ICELANDIC SAGA.Professor Charles Sprague Smith, of New York, will deliver a course of five illustrated lectures upon the Icelandic Saga during November and December. The subjects and dates are as follows:
Wednesday, Nov. 25. - Iceland, from Ingolf's settlement to its subjection to Norway.
Thursday, Nov. 26. - The life of a priest and scholar in the eleventh century. Art the historian, and the works ascribed to him; Islendinga bok, Landnama bok and Kristni Saga; histories of the settlement of Iceland and of its conversion to Christianity.
Friday, Nov. 27. - The life of a viking and poet, Egil's Saga.
Wednesday, Dec. 2. - Family life in Iceland, viking voyages, blood feuds and disputes at the Althing. Njal's Saga.
Friday, Dec. 4. - How Christianity was brought to Norse lands. The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason.
The lectures are open to the public.