. So,Dean Ingechooses Athens in his riper age—assuming the report
true that he is to leave St. Paul's next year and retire to Oxford or somewhere near. Oxonians are entitled to claim that Dr. Inge is making his choice with his eyes well open, for he was educated at Cambridge, being first scholar and then fellow of King's, lived at Oxford for fifteen years as fellow and tutor of Hertford, and then for four years held the Lady Margaret Professor- ship of Divinity at. Cambridge. So that both Thebes and Athens have had their turn ; and now it is to be Athens at the end. , For a man with as much a the two universities in his- blood as the Dean of St. Paul's has, the decision between them must take some making. With much- less experience, I should find the same difficulty myself. -There is something about Oxford—and there is something about Cambridge, too. But love the Fens as you may, there is no doubt Oxford country is the better to live in. On the whole, I think, Cambridge for
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