The September Graduates' Magazine opens with an article by Wayne MacVeagh, h.'01, on "The Value of Ethical Ideals in American Politics." With due allowance for an age of business, the author points out how a return to the nobler ethical standards of our ancestors would help in solving the recurring questions of the time, such as the race problem in the South, and the relation of capital and labor. Moral courage in public life is essential; for, referring to its absence he says: "As one example, take our attitude toward the corrupt use of money in our elections and in our representative bodies. . . . There can be no reverence for law where laws and law makers are bought with money, and I fear we are rapidly destroying the possibility of such reverence in the minds of our countrymen. We ought never to forget that in democratic governments the black flag of corruption is apt to be followed by the rd flag of anarchy." The article closes with expression of confidence in the ultimate awakening of the nation's conscience to higher ideals.

Josiah Royce contributes a most thoughtful estimate of John Fiske, as a thinker, tracing his mental growth from his earliest youth. This is followed by "A Sketch of John Fiske's Life," by William Roscoe Thayer '81.

An "Address to Radcliffe Graduates," by C. E. Norton, '46, is a graceful bit of advice as to some of the objects and results of education. To quote: "The final aim and effort of civilization is to make life pleasanter; and this is the object of what we call good manners. . . . Manners,' as Emerson says, 'are the happy ways of doing things,' and the the best manners are those which have their root in habitual self-respect and in consideration for others." Good manners, the use of moral influence, the cultivation of an inner life, all are urged as due from educated women.

Other contributions are a Greek verse by M. H. Morgan '81, "To William Watson Goodwin," and "The Celebration of Commencement Day," by J. G. Wheelwright '76.