With the present number, the Advocate passes into the control of the ninety-five board, though without any marked improvement noticeable in this first issue. In poetry the failing is, as it long has been, that the writers, striving for things beyond their own reach, necessarily produce what is beyond the reach of their readers. It would be an unpleasant admission for them, but their work generally is more interesting the more commonplace it becomes. Few would not take more pleasure in following the fairly easy rhyming and rythm of P. L. Shaw's piece, "The Burial of Alaric," than in separating the idea of Eugene Warner's "Loneliness," from the confusion of words in which the author has clothed it.

Among the prose articles, "For Unknown Reasons," by Arthur S. Pier, is a very clever little piece, describing with the neccssary amount of life the devotion of five brothers to the belle of a country village, and their final amusing dismissal. The author has taken advantage of the fact that little touches of nature are what please the reader who reads for entertainment. In the same way the third of "Three Sketches," and "In the One Room," both telling stories of real life which can appeal to the hearer, are interesting and pleasing. The author of this last is John Mack, Jr. The first gives no name.

The other articles deserve no special mention; for though some of them are well written, the subject matter of most of them is entirely void of interest. From this, however, several of the "Kodaks" might be excepted.