The feature of the Atlantic Monthly for April is the poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes read at the dinner in honor of James Russell Lowell's seventieth birthday. It has all of Dr. Holmes' grace and felicity of expression. "Passe Rose" Mr. Hardy's interesting serial is concluded in this number, also Miss Bellamy's "Hannah Collinse's Jim." There are several interesting essays on history and politics-among which are the "The People in Government" by H. C. Merwin, "Why our Science Students go to Germany" by S. Sheldon and "A French Bishop of the Fifteenth Century" by F. C. Lowell. Miss Harriet W. Preston continues a series of papers on Roman history with a sketch of Cicero's closing years, entitled "Before the Assassination." There are two short stories, "The King's Cup and Cake" by Sophie May, and "A Dissolving view of Carrick Meagher" by George H. Jessop. Bliss Carman, a recent graduate of Harvard contributes a long poem on "Death in April."