Some of the stories of the last number of the Advocate are unusually good. The best of them is undoubtedly "Wasted," a very pleasing and touching sketch by A. S. Pier. John Green contributes a dialect story entitled "The Brakeman's Story." It is very well done. Two sketches by Chamberlin are only mediocre. The first is the better of the two, for while the second is much the better subject, the reader is perhaps a little tired toward the end of being told "he lay on the desert." G. C. Christian contributes a story entitled "The Fate of Mary B." It is well written, but borders a little, perhaps, on the shady.

The editorials are disappointing. They have not the strength and vigor which ought to characterize undergraduate work here at Harvard. The writers make a mistake, too, in speaking of a class matter in a class spirit; no paper which represents the college at large has a right to show itself prejudiced in favor of one class, as the Advocate does when it says "As a Junior board of editors," etc., "we backed Ninety-four, and we feel as badly about their defeat as they do," etc.

It is funny to analyze the picture suggested by the editorials of Mother Advocate "flapping its wings" and "lying awake nights wondering."