The contents of the new number of the Advocate are:

Editorials.

Harvard in the Sixties, I, H. G. Palfrey. The Turk Fighter, A. E. Hancock. A Question in Rhetoric,

Austin Corbin, Jr.A Cambridge Episode, J. Leonard.

In the Reddington Quarry,

Joseph W. Sharts.A Pair of Yellow Boots,

G. H. Kinnicutt.Two Sketches.

With one exception the editorials are of no value whatever. The one exception, however, is so excellent that it quite redeems the rest. It points out the difference between the students of today and those of a generation ago. "When anything goes wrong in the management of the University," it says, "when there is any reform called for in our elective pamphlet, in the arrangements of the gymnasium or the library, or even in the condition of the walks in the yard, we students do not attack the matter in a business-like or compelling manner. A generation ago when the graduates wanted anything, they made themselves heard on the matter and advanced their demands in a body in the form of petitions, which were usually granted. The condition of our (mud) walks we declare abominable and possible of easy cure; the courses in English literature, IX, VII. and others which masquerade under the name "half" course, are preposterous; a chair in Russian Literature we should all very much like to see here at Harvard. Yet it must be admitted that on these several points, as on a hundred others, our opinions are not so united and so asserted as to have any constraining force."

"Harvard in the Sixties," by H. G. Palfrey, is interesting. The reader is surprised at all the great changes which thirty years have wrought. The Turk Fighter is a clever sketch. It describes the ingenius way the inhabitants of a certain Hungarian village have of treating their shrews. These two articles and the latter of the "Two Sketches" are the only things that are worth reading in the number. None of the other contents has the slightest excuse for publication, except that of filling space.