The Atlantic during the past few months has fairly bristled with studies on metrical renderings. Professor Palmer set the ball rolling in October with his papers on translating Homer. This month William P. Andrews writes an article "On the Translation of Faust." while the Contributors' Club of the same number contains rejoinders to both Professor Palmer's and Mr. Andrews' articles. Mr. Andrews considers that a translation of Faust should invariably follow the third of three methods offered to translations by Goethe, that is it should strive to imitate the originals as closely in form as possible, so that the one is not instead of the other but in place of the other.

Captain Mahan, U. S. N., whose recent book on naval history has made him so prominent, contributes "The United States Looking Outwards." It is a thought full paper urging our nation to be ready to back up the aggressive foreign policy which it is bound, sooner or later, to adopt and predicting that the islands of the Carribean Sea are the plums which all nations will soon be trying to snatch.

Mr. John Fiske contributes an historic article, "From King's Mountain to Yorktown;" other articles. of the historical critical-literary character, are by Louise Imogene Guivey and Margaret Christine Whiting on Slr Walter Raleigh and Mrs. Pepys. "Carriage Horses and Cobs' seems a curious companion for Birge Harrison's "New Departure in Parisian Art," and poems by Dr. Holmes, T. W. Parsons, R. W. Gilder and Helen Gray Cone. One other article deserves especial mention, that on Cardinal Newman. The present installments of the serials do not indicate any disposition to set the world on fire.