The fact that the New England Magazine for February contains an article on "Clubs and Club Life at Harvard," should of itself make the number an interesting one for Harvard men, even if the other articles were less interesting and offered less of a variety than is the fact. Of these other articles perhaps the most interesting to college men will be the "Stories of Salem Witchcraft," by W. S. Nevins, whose writings must always have a peculiar interest to all who are familiar with his charming musical studies and sketches. A short article in "America in Early English Literature," by I. B. Choate, in which the author cites some of the "numberless references to the early colonists which cannot fail to arrest the attention of the reader of general literature, and which are of great value since they are the "unconscious expressions of the sentiment which prevailed in their day." The description of "Bryant's New England Home," by Henrietta S. Nalmer, too, though rather long and suggestive of padding is still interesting, and the cause assigned for the remarkably advanced and liberal ideas which have centered about Cummington is suggestive, to say the least.

For Harvard men, however, as we have said before, the chief interest of the number is bound to centre in the article by William Dana Orcutt ('92). It is a readable and rather interesting review of the situation in society life at Harvard, containing a slight description of almost all the college societies from the Institute of 1770 to the Deutscher Verein. The illustrations are plentiful and on the whole very good. They comprise the seals and emblems of some of the societies, and groups and individual pictures of the actors in the '89, '91 and '92 Hasty Pudding theatricals, and the '93 and '94 D. K. E. theatricals. The most interesting part of the article, however, is the comparison between the Harvard societies and those of Yale, Princeton, and the smaller colleges. The peculiar qualifications which are requisite for election to the clubs of the different colleges are clearly brought out, and no attempt is made to conceal the rather mortifying fact that "at Harvard * * * family and money certainly are two distinctive qualifications for popularity."