EDITOR'S TABLE. The Saint knocked rather faintly on the door of the Sanctum. "I had something to say to you," he began, hesitatingly, "that I feel rather doubtful about. You see, I have been reading the New York papers,-" "You make me very anxious," I said. "There have been so many things of late in the New York papers." "I do not refer to scandal," he replied, quickly, "though I must admit that the much-quoted attitude of the Alumni Weekly seemed to me a trifle, er.-" "-Like the boy who felt it his duty to teach the parrot what not to say?" I inquired. "Exactly!" said the Saint, "and the New York papers, in their role of the parrot, learned their lesson well. But I understand that the Post accuses my honorable magazine of judging contributors on a basis of cubic capacity!" "Yet," said I, "the gentleman who breaks twenty clay pigeons into three pieces each is considered a better marksman than his rival who breaks one pigeon into sixty pieces, and misses all the rest, is he not?" "True enough," said the Saint, "if you consider the contributions to Our Magazine sufficiently equal so that they are like to each other as one pigeon to another, but I suppose the Post meant that under the present system there was but little chance for the Superlative Marksman, who would hit hard and then stop shooting." "-Yet it seems to me one of the best things about undergraduate Yale life in the year 1901, that it is not fashionable for the Superlative Marksman to stop shooting." "This sounds just a bit high colored and picturesque to me," said the Saint, laughing; "-still, on the whole, I feel quite justified in accepting your apology!" HOLLY AND MISTLETOE. Holly and mistletoe bring in together, Signs of the season-signs of the weather; Clusters of mistletoe's silvery berries, White as the snowflakes the stormy wind carries; Wreaths of red holly in festive attire, Bright as Youth's hope and Love's dear desire- Emblems of Yule-tide, all warmth and all cheer! -M. N. in the Kalends. POLARIS. On a lonely watch, with the wild waters free How oft, his hard-earned course to mark, -Williams Literary Monthly. THE HILL ORCHARD. Long shadows lie across the grass. The grass is deep and still, Down alley roofed with apple-boughs, Strikes poignantly the blue of hills O hush thee, hush thee, heart of mine; The spreading shadows meet and merge In dusk that gathers fast. -The Vassar Miscellany. SUB STELLIS. Now magic stillness holds the charmed night, No drowsy cricket wakes the silent hedge; -Wesleyan Lit. THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE.-Conducted by the Students of Yale University. This Magazine established February, 1836, is the oldest college periodical in America; entering upon its Sixty-Sixth Volume with the number for October, 1900. It is published by a board of Editors, annually chosen from each successive Senior Class. It thus may be fairly said to represent in its general articles the average literary culture of the university. 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If there were still some dark ravine in South Wales, or some out-of-the-way corner of Cromartyshire, where it was radically unsafe to venture after dark, I, for one, should like it much better, for then we should have something to talk about on the chilly March evenings, as we sit drinking our ale before the fire at the Three Tuns. The scourge with a reputation, and that is a thing wonderfully soon acquired,―lives in a glamor of romance that is charming. Seen alike by no two persons, possibly because they do not wait long enough to get a good look, there is much diversity in the respective accounts of Hodge, who strayed on the forbidden ground looking for lost cattle, and of Moll, who, being over-bold, ventured into the glen |