It is seldom that one has the pleasure of reviewing at once as attractive and interesting a publication as the initial number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. The printing is done by the Riverside Press and that is a sufficient guarantee of its typographical beauty. The cover is very neatly decorated with a picture of the gate and the frontespiece is a portrait of Henry J. Bowditch. The officers of the magazine are men of excellent position and their names alone are enough to recommend the paper. A stock company - the Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association - are the publishers and William Roscoe Thayer '81, is the editor. Frank Bolles L.L. B., '82, is the university editor and William H. Wiggin Jr., '92, is business manager. The paper is published quarterly.

The contents of the present number include a number of very interesting articles, which can only be mentioned here: The opening contribution is entitled "The Worth of a University Education" and is signed by Professor A. P. Peabody, '26. Theodore Roosevelt '80, has an article on "Harvard Men in Politics" and President Eliot, '53, writes of "The School's Examination Board." Wendell P. Garrison's paper is called. "The Alumnus and his Son," and C. F. Fulsom '62, publishes a review of the career of the late Henry Ingersoll Bowditch. The other articles are as follows: "The New Movement in Humanity," (Phi Beta Kappa Oration, 1892) by W. J. Tucker; "Harvard's Loss of Athletic Prestige" by F. W. Thayer '78, and "The University During the Last Five Years" by W. C. Lane '81.

Mr. Frank Bolles edits the department headed "The University" and he treats of the Academic Year, the Chapel, the Library, Departments. Scientific Establishments, Professional Schools and the Summer School. Other departments are entitled "Meetings," "Commencement," "Athletics" - which includes an article on the Boating Season by Ex-Captain Perkins '91, and the "Graduates."

The magazine is nearly 200 pages long and it is good reading from beginning to end. It is a pleasure to recommend it to the undergraduate as well as the alumnus for the interest is almost as great for one as for the other - and that means much.