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collection, which was passed across the table by Professor Manse!,

afterwards Dean of St. Paul's, at a meeting when the subject of admitting graduates of Dublin University to the same degree at Oxford was under consideration :-

" When Alma Mater her kind heart enlarges, Charges her graduates, graduates her charges, What safer rule can guide the accountant's pen, Than that of doubling fees to Dublin men ? "

The following example of Mansel's ready wit you may think worth recording. Dining at my own College one night, a Fellow remarked that the cook did not know his business, having spelt Reform cutlets with an e at the end. "Surely the man is right," said Mansel, "for does not Reform often

end in emeute (e mute) P "—I am, Sir, &c.,

EDWARD CHAPMAN.