The Atlantic Monthly's table of contents for April is unusually diversified. Of special interest to German students is Mr. William P. Andrews' article on "Goethe's Key to Faust." This paper, which is the first of a series, discusses in a learned but entertaining manner the mythological sources of the Faust legend and tells us that, in looking for the key to Faust, we are to go the poet himself, to the poet's life, and the poet's thought, for then we can come at the deeper significance hidden under all the seeming trivialities of the action of the play. "There is," he says, "always something higher at the bottom, and nothing is required but eyes and knowledge of the world and the power of comprehension to perceive the great in the small."

"The Brazen Android" is the curious title of a story in two parts by the late William Douglas O'Connor, which has the place of honor in the Atlantic for April. It is a story of old London, and its ancient life is brought vividly before us by the ready imagination of the author. Francis Parkman's second paper on "The Capture of Louisbourg by the New England Militia" is marked by the still and care which Mr. Parkman devotes to everything he writes, and Mr. Stockton's "House of Martha" continues for three more chapters in its usual vivacious fashion.

Among the book reviews are two which will be of interest to Harvard men-one on Professor Toy's recently published "Jndaism and Christianity," the other upon Professor James's "Principles of Psychology." Professor Toy's work is a sketch of the progress of thought from Old Testament to New Testament, and the criticism of it is decidedly favorable, although the reviewer thinks that Professor Toy has an excessive regard for the theory of development and exhibits too much subjective criticism. "Professor James's work," says the critic, "is rich and living,- a book in which a generous nature breaks out at every point, although there is an absence of logical unity."

The remainder of the number is very entertaining, and the magazine reader will find the Atlantic for April one of the best of recent issues.