The Fritillary, June 1911

THE FRITILLARY.

JUNE, 19n.

E0itor : Miss WARD, St. Hilda's Hall..

treasurer: Miss

JERROI,D,

Somerville College.

Committee : Miss Miss

Lady Margaret Hall.

Somerville College.

Miss HART, St.. Hugh's College.

Miss WILKIE, St. Hilda's Hall.

Miss NAPIER; Oxford Home-Students.

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is a city of poses, and they succeed. In no other town would the person who declared that he did IN spite of the fact that it is now the month not work be believed, when everything that he of June in the year 1911, we are not going to produced proved the contrary. On the other speak of the Coronation, nor are we going to hand, in what place would the earnest, pale-faced discuss Schools, but we are going to write on student be regarded as a final law in all things simply because he looked haggard and wan, and that equally trite subject—Oxford.

Although the summer term is acknowledged wore an 02 sthetic-coloured tie ?

But if we were to enumerate the various poses to be the best term of all, yet it has two disadvantages ; to some of us it means Schools, to among students of the University we should never others going down, to many both (which is the cease ; it remains to add that, they all succeed chiefly because there is no intelligent member worst of all).

What then is the secret of Oxford's fascina- of the family to enlighten the friends and comtion, and why should life away from her seem at panions of the poseur, the frank indifference which first a blank ? The climate is the worst in the should be shown to all that he assumes.

Witness then the fascination I Each individual world (this present term excepted) ; the mud is unspeakable, the people are no nicer than those . in Oxford realises his independence in action, whom we meet elsewhere, the work becomes tire- above all in thought, and it is accepted. No some, and yet this city remains still the most wonder, therefore, when he goes down he looks back on his University days as the happiest of any, charming of all cities.

We have been seeing lately in a number of for there his favourite theories were accepted, anthologies innumerable attempts to sum up the his oddities were received with applause, and this chief attractions of this University ; to some we never happens again.

And it is also accounted for by the fact that agreed, to others we did not ; in consequence of which we are adding to the number with a poor those who live perpetually in Oxford are by nature suggestion of our own which we may add we the most serious people in the world — But we don't know why we write all this. have not -found anywhere else.

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THE FRITILLARY. 'Cramp steamers.

I'VE wander'd down upon the quay And watched the ships put out to sea, Longin' to go with 'em, Watchin"em go Always without me.

I've seen the steamers gettin' up steam, Rusty o' funnel an' warped o' beam, Stowing their cargo abord, Stowin' it into the hold, And yet leavin' me.

An' I get a thinkin' o' where they've been, Wonderin' what sort o' things they've seen, Wanderin' all about, Up an' round An' home again,.

Snortin' steam.

Have they bin to Tahiti, That way about ?

Or have they bin North where the Right whales spout, Gathrin' bread fruit, Or chuckin' the shark ?

C'lectin' most wonderful tales.

I love the smell o' tar that hangs about 'em, And their wanderin' round the world look— Why, confound 'em — there's one fast weighin' anchor As I speak— An' goin' without me.

fib. 1Beroson's lectures.

THOSE who had the privilege of hearing M. Bergson on " L'id6e du changement " came away with a strong impression of the vitality of his presentment of the nature of reality. The keynote to the lecture was happily struck by the Pro-ViceChancellor, Dr. Warren, when he alluded to M. Bergson's application of the theory of evolution to philosophic thought : and the lecturer worked upon this theme with brilliant word-painting and many fresh analogies. The likeness of man " hypnotise par la vie de tous les jours " to a horse in blinkers, and of our confused perception of successive images to "dissolving views" were delightful.

But even more so was the setting of the lecture.

M. Bergson has the true art of the teacher. He recognised the reverence for antiquity in Oxford, and argued from it the necessity for a new creation which should develop " discretement " without destroying the old traditions. Oxford as the home of the classics had the background without which

the proportion of modern thought could not be truly seen. The lecturer said that he would attempt to look at life as a Greek philosopher with modern experience would have done. He recognised the claims of various modern theories with pragmatic individualist tendencies, and then he was tempted to account for them by the strong instinctive effort of the human mind to enter into a relation with ultimate reality. This, it is fair to deduce, makes of the Pragmatist an unconscious Idealist—one who may prove in the future to be aiding the great army of constructive research, and is getting his own education in the process, rather than the rider in the tourney, or shall we say the melée, of each against all. The touch was light and effective.

Not less brilliantly critical, but more prophetic in character, was the pronouncement as to the increased value of direct perception when " sens and "conscience" shall be more fully developed and interact on one another in their recognition of the real. The lecturer suggested that the necessity for a new criterion of reality had become insistent from the failure of past systems of philosophies to produce an ideal compatible with practical life. The monadist should by logical rights have no windows to his soul.

M. Bergson then discussed the method of the new philosophy. He analysed, as a possible guide, the method of the artist. This he conceived of as a free, conscious, and sympathetic choice among perceptions, which enabled the artist to construct images which revealed unsuspected depths of reality in familiar things to ordinary men. We really all see alike, but the artist and the poet are there to shew us what we did not know we could perceive. Thus philosophy is a high, or even the highest, art, making, as it should, full use of this method. By enlarging and enriching the vision of reality, by getting rid of incrustations and mechanical classifications, we become able to share in the satisfaction hitherto appropriated by a privileged caste of artists.

It is true, as M. Bergson assured us, that the mere effort to understand a mobility which is not unstable but substantial, and to encounter its reaction upon ourselves, changes our whole outlook. Such a change may perhaps have been pleasantly suffered by many among M. Bergson's audience, for his reading of the new philosophy leaves room for all types of perception, and of concept deduced from perception, while relating them to a continuously expanding whole.

The lecture lent itself to a much fuller description than this, but M. Bergson has so much to give us that we instinctively make our individual choice of impressions among those which he offers.

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M. BERGSON'S second lecture placed before us with great vigour and brilliance of interpretation

THE FRITILLARY. some of the argument which he first presented to the public in Matiere et M6moire." The three points on which he insisted in turn were the indivisibility of movement, the fact that change does not imply the existence of a thing that changes, and the relation of the past to the present—" Le passé n'est pas irrdel," (the last a most notable piece of constructive thought).

When discussing the first subject the lecturer refuted certain common objections to his thesis, and reminded his audience that Zeno's famous puzzles implied immobilities rather than movement. M. Bergson shewed by a striking image how we have commonly proceeded to our interpretation of the real by positing immobility, and trying to deduce movement from it. But if, he said, we imagine ourselves in a train going in the same direction as another and with equal speed, both trains appear to the occupants to be motionless ; thus the sense of rest is produced when two movements have an equal relation.

The argument that change does not imply the existence of a thing that changes—that in fact there is pure force, and by implication a "reality sans support" was startling, but, we venture to think, consistent with the most progressive theories of modern physics. The atoms or electrons with which the world is built up, are after all only schemes made by the physicists. M. Bergson has been able to take facts of common experience and lift them into place in a new system of philosophy in which the growth of one idea does not displace or destroy the true value of the old.

Again, if the conclusions about movement are admitted, there follows a great enlargement of our notion of duration in time. It is evident that the mathematical conception of the present is inadmissible. The present in our experience contains just as much of the past as we choose to attribute to it. Thus the past survives in the present as significant to the present condition of things, and it is indissolubly connected with it, for the movement of the spirit of life in individuals and in the race is like other movement, indivisible. But if the past is thus automatically with us, how is it not more evident in practice ?

Because the needs of practical life have forced us as individuals and as part of the race to make choice not only among past images, as in, the case of individual memory, for the sake of utility, but also among past events, for the same reason.

Only a sudden attention excited by a crisis or shock such as that of approaching death, can bring with it a vision of reality which causes the past to spring into life. The perception thus gained is not the enlargement of the perception of the external world which we have learnt can be gained by the method of the artist : that, indeed, enlarges the surface of our experience and enriches it, but this extension of the interior life seen in its relation to the whole gives us a hold on reality itself which immeasurably 2

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deepens our perception of it. Thus the past presses forward into our consciousness, and we are brought very close to the "elan vital" itself, that eternity of movement and life without which the duration of- individual life would have no ground of possibility. The principle of eternity governs all possible experience both of time and movement and individual existence.

