Those who have been in the habit of deploring the decrease in the study of the classical languages in American schools will be pleasantly surprised at the disclosures in the report just issued by Dean A. W. West of Princeton, president of the American Classical League, which has been conducting a three-year investigation along this line. "There are many signs in the colleges of an increasing interest in both Latin and Greek," reads the report in part. Of course, this does not mean that concerning many, or any, of the students it may be said, in the language of Butler's Hudibras, that

Beside 'tis known he could speak Greek

As naturally as pigs squeak:

That Latin was no more difficile

Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.

Still to those advocating the study of the classics from the standpoint of its value as a basic training the fact that "the number of secondary schools offering four years of Latin is more than double the number offering three years in French," cannot but be seen as anything but in the highest degree encouraging. Christian Science Monitor.