492 Our ChromCle.
THE THESPIDS.
IN spite of all the various Clubs which are in such a THE EAGLE. c.. flourishing condition in the Oollege, room has yet been found .for another. We refer to "The Thespids," a Olub which, under due sanction, came into existence a little more than a year ago, for the purpose of holding Dramatic Recitations only. In a short notice like the present it would be out of place A MAGAZINE SUPPORTED BY MEMBERS OF to enter into details; let it suffice to say that the writer has been present at four very first class recitals, at all of which ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. the Members have managed to adapt themselves to the dis advantages of performing in a small room with astonishing pains, seconded by a most careful study of their parts; and it seems likely that if the new Members continue, as their' pre decessors have begun, the Club cannot fail to be a success, and tlritrltD fat �ulrs.crilrm JJnIll. that its perfomances will be eagerly looked forward to by their guests.
�Onftlltz : PAOR END. OF VOL. XI. " Rolling In" I A Legend of Llullberis II Percy Bysshe Shelley (I792-I822) I5 Bedfordshire BaJlad, 1I.-" One Glass of. Beer" 22 LOI·cJei 26, 27 The Legend of the Lurlei 28 An Die Rosen 33 The Reaconslield Alphabet 34 The Gladstone AJphabet 35 Modem Athens 36 Mmie 4l,43 Arithmetic Paper from Skakespeare 44 The Death of Herakles 46 Obituary; A. H. Gurrod 49 lronicle 52
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Lloyd, J. n .. B.A. Rammell, \\'. H., B.A. Turner, T. A. �, ti ..... PA(';R A Dream I58 Our Portrait Pictures (continued) I72 Our Cln-ouicle-Easter Term, I880 188 In Memol"iam W. H. Miller 293 A S 01l1let l03 L. and N. W. Railway Cuttings 304 Jean-Jacques Rousseau ••• 320 The Moral Law 324 THE EAGLE. Through Dalecarlia 325 A Ghost Story [ 33 My Sea Voyage 339 Our Chrouicle-Miohaelmas Term, I880 345 Our Portrait Pictures (continued) 357 My Sea Voyage (concluded) 369 "Only an Ivy Leaf!" 379 IN." Across the Straits: A Visit to Tan'gier 381 "ROLLING The Questionist's Dream 397 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 400 ..... the year 1804, on a cold, raw December The Battle of the Pons Trium Trojanorum 405 9�N e�ening, a group of boys! numbering ab�ut "Poeta. N ascitur " 2j.1[ �� Chapel Services 413 six or seven, was gathered round a blazmg I Our Chronicle-Lent Tenn, 1881 ) . 4[5 fire in the hall of the Head-master's house at Harrow. Our Portrait Pictures (concluded) 4<21 Evidently, from their loud tones and animated ges Simplex Munditiis 436 tures, the subject of their conversation was one of The Use and Abuse of Slang 438 considerable interest, and the opinions of the group A Song 444 were much divided on the question they were debating Commemoration Sermon, 1881 445· � so excitedly. In Epulum 454 In Memoriam William Henry Bateson 458 " Just fancy ! Morgan," cried the tallest of the party, Our Chronicle-Easter.7imn, I881 . 479 "young Tattersall has been proposed by Byron fo r our Rolling in !" "Young Tattersall-oh, blow the little fo ol ! we really can't have him. What on earth has induced Byron to put him up ?" "Oh, I Suppose he's an aristocrat," replied the tall speaker, with a sneer, "and so our 'Old English Baron' chums him, you see." "Come, Benson," put in another, "that's not the reason at all. Tattersall's a plucky little beggar, and you can't wonder at Byron wanting to do him a good turn , considering he saved his life yesterday afternoon." VOL. XI. B 2 "Rollz"ng In." " RolHng In." 3 "Saved his grandmother," muttered Benson, "it, it was Byron set light to his haystack and shot one would have been a good riddance if he'd had his head of his cows. By George, I thought it was all up with smashed. " Byron, fo r the old brute had got close up behind him, "Oh, did you see it Jocelyn?" cried out several, and was aiming a terrific blow at his, head, when, just "tell us all about it. " in the nick of time, young Tattersall hit him on the "Why, you know, about eight or nine of us were head with a stump and fe lled him to the ground ; as walking along Hog's lane,· when, suddenly, whom it was, the musket just grazed Byron's shoulder. I should we meet at the corner but Farmer Boozey with never saw such a shave in all my life. We got the ' five or six other clods, who had just come up from prac best of it in the end, and drove them back into Boozey's tising at the Butts. We began chaffing them, when yard, but some of us were horribly punished-young one of them got in a bate and kicked young J everson. Clare and Johnnie Wingfield won't be able to leave Of course we weren't going to stand that, so we made their beds for some time to come."· a tremendous rush at them and knocked a couple of "Well, by J ove, no wonder Byron sticks up for them down. However, we were beginning to get the young Tattersall. After all, I really don't see why we worst of it, for the clods had their guns and struck shouldn't let him be Rolled in." out right and left with them, while we had only some " Bah !" cried Benson, don't believe the little But, just in the nick of time, Byron, "I bats and stumps. baby could stand it without blubbing. " who happened to be in the churchyard-" "Stand what?" said a dark, handsome boy, who "Lying on his gravestone, no doubt, " put in Benson. entered the room at that moment, with a slight limp. "Down rushes Byron with about thirty other fellows "Whom are you talking about?" and charges old Boozey's party in the rear. By Jove, "About you," said Benson, curtly. I never saw anything like it in all my life, fo r a lot "That you weren't," said the new corner ; "you said of Boozey's men had come to the rescue, and we had something about somebody blubbing, and you've never a regular battle. Old Farmer Boozey was simply seen me blub." raving with fury, and swore he'd kill us all ; and the old brute tried to do it too, for he hit about him like .. The following lines by Lord Byron in H�u,.s ofIdleness, celebrate this anything : just look here where he caught me a whack battle. "Still I remember in the factious strife, on the arm, " and the speaker bared his arm to the The rustic's musket aimed against my life; shoulder, displaying a huge weal some five inches High poised in air, the massy weapon hung, long. A cry of horror burst from every tongue. "Whew 1" whistled Seymour, "it must have stung Whilst I in combat with another foe Fought on, unconscious of the impending blow, well." you up jolly Your arm, brave boy, arrested his career "Oh, I was so excited at the time that I hardly Forward you sprang insensible to fear; fe lt it, but I can scarcely move my arm now, and it Disarmed and baffled by your conquering hand hurts like anything. Well, when old Boozey saw The grovelling savage rolled upon the sand." Thro rushed at ughout the poem, Tattersall is addressed as Dav£s, Lord Clare as Byron, he him like a mad bull, fbr he knows LYCIU, and Hon. John Wingfield as Alonso, (also in Childe Harold, Of u , I believe, from Hogarth's Lane ;" for the Cant Corr pted " painter once o l.)-Clare became Governor of Bombay in 1832, Wingfield entered the C lived in it. The present name is Crown Street. old stream Guards and died at Coimbra in his 20th year. Bz 4 " Rollm In." g " RolHng In." 5 " I say, Byron," put in Morgan, in a tone of expos " enrolled." It had a very significant and far more tulation, "do you really think young Tattersall is fit terrible meaning. Anyone who was ambitious of the to be Rolled in 1" privilege of admission (and none below the fifth form " Fit ! I should think so, and I should like to hear were eligible) gave in his name to the head-boy, in anyone say he isn't," and the speaker turned his order that, after he had been duly proposed, seconded, dark, flashing eyes upon Benson in a defiant and passed, the preparations might be made for his manner. inauguration. A fortnight before the appointed day, foe "Well, well," said Benson, who was a sworn a certain number of rolls were ordered, and the baker to Byron, "we shall see how he goes through it, and told to re-bake them every morning for the next we'll take jolly good care that no one brings in soft fourteen days, by which time they were almost as finds, to favour their own chums." hard as bricks, and very much more handy for "I bet you my finds will be harder than yours throwing. When the time arrived for the ceremony, Benson, you know I'd be the last fellow in the world all of those who were initiated, generally about ten to treat a chap as if he were a baby ." or twelve, ranged themselves on the long table which "Witness poor little Thornton's foot," sneered ran down one side of the room, each with his pile Benson.* of rolls (technically called 'finds') before him, and It was evident that this taunt struck home, and a his fag to pick them up. The candidate was then serious quarrel was on the point of breaking out taken to the table at the other side of the room, between the two speakers, when the prayer-bell in about eight paces distant, and made to kneel on a terrupted them, and forced them to nourish their wrath form, facing them, and close up to the opposite wall. in secret till some future occasion. He had to lean fo rward on the table in front of him, Probably the reader will by this time be curious to with his head resting on his hands, so that only his know what is meant by this mysterious ceremony of head and the upper part of his body were exposed "Rolling in," and as the boys have now gone up to to view. The only other protection allowed to him, bed, I will seize this opportunity for giving a few was an ordinary dinner plate, which he held on the words of explanation. top of his head by way of a helmet, hut this was not The hall of the Headmaster's house was regarded of much use, as it generally got broken before the by the members of that house, as a kind of club-room, ceremony was done. which no boy was allowed to enter, except at dinner Then for the spac� of one minute, not a second and supper-time until he had become a member by more, nor a second less, the ' Finders' pelted him with being Rolled in. Now it must not be supposed their terrible 'finds,' and did their best to kill him. that the phrase "Rolled in " is a synonym for At the end of the minute they ceased and the candidate Was considered elected, unless he had uttered a cry • There are several local traditions that still linger among some of the of p . am, or. b egged for mercy. The ordeal was a very t,radespeopre of Harrow, about the >chool liJe of Lord Byron. One of these s evere one, and deterred many from asserts that Byron, infuriated at his fag for having burnt one of his boots the use of the hall , 1 ' " tl10ug over the fire, swore he d teach ht'm h07/} to burn boots," and seizing a red h't was a very rare occurrence for any boy hot poker pinned him to the floor through the flat of his foot. I need who did submit to it, to give in. scarcely say that I beli�ve the story to be untrue. Such was the terrible ceremony which was to be 6 " Rolhng In." H Rollt"llgIn." 7 inflicted on young Tattersall. We will let him tell at my devoted head. Then fa st and furious came the story of that day in his own words :- the cannonade - shower upon shower volleyed and On the morning of that dreadful day my ex thundered. The terrible missiles were aimed with ultation at being admitted to the privilege of the Hall deadly precision, and most of them struck me violently, was not altogether unmixed with a certain tremulous some battering my shoulders and my body, some nervousness at the thought of the terrible ordeal before banging and clanging against my helmet ; the very me. I had reason, too, fo r expecting that in my sound of it made me tremble fo r my head, and I, case it would be more severe than usual ; fo r I was clutched the plate with the grip of despair. The bolts well aware that Benson and two or three others bore that missed crashed with a noise like thunder against a bitter grudge against Byron, and hated me fo r his the wooden wainscot behind me, and leapt back again sake. And not only that, but Byron himself would to the other side of the room, their reverberation be sure to fling his hardest fr om fear of being charged ringing from wall to wall. I fe lt as though salvoes with partiality, and he was reputed to be the hardest of artillery were bellowing around me, as though a thrower and the best shot in the school. I had watched thousand sledge-hammers were pounding me to powder. the preparations being made fo r me during the past The pain was excruciating, and the crashing and two weeks, and knew that no pains had been spared smashing of the withering volley was appalling ; and to make the 'finds' as hard as possible. However, the agony was all the more dreadful, because I had the die was cast, and it was too late to turn back now, . the power, and yet had not the power to stop it. A even had I wished to do so. At 8 o'clock that evening single cry, and that storm would have ceased at once, I was solemnly ushered into the hall, where every but I knew that such a cry meant shame and derision. thing had been got ready for me. The two long I would have died rather than utter the sound that tables were ranged opposite one another down eae;h could have saved me, so I bit my lips till the blood side of the room, on one of them stood the twelve came out. Finders with their rolls and their fags ; and to tne other But the worst was yet in store fo r me. A well-aimed I was conducted by the Umpire, who put me into roll struck me a cruel blow on the back of my left the proper posture of defence. He then