We cannot but be carried forward by the force of arguments which, resting on science, avoid hypotheses and project a new philosophy of relations within which every system has its historical place. But while systems rise and fall, a philosophy itself built on the theory of expansion can expand to meet every need. Hearers of M. Bergson will not easily forget the last words of his lecture, where the ultimate reality was shewn to be, in the profoundest sense, spiritual and progressive.

E. F. J.

"Satan stilt . . ."

You, who have sat as I am sitting now Idle perforce, reluctant unemployed ; You, cognisant of the conditional vow Whereby these privileges are enjoyed : To sit and hope that sometime and somehow To those that wait and do not make a row The book they want will issue from the void-To you I turn my errant thoughts, and lo !

Things erstwhile unexplained begin to dawn— The curious impulse all too well I know To make Assistants" Asses,' and adorn The notice on the desk with wayward flow Of ink profane':—at least it serves to show A sense of humour, and postpone a yawn !

The time drags on ; there is revealed to me For what I thought mere pointless futile scrolls A service rendered to humanity, The brotherhood of kindred suffering souls— What joy to find in moments of ennui Inscribed above one's desk the brave decree : " Pink Rats must not be taken from their holes ! " Don't blame the " silly idle undergrad."

With his " perverted sense of what is funny," But envy him his merriment ; be glad The Camera's gloom could foster half so sunny v. 2, 1. 4, Cod. Rad. Assistant's table. Emendavit Scholasticus quidam Asses' Stable. v. 3, 1. 7, Cod. Rad. Ink .pots must not, &c.

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A disposition. It you knew the Rad. You'd understand the feelings that he had Awaiting sadly bored and boredly sad The book he could not get for love or money !

S. V. L. No. 136

With that it dived off into the water and dis. appeared.

And I resumed the article at the words " all education tends to the deepening of prejudice." g

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THE RADCLIFFE CAMERA.

May 27, 1911.

Zi Canterbury,ciigrim, recentlp biscovereb. ltt

lillegorp, bp wag of a 1Dream.

THE article was on " Reform," and the weather was hot—very— I had just come to the nice succinct statement that "all education tends to the deepening of prejudice," and had flatly denied such a thing, when a small brown imp in very little attire came out of the river and clung to the edge of my punt. " Reading ? " it said. " I think I am," said I. " Yes you would!" said the Imp. I invited it to come in. It hoisted itself over the edge of the punt, shook itself like a terrier and curled up on the cushionsshining—wet. " More red-tape," said the Imp, tersely. I politely enquired for an explanation. " Oh, not altogether your fault—inherited, even superimposed, but all the same, Red-Tape ! Who ever really enjoys things like this on the river ?" it asked, pointing a disdainful brown toe at the book I had just put down. " I'm really sorry for you creatures," it continued—" you've got to do so many things. From your earliest infancy you've been tied up with bows of red-tape, and as you get older you wind miles of it round and round your poor bodies, and it's even worse with your poor minds ! " The Imp gave a wriggle as though rejoicing in its own brown, supple body.

I felt rather injured and tried to explain that I personally was really quite unconventional, that I wasn't bound up with red-taped wrappers" Boo " said the Imp, " that's what they all say. If you could only see yourself—You've red-tape bows on every finger — your hat is trimmed with red-tape (I protested here—my hats are a very particular matter to me) — and as for your opinions, all neatly pigeon-holed and tied up with bunches and bunches of the stuff !

Of course you can't altogether help it " I thought the Imp a little too personal, and ventured to say so. "There you are, again," it said. " Why shouldn't I be personal ? Like me to talk the weather ? " I explained that it wasn't usual to be so frank, and that Society had a prejudice against certain forms of out-spokenness. " And of course Society calls itself educated ! Ugh !" said the Imp, " I told you so." !

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THERE was also a maide, a suffragette, That strove with all hir might her vote to gette.

Wel coude she hir.flagge wave on highe, And cryen " Votes for Women," and still crye.

Her voyce was as the raven or the crow For soth of speches she had made enow.

Hir bootes were ful large upon hir feete, And as she passed forth to Downing Streete A guardian of the peace stopt hir waye.

Yet staid she not for him. Be gone, I praye, She saide, and she scratched him ful sore.

A hat-pin stikked she in his great jawe.

And yet she was to us ful courteous ; She squealed whan that she had seen a mous.

N'IMPORTE QUI.

cart of a 1Diarp, signed "C3ertrube 'Regina," found at Elsinore.

[As the facts narrated below seem to bear a certain resemblance to a well-known story, it has been thought worth while to publish them.]

How time flies ! The dear boy coming home to-morrow and the wedding the next day Mein. To see Madame % to-morrow, and insist upon the raised waist.

WEDNESDAY. I wish Claudius had left Hamlet atWittenburg ! He has been thoroughly disagreeable. He wanted to know why the wedding was so soon after the funeral ; were we using up the cold meat, or something like that. Silly boy I as if meat would keep for two months in this weather ! Besides, the t servants THURSDAY. The wedding went off so well, and the dress was a dream.

FRIDAY. We had a big function to-day. I wore my new blue, which fits much better than I TUESDAY.

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* The Court Dressmaker is apparently intended.

1. Two pages of spirited invective are here omitted.

THE FRITILLARY. expected, and quite a small crown. All the Polonius family was there, Ophelia in green, of course, and looking a perfect dowd. I am sure Claudius will make a splendid king— much better than my last husband—he made a really splendid speech to-day, all about "wisest sorrow," and crying with one eye.

He spoke so nicely to Hamlet, too, about his sulky ways and perpetual black clothes.

He said lots of people's fathers had died, which of course is quite obvious, only he puts it so beautifully. The dear boy took it very nicely; he has promised not to go back to Wittenburg. He doesn't look very well, poor child, it's those horrid late hours at college ; we must feed him up. By the way, Laertes is going to Paris. He is a dear, polite, goodlooking boy, and gets on so well with everyone ; I wish Hamlet were more like him.

SATURDAY. Hamlet has been perfectly dreadful this morning. He looked as if he had slept in his clothes—stockings coming down, such a collar. And so disagreeable. He wouldn't answer his dear uncle civilly, and he so kind and patient. I didn't know what to do, but dear Claudius said we must get Rosenkrantz and Guildernstern to take him in hand, because he knew them at college. Then Polonius came fussing in with a long story about Hamlet being in love with Ophelia, and being mad because of that. He is an old bore, but I dare say he is right—though what Hamlet can see in Ophelia I don't know.

Polonius wants us to see them together, so Claudius is going to manage it. A company of actors turned up this morning, so of course Hamlet was wild with joy. He was with them for hours, repeating poetry, and making them do speeches for him. In the afternoon Claudius and Polonius caught Hamlet with Ophelia. Claudius says he was very rude to her, but does not seem really mad. He thinks a trip to England would do him good, and very likely it would.

We had a play this evening. Hamlet said it was called the " Mousetrap," but I think he must be mistaken, for there was nothing about mice in it. It didn't seem to me to be a very good play—such long speeches, and the dresses not up to much. Claudius was taken ill in the middle, so we never heard the end. Hamlet behaved so strangely that I sent for him to my room. He was very queer indeed—I don't wonder at Polonius thinking him mad. For one thing he has killed Polonius, thinking he was a rat behind the arras. Of course it is quite dreadful, but really it serves Polonius right. I meant to scold Hamlet well, but he began telling me I ought not to have married Claudius. I am sure I wish I hadn't. 0 dear I 0 dear !

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Rosenkrantz and Guildernstern. Claudius has been much better tempered since he went.

TUESDAY. Ophelia is mad now; they are a dreadfully unfortunate family. She has taken to wearing white, which is better than her eternal green, but I don't like the way she does her hair—it seems to me to have straws in it.

But she really is quite mad, and singing such silly songs—I can't think where she learnt them. Then quite suddenly Laertes came back from Paris, looking perfectly dreadful, and wanting to kill everybody—because of his father, of course. I was frightened.

Claudius was so brave; he talked to Laertes till he was as quiet as a lamb. He is to fight Hamlet when he comes back, and then it will be all right.

Poor Ophelia drowned herself this evening.

