Judged from the standard of previous numbers, the Advocate which appears today is decidedly good. The articles which are least interesting are chiefly to be condemned for an entire lack of originality; but this fault is perhaps more excusable than many others which are generally forced on the notice of the reader. The only serious mistake can unfortunately be laid to the charge of no one in particular; but the unknown author of "A Poet" is sadly in error when, in his vain struggle to write verse, he says, "My words my servants are." To make this in any way credible, it would have to be added that they serve him but poorly.

Several of the prose articles deserve more notice than it is possible to give them here. The "Paper" Sport is as good a "Harvard Type" as the Advocate has yet introduced; and the "Law Breaker," which follows, contains some uncommonly vivid word painting. Its author, Philip Richards, gives an excellent description of the novel feelings which the hero experiences on his first introduction to a gambling hell. In marked contrast are "Merely Players," and "Applied Science," the articles already indefinitely referred to as lacking in originality.

Edward G. Knoblauch is the author of what is perhaps the vest article, entitled "Westward Bound"; but "Their Marriage was a Failure," by Luther W. Mott, and "God, Man and the Devil," both deserve praise. All three are short pieces, yet the plot of each is well developed and the interest of the reader is at once attracted and, what is rarer, is held to the end. Work of this kind will do much to raise the standard of the Advocate.