An unusual richness, both in variety and excellence, is to be found in the choice of lectures offered this morning. The best lecture on today's list, judging from the titles, is Professor Howard's talk on Goethe on Shakespeare", to be given in Widener B in German 7. Goethe is considered the greatest of German poets, while Shakespeare's own position in English literature is hardly a mean one. But little stretching of the imagination is necessary to call these poets the two highest in world literature. To hear what the one has to say of the other could hardly be uninteresting.

Yet, if the fickle tastes of the vagabonding undergraduate be unsatisfied with Goethe and Shakespeare and Professor Howard, he can still spend a pleasant hour between 11 and 12, by attending Professor Edgell's lecture on Venetian painting in Fine Arts Id in the New Fogg Museum. The rich colors of the Venetian masters contrast pleasantly with the finer drawing, but more restrained work of the Florentine school. Let it be remembered also that among the artists of the Venetian school are Giovanni. Bellini, Titian, Tinterette, Veronesse, Tiepolo and many others.

At twelve, also in the Fogg Museum and also in Italian Art is a lecture by Professor Post given in Fine Arts 9a on Michael Angelo. The versatlle artist one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance, lived an interesting life in an interesting period. Any one of a number of works would have been sufficient to keep his name alive--the Sistine Chapel, the Dome of St. Peter's, the Medical Chapel.

Another lecture of more than usual interest will be Professor Gulick's on "Oedipus the King" in Greek 11 at 12 o'clock in Sever 26. Of the trinity of Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes, Sophocles is generally regarded as the greatest. He lacks the stiffness, yet retains the force of Aeschylus, and although he does not have the breadth and finesse of Euripedes, he does not lose the power which Euripedes, in his development of the tragedy has lost.

Other lectures of interest follow:

9 O'clock

"Federal Income Taxation." Professor Burbank, Harvard 6, Economics 5.

10 O'clock

"Ecuador," Professor Haring. Harvard 2, History 56.

11 O'clock

"Development of the Monroe Doctrine, 1861-1897," Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall, History 32G.

12 O'clock

"d'lady, Chausson, Dupaic," Professor Hill, Music 3 (French Music to Debussy), Music Building.