Read Gives First Lecture at 8:30

Sir Herbert Read will present the first of this year's Charles Eliot Norton lectures tonight at 8:30 p.m., in New Lecture Hall.

This evening's talk is entitled "The Vital Image." All seven lectures will follow the general theme, "Art and the Development of the Human Consciousness."

"The Discovery of Beauty," the second lecture, is scheduled for next Thursday night. One more talk, "The Symbols for the Unknown," will follow during this semester. Sir Herbert will give four more lectures in the spring.

Sir Herbert is president of the Society for Education in Art and a member of the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Noted primarily for poetry in the period between the world wars, during World War II he turned to criticism and prose.

He will reside in Cambridge for the duration of the series.

The three past Norton lecturers have been Thornton Wilder, Aaron Copeland, and E. E. Cummings.