" The girls make Greek iambics, And the boys black-eurrant jams."
And he is the Pinder of the University boat-race. He has something to say about the comic side of Alpine climbing; and be is pleasantly didactic in his " Bedfordshire Ballade." It is not to be expected that he is equally happy in all these themes; and, of course, his fun is eotnetimes too local to be appreciated by an outsider ; but, on the whole, his "arrows" are neatly pointed and well sped. Here is a epecimen of their make :— " No longer I roam in my Johnian home, no more in the' wilderness' wander ; And absence we know, for the Poet says so, makes the heart of the lover grow fonder.
1 pine for the Cam, like a runaway Iamb that misses his woolly-backed mother ; I can find no relief for my passionate grief, nor my groan ings discousolatesmot her. Say, how are you all in our old College Hall ? Are the dinners more costly, or plainer ?
How are Lecturers, Tutors, Tobacco and Pewters, and how is my friend, the Complainer ?
Are the pupils of Merton, and students of Girton, increasing in numbers., or fewer ? Are they pretty, or plain ? Humble-minded or vain ? Are they paler, or pinker, or bluer?
How's the party of stormers, our so-called Reformers ? Are Moral and Natural Sciences Improving men's Minds ? Who the money now finds, for Museums, and all their appliances?
Is Philosophy thriving, or sound sense reviving ? Is hieh-table talk metaphysic ? Will dark blue or light have the best of the fight at Putney and Mortlake and Chiswick F"
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