read a short hand. The stinging pain made me draw away my declaration of my name, &c., and wound up by solemnly hand fo r a single moment, I lost my presence of mind, asking me if I still adhered to my determination. and dropped my plate on the table. Quick as light On my answering 'yes,' he handed me a plate which ning I caught it up again, but alas ! the fa ll had cracked was to serve fo r a helmet, and retired to the top of it, and the very next roll splintered and shattered it the room leaving me alone." into a dozen pieces. The breaking of my only hope , Are you ready?' he cried, taking out his watch. ;as greeted with exulting yells and derisive laughter, 'Yes,' I answered. or now I had no defence fo r my head, save such as I 'Yes,' shouted the twelve Finders. Could make with my arms. , Now then, silence in the hall ! Fiye seconds At the moment when my plate fe ll T had caught a four-three-two-one-FlRE ! ' glimpse of the scene around me, and such a scene! A storm Scarcely had the word left his mouth, when a loud was howling outside the house, and making �� Win. shout rent the air, and twelve well-aimed rolls flew dows rattle, and in the draught and the turmoil 8 " RolHng In." " RolHng' bz." 9 a strange within the lights bobbed up and down and flickereq effort was too much, for at that moment to and fro, while the dust, in rolling and suffocating ziness came upon me, I tottered, and fell insensible diz • '" '" '" '" '" clouds, rose and fell from floor to ceiling, from ceiling on the floor. day when I to floor-so that only dimly through the mist a.nd It was the morning of the following lying in my through the flight of rolls could I descry that awful recovered my senses, and found myself me, bathing my face Twelve, who seemed to gl�re upon me with their bed with Byron sitting beside not covered with wolfish eyes as they raised their hands on high, and and head, or at least all that was out afterwards hurled down pitiless volleys ; the whole room was sticking-plaster and bandages. I fuund full of darkness and lights, of tumult and human faces, that he had sat up with me all night. you open with hurryings hither and thither of innumerable feet, "By George, old fellow, I'm glad to see think you were as the fags rushed round me gathering the rolls your eyes at last ; I really began to you stood while the deafening shouts of the onlookers, and the going to kick the bucket. By J ove, though, rolling we've discordant yells of the Finders and the fags, mingling it pluckily. Everyone says it's the best damaged, with the stunning detonations 011 the wall behind me, ever had. But you have got your figure-head be all right added if possible to the terrors of the scene. I can tell you ; however, I daresay you'll That glimpse was hut a momentary one, yet it again in two or three days." was long enough for two rolls to find their way to It proved, however, not two or three days, but my undefended head. One nearly stunned me with two weeks before I was able even to leave my bed, a blow on the forehead, the other knocked out one and more than a month passed before the bruises and of my teeth and gashed my lower lip, so that the blood the cuts had disappeared, and one memorial of that flowed freely down. The whole room seemed to reel terrible night, my broken teeth, I shall carry with round and round me with fearful rapidity, and the me to the grave. agony deepened and the din re-doubled, and-suddenly This was the ceremony of "Rolling in," and this mention all was still ! The clamour of the voices and the clatter and such like were the methods (and I could Old of the rolls had ceased. I looked up, and lo ! it was several still more severe at Harrow and at other all over. Yes, the tumult and the turmoil were hushed, Public Schools) whereby our forefathers were trained the storm had fallen and wa� followed by a death-like to take their part in the stern reality of after-life ; a calm, but only for a moment, and then the silence training Spartan-like in its rigorous severity, but un was again broken by the clear ringing voice of the Spartan in its wild recklessness and thoughtless umpire. "Cecil Tattersall, you are admitted to the impetuosity ; a training productive of much that was privileges of the hall. Three cheers for Cecil Tattersall. good, yet at the same time of not a little that was Hip, hip, hooray! ! The cheer of welcome, so unlike evil. They acquired energy and endurance, but at the the demoniacal yells that had filled the room a minute same time became arrogant and proud ; they gained before, was taken up in full chorus by the spectators, the wrestling thews that throw the world, but not the the Finders, and the fags. That cheer aloge was worth sympathy that pacifies it. When we think of th all the torture I had endured. I arose and stood ese, we cease to wonder that they went forth to Con that they upright, and bowed in grateful acknowledgment, as quer in many a battle by land and sea, exte continent I had seen others do in like circumstance ; but the nded the dominion of England in every 10 " Rollz'ngIn. " of the earth, and made it supreme upon the world, of waters; and do we not also cease to wonder that wherever that dominion has spread, its boun daries have been fringed with blood and the multi tudinous sea incarnadined with slaughter? ' They A LEGEND OF LLANBERIS. went forth strong, self-confident, and defiant, too often carrying with them their intensest prejudices, Yet did their fa ther grieve, and when the light Along the oft-trod margin of the lake, on a sudden, one impatient cried, Of fifteen summers' suns had shone on them When ;' In vain, it happ'd he heard one say, "There lives "Oh, sister, I must see my throbbing heart But one can cure their ill, Aplreth, the Seer, Is all fulfilled with ecstasy of sense; Who dwells within the darkness of that cleft I feel the perfect beauty of this place, Deep-riven in the rock, where dark Tryfren's And I must see and know what wondrous forms Tall triple summit, and the Hill of Storms, Can wake such thrilling music in my soul, Look down on Idwal's silent lake that sleeps Or else I die ; I cannot wait the end." Unruffled by the storms, which hurl their might Half-mad, she tore the bandage from her eyes, Against the strongholds of the crags aloft. :For one short moment saw, like one who in Alone hE" dwells, and often on the heights, A dream beholds dim vistas of strange forms That close the fortress of his rocky den, Foreclosed with shimmering haze of light ; then fell He waits the purple flush of coming dawn, A veil of darkness darker than before ; And culls strange potent herbs to heal man's ills, \Vhereat in agony of loss, she cried aloud, What time the rising sun gilds one by one As one who sees too late his toilsome life The upland tarns ; he only hath the power Is wasted, and his one great end ungained. To drive the darkness from these children's lives." The embattled crags around caught up the cry And hearing this, the prince sought out Aplreth Re-echoing it more gently, till at last And said, "Oh, Seer, men say that thou alone From out the mists of far offhills it came Hast power to heal all ills ; do thou now drive More like a sigh of pity for her woe. The darkness from my children's lives and I The other, hearing this despairing cry, Will give thee whatsoe'er thou askest me." And knowing all the agony it meant, To whom Aplreth made answer, "Prince, thy gifts Yet half in fear of some mysterious doom, To those that need them ; I will do this deed Wreathed her soft arm around her sister's neck, And For the deed's sake and for the goodness of it. " kissing fast the tears in pitying love, Half whispered And then with muttered sound of murmured prayer and half sobbed, "Oh, sister mine, Grieve not He bound their sightless orbs in one thin fold for what is lost, but rather hope That in the Of samite, thrice bedewed with mystic drops time that comes our lives will be As happy and as Of crystal essence from a crystal phial, sweet as heretofore. I too will tear the And cried, "Behold, when thrice three suns have set bandage from mine eyes And see and lose And risen, these shall see ; but if it haps my sight, that this strong bond Of sympathy which Before that time the bandage is unbound, knits our lives in one May be unbroken ; For one short moment will the light have power, therefore, sister, hope." But she, now roused from And then a darkness darker than before out her deep despair, Clasped in a tight embrace Will spread its envious veil before these eyes." her sister's arms, And cried, "Nay, dearest, A week of weary days, light winged by hope stay thine hand ; do thou Wait patiently ; receive New-born and faith-enchanced, sped swiftly by ; this great good gift Of sight, and thou shalt The eighth day found them wandering arm-entwined be to me mine eyes, 14 A Legend of Llanbens. My light, my sun ; of thee and thy great love I, too, in after time shall learn what forms Can wake such thrilling music in my soul." There are, who doubting in this world of doubts, Impatient of the end, despairing cry, "Light, give us Light to see and know the Truth ; PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822). E'en though the Light do blind us, give us Light! How can we toil here in the dark alone? Cor Cordtum. Pierce this dark gathering cloud of doubt ; shine in � Upon our lives, and show us what is Truth." �HELLEY is a man who inspires us at this But other some, far nobler they, toil on D...J distance of time with a love almost personal, � And hope by honest toil and honesty as if we had known and lost him! " Heart Of life to reach at last the Light they seek, of Hearts," written on his tomb under the walls of Or if not that, to teach the race that comes Rome, well expresses what all who love poetry feel A better way to seek fo r Light and Truth. when they think of him. Suppressing the formal dis tinction of verse and prose, creative or poetical writers A. S. R. may be well classed with a 'View to their more important characteristics, their thoughts, sympathies, and tendencies. The fact that two men write verse indicates but a superficial likeness. Swift wrote verses and Shelley wrote verses, but what concord is there between them ! Without giving poetry a more formal definition in its closer and higher meaning, we will fo llow Coleridge and Wordsworth in saying that it is the opposite, not of prose, but of science, and its essence and spirit are union. We find Macaulay taking the same view, and placing Shelley high above a crowd of poets. The essence of poetry, apart from the pathos, the wit, or the brilliant description which may be embodied in it, but may equally exist in prose, consists in the fine perception, and the vivid expression of that subtle and mysterious analogy which exists between the physical and moral world, which makes out ward things and qualities the natural types and em blems of inward gifts and emotions, and leads us ------ 16 Pcrcy Bysshe Shelley. Percy Bysshe She/ley. 17 that to ascribe life and sentiment to everything that interests Register." Burns was the poet who restored the whole us in the aspect of external nature. element-the passion of Love, which had on Reformation ; This indeed does not include all that may be said been absent from our poetry since the also of the of unitive or poetic genius, and Charles Lamb, concisely but he was not only the poet of Love, but neither yet comprehensibly describes poetical imagination as new excitement about Man. He sung that worse-- "the power that draws all things to one ; which makes poverty nor low-birth made a man the ' a' things animate and inanimate, Beings with their "A man s a man for that." 1776, that Crabbe attributes, Subjects with their accessories, take one He did the same work in Scotland, 1775, and it is colour and serve one effect." The purest and highest began in England, 1773, and Cowper, run together. poetry knows nothing of the divisions and abstractions worth remarking how the dates and fraternity had of science, but takes for granted a union of the real In France, the ideas of equality her literature, and with the ideal, of the past with the present and future, been for a long time expressed in in 1789. Im of the mind with the surrounding world. For the poet, at last they found a fuller expression in the world. outward signs are the words of one all-pervading mediately they became living powers at first accepted mind ; all nature lives, thinks, and feels. Stars, rivers, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey when they flowers and trees, and even rocks and stony ruins are them with joy, but receded from -them Imperialism his friends. He can find joy in grief, and transform ended in the Reign of Terror and the tt hated them, and in disgust turned faded sorrows into e, pleasures of memory." As regards of Napoleon. Sco past. Byron Shelley's works, "there is not one," a French critic from the present to write of the romantic the says, "that does not bear the stamp of 179 2." This did not express them, themselves, but he expressed in its action against is mainly true. He began writing verses not long after whole of the revolutionary spirit men, Rogers and Keats , the time when Hope, excited by the Revolution, had old social opinions. Two wholly untouched by them, but Shelley took failed as he said, "like a brief dream of unremaining were them up after the reaction against them had begun' joy." Ideas that told of the natural rights of every ' to die out, and he re-expressed them. His chief idea man, and which had been growing up in Europe for was the future perfection of mankind in a future golden more than a century, had had their effect upon the age, and his whole heart was absorbed in this con poetry of Cowper, Crabbe, and Burns. Cowper, the ception, in its faith, and in the hopes it stirred. He firstof the poets who loves nature entirely for her own read extensively, and studied hard social and political sake, paints only what he sees, but he paints it with problems, of which he found a general solution in his the affection of a child for a Bower, and with the minute belief, that all miseries of society must be ascribed to observation of a man. But the change in his poetry in two causes--superstition and despotism. These evils relation to the subject of Nature is no greater than he believed must first be destroyed, and then dreams the change in relation to the subject of Man. The of paradise would be realized, and universal benevo idea of mankind as a whole, which had been gradually lence would make the world happy. growing up, is fully formed in Cowper's mind. The The predictions uttered and the hopes excited by range of his interests is as wide as the world, and all the poets are not all barren and deluding, though they men form one brotherhood. Crabbe took up the side of ' may have to wait long for their fulfilments. Notwith- the poetry of map. in his "Village" and in the "Parish VOL. XI. c 18 Percy Bysshe Shel!ey. . Percy Bysshe Shelley. 