St Edmund Hall Magazine 1929-30

The block used for the small print of the Hall appearing on the cover is kindly lent by Mr. E. H. New, of 17 Worcester Place, Oxford, from whom the original engraving, IJ~ bv 12 inches in size, may be obtained, price one guinea.

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8R O THERST Oi\ EMDE:\, M.A.,

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ST. EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE. Vol. II. No.4路

DECEMBER, 1929.

EDITORS. 1929-30

H. F. GREEN, Editor.

A. F. CoLBORN, Asst. Editor.

DE PERSONIS ETREBUS AULA-RIBUS. OF THE PRINCIPAL.

N January 8 the Governing Body of the Queen's College, with whom rests the right of appointment, elected to the principa lshjp Mr. Alfred Brotherston Emden, M.A., Vice-Principal of the Hall.

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Mr. Emden, who came to the H all as Tutor in Modern History in January, 1919, on demobilization from the Navy, was appointed Bursar in Michaelmas Term, rgrg, and Vice-Principal in Michael- \ mas Term, 1920. He is the first Vice-Principal of the H all a nd the first layman to become Principal. He has, however, one distinction in common with his penultima te predecessor, the Bishop of Sherborne, and with the two previous Principals , the Bishop of Carlisle and Dr. Moore, as, on entering office, he was in years the youngest Head of a House in the Univet路sity.

In com.m emoration of his appointment members of the Junior Common 路Room presented the Principal with a silver cigarette box bearing the arms of the Hall.

The Principal has been appointed a Delegate of Local Examinations, al!id a Curator -of the Sheldonian Theatre.

OF THE L ATE PRINCIPAL.

In accordance with academical usage on the death of a Head of a House in office, a hatchment bearing _the arms of the Hall impaled with the personal arms of the l::i,te--路Principal was placed on the level of the second floor over the entrance to the Principal's Lodgings, where it remained for twelve months.

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Mrs. Cronshaw has kindly presented to the Hall about forty volumes from the late Principal's library. A book-plat~ commemorating the gift has b ee'n inserted in each volume.

OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S ORATION.

The Oration delivered by Dr. Pember in Convocation on October 8, on .the termination of his third year of office as ViceChancellor, contained two passages relating to the headship of the Hall :------< Deinceps deflendus est Georgius Bernardus Cronshaw, Artium Magister, Collegii Reginensis Socius et nuper Bursarius, quem mense Octobri anni qui iam exactus est salutavimus a suo Collegio nominatum ut fieret Principalis Aulae Sancti Edmundi. Is nuper gravi valetucline impeditus erat, quae quum paullum remisisset, iterum ad negotia suscipienda accingebatur, pollicitus sibi Aulae Sancti Edmundi, sicut ante Co\Iegii Reginensis necnon Nosocomii RadcliH:iani, negotiis totum se pro virili parte largiturum. Heu ! :.pes failaces ! l\Iense enim Deccmbri itcrum ingravesccnte valetudine oppressus, morte praematura obiit, vir impiger, hilaris, laborum patientissimus. . . .

In locum Georgii Bernardi Cronshaw, quem ante deflevi, electus est Principalis Aulae Sancti ' Edmundi Aluredus Brothers ton Emden, Artium Magister, antea Vice-Principalis , vir notus pietate et fide erga Aulam suam, Bursarius spectatissimus, Historiaeque eiusdem Aulae conscriptor luculentissimus.

OF THE BISHOP OF SHERBORNE.

It should have bee~ recorded in the last issue of the M,agazine that the gift of a pectoral cross and episcopal ring made to Dr. Allen by members of the Hall on his appointment as Bishop of Sherborne was followed by a gift of a water-colour drawing of the Quadrangle as viewed from the Principa)'s Lodgings, painted by Mr. Wilfrid R. Wood.

OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE HALL.

In place of the late Dr. vVells, sometime Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Wadham, to whose memory we pay tribute elsewhere in theM agazine, the Hebdomadal Council has appointed Sir Walter - R. Buchanan-Riddell, Bart., Principal of Hertford, to be a Trustee of the Hall. \Ve would assure the Principal of Hertford that we congratulate ourselves on his appointment.

OF THE VICE-PRINCIPAL.

In Hilary Term the Principal appointed the Rev. John Sainsbury Brewis, M.A., to be Vice-Principal and Tutor of the Hall.

