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AMERICAN COLLEGE FRATERNITIES. By William Raimond Baird. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

THIS work is complete. It is useful as a reference book, and even interesting reading. Harvard has not lately taken great interest in secret fraternities, but the large number of these societies at other colleges must make Mr. Baird's work valuable to them. There are at present, in American colleges, forty-five general fraternities, thirteen local fraternities, and seven ladies' societies. Among the best-known societies, the Alpha Delta Phi has twenty-three chapters, and among its members are Rev. Phillips Brooks, Prof. James Russell Lowell, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and President Eliot; the Psi Upsilon has seventeen chapters, and among its members are Professors William W. Goodwin, James M. Pierce, and Alexander E. Agassiz. Mr. Baird concludes that the fraternities "are a help to their members, and a valuable and efficient aid to good college government."