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Foremost in interest among the articles in the Monthly for January, is a short account of the life of Henry Warren Torry '33, who was McLean professor of history at Harvard from 1857 until his death on December 14 last. The author, Professor MacVane, also writes interestingly of Professor Torrey's work at Harvard and gives an idea of his delightful personality.
The rest of the Monthly suffers somewhat from being too entirely devoted to literary subjects. Four of the five articles treat of the writings of different authors in their various phases. "A New England Mystic," by Carleton E. Noyes, gives some comment on the character of Jones Very, but largely as it showed itself through his poetry. "The Elizabethan and the Greek,- a Study in Lyric Poetry," by E. K. Rand, is, as its name implies, a comparison of the lyrics of the Greeks with those of the poets of England at the time of that nation's greatest prosperity. Following close on this comes C. F. A. Siedhof's "Notes on Heine"; and the series closes with "A Bit of Browning's Philosophy," the unknown author of which seems no to understand completely the philosophy of which he writes. Aside from this, the literary article are very satisfactory and interesting in their way.
The only articles of fiction in the number is "Ignatius-Marty" by J. R. Oliver. As might be expected from him, the story is very well told. He describes the longing of a priest to suffer martyrdom at the hands of the Indians in behalf of his religion, and his lamentable flight when the time of trial comes.
There is very rarely occasion to notice editorially the death of two such men as Frank Bolles and Francis Parkman, but to both of these has the Monthly paid an appropriate tribute. Aside from this, two more editorials bring up interesting points. The one is a complaint of the dangerous extent to which the spirit of democracy and individualism at Harvard is carried; the other advocates the practice of conferring hoods with the University degrees, so that Harvard Bachelors, Doctors, and Masters may be marked in assemblages of learned men as are those of other universities.
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