Perhaps it's just as well; she and Hamlet would have made an awful couple. Well, here we are in court mourning again.

FRIDAY. Ophelia's funeral. Hamlet turned up quite unexpectedly, and he and Laertes had a regular tussle. Claudius promised them a real fight this evening and got them to be quiet.

0 dear, 0 dear, I used to say life was dull, but even dulness is better than all this trouble.

Well, I must go and see Hamlet's duel with Laertes. I am afraid Hamlet is badly out of training ; I hope he won't get hurt.

Mem. To tear up this when I come back ; it wouldn't do for Laertes to get hold of it.

J. PYM.

flews of the term.

WE believe that Eights Week is usually thought to be the most important feature of the Summer Term. This year it has been chiefly remarkable for the fineness of the weather. To those with a limited acquaintance of Oxford and her moods, this may seem to be a trite remark : but to the initiated the persistence of sunshine has been a very real cause for congratulation.

THE Public Lectures this term have been exceptionally interesting. Professor Legouis' course on A Defence of French Poetry' drew very large and enthusiastic audiences, and made us all secretly ashamed of the verdicts which we had passed when made to compare Racine and Corneille in our youthful school-days.

INAUGURAL lectures are apt to prove rather trying, both, we believe, to the lecturers and to the

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hearers : there is so much .matter of business to be got through. But Dr. Warren's Oxford and Poetry in 1911,' delivered on June znd, was a brilliant exception. The inaugural' part was.in itself delightful, and was blended into a disquisition on former holders of the Chair of Poetry at Oxford, to which we listened with great interest.

THE most pleasing item on the Theatre programme for the term has been the representation of the Irish Plays ; which, though they had visited Oxford before, were welcomed with undiminished ardour.

The Pachmann-Kubelik concert was an equally great event in the musical world, and one of especial importance in that we are credibly informed that it was really Pachmann's farewell to us.

SOMERVILLE COLLEGE are giving their gardenparty on June Toth, and Lady Margaret Hall on June r4th. Some of us have had feelings of pleasurable anticipation, not unmingled with curiosity, aroused by a mysterious invitation from the Principal of the Home Students to a garden-party on June z 1st at the hour of 9-1 p.m.

MISS FLORA CODRINGTON, the well-known worker in the Zenana Missions in China, and one of the few survivors of the Peking massacres, gave an informal address to Oxford women students at Lady Margaret Hall, on Friday, May 26th.

The Rev. A. Burroughs took the chair.

Miss Codrington gave a most interesting account of the wonderful awakening in China. She thrilled her audience by a first-hand account of the great battle that is being fought against the opium curse by the Chinese government, and spoke most hopefully of the coming victory.

Her optimistic view of the missionary work in China is most inspiring.

THE OXFORD STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY had the honour of welcoming Lord Robert Cecil to a debate on Payment of Members on Friday, June znd. He was received by a large and enthusiastic gathering. An account of his speech will be found in the Debate notices.

ON Tuesday, May 9th, Mrs. Fawcett gave an address on Woman's Suffrage, at Lady Margaret Hall.

It was a great pleasure to have the opportunity of hearing a speaker who has devoted her whole life to the cause.

Mrs. Fawcett was speaking in the main to a friendly audience, and therefore her speech was

directed almost wholely to strengthening those who already believed in the desirability of the Suffrage, not to converting the uncertain ; yet there must have been those among her audience who before had been but lukewarm believers, who came away inspired with a new sense of the importance of the question and of the need for their active and zealous support.

Mrs. Fawcett takes a hopeful view of the future prospects of Woman's Suffrage. Events have moved very rapidly during the last few years.

People have been forced to realize that the question is a vital one, and-that sooner or later it must be answered : they have learned at last to regard it seriously.

It was a great privilege to hear Mrs. Fawcett speak, and all who were present at the meeting must have felt how much they owed to her for having spare time, out of a busy life, to come to Oxford in order to strengthen their faith and spur them to fresh efforts.

"'We sbahe off the Mlles Ithe Mater."

BROWN fields and green, in the pale sunlight, the curve of the hill against the dappled sky.

Wind and sun in our faces as we pass—and the motion—reminiscent of Spring.

In front lies the grey road ; bushes along the side bare but for dangling catkins.

Behind stretches the grey road ; from the hollow, silver birch trees rising.

Wind and sun in our faces as we pass—and the motion—reminiscent of Spring.

Here and there irregular farm buildings, for colour as one with the rest.

Quiet life.

Deep blue overhead—purpled clouds on the skyline—beyond—the dull blue of the distance, lying in haze.

Wind and sun in our faces as we pass—and the motion—reminiscent of Spring.

A few clear notes of a lark.

Suddenly shadow—the sun goes in—the road slopes down and then climbs the opposite hill.

Flickering sunshine—it strengthens—the sun comes out.

Wind and sun in our faces as we pass—and the motion—reminiscent of Spring.

S. M. R.

1Rerfews.

Woman and Labour, by Olive Schreiner. (T. Fisher Unwin. 8s. 6d.)

THIS book is neither a treatise in economics

nor a tract for Woman's Suffrage ; it is a great

THE FRITILLARY. book, great both in thought and expression.

While it interests with its argument, it no less pleases by its style and the flashes of poetry which break out continually from sober argument and deep thought.

The fundamental thought which underlies most of the Anti-Feminist argument is that Women are taking up an un-natural position. But surely Nature can look after herself, she does not need us to help to enforce her restrictions. Then why not give women freedom to find out by experience— the only ultimate teacher—what Nature really says ? But this cogent argument is turned aside by the word "Empire." "If your experimenting fails," says the Anti-Feminist, " you will destroy our great Empire. It is too great a thing to risk."

But here this book arrests us and says that our Empire, in fact our civilization, is already in danger —danger of the parasitic woman, and she shows how the same thing was seen in Greece, in Rome, among the Jews. " Everywhere, in the past as in the present, the parasitism of the female heralds the decay of a nation or class, and as invariably indicates disease as the pustules of small-pox upon the skin indicate the existence of a purulent virus in the system."

Therefore for the sake of our Empire and of our Civilisation women must have their full share of Labour ; and, moreover, they must have perfect freedom to determine the nature of that labour and its conditions. " For to-day, we take all labour for our province."

But in this short space it is impossible to give any adequate idea even of the main argument, and there are many other points of interest and im- portance raised in the book. It shOuld be read by all of us; it is well worth reading.

V. A Dinka Story and other Sudan Poems. as. net. The Mandi and other Poems. 3s. net. S. Lyle. (George Allen & Sons.)

The attempt of one type of mind to understand and appreciate another is always interesting, but never more so than when West strives to approach the outlook of East. We have been told ad nauseam that "never the twain shall meet" (and no doubt the iteration has done something towards preventing it.!)—but when all is said and done, they are as diametrically opposed in thought and feeling as they are in physical aspect. It happens now and again that a mind breaks loose from type, and asserts a strange, unexpected kinship with people and things that are, racially speaking, alien.

So it was with Laurence ilope—she realized and entered into the essential spirit which is India, as no other Western mind has ever done, and the price she paid was the understanding of her own land.

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his English point of view, and so his poems have a critical value, apart from their own. His is the contemplative attitude, he writes as of scenes " recollected in tranquillity," and indeed, his verse has at times a Wordsworthian quality. The first poem of the " Dinka" volume is the best in the book, epitomizing as it does the eternally different standpoint of West from East :" When I and my love embrace, Soul kisses soul through space.

Where the light from your shelter streams There is all that you want, it seems, But I I have Dreams. I have Dreams."

Excellent, too, is that entitled " At a Sheik's Tomb," where the writer images for himself the Arab chieftain it commemorates "But I—seeing I neither praise nor blame—but I, Coming with the Three Keys of all secret things, Love, Loneliness and a Dream !—when I demand Your confidence, and a vision of your life, You come . . ."

In the "Dinka Story" itself the clash of East and West is heard more than once. It is the Englishman telling the pathetic little tale—with pity, with sympathetic insight, with artistic feeling, but never forgetting he is English. This, for instance, is " Dinka " :" You have grown for me, From the wild girl who laughed at me and fled, From the young child that picked me berries sweet, And sweet roots from the forest, to the size And stature of my longings, to the height And width of my desires ..."

