Harvard Monthly

The Monthly for June is entertaining if not conspicuously original. Prof. Cohn writes admiringly of one Frenchman, and R. W. Herrick unadmiringly of all Frenchmen. M. Cohn's paper is a brief resume of Emile Augier's literary character, and demonstration of his rights to higher recognition as a playwright than is generally accorded him. "The Philosophy of a Modern Frenchman" starts out with the assertion that a Frenchman has no philosophy. The writer evidently counts all Frenchmen as of the school of Richepin and de Maupassant, earth-bound and with only a mud roof for sky.

"Salamicis" is a picturesque version of a poetic story, artistically wrought out. One effect is the introduction of the pronoun "I" in a solitary instance to help in a rhyme which evidently would come in no other way.

"George Eliot's Ethics" is interesting, if not new, as almost nothing about George Eliot can be.

"Geothe and Cogswell" is a development of an article contributed by Professor Francke to the "Nation," treating of one of the most generous and cultivated men that Harvard ever produced.

"May Day" and "Daffodils" are pretty little conceits in verse. A communication by G. R. Aganssiz discusses Harvard rowing, and the editorials are devoted to the recent administrative changes at Harvard.