a member of the council of the society, together with Professor James Geddes of Boston University and the Rev. C. A. Dinsmore of Boston. 66 Miss Berenson, on May 22, spoke before the New York Branch of Smith College Alumnæ on The Present Aspect of Physical Training at Smith College ". Miss Jordan will give a course of lectures on Modern Literature before the Woman's Club, Easthampton. The lectures will be given fortnightly, and will extend from October to March. At the meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, Boston, October 9 and 10, Miss Jordan delivered the opening address, "Influential Fallacies in Education ". Professor Gardiner has been urgently requested by the editor of the new Library of Historical Psychology to prepare the volume on "The Feelings and the Emotions". The names of Stout, Dewey and Royce appear in the announcement already issued. The Evening Post, New York, of May 18, contains a note by Miss Scott on the most comprehensive book of war lyrics yet published, Mr. Francis F. Browne's 66 Bugle Echoes-a Collection of the Poetry of the Civil War, Northern and Southern ". The Archivio Storico Italiano for August has an article by Miss Bernardy entitled "Frammenti Sanmarinesi e Feltraschi"; the Nuova Antologia for September another, entitled "Roma e l'Italia nell' opera di F. Marion Crawford"; and Bollettino della R. Deputazione di St. Patria per l'Umbria, Vol. IX fasc. II, no. 25, a third entitled "Per la biografia di Mons. Constantino Bonelli ". The Harper's Magazine for October contains a story by Mrs. Lee, "A Town Guest". The Educational Review for May has an article by Miss Hanscom, "The Influence of Society on the College ". The Biblical World for May has an article by Professor Wood, "The Adult Class and Modern Biblical Scholarship"; the Congregationalist of July 8, another, entitled "What Shall We Do with Miracles?" an attempt to show the relation of historical Biblical criticism to the narratives of miracles in the Bible. 66 Economics and Politics in Maryland 1720-1750," by Mr. Sioussat, appeared in August as Nos. 6-7 of Series XXI. of the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. The American Book Company has in press Milton's l'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, Arcades, and Lycidas, edited by Miss Jordan. Professor Gardiner has a review of Renouvier's "Problemes Metaphysique” and of Pitres and Regis' "Obsessions et Impulsions" in the Psychological Review for May, and a critical review of Hammond's "Aristotle's Psychology", in the Philosophical Review for May. The leading article in Popular Science Monthly for September is "Palm and Sole Impressions, and their Use for Purposes of Personal Identification," by Professor Wilder. This paper gives a definite method of describing a given condition by means of numerical formulæ which may be readily indexed. The methods of Bertillon and Galton are described and compared with the palm and sole system. "The Plankton Algæ of Lake Erie" by Miss Snow appeared in August in the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. This paper has a full account of fourteen species of fresh water algae new to science, discovered, named, and described by Miss Snow. A work by Professor Ganong, entitled "The Vegetation of the Bay of Fundy, Salt and Diked Marshes, an Ecological Study," is appearing serially in the Botanical Gazette, beginning with the September number. OLIVE RUMSEY. The Current Events Club announces the resignation from the presidency of Amy Stein 1904, on account of ill-health. Lucie Smith London 1904, has been elected president. The chairman of the Preliminary Dramatics Committee announces that owing to unforeseen circumstances the report of the committee will be deferred. The senior class wishes to announce the following elections: Ivy Orator, Alice Morgan Wright. Toastmistress, Winifred Rand. Dramatics Committee: Chairman, Brooke van Dyke. Business Manager, Florence Homer Snow. Advisory Member, Margaret Linton Hotchkiss. Chairman of the Costume Committee, Elsa Katherine Levy. Oct. CALENDAR 7, 5 P. M., Lecture by Professor Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory. Subject: The Motion of the Solar System through Space. 7 P. M., Sophomore-Freshman Reception. 8, Mountain Day. 10, Massachusetts Missionary Conference. 14, Dickinson House Dance. 17, Phi Kappa Psi Society. 24, Alpha Society. 31, Phi Kappa Psi Society. Nov. 4, Morris House Play. 14, Alpha Society. LIBRARY A Echeer U 7310.1998 The Smith College Monthly November 1903. 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