PITTSBURGH COLLEGE BULLETIN 11 to their ears —when the ghost enters. Hamlet calls upon it to tell the why and the wherefore of this unnatural apparition. The ghost beckons the Prince; he follows it despite the remonstrances and opposition of Horatio. The ghost led Hamlet to a remote part of the plat- form. There he related to him how, when he was sleep- ing in the garden the present King had stolen upon him and poured the poisonous juice of hebenon into his ear. He then gave out that a serpent had stung the late King. By all the filial affection he ever bore him did the ghost conjure Hamlet to avenge on his uncle the murder of his father, and left him with the words "Remember me." Most solemnly did Hamlet swear, by all the heavens, the earth and hell to dissolve all trivial bonds of affection, to desist from all former occupation, and to live solely for revenge. His companions, also, he made swear on the hilt of his sword that they would never reveal what they had seen, telling them nothing, however, of what passed between himself and the ghost. While he was making them swear, the ghost beneath the earth made himself heard three successive times by Hamlet, muttering "Swear." Thinking himself to be the victim of a

delusion, Hamlet shifted his position each time; still he heard the voice. Thus changed in mind and heart, the prey of fierce

moral combats, subjected to fits of darkest melancholy, we find Hamlet at the end of the first act.

HAERY J. SCHMITT, '11.

The North Pole.

Impossible to find any respectable journal or magazine, now-a-days, without its account of the sen- sational discovery of the North Pole. There is at least a comment, or some caution to the unwary and the