Everything pretaining to James Russell Lowell and his work interests Harvard men and the magazine articles, reminiscent or otherwise, about him are bound to multiply with great rapidity. In the November Century, the death of Mr. Lowell is further commemorated by a paper of literary criticism by Mr. George E. Woodbury, the newly appointed professor of English poetry at Columbia College. Mr. Woodbury was an intimate friend of Mr. Lowell's in recent years and is therefore well fitted to write of the dead poet. Mr. Woodbury dwells especially on the simplicity of his nature, as shown in his works, beneath the diversity of his interests and the subtle refinements of his intellectual part, the unity of his life as poet, citizen and thinker, and the harmonious interplay of his faculties one with another, and especially the directness of his expression in every mode of writing - the primary traits of Mr. Lowell's character. Accompanying this article are a new full page portrait of Mr. Lowell, engraved by T. Johnson, and a brief article by Joel Benton, introducing a notable letter from Mr. Lowell replying to criticisms upon him for his political poems of 1875.

The feature of the November Century, however, which is likely to attract the most attention is probably the new novel, "The Naulahka," by Rudyard Kipling and Walcott Bolestier, the latter a well-known American now living in London. This is Mr. Kipling's first experience in collaboration, and the story is not only international in authorship but also in plot. It opens on the bridge of an irrigating ditch in a Western State, and at the close of the first instalment there is already an indication of a change of the scene to India. The motive of the story is the quest of an American, Nicholas Tarvin, for a celebrated necklace of jewels which hangs round the neck of an idol, in the province of Rajputana, and which he has promised to bring back to Mrs. Mutrie, at Topaz, Colorado, in order to obtain her influence in behalf of the town he is booming. In the working out of this unique theme, some surprising situations may be looked for.