The Monthly.

The fifth number of the Monthly, which will probably be out this afternoon, will be a Memorial number to the late Phillips Brooks. The editors may well feel proud of the work which they have done, for certainly the pleasant reminders which the various articles will make cannot fail to find a warm place in the hearts of the students. The editors have shown great wisdom, too, in having the articles written by men of different denominations, by clergy and laity, and dealing with so many different places and periods of the Bishop's life. No better test of a man's real character can be found than the opinions of men of different ideas and of different conditions of life. Of the contributors two are not Harvard graduates, Dr. Lyman Abbott and Dr. Leighton Parks.

The frontispiece is a portrait of the Bishop from a photograph by Pach taken recently in Cambridge. There have been better likenesses, but as the Harvard picture, sentiment makes it good. After the portrait there is printed in full the last sermon Dr. Brooks preached in Appleton chapel. One cannot read it without seeing the great man in the pulpit and feeling again the force of his rushing words on the "necessity of life" and "the glory of obedience." There is also a fac-simile of the last page of the same sermon with the date of its delivery, Oct. 4, 1891.

President Eliot contributes an article on "What Phillips Brooks did for the college." The article shows the love which the President felt for the Bishop and the appreciation of the administrative boards of his work. Dr. Lawrence writes a short article on some of the domestic traits of Dr. Brooks, and Rev. James Reed gives a short account of his college career, which does not seem in any way specially prophetic of his future greatness. Dr. A. P. Peabody adds an appreciative estimate of the Bishop's character

There follow short articles by Dr. Abbott. Dr. Hale, Mr. Hooper and Dr. Parks, each man bringing out special characteristics in this great life which had come to his notice. These men universally base their remarks on a profound love for the man, a profound respect for the preacher and his views. Colonel Higginson writes a letter on Phillips Brooks' school and college days and this is followed by Prof. Peabody's Address at the memorial service in the Chapel. The last pages are taken up by appropriate verse and editorials.

By this issue of the Monthly a real service will be done the university. We shall have an interesting, varied, intelligent account of a life which means every thing to college men and we heartily commend the number to the students.