Chapter M: C. THOMAS, Hesperian, } EDITORS

W. A. BARRETT, _Columbian_, }

The last number of the _Binghamite_ shows decided improvement.

The December number of the _Wake Forest Student_ is the best number of this excellent magazine that has yet been received. The articles by contributors are of a high order. The ARCHIVE extends its congratulations to the _Student’s_ editors upon their success in College Journalism.

The _Haverfordian_, for December, has arrived. Its contents are calculated to be of special interest to those who are enamored of athletics. It has a very sensible editorial on the study of Political Economy. The magazine does credit to the institution which it represents.

The receipt of the _Randolph-Macon Monthly_ is acknowledged. It exhibits literary merit. Fifteen or twenty of its pages are filled with advertisements, and upon this remunerative source depends, no doubt, in a large degree the success of the magazine.

The last number of the _Davidson Monthly_ shows considerable signs of improvement on former numbers. Stick to the “Boycott,” as it is nothing but fair to those who support the magazine. Every College magazine would do well to adopt the same plan. The _Monthly_ is getting to be one of the best among our exchanges.

In the _Roanoke Collegian’s_ latest number is a very pertinent article relating to Exchange Departments. It deals the “exchange man,” whom it terms the “mud-slinging politician of the future,” a well-directed blow. There is a disposition existing in some college journals to point out the defects of their neighbors and acquaintances, seemingly blind to the merits of the magazine criticised, and uttering only the venomous sentiments generated by a fault-finding disposition. There is a happy medium between a servile, insincere adulation and a withering, malicious criticism. The magazine that offers critical remarks sincerely, and for the improvement of the one criticised, has found that medium.

The _Vanderbilt Observer_ is on our table. Its pages are pregnant with life and original thought. Among other articles, the one entitled “Edgar Allen Poe” deserves mention. The author proves, by means of unquestionable authority, that the base slander which has been asserted against the fame of the author, whose productions have been translated into more languages than those of any other American writer, and who has been the most brilliant star in American literature, was wholly undeserved.

_The Statesman_, a periodical published at Chicago, Ill., and devoted to the cause of prohibition, and the December number of the _University Monthly_ have arrived on the eve of going to press.

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