We are glad to observe the energy now going on in literary quarters in the college. Never before, we believe, has so much interest been taken in English composition and literature as at the present moment. The competition of the Advocate and the Monthly, necessarily very active, has kept all the best writers in college on the qui vive for the last four months. In addition to this, the Advocate's prizes have just brought forth a great deal of very powerful undergraduate work by authors as yet unconnected with any paper. For a large part of this enthusiasm in the study of our tongue the English department is distinctly responsible, and all praise must be given to them for their share in bringing this about. We would congratulate the Advocate on its success in this latest venture. It is a thing that has long proved successful in other college publications and has generally succeeded in producing as good results as it has done in this case. Let us hope that the college may soon be endowed with a Monthly prize and a Lampoon prize; and the CRIMSON will then add the fourth towards the encouragement of undergraduate literature.