19 standing the taunt of the scientists that "belief in th� "Nature, red in tooth and claw," is found almost entire transaction is wrecked by non-fulfilment," that everywhere in his writings. the the experience "promise is a dream dissolved by His most characteristic poem is "Prometheus U n of eighteen centuries " (Prof. Tyndall at Birmingham, bound," a splendid' mythological form of expression, Oct. I, 1877), "yet, after all the failures of so many in which he gives to abstract thought vivid imaginations hundreds of years, millions will still cherish the hope, and makes individuals out of generalities ; and how that the fair visions of our purest poetry may gradually beautifully he concludes the poem, giving in a direct shine out of literature life, and make the whole �1'ttO form the meaning of all its mythology by the mouth round world, which, as our laureate says, is "bound of the power " Demorgorgon. " Continuous and perfect by gold chains about the feet of God," brighter and melody, like that of Coleridge (whose best work is more beautiful. Httle, but of its kind perfect), is not found in so great To help the world towards this golden age, and to a degree in ShelIey perhaps, yet here and there we overthrow all that stood in its way, was the obj ect find strains re-calling such music as is heard in of half of Shelley's poetry. The :rest was a personal "Christabel," such as "Lines to an Indian Air " and outpouring of himself in his seeking after that perfect the " Hymn of Pan." ideal which he could· not find, nay, could not conceive. As a lyric poet Shelley was easily great. Some The hopes of man, with which "Queen Mab " was of his are lyrics of nature, some are dedicated to the written, faded and grew cold, and in "Alastor" he de rebuke of tyranny and the cause of liberty, others scribed the life, wandering, and death of a lonely poet ; to the passion of love, whilst others are written on but the very title of the poem shows that the poet did the shadows of the dim shadows of thought. They not allow that a life lived apart from human interests form the most sensitive, the most imaginative, the was a noble one-it is Alastor ('AXacTTrop) a spirit of evil, most musical, but the least tangzole poetry we possess. of solitude, one who suffers from divine vengeance. With Wordsworth he had the same idea that Nature In his next poem "The Revolt of Islam," he hoped was alive, but while Wordsworth found the active that men were beginning to recover from their apathy, principle to be thought, Shelley found it to be love. and he showed them what they should strive and hope Where W ordsworth found a thinking spirit, Shelley for, and what they should destroy. found a loving spirit. Love of solitude, attended with a longing for sym He had not that close grasp of Nature that Words pathy and a thirst for discovery, are traits to be found worth or even Keats possessed, but he had a far in the writer's own character ; and another remarkable greater power of describing a vast landscape melting trait is the oft-recurring thought of strife, of duality, into indefinite space. In this he stands first among and contradiction, as represented in the " Serpent and English poets, as Turner did in landscape painting. the Eagle " and in the "Contest of Prometheus and The position of his great contemporary Byron was J ove. " Perhaps that thought of antipathy was closely a curio us one. He is partly of the past and partly associated with memories of painful passages in the Of. the present, and something of the school of Pope poet's own life; his experience at Eton, his expulsion Chngs to him. fr om college, and his later sorrows, and this thought There were few literary men whose character Byron of the long strif� of good and evil in the world, of respected more than Shelley'S. The two poets differed cz 20 Perey Bysshe Sltelley. Perey Bysshe Shelley. 21 widely, however, on questions of taste and criticism. more strongly contrasted than She11ey and Byron in Byron called Shelley's notions of poetry and philosophy the cause and manner of their revolt against social "too spiritual and romantic," and he was slow in claims. In Shelley it was the revolt of the spirit ; recognising the merits of Keats, whose writings gave in Byron it was the revolt of the flesh. Byron was Shelley such delight. At first also Byron has no never confirmed in unbelief, but he was sceptical in interest in the human questions which were so strongly the strictest sense of the word. For him the creed fe lt by Words worth and She11ey, nor has he any of his native land was a problem, affording exercise fo r his inquiring intellect, but giving neither strength philosophy except that which centres round the pro� blem of his own being. When at last he escapes from nor consolation ; he had no confidence in any teachings his morbid self, he ran into the opposite extreme in of philosophy, excepting the one saying "All we know " Don Juan," where he shows the strong revolutionary is nothing-can be known." In France and Germany spirit. In it he claims fo r himself and fo r others many men who never heard the name of Wordsworth, ahsolute fr eedom of individual act and thought, in and who knew little more than the name of Milton, opposition to that fo rce of society which tends to make read with enthusiastic admiration the works of Byron, all men after one pattern. Byron, as a poet of Nature, whom they hailed as the greatest poet of the nineteenth is often of that class which has less sympathy with century, and that estimate is still generally held on Nature than a sympathy with themselves as they fo rced the continent. Nature to reflect them. She11ey resembled Byron in having had no aid fr om He, however, often escapes fr om this position and that faith he rejected in early life. "Bigotry and looks on Nature as she is, apart fr om himself. "There persecution," he said, "have ever been connected with were times when his great soul shone out upon the that creed," therefore he argued that it must be hostile earth in all the primal glory of her light ;" "his instead of fr J.endly to the cultivation of those virtues songs were then remembrances of heaven, and even that make men brothers. To have made his reasoning in his most mocking moments you might trace the more logical, he shonld also have abandoned his belief fire of genius and unconscious bow to the bright halo in such principles as "Equality and Fraternity," that it cast around." In his colossal power, and the because of the crimes and excesses associated with ease that comes fr om it, he resembles Dryden. Hardly the words. It is, indeed, impossible to justify his acts any of his works cost him hard study, except his first from the point of view of social order ; but if we condemn him as a law-breaker, we cannot help remem satire and the third act of "Manfred." Goethe, who . was no mean judge, described his genius as original benng that the law was not made fo r a righteous in the superlative degree. In his poetry, as in his man, but fo r a sinner ; and Shelley had in him so strongly and instinctively that love which fills the life, he was driven along by impu.lses. He seemed � less to possess his own genius than to be possessed empty fo rms f law, that he could hardly help fe eling . by it, and his facility fo r producing verse was like that t�ese laws an Impertmence, especially when forced upon enj oyed by an "Improvisatore." He, however, always hIm by those fr om whose hearts the love was absent. shews more power of intell ect than of the imagination. The refrain of his whole life was in his own words- ' In Shelley, on the contrary, the imagination is supreme We look before an d after a.nd the intellect his servant. No two poets could be And sigh for what is not: J. M. A. " One Glass ofBeer." 23 He had his " one" glass, and then two or three more, And when he set out from the Public-house door He saw a sad sight, and he saw it with groans- Mary Anne on the arm of Theophilus J ones . • Yes, Theophilus J ones was a steady young man, Who enjoyed but was never too fond of his can; BEDFORDSHIRE BALLAD.-II. And while Smith in the public was stopping to swill, "ONE GLASS OF BEER." Jones had woo'd and had won the fair maid of the mill. Ne qu£d nimis. Tom homeward returned like a runaway pup, When the lash of the whipper-in touches him up ; TOM SMITH was the son of a Bedfordshire man: And he sighed to himself, "Its decidedly clear (The Smiths, we all know, are a numerous clan), That I've lost a good wife for a bad glass 0/ Beer." He was happy and healthy and handsome and strong, And could sing on occasion a capital song...... • .. At length he was married to Emily Brown: His father had once been a labourer poor, A tidier girl there was none in the town ; But had always contrived to keep want from the door ; The church bells were ringing, the village was gay, And by work and by thrift had enough in his pocket As Tom met his bride in her bridal array. To rent a small farm from his landlord and stock it. For a twelve month or more things went on pretty straight, He died: Tom succeeded: the ladies all said Tom went early to work, and was never home late ; It was high time he went to the Church to be wed ; But after that time a sad change, it would seem, And Sarah and C1ara, and Fanny and Bess, Came over the spirit of Emily's dream. Confessed if he "offe r'd" perhaps they'd say "Yes." The Rector missed But Tom fixedhis eyes on the Miller's young daughter, Tom from his place in the choir ; In the evening his wife And was only awaiting the right time to court her ; sat alone by the fire; So one day as he saw her walk out from the mill, When her husband came home he was never too early, He set offin pursuit with a very good will. And his manner was dull, and at times even surly. Now Tom, I must tell you, had one little fault, He was late in the Autumn in sowing his wheat, He was rather too fond of a mixture of malt ; His bullocks and sheep had disease of the feet, In fact, if my meaning is not very clear, His sows had small litters, his taters went bad, I'm afraid he was rather too partial to "Beer." And he took "/ust a glass" when he felt rather sad. The Says Tom to himself as he followed the maid, Rector's " good lady" was passing one day, An ' "I should like just a glass for I'm rather afraid ;" d looked in, her usual visit to pay. " How No doubt at such times men are nervous and queer, dy'e do, Mrs. Smith? Is the baby quite well ? Rave y So he stopped at the Public for " one glass of Beer." ou got any eggs, or young chickens to sell 1" 25 24 A Bedfordslzzre Ballad. " One Glass of Beer." men like Tom find it hard to "refraz'n," But Emily Smith couldn't answer a word; But because " folk should " abstain j At length her reply indistinctly was heard ; It's hard that we temperate doubt are most excellent cheer, "I'm all of a mullock*, it's no use denying-" Tea and coffee no man likes his" one gl ass 0/ Beer." And with that the poor woman she burst out a crying. But a hard-working hoeing and ploughing and drill, Then after a time with her apron she dried What with ' chining· and will not make a man ill ; The tears from her eyes, and more calmly replied, A glass of good beer you never must touch- " I don't mind confessing the truth, ma'am, to you, But one glass, like poison, only called "one too much!" For I've found in you always a comforter true. It's the glass which is comm ARcuLus. ' Things are going to ruin, the land's full 0 twitch, machinery. There's no one to clean out a drain or a ditch, • Machining, i.t. threshing by The gates are all broken, the fences all down, Reading in the Country. And the state of our farm is the talk of the town. [The above Verses were written for a Penny found in Vol. IX., p. 366.