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He did not take up his duties as Vice-Principal until Michaelmas Term, as he was not able to relinquish his work at Eton before the end of the school year.

To all Aularians who know his father, Mr. G. R. Brewis, Senior T utor of the Hall, the new Vice-Principal needs no introduction. Like his father, he was educated at E.ton and Hertford College. At Eton he was equal first for the Rosebery History Prize. At Hertford College he was elected to an Open Scholarship in Modern History. He won a H alf-Blue for the Long Jump in 1922, and was a member of the Committee of the O.U.A.C. from 1922 to 1925 . . He obtained a First in the Final Honour School of lVIodern History in 1925. In the latter year he was elected to a Henry P. Davison Scholarship, which enabled him to spend a year in post-graduate study at Princeton University. On his return from the United States in 1926 he went to Cuddesdon College; he was ordained deacon in Jun e, 1927, and priest the following year.

In September, 1927, he went to Eton as an assistant master.

All Aularians will agree that no more welcom e appointment to the Vice-Principalship could have been made. In thei r name we would convey to the Vice-Principal the most cordial of Aularian greetings.

The Vice-Principal has been appointed an Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Carlisle.

OF THE BURSARSHIP.

The Principal has resumed the duties of Bursar for the present.

OF A NEW TUTOR.

In Michaelmas Term the Principal appointed l\1r. Herbert James Hunt, M.A., Lecturer in French at Exeter Coll ege and at the H all, to be a Tutor of the Hall. Mr. Hunt came up to Magdalen College as a Deroy in Modern History in 1919. He obtained a Second in the Final Honour School of Modern Hi story in 1922, and a First in that of Modern Languages (French) in 1923. In the latter year he was elected to a Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship in French. After a few years as a schoolmaster he came back to Oxford from Durham School in 1927 to take over tutorial work which Professor E. G. Waters relinquished on his appointment to the Chair of the Romance Languages.

We extend to Mr. Hunt on behalf of a ll Aularians the very c01¡dial greetings of the H all.

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The congratulations of the Hall are due : To E. L. G. Powys on being placed in the First Class in the Final Honour School of Modern Languages (Spanish and French), and on being elected a Senior Exhibitioner of the Hall. H e would have been elected to a Laming Travelling Fellowship at the Queen's College if he had not withdrawn his candidature on deciding to offer himself for ordination and missionary work. Candidates for these Fellowships must have the intention of entering the Foreign Office or the Diplomatic or Consular Services.

To all other members of the Hall who ab examinatoribus honore digni sunt habi¡t i, especially to the following who were placed in the Second Class in their respective Honour Schools: J. E. Beswick (Hon. Classical Moderations); P. G. Higgs (Chemistry, Part II); P. G. 'Espinasse (Zoology); L. C. Baber, K. M. Bishop (Th eology) ; T. C. H eritage, K. A. Muir (English Language and Literature); A. W. Henderson, C. R. Hiscocks, A. F. Lee, T. V. Nicholson, A. E. Smith, J. A. Smith, G. W. Thornhill, E. Urry, and P. L. J. Westcott (Modern History).

To F. R. H. Murray on his election to a H eath Harrison Travelling Scholarship in French.

To J. L. Tadman on his election to a Goldsmiths' Company's Exhibition for Modern History.

To J. C. W. Ludlow, B.A., on being awarded a Diploma and Certificate in Geography, with merit in Part II, and on being made a special award from the Herbertson Memorial Fund for meritorious work done in the examination for the Herbertson Prize.

To C. F . Cardale on representing the University against Cambridge in Rugby Football.

To N. C. Moses on running Cross-Country for the University against Cambridge, and on winning the One Mile and the 6oo Yards Handicap in the Seniors' Sports.

To C. J. Mabey on representing the University in the Relay Races (4 miles) against Cambridge, on winning the One Mile in the Freshmen's Sports, and on being elected to the Centipedes.

To A. E. Smith on his election as President of the Oxford University Chess Club and on representing the University against Cambridge at Chess a third year.

To Brewster Morgan on his election as President of the 0. U .D. S. and on his memorable production of Othello.

To A. W '. U. Roberts on playing Rugby Football for the University.

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ToR. Waye on being elected to the Centaurs.

ToW. W. E. Giles on being elected to the Occasionals.

