A very useful little volume, which has been noticed more
than once in these columns, appears in a third annual issue, The Student's Hand- book to the University and Colleges of Oxford. (Clarendon Press.) Every information about lectures, scholarships, expense of living, educa- tion, and graduation is given. It is satisfactory to see that in many of the Colleges students are permitted to live and "batter" outside the walls. There is no other way of managing residence with real economy. We should be glad to see a longer list of "Exhibitions for Unattached Students." Two have been founded by the Grocers' and three by the Clothworkers' Company, and there the catalogue ends. In any re- distribution of Academical funds, this object must be considered. At present, a College scholarship, unless it happens to be supplemented by a school exhibition, does not suffice for subsistence, because, in most eases, it necessitates residence within the walls. It would have been well, perhaps, if the editor had ventured on an estimate of the probable expenses of an "Unattached Student." Few people are aware that a young man can get a University education for £50 a year.
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