedly will become one of the principal factors of progress towards social harmony.

M. Deschamps will leave Cambridge on Monday or Tuesday, for New York, where he will give a series of four lectures at Columbia, and will also speak at other institutions. At Philadelphia he will deliver four lectures before the University of Pennsylvania. He will then visit Montreal, Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans, and will probably return to France some time in April.