New England Magazine.

Of especial interest to Harvard men is the New England Magazine for March, for the leading article of the number is "Harvard College during the War of the Rebellion" by Captain Nathan Appleton. Captain Appleton was of the class of '63, and his description of the state of affairs at Harvard at the breaking out of the war, when all the '63 men were Sophomores, "in the full tide of sumptuousness and just at the age to enjoy the excitements of the occasion," -is vivid in the extreme. He tells of the political excitement which permeated the men in the fall of 1860, of the student parades, of the many bright verses and squibs which the occasion brought forth, and of the organization of the Harvard cadets, which, by the bye, were drilled by President, then Professor, Eliot. Then comes an account of the students leaving for the army, and a short sketch of the work and deeds of Harvard soldiers. The article is profusely illustrated with pictures of some of the college buildings as they appeared in 1863, and portraits of the numerous Harvard soldiers and graduates, whose lives and work Capt. Appleton briefly discusses. Among the many portraits are those of President Eliot (from a photograph taken in 1863), Lieut. William Lowell Putnam, Gen James S. Wadsworth, Horace Sargent Dunn, Gen. W. F. Bartlett, Col. Robert G. Shaw, Gen. Devons and others. Every Harvard man should read the article as it is extremely interesting.

The rest of the number is up to the usual high standard of the New England Magazine.