-ED.] The BedfordshireBallad I. will be W er' e lost a young horse, and another's gone lame, Our hay's not worth carting, the wheat's much the same, Our pigs and our cattle are always astray, Our milk's good-for-nothing, our hens never lay. Tom ain't a bad husband as husbands do go (That ain't saying much, as I dares ay you know!), ' But there's one thing that puts him and me out 0 gear, He's always a craving for (one glass ofBeer.' He never gets drunk, but he's always half-fuddled, He wastes all his time, and his wits are all muddled, We've notice to quit for next Michaelmas year, All owing to Tom and his (one glass of Beer 1''' MORAL. My friends, I believe we shall none of us quarrel, If I try from this story to draw out a moral ; Tom Smith, I am told, has now taken the pledge ; Let us hope he will keep the right side of the hedge. * Muddle. ------ --- LORELEI. LORELEI. I KNOW not what may it betoken, ICH weiss nicht, was soIl es bedeuten, That I so dreary feel, Dass ich so traurig bin ; Or why should a weird old story Ein Marchen aus alten Zeiten, Unbidden my fancy steal. Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn. The air is cool in the twilight, Die Luft ist kuhl und es dunkelt, The Rhine all tranquil flows, U nd ruhig fliesst der Rhein ; And bright in the evening sunshine Der Gipfel des Berges fu nkelt The mountain summit glows. Im Abendsonnenschein. Methinks, up yonder is sitting Die schonste J ungfrau sitzet A maiden passing fair ; Dort oben wunderbar, Her gold-bedight garments glitter, Ihr goldnes. Geschmeide blitzet, She combs her golden hair. Sie kammt ihr goldenes Haar. With golden comb as she combs it, Sie kammt es mit goldenem Kamme, A wondrous song she sings, U nd singt ein Lied dabei ; That 'mongst the rocks with a music Das hat eine wundersame Of mighty melody rings. Gewaltige Melodei. The boatman beneath the cliff sailing . Den Schiffer im kleinen Schiffe Is seized with wildest grief; Ergreift es mit wildem Weh ; He gazes aloft at the Maiden, Er schaut nicht die Felsenriffe, And heeds not the threatening reef. Er schaut nur hinauf in die Hoh'. The waters, I we en, will o'erwhelm him, Ich glaube, die Wellen verschlingen They hurl his skiffhelpless along : Am Ende Schiffer und Kahn ; And this is done all by the Maiden Und Das hat mit ihrem Singen The Lorelei with her song. Die Lorelei gethan. F. J. ALLEN. HEINE. Th e Legeud 0/ tlz e Lurlet'. 29 for ever afterwards ringing in the ears tender fa rewell like distant music which would not come of her votary near him. seen her. It was when Once only had Hermann fr om the chase, he had rning late one evening retu was down in dreary, musing, mood, and THE LEGEND OF THE LURLEI. lain him dark waters. They were limpid, silently gazing at the and the reflected stars shone (From the Gemlan). dark with shadows only, depths with a wave-like flickering up fr om their silent Miirchenhaft voruoenzogen the Suddenly, as the shadows flitting past Berg' und Burgen, Wa ld und Au motion. its gleam, the beautiful Lorelei Un d das Alles sah iclz glanzen moon unsheathed m spiritually bright did In de Aug' der schonen Frau. appeared to him. So wildly, HEINE. she had fa llen fr om one she seem, that he fa ncied the blue canopy of those orbs of light which bespanged HE fa iries and magical beings with which � above. antiquity has peopled its mountains, castles, revealed in �, For a moment she stood before him and rivers, have generally henevolent influ- all her beauty- encies ascribed to them, but in the Middle Ages the power of magic created also spirits of evil, who, dis A lovely being scarcely fo rmed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet fo lded, guised as water-witches, nymphs, or gnomes, exercised a baleful and fa tal power over their infatuated victims. but there was no rose on her cheeks, their tint was Few countries are more adapted to give colour and like a virgin whiteness in a dream of bloom. Once, consistence to legendary lore, than the lovely and when she raised her hand- occasionally terrible banks of the Middle and Upper It was so wan, so transparent of hue, Rhine, where ruined shrines and towers still stand You might have seen the moon shining thro', like relics of a splendid dream. In one of these castles dwelt Hermann, son of She vanished as sllddenly as she had come, and Palatinate, Count Bruno, and on the Ley, a rock Hermann was left ; his fa ir eyes gazing at vacancy situated above Goarshausen, dwelt the water-nymph but his heart darkened by her shadow. He had heard Lore, and there she was known as the Lorelei. To her talk fa r above singing, but vainly did he strive those whom she desired to bewitch she appeared in to recall her words for, as thfl dark river reflected the loveliest and most charming figure, her garments the flickering stars, so his agitated mind reflected floating round her like the film of the gossamer, half only the broken images of things. Suddenly, the revealing, half concealing her tende rly fo rmed limbs, castle bell struck the midnight hour with a melancholy which they rather expressed than hid. Sometimes clang, and slowly rising he returned homewards. descending fr om her fa iry loneliness, she might be From that moment all was changed. Day and night seen bathing her beauties in the waters of the river, became a weary interchange of light and darkness, under which she would often disappear, leaving a but in his real dreams, or in those day-dreams hardly Th e Legend of the Lurid. 3 1 30 Tlz e Legend of the Lurid. his knightly perial camp and there win less real, the beautiful Lorelei appeared to him like to the Im Beatrice passing through Dantes' heaven. spurs. evening with reluctance consented, and the These visits however left him doubly lonely. At Hermann he went, for the last his intended departure, length one evening he felt a mysterious longing to before his the Ley in order to offer the nymph visit the Ley, and taking only his Zither with him, he time, to visit gs, and his sighs. approached nearer to the foot of the mountain than her, his son zit and faithful servant as time he took an old he had ever before ventured. Casting his glances This the and, in silence, they approached upwards to the heights, he saw a wondrous colour his attendant, the summit was the beautiful Lore, hovering around the summit of the rock. Then it rock. There on dancing. below, the waves were seemed to change and dilate into magnificent c1oud while shone unusually dark, and her figure vistas, in the midst of which, like the folds of a white The night was beauty, for a living robe of light garment in the twilight, he dimly and indistinctly bright with supernal her. discovered the form of the nymph. She was approach rays seemed woven around entreated him to return, but ing him, and with an unintentional cry of joy on his Hermann's companion He saw not the in he disregarded the warning. lips, letting his zither fall, he called to her with ex dash of the waves which threatened to tended arms. creasing anger but sweeping his hand across the Nearer she came and stooping over him pronounced him on the rocks, guitar and, fixing his eyes on the maiden, his name in low and unutterably sweet whispers; his strings of his pulse beat fast in his veins, a strange thrill, an he sang, unknown joy, pervaded his senses, but at the moment Auf deine schonen Augen when he felt he possessed them at their fullest, he Hab' ich ein ganzes Heer gedichtet lost them, and fell back senseless. Von ewigen Liedern Mein Liebchen, was willst du mehr ? He awoke, chill with the cold dews, and roorn was blushing in the east when he reached the castle. Mit deinen schonen Augen Sometimes the chase led him to a distance from the Hast du mich gequalt so sehr, eastern woods, but always in returning he felt himself Und hast mich zu Grunde gerichtet Mein Liebchen, was willst du mehr ? magically drawn towards the Ley, where sad and weary he would invoke the nymph, and strain his Scarcely had he finished when everywhere was ears after her dreamy music ; sometimes standing on heard tumult and sounds of voices above and below the brink he felt half impatient to fling himself down the water. The surf-waves rose high and threatened into the swift river, where, in the depths of the wave, the frail bark but nought stopped the infatuated youth. the Lore had her crystal castle. Flames appeared on the Lei, and above them he saw The old Count Bruno saw, with grief, this change the fairy standing and beckoning to him. Heeding come over his son, and, concluding it was the result not his danger he was carried impetuously onwards of some unhappy passion, he resolved to send him and his boat was dashed against the rocks. where serious occupation would break the spell and His companion unable to restrain him had jumped o also open to him an active future. ut a little before and was thrown by a strong wave For this purpose he proposed that he should go 3 2 Th e Leg-end of theLu, rlet"_ on to the shore. After a fruitless search for Hermann, he returned to tell the strange tale to the aged Count. The old man's grief was indescribable. He hastened to the Lei, vowing to be revenged on the nymph, and there he saw her on the summit combing her long tresses and the tones of her singing reached his ear, as from a distant .lEolian harp. AN DIE ROSEN. As he drew nearer she cast her glittering comb into the river and a wave uprose and conveyed her beneath. MEIN Geliebter hat versprochen She was never seen again, but in the still nights Wenn ihr bliihet hier zu sein. of Spring listening boatmen still hear her enchanting tones amid the rushing waters, and they sadly think Diese Zeit ist angebrochen of young Hermann beguiled to his ruin by the nymph Rosen! und ich bin allein. of the rock. And the rock itself was no longer called Holde Tochter der Cythere Lorelei but was changed to Lurlei, and a beautiful Rosen! schonet meiner Ruh', echo is the only gift which remains of the fairy. Schonet meines Schafers Ehre : Schlieszt euch, schlieszt euch wieder zu ! J. M. A. J. N. GOETZ. TO THE ROSES. My bonnie lad gied me his word When ye wad bloom he'd come again ; But, Roses, I hae seen ye blaw, And we hae kept the tryst alane. Hae pity on my waefu' heart, My bonnie roses, fair and fr ee ; Tak' tent 0' Johnnie's plichtit troth : Creep back intil your buds a wee. D. M' A. VOL. XI. D •.• �� ��.a THE BEACONSFIELD ALPHABET. THE GLADSTONE ALPHABET. A's my new policy called Annexation, the Good, A's Aristides, or Gladstone B is the Bother it causes the nation. I'd crush if I could. B is Lord B., whom C is Lord Chelmsford, engaged with Zulus, mad pranks, C are Conservatives, full of D the Disasters which give me 'the blues.' their ranks. D are the Dunces who fill up E is the effo rt I make to look merry, E stands for Ewelme, of some notoriety, F is my Failure-deplorable very ! F fo r the Fuss made in Oxford society. G is Sir Garnett, alas, not ubiquitous ! G stands fo r Gladstone, a hewer of wood, H stands fo r H--t, an M.P. iniquitous. H is my Hatchet of merciless mood. I stands fo r India, a source of vexation, I is the Irish Church, which I cut down, J are the Jews, a most excellent nation. J are the Jobs, which I kill with a fr own. K is the Khedive, whose plan is to borrow K are the Knocks, which I give and I take, L £. s. d.-I'll annex him to-morrow! L are the Liberals whom I forsake. M's the Majority, which I much prize, M are the Ministry, whom I revile, N are the Non-contents, whom I despise. N are the Noodles my speeches beguile. O's the Opposition, so often defeated, o is the Office I mean to refuse, P is P--ll, that Home-ruler conceited. P is the Premier-I long fo r his shoes. Q are the Questions put by noble Lords, Q are the Qualms of my conscience refined, R my Responses, more cutting than swords. R is the Rhetoric nothing can bind. S is the Sultan, my fr iend true and warm, S is Herr Schliemann, who loves much to walk about T are the Turks whom I hope to reform. T ancient Troy, which I love to talk about. U's my Utopia-Cyprus, I mean. U is the Union of Church and State, V is Victoria, my Empress and Queen. V are my fo rmer views, now out of date. W's the World, which ere long I shall own, W is William, the People's ' True Bill ' X i X is the sign of my power unknown. is the Exit fr om power of that 'wi l.' Y Y is the Yacht I shall keep in the Red Sea, is Young England, who soon will unite Z in Z the Zulus, whom I wish in the Dead Sea. fr esh Zeal for the 'People's Delight.' " ARcuLus." " ARcuLus." April, 1879. D2 Modern A Nu ns. 3 7 a careful well preserved in detail to reward su ffi·Clent1y study. . ., wlth classlcal times attract th e y other links .. . M an th e skins still used fo r stonng wme, eye , such as table in the streets, the fo rms of ey-ch an ger's . . mon days of Pencles, ottery unchanged since the househ 0Id P y which even a cook Wl'1 1 ' qUlte t 11 na ura and th e q uestion }'·fODERN ATHENS. " What NEWS to-d ay r", I n d dee 0 er mistress ask f h a newspaper-boys early and late are the cries of the a Visitor in Athens, to be great annoyance to On board ss. Peloro, the bad smells that are bracketed, however, with OffEast coast of Morea, natives, and the clouds 31'dJa nuary, 1879. diligently cultivated by the fill the streets even in December and DEAR ---, of dust which � ink, if I write with the indow that my first visit to Greece is over, and January and foul my _l OW otherwise tempted to do, wlth the we are fa st losing sight of the hills which open, as one is ��" 60° in the middle of the day. look down on Athens, I gladly endeavour to thermometer above memories that linger in the traveller's offer a brief account of my impressions. But of all turns westward again the most prominent No such fe eling of disappointment, as is often mind as he is that of tigltt-silvery at noon-day-of every tint of mentioned in the case of Rome, can possibly occur purple at dawn and sunset, so that the A.af-l-7T'pOTaTOr; to the traveller during his first week in Athens : "UJ7jp of Euripides and lOO"TErpavo£ 'ABijva£ thrice from every point the Parthenon overawes with its repeated by Aristophanes are no merely poetic com beauty, though-like the Capitol-it fo rms the ex pliments. The latter ephithet most appropiately recalls tremity of modern, the centre of the ancient city. the heather coronet fo rmed by Hymettus Lycabettus One goes up to it again and again, early and late, Pentelicus and Parnes, which lend their limestone to for the views over Attica, Aegina, and Corinth, and such wonderfu l transformations. still more of course for its own dignity and wondrous My last afternoon in Athens was indeed sad, spent harmony with the Propy1ffia and the adjacent buildings, as it was with an Athenian jurist, who kindly took and the beautiful fr agments of sculpture, which lie me to Kolonos and the Akademia ; on the spot which strewn about the entrance and collected in the Museum Sophoc1es loved so well nothing was to be noted but on the spot : and one fe els almost indignant, that so a fe w remains of ancient pavement and monuments charming a place cannot be visited at least once a year to K. O. Muller and Charles Lenormant , while fo r by every British student. To the north-west . at about SOUvemrs of Plato are shown a garden-wall into which li mile distance the rock of Lycabettus rises to a repulsive fr ag ments of sculpture have been built' hard considerably greater height, but yet without at all by an 11" 11 - (ept fa rm-house and pergola. However ' the dwarfing the Acropolis. The other notable farm er ' ' .c sites such s wl1e-apparently on the western side of three Sc as the Kerameicus, Theseion, Olympieion, Monument ore ye.ars an d ten-promptly offered me a posy• of of Lysicrates and the Horologion of roses Andronicus are ,an d could not decline a fe w obols in payment. ------. ..