The International Boat Race is fixed for Friday next, the
27th, and not the 25th, as we said last week, at 5 o'clock. As we ex- pected, the opinion has been changing during the past week until -the chances are regarded as nearly even, and observers are ask- ing each other anxiously whether the Americans have ever put out their whole strength. The few who now consider the race settled in favour of Oxford rely entirely upon the original fancy that the Harvard men cannot "stay," a fancy for which there is not one iota of proof. The Oxford men are the heavier, no doubt, and if the race were to last for ever, the longest livers to be the victors, they would doubtless win ; but the course, though a severe one, is not quite so bad as all that, and we venture to predict that we shall next Saturday record a very close race, terminating, if the weather is bad, for Oxford, if good, for Harvard. A nice slow English drizzle is the thing to take the heart out of Americans.
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