Dr. Morgan's Lecture.

Dr. Morgan lectured last evening before a large audience in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory upon Euripides and the story of Medea in Ancient Art. The lecture was illustrated by numerous pictures taken from Greek antiquities, and thrown by the stereopticon on the white wall.

Dr. Morgan said that in youth Euripides was a successful painter, but as he grew older he was led through by philosophy into his proper field, tragic poetry. But the knowledge he had acquired when a painter, and the ability thereby gained of better appreciating the whole scope of art were of the greatest value to him as a dramatist. Through all his great tragedies he is constantly viewing things with a painter's eye, which gives to them a greater unity and a higher artistic merit. All of the dramas of Euripides, with one exception, were composed after the completion of that marvel of architecture, the Parthenon; and the sight of this structure must have been a constant inspiration to one who had once been a painter, and could therefore fully appreciate the beauties of such a building, since painting and architecture are kindred arts.

Dr. Morgan then briefly sketched the story of Medea. How she helped Jason to fulfil his tasks, and secure the golden fleece; how she at length became his wife, and how he deserted her to marry the daughter of the king of Corinth, and Medea's revenge for her wrongs. The story served as a thread to bind together and give connection to the pictures.