But what immediately follows is as English as St. Paul's Cathedral or a policeman :" The shapeless wants The immature and ill-defined needs That made my heart so hungry, have attained And found, in you, expression. You must be The mother of my children, my fond wife-. . ."

and later on he regrets that the " far, remote, elusive savage " should see " Naught in the sky but rain-clouds for his crops— Naught in his crops but food—naught in the trees But comfortable shelter . . ."

This is the Englishman's view, because the " far, remote, elusive " pantheism of the -" savage " is hard to come at ; a formless, often irrational thing overgrown with the moss and lichen of countless ages of superstition ; but I think that no one who has seen much of native life will contend that in the wildest, most barbaric tribe it is other than very real and very dominating. The Englishman believes that God made the trees, the "savage" believes that God is the tree, just as He is the sky, or the thunder, or the cholera, or a motor-bicycle, —but both are religious ideas, born of the same thought. "This tree (or sky) is a wonderful and strong thing : I do not know how to make it."

Mr. Lyle's individuality is too strong to allow itself to become absorbed, however fascinating the

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interest ; and so we look forward eagerly to a third volume which shall give us more of himself.

He is a maker of images, and though there are several one is glad to remember, I must content myself with quoting' two :— " . .. we have laid In the cool cellars of our memory, Rich wine of recollection, to mature Against the days when we shall cease to save, And pause to spend . . ."

and again :" Look up at yonder bird against the clouds, How grey he looks. Now, sweeping to the earth, What colour is he? White. Oh, fold your wings, Sweet Goher, and hop white with dusky friends, Nor venture a grey joy consuming flight Amongst the angels .. ."

The technique of the second volume is infinitely the better.

In the first book Mr. Lyle has unmusical lines :" My friend said with what stuff we have to deal,' " and " The wart-hog cumbrously deft,"

are the worst examples, and he atones for them by a fine sensitiveness at times to consonant effect :" And kindly handling from the multitude Of softly-lowing kine, did they unloose Five bullocks . . ."

in the "Mandi " volume, Mr. Lyle has found himself. Mohommedan belief has expected the Mandi (Arabic pass. part. " well-directed ") ever since the twelfth descendant of Ali went into captivity in 879. About 1882 another of the many claimants arose, as everybody knows, at Dongola.

Fired by his teaching, the Eastern Sudan made a stand against Egyptian tyranny. The Mandi seized El Obeid and made it his capital, and in November, 1883, cut to pieces the Egyptian army at Shakka under Hicks Pasha. After the fall of Gordon in the following year, the Mandi rapidly deteriorated, succumbing to the temptations of his success, and died at Omdurman in 1885. It is his rapid rise and no less rapid fall with which Mr. Lyle deals.

The subject is congenial to his artistic method, and very beautifully treated ; and the verse, with its frequent Marlowe-echoes, is rich and full of colour and music :" He would be clad in wonders of the loom, But

And mounted on an ass more white than milk.

His taper-fingers would be bright with gems That flash like fireflies, and the scents of Hinde Pervade his garments like,the soul of flowers . . ."

The Mandi himself is vividly alive for us, in his strength as in his weakness,—so sympathetic and sensitive is Mr. Lyle's portrayal of a character which presents great psychological difficulties.

The ballad-poems must not be forgotten. " East and West" is perhaps the best, but there are delightful little snatches of melody in " Up Nile from

Khartum," and a really fine "Song of Horses" from the Arabic.

It might be well, perhaps, if the ignorant Westerner could be furnished with a glossary against the strange names that lie in wait for him on his pleasant journey through these two little volumes. What is a tobe ? a Sfik ? What are zeers and angeribs ? And gorgeous as "a mograbi tarbush girt with a blue emma " sounds, I am utterly unable to visualize it for myself !

But I would exhort all those who value lucidity of thought and beauty of style to read the poems for themselves, all the more if the call of the East is one they may not disregard they shall not be disappointed.

V. I. BALKWILL. :

The Autobiography of Shakespeare. Price 7s. 6d.

Edited by Louis C. Alexander. (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent.)

Recent conjectures which aim at associating the name of Bacon with a large proportion of Elizabethan literature, have doubtless prepared us for further surprises •' so, when we meet with an unpretentious volume purporting to set forth the autobiography of a certain poet—by name William Shakespeare—we ought to express no murmurs of sceptical disbelief.

In the preface we are urged to avoid all impatience, scorn, hasty judgment or flippancy ; and k carefully and conscientiously to read the boo to see if we do not discern the " inimitable voice of Shakespeare." Our answer is that we do not.

Besides disproving the hitherto accepted traditions of the poet's life ; beginning from the fact that, by birth, his name was not Shakespeare at all, but that he was the son of Thomas Little of Warwick, the style of the autobiography seems to resemble that of the writer of the introduction. Shakespeare, it seems, made use of a number of modern colloquialisms, also strange latinisms such as the participle " encinderated " which we find on page 52 ; and his short exclamatory sentences such as " how I laboured," remind us again of the ejaculations of the compiler.

There are many details which a student of the period might question, as for example the really lavish salary which a young actor seemed to be making in those days and yet complained of starvation.

Considered as a hoax the autobiography is amusing enough ; but when we are assured that it is genuine we would like to see more proofs.

Parenthetically we cannot see the force of the prophecy to which the Editor refers, which foretells the great light to be thrown on Shakespearean controversy in the year 191o; for, as Mr. Alex-

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The Philosophy of a Don. By G. F. Abbott.

(Swift.)

Authors who describe themselves, and their methods, who give an account of the meaning and intention of their work, are very seldom to be met with. But when one does read the book of such a writer one is filled with admiration and gratitude ; for usually more time is spent in trying to solve these mysteries than in reading the book itself. Would it not be a relief if some of our great poets, our far-famed literary men, had been as considerate as the " Don " has been in writing his " Philosophy "? For, in the last chapter or , he gives a clear and "Postface " as it is called lucid account of himself, and then unsparingly criticises his foregoing pages. " The work," he says, " is essentially serious. It is, conceived in a half-sympathetic, half-ironical vein by one accustomed to look beneath the surface of things —in that temper of gentle detachment from the banal realities of life which is the ideal don's peculiar note . . . . it is written in a smooth flow of correct and'elegant prose, enlivened occasionally by apt misquotations from the poets ; which is in itself an attraction to persons of taste." In* spite of his professed unoriginality, is he not the most original of men ? His opinions, given us in such pleasing humility, are both singular and refreshing, and especially those on poetry, which are indeed unique ; he and his friends discuss the subject in a manner which would assuredly terrify and deter many a would-be poetaster. " All creation is but a quotation," the Don remarks when making his " Plea for Plagiarism."

He tells us that all great literary men, from Chaucer and Shakespeare downwards, pilfered their predecessors and comtemporaries and so gained fame for themselves ! And he gives all men permission to plagiarise, which, let us hope, will lend confidence even to the unhappy ex. aminee. Tbis philosopher among other men of genius has, he admits, frankly acted upon this principle.

The imperturbability of the residents of Oxbridge—or rather the description of it given by our author—reminds us very much of another place so many of us know, angl his insistance that acquiescence is so necessary and common a virtue renders us doubly able to understand the cause of it.

One of our thief thoughts, at the close of the book, is a most ardent wish that we had to study the Don and his democratic friend Shaw as classics of literature—which may yet come to pass —for they are so vividly, entertainingly, and so excellently portrayed. " The Philosophy of a Don," in all its originality "

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and serious humour, will attract all who hail from an English " Bceotia " ; it will most pleasantly beguile their leisure hours, and may be freely recommended wheresoe'er there lurks even a spark of sense of humour.

GIACOMO.

The Green Fields. By Kenneth Hare. (Elkin

Matthews.)

WE have received Mr. Hare's unpretentious little book of verses, " The Green Fields." As the title suggests, Mr. Hare is a lover and indeed no mean student of nature, and the book is his tribute to this his mistress. In his last book, " The Raven and the Swallow," perhaps the chief features were the two-line epigrams and fragments. It was with some eagerness therefore that we turned the leaves to discover more in "The Green Fields."

