WE do not find fault with Mrs. Burnett for giving us such a character as Miss Ffrench; on the contrary, she deserves congratulation for the ingenuity evinced in its creation. It is, for the most part, consistent; she has breathed into the machinery a semblance of life, as I have indicated. In fact, Miss Ffrench stands out in literature a masterpiece of invention, - a made woman. Our only ground for complaint is that Mrs. Burnett would have us consider that character real. From beginning to end, we are striving to see, to get hold of her; but before we finish the story we accept the situation: there is nothing to get hold of. How can we hope to know a character that never existed in the author's mind as a human, breathing creature?

For a long time, I wished to confront Miss Ffrench. I no longer have that desire. If by any possibility I could come face to face with her, I should forego the pleasure; for I should certainly detect the mechanical apparatus of her existence. Detection would be death to her, and my conscience would then charge me with murder; for, though she is not life, Miss Ffrench is wonderfully life-like. - Vassar Miscellany.

WE often overhear a remark by some indignant Gentile, to the effect that students should be held strictly amenable to the common law, and prosecuted for misdeeds as any one else would be. They would like to have us identified with them in that respect, but no other. ... None will deny that there is intemperance in college. But there is no more than elsewhere, rather less. In any college town, there is less intemperance among the students than among the townsmen in proportion to numbers. In the words of an esteemed contemporary: "Just think of this a moment; push it to the ultimate, and I think you will have no difficulty in seeing it." "It is a curious fact," however, that men don't seem to see it. Let a student make a jolly night of it, and on his way home levy a loan on a signboard, and all the patrons of the free lunch counter will demand to be led to the charge. ... While every man has a right to practise total abstinence if he wishes, he has no right to impose it upon another man who is cognizant of his ability to use wine with moderation. This principle holds with man everywhere, in college and out. - Amherst Student.

IN dreams I see her pretty face,

Of every thought she forms a part;

I would my pen were full of grace

As full of Grace my heart.

Her features every day I trace,

And every day new graces spy;

And if my Grace won't grant me grace

A graceless wretch I die:

I've got my coup-de-grace! 'Tis Grace I love,

The Graces' graces Grace is far above.

- Williams Athenaeum.NO FELLER CAN FIND OUT!

WHO can tell when the winter is coming?