------�------ 38 Modern Athens. Modern Athens. 39 fr iendly welcome One olive tree, gnarled and bare, is jealously kept hman may count on a An Englis h there is hardly in the neighbourhood as having possibly yielded fr uit er class of natives (thoug m the upp fro ), who generally to Plato-at any rate it may be more thap 2000 years class and a half altogether more than a th' elr own ; th' IS old. We and homewards along the three languages besI'd es turn east wander k two or . . spea to the bank of the Kephissos, a rapid stream about the width granted m stIll greater measure cordiality is . s somewhat fr om the natural habIt of the Cam at Grantchester, and so by the road fr om h , and arise . Frenc , Thebes into Athens again. Asking my friend if we are the skirts of more powerful neIghbours of hanging on s seems to have its closest parallel walking on the line of an ancient way, I am answered Ancient Hella Switzer- with "No, except fo r six or seven buildings, all is ative in the Cantons of modern � d represent m. a d vance, new : the Turks have left us NOTHING." Indeed the indeed, be an immense step land : it would, would toil and till with the honest modern city of Athens reminds one of Kingston or if the Hellenes Swiss. But their abuse of the Hamilton, or any one of those mushroom cities of independence of the to make this probable, the New World, in which the memory of the oldest tongue is too old a tradition of life can be had fo r inhabitant goes back scarcely more than fo rty years. so long as the bare means fo und in Con Even so, it is marvellous : the streets are many of almost nothing, and a career may be too highly them broad and planted with pepper trees : the stantinople, Vienna, or Paris by Hellenes In the buildings-especially the House of Commons and the educated to make roads or to till the land. oil University-suc,h as an English architect might study very home of the olive one is still served with is with advantage. And but 38 years ago modern Athens from Lucca, and the paper and other stationery pro was not, and the best lodging that Dr. Words worth chiefly imported fr om Paris or London. The Naples, could find was blown about his ears and completely fe ssional letter writer, still seen at Rome and is struck with wrecked by the wind in a single night. No w I have has vanished fro m Athens, and one and bookbinders, but a had fairly comfortable board and lodging in an hotel the number of booksellers lack both of great learning and of great ignorance at 7 francs per day, and can spend my evenings in may still be noted ; for while primary and secondary in the society of polished fa milies or at a club-house education is abundant and well organized, few natives worthy of any capital in Europe. As in America, so have any scholarly knowledge even of ancient Greek. here also, this sudden growth has some disadvantages ; The Greek, as of yore, takes kindly to the sea, and the natives have an exaggerated idea of their own . IS l?th to trouble himself with modern precautions national importance, and bravely dream of annexing of lIghts on land or ship-board : in fact there is not " upon ethnocraHc principles" all that was once called a light-house on the coast except the one placed on Thessalia, Macedonia, and Thrace, includi ng even Cythera by o r wn Admiralty,-a fa ithful dog is Constantinople, while they have yet much to do in � � the Greek manner s companion, and warns when raising themselves above the low level him of Levantine to � � ow a solitary lantern just in time to morals in matters of daily life as well as politics. avoid collISIOn . No won d er h t at the At present . pet-dog is so affec- this bit of ambition seems as chimerical as bo na tely quo t e d'm t 1le Gospels did Ita lz'a and so fr equently On z"ta to Metternich and his school of diplo sculp tured on tombstones. mats : but the idea will not be allowed to rest, and may u . T rkish mlsru1 e and massacres have mark possibly be realized before the end of this century. left a 40 Modem Athens. Mo dern Athens. 41 but in this all too plain to the traveller's eye as he doubles Cape distract the student's attention- collections Malea and sails up the Saronic gulf; amongst hills is still on a provisional fo oting. epartment all d French scholars have the benefit with rare beauty of outline and vales with every tint re, as at Rome, He study of archreology of light and shade, few are the signs of habitation establishment fo r the of a noble to or culture. Few, too, are the sails that can be seen ; which England is doing well -an example but this want must rather be put down to the score w. follo is, that neither on of Newcastle and Cardiff, fo r a single steam-boat of bright spot in memory One last way 2000 to 3000 tons now does the work that a dozen mbarking was I made in any landing nor re-e of a Custom House-an insti light craft would have done fifty years ago. Memories of the existence aware the traveller of George Williams and other enthusiastic Unionists is doomed long to worry tution which of made me anxiously enquire about the condition and So farewell to the Isles in Western Europe. prospects of the National Church ; but I fa iled to Greece ! S. S. LEWIS. learn anything that was otherwise than discouraging. It was touching, however, to see the score or so of natives, whom our simple hearty music attracted to service at the English Church on Sundays and Holy Days : perhaps sympathy in worship is the utmost that can be expected. No city in East or West that I have yet visited offers such a charming variety in form and colour of costume even among civilians : the orderly, that the Minister of Public Instruction kindly detailed to unlock the cabinets at each Museum, is one day in the short white kilt and red leggings (unlike the greaves of old in covering back as well as front), and another day a baggy Turk who might have just come offpilgrimage, so very abstemious is he in soap. Nowhere has the architecture of ancient Athens at its best been more happily revived than in the Dav€7r£UT7JfI.€£OV (Uni versity) buildings, where the architect-a Dane-had been most successful in gild ing the spirited groups which fo rm the frieze and decorate the tympanum. Amongst the swarm of students the brimless hat and flowing robe of the Greek ecclesiastic is often conspicuous. The Library has already outgrown its scanty quarters ; the Coin cabinet is extraordinarily well organized and adminis tered ; of local ' antiquities no less than five separate MARIE. MARIE. MARIE, am Fenster sitzest du, MARIE, who leanest fr om thy bower, Du liebes, si.tsses Kind, Thou dearest, sweetest maid, Und siehst dem Spiel der Bli.tthen zu, And seest the play of leaf and flower Verweht im Abendwind. In evening breezes swayed :- Der Wandrer, der vori.tber geht, The wanderer who passes there, Er li.tftet fr omm den Hut ; With bared head doth bow, Du bist ja selbst wie ein Gebet, Feeling thy presence like a prayer ; So fr omm, so schon, so gut. So good, so fair art thou ! Die Blumenaugen seh'n empor The floweret-eyes all court the grace Zu deiner Augen Licht ! Of thine own eyes' sweet light : Die schonste Blum' im Fensterflor But mid the flowers, thy lovely face 1st doch dein Angesicht. Is flower of all most bright. Ye evening bells, oh greet my fair Ihr Abendglocken gri.tsset sie With gentle melodie ! Mit si.tsser Melodie ! Oh break, ye storms, the flowerets ne'er, o brech' der Sturm die Blumen nie, And ne'er her heart,-Marie ! U nd nie de in Herz, Marie ! RUDOLF GOTTSCHALL. F. J. ALLEN. Arz"thmetzc. 45 days and nights ? What! keep a week away ? 7 B£a cia . " 7. ? and lovers' absent hours " 8 score 8 hours the dial 8 score times ? " More tedious than weary reckoning I" " 0 Othello, Aet IlL, Se. 4. koning in the scale of eight. the weary rec ARITHMETIC. Express (mimtfes) make the hour fu ll y. "How many s. K. He nr complete ? SHAKESPEARE. " How many hours bring about the day ? " How many days will finish up the year ? Fo rsooth a great An"lh metician. OthelIo, Act I., Sc. I. K. He n. VI. , Part III. , Aet n., Se. 5. hou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, 9. petruchio. "T nail." Aet IV., Se. I. Chorus. "0, pardon ! since a crooked figure may " Ta ming 0. / the Shrew, 3. a vulgar fraction of a pole. " Attest, in little place, a million." Express Petrllch£o's abuse as K. He n. v.,Act I. his company hourly ....this Explain the Arithmetical allusion. 10. Fa lstaff. "I have forsworn " two-and-twenty years." 2. Pu ck. "Yet but 3 ? Come I more ; K. rIen. IV., Part I., Act H., Se. 2. " " 2 of both kinds makes up 4. How often is this ? MidsummerNi ght's Dream, Act IlL, Sc. 2. of I 0, and J I. Cnssida . "Vowing more than the perfection Examine the accuracy of Pu ck's Arithmetic. " "discharging less than the tenth part of I. Troilus and Cressida, Aet IlL, Se. 2. 3· Coriolanus. "Within thine eyes sat 20,000 deaths, the discharge to the vow. "In thy hands clutch'd as many millions, in Approximate to the ratio of "Thy lying tongue both numbers." n. Fa /s/aff. "S yards of uneven ground is 3 score and 10 Co rio/anus, Act Ill., Sc. 3. .. miles a-foot with me." Act n., Se. 2. How many does this make altogether ? K. He n. IV.,Part I., Estimate the difficulty of the ground, if Fa lstaff does not 4· K. He nry. " ..10 ,000 French, exaggerate. " That in the field lie slain : of princes, in this number J 3. Gonzalo. "I would give I 000 fu rlongs of sea fo r I acre " And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead "of barren ground." " One hundred twenty-six : added to these Tempest, Act 1., Se. 1. "Of knights, esquires and gallant gentlemen What is GOllzalo's estimate of the comparative values of sea " Eight thousand and four hundred .... and barren ground. " So that in these 10,000 they have lost " 20 " There are but 1600 mercenaries :" 14· Yo rk . 5 men to I though the odds be great, If. He n. v.,Act. IV., Sc. " I doubt not, uncle, of our victory. Correct the King's rough calculation. " Many a battle have I won in France, " When as the enemy hath been 10 to I 5· PorHa . "Double 6000 and then treble that." "Why should I not now have the same success ?" Me rchant 0./ Ve nice, Aet Ill., Se. K. rIm. VI. , Part III. , Aet 1., Se. 2. C om 6. PorHa. "I would be trebled 20 times." pare the odds on this occasion with those on France. Me rchant 0. / Ve nice, Aet IlL, Se. Give her a hundred 7ll al"ks. I. In what ratio does Pm "Ha wish to be increased ? K. Hen. VIIL, Act v., Sc. The Death ofHe rakles. 