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...question has adopted the usual method of a coward at heart. Running throughout his pages there is a half-concealed malignity towards our beloved institution that must be apparent not only to every Harvard student who is acquainted with the true state of things existing here, but also to reader who is ignorant of Harvard's methods and customs. In his concluding sentence, the writer meets the cry of misrepresentation that he knows is sure to rise against him by asserting that it is not his business to write of a nobler Harvard, but merely of the baser tendencies...
...period before the European discoveries. The book is a collection of articles by various writers, with critical essays and notes by Mr. Windsor. The history is not continuous, and only the salient points of each period are treated. A knowledge of American history is requisite for the reader, but for the student, the materials brought together are invaluable. Mr. Windsor contributes some very able papers in the fifth volume which are remarkable for their literary and historical treatment. As might be expected from the varied authorship, the work, judged as a historical narrative, is often deficient, but as a digest...
...number of the seventh volume of the Monthly gives promise that under the new board of editors, the interests of the paper will not be neglected. The articles are well written and are worthy of publication. The number as a whole, however, is not as interesting to the general reader as some of its predecessors. The work and thought of the essayist is given prominence almost to the exclusion of the writers of fiction. We have little fault to find with the matter presented but we think that if something in a lighter vein had been introduced among the sober...
...with other colleges, and is a decided credit to the author. As a general thing, books on athletics contain a confusing tangle of dates, names, anecdotes and statistics; but Mr. Hurd has separated everything in such a systematic manner as make the book particularly attractive to the reader. The accounts of contests are concise and clear, and the tables of statistics, records and facts are the most comprehensive that have ever appeared in a book on athletics. Although the book is written for Yale men, some facts brought out in connection with contests between the crimson and the blue...
...directions; yet without doubt it should give a decided predominance to light literature. In pursuance of this purpose, the present number has an essay on the "Meaning of Gulliver's Travels." The writer shows a thorough study of his subject, and, though his space is limited, clearly gives the reader his own conception of Swift's motives in writing his satires on English politics and society...