Frankly, we were disappointed with what we found. There are a few, perhaps two or three, that are delightful, but others are to our mind rather affected—such for instance as " A Health."

There is much in the volume that is delightful, and Mr. Hare has a most delicate fancy. " His Lady of Poetry " we single out as being of exceptional excellence, as being in fact poetry as opposed to verse. " Spring Song," " Rumpelstiltskin," and " Waclham Gardens," we liked also very much indeed.

Mr. Hare has a habit of leaving principal verbs out of his sentences and so obscuring the sense in a .most Bellocian manner. The poems are therefore often more pictures or cameos of a passive but not the less beautiful nature. They lack action. Here for instance is a verse complete in itself which presents a scene to us in this necessarily slightly inanimate way :"Sudden the blinding moonlight With stars aloof, Forks and spires of the city And peaks of the roof."

On the other hand, what could be more delightful than his " Fairy Time "? " Little folk of the village Bring sweet good luck, Bring not the gibes and jesting Of goblin -Puck, Rather to him who sings you ; And has so long, Only a fairy sixpence For a fairy song."

Periodical received :—Si'. Leonard's School Gazette.

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OgforD Momen Stubents' Societp for 1Illomen's Suffrage.

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PROPOSALS were made as long ago as last summer for the amalgamation of the separate societies for Women's Suffrage in the colleges and halls : the promoters of the scheme, Miss H. S. Davies Colley and Miss 0. W. Sinclair, felt strongly that joint action on the part of Oxford Women Students was impossible under the system of separate societies. They urged that a want of concentration was shown in the numerous meetings arranged by each society independently of the others, and moreover the societies practically ceased to exist during the Vacation. This last difficulty prevented old students joining their college societies, because there was no organised means of communicating with members and obtaining the opinion and co-operatinn of former Oxford Students on any particular occasion, when such united action might have helped the Suffrage movement. After much discussion within the different colleges and halls, a provisional committee was formed to draw up a constitution of the new society. A general meeting of intending members was held at Lady Margaret Hall, on June 3, when Miss Burrows was kind enough to take the chair.

The Constitution was passed substantially in the form drafted by the provisional committee. The chief points to report are the affiliation to the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and the regulations for membership and government of the Society.

All past and present students and members of the staffs of the " Recognised Societies of Women Students " are eligible to become members on payment of a minimum subscription of is. a year.

The resident members of the Recognised Societies will form branches, and an Oxford Sub-Committee consisting of two representatives from each recognised society will arrange meetings in Oxford and promote interest in the suffrage question among present students. There is to be a Central committee composed of a President, Hon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer and eight members elected by the whole society at the annual general meeting, and three representatives sent by the Oxford Sub-Committee.

It was resolved that for this year only the elections should be made by post, and nomination papers will be sent to all members who have sent it subscriptions to the Hon. Sec. pro. tem.

Miss H. S. DAVIES. COLLEY, Briarwood, Woking.

Names and subscriptions should be sent in at once.

The Society has decided to send a banner to the Procession on June 17. A new banner has

been designed by Mr. E. H. New, who has adapted his engraving of the Towers of Oxford for the purpose, and has very generously given much time and trouble to superintending the carrying out of the work. A speCial banner fund was authorised by the General Meeting on June 3, and donattons should be sent as soon as possible to Miss Jamison, Lady Margaret Hall.

Ogforb Stubents' 1Debating Soctetp.

Hilary Term, 1911.

March 14.—Motion : " That this House considers the proposal to introduce a ' Right to Work' Bilrto be dangerous and unjustifiable."

Hon. Mover— Miss MADGE (L. M. H. ). The Hon. Mover treated the subject by generalising.

She attacked the underlying principle of the proposal, and showed that it would prove uneconomic, as state workshops have always been ; that it would not be salutary, inasmuch as it would attract labourers to the large towns, and that it would detract from men's moral strength—a good man cannot be made by legislation. Miss Madge's speaking was much too dogmatic, and some of her generalisa-.. tions were made absurd by the lack of dignity in her language ; but for a maiden speech hers contained good matter and showed decided promise.

Hon. Opposer—Miss HUNTER (S.C.). Miss Hunter spoke fluently and energetically in defence of the Bill. She emphasised the unavoidable responsibility on the richer members of the State, and declared that it could no longer be shirked. She spoke hopefully as to the probable effect of the measure. Miss Hunter's speech was vigorous and well expressed, but was it perhaps too fluent ?

3rd Speaker— Miss HUMPHRIES (Birmingham University). Miss Humphries made a delightful speech, and we wished we could have heard more from her. She brought facts to prove that the Bill was unworkable, and she attacked it especially in detail. She showed that , the State was always a bad employer, and instanced that State employees are generally underpaid.

4th Speaker—Miss DE REYES (Birmingham University). Miss de Reyes also spoke very well.

She defended the proposed Bill chiefly on its broad principles, declaring that the State must meet its responsibility. She told us there was no lack of work to be done, and thought that there was room for much unskilled labour on the land.

There spoke in Public Discussion :—Miss COOKE (S.H.C.), Miss DONALDSON (S. H.H.), Miss MAC-

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Easter and Trinity Term,

1911.

President—Miss CARR (L. M. tI. ).

Secretary—Miss SOUTHWELL (S. H.C.).

Junior Treasurer—Miss MORRIS (L.M.H.).

May ro.—Motion : " That this House would

welcome the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of England."

Hon. Mover—Miss HAKE (L.M.H.). The Hon. Mover thought it unreasonable that one religious body rather than another should be singled out for State support. She considered that an established Church was a menace to unity. One of the most serious charges against the Church was its almost invariable opposition to progress and reform ; this she considered a result of establishment—the work of a worldly clerical oligarchy.'

From the point of view of the Church she considered that disestablishment was greatly needed ; though it would-be a time of hardship, she was convinced that it would be justified by the new impulse to zeal, self-sacrifice and charity on the part of Churchmen which it would involve. Miss Hake spoke earnestly, and made her points very clearly : a good maiden speech.

Hon. Opposer— Miss BIDEN (O.H.S.). The Hon. Opposer pointed out that to establish' merely means to, ratify or confirm' : the State does not rule the Church. She feared that disestablishment, so far from promoting unity, would tend to increase political strife in the Church.

The " most pressing reform " of the moment was for deeper personal religion ; if that could be brought about, she felt that the Church could dispense with external reform.

The Hon. Opposer then returned to her first point, and showed the nature of the connection between Church and State. Finally, she would have the House remember in giving its vote that disestablishment and disendowment, though utterly separate issues, were combined in the motion which must be weighed and considered as a whole.

Miss Biden's speech was ill-proportioned she spent too much time in attempting to answer the first speaker. The personal element was also rather too prominent, but her delivery as usual was excellent.

3rd Speaker—Miss THORPE (S.C.). Miss Thorpe could not agree that the State did not control the Church. She deplored the connection between ecclesiastical affairs and politics. Disestablishment and disendowment were certainly separate issues. She quoted Gladstone on the Church in Ireland. Miss Thorpe's line of argument was rather confused, and her speech was not delivered in a very convincing manner.

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confined herself to a discussion of disestablishment. She asserted the independence and continuity of the Church of England from the earliest times. Miss Hill's speech was energetic and well delivered.

There also spoke in Public Discussion :—MiSS LENOX CONYNGHAM (L. M. H.), Miss WAYTE (O.H.S.), Miss SANDBERG (O.H.S.), Miss M. C. SCOTT (S.C.), Miss SPENCER-SMITH, ex - Pres.

(L.M.H.), Miss IBBERSON (S.H.C.), Miss PURDON (S.Hil.H.).

The motion was lost by one vote.

June 2.—Motion : " That this House approves of Payment of Members."

Hon. Mover—Miss SABIN (S.C.). The Hon. Mover attacked the subject on its negative side, and proceeded to discuss some of the objections commonly brought against the scheme for payment of members. She cited instances to prove that this measure could at least not be described as an innovation. She believed that there was no reason why payment of members should lower the standard of the House. Lastly, it was above all desirable to give the electors an unlimited choice : and to make that choice rest on a qualification of brains rather than of wealth.

