The June Illustrated Magazine

In the June number of the Illustrated Magazine "Class Day Traditions" discusses Class Days, past and present, in a traditional manner. "The trees are garlanded with wriggling muckers" is its only marked departure from conventionality. "The Year on the Track" is a brief summary by one who knows. "The Agassiz Centenary" reprints three speeches too charming to pass away with the daily newspaper. "The Adventures of a Dry Nurse" is probably too true a picture of a young schoolmaster's dormitory life. "Our Interest in the Outside World" makes a suggestion more sanguine than practical. "The Weld Boathouse" gives interesting facts in rather inferior form.

The one serious effort in this number for something large and true is Mr. Clark King's "Review of the Pen and Brush Club Exhibition." Such a review, whatever its faults, adds dignity to the magazine.

There is some force in the editorial article on "The Proposed Business School," and in the review of "Brown at Harvard." The reviewer deplores, with reason, the hard fortune of our Alma Mater at the hands of her literary exhibitors. It is comforting to have the responsibility of the creatrix of "Brown" transferred from Radcliffe to Wellesley, and to learn that even at Wellesley her stay was short.

The number is varied and by no means uninteresting, but in general not well written. The Monthly has been accused of rating style too high. No such charge can be maintained against a magazine that uses the words "donate," "novelize," and "enthuse," and (to borrow its own phrase) "cares not a hang."

As to the pictures, we might wish that the youth and the maiden on the cover looked happier and more flexible.