HIBBERT LECTURES: Next to the Bampton and the Boyle lectures perhaps the most noteworthy of the lectureships in Great Britain. The lectureship is named from Robert Hibbert (1770-1849), an English Unitarian, whose business interests were in Jamaica. In 1847 he executed a deed conveying to trustees after the death of his wife $90,000 in American railroad utocks, the income to be applied in a way "most conducive to the spread of Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form, and to the unfettered exercise of the right of private judgment in matters of religion." The income from the funds was used for some time in forwarding the independent research of students for the ministry whose attainments were regarded as especially brilliant. In 1878, however, a part of the funds was set apart for a limited series of years for the establishment of a lectureship to deal with the history of the religions of the world. The result is a series of volumes most of which have taken their place as classics in the subjects of which they treat. Many of the volumes have passed through several editions, and a new uniform edition has been issued, London, 1891-97. The following is a list of the lecturers and their subjects:

1878. F. Max Müller, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, as Illustrated by the Religions of India, Oxford, 1878.

1879. P. Le Page Renouf, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, as Illustrated by the Religion of Ancient Egypt, London, 1880.

1880. J. E. Renan, The Influence of the Institutions, Thought and Culture of Rome on Christianity and as Do. velopment of the Catholic Church, ib. 1880.

1881. T. W. Rhys Davids, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, as Illustrated by some Paints in the History of Indian Buddhism, ib. 1882.

1882. A. Kuenen, National Religions and Universal Religions, ib. 1882.

1883. C. Beard, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge, ib. 1883.

1884. ,A. REville, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru, ib. 1884.

1885. O. Pfleiderer, The Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity, ib. 1885.

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1888. J. Rhys, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, as Illustrated by Celtic Heathendom, ib. 1887.

1887. A. H. Sayee, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of

Religion, as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, ib. 1887.

1888. E. Hatch, The Infuenoe of Greek Ideas and Usages upon the Christian Church, edited by A. M. Fairbairn, ib. 1890.

1891. E. Goblet d'Alviella, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of the Conception of God, as Illustrated by Anthropology and History, ib. 1891.

1892. C. G. Montefiore, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Hebre", ib. 1893.

1893. C. B. Upton, The Bases of Religious Belief, ib. 1894.

1894. J. Drummond, via, veritas, vita: Lectures on Christianity in its most simple and intelligible Form, ib. 1895.