The contents of the May Monthly are varied in character and in interest. A perusal of "Clippings from a College Scrap Book" reads like a fairy tale. Here are chronicles of the days when Harvard used to win, when her victories were due to "Harvard discipline," and it does one good to read of the golden age.

Robert Steed Dunn has a handful of sonnets of very uniform quality. With the exception of the verses entitled "By the Agean," there is more richness of word than of thought in their composition.

Mr. John Corbin's article in a recent number of Harper's Weekly on "Why Harvard does not Win" serves as the but against which Grilk '98 has levelled a very good bit of forensic writing. He has shown rather conclusively that a movement toward athletic reform lies not in a reorganization of our social system, nor in the proposed plan of disintegration into smaller colleges which Mr. Corbin, after a year or two at Oxford, advocates strongly, but rather in a greater unity and a broader sympathy among all undergraduates, inspired not alone by the hope of athletic success, but also by an interest in one another and in the common institution and its traditions.

The only piece of fiiction in the number, "Salome," a story by W. B. Parker, has the merit of vividness. H. McBurney '98, B. H. Dibblee '99, M. S. Duffield '97 and H. C. Cornwell '97, have contributed short articles on "An American Henley,"- the weight of opinion being against the feasibility of such an event. The same subject is treated editorially in an able and comprehensive manner.