renewed by elections from incoming classes. Each Board is to occupy in the Magazine a certain number of pages, proportionate to the number of Undergraduates in its Institution and the number of Institutions in the Association; and for the sentiments, accuracy, literary character, and due transmission of these articles, the Board for each Institution will be wholly responsible. The Board in the Institution at the place of publication shall constitute the Board of Compilation, to oversee the printing and local business arrangements of the Magazine. They shall be strictly impartial towards their own Institution, wholly governed by the Prospectus and the will of the Association. With regard to the merit of communications, they shall have no power of rejection or of final decision; but should three-fourths of their number object to any article, it may be held in abeyance until it can be referred back to the Board from which it came; and should a difference of opinion still exist, the power of final decision shall rest with any one or more of the Faculty of the Institution which the article represents, chosen by the Board in that Institution. A General Secretary, of competent qualifications, may be employed and salaried, to conduct the correspondence and act as Treasurer and Agent of the Association. He shall render annually a complete financial account to the several Boards. "III. MATTER.—All subjects of general interest to Undergraduates, Faculties, and the friends of Liberal Education, will be open to discussion. It is proposed to make the range of thought and investigation such as shall thoroughly accomplish the five chief purposes of the Magazine, as stated in the first Article of Association. The general arrangement of matter will be as follows: "1. ESSAYS.—It is proposed to give the Magazine an Educational and Historical, more than a distinctively Literary character. Articles purposing direct and immediate usefulness among Collegiate and Academical Undergraduates, upon the laws of study, prescribed and miscellaneous duties, moral, social and physical training, early mistakes and irregularities, the causes of error and the means of reform, are especially requested from Masters of Arts, Bachelors, Fellows, and all Professional Students, whose views have been matured by experience, besides articles of interest and value to their own class. Detailed statements of the courses of study and systems of instruction in the different Institutions, comparisons of the same, European educational intelligence, comparisons of the habits of American and European Students, discussions of proposed extensions of the American System of Liberal Studies, educational statistics of every kind relating to the sphere of the Magazine, histories of the founding and progress of the several Institutions, sketches of celebrated Instructors, Professors and Presidents, full biographical accounts of distinguished men as Undergraduates, both as examples for imitation and as data for deductions concerning the laws of study; in short, everything ably written, calculated to promote the objects of the Magazine, and within the ability of Undergraduates, will be welcome. 2. NEWS.-It is proposed that each Board make out quarterly a complete and elaborate News-article for its own Institution, occupying its space mainly in the News-article or in Essays, as it shall judge best, and that these articles be printed side by side in the alphabetical order of the names of the Institutions which they represent. The News-articles are expected to state the position, prospects and advantages of each Institution; notice the annual commencements, degrees con ferred, courses of study and principal prizes; describe local customs, the religious condition and habits of the several Institutions, the status and influence of Literary Societies, the demands of New Institutions or of New Educational Movements; in short, everything of interest or value to Students and Instructors, and of profitable publicity to the Institutions themselves." The January number, now before us, is in every way creditable to the Association, and is an evidence that an amount of talent and energy is enlisted in the support of the Magazine, which will make it very acceptable and popular with the public at large. We give the Table of Contents, which, even without any comment from us, would show that the Number is one of rare interest. Our limits will not allow us to comment upon individual Articles, but we will mention that those bearing the titles "German Student Life and Travel," by Edward A. Walker ; "An English University," by S. R. Calthrop; and "A course of study in the English Language and Literature suitable for our Colleges and High Schools," by Wolcott Calkins, will be found of special interest. "TABLE OF CONTENTS. PROSPECTUS.-Flavius J. Cook, Yale College, New Haven, Ct. 66 I. INTRODUCTION.-Flavius J. Cook, Yale College, New Haven, Ct. III. GERMAN STUDENT LIFE AND TRAVEL.-Edward A. Walker, University IV. AN ENGLISH UNIVERSITY.-S. R. Calthrop, Bridgeport, Ct., late of Cambridge University, England. V. HORACE MANN AS AN EDUCATOR.-James De Normandie, Antioch VI. A STUDENT'S VOYAGE TO LABRADOR.-Albert Williams Bradbury, "VII. DICKENS-HOW FAR A LITERARY EXEMPLAR.-Frank Amasa Walker, "VIII. MILTON, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FREE THOUGHT OF HIS AGE.- IX. RESPONSIBILITY OF WRITERS OF FICTION.-Henry S. Burrage, Brown X. LITERARY SOCIETIES OF YALE COLLEGE.-William C. Johnston, Yale 66 XI. A COURSE OF STUDY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SUIT- 66 XII. COLLEGE CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISTICS.-Luther M. Jones, Yale College, New Haven, Conn. "NEWS-ARTICLES. ART. I. UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY-Hon. Amos Dean, LL. D., Albany, N. Y. II. AMHERST COLLEGE.-Frank Amasa Walker, Amherst, Mass. ART. III. ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.-John Milton Holmes, Andover Mass. IV. ANTIOCH COLLEGE.-Editors for Antioch, Yellow Springs, Ohio. V. BELOIT COLLEGE.-Prof. Joseph Emerson, Beloit, Wis. VI. BOWDOIN COLLEGE.-John Marshall Brown, Brunswick, Me. "VII. OBERLIN COLLEGE.-Prof. J. H. Fairchild, Oberlin, Ohio. "VIII. PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.-Address by Horace Greeley. IX. STATE AND NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL.-Prof. J. W. Fowler, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. X. TROY UNIVERSITY.-Albert Danker, Jr., Troy, N. Y. XI. WILLIAMS COLLEGE.-Edward Hooker, Williamstown, Mass. "XII. YALE COLLEGE.