FIVE PROFESSORS ESTABLISH NOVEL TYPE OF MAGAZINE

With the publication of the first historical review of New England life and leters, five professors in the University have started a quarterly magazine, which should prove an important contribution to the field of literary periodicals. The quarterly is called The New England Quarterly and the editors are: S. E. Morison '07, Professor of History; A. M. Schlesinger, Professor of History; K. B. Murdock '16, Professor of English; Professor Stanley Williams, and A. L. Mayo '10, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The magazine contains articles, book reviews, short notes, and documents. If sufficient contributions are forthcoming, about half the space will be devoted to the history of New England. The Quarterly will be open to students, graduates, or any one who has something to contribute, which is of merit and bears upon some aspect of New England life or letters.

The purpose of the journal is best set forth in the following words of the editors:

"We believe that New England, like the other sections of our country, has had in the past a well-defined provincial culture, and has made a distinctive contribution to American life, character and civilization. A quarterly journal, including within its scope the literary, social and economic history of New England, and the westward expansion of New England people, should first, meet a recognized need of scholars of history and literature, and, second, the rising generation of scholars in a field that needs cultivation. In the study of American literature many large problems and topics must wait for final treatment until the detailed studies upon which they must be based have been made. At present there is almost no opportunity for the publication of these studies. The colonial and revolutionary history of New England has been written largely from a narrowly antiquarian viewpoint; the history of New England thought and letters largely from a personal viewpoint; and the economic, social and political history of New England during the last hundred years has hardly been touched at all.."

The first issue of the Quarterly contains articles by Professor Morison, Professor W. O. Clough of the University of Wyoming, Judge F. W. Howay, of British Vancouver, Lawrence Martin, midwestern journalist, and Professor S. K. Hornbeck. There are several book reviews in the issue.

The list of the articles and book reviews which appear in the first issue is as follows:

"Squire Ames and Doctor Ames," S. E. Morison: "A Journal of Village Life in Vermont in 1848." Edited by W. O. Clough: "The Genesis of Godey's 'Lady's Book'," Lawrence Martin: "A Ballad on the Northwest Fur Trade." F. W. Howay: Memoranda and Documents:: "Count Caleb Cushing," S. K. Hornbeck: "Milices du Newhampshire," 1787.

Book Reviews: "The Golden Day," by Lewis Mumford, reviewed by V. W. Brooks: "Eight O'clock Chapel," by C. H. Patton and W. T. Fields, reviewed by J. R. Brackett: "Main Currents of American Thought" by V. L. Parrington, reviewed by Stanley Williams: "A New Englander in Japan: Dauiel Crosby Greene," by E. B. Greene, reviewed by E. A. Christie: "The Rise of American Civilization," by C. A. Beard and Marry R. Beard reviewed by S. E. Morison: "The Harvest of a Quiet Life," by Odell Shepard, reviewed by Lawrence Mayo.

Included in this list of contents are several bibliographies.

Contributions to the Quarterly should be sent to the Managing Editor, L. S. Mayo, 24 University Hall. Also books for review may be sent to him