The Advocate.

The current number of the Advocate appeared last week. Two additions have been made to the editorial board, Mr. F. S. Duncan. '99, having been elected a regular editor, and Mr. L. W. Pulsifer, '90 a, business editor.

Nothing new is discussed editorially, and the column is hardly up to the standard. The editorials are rather loosely written and are not characterized by the vigor and independence, which have hitherto made this department the most attractive in the Advocate.

"The Story of Theresa" by W. B. Cohen, displays evidence of more careful construction than anything else in the number. The descriptive portions of the story are particularly well done.

The "Studies in Happiness," which have been appearing for some time under Topics of the Day, may be pushed too far, but certainly the series would not have been complete without the charmingly frank and independent confession of a "Shallow Junior, which appears in this number. It is impossible to believe that the author is half so bad a fellow as he would have us believe.

T. W. Lamont tells "An Incident of the Crimean War" in an interesting way.

"Love and Duty" by R. W. Hale, is good. There is much that is conventional in the plot, but the central idea of the story, the struggle between the heart and the head, is worked out in an effective way.

F. S. Duncan contributes an historical sketch, "A Glimpse of Harvard in 1674," in which he describes an incident of the stern discipline, which characterized the rule of the good old Puritan president of the college.

There are but two short pieces of verse, "Distance" and "Milton," of which the former is the more pleasing.

The number is closed with the usual book reviews, and the "Advocate's brief."