"Harvard Lyrics."

In "Harvard Lyrics," Charles Livingston Stebbins '97 has compiled selections from the best verse written by Harvard undergraduates during the last ten years. The book contains the Class Day odes of the years since 1889, and a number of poems, in various forms, by an almost equal number of authors.

As Mr. Stebbins says in his preface, "One would not claim for the poems here presented the depth of a Browning nor the metrical perfection of a Tennyson; but one can assert with reason that they are worthy of the attention of thoughtful readers." Nor is it too much to say that all the poems in the volume have considerable merit, and that the majority of them are decidedly better than the verses printed in the present-day magazines. It ought to be a matter of satisfaction and pride that they are the work of Harvard men.

Both for the intrinsic merit of its contents and for the light it throws on the quality of recent Harvard literary work, the book is well worth having. Published by L. C. Page & Co. Price $1.00.