PROF. LEGOUIS TO SPEAK ON NEW DOCUMENTS ABOUT POET WORDSWORTH TODAY

Professor Emile Legouis, of the University of Paris will lecture this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. His subject will be "William Wordsworth in the Light of New Documents".

Professor Legouis is an Agrege d'Anglais of the University of Paris, having won this distinction in 1885. In 1896 he further secured the degree of Docteur-es-Lettres at the University of Paris. In 1897 he was appointed Professor at the University of Lyons. Since 1904 he has been Professor of the English Language and Literature at the University of Paris or Sorbonne. He was Exchange Professor of English at Harvard for the year from 1912 to 1913.

Professor Legouis is the author of several books, one of the best known of which is "The Youth of William Wordsworth". He is one of the foremost authorities on Wordsworth, and much of the recently unearthed information about the great English poet is due to his exhaustive researches; he has been especially interested in the influence that the poet's visits to France played upon his poetry. Professor Legouis is also the author of a book on Chaucer and of "The Defence of French Poetry for the Use of English Readers", and many other volumes.

He is in this country giving the Trumbull Lectures on Poetry for Johns Hopkins University. The lecture is open to the public and will be in English.