The third number of the Advocate is out and contains very readable matter. Without exception the articles in this issue are much better than those of the last. The change introduced by printing the full name of the writers instead of their initials is a very welcome one. "The Curse of an Imagination" is a very lively sketch, and gives signs of quite a good deal of study of human nature. Particularly good is the description of the way in which a man's thoughts "begin to revolve around themselves" in a ride to Boston. "In June" is very melodious and sounds like two rich warm opening chords to a pastorate symphony. One regrets the absence of the pastorate symphony. "Ma Contemporaine," a translation from Beranger, is not well done. It lacks entirely the grace of the original. Following this there is a well-written and interesting study on La Rochefoucauld. The quotations are chosen with a great deal of diserimination and accomplish their object of illustrating the points called up-a very rare thing, by the way, in student essays. "Mr. Hutton as a Critic" is too pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency of the style. Some lines "To the Composite Photograph of the November Century" are very bright and introduce some neat plays on words. "La Corrida de Los Toros," a story of a bull-fight in South American, is well told and ends in quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told tale of the exciting love of a pretty Italian peasant girl and the misery it brought her. It smacks a little of the hero and Leander. One lays down this number with the agreeable feeling of having been entertained and of having had one's imagination stimulated. This is precisely the object which the Advocate should set itself and this number argues well for those to come.