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GLASGOW AND BALLIOL, AND OTHER ESSAYS. By the Rev. P. A. Wright-Henderson. (Oxford University Press. 6s. net.)—Old Wadham men, who had a sincere affection for " Pat," and many other senior members of the University will delight in these papers by the late Warden which have been reprinted from Blackwood and edited by the present Warden, Dr. Wells. From Glenalmond in its early days Wright-Henderson went to Glasgow university Und thence to Balliol. He was elected a Fellow of Wadham in 1867, succeeded Mr. Thorley as Warden in 1903, and remained head for ten years. He wrote very little, but, as this delightful volume shows, he. was a most accomplished essayist. He had known both the bygone Oxford—with the idle Fellows who, as he loved to argue, were not wholly without merit—and the Oxford in transition, with many new schools and with women undergraduates. He described both those phases of Oxford life with equal truth and sympathy. The undergraduate, as lie shrewdly remarked, does not change, save in mere externals. " Pat " would have predicted that Oxford will survive even the drastic treatment of the new Commission, which is now decreeing innumerable " reforms," and his charming.reminiscences will convert some readers to his optimistic view.
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