47 mountain flower, or soft with dew With many a of cataracts, whose noises grew And spray upon them as they came and passed : And waned y bare the bier, and at the last And still the dusk woods rise in twinkling lines Beheld the 'erhead the singing in the pines And fr om o O loudlier and more near, till now THE DEATH F HERAKLES : Came ever ok the topmost breeze, and far below A FRAGMENT. They to murmuring main was thick with stars . The fa intly- • • • Then on that huge crag-summit, where all jars ...THE N in that broken voice of coming Death, Of earth seemed lost in that unearthly song, Half-hushed and choked with many a sudden pang, O They halted with their burden, and ere long He bade them bear him where old ita sang Had builded up thereon a goodly pyre : Wind-waked amid her multitudinous pine : But noW from overhead a frequent fire And o'er them, as they bare, a myriad shine Brake evermore, and the grey clouds grew black, Of stars stole out thro' the dusk Heaven and main And evermore thereafter the Night-wrack Mocking with their cold peace the maddening pain Was slowly gathered into one huge gloom And throbbing throes of that huge Agony. Rolling aloof, in whose mysterious womb Some dread dark thing seemed struggling to its birth. So upward ever from the twilight sea Thro' many a sloping meadow' and moor they went So, when all now was ready, from the earth -In peace, save when their rustling fo otfall sent They lifted the worn body, and on the pile The scared bird fluttering fr om her heather-nest, Laid him fo r that last slumber, and meanwhile Or the fierce spasm after briefest rest Strewed round it what rude gifts their haste Waked with a fiercer torture, and he wailed. had brought : Then kindled ; and fo rth-right (as though it sought Then would they sometimes halt; fo r their hearts failed To battle with its brother of the sky) That he, who ever in the olden days The flame shot heavenward ; and Had held ignoble any that could raise emulously The dry trunks cracked and roared against the The voice of weeping now himself did weep ; din Of the loud bolt : but that Great But when the spasm again was laid to sleep Heart within Found rest, fo r well he knew the end Then pressed they on with heavy hearts and sore, was nigh. Then eet memory (who evermore was there seen a wonder : fr om on high Albeit sw T here shone a sudden and an aweful glow. Makes e'en the sorrow of our dark past most dear) Then through mid-air majestically slow Charmed half their grief : but evermore -the tear The thi om its secret fo unt despite her spell, ck cloud droopt to earthward, compassing Brake fr Th e crackling blaze with shadow, and everyth As here and there dark shadows round them fe ll ing rew s d about their fee � till and all at once the Night was fair. Or the dank marish plashe t: h ereafter heard those others everywhere Yet ever and anon their way was sweet ...... � 48 Th e Death 0/ He 1'akles. Strange rustlings as of Robes Divine that swept. The invisible air : and while they bowed and wept For very awe and love, on their ears fell A noise of Revel j and soft winds, that tell The Deity nigh, were odorous all about . . .. . Then slowly all the triumph and the shout Seemed ever to grow fainter Heavenward j OBITUARY. And, when they looked, behold but ashes charred And black with here and there a lifeless red ALFRED HENRY GARROD, F.R.S. Yet fragrant of the Gods, but all too dead To flicker out into full life again. �y the premature death of Professor Garrod, a dis • tinguisl).ed Fellow of this College, biological Then knew they that the Almighty Sire had ta' en - � science has lost one of its most promising culti His own Child home, and peradventure now vators, and Cambridge one of her brightest ornaments. The fe ast was spread, and on the toil-worn Qrow Born in London on May 18, 1846, the eldest son of Dr. the sparkling Anadem. Fair Arete set A. B. Garrod, F.R.S.) a well-known member of the So straightway, wandering slow as in a dream, medical profession, he was educated at King's and They moved (albeit not unmournfully) University Colleges, and graduated as a licentiate of Down toward the starlit surging of the sea .... the Society of Apothecaries, at that time intending to A. L. INNES. continue th� practice of medicine. In 1868 Mr. Garrod came up to Cambridge, obtaining the first exhibition offered by our College for Natural Science : and subse quently he was elected a Scholar on the same ground. To members of the College it may be a matter of some interest to remember that when the new Chapel was opened in 1869, Mr. Garrod, who was then an undergraduate, succeeded in obtaining a set of instantaneous photographs of the procession as it passed through the first court. In 1871 he took his RA. degree, being placed at the head of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Up to this time his interest and work in science had chiefly been physiological. The phe nomena of the circulation in particular attracted his attention, and whilst still an undergraduate he con ducted a series of observa tions on himself by means of th '�e thermometer and the sphymograph, the results �f hich were subsequently published in the Royal O Clety's "Proceedings," and the " Journal of Anatomy VOL. XI. E 50 Obituary. Obztuary. 51 and Physiology." Many of his most important results fe w premonitory warnings, he was prostrated by a in this direction have been subsequently and inde severe attack of hffimorrhage of the lungs, which, pendently confirmed by an American observer, not a in the opinion of those who knew best, left but little little to Mr. Garrod's gratification. In 1872 Mr. Garrod hope of ultimate recovery. He left England last was elected to the office of Prosector to the Zoological winter fo r a few weeks, but benefited little by the Society of London, and at once set himself to work change, and though some three months ago he seemed to benefit by the immense materials for original investi to recover and gain strength, he soon relapsed, and gation now at his command. The result was the series getting rapidly weaker and weaker, expired last week, of papers and memoirs, more than 60 in number, 011 after a long, though mercifully painless, illness. Till the structure and affinities of the higher Vertebrata within a fe w weeks of his death he continued to work published in that Society's "Proceedings" and "Trans away as enthusiastically as ever at his constantly actions," and continued up to the present period. He increasing materials, and has left a very large and especially devoted himself to the muscular and visceral valuable collection of notes, drawings, and MS papers. anatomy of birds, and his papers on these subjects, and Some of these, we believe, are in a form which may the results deduced from them, may fa irly be termed allow of their being published very much as they now "epoch-making." In 1873 Mr. Garrod was elected a are. Prof. Garrod was always anxious to �elp others Fellow of this College, and in 1874 became Professor in every way that lay in his power, and encouraged of Zoology at King's College, London. His taste fo r many younger men by his advice and example, whilst mechanics is visible in several even of his zoological the superabundant material at his disposal was always papers ; and his extraordinary ingenuity in making and at their disposition. By his early death science has devising models to illustrate the problems of animal been deprived of the more certain judgment which physiology stood him in good stead when he was further years would have brought to bear on the still elected Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal doubtful value of many points of his work, whilst to Institution in 1875. His fluency and lucidity as a those who have lost in him a fr iend, the blow is indeed lecturer, combined with his ingenious models and irreparable, fo r though his place may be filled, he diagrams, invariably enabled him to keep his rather himself cannot be replaced. miscellaneous audiences interested and amused, and his W. A. F. lectures were always largely attended. In 1876 he was elected, being then just 30, a Fellow of the Royal Society. On two occasions Professor Garrod received grants from the Government Fund 'to enable him to complete an exhaustive anatomy of birds, at which he was working, which was to embody all the results ot his great experience and notes. For the last three years Professor Garrod had been examiner in the Natural Science Tripos. In the fu lfil ment of these many vocations it is to be fe ared he over taxed his strength, and about 16 months ago, after a E2 • ) ..)-- .------� Our ChronzCle. S3 We have the pleasure of recording the fo llowing University honours obtained by members of the College during the a. 8 past year: TRIPOS. MATHEMATICAL Wranglers. Gunston, bracketed 4th; Bond, 14th E. J. Brook-Smith, ; cketed 20th; Lewis, 24th; N ght ale, 26th. bra i ing Smt"or Optimes. C. A. Swift, Wiclgery, Rodwell, B. Jones, Allport, Hagger. Junior Optimcs. Halla , A. E. Swift, Hildersly, Webber, Young, Odell. m OUR CHRONICLE. CLASSICAL TRIPOS. First Clau. Dougan, 3rd (highly distinguished in Examination for the the Classical Medals). 1879. Second Class. Coombes, bracketed 1st; F. C. Hill, W. J. Lee. Third Class. Finch, L ght, A. B. Browne. i It was happily remarked by the late Professor Selwyn, in MORAL SCIENCES TRIPOS, 1878-9. spe'iking of the Oollege Magazine, that 'the glory of our Secolld Class. Pinsent, Holder. Eagle was not so much in the height to which it soared, NATURAL SCIENCES TRIPOS. as in the length of time during which it remained on the First Class. F. J. AlIen (distinguished in Physiology), Marr (in Geology). Second Class. Bruntoll, Lattey, Slater, wing.' Our Magazine has continued to exist fo r more than TMrd Cla$s. Fuller, Hutchinson, WaIters. 20 years a and the present number is the first of new volume; THEOLOGICAL TRIPOS. but if it is to maintain and to improve its present position Tht"rd Class. Bone, Firth, Hopper, Marsh, Saben, Walker� it must receive still further support fr om all the members of HISTORICAL TltIPos. the Oollege. At the close of this Chronicle we record the Second Class. Kemp, Nevill. names of a large number of new subscribers and we trust The Porson Unz"versz"ty Scholarshz"pwas awarded to J. C. Moss, that the number of literary contributions will increase in the ( ) same who also obtained Sir William Brown-e's Gold Medals, I fo r proportion. The subscribers can hardly be aware how the Greek Ode, on 'Orpheus'; (2) for the' Latin Ode, on difficultit is fo r the editors to arrange fo r the publication of 'Mithridates'; (3) fo r the Greek Epigram. The only remain a new number in each term; it has even been difficult in some cases to obtain fr om ing Browne's Medal, that fo r the Latin Epigram, was won by the official members of the various T. Tucker. clubs the information required fo r the pages of the Chronicle, G. and a printed circular issued to all secretaries of clubs in a The following have been elected Fellows: W. G. Rushbrooke, bracketed 6th C a ic, 1872; Dyson, 3rd Classic, recent term, requesting them to be so good as to supply the l ss F. information in question, met with no response. It is true that 1877; H. C. Pinsent, bracketed 4th Wrangler, and first in the Second Class in Moral Sciences, 1878; A. W. Momerie [MummeryJ, Senior the existence of an increasing number of School Magazines Moral Sciences, 1877; W. H. Gunston, bracketed 4th Wrangler, 1879;in to some extent diverts from our pages articles which we and T. W. Dougan, 3rd C assic, 1879, highly distinguished in the Ex should have been glad to see printed in the College Magazine, amination for Chancellor'S Medals.l and the recent establishment of a new University periodical, One of the Fellowships thus filled up had been made vacant, The Ca17lbrt'dge Revz"ew, may also cut off part of our usual shortly before the election, by the lamented death of Professor supplies. But The Eagle, thanks in the main to its excellent an obituary notice of whom appears in the present constitution and in particular to the rule that provides for Garrod,Number; another had been vacated during the latter part of the election of a new member of the Editorial Committee in the Long Vacation by the marriage of Mr. Garnett, who, how each Term, has already survived the Lion and the Bear, the ever, happily continues for the present to disc harge the duties Lz"ght Blue and the Lz"ght Grem; and, provided it is heartily of Steward of the College. supported, has every prospect of continuing to exist as the The McMahon Law Studentship has been awarded to representative magazine of the College. While thanking all �. who have in any way contributed to the pages of the present �-I. Kemp, B.A. and LL.B., first class in Law, 1877, and lrst 111 History, 1878. number, we have only to add that any of the Editors will be second class in The Commissioners elected by the Master and Fellows (the glad to receive articles and notices of College news for the , G number, which will overning Body' of the Colleges, under the Universities of next be published at as early a date as is O practicable in the coming Term. xford and Cambridge Act, 1877), are The' Master, Mr. Bonney, ):J Our Chrom'cle. Our Olt-romde. 54- 55 and Mr. Taylor, who will represent the College in relation' to Law, the making of Statutes by the Cambridge University Com TIlIRD YEAR. SECO�D YEAR. FIR�T YEAR. mission. First Class. First Ctass. First Class. Berkeley Sermons have been preached in the College Chapel in the East BaTton Lent Term by Mr. Taylor, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Woods Terry Pieters, Mr. Hill, Clarke, C. Mr. Ward, and Mr. Rudd; in the Easter Term by Dr. Pearson, p, Natural Sciences Bishop Cotterill (Commemora/£on Sermon), the Dean of Man (In alphabdical order). chester, Dr. Gifford, Mr. Bonney; and in the Michaelmas Term THIRD YEAR. SECOND YEAR. FIRST YEAR. by the Master, Mr. Freeman, Dr. Abbott, Dr. Boultbee, and First Ctass, First Class, First Class. Dr. Pearson. Forbes Fleming Samways Weldon The Rev. A. M. Speechly, M.A., 1859, has been appointed Lister Hart Bishop Stuart, C. M. of Travancore; he was presented for the degree of Moral S.iences. D.D. jure dig1litatls in the early part of the Michaelmas Term. First Class-Caldecott The Bishopiic of Newcastle, vacated by the death of Bp. Prius. Tyrrell. a former member of this College, has been offered to English Essay. the Rev. Dr. Pearson, Fellow of the College, Vicar of Newark, TRIRD YEAR. SECOND YEAR. FIRST YEAR. late Hulsean Lecturer, and Preacher at Whitehall. Gurney, T. Hill, J. S. No Prize awarded. A. The Head-Mastership of Sedbergh School, vacated by the .Hebrew. lamented death of the Rev. F. Heppenstall, has been filled Greaves Hutton, C. F, Bennett up by the appointment of Mr. H. Hart, form { G. erly Fellow, Neale one of the Assistant Masters at Harrow. Greek Testament. Reading. The Rev. John Barnacle (B.A. 1870), f Greaves I. Fea has been appointed l Hutton, C. F. z. Harker, G. J. T. Rector of Rainsford; Rev. H. Vyvyan, Rector of Withiel; Dr. Newcome's for Moral Philosophy. Rev. James Campbell (1878), Clerical Organising Secretary of Prize H. W. Holder the C. E. T. S. for the Dioceses of Winchester and Salisbury; Ds the Rev. Dr. Braim, Rector of Risley-with-Breaston. (Members Mr. Hughes' Prizes. of the College are requested to favour the Editors with notices of Colson Larmor £Ioofor the 4ppcintments fir inser/£(m in the Ohronic/e). Wright's Prizemen, with Year. J,fathematics. Classics. Natural Sciences. COLLEGE EXAMINATIONS, June, 1879. 