The Monthly.

The Monthly for May just published contains only three articles but these three are all of them unusually good. The first and best of them is a sketch and study of the work of Dr. Peabody and of the circumstances under which his great work was done. It is written by Professor C. C. Everett who was fortunate enough to be here while the chief part of Dr. Peabody's work was done. To most of us. Doctor Peabody is hardly more than a name, but before our time he was to eighteen classes during their whole course more than we can now understand any member of the Faculty to be to us He was a personal friend, a warm hearted and generous helper and councillor to almost every man in college for all these years. It was the fashion for every student to love and honor him. With him has passed away a certain spirit of familiarity and friendship between professors and students, for his retirement came at a time when the University was beginning to grow most rapidly and was losing somewhat the "Harvard spirit." Thus this article leads to "The Decadence of the Harvard Spirit; A Conversation" by Hugh McCulloch. This article was fully discussed in an editorial published in the CRIMSON a day or two ago, and we have only here to say that it presents well and clearly, though at somewhat tedious length, a great though inevitable danger into which we have come through the tremendous growth of the University in late years, that danger being that as our numbers increase we gradually lose that flue "Harvard spirit" of quiet and sober gentlemanliness for which Harvard men have always been noted. "My Dryad" is a short poem by P. H. Savage. It is not especially good. A long and cleverly managed article is J. R. Oliver's study of Maurice Maetterlink, a young Belgian writer, The article is abundantly stocked with quotations and is good reading. The Book Review for the month is a criticism of Dr. Everett's new book, The Gospel of Paul.