Y 898.]
DESPITE the time it takes to read carefully over each month's
exchanges—for to a college man time is everything—yet
the duty is, on the whole, a pleasant one. Of course, the
editor occasionally meets with articles which show little study or
effort, which it would have been better to have left unpublished.
But to offset these, there is always some feature worthy of notice.
Few of the exchanges for December show any special efforts,
though they are the last of the old year. Apparently more thought
was devoted to the selection of attractive cover pages than to in
teresting reading matter. Perhaps their editors are waiting to
put new year's resolutions into effect. Should this be true, we
may expect great results from the January issues.
Aside from the artistic appearance of The Morningside, each
article published is a gem. It is little to be wondered at that the
lately published " Columbia Verse " has selected the greater part
of the contents from this paper.
The verse of The Bowdoin Quill is by far the best part of the
issue, though " Sketches of Negro Life " is a very pretty bit of
description,
The fiction in the December College Folio is very good and the
verse is above the - usual standard.
" Brains versus Superstition," in the holiday number of The
College Shed enl, is very good as far as it goes. To our mind,
though, it should go just one step further and explain how the
ghost materialized—etherealized rather—at the pressure of a con
venient nailhead in the molding. It seems as though the author
had allowed his imagination to vault beyond the limits of satis
factory explanation.
In the Wesleyan Literary Magazine, we find a very pretty
piece of fiction under the title " The Grand-daughter of a Musi
cian." Two good rondeaux appear in the same.issue.
The Brown Magazine greets us with a delightful Christmas
story, entitled " A Belated Santa Claus." We notice, too, an
excellent article dealing with the public sentiment against foot
ball as a college sport. It is ably written, and we agree in every
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