-Charles H. Richards, New Haven, Ct." We wish the UNDERGRADUATE all success. But we confess that we have had serious doubts as to whether it is advisable for those who are engaged in the important studies that are preparatory to professional and business life, to engage in so great an undertaking as this. We are confident that our doubts will be shared by multitudes among the friends Colleges. The hours of student life are golden hours, the full value of which no student can possibly understand till in after years he reaps the advantage of his close application to the course of study prescribed, or learns by bitter experience how great was the folly which led him to engage in outside employments, however fascinating at the moment. But we are glad to be informed, and take pleasure in making it known to our readers, that the Association contemplate employing a "General Secretary," who is to receive a salary and devote all his time to the management of the business connected with the publication of the Quarterly. This arrangement will effectually relieve the undergraduates themselves from the numberless demands upon their time, which must otherwise distract their attention from their proper studies. We hope that this arrangement will be immediately made. We deem it absolutely essential to the best interests of those who have shown, by what they have done in this number, that if they now for a few years apply themselves with equal zeal to regular study, they will soon be fitted for successful labor in far more important stations. With such an arrangement for a "General Secretary" carried out, a very interesting Quarterly may be made, as we should hope, without interfering with those other more important interests of which we have spoken. The correspondence and communications of American students who are pursuing their studies in European Universities, Professional Schools, Special Schools, and Art Schools, will be a very attractive feature. The "News-Articles" from the different Colleges and Schools of this country, cannot fail to be interesting. And the freshness and vivacity of the discussion by young men of such questions as are of common interest to them, cannot fail to make the UNDERGRADUATE a popular periodical. MISCELLANY. Foor FALLS ON THE BOUNDARRY OF ANOTHER WORLD.*-This work is divided into six books, entitled as follows:-Preliminary; Certain Phases of Sleep; Disturbances popularly termed Hauntings; Appearances commonly called Apparitions; Indications of Personal Interferences; The suggested Results. Some of these books consist chiefly of narratives of what are alleged to have been actual occurrences. These are exceedingly curious and interesting to all those who have a desire to dwell on the marvelous. This collection of narratives is very copious in its quantity and various in its quality. It labors under a single but most. serious defect. The stories are not properly verified, and hence though in the mass they are very imposing from their number, yet when taken in detail they shrink into less formidable dimensions. The theory of the author in the first and sixth book, so far as he has a theory, appears to be not yet fully elaborated. He has gathered some important suggestions from Isaac Taylor, Braid, Carpenter and others, but has brought to the scrutiny and judgment of their opinions a wisdom in no way superior to theirs. His position in respect to the Scriptures would seem to be, to count their testimony as valuable, so far as it vouches for the reality of spiritual apparitions, the separate existence of the soul; but to reject their authority altogether, when it speaks of their destiny or the principles by which that destiny is fixed. The volume is valuable for its narratives, and its adduction of materials which may be made the subject of induction by some competent philosopher. A LOOK AT HOME.t-This is "a tale from the annals of the poor." It brings to view a very important subject, the condition of the Poor * Foot Falls on the Boundary of another World, with Narrative Illustrations. By ROBERT DALE OWEN, formerly member of Congress, and American Minister to Naples. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 528. A Look at Home; or Life in the Poor House of New England. By S, H. ELLIOTT. New York. H. Dexter & Co., 113 Nassau street. 1860. 12mo. pp. 410. Houses in New England. The stories are founded on fact, and are written in a style that will attract the reader, and make him feel the force both of their humor and their logic. We have the poor with us alway. This may harden us, but cannot exonorate us from the duties which we owe to them. The selfishness, and meanness, and inhumanity, of which, as this book shows us, even the respectable poor may at last become victims, should draw out our sympathies for all whom old age or feeble health make dependent upon public charity. HITS AND HINTS.*-Here are plenty of hard "hits" at our “American whims," and good "hints" for "home use." The follies of the day are always fair game. Good natured ridicule, such as abounds in many parts of this book, will find, we doubt not, plenty of readers. Our countrymen have the reputation in the world of being "thin-skinned," as it is called, or very sensitive to criticism. There is, however, an obvious advantage in this, for it makes us, as a people, disposed to profit by the "hits" we receive, though rather unpalatable at the moment. But while we commend very many of the chapters in the book, and think they are calculated to do good, there are two or three, which, for the author's sake, we are sorry to see. We allude to those entitled "What of the Night?"-"Pilgrimism"-and "The religious creeds of New England." It is enough to say that they are characterized by something of that spirit of disparagement of religious faith which render the lucubrations of the Professor at the Breakfast Table so objectionable. It is a very easy thing to raise a laugh on such subjects, and, by interweaving a little truth, make the most shallow criticisms wear a semblance of importance, but the attempt is itself at least prima facie evidence that the writer has gone beyond his depth, and has no just conception of what he is writing about. Of the "hints" for home use, some are very good. We take at random the first one, as an example. "How to make millionaires.-It may be done at very little expense. Everything thrown open to the public adds so much to each man's estate. The Boston public library has added fifty thousand volumes to the library of each citizen of Boston. There is not a poor man in Paris, who is not, in the best sense of the word, a millionaire. Be he rag-picker, laborer, student, invalid, clerk, or poor annuitant, he has still a hundred or more old estates, in and about Paris, that are worth their millions and tens of millions. He has * * * Hits at American Whims, and Hints for Home Use. By FREDEric W. SawBoston: Walker, Wise & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 274. YER. |