The Advocate.

The last number of the Advocate is a fairly good one. The editorials are far above the average, being on interesting although rather old subjects, and being written in a plain and straight forward style. With most of them we agree, but the one dealing with the "refusal of a local barber to shave a member of the University" is a rather flippant treatment of a serious subject. The "College Kodaks" which in this number follow the editorials are unusally bright. There are only three of them, but none falls flat and the second is really a very good story. "The Man in White and the Man in Black," the first story of the number is by Arthur C. Train '96. Like his former work this is excellent. Train's work is certainly above most the Advocate stories. It is rather an uncommon plot and is a well written and interesting story. "Chatterton, - A Tragedy" by Knoblanch, who has just been elected an editor of the Advocate, is a natural story and is really pathetic. "A Bowl of Roses" a short poem by Chamberlin is an improvement on the author's former efforts. "The Wedding Guest" is a readable and amusing story though it has absolutely no plot "Two Sketches" by J. A. Gade and P. LaRose are fair. Gade's "On the Bou evard des Italiens" is much the better of the two and is very promising. "The Turning of the Tide" by A. S. Pier is the story of how a poet was lost and became an ordinary man. It is not very interesting though it is very pleasantly written. The other stories "The Landing of the Sturgeon" by G. C. Christian, and "A Strange Acquaintance," anonymous, are very good.