To R. C. Thomas 6n being elected to the Occasionals.

To lVL J. V. Print, W. W . J. Bolland, J. C. Yates, H. E. Pegg and S. A. R. Guest on their performance in the Clinker Fours.

To A. W. H enderson on his convincing rendering of the parts of the Tapster a nd the Sergeant in Th e Knight of th e Burning P estle, by Beaumont and Fletcher, which was given in Magdalen College Grove during Commemoration Week.

To the Cricket XI on winning I I matches out of r6, to the Rugby Football XV on winning Io m a tches out of 14, to the Association Football XI on winning I I matc hes out of Ip, to the Hockey XI on winning IS matches o~t of Ig, and to their respective captains, K. C. Oliver, J. N. C. Holland, 0. C. Trimby, and W. W. E. Giles on their successful captaincy-a memorable record.

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THE SCHOOLS.

HILARY TERM, I929.

I n Schola Literarum Graecarum et Latinarum: Class II, Beswick; Class III, F. Yates.

Exaininatoribus Satisjecerunt: Gratt p E, J. C . Toland.

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TRINITY TERM.

In Scientiis Mathematicis et Physicis : Class III, R. S. Robinson.

In Scientia Naturali: In Chemia (Pa·rt II), Class II, P. G. Higgs; in Zoologia, Class II, P. G. 'Espinasse. · In Sacra Theologia: Class II , L. C. Baber, K. M. Bishop; Class III , A. S. Chandler; Class IV, Ll. P. Burnett, D. E. M. G. Jones ; .4egrotat, G. E . Janson-Smith.

In Literis Modemis: Class I, E. L. G. Powys (Span. and Fr.), with distin ction in conversational Spanish ; 1 Class III, F. H. Trott (Germ. and Fr.).

In Literis .4nglicis: Class II, T. C. Heritage, K. A. Muir; Class III, R. W. Britton, Vv. Johnson; Class IV, D. L. Bird, W. V. Brelsford.

In Schola Philosophiae, Politicae, et Oeconomiae: Class III, J. M. Knowles, J. M. Scutt.

In Historia J"l,foderna- : Class II, A. W. Henderson, C. R. Hiscocks, A. F. Lee, T. V. N icholson, A. E. Smith, J. A. Smith, ' G. W. Thornhill, E. Urry, P. L. J. Westcott; Class III, W. F. Cummings, M.. M. Hawes, D. M. John, R. H. Thorne.

In Schola Disciplinarum Mathematicarum: Class III, C. E. Passey, M. J. V. Print.

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Exmninatoribus Satisfecerunt: Group A .3, J. E . T. Phillips; Group B.r; C. F. Cardale, F. S . W. Simpson; Group B.2, K. C. Oliver; Group B.6, R. H. Barff, E. P. Carter.

Diploma in Theology: S. A. C. Dickens, B.A. Diploma. and Certificate in Geography: J. C. W. Ludlow, B.A., with merit in Part II. Examination in the Theory, History and Practice of Education: L. G. Hayward, B.A., F. G. Roberts, B .A., B. J. RushbySmith, B.A. MICHAELMAS TERM.

E xaminatoribus Satisfecerunt: .G roup A .3, J. C. Toland; Grottp B. r, W. W. E. Giles; Group B.6, K. C. Oliver. · OF A SENIOR ExHIBITIONER.

E . L. G. Powys, who was placed in the First Class in the Final Honour School of Modern Languages , has been elected a Senior Exhibitioner of the Hall. Mr. Powys obtained a Heath Harrison Travelling Schola rship in 1927 and in 1928, for Spanish and French respkti;ve;Jy, a Goldsmiths' Company's Exhibition in Spanish in 1927, and the De Osma Studentship in Spanish in 1928.

OF ExHrBITIONS. An examination, beginning on Tuesday, M'a rch 12, was held for the purpose of awa rding two Exhibitions in Modern Lang uages (Eng lish or French) of the annual valu~ of £40. As a result of this examination the following election was made :~ G. E. Price, Manchester Grammar School : French.

An examination, beginning on Tuesday, March 12, was also held for the purpose of awarding a Musica l Exhibition of the annu a l value of £35· As a result of this e:x;amination the following election was ~ade : v...r. W. S. March, Brighton College.

