WE thank the Berkleyan for its polite and sensible notice of our criticism on the Record's poetry.

THE Harvard Advocate, a wretched and vilely printed sheet, has made its appearance. It hails from Harvard, Clay Co, Missouri. We advise our respected contemporary to head its issue with the words "None genuine except when accompanied by," etc. etc.

OUR respectable contemporary, the Boston Advertiser, condemns a French sentence in the Danbury News, and says, Qu'est que cela, Mons. Danbury Newsman? It is with reason that the Advertiser dislikes the practice of using French so common among fashion reporters.

THE Trinity Tablet approves of spelling-matches, and laments the fact that the students of Hartford are not enthusiastic enough to engage in a contest with the High School girls. It complains that many men of "considerable literary ability commit the grossest sins against syntax and orthography," and it holds that spelling-matches will reform them. The writer of this article is certainly free from the faults of the able gentlemen whom he mentions; whether he shares in any of their other characteristics may admit of dispute.

THE Cornell Era has an editorial upon military drill, which it pathetically terms "Our Military Inflictions." It appears that drilling is a part of the required curriculum of the University, and that the students are so anxious to get rid of it that they propose to send a petition to the Trustees ("if the Faculty so advise") requesting their permission to have the obnoxious regulation abolished. Apropos of the article on Military Drill in the last Magenta, it expresses the friendly wish that the "infliction" may be transferred to Harvard, "body and spirit," - whatever that may mean.

THE Dartmouth is unusually good. It opens with a very clever article entitled the "Cave of Poetry." A number of students come together to read and discuss some half-dozen poems, - some sentimental, some comic. There is also an exciting story of lawless life in old California, which is declared in a note to be absolutely true; it is certainly stranger than the average fiction. The other articles are by no means without merit.

SHELLEY appears to be rather popular. The Virginia University Magazine and the Hamilton Lit. both contain exceedingly sentimental articles upon this exceedingly sentimental person. The Virginia writer gives full play to his imagination, and describes with the vivid exactness of a Herald reporter the last dreadful scene in the sinking yacht off the Italian coast. It may gratify some moralists to learn that the "atheist" Shelley met his death in the midst of a prayer, with which was "coupled" the name of the "poor, dead Harriet," to whom he had proved so exemplary a spouse.