8.—Polemical subjects, as well as polemics in the treatment of subjects, shall be positively excluded.
9.—The lectures shall be delivered in the various cities between the months of September and June.
10.—The copyright of the lectures shall be the property of the Committee.
11.—The compensation of the lecturer shall be fixed in each case by the Committee.
12.—The lecturer shall be paid in installments after each course, until he shall have received half of the entire compensation. Of the remaining half, one half shall be paid to him upon delivery of the manuscript, properly prepared for the press, and the second half on the publication of the volume, less a deduction for corrections made by the author in the proofs.
The Committee as now constituted is as follows: Prof. Crawford H. Toy,
Chairman, 7 Lowell St., Cambridge, Mass.; Rev. Dr. John P. Peters,
Treasurer, 227 W. 99th St., New York City; Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr.,
Secretary, 248 So. 23d St., Philadelphia, Pa.; President Francis Brown,
Union Theological Seminary, New York City; Prof. Richard Gottheil, Columbia
University, New York City; Prof. Harry Pratt Judson, University of Chicago,
Chicago, Ill.; Prof. Paul Haupt, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.;
Mr. Charles D. Atkins, Director, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences;
Prof. E.W. Hopkins, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Prof. Edward Knox
Mitchell, Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn.; President F.K.
Sanders, Washburn College, Topeka, Kan.; Prof. H.P. Smith, Meadville
Theological Seminary, Meadville, Pa.; Prof. W.J. Hinke, Auburn Theological
Seminary, Auburn, N.Y.; Prof. Kemper Fullerton, Oberlin Theological
Seminary, Oberlin, N.Y.
The lecturers in the course of American Lectures on the History of
Religions and the titles of their volumes are as follows:
1894-1895—Prof. T.W. Rhys-Davids, Ph.D.,—Buddhism.
1896-1897—Prof. Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., LL.D.—Religions of Primitive Peoples.
1897-1898—Rev. Prof. T.K. Cheyne, D.D.—Jewish Religious Life after the Exile.