Mr. Louis Allard, Instructor in French will give the third of a series of five free public readings from French writers in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. Two selections will be read, "Polypheme," a dramatic poem in two acts by Albert Samain, and "La Mule du Pape," a story by Alphonse Daudet.

"Polypheme" is a poem taken from Theocritus's idyl on the jealousy of Polyphemus towards Galathea, and has proved to be one of the great successes of the Comedie Francaise" during the past few years.