The Cambridge Freshman. By Martin Lo Grand. (Tiusloy.)—We suppose that
there is a demand among readers for these pictures of what is the silliest, if not positively the worst side of University life, for they have continued to be produced from the days of "Peter Priggins" until now ; but from " Peter Priggins " to "The Cambridge Freshman," otherwise "Mr. Golightly," how groat the fall ! Who does not know the wearisome, sterootyped characters ; the pompous father, the fussy maiden aunts, the donnish tutor, the thievish gyp, the fast man under his two great varieties of swell and snob ? And then there is the hero, silly and dissipated at first, and reit ching the measure of his mental and moral growth by becoming dissipated and "'cute," but never getting to anything like manliness and sense. We cannot say that such books are false to life or oven caricatures,—there are always foolish lads at the Universities whom it would be almost impossible to caricature,—but we do hopo that no roador from outside will form his judgment upon the enrage "Cambridge freshman" from what he roads here.
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