For a first speaker, Miss Sabin spent too much time in answering possible objections. Hers would have been an effective third speech. She should be especially careful to speak louder; the passing tram is a trial to speakers, but even allowing for this, she was not sufficiently audible.

Hon. Opposer.—LORD ROBERT CECIL. The Hon. Opposer prefaced his speech with a pleasant reference to the position of women in politics, which was much appreciated by the House. He was glad to address an audience of women on a subject which was bound to affect them, indirectly or directly.

He differed from the Hon. Proposer in thinking that Payment of Members was an innovation.

He had noticed that an appeal to the past was always made by the supporters of the most radical changes ; but although this measure had no doubt been tried before, he considered its introduction under present circumttances entirely without parallel in history. Other nations had certainly tried it, but he ventured to think that the English constitution, imperfect as it was, had yet no reason to take an example from those of other countries.

There was one argument on the other side with which he felt some sympathy. The Hon. Mover had stated it forcibly when she said " We want brains not wealth." He would gladly concede that every interest ought to be represented in Parliament; and this principle seemed at first sight to be acted upon in the scheme for payment of members. It was only a consideration of the difficulties involved which had led him to oppose

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it. There were at present in the House three classes of members receiving financial assistance, and the position was in each case most unsatisfactory. First the Irish Members, then the Labour Members, and in a lesser degree other members of both parties who were paid. They had an uncomfortable conviction that if conscience compelled them to take the opposite side to that of their party they would riot be earning their salary.

It was the consideration of difficulties like these that had counteracted his former strong bias in favour of payment of members.

After disposing of some other lesser objections, Lord Robert Cecil brought forward his two main reasons for opposing the scheme. It seemed to him that the greatest danger of the present day lay in the growing power of political organisation, and the consequent loss of independence in the House of Commons. Belloc's account of the Party System, though lurid, was not very incorrect. Our whole theory of politics is that Parliament is an assembly to decide independently; if this be shaken, the reality and sincerity of politics is utterly destroyed.. This being so, he must oppose any measure that tended to increase the power of the executive government over the House. The very faCt that the Government intended to introduce this measure, not in the form of a bill, and without giving opportunity for the discussion of its working, the fact too that no objection to this procedure had been made in the House, was a measure of the servility that had come upon it.

And lastly, he valued gratuitous public service as one of the great heritages of this country. We had established a convention that a man who deserved work of the State shall receive his reward, not in money, but in consideration and honour. The loss of this kind of service could never be made up for by the skill of any number of professional politicians.

Lord Robert Cecil's speech was followed with great interest, and applauded enthusiastically by both sides of the House.

3rd Speaker—Miss CRAVEN (S. Hil. H. ). Miss Craven refused to consider "professional politician," a term of abuse. There was nothing degrading in receiving a`salary from the State.

Instead of any loss of independence she would predict a gain, since the member would no longer be tied to his party, but would be responsible to the State alone. She doubted whether the gift or refusal of was an alarming weapon in the hands of the Government ; surely no member would be so improvident as to rely on this for his income ! Finally, she considered the much-abused professional to be preferable to the political dilettanti of the present day, Miss Craven's speech was forcible and clearly argued. She should speak a little louder.

4th Speaker—Miss JAMISON (L.M.H.). Miss Jamison discussed the sentimental bias towards

Equality of opporPayment of Members. tunity was the principle commonly thought to be involved in it—one which is at present the goal of much legislation. Did not this argument assume, however, that the measure was chiefly for Labour Members? It was possible to exaggerate the belief that merit lies with the poor and needy.

She would rather have the House consider whether this measure was not calculated to encourage the " culte de l'incompetence." She then discussed payment of members in reference to the principle of representation. The speech ended with some interesting criticisms on the position of the expert in politics, and further insistance on the principle of voluntary service. Miss Jamison's speech ably supplemented that of the Hon. Opposer. As he was obliged to leave early, she took his place in public discussion, and answered numerous objections.

There also spoke :—Miss LEVETT (L.M.H. and S.Hil.H.), Miss MERIVALE (L.M.H.), Miss METCALF (L.M.H.), Miss WAYTE (O.H.S.), Miss THORPE (S.C.), MiSS LENOX CONYNGHAM (L.M.H.), Miss jEBB (L.M.H.), Miss ELLIGOTT (S.C.), Miss POPE (S.C.).

The motion was lost by a large majority.

In this debate, the poorness of the delivery of our speakers was particularly noticeable. Speakers should remember that an audible voice and a little enthusiasm make a good argument much more telling, and help a bad one to pass unnoticed.

Clforb 5tubents' Central tennis Club.

AT a Test held on May r5th, the following were elected members of the Central :—Miss Elder (L.M.H.), Miss Burton (L.M.H.), Miss May (S.H.C.), Miss Thompson (L.M.H.).

The results of cup matches played already are as follows :S.Hil.H. v. S.C.—S.Hil.H. won 2—r.

S.H.C. v. O.H.S.—S.H.C. won 2—o.

L.M.H. v. S.C.—S.C. won 2—o.

L.M.H. v. S.H.C.—S.H.C. won 2—o.

L.M.H. v. S.Hil.H.—S.Hil.H. won 2-1.

S.Hil.H. v. O.H.S.—O.H.S. won 2—I. S.C. v. O.H.S.—S.C. won 2—o.

O.H.S. v. L.M.H.—O.H.S. won 2 —0.

The Six to play Cambridge is as follows :Miss Doncaster (S.Hil.H., ex - Pres.), Miss Kenyon- Stow (S.H.C.,- Pres.), Miss Wadsworth (S.C., Sec.), Miss Latham (S.C.), Miss de Putron (S.H.C.). The sixth place is not yet filled.

THE FRITILLARY. No Central matches have as yet been played, but the play at practices has been above the usual level. The Six is to play the Oxfordshire Ladies on June r2tb, and a team of Dons and Graduates on June 2oth. For the first time for several years the Cambridge match is to be played in Oxford, on the Somerville Ground, on June 24th.

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still hampered her considerably and weakened the combination on the right. Thp game was hard and fast throughout, and during most of the second half it looked as if it might result in a draw.

Cambridge began the attack and for a long time pressed the Oxford defence hard. Miss Elder and Miss Newbolt however played very steadily, and even when they were passed, the forwards found it almost impossible to get through Miss Mason, whose goalkeeping was certainly the feature of the game. The Hockey Field, in fact, stated that it was "probably the best exhibition of goalkeeping seen this season."

At half-time Cambridge led by 2 goals. In the second half Oxford got together more, though the forward combination was not really good throughout the game, and the attack consisted chiefly in individual rushes. The outers on the whole played well Miss Kirk did a good deal of work, but had the Cambridge captain, Miss Stopford, who was quite the best half on the field, against her.

Of the Oxford halves, Miss Homer was decidedly the best, and played a magnificent and indefatigible game against the fast Cambridge left outer.

Miss White is much better in attack than defence, but was very useful at .centre half. Miss Elder and Miss Newbolt are an excellent pair of backs, but made the mistake of lying too near their own circle.

The chief lesson the Oxford team has to learn is confidence. If a team goes on to the field determined to play a good losing game, it is highly improbable that they will win. Greater confidence would produce both better combination and more vigour of attack throughout the team.

Yet the team certainly improved during the season, and the score against Cambridge is the best, we believe, for ten years (last year we lost 9—o). We have only once drawn with London before, and last year the Northern Universities beat us 7-1.

We are fortunate in having ten of the United back again next year; ,

Ogforb %Welds' tantteb lbochep Club.

Saturday, March iith.

UNITED V. LONDON UNITED COLLEGES. Played at L.M.H. Draw 3 all.

THE London team appeared one short, so the match was played with ten aside, Miss Dixon kindly consenting to retire. Unfortunately within the first five minutes of the game Miss Corke hurt her ankle. This naturally weakened the Oxford attack on the right, although Miss Corke continued to play with vigour, and in the second half succeeded in scoring one of the Oxford goals ! For a long time London looked the stronger team, and repeatedly ran the ball down into the Oxford circle. The backs, however, tackled them well, though by their policy of lying too far back they frequently gave London the clear run of nearly a quarter of the Add. The London forwards were faster than the Oxford ones, Miss Steinthal and Miss Webb on the right being especially noticeable.