An examination, beginning on Tuesday, April 23, was held for the purpose of awarding two Exhibitions in Classics and Mod~ rn History of the annual value of £40. As a result of this examination th e following elections were made : N. G. Fisher, Cardiff Hig h School: Modern History.

S. A. R. Guest, Liverpool College : Classics.

Th e Exhibition Examinations for 1930 will be held as follows : On Tuesday, March 25, and the two following clays for the purpose of awarding two Exhibitions in Modern Languages (English or French) of th e a nnual value of £4o.

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On Tuesday, March 25, and the two following days for the purpose of awarding two Exhibitions in Classics and Modern History of the annual value of £4o.

OF A NEw BooK oF BENEFACTORS.

A beginning has been made with a new Book of Benefactors.

The good custom of recording the gifts and benefactions made to the H a ll, which Dr. Tullie instituted during his principalship (1658·-1676), was allowed to lapse abo ut 1855, since when the fine Caroline Book of Benefactors of the Hall has fallen into disuse.

The Principal has decided that the eleven blank sheets of parchment remaining in this Book should be left unused, and that a new Book as worthy of its object as the old should be begun. For this purpose he has enlisted the services of Mr. Grailey Hewitt, tha n whom there is no finer artist in h andwriting in England to-day.

Beginning with the year 1913 ~the earliest year for which the Principal has been able to find .records- Mr. H ewitt has brought the record of gifts and benefactions down to the year 1927. It is the intention of the Principal that the record shall be brought up to elate year by year. At present the vellum sheets are being left loose. The Principal has h a d m ade an oak show-case of late _:;eventeenth century design to contain the old Book of. Benefactors and the new. This has been placed in the Ante-Chapel.

OF A PoRTRAIT oF THE BISHOP OF CARLISLE.

Vve welcome the g ift which m embers of the Aularian Association have made to the Hall of a portrait ·in oils of the Bishop of Carlisle (Principal 19IJ- rgzo) by Mr. Richard Murry. The portrait has been hung in the Dining-Hall.

DE DONIS.

In addition to the gifts recorde'cl elsewhere 111 the Magazine, the best thanks of the Hall a re du e to the following do'n ors for gifts to the Hall:To Mr. F. R. Lee for his gifts of a portrait in oils of his fath er, Dr. F . G. Lee (matric. 1851), and of a large Burmese silver bowl.

To the Rev. R . Edwards for his gift of a coloured copy of the lithograph engraving of the Quadrangle by N. Whittock, published in r8zg, as an illustration to A Top ographical and Historical Descriptio11J of Oxford.

To the Rev. H. E. Salter, Fellow of Magdalen College, for th e gift of his magnificent volume of Oxford Charters recently pub-

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lished, being facsimiles of early charters in Oxford Muniment Rooms.

To the Rev. F. A . J. L amb for his gift of ÂŁ4 to be expended on books.

To Mr. A. L. Clegg for his gift of one guinea to be expended on books.

To Mr. G. P. W. Lamb for his gift of de Ruggiero's European Liberalism.

To Mr. C. R. Hiscocks for his gift of the theological and religious works of Dean Inge.

To Mr. F. S. W. Simpson for his gift of Maitland's Constitutional History of England.

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O.U.O.T.C.

The number of members of the Hall serving in the University Officers' Training Corps at the end of the academica l year was eight. In the Cavalry Unit, VV. V. Brelsford, C. R. Hiscocks and l\1 . J. V. Print are reported on as 'all keen, working members.'

A similar report is made of A. W . Henderson, J. R. Ormiston and R. E.. Walker in the Artillery and of R. M. Parker in the Infantry Unit. J. E. Marfell in the Sig-nalling Unit is particularly commended as being' quite exceptionally keen, capable and knowledgeable.' In Michaelmas Term he was agai n a member of the Oxford team in the competition against Cambridge.

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CoNFERENCE.

