The Monthly.

The monthly for February is more than usually devoted to fiction. The number opens, however, with a somewhat lengthy consideration of "The Humour of Caucer," by J. B. Holmes, prolonged to such an extent that the interest of the reader is in danger of flagging before the end is reached. The articles which follow will be more pleasing to the average mind,- a poem called "Louie Rae," by Bliss Carman, and three stories.

In "Told after Dinner," by John Mack, Jr., the various incidents of the plot are well handled, and the result is a tale more striking and effective than the average. Although the style is far removed from that of Kipling, there is a suggestion that the details of the chief character may have been taken from the works of that author. The remaining two stories, "An Undiscovered Sacrifice," by Felix Norris, and "The Murder," by W. T. Denison, are less interesting. They are of that rather negative merit which characterizes most college fiction, neither very good nor very bad.

Among the editorials it is pleasing to come upon one which champions that much abused course, English C. Unfavorable criticism of the course has had pretty free play lately, and has, it is to be feared, gone too far. The Monthly gives what would seem to be a better advised view of the situation than has been generally taken.