In its April issue, the Century caters to a wide variety of tastes, and its table of contents reveals several names new to magazine readers. To the average college man, perhaps the most interesting article is "The Wordsworths and De Quincey," a paper of literary biography containing unpublished letters of the poet and the opium-eater: one of Wordsworth's to the young De Quincey is particularly worthy of attention as containing excellent advice to youth, advice which he gives in simplicity and tender apprehension, as one lover of nature and virtue speaking to another, advice which is applicable quite as much in our own day as it was in the early part of the century.

In a paper on "Washington and Frederick the Great," Mr. Moncure D. Conway does away with the century-old myth concerning the alleged relations between the two great commanders. Mr. Conway comes to the conclusion that so far from Frederick the Great having given Washington a sword, no gift was ever sent by him to the American general, and "he never recognized in any remark the greatness of Washington." The fiction of the number is very diversified, includiug a new installment of Dr. Eggleston's "Faith Doctor;" a story "There were Ninety and Nine," by the new edit of Harper's Weekly, Richard Harding Davis; the conclusion of Hopkinson Smith's "Colonel Carter of Cartersville;" and "A Race Romance," the last of a series of three short tales, by that delightful story-teller, Maurice Thompson.

The principal poetry of the number is by the late Charles Henry Lieders, four of his best poems being published, together with a sympathetic tribute to his memory by the editor. In "Bric-a Brac," among the excellent things, is a dainty bit of verse to "Dora's Eyes," by Irving S. Underhill, Williams '89.