We are g lad to learn f rom the Toe H Journal for October that the Fifth Annual Con fe rence wh ich was held at the Hall from August 24 to zg ' met under idea l conditions.' We h ave authority for reciprocating that 'Tubby ' and his family made ideal conferencers. How intimately they caught the spirit of the Hall may be judged from the account given in the Journal, part of which we quote. 'The accommodation exactly fitted the members of the Conference. Each member had his set of rooms-a " sitter " and a "bedder "-looking out on the green lawn of the qua d, where all daylight sessions, grouped round St. Edmund's own twelfth century well, were held. They ate all their meals in the panelled dining hall, beneath the portraits of benefactors throu g h the centu r ies; they worshipped twice or thrice a clay in the quiet and beautiful little chapel, w ith its cedar panelling, its deep stalls and 1ts light tempered by the earl iest glass with which Burne Jones enriched Oxford. Lying under the trees on the grass on sunny morn-

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ings to do business , sitting together for evening sessions m a smoke cloud in the fifteenth century Junior Common Room, continuing th eir "committee-work'' or discussing private problems by twos or tht-ees in each oth er's rooms late into the night, in all they were completely at h ome. ' In recognition of the special privilege that was given them of meeting in conclave on our sacrosanct grass-plot, they amassed in the course of their m eetings a pile of daisy-roots, prised out with diligent penknives. As a more enduring memento of their visit they have joined in presenting to the H all a silver salt-cell a r, pepper-castor and mustard-pot. These very fri endly g ifts have been .duly inscribed; the last piece b ears the words :Like a g rain of mustard seed ,' to remind those who use it that these gifts to the Hall com e fr om the mustard seed of Toe H, which indeed has b ecom e a great tree. Before the Conference ended, the Principal w~s asked that it mig ht m eet a t the Hall again ne xt year.

OF ST. EDM U ND's D AY .

At Dinn er in Hall on St. Edmund's Day (Saturday, Novem ber r6) the toast of Floreat Aula was proposed by Dr. F. W. Pember, vVarden of All Souls, lately Vice-Chancellor, one of the Trustees of the Hall.

I n explaini ng the f unctions of a T ru stee of the H all , the Warden exp ressed the hope that his duties and r esponsibilities mig ht becqm e more on erous than they were a t present. The H all, he said, was ripe for benefaction : there h ad been no more remarkable phenomenon in Oxford since 'the vVar than the growth and success of the Hall. He spoke very appreciatively of the Principals under w hom that prog ress had been made. He referred sympathetically to the loss which th e Hall ha d sustained by the dea th of its late Principa l after so brief a tenure of offic e. He embarrassed the present Principal by his very cordial references to his appointment. â&#x20AC;˘ In thanking the Warden for hi s speech, the Principal voiced the plea sure of the H a ll in having this opportunity of welcoming one who for many yea rs h ad p roved him self an active and influenti al friend of the Hall. H e extended a welcom e to the other g uests present. He endorsed the t ribute which the Warden h ad m ade to the memory of Mr. Crans haw, and a lso referred to the loss of a very good friend which th e H all, in common with the whole University, had s uffered through the death of Dr. Wells, sometime Vice-Chancellor and Ward en of W a dham, one of the Trustees of

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the Hall. He referred appreciatively to what the Warden h ad said of the indebtedness of the Hall to the work of the Bishops of Carlisle and Sherborne as Principals, and went on to say that for his own part he agreed with the belief expressed by the Senior Tutor at a recent meeting o.f the J.C .R. that the Hall had a secret, inexplicable to strangers, a n indefinite attraction, which it exerted over . its members from their first term onwards in an increasing degree. He recounted the very satisfactory record of the H a ll in the Schools, and congratulated the teams concerned upon th e very noteworthy beginning to the new academical year that had been made in the m atches already played. Sixteen colleges had been beaten ·in one game or another.

In addition to. m embers of the Hall in residence, there were present the Right Rev. Bishop Wild, the Rev. J . W. C. Wand, Mr. H. M. Margoliouth, Mr. T . F . Higham and the R ev. H. Livesey .

An Aularian dinner was given at No. 9 The Close, Salisbury, under the auspices of the Bishop of Sherborne and the Rev. T . K. and Mrs. Allen, at which there were present the Rev. F . McGowan, Mr. J. J. G. Walkinton, Mr. D. E. Havergal, Mr. J. B. Allan, Mr. S. A . € . Dickins and Mr. H. H. Hook.

A Cambridge gathering also took place within the octave, there being present Mr. L. C. Baber, Mr. A. S. Chandler and Mr. J. A. Smith.

DE ALMA UNIVERSITATE.

