The contribution in the February Atlantic which will attract perhaps the widest attention is an able paper entitled The Presidency and Mr. Reed. It is a thoughtful presentation of the requirements of the presidential office and a discussion of Mr. Reed's fitness for it. It is the first of a promised series upon the issues and some of the personalities of the forthcoming campaign.

Another feature of this issue is Glasses, a complete story, by Henry James. The central idea of this story is most unique, and affords Mr. James an unusual opportunity to exercise his talents as a storyteller.

Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop contributes some recollections of Hawthorne, covering the period of his English consulate.

The second of Mrs. Catherwood's studies in provincial France is entitled a A Little Domestic, and is a charming picture of peasant life. The second instalment of F. J. Stimson's Pirate Gold is full of dramatic interest.

H. Sidney Everett contributes a paper on Unclaimed Estates. He gives minute and most interesting information in regard to the large European estates which are supposed to be awaiting American claimants.

Further contributions by Gilbert Parker, Bradford Torrey, Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr., and others, exhaustive book reviews, comments on new books, and the Contributors' Club, complete this readable issue.