The Creweian Oration, that is, the Latin speech in com-
memoration of the founders and benefactors of the University, was delivered by the Professor of Poetry, Dr. Warren, the President of Magdalen. We cannot resist quoting the delightful piece of colloquial Latin in which he dealt with the Prince of Wales at Oxford. Latin so quaintly attractive and so lucid is intelligible even to those who, as in the case of the present writer, usually find their Latin but a dread phantom of the past—something which, the moment we try to lay hands upon it, vanishes and is gone.
"Principem Wallise quem Galli, nominum usu felicissimi, 'Principem venustulum' nuper appellaverunt, nos quoque experti anus. Annum spud nos solidum feliciter complevit. Mense Octobri rudiments adulescentiae in Academia nostra ponere incepit, juvenis si quis anus, amabilis, modestus, comis. qui aequalis inter aequales vitam agere, neque dari sibi potius quam negari posse voluit, idem non aurato spice neque serial toga distingui sed libertatis, ut aiunt, ubique pileum portare praetulit. Quid plum.? Nunc lectorum acroaseis petentem, nuno Thamesis ripam decurrentem, cymbas Collegii clamors incitantem, none per viarum strata rotarum duplicum lapaum, vel currus airroluirou impetum, calefactorem ipsum, regentem, nuns campo pilam, seu clava sive pedibus propellentem ; nunc autem arms sumentem et militantem, sed tanquam tironem non tymn- num—uno verbo, legentem, ludentem, laetantem, more juvenum nostrorum, de die in diem vidimus. Placuisse et Parentibus Augustissimis et Principi ipsi hoc vitae spatium felicissimum
i securissimum, in annum alter= extenders quis Oxoniensis, quis denique Angina, non laetabitur ? "
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