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This Bureau is the oldest in New England, and has gained a national reputation. During the administration of its present manager it has secured to its members in salaries an aggregate of $1,500,000. During the current year it has placed in one New England city ten teachers,-six men and four ladies, -whose aggregate salaries equal $11,950, and many others alí over the nation. Wellesley College graduates are very popular, and in great demand at this office. Those who register early will be more likely to secure the best positions. Blanks and circulars sent free on application.

HIRAM ORCUTT, Manager.

SHOES

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

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The latest in style, best in quality, at moderate prices.

Gymnasium shoes of all kinds at low

prices.

Special discount to Wellesley students and teachers.

Thayer, McNeil & Hodgkins,

47 TEMPLE PLACE, BOSTON.

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THE WELLESLEY MAGAZINE is published monthly, from October to June, by a board of editors chosen from the Senior Class.

All literary contributions may be sent to Miss M. G. Caldwell, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. All items of college interest, and communications to be inserted in the department of Free Press, will be received by Miss Sarah C. Weed, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

All alumnæ news should be sent to Miss Maude R. Keller, Wellesley, Mass.

Advertising business is conducted by Miss Elizabeth A. Stark, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Subscriptions to the MAGAZINE and other business communications in all cases should be sent to Miss Alethea Ledyard, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Terms, $2.00 per year; single copies, 25 cents. Payment should be made by money order.

A COMPARISON OF MACBETH AND RASKOLNIKOFF.

You are called away for a time from the sunny brightness and seeming happiness of the open air and the every-day world into a dark and gloomy place. On one side, the tall, warrior-like figure of Macbeth faces you. He appears strong, and yet in his face there is the look of a haunted, desperate man; and you almost seem to see him start and tremble, as if at the sound of some ghostly voice, or the sight of some ghostly form. Opposite him stands the tall, pale, emaciated Raskolnikoff. His face is that of a student and of a young man, and yet he looks prematurely old, as if with too much thought and suffering, and there is a frenzied gleam in his dark eyes. Let us attempt a brief comparison of the two,-the giant figure of long ago, from Shakespeare's great tragedy, and the man so truly a product of our own time, the hero of Dostoyevsky's great Russian realistic novel, "Crime and Punishment."

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