3rd Year Larmor Colson Forbes . Alston Mathematics. 2nd Year THIRD YEAR. Tucker SECOND YEAR. FIRST YEAR. 1St Year Yeo . . Jiirst Class. First Class. First Class. Sir John Herschtl'l Prize for Astronomy Larmor AIston Yeo Larmor Long Harker, G. J. T. Parker Foundation Scholars. Wrigley Marris Harker, A. SECOND YEAR.. FIRST YEAR. Adams Hall, L. Gaskin THIRD YEAR. Stone, T. Brill Adams AIston Moss Morton Ward Caldecott Barton Tucker Stone, J. M. Bennett Forbes Fleming Winter Greaves Hart Classies. Long Hutton, C. F. THIRD YEAR. SECOND YEAR. FIRST YEAR. Morton Firrt Class. First Class. First Class. Stone, T. Colson Sizars. Tucker PrQPer Moss Bennett Harker, A. Samways Gimson Gaskin Parker TheOlogy Exhibitio1ts. (In alphabetical order). 'IHIRD YEAR. SECOND YEAR. £30' FIRST YEAR. I. First Class. First 3rd Y r- , Li,ter, Sandys S., Stone J. M., Class. First Class, ea East Larmor, T. Williams A., Greaves Coulthard VoOds; Yedr-Coultharcl, Hal L., Harker G. J. S" Bennett i 2nd l T., Hill J. Hutton, C. F. 1arris; 1st Year-Brill, Harker A" Yeo. ) ..J Our Chromde. 56 Our Cltronz'cle. 57 £15. H. NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF FIRST YEAR, [106J. Year- Colson, Clarke C. P., Stuart C. M., White Y�ar-Terry;3rd J. H.; 2nd 1st Yea"-Bennett, Gaskin, Parker, Samways. vVeldon. Mldzaelmas Term, 1879 . ./I,ckroyd, E., College, 1st court G Lloyd, H. M., 32, Bridge Street £10. St. Clement's Lane Love. E. F. J.. 4. Round Year-Tay HI. ./I,Jlnutt, H., 5. Church lor. J. H.; . 3"d Year- Garland. Smith G. C. M • nisz, J. C., 16, Emmanuel Street Street WiUdnson G. G.; 1St Year-Berkeley.2rd ./I,ntho Ward A. W., Winter. inson, R. W., College, 3rd court F Mc Aulay, F. S., 24, Sussex Street ./I,tk A., lIFinor Scholarship Election. Bateson, W., College, new court I Mackllltosh, College, 1st court L., 12, Par]{ Street . Mason, M. H. H., 4, Short Street I McA�lay, F. S . (New Kin swood BeJl, !i' School, Bath) } ./1,. E. B., College, new court H Mell r, V� H. 67, Bridge Street Shernngton, W. S. (IpsWlch School) Minor Scholarships of £7(). Beli, C. ? . Ackroyd. E. (Lancaster Brett A. E., 16, Portugal Place Men'llon, M., 14, Magdalene Street School) k 4, Mountfield, D. W., 31, Thompson' Dodd, W. H. (Christ's Broo sbank, H. A. M., Park Street s Hospital) Exhibitions of £so per So, Lane Johnson. R. (Perse Browne, A. Y., Park Street A. School) annum for three years. Muirhead, F. L., College, new C01ll't G Posnett. L. W. (New J Burford, H . 33, Bridge Street Kingswood School. Bath) rstoun, C., 2nd court K Mathews. G. B. (University Carthew-Yo Newham, A., 48, Bridge Street Hall, London, formerly of Ludlow School), man, A. G., I, St. Clement's Ormesher, J. E., Huntingdon Road Exhibition of £40 per annum for Chap four years. . ssage Posnett, L. 24, Sussex Street Roberts. S. O. (Islington Proprietary School) . Pa W., } MinorScholarshlps Clark, G. W., 3S, Green Street Poynder, A. J., 3, Round Church Scott, C. A. (Uppingham School and Owen's College) Newham. of £so. Clarke, T., College, new court A Street A. (Clifton College) Exhibitions of Roberts, £so per annum, Clarke, W. J., College, 2nd court H Powning, J. F., 9, New Square T. (University College, Aberystwith) tenable on the same terms Sandford, F. (Shrewsbury 1 Cleaver, E., College, 3rd court C Ransome, H. A., 19, Portugal Place School) as Minor Scholarships. W. Street Edmunds, L. H. (University CleW'orth, T. E., 24, Silver Ransome, M. J., 19, Portugal Place College, London), Natural Science Exhibition court F Rapson, E. J., College, 3rd court E of £ 50 for three years. Clive, F., College, new Coote, R., College, 2nd court C Rayson, J. B., College, 1st court K W. W., new court A Roberts, S. 5, Portugal Place Minor Scholarships and Open Exhibz'Hons for 1 Cordeaux, 0., March. 1880.- n Crossley, C. H., Laburnum House, Roberts, T., College, new court D 1880, there will be open for competition four Minor Sanders, W. M., College, 3rd court D Scholarships. Milton Road two of the value of £70 per annum. and two of Curtis, W. C., 37, Bridge Street Sandford, F., 4, Jordan'S Yard £so per annum. together with two Exhibitions of £so per Davies, R. B., College, 2nd court C Sandoe, C. F., College, 1St court F annum, tenable on the same terms as the Minor Scholarships Day, G, D., 3, Parker Street Scatliff, P. M., College, 1St court H ; Dodd, W. H., College, new court E Scott, A. C., 22, Sussex Street one Exhibition of £ 50 per annum for three years, one Exhibi tion Edmunds, L. H., 67, Bridge Street Scott, C. A., 9, Portugal Place of £40 per annum for three years, and one Exhibition Ellis, G., 18, Park Street Scott, J. B., 22, Sidney Street £ of 30 per annum for four years. These ni11e Minor Scholarships Fitz-Herbert, A., 13, Park Street Sherrington, W. S., new court B and Exhibitions will be open to students who have not com Garland, N. H., College, 1St court A Shuldham, M. C. D., 3, Short Street menced residence. The Examination Gipps, H. F., College, new court D Simkin, T. V., 20, Sussex Street of Candidates for the Graham, F. 27, Green Street Singleton, F.L. W., College, new court A above-named Scholarships and Exhibitions will commence W., Tuesday, on Greenstreet, W. J., 25, King Street Spencer, R., College, new court H March 16, at 9 a.m. Greenway, H. H., 17, Portugal Place Stephen, H. W., 16, Portugal Place One of the above Exhibitions Hall, R., College, new court H Stevens, A. I, Park Street of £ 50 will be awarded to the 0., best proficient in Hebrew, Sanskrit, l:3yriac, or Arabic, if, after Hammond, F., 4, Short Street Stopford, J. B., 37, Bridge Street examination, it shall appear Hardy, B. B., 3, Jesus Terrace Stout, G. F., 12, Clarendon Street that a sufficiently qualified Candi Haviland, J. H., College, 1st court Swallow, G.W., 34,Thompson's Lane date has presented himself. Candidates for this Exhibition I must give Heppenstall, F. W., 3rd cowt D Ta1l1ler, J. R., College, 1st court F notice of the subjects in which they desire to be HlllChcliff, E., 4, Park Street Thompson, W. N., 12, King Street examined not later than Feb. 11, 1880. Hobnes, B. E., 28, Earl Street Tomlin, A. G., I, Arundel Villas, The Candidates for the Hopton, C. E., 60, Park Street Station Road Natural Science Exhibition of £s o per annum will have a special Housley, J. W. B., 3rd court D Tunstall, F. W. W., 24. Silver Street Examination, commencing on Hughes, F. S:, 20, Portugal Place Vanderspar, E. H. 31,ThOlllpson's Friday, March 12, at 9 a.m. acJ A., The names kson, G. F., 10, Portugal Place Lane of Candidatp.s should be sent to one of the Johnson, A. R., College, 3rd court C Vaughan, P., New Square Tutors fourteen days before Jo!l1lson, C. E., 2, Quay Side Vinter, W. F.,S, Thompson's Lane the commencement of the Exami 33, nation. The J. W., 5, Round Church Street Ward, T. C., 29, Bridge Street Tutors are Rev. Parkinson, D.D., J. E. Sandys, �njr, Esq., M.A., and Rev. E. Hill,S. tn�pple, J. H., College, new court D Wells, W., 22, King Street M.A. Any one elected a Minor Scholarship to I�I�l pple, W. R., Coliege,new courtD Whitfield, C. F., 2, Jordan'S Yard or Exhibition will vacate it if before coming �ght, A. T., St. Clement's Wilkinson, M. E., new court E into residence he should offer himself at ass age 6, W'inans, D. K., 8, Short Street another College for n any similar emolument. All who are elected will I{ owles, E., 50, Bridge Street Winstone. B., 18, Magdalene Street be required F.anu. W. R., College, 2nd court M Wiseman, A.J. G., 2, Portugal Place to come into residence in October, 1880. eWlS , L W. H',30, Trumpillgton Street Wolrige. F., 3, Warren's Yard A. ) j�--,"""""""""""----� 58 Our Chromcle. Our Ckronzde. 59 All the above-mentioned result undoubtedly was unfortunate, there was how Students marticulated on Nov.' ro: gth. The the number of Undergraduates recompense to the Crew in being acknow of this College who have I e�r some slight marticulated during the three Terms the d e fastest on the river; the course each night was of last three t ged th is as follows: than any hitherto recorded. �complished faster a z Boat was equally fortunate. They were 'stroked' in Lent Term...... 5 The nd 9 ended the racing one place higher Easter Term ...... •• I 3 :2 most plucky way, and e Michaelmas Term ...• 91 89 106 th they began. than of illness, The 3rd Boat deserves very great credit. On account (in 1871) 97; (in r878) 100; (in 1879) 109. of the Races, and Boat had to be re-made within a few days the member of as owing to the unprecedented exertions of each Elected to Szzarships, I it w 8, 879.-E. Ackroyd, W. E. Cleaver, rowed very gamely after Downing for three K. Od. the Crew that they M. Eicke, W. J. Greenstreet, F. W. Heppenstall, E. Hinchcliff, to keep well ahead of Christ's. A sad nights, and managed F. S. Hughes, A. R. Tohnson, E. Knowles, A. T. Knight, one so momentous and H. tragedy happened the last night, F. J. Love, M. H. Mason, A. Newham, L. W. Posnett, have thought fit to E. eventful that Messrs Hills and Saunders J. Rapson, J. B. Rayson, J. B. Stopford, M. C. D. Shuldham, one of their celebrated E. immortalize the accident by issuing and G. F. Stout. position of affairs can pictures of the post reach, in which the more easily taken in at a glance than can be here described. Elected to Limited ExhibiHons.-Mr. Baklfr's(Durham be School), Fours, the Magdalene Pairs, and the Colqu H. A. Dr. Dowman's Having won the Ransome; (Pocklington), H. W. Stephen; to meet houn Sculls, the Club could not rest without attempting Lupton a1ld Hebblethwaite (Sedbergh), W. Gimson and F. W. the Jesus eight on even terms at Henley. Thanks to the Fellows Heppenstall; Archdeac011 Johnson's, C. A. Scott (Uppingham) and other Members of the College, a sum of money was raised, and T. L. V. Simkin (Oakham); Munsteven's (Peterborough), -large enough to send an eight and "a four to that snug and H. A. M. Brooksbank; Duchess of Somerset's (for Hereford), most beautiful little town on the Thames, and on the 9th of June A. Y. Browne (£4-0 for years); C. E. Hopton (£50 for 4- the Crew took up their quarters in the most picturesque little 3 years); E. J. Rapson (£4-0 for 4- years); (for Manchester) cottage in Henley. We should be trespassing too much on our J. B. Stopford (£50 for 3 years); Shrewsbury School, C. W. to tell them of all our doings during that M. Hilton. readers were we fortnight following the 9th of June-of the botanical rambles of our stroke; of the musical evenings with our cox; of the artistic sketches of our 'two'; of the piscatory energy of LADY MARGARET BOAT CLUB, 1879. our 'five'; of the day we rested while our 'seven' was being College; and finally, of those two IT is with pride that we have to congratulate our Boat Club admited a scholar of the to speak of on the brilliant successes which it has achieved during the ever memorable regatta days, which we do not intend to the past year. We will waste no time in eulogy, but proceed to here, especially as we are able to refer our readers shew how the Boat Olub, as well as the Cricket and Football first number of the newly-started periodical "The Cambridge OWFl success. Clubs of the College, can hold their with those of the best Review," to which we wish every prosperity and Colleges of either University. Suffice it to say, we went away from Henley more heavily laden The following is a list of the Crews :- than we came, and it is our hope that next year we shall be able to repeat the last sentence. Hard work lies before us, if 1St Boat. 2nd Boat. 3rd Boat. �e cup to this year's trophies, but still it A. H. Prior (bow) J. E. Marr (bow) F. R. Kennedy (bow) intend to add another :z B. E. Waud 2 F. C. Hill 2 M. Rainsford IS a work from which we shall not flinch. G. M. Kingston A. Hawkins A. Williams The Long over, our now celebrated four assembled at the 3 T. Forster 3 3 E. J. W. Lee W. Barnett Boat- ID, determined to undergo a three 4 F. Green 54 G. G. Wilkinson 4 house on October 5 P. C. Scott w Fours 5 H.A. Sandford G. D. Haviland ee�s' careful preparation, in the hope of winning the 6 6 F. Johnson W. Barton 7 H. Sharp 67 F G. agaIn. Before they had been long together an unforeseen 7 N. . Mayor J. J. Lister (stroke) F. E. Swabey (rtroke) C. M. Stuart (stroke) ��ent happened which deprived them of the services of their S. Clarke (cox) G. A. Loved\lY (cox) B. R. Bayard (cox) Iggest man. An able substitute was however found in our Worthy First Oaptain, W. Barton; and it will be in the memory On tpe first night the 1st Boat bumped Caius about zoo of �l!, how on Saturday, Nov. 1st, the Lady Margaret Crew yards from the finish, and for the five following nights could get agaIn proved themselves capable of keeping their laurels they no nearer to Jesus, . the Head of the River, than a a quarter of had Won. __� __ )J �"�"""""__ ------' Our Chronicle. Our Cfu·om·cle. 60 61 Lastly, the year when the Colquhoun Sculls are not to leave the \....OHe"'.. This list compares very favourably with last the winner of last hands matches, and we think the H. Sandford, year, them over to eral rule was that we lost our custody of his partner in the' pairs' of 1878, gen the "forwards" of the team, who A. H. Prior. provement is mainly due to im play the passing game very well. E. J. We add a summary of the successes or the Club since re decidedly fast and a right side and R. Spencer and 1878;- Wild and A. D. Price on the 1878, May Magdalene Pairs. on the left are rather too fast for the centres and F. Sandford man in " October The Fours. m would be decidedly stronger with a very fast tea the back " November The Sculls. the middle, who would keep well forward and leave 1879, May Best Eight on the River. the work to W. J. Cassels, who is well able to do it. " June Ladies' Plate } centre H e nley. Cup Match against Sidney College was a very hollow Visitors' Cup The game (as October The Fours. if they had not played a strictly defensive " affair, and of " November The Sculls. y as seven or eight of the team being within a few yards man increa!led our goal most of the time) we should have largely H.Nicholls and A. Fitz Herbert keep back fairly score of goals. and FOOTBALL CLUBS. usually play well with the half-backs, ·A. R. Aspinall and C. H. Garland G. Exham, who are both up to the marK; while (Rugby Union.) P. is a useful goal-keeper. Captain :.