The number of the Advocate just published is worse than usual, The stories are with one exception up to the average but the exception is a disgrace to the Advocate. It is an anonymous story named "An Iconoclastic Encounter." It is a very dirty subject, and while such things may be expected in Truth and Town Topics it is a pity that a paper intended to present the best literary work of the college should fall so low as to publish such a story.

The editorials are below the standard and are decidedly weak. There is no strong position taken in any of them; the general tone running through them is one of complacent self satisfaction. Everything is going about as it ought to, our faults are not very bad; the college is really all right.

The first story is "The Football Game" Which is interesting enough till the end is reached. There it weakens and concludes in a very flat manner. "Fantine" by A. C. Train is the best story in the number. It is bright and very well told. "The Long and Short of It" is very clever though a little improbable. "Miss Legion" by H. H. Chamberlain, who has just been elected an editor of the Advocate, a society story, is well conceived and is written in an entertaining style. The "College Kodaks" are very good, except the one about the faro table which seems a little fantastical. The poetry of the number is far better than the rest of it. "The Mermaid's Song" is fanciful and rather pointless, but it has the merit of being pretty and flows along in a very easy and graceful style. "Moods" by John Mack is charming. In "Charles Baudelaire" he enters deeply into the poet's spirit and expresses himself in a very pleasing manner. The second of the "Moods," the "Ballade of the Weiss-Nicht-Wo" is excellent. It is really a pleasure to read it after wading through the rest of the number, and were its effect not totally counteracted by the last piece in the number, the "Iconoclastic Encounter" the reader's impression of the whole might be very favorable.