Biographies, while often informative, are rarely definitive. As the years pass more facts are unearthed and legends accumulate, making transgression an easy sin for the biographer. It is the fortune of some few figures, however, to be acknowledged by their contemporaries and to be chronicled by their friends. Such in the case, with the late Charles William Eliot, whose life is to be recorded by Henry James.

There is much one might say in anticipation of Mr. James work but such predictions are unnecessary. Emanating from a man of indubitable literary skill the book is bound to be a worthy tribute to the memory of a great man. The CRIMSON joins with the admirers of Mr. Eliot and of Mr. James in looking forward to this biography which will have besides the blessing of one man's thorough knowledge of another the additional tribute of fine workmanship.