By a decree of Congregation passed on December 3, the Curato rs of the University Ch est were authorized to pay to the Principal for the general purposes of the Hall the sum of £soo a year for fi ve years as fr om the firs t clay of Michaelmas Term, 1929. By this decree the University r enews fo r a further period of five yems the aid which it~-rant ecl to the Hall five years ago. On this occasion , as in 192 4, the decree was proposed in Congregation by the Hall's very good friend and Trustee, Dr. F. W. Pember, W arden of All Souls. In moving the decree , the Warden made handsome reference to the record of the Hall in the Schools and in at hletics during recent years . It has b een poin ted · out before in the Maga.zine how invaluable to the Hall is this substantial token of the University's concern for its welfare. All Aularians will welcome with g ratitude the continued g en erosity of th e University towards its 'o nly surviving Hall.

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OF SERMONS IN CHAPEL. The visiting preachers in Chapel Archdeacon Rawlinson on February Knight-Adkin , Chaplain of the Fleet, Canon Mowll, Rector of St. Aldate's,

during 1929 were the Ven. 24; the Venâ&#x20AC;˘. Archdeacon on March 10; and the Rev. O xford , on May 19.

OF THE NEw LIBRARY. W. V. R eynolds has succeeded R. H. Thorne as Librarian.

O F NUMBERS .

There were m residence in Michaelmas Term 12 Bachelors of Arts and 101 undergraduates. The total numbet¡ of members in residence was two less than in the same term last year : the number of freshmen admitted .was 39, which is a record, but so also was the exodus at the end of Trinity Term, when 10 graduates and 30 undergraduates went out of residence.

During the Easter Vacation alte r ations were made in the Principal's Lodgings so as to enable three undergraduates to be billeted there.

OF THE J. C.R . .The officers of the J. C.R. elected for the academical year 19291930 are: P1'esident, M. J . V . Print; Steward, A. J. Phillips.

J. M. Edmonds has been appointed Junior Treasurer of the Ama lgamated Clubs.

OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF. The Editorial Staff has presented to the Library the seven volumes so far published of the Opus Epistolarum Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, edited by the President of Corpus and Mrs. Allen.

This ed ition of the letters of Erasmus is a monument o.f English scholarship and a great undertaking for the Clarendon Press. It has been the practice of the Editors of the Mag,azine from time to time to make some contribution to the Library from such profits of the Magazine as accrue. Our policy is to help the Library by making gifts of a kind that it could not afford in the ordinary way .

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THE INSTITUTION OF THE PRINCIPAL. N Thursday afternoon, January 17, the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. F. W. Pember, formally instituted Mr. A. B. Emden, Vice-Principal of the Hall, to the office of Principal. At 2.25 p.m. the Vice-Chancellor, accompanied by the Proctors and the Registrar of the University, proceeded to the Hall of the Queen's College. There the Pro-Provost, the Rev. E. M. Walker, presented to him the sealed Instrument of Appointment, on behalf of the Governing Body of the College. Procession was then made to the Hall of St. Edmund Hall; first the Vice-Chancellor, the Proctors and the Registrar, preceded by a Bedel, then the Pro-Provost and Mr. Emden, followed by the Fellows of the Queen's College. In the Dining Hall, where the Vice-Chancellor presided, the Instrument of Appointment was read by the Registrar. The Pro-Provost then formally pre~ented Mr. Emden to the Vice-Chancellor, who thereupon formally admitted him to the Principalship. The ViceChancellor then entered the Principal's name in the Buttery Book of the Hall and signed the entry; this was countersigned by the Pro-Provost of Queen's and the Registrar of the University. This having been done, the Principal signed the Inventory of the Plate of the Hall, and the proceedings then terminated. Owing to the recency of the death of the late Principal, the usual invitation~ to Heads of Houses and other members of the University were not issued.

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EIGHTS WEEK CONCERT. IVEN that six is the number of months that have elapsed since the concert, and that six is the number of miles to the nearest copy of the programme, it is required to produce a report of the concert. Let memory solve the problem; she will at least show faithfully what has left the strongest impression. vVe recollect that F. H. Trott began with trifles as hors d' oeuvres (culinarily perhaps an inept metaphor for trifles). They were chiefly modern-musical trifles usually are. And on the whole we felt that Trott gives us more of himself in bigger things. The other pianist was G. S. Walmsley, who felt the exacting strain of a Rhapsody, but played it especially well in a more confident repetition- by request.

