25 DECEMBER 1897, Page 25

Harvard Stories: Sketches of the Undergraduate. By Waldron Kintzing Post.

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—One age overlaps another in the history of mankind ; the Stone Age still lasts in one country, while the Iron has well begun in another. So, to judge from these stories, the " Peter Priggins " age still exists in Harvard. Peter himself does not appear; the College servant, "scout," alias "gyp," does not play a part on the other side of the Atlantic, but the undergraduate seems to be at Oxford in the thirties. When he appears in English fiction it is chiefly as a character in the problem novel, moral or theological. Who knows whether the change is for the better ? Meanwhile it is agreeable to renew our youth under the guidance of Mr. Post, even though it be under other skies.