Till within a few minutes of the end of the game London led by one goal. Then Miss Elder came centre, and the Oxford forwards almost immediately ran the ball right down the field and ended with a magnificent shot from Miss Kirk off a pass from the left. If it had not been for the incapacity Oxford has repeatedly shown for getting together at the beginning of the match, the result ought to have been a win.

Tuesday, March 2 IS/.

UNITED V. CAMBRIDGE UNITED. Played at Richmond. Lost 1-2. .

In this match Oxford was fortunate enough to have no substitutes, though Miss Corke's ankle

United.

Goal: Miss Mason (S.C.).

Backs : Misses Elder, Newbolt (L.M.H.).

Halves: Misses Homer (L.M.H.), Whyte (S.C.), Thomson (L.M.H.).

Forwards : Misses Dixon (S.C.), Corke (S.Hil. H.), Kirk (S.C.), Almond (O.H.S., Capt.), de Putron (S.H.C.).

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HOME STUDENTS COMBINED CUP FINAL. Played on Somerville Ground. Won 3-2.

This is the first time on record that the Combined has ever been in the final cup match.

Although the ground was, wet, the game was fairly fast and very hard. Quite three-quarters of it was played within the Combined twenty-five line, and the result of the match was due chiefly to the excellent combination of the Combined defence, of whom Miss Richards and Miss Anderson were the most conspicuous, greatly helped by Miss Doncaster's goalkeeping.

All three goals of the Combined, two of which were scored early in the first half, were due to sudden rushes up the field by the Combined forwards, who though not strong individually, kept well together ; while the Somerville defence, which is usually good, seemed to fall to pieces entirely.

During the last quarter of an hcktr Somerville really got together, and became very dangerous.

Five minutes more would probably have made the score equal, and it was all that the Combinec, could do to keep their lead till the end.

S. HILDA'S AND HOCKEY

Central Club and three are playing in the Hall six,' which is represented by :1st couple—Miss Ward, Miss Elder.

2nd couple--Miss Saunders, Miss Austin.

3rd couple—Miss Thomson, Miss Whitehorn.

The cup-ties against Somerville, S. Hugh's and S. Hilda's have all been lost, and of Hall matches the following have been played :Old Students (3 couples), defeat for Present Students. Matches gained v. L.M.H. st couple-1-2.

2nd couple-2 —I.

3rd couple—if-1.

The sett ;between Old Students' ist couple and Present Students' 3rd couple was not finished.

Westfield College (r couple), defeat for L.M.H., by 3 setts to 2.

High School (2 couples), victory for L.M.H. • ist couple— 2-0.

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Goal: Miss Doncaster (S.Hil.H.).

Backs : Misses Matheson (O.H.S.), Richards (S.Hil.H.).

Halves:. Misses Wayte *, Anderson (O.H.S.), Craven (S.Hil.H.).

Forwards : Misses Veitch, Walker* (S.HiI. Almond (O.H.S.) (Capt.), Neve, (S.Hil.H.), Jelf (0.H.S.).

BOAT CLUB.

Sculling—Captains: M. Elder, K. M'Gonigle, E. Jebb, H. Chatwin, 0. Horner ; Half-Captains: G. Madge, D. Duke, P. Marshall.

Canoeing—Captains : C. Morris, D. Whitehorn, V. Godfrey, P. Bishop, M. Brown, E. Lippert, V. Hyett, E. Keyser, R. Fynes-Clinton, P. Brierly; Ralf-Captains : M. Payne, M. Potter.

Punting—Captains: L. Esdaile, P. Bishop, J. Carr, P. Challoner.

SHARP PRACTICE (President, Miss SAUNDERS ; Miss MERIVALE, Miss HAKE).—At the

Whips,

ball notices.

LADY MARGARET HALL. TENNIS CLUB (Captain, Miss SAUNDERS j SecMiss ELDER).—It is gratifying to have so

retary,

many promising members among the first-year students ; four have been elected members of the * Substitute for Parsons and Corke (S.Hil.H.).

political debates this term, the House decided that general disarmament at the present time was undesirable, and it favoured the scheme for the State insurance. At Sharp Practice, the motions discussed were, that " Artificial aids to beauty are justifiable," and that " all experience is good." The Sharp 'Practices have been carried on with great vigour, but the political debates have been confined to a few energetic members, amongst whom first-year students are prominent.

THE FRITILLARY. SOM E RVI LLE COLLEGE. TENNIS CLUB (President, M. HASKINS ; Secretary, P. MASON ; Treasurer, M. KINGSLAND). The loss of Miss Mason for the rest of the season has been a severe blow for the Tennis Club. Luckily she was able to help us to win`-the match against Holloway. The matches this term have been :— (i) v. Holloway College.—Played at Somerville.

Somerville won 6 setts to 3.

PLAYERS. Somerville,rst couple P. Wadsworth, P. Mason. znd couple : V. Latham, M. Kirk.

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Westfield won 3 setts to 2.

PLAYERS. Somerville—P. Wadsworth, V. Latham.

Westfield—M. Cardew, K. Elliott.

Three more matches remain to be played :v. Alexandra Court. v. Reading University. v. Games Club.

Cup Matches.

Players for Somerville—P. Wadsworth, P. Mason, V. Latham.

Results :—v. S. H H. —S. H H. won z— I. v. L.M.H.—S.C. won 2—o. v. S.H.C.—S.H.C. won 2—o.

V. O.H.S.—S.C. won 2—u.

The first Hall v. West match was played this term. A silver cup has been anonymously presented for this match, which, it is hoped, will henceforth be played every year.

Result—After a draw of 4 games all, the Hall won in a final game by 2 games to 1.

PLAYERS. Hall—P. Mason, V. Latham.

West—P. Wadsworth, M. Kirk.

Miss Wadsworth and Miss Latham have been chosen as the znd couple to play for the Oxford University.

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Ville had the appearance of a co-educational college, and moreover a co-educational college of devoted suffragists, as the red, white, and green badges testified. The number of undergaduates hotly contesting for the prize of John Stuart Mill's Essay on the Subjection of Women shows that at Oxford at all events the cause of Suffrage is progressing, and all the men's colleges do not share in the traditional prejudice on the subject. There were 28 entries. The finals were played between Miss Gilard and Mr. Trail (New College), and Miss Latham and Mr. R. F. Wilkinson (Jesus).

The latter were victorious and received the prizes from Miss Barbshire, President of the Somerville Suffrage Club, amid great acclamation. The playing lasted later, and dinner saw the unprecedented event of undergraduates dining in Somerville in tennis kit. The proceeds of 28 shillings (!) were devoted to Suffrage.

BOAT CLUB (President, N. G. HENDERSON ; Secretary, M. C. PANTIN ; Treasurer, E. M. OGILVIE).—The club has this term shown commendable keenness, especially for sculling and punting. The style of the former has greatly improved since the " Four," and there will be a general test at the end of the term ; in that held at half-term the following were made captains: S. B. Hunter, S. M. Ryland, R. Whyte. By the generosity of amalgamation, the club has this term become the possessor of a new canoe and a new punt.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. —On May zoth, Mr. Warde Fowler read a paper on " Coming to Life in Fiction," a subject which afforded much matter for discussion in the circles.

The next subject—Jane Austen, on whom Professor Bradley read a most delightful paper— afforded less, as members found few points on which to differ. We are glad to see that more people take part in the discussion after the paper.

Leaders for 191i-12—Misses Gerrard, Hunter, Jerrold, Ruegg, Sabin.

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE. TENNIS (Captain, D. KENYON-STOW ; Secretary, M. ADDISON).—Considerable keenness has been

SUFFRAGE TENNIS TOURNAMENT.—June 8th was the last day of the Somerville special effort week for Suffrage. It was celebrated by an American Tournament of mixed doubles. Somer-

shown throughout the term, especially amongst the First Years. P. May has been elected a member of the Central Club, and E. de Putron is playing in the Oxford Six.

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Champions. ist Couple—E. de Putron, D. Kenyon-Stow. znd Couple—P. Gwynne, G. Lawson-Lewis.

year, who was obliged to leave us on account of ill-health. We have been most fortunate in our weather the whole term, consequently the boating has come on very well. Tests were held in the third week. A great many members qualified as Captains in sculling and canoeing.