We had Elizabethan Songs from R. C. Thomas and modern songs from C. I. Record. Thomas gave his with the right simpli-

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ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE city of treatment and clear tone ; it was a relief to hear such things sung without the inappropriate pseudo-dramatic tricks and slaughtered rhythms of the self-obtrusive professional. Incidentally, Quilter's setting of ' 0 Mistress Mine,' incautiously produced as an encore, lost heavily on points in immediate contrast with the true Elizabethan spirit. Record was the great find of the evening. The songs from Somervell's settings of poems from 'A Shropshire Lad' were given in just the right spirit; so, too, was Vaughan Williams' treatment of two of Stevenson's lyrics.

We hope that Record regretted (as we did) that the audience should have asked for 'Linden Lea' to be repeated; Vaughan Williams himself would surely writh'e at the choice.

The Hall Quartet produced two adaptations of works by Robert Jones, and sang them most adequately. The Musical Society gave folk songs , enjoying them and making them enjoyable. And, of course, there were folk dances by the Oxford Side. Some, we hear, affect now to scorn folk-dancing, to call it ungraceful : this, from the jazzers, is surely odd. The healthy liveliness of the Oxford Side, at any rate, subdues all criticism.

It only remains for us, like an author finishing his preface, to express our regret for any inadvertent omissions of acknowledgements due. One more fact at least must be recorded : it was the first Eights Week programme provided entirely from within the Hall. We modestly suppress what would have been our last sentence.

R.W.F.

THE CENTENARY OF HENRYPARRY LIDDON, D.O., D.C.L. BORN AUGUST 20, 1829.

MEETING to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Henry Parry Liddon was held in the Hall of Christ Church on the afternoon of Tuesday in Commemoration Week, June 2s.

It had been decided that a proposal should be made at this meeting to raise a Liddon Centenary Memorial for the formation of a Liddon Exhibition Fund at St. Edmund Hall, where as VicePrincipal Dr. Liddon laid the foundation of his Ox'ford fame, and the establishment of a Centenary Fund for furthering¡ the work of Liddon House, which was founded to perpetuate the memory of Dr. Liddon in London. Both the proposed memorials were thought . to be particularly appropriate as commemorating the remarkable influence that Dr. Liddon exerted in Oxford and in London over

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the younger generation during the thirty years between his return to Oxford as Vice-Principal of the Hall in r8sg a nd his d.eath in r8go. T he Hall was fortunate in securing the Bishop of Sherborne to speak on behalf of a Liddon Exhibition Fund for the Hall. It was arranged that Lord Hugh Cecil should represent Liddon House, but at the last moment Parliamentary duties prevented him from coming, and his place was taken by the \!Varden of Liddon House, Canon . Underhill. , It was .a very well attended meeting. The seats were so arranged that the audience faced the portrait of Dr. Liddon, which h a ng!i by the fireplace on the right hand side of the Hall. The Dean of Christ Church, Dr. White, presided.

In introducing the speakers, the Dean referred to his own earliest recollections of Dr. Liddon : how as a schoolboy he used to wait in the crowd outside the north transept of St. Paul's for at least half-an-hour before the service began, and was frequent ly carried off his feet by the press of people as soon as the doors opened. 'I imagine there is no one alive novv,' said the Dean, 'who could create such excitement, and certainly in the far smaller Cathedral of Christ Church I have never seen such a phenomenon take place, not even on those Sundays when it is announced that the Dean is going to preach.'

Bishop Talbot was the first speaker. ' I suppose th a t I owe the task you have laid upon me to my antiquity,' and with this beg inning he launched happily into reminiscence. ' By reason of my antiquity ,' he told us, 'I have heard Dr. Liddon's sermons in St. Mary's, lived next to him in Tom Quad., been a fellow member of t he same Senior Common Room, and, I doubt not, from a similarity of tastes, have joined w ith him in playing with th e Common Room cat.' The substance of his speech has since ap peared in print in the article which he contributed to the Centenary Memoir.

It was a speech admirably s uited to the occasion. 'I might have spoken,' he said in conclusion, 'of higher and greater things, but I have tried to speak of what, perhaps, others could not give you.

