Activities of the Friends
An Evening With Jacques Barzun

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/" 1 f N HE NEXT meeting of the Friends of the Columbia
Libraries will be held on December 8th at 8:30 p.m. in
the Social Room of Butler Library. At this time the
Friends will have an opportunity to meet Jacques Barzun, well-
known author and Professor of History at Columbia University,
and to preview the exhibit of books and manuscripts prepared
to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Louis Hector
BerUoz. Perhaps most widely known in recent years as the
author of the Teacher in America (1945), Professor Barzun is
also the author of Berlioz and the Romantic Century (1950) and
of a forthcoming volume. New Letters of Berlioz, iS^o-i86S.
The latter volume is one of twelve distinguished books in the
forthcoming Columbia Bicentennial Editions and Studies series
which exemplify the current scholarship of members of the Co¬
lumbia University faculties. Earlier works by Professor Barzun
include The French Race: Theories of its Origins (1932), Race:
A Study in Modern Superstitions (1937), Of Human Freedom
(1939), Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941), Romanticism and the
Modern Ego (1943).
 

An Evening With John Mason Brown

The Friends of the Columbia Libraries will act as co-sponsors
with the Institute of Arts and Sciences on the occasion of the
evening with John Mason Brown, January 27, at 8:30 p.m., in
McMiUin Theater, Broadway at 116th Street. Tickets ($1.00)
may be obtained from the Institute, Room 304, School of Busi¬
ness, Columbia University.

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