No single article in the current number of the Advocate is so deserving of favorable mention as the editorial. It is a well phrased exposition on the use of local color in College stories, and is of interest to the large number of students contributing fiction to the College magazines. The stories are bright and entertaining; the verse musical, though somewhat conventional and the book reviews are as adequate as could be expected.

Under the rather un suggestive title, "A Reconciliation," F. R. Dickinson has contributed a story of life in a Canadian lumber -camp. The setting of the story is well-chosen and the characters are fairly well delineated. The dialect, however, is crude, and the full dramatic possibilities of the final scene are not realized. "The Sea," by a. P. Wadsworth, is an imperfect sketch of a very common place type. In "Uncle Paul," William James, Jr., has strung three incidents, not closely related, into a connected story. "The Hum-Drum Company," by F. R. DuBois, is out of the ordinary run, and after the writer once gets started, the story moves easily, needing no effort on the reader's part. "Sammie Bent's Stripes," by Frank Simonds, is nothing more than an anecdote, but it is well told, with perfect harmony of detail. "Hunting," by J. C. Grew, is a commendable attempt at word-painting. "Merton," by C. F. C. Arensberg, lacks pith and distinct purpose. It starts as a college story and finishes with two summer jilts. "My dug out," by Lyrian Alcis," has a very suitable rhythm, and sustains the writer's mood very well. It suffers, however, from repetition. A "Nigh-song" is musical and well constructed, but the imagery strikes one as faulty.