The current number of the Advocate, out today, contains matter of a creditable and interesting nature. The poetry is unusually good. Perhaps the best of the short poems is "Through the Mist," by Walter Winsor,- a pleasing and vivid description. "A Song of June," by R. T. Fisher is a charming bit of rhyme, although the subject has long been a well-worn one. "Atlantis," a more ambitious effort by J. F. Brice, is certainly creditable, and would be very good but for its occasional vagaries of metre.

Of the prose pieces the two which impress the reader the most are "The Yielding of Luke Armstrong," by J. A. Macy, and a consideration of "The Epic Value of Scenes in Stevenson's Writings," by F. L. Waldo. The former is a well writen and cleverly told story. The writer deals with a comparatively hackneyed subject in an interesting way. Although in one or two places he is a trifle unreal, as a whole the story is successful and readable. The consideration of Stevenson's work deals with the striking characteristic of that author,- his vividness of style. As the author says, "Vitality, lyric, treatment of incident, 'epic value of scenes'- these were the qualities Stevenson could best appreciate in other authors, and most sought to introduce into his own writings."