- G. M. Burnett. I 2nd Captain :-J. Payne. Secreta1J' and Treasurer:-W. L. Agnew.H. ST. JOHN'S CRICKET CLUB. This Club was never in a more flourishing was held in November to elect officers for the several· good Freshmen have already joined it. A rpeeting Season. Caius-s tries, several touches to Tries-Payne ensuing mt. The following gentlemen were elected ;- E. S. Chapman 2, Bell I. Captain:-W. Murray O. Wilson. Clare-4 goals, 13 tries, 2 punts-out to I try. N. Sharp. Secretary:-John H. Payne. I Treasurer :-Harry JeSUS-2 goals, 4 tries, I punt-out to nil. Everyone A. R. AspinaU, .Members of Committee:- G. M. Burnett, G. M. Livett, well, espeCially Wrigley, Payne, Bevan, Swabey and Lerescne. and ex-officers. J. Pollock, P. Boulton, P. T. Wrigley, all We cannot close this notice A. H. H. without lamenting the seri the small number of Members, accident which happened to F. E. Swabey in the Jesus Mate In the Long, notwithstanding He was one of our best "forwards" and had just recei we were very successful. his colours. The University (Rugby Union) played B1ackheath on ST. JOI-Il�ol"S COLLEGE ATHLETIC SPORTS. ground on Saturday, November 8th. After a well-cont game the match was left drawn, neither side having Monday, Nov. 10. in scoring. I, H. Smith 2; 5 ran. Second heat- (Associaiz'(J1Z.) 100 Yards.-First Heat-Bevan Beverl I, Thomas 2; 5 ran. ey secs. - . I, 2; 9 entries. Time 57 Captain :-A. R. Aspinall. I 2nd Captain :-A. D. Qua,·ter ile H Smith Bevan Price. M . I, Thorman 2; 6 entries. Secretary and Treasurer:- 120 Yards Hurdle Race.-Le Fanu W. L. Agnew. I 2. Putting the Wd!;ht.-Bevan (33ft. 6in.), Wrigley I, Beverley 2; 6 ran. Second This Term the Club has not lost one first-eleven match, and 120 Yards EIand£cap.-First heat-H_ Smith I, 6 ran. Time 13 4-5 secs. Third of the ten matches that have been played only two have been �eat-J. H. Kinipple F. Sandford 2; eat-Thorman I, Burnett 2; 6 ran. Time 13 3-5 secs. drawn. I lin.), Day 2 (4ft. lOin.); entries. •• High Jump.-H. Smith (Sft. 7 200 heat-Beverley I, Clive 2; 5 ran. Second Goal Goals. Yards Handicap.-First I; WO". Lost. Third heat-Bumett, 5 yards, 0 •..• t H. Smith (dead heat). Pembroke College ...... 3 Clare College (return) Won.1 Losl0 tea -;-Bevan and ....••••.. secs. 0 ...... • •. hern 2; ran. Time 23 3-5 Clare College 2 Old Reptonians . 2 ngton, 7 yards, 7 I, 6 entries. Time: 1st round, .• .... 0 .... Cory 2, R. Hall 3; Old Uppinghams 8 Old Salopians •....•• • f!"e Mile.-Hopton 4 I I '" ....• 5 min. 3-5 secs. . . min. 3 min. 16 secs.; 3rd, Trinity College 1 Magdalene ...... 2 20 secs.; 2nd, . I�O Fauu I, Thorman 2. 0 ...• YardJ rdle Race (Final heat).-Le Sidney College (Cup Tie).,3 Trinity Hanovians •.3 Hu Caius, ,strangers' Race (300 yards handicap).-First heat-R. Winslow, 2nd Eleven Matches ;-. J. H. WJ"en, 20 yards, I; E. L. Lucas, Jesus, 6 yards, 2. Second heat- •. . ••. • • 2. 0 .• •. •• 1 In Jesus, 11 yards, Trinity College Pembroke College . • troduced, 10 yards, I; C. J. Johnstone, ...) _ ,; J Our ChromCle. Our Chronicle. 63 62 with a noise that was distinctly heard in most Tuesday, Nov. I I. 1 e ditch of the t 1 Court rooms. The paddock also was flooded, and a little 100 Yards (final heat). -H. Smith I, Bevan 2; 4 ran. Time 104-5 eW the water was falling into the ditch between 1lzrowing the Hammer (a walk over). -J. Kinjpple, 71ft. 9in. fore ten Trinity H. � [20 Yards HfJndicap (final heat). - H. Smith I, Thonnan 2. Time 13 �d St. John's in an almost unbroken cascade, about a yard Long Jump.-Bevan, 19ft. 3in., I; Thorman, 18ft. 2in.; Il entries. �Iigh from near the iron gate of the former to near the lattice 100 Yards (for bona fide boating men).-G. M. Bm'nett I; 4 entries. e. The Cam at this time was swollen, but the stream I, bridg 200 Yards (for Freshmen). -Hopton Clive 2, F. Sandford 3; 9 s ditch poured into it with such force as to occupy Time, 4-5 secs. from thi 22 200 Yard! Handicap (final heat).-H. Smith I, Bevan 2; left in. nearly half the river-channel just below the influx. 21 secs. 6 At this time Trinity paddock, except for an accumulation of Throwing the Cr£cketBall.- Wrigley I, Bevan 3 entries. rain water in one corner, was dry, but by about half-past eleven 87 yds. 10 in. :I; 2 ft. great change had taken place. The floods from the upper 350 Yards Handicap. -H. Smith I, B et I I entries. a 404-5 secs. urn t :I; waters of the Cam were now beginning to reach Cambridge, 120 Yards (Rifle Corps only).-Nash I, Penny 2; 3 entries. Binn water was ponded back, the river was in places-over the Two Miles.-Hopton I, Cory 2; 5 entries. Time 10 min. 53 secs. its banks, and the Trinity paddocks were under water. Half-Mt'le Handicap.-Calvert I, Le Fann 2. Time 2 min. 124-5 secs. Gradually the Cam rose and the floods increased, they crept Consolation Race (300 yards).-F. Sandford I, Poynder 2. and across the Long Walk, and began to spread upon the Strangers' Race (final heat).-J. H. Wren, introduced, 10 yards, I up E. L. Lucas, Jesus, yards, 2. Time 32 4-5 secs. grass plot in front of the New Court; the river swept along 9 more like some great Alpine stream, with a strong swirl strange THE GENERAL LAWN TENNIS CLUB. to dwellers by j Oamus footing slow.' At last, about three This Club was founded by the union of the num o'clock the waters were at their highest; the river was within Lawn Tennis Clubs which had previously existed in about a foot of the crown of the smaller arches of the Old Oollege, and it may be fairly congratulated on its fiourishi bridge-barely ten of the stone slabs on the sloping buttress condition. Our only regret is that it has incidentally filling the angle of the river front of the Third Court between considerable damage to the finances of two bridges were above water, and only one course of stone our Cricket the In the Long Vacation the number of Subscribing Memb on the projecting building north of the New Bridge, the water of the Cricket Club was reduced to less than 16, while just touched the foot of the bank of grass in front of the New than 130 Members at once joined the G. L. T. C. as soon as Court.gateway, and all from this to the Trinity Avenue was, but was formed. Under these circumstances we must all the for the trees, like one lake. gratefully place on record the generosity of the Cricket Then the ebb commenced, though slowly. By four o'clock the in allowing the G. L. T. C. to put up seven nets in the Clll;.LU:� water had fallen about a couple of inches, by six about three field when their paddock was under water. more, by nightfall a foot. On the following morning the Cam had retreated within its banks, leaving a surface of perfectly clean The storm of Saturday night, Aug. 2nd, caused such a flood ed stone along the base of the river front of the College ing of our College grounds, that some record of it may be fitly to mark the level and the strength of the flood. The walks inserted in The Eagle. Vivid lightning was seen at intervals, were torn up in several places, especially near the iron gate at accompanied by heavy rain, from soon after dark till well on !he end of the Long Walk, much soil was washed off the beds into the night. Gradually the storm increased in severity, and III the Wilderness, and gravel from the walks on to the lawn. about two on Sunday morning reached its height. At times The lawn, as may be supposed, suffered no less. The first the lightning was literally incessant; flash following flash in Court of Magdalene College was for a time flooded merely by immediate succession. For some while the flashes averaged the rain-water which had streamed down the street from Castle about 12 a minute, but often not a second intervened between Hill, and at the height of the flood Midsummer Common was them. Some times the thunder water, which even passed over the lower parts of the was startlingly loud, but at under others hardly audible. During all this the rain was pouring Wooden bridge by the locks. down, sounding, when dashed by the wind against the window, The annexed statement, for which we have to thank Pro almost like water thrown from a bucket. After about an hour feSsor Adams, gives the rainfall at Cambridge and some other 2nd, I I p.m., and August the violence of the storm abated. and towards daybreak it Slat in lkitain, between August 1of)S . 3.18 in.; at gradually passed away. But early in the morning the Binn 3rd, 5 a m. :-at the Observatory, Cambridge, brook overflowed its bank; and by nine o'clock almost the Yarmouth, 2.5 in.; at Pembroke, 1.2 in.; at Nottingham, 0.8 in.; O In London whole of the Fellows' Garden was under water, with part of the �t xford, 0.7 in.; Scilly and Hurst Oastle, 0.5 in. 0.1 which Long Walk adjoining. The water was rushing over the belt of l fall varied locally, but at Brixton only in. fell, llel p trees on the eastern side of the Wilderness, and pouring into 00;: lace at about 1.30 a.m. 64 OU?' ChronzCle CALENDAR FOR 1880. LENT TERM. Residence begins Monday, Jan. 26. Lectures begin • Wed1zcsday, " 28. Rehearsal for General and Previous Examinations ends on March Minor Scholarships: 15. Natural Science Exhibitions Mathematics and Classics FROM NAPLES TO ISCHIA. EASTER TERM. Residence begins Monday, April 5. 23rd of April, 1878, at half-past five in the Lectures begin Wednesday, " 7. �.N the College May Examination begins Monday, May morning, I jumped out of bed and ran �o the 31. - blue, for. OCTOBER TERM. �b window. The sky was a greyish just rising, and a thin mist on Sizatship Examination Tuesday, Oct. 5· the sun was only a fine day. Freshmen come up Thu1'Sday, " the clzt'a-t'a shewed that I might expect 7· Other years come up Saturday, " before, and I had only arrived at Naples the night I 9·I. Lectures begin Monday, " in the town knowing that the one object of interest for a wet was the museum, I determined to leave that The two vacancies on the Editorial Committee have b to seize the first opportunity of seeing the filled up by the co-optation of T. G. Tucker, and by day, and bath and to dress election of D. O. Fa1cke by the votes of the subscribers. surroundings. To have my cold liberally was the work of a few minutes, and, having The following is a list of new subscribers: for my "Gladstone" with the necessaries Ackroyd, E. Gray, C. F. Price, A. D. supplied of stair� Allnutt, H. Greenway, H. H. Price, H. J. one night, I marched down my five flights Antborusz, J. C. Habershon, N. Ransome, H. A. The bargain was soon struck, Bailey, J. E. Hall, R. E. Ransome, M. J. and hailed a carozzella. I paid only Bateson, Harker, G. J. T. Roberts, T. and I flatter myself that I did well, for Brett, A. VV.E. Haviland, J. H. Rosher, E, told I ought Brooksbank, H. A. M. Heppenstall, F. W. Sanders, W. M. twelve francs for what my guide-book me Browne, E. L. Hinchcliff, Sandoe, C. F. to paid twen.ty-five. Browne, A. Hopton, C. E.E. Scott, C. A. have Y. his Burford, H. Innes, A. L. Sherrington, W. S. Away went the little horse, merrily jingling Chadwick, R. Jackson, G. F. Shuldham, M. C. D. b fresh air, which one only gets early Clarke, T. King, J. W. Simkin, T. L. V. ells, and the cool Clarke, J. Kinipple, W. R. Singleton, \ and wafted a 'TV. F. W. in the morning, swept over my face, Cleaver, W. E. Le Fanu, W. R. Stevens, A. O. The driver was Clive, F. L}oyd, L. Stopford, J. B. delicious odour of orange-blossoms. Coote, R. McAulay, F. S. Swallow , G. W. a ple chatty little fellow, with a dark Neapolitan Curtis, W. C. Mackintosh, A. Tanner, J. R. asant, all Dawson, H. L. Marsden, J. K. Tatham, C. R. face, thick lips, and large brown eyes, which had Dodd, W. H. Mayor, W. P. -Tucker, T. G. the of a southern race. Every Edmunds, L. H. Melior, V. H. Tunstall, F. W. W. expression chara�teristic some Ellison, H. W. Moss, J. C. Vinter, W. F. now and then he would turn round and point out *Falcke, D. C. Newham, A. Van A. depspar, E. H. between the Fitz-Herbert, A. Owen, J. A. Ward, T. C. feature of interest on the road, and Forster, T. E. B. Posnett, L. W. Winans, D. K. cracking his whip he would often give me a friendly Garland, N. H. Poynder, A. .T. Wiseman, J. s of G. back Gipps, H. F. Powning, J. F. J. S. Warning. I had naturally placed my coat at the Gaddum, F. D. Yeq, VOL. XI. F