Punting was not quite so successful, but there are several quite promising members whom we hope to qualify at the end of term. '

Cup Matches. v. Home Students, won 6—r 6 —2. v. Somerville College, won 6-4 ; 7 5. v. Lady Margaret Hall, won 6—I ; 6--2. v. St. Hilda's Hall, won 6—i ; 6—I. We therefore hold the Cup for 1911-I2. ;

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Matches. v. Alexandra Club, drawn 2 matches all. v. Cherwell Hall, scratched. v. S. Mary's College, Paddington, not yet played. v. Westfield College, not yet played.

MODERN LANGUAGE SOCIETY (President, Miss ADDISON). —Last term it was decided to read a modern English play instead of a French or German one. Bernard Shaw's Candi& ' was chosen and has proved very popular.

SHARP PRACTICE SOCIETY (President, MISS COOKE ; Secretary, Miss SMITH). —This venerable Society continues to flourish, and has discussed this term—' That novel reading is a useless and unprofitable employment' ; That Nature cannot be improved upon' ; That no peace was ever won from Fate by subterfuge or agreement' ; That Law in a free country ought to be the determination of the majority of those who have property in land.' Private Business has been, if possible, even more frivolous than usual, though frivolity has not been entirely restricted to this part of the meeting.

SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY (President, P. M. GWYNNE). --The Society has met this term to read Othello, a play which reads surprisingly well ; but the meetings have not been as regular as usual.

BROWNING SOCIETY (President, M. HOMERSociety, following a time-honoured custom, has diversified its meetings this term with selections. We have amused ourselves by reading St. Cecilia's Day by the side of Abt Vogler, and by passing from Shelley's lyrics to Gray and Collins. We have sulked with Empedocles on Etna, and soothed our siestas with the " idle singing of an empty day." Had we not stoutly abjured the garden, where Nature is at to outweigh Art on Sunday afternoon, it might have been idler— perhaps.

SHAM).—The

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (President, Miss JOURDA IN). —The Society has met this term to discuss the Philosophy of Bergson. The subjects chosen have been Change and Duration ' ; The Vital Impulse '; ' Knowledge and Perception ' ; Order and Disorder' ; The Cinematograph of Thought.'

Many of the members were able to attend Prof.

Bergson's two lectures on L'Id/e de Changement, and these have also been discussed.

BOAT CLUB (Captain-substitute,J. TUGWELL).— We regret the loss of the Captain elected for the

ST. HILDA'S HALL. DEBATING SOCIETY (President, C. CRAVEN ; Vice-Pres., D. ODLUM ; Secretary, D. WALKER ; Hall Member, G. Emar-SMITH).—There have been two meetings of the society this term. The first was held on May 13th, when the motion before the House was, " That sentiment is the curse of modern thought and politics." The motion was moved by Miss Cartwright in a short but interesting speech, and ably opposed by Miss Jones. The strong convictions that the House held on the subject of the motion were not apparent in Public Discussion, which was slight.

The motion was lost unanimously.

The second debate took the form of a Sharp Practice. The nature of the motion was such that few, if any, of the members of the House can have had any practical experience with regard to it.

Discussion, however, did not suffer from this lack of technical knowledge. On the contrary, the speakers displayed that sympathy and width of outlook that is sometimes claimed as woman's special attribute. Discussion was lively and eloquent, sometimes even rising to humour. The motion before the House was, " That it is better to be a knave than a fool." It is perhaps hardly necessary to add that it was lost by several votes.

THE FRITILLARY. BOAT CLUB (President, Miss KEELING ; Captain, Miss DONCASTER ; Vice-Captain, Miss BRAIN). —

This term has been one of the most successful known for at least four years. Members have obtained their captaincies with skill and great celerity—the first-years especially are to be congratulated in this respect.

The increase of interest and skill on the part of members is largely to be attributed to the " Eight," which necessitates of coune much greater skill and good work than the Four, and has thus caused more frequent work in the Four preparatory to rowing in the Eight. The following have been regular members of the Eight :Misses Nordenfelt, O'Loughlin, Ainslie, Jones, Odlum, Doudney, Winter, Doncaster, of which Miss Ainslie and Miss Jones (first-years) are especially to be congratulated at having qualified to row. It is only to be regretted that Miss Brain has unfortunately been prevented from rowing this term.

It is hoped that next year the standard of both rowing and punting will remain equally high, and that the silver cup promised to the most skilful puntist will amply justify its existence.

RIFLE CLUB ( Captain, E. M. HASLAM). —Attendance at the range this term has been very bad, owing to the heat, and the attractions of the Summer Term.

The Competition for the Silver Challenge Cup took place on Friday, June 2. The Cup was won

by E. M. Haslam with a score of 206 out of a possible 24o.

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as well as the canoe hired for the summer. At the beginning of the term the Rev. A. H. and Mrs. Johnson most kindly presented the Club with the very welcome gift of a sculling-boat, which has been named the ' Bertha,' and which is now permanently housed at the Cherwell Boat House.

The following have obtained their captaincy or half-captaincy this term :Punt: Miss Hope, Miss Murray (Captains): Miss Anderson, Miss Bartholomew, Miss Sandberg (half-Captains).

Canoe : Miss Dallas, Miss Hope, Miss Murray, Miss Purdon (Captains); Miss Anderson, Miss Bontecou, Miss Cruttwell, Miss Sandberg (halfCaptains). &miler : Miss Hope (Captain); Miss Lawson (half-Captain).

TENNIS CLUB.—A court has been hired for four days a week during this term.

The results of the matches played so far are :St. Hugh's, lost 6-2 ; 6—I. St. Hilda's, won 6-3 ; I-6 ; 6-4.

Somerville, lost 6-2 ; 6—i.

SHARP PRACTICE DEBATING SOCIETY. —NO

meetings have been held this term, since everybody has been too busy to come. We hope, however, to meet regularly, and in larger numbers next term.

HOCKEY CLUB.— Miss Anderson has been elected captain for next year.

OXFORD HOME STUDENTS. ROOM NOTICE. —A River Picnic was held on May zoth, with tea in the grounds of Cherwell Hotel. The almost unbroken warmth and sunshine we have enjoyed this term chose to collapse on that particular day, but the cold wind apparently did not chill the ardour of those who assembled.

We are now looking forward to an evening party to be given by Mrs. Johnson and Miss Quick in the Principal's garden on the last Wednesday of term.

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NEW STUDENTS.

Margaret Bontecou, Travelling Fellow from Bryn Maur College, U.S.A. Gei trud Bornemann, Sorbonne College de France.

Laura A. Hibbard, M.A., Wellesley College, U.S.A. Elizabeth Krauss, Realgymnasiurn, Strasburg.

Contance Prendergast, S. George's School, Hyderabad.

Olive Violet Prendergast, S.. George's School, Hyderabad.

Bertha Ratnsauer, Hohere Tiichterschule, Oldenburg.

Alice Luise Wilson, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, U.S.A, -

Cuus.—There have been many members this term, and the punt has been much in request, BOAT

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Sara Ackroyd, Anna Cathleen Ambrose, Winefrede E. V. Bindley, Margaret Bontecou, Gertrud S. Bornemann, Alice M. Butler, Edith M. Coulthard, Margaret B. Crook, Cicely M. Cruttwell, Caroline K. Cumming, M. G. M. Fitzpatrick (Sister Philomena Mary), Lillian M. Frazer, Charlotte 0. Garnett, Sara Goldman, Alice P. Gregg, Evelyn M. Huggard, Margaret E. F. Irwin, Elizabeth Krauss, Hortense Kriills, Gabrielle Lafontaine, Jessie L. Lowson, Hilda Matheson, Nora M. O'Connor, Nora M. O'Sullivan, M. U. PottsChatto (Mother Mary Elizabeth), Elena C. Ra-

dulescu, Bertha Ramsauer, Elfrida M. Robin, Irene M. Rope, C. M. May Schlich, Emily D. Scarborough, Mary A. Stenson, Dorothy A. Watkins, Anne White.

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