selections from standard criticism on their work, in the case of "Sohrab and Rustum," historical information sufficient for the understanding of the events of the poem, and in the volume of Emerson brief summaries of the three essays, are given. The books with their substantial binding, good print and reasonable price, are well adapted for school use.

TO BE REVIEWED.

The Witness to Immortality. By George A. Gordon. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Princeton Sketches. By George R. Wallace. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

A School History of the United States. By William Swinton. New York: American Book Company.

Exercises in Greek Prose Composition. By Harper & Castle. New York: American Book Company.

Aeneid and Bucolics of Virgil. By Harper & Miller. New York: American Book Company.

A First and Second Latin Book and Grammar. By Thomas K. Arnold. New York: American Book Company.

The Lady of the Lake. English Classics for Schools Series. New York: American Book Company.

Livy, XXI., XXII. Edited, with notes, by J. B. Greenough and Tracy Peck. Boston: Ginn & Company.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

The disappearance of old landmarks and old faces is one of the inevitables. Everyone knows this as the greatest and most solemn fact of our daily lives. Yet any number of lessons fails to make us realize each new experience of loss. For our poor minds are not so constructed that they can fully grasp the possibility of that which is ceasing to be.

Still always must the old and the endeared through association yield to the young, the new, and the vigorous. Reform and improvement are remorseless iconoclasts. Saint Elihu knows well that the wonderful growth of Yale in wealth of buildings and enrollment of students should warm every Yale heart with loyal pride and satisfaction. That the campus quadrangle no longer has a gap in the boundary lines of halls and dormitories, and that a new quadrangle is a certainty of the near future testify to the way our fathers planned and builded, and upon how worthy shoulders the mantle of succession has fallen.

Of course the old buildings, already falling down of themselves must be swept away, and all must soon share the melancholy end of old South. There is danger that with the obliteration of the "Old Brick Row," another thing will be missed, for the loss of which a campus filled with marble halls could never compensate. I mean the old spirit of democracy and simple manliness which has made Yale the glorious word that it is. The "Yale spirit" is a phrase worn commonplace and threadbare you say, but is not Yale tending toward the making of this splendid old watchword a new name? The Brick Row was the source of this sentiment which has been breathed in with the campus air for two centuries. In those old living places there were no social distinctions. There could be none when all Yale men lived out their college lives within the same brick walls, the same low-ceilinged rooms, and multi-paned windows. One roof covered all sorts and conditions of men. Less than half a dozen years ago the Seniors sought rooms in the Brick Row, North especially, in preference to more pretentious halls, more for the sake of the associations and the traditional atmosphere of good comradeship about the old piles than for anything else.

Vanderbilt, Welch and White Halls will furnish far more luxurious accommodations for the Yale student of the future, than are at present obtainable. This is, of course, advantageous for the student and the institution, yet it is inevitable that with the present policy of those who govern Yale affairs, each year will see a lessening of the old fraternal spirit and more and more class distinctions drawn, on the most pernicious of lines, financial. In each new dormitory thrown open the cost of rooms is made higher in some sort of an ascending scale proportioned to the cost of the building. This expense is borne by the donor, not by the college, and it is not apparent why rooms in Welch should be nearly twice as expensive as in Durfee. It is probable that the rooms in Vanderbilt Hall will be as high priced, if not higher, than in Welch. Hence most men of moderate incomes will be kept out.

Over across the campus the Corporation is erecting an annex to White Hall, which is to be known as Berkeley Hall, and as a dormitory for needy students. This has been officially announced. This way of dispensing charity is most unfortunate. It is right that the man with a large allowance should have a better room if he wishes it than the man who is working his way through college. But it is not good for Yale to sanction by official action such an undemocratic way of adjusting things. On one side of the campus is the half million dollar Vanderbilt Hall, which will be filled by men with generous incomes; on the other side is Berkeley Hall, a dormitory for needy students. This is not a pleasant contrast to think over. Just at this time when the destruction of the old Brick Row seriously threatens the social conditions at Yale, anything would be wiser than to draw, in unmistakable language, a line of separation between Yale students, based on their financial condition.

A poor man who resolves to fight for an education generally has more pride and independence in his make up than the average. He shows by coming to work his way that he is a man, and a lack of spirit shows a lack of true manliness. Every man ought to feel that he is just as good as every other man on this green earth. To put a man, at Yale above all places, into a dormitory which is publicly advertised as for poverty stricken students is to gall his spirit and shame himself in his own eyes with a sense of inferiority. Not even a Corporation decree can make such charity very attractive.

It would seem to have been far wiser to set aside a certain number of rooms in all of the dormitories which would be given wholly or partly rent free to deserving men, and the fund used for building Berkeley Hall could have made good to the college treasury the rent of these rooms. No one excepting the student and the Faculty would know of the arrangement, and the man would not feel that all eyes saw his dependency on Yale charity for the roof over his head. He would have the chance of knowing his classmates regardless of their wealth, and would have a better opportunity to show what was in him than in the obscurity of a poor man's hall. There will be in the Yale of the future, we trust, dormitories enough for all, not on any graded income plan, but more nearly uniform in price than at present, where no class of men can be separated from another lot of men on the ground of any social distinctions. There will be enough of that in the world outside the campus.

A PORTRAIT.

A slim, young girl, in lilac quaintly dressed;

A mammoth bonnet, lilac like the gown,

Hangs from her arm by wide, white strings, the crown
Wreathed round with lilac blooms, and on her breast
A cluster lips still smiling at some jest

Just uttered, while the gay, gray eyes half frown
Upon the lips' conceit; hair, wind blown, brown
Where shadows stray, gold where the sunbeams rest.

When lovely Spring our color did endow,
We did not think, responsive to his call,
That we should gladly welcome this our fall,
And make a faded wreath for Earth's cold brow.
Thus in a measure pay the debt we owe,

And so we flutter faintly to the wind,
And beg of him he will not pass us by,
But waft us downward to the earth below,
Nor leave us here on cheerless boughs behind
Our kin, whose forms in winter quiet lie.

-Cornell Magazine.

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