"The Lower South."

Mr. William Garroit Brown, deputy keeper of the University Records, will give on December 7, 10 and 14 lectures on "The Lower South in American History from 1820 to 1860."

In the first lecture Mr. Brown will review briefly the history of the southernmost parts of the Union up to the time of the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and will discuss the civilization of the cotton states under the slavery regime. Particular attention will be given to the topics discussed and the reasoning employed in such books as Cairnes's "Slave Power" and Von Holst's "Constitutional History." It will be the lecturer's aim to make plain the effects of slavery and the plantation system on the people of the cotton states and the causes which gave these states the hege mony of the South and a marked ascendency in the Union. The second lecture will treat the policies initiated and carried out by the public men of the cotton states while the South maintained its ascendency in the Union. The third lecture will deal with the final struggle between the men of the lower South and the moral and economic forces which were gradually arrayed against slavery and the plantation system. Throughout the course the lecturer will endeavor first not so much to present new historical facts, as to make intelligible the mass of facts already known, and to exhibit the inside of a civilization usually discussed from the outside alone.