Tomorrow evening Mr. Copeland will deliver the last of his course of lectures on literature. This is to be also the last voluntary lecture that he will give in the University as he has decided to discontinue his talks after this year. It is to be regretted that Mr. Copeland has come to this decision, for his lectures have come to hold a distinct and valuable position in the intellectual life of the University, and that is nothing that can take their place. Emerson once said "Books are the best of things well used," and Mr. Copeland has been showing students how to use them. He has talked of books as if he loved them, and not as if they were lessons that it was necessary for the student to learn if he would be an educated man. He has led men to read the best things in literature, not as a task, but as a pleasure. He has told them what to read as well as how they should read it. His evening talks have been very popular and have attracted large audiences for he has always treated his subject in in a bright, entertaining way that has never failed to please. For what Mr. Copeland has done he deserves the gratitude of the University, and perhaps this gratitude cannot be better expressed than by giving him an unusually enthusiastic reception on the night of his last lecture.