A significant book has just been issued. This is the publication of an oration by Dr. Phillips Brooks at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Boston Latin School. Dr. Brooks traces with great care the close relations which have always existed between the Latin School and its younger sister, Harvard University. No school, perhaps, has been so closely connected with Harvard as the Latin School. Its masters have been almost an unbroken series of Harvard graduates, and in return the school has continued, we might almost say for centuries, to supply the university with an annual contingent of scholars including nearly its entire graduating class. Almost one hundred Latin school graduates are now studying at Harvard. The "Harvard spirit" rules in the Latin school and a "Harvard man" there assumes gigantic proportions. Nothing could argue better for the healthy influence of Harvard than this same spirit. Each year ought to witness its increase throughout the preparatory schools, not only of New England but of the whole country.