There is just enough local color in two of the five contributions to the November Illustrated Magazine to save the whole number from a failure. The illustrations--the principal reason for the existence of the magazine--are, excepting the frontispiece, diminutive, indistinct and ordinary. The review of the football season is choppy and not always in good English; while "The Spirit of Football" is pointless from first line to last. Though timely in choice of topic, the editorials are inadequate in treatment and betray an attempt at force by the too common artifice of writing at the top of one's voice. "O-Yuki-San's Love" is almost photographic in its vivid description of Japanese life. With scenes more nearly within the average reader's experience, there are great possibilities for a writer of such keen observation.

But especially worth the reading are "Philosophy 5" and "Sciurus Carolinensis"--themes taken from out the very heart of college life. Nothing is oftener attempted than undergraduate experiences in research courses, but in "Philosophy 5" the topic receives an originality and sprightliness of treatment that lifts it above the ordinary. "Sciurus Carolinensis"--on the Yard squirrels--is a gracefully accomplished attempt to make something out of apparently little. Its passing glimpse at an interesting fact in college history clearly demonstrates where lies the most profitable field for the magazine.