Mr. Stanley Casson, is a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and University Reader in Classical Archaeology. He was also at one time Assistant Director of the British School at Athens and Director of the British archaeological excavations in Constantinople during 1927-8. In his first talk this evening Mr. Casson is to discuss Sparta, that one 'city of ancient Greece that had no walls; whose organization was a supremely militarist democracy; and whose food and education were probably the harshest, that the young of any nation have been called upon to endure. Spartans were the most splendid animals of the ancient world.'