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Presents several letters to the editor. Comment on historian Henry Charles Lea; Issues related to fruit-growing in New Zealand; Public concern on the action of pending bill in the U.S. Congress confirming the use of Hetch Hetchy Valley, California as a reservoir to supply water to San Francisco, California.

Presents several letters to the editor, on socio-political issues of several nations. Differences in the American and Jewish literary tastes; Political developments in Germany, after the World War I; Forms of monarchy, among the mid-European States.

The article presents information on the William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College. Neilson became president of the largest and almost the oldest of the women's colleges in that most difficult year 1917, and threw himself and Smith College into national service; students were trained as assistants for war-hospital laboratories, for the mental rehabilitation of soldiers, for the Food Administration, and even in automobile repairing. Likewise in his administration Smith began to admit students only by examination and to limit its numbers to two thousand students only, which means picking the Intellectually best.

The article focuses on the origin of the closed couplet in English. George Saintsbury in his "History of English Prosody" thinks that it was John Beaumont, or George Sandys; Andrew Schelling, in the thirteenth volume of the Modern Language Publications, that it was Ben Jonson. If any one deserves to be called the father of English "classicism" in general, one must agree with Schelling that it was Jonson. But as to versification, Thomas Heywood, the dramatist, anticipated both him and the others, in the skilful translations of Epistles XVI and XVII of Publius Ovidius Naso's "Heroldes" which form 1,100 lines of his "Britaines Troy."