ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE

The November issue of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine has all the interest and advantage of timeliness dealing as it does, most pertinently with our immediate political situation. The note for the issue is already struck on the cover which bears an excellent print of the great steel dome, erected over the Capitol at Washington during the troublous years of the Civil War.

Looking inside the pages one remarks an editorial on "The College Man and Politics," which with admirable brevity indicates the new type of politician coming to the front in our present day affairs and the reason why this new political leader is, almost of necessity, college bred. The most spirited and aggressive article in the number follows at once from the pen of Professor Hart on the theme, "Historical Significance of the Progressive Party." It is a trenchant and direct statement, which, after the Progressive manner, does not hesitate to employ picturesque language, nor to state with succinct boldness the grievances and convictions of the new party. It must be conceded that something of the rigour and vitality of the new movement is evident in the straight-forward phrasing and confident assertions of the article. But the "piece de resistance" of the number is a longer and more careful article by Louis D. Kornfield '14 entitled "The Political Triangle." The article is well written, showing careful preparation and a real grasp of the essentials of a peculiarly complex and interesting political situation and for this article alone it would be worth while for undergraduates to read the issue. There is also what seems to me a typical utterance of the stand-patter,--a graceful statement of well worn and out worn Republican platitudes by ex-Governor Long. There is also, just why one does not know, in this otherwise admirably serious and pertinent number a lurid word collection from the pen of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, chiefly sound and fury signifying nothing. Ferhaps the article is offered as material for instructors in English A, who may utilize it to show those who would write English how not to do it. The two concluding numbers of the issue are in extra political fields, one by Winthrop A. Hamlin '13 on the College Man and Current Problems, and an interesting account by Charles Hann, Jr., '11, of the Southern trip of the Harvard All-Star Football Team. Both these contributions are well worth the reading and despite the volcano of words emitted by Mr. Lawson, the issue is conspicuous for its serious purpose and the substance of its contributions