Harvard Monthly.

The November Monthly makes a considerable departure from the standard which it adopted, or re-adopted, in the preceding issue. The main article, occupying over half the space of the magazine, is a translation contributed by a graduate. While it is perhaps of the greatest intrinsic value of any recent contribution, it seems out of place in a magazine professing to publish "the best literary work that is produced by students of the university." The regular graduate article, written by Mr. Francis C. Lowell, compares "Harvard and the Continental Universities." The author shows that while the German universities invite students to learn, but do not concern themselves farther, Harvard has very different functions. Harvard undertakes "the advancement of learning and sound morals alike." She has therefore "the full right to make and enforce such regulations as she believes profitable to good morals among her students."

H. McCulloch, Jr., contributes a only other prose article. "A Pupil of Giotte" describes the single masterpiece of an Italian painter, and tells how the artist was so fearful of overshadowing his master's fame that he renounced his profession for the convent.

The Communication corrects the mis-statement in Mr. Fuller's article in the October number. The Month is a curious compilation of facts chiefly left over from the last issue. It also includes a summary of the foot ball games, the finances of the athletic clubs, and some advance sheets of the catalogue. It these items and a description of the new janitor system saw "the broader livers of development in the university," the Month is fulfilling its announced purpose.