The second number of the Advocate will appear to-morrow. Sad to relate, it is not to be compared with the first number. But that is not saying it is all bad, by any means; in fact there are some very good things in it. The editorials it is a pleasure to read. They are written in a happy mood and are in their way charmants. To speak the truth we do not remember to have read undergraduate editorials more entertaining, for many a long day - although of course, our memory may be poor. At any rate, they are well worth reading. The leader, it is confidently believed, expresses the views of the whole thinking community and it is trusted that next year. the rush will be conspicuous by its omission.

The fiction of the number as a whole is best characterized, to quote Professor Wendell, as 'well-meaning and thoroughly amiable rot.' Under this classification, the first of the 'Two Sketches' is preeminent. The second is not bad, until one comes to the last paragraph. Up to this point there is a change of its being good but the effect is entirely thrown away out of the hasty and unartistic ending. The same fault is to be found with, 'A Disgrace to His Profession'; the last sentence is too tame but the rest of the story is good. The mucker-talk is well handled and there are several felicitous combinations such as the 'hallelujah sisters.'

Of the kodaks the second and third are the best and they are both good. The others are neither good nor bad.

The author of the 'Wages of Sin .' the strikingly original title of which gives evidence of much thought, has departed from his accustomed Parisian scenes in the present number and gives two sketches with American environment. The 'Enviable Man' is an ambitious affair and 'A Night in the Library,' it is trusted will be appreciated by the freshmen for whom it was prepared.

The ' Song of the Hussites,' in the first two stanzas, which are the best, suggests somehow Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poems, the Blessed Damozel particularly. It is a quaintly worded and a very good piece of work.