Notes on the History of University College, London. (H. K.
Lewis.) —This volume is the first collected issue of the University College Maga:tine, and we gladly welcome its publication, the first, it is to hoped, of a series. There is no lack of interest in the record of what the College has done, of its progress and increase, and in notes of some of the men who have filled its chairs. Among its lighter contents, we may note a poem by W. M. Praed, originally published in the Morning Chronicle, but not included in Praed's collected works. It ridicules the fears which the proposal of a University in London inspired. (It will be remembered that the College was originally the University.) Here is a stanza :— " Chuckfarthing advances the doctrine of chances,
In sp.te of the staff of the beadle;
And menders of breeches between the long stitches
Write books on the laws of the needle ; And chandlers all chatter of luminous matter Who communicate none to their tallows ;
And rogues get a notion of the pendulum's motion— Which /13 only of use at the gallows."
There is a happy allusion in another stanza to "New futures by Monkius." Dr. Monk of Gloucester and Bristol began a note with "facile prEesentibunt iuvenes," whereupon Professor Key wrote "facile prresentibit quivis dormitasse episcopum." The mistake is a very easy one. Not long ago, a learned editor of Virgil had this note on " /Eneid," i., 135, " 'quos ego," you, whom I,' an aposiopesis of punibo.' "
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