The Monthly.

In the opening article of the Monthly for April, Professor F. C. de Sumichrast discusses the adaptations to the French of the plays of Shakespeare, and the influence of that great English poet on the French dramatists. The rest of the number is given up to fiction, with articles by L. W. Hopkinson, J. P. Warren, J. Waterman, J. T. Stickney, and J. P. Welsh.

The editorial on "The Future of the Academic Department" will be interesting to all college men. The writer, having in view the growing prominence of the Graduate School, the remarkable improvement of the secondary schools, and the increasing demands made on the time of the student by the professional schools, looks forward to the time when the college course shall be cut down to

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