THE Acta Columbiana publishes a very sharp and pithy "condensed novel" by Smintheus, which is an apt retort to Yale arrogance and a witty satire upon malarial Princeton. The dark De Briggs, a rival of Fitz Clarence, in order to be revenged upon the young man, sends him a catalogue of Princeton College : -

CHAPTER IV.

Malaria.Fitz Clarence arrived at Princeton with a light heart and thirteen trunks. Not even the sight of several dozen coffins piled up at the station awaiting shipment could dampen his enthusiasm. He walked briskly up the principal street, and scanned with wonder the long lines of undertakers' shops and brilliant drug-stores that met his eye on every side. A forest of doctors' signs shaded the street and kept off the heat of the sun, while the air was redolent with the pungent odors of the billowy canal.

Fitz Clarence dies; but the lady does not marry De Briggs, whereupon he hurls himself into the canal.

CHAPTER VIII.

Madness.De Briggs was rescued by the captain of the canal-boat because he had not yet paid his fare. The water was only nine inches deep anyhow. But his mind was shattered. From an ordinary amateur villain, he became a professional. He became an habitual performer on the cornet. He spent whole months in pursuing the nefarious calling of a book-agent. He sank lower and lower. He was at one time the most degraded free-lunch fiend in all Hoboken. Finally, even the last vestiges of respectability were thrown aside, and he went to Yale. What need to chronicle his future infamy? Let us shudder as we reveal the last act of his appalling moral cataclysm; for - sh - h! - he actually sank to the very depths of crime, and became the senior editor of the Wreckord.

THE following may be of interest to the watchful guardians of the Annex : -

We join our voice with that of others for the higher education of women; but we question the wisdom of educating them under the same roof with the other sex. We do not, with the Amherst Student, "fear the humiliation which the trousered sex must bear" when exposed to the "irresistible power of their beauty" But for their sake, for the sake of their dear mammas, if they come to Hamilton, we should feel compelled to recommend the dear ones to the watchful care of the matrons in our neighboring seminaries.

Fancy our president posting a notice, as the president of Wooster University did, that "Hereafter no female student will be allowed to receive more than one visitor per week, and he must not stay later than nine o'clock." We respect our president and revere good laws, but we are mortal.

We exchange publications with several female colleges, of which Vassar ranks first. Their literary productions rival those of our first colleges. Their sprightly editorials, the delicacy of their wit and humor, and their freedom of thought, have a peculiar charm which confirms our belief that their manner of education better accords with the "eternal fitness of things." - Hamilton Literary Monthly.