The writer of a communication in the March number of the Monthly makes some exceedingly sensible objections to certain subjects in the plan of forensic work adopted this year. It can not be denied that the new system of four forensics is an immense improvement over the previous method. Men undoubtedly take more interest in their subjects and at the same time they have better opportunities for improvement in argumentative work than when they were obliged to pin their whole year's efforts on one long and one short forensic.

Yet the new method of returning briefs is exceedingly inconvenient. The interval between the return of the first and second briefs and the dates on which the completed forensics were due did not exceed five or six days, and from all appearances the period for the third briefs promises to be as short. This short interval implies both hasty correction by the instructors, who are unable to give each brief the attention it deserves, and hasty work on the part of the students, who, in order not to remodel their work when once written, wait until the briefs are handed back before beginning their forensics.

The plan proposed by the writer in the Monthly, that the briefs be returned in batches and that the forensics be handed in by different sections at different dates, seems worthy of consideration. The adoption of such a method would not cause confusion or extra work to the English deparment and it would probably result in the greater comfort of both instructors and students.