HARVARD AND YALE-BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

"As a gentleman is known by his speech and bearing," says the New York Tribune, "the Harvard statement of the case doubtless is its own best warrant. 'I know a man who had twins so much alike that the only way to tell them apart was to send one to Harvard and one to Yale. Then one came back a gentleman and one a Connecticut rough.' For native and ingenuous modesty this has its only parallel in the historic description by the Kentuckian of the guests at a Cincinnati dinner party which he had attended: 'There were present, sir, one Kentucky gentleman, whom you know, sir; one Huguenot from the Old South State; a Virginian - Poindexter stock; one Wolverine, two Buckeyes, and a Yankee son-of-a-peddlar from Massachusetts!'

"Harvard, at least in former years, has produced more writing men than her practical and sturdy rival. It was the custom of the elder sort to carry their literary wares to the market town adjacent. The new generation, however, with the keen instinct of youth, perceives that a broader life, a surer market, a more various intellectual growth, are to be gained in the national metropolis. Harvard men are thronging in the ranks of the learned professions here, and only the briefest residence is needed to make them typical (i. e., cosmopolitan) New Yorkers. The staff of the new comic journal, Life, of which the first number will appear next week, is composed almost wholly of bright young Harvard wits, who have found Boston a good training school but have discovered that New York henceforth is the ground for successful literary careers."