LOWELL LECTURE COURSE BEGINS

A new lecture course at the Lowell Institute will begin this afternoon at 5 o'clock, when Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., professor of the history of Art at Princeton University, will give the first of a series of eight lectures on "Modern Painting." The lectures in the course will be given in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, on Thursday and Saturday afternoons at 5 o'clock. The doors will open at 4.30 o'clock and will be closed at 5 o'clock throughout each lecture. Tickets may be secured free of charge by applying by mail to the Curator of the Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, Boston. A stamped and addressed envelope must be enclosed for each ticket desired.

The subjects for the lectures of the series will be as follows:

Thursday, January 4: "The Pseudo-Classical Background."

Saturday, January 6: "Romanticism and Realism."

Thursday, January 11: "The Academic Style."

Saturday, January 13: "The Landscape Before Impressionism."

Thursday, January 18: "Impressionism."

Saturday, January 20: "Mural Painting."

Thursday, January 25: "Great Traditionalists: Prudhon, Watts, Millet, Fantin, La Farge, Lenoir."

Saturday, January 27: "The Newest Movements: Post-Impressionism. Cubison Enturism, etc."