When I remember his vivid personality, the splendour and fire of his speech, and still more his vivid, constant sense of things eternal, the unseen, the fLiture, death, the Divine Presence, when I think of all that, th en I am grateful for this opportunity, and I feel the importance on m y part of attempting to use it.'

The Bishop of Sherborne spoke next. ' I have the honour,' he said, ' to speai{ this afternoon as a member of a ' younger generation which is i'n capable' of r em iniscence, at least on the subject on which we are gathered here. But I welcome the opportunity, if I

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may so put it, on behalf o£ the younger people, of paying a tribute to the memory of Dr. Liddon, and of saying a word in recognition of the gracious influence which his personality as well as his written words still exercise upon us younger Englishmen. You, Mr. Dean , have suggested to us, and you, my lord, have followed the suggestion up, that Liddon was a great man and a g;-eat orator. May I without impertinence say that he impresses us also as a great priest? He was a great man and a great Oxford man.

I suppose, though I have no i·ight to say it, that there can have been few men so well loved in our University, and few whose influence and power for good has been more greatly or widely felt.

I may say that we of the Salisbury diocese count it as one,.of our proudest privileges that he was once chaplain to our ' Bishop Hamilton, that he held one of the stalls of .our Cathedral, and that some of his greatest sermons were preached there and in our dear abbey church of Sherborne. I read again this morning a sermon from his Clerical Life and Work, entitled 'The example of Christ and the strength of his Ministers,' and I could not help being impressed once more with the marked note of certitude which sounds through that as through all his utterances, a certitude which in these days we sometimes miss.' The Bishop then went on to speak of Dr. Liddon's work and influence in Oxford, beginning with his appointment as Vice-Principal of St. Edmund Hall in r85g. ' His Vice-Principalship does not mark a very long period in his Oxford life, but it was a period during which he laid the foundations of the marvellous influence for good which he was to .exercise here and in London far more widely than he knew. In those clays St. Edmund Hall was about one-fifth of its present size. Among the heirlooms guarded by the Principal of that Society are the MSS. of Liddon's sermons preached in St. Edmund Hall Chapel. It is very moving to anyone who has seen these MSS. to notice that the sermons were written out with the same care, the same 'b eautiful hand, the same precision, almost uncorrected, as those which he preached to the multitudes later. His congregation then could hardly ever have exceeded twenty. But while his sphere of work at St. Edmund Hall was in one sense small, it was while he was there that he began those Sunday evening lectures t,o which Bishop Talbot has alluclecl. They started in his ~wn room, then moved to the Dining Hall, then, when that became too small, to Queen's College, and thence · to this magnificent hall· where we have been so kindly welcomed this afternoon. There may be several in this room who heard those lectutes. It is, perhaps, almost as remarkable that Liddon should have been able to gather to this hall four

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hundred men Sunday after Sunday of an evening as that he should have attracted those crowds to St. Paul's. Perhaps some of us are inclined to think there is nobody who could do it now, and to wish some successor in th at sense might be found.

His memory is treasured with us of St. Edmund Hall; but we have no worthy memorial of that formative period of his great car eer which he spent w ithin our walls. London has its Liddon House, the University has its Liddon Studentship, Keble College has its Liddon Chapel and Cuddesdon its Liddon Building. 1 would, therefore, greatly daring, ve nture to m ake a suggestion.

All those who are really interest ed in and devoted to the welfare of the Church are exercised and rathe r more than exercised in mind on the subject of the supply of ordination candidates. In this morning ' s Times there appeared an admirable letter in wh ich was put fo rward the quite incontestable view that in this matter a little practical work is worth a deal of talk. Now would it be possible as an outcome of our meeting to ventilate th e idea of a fund for ordination cand idates at S t . Edmund Hall m memory of Dr. Liddon, to enable m en who have the vocation to come and bring it towards fruition in the place where he worked and helped m an y to prepare them selves for the Ministry, and m any more to ¡ prog ress in the spiritual life? It is one of the traditions of w hich we of the Hall are proud that for well over six hu'ndred years th e H all has been sending men into th e sacred Ministry. Even during these last ten lean years that supply has .neither stopped nor decreased. It may perhaps interest you to know that from rg rg to the present year, th at is during th e post-war period of the g reatest difficulty, there have been eighty men who have gon e from St. Edmund Hall into the Ministry, and that at the present t ime there are thirty-five- about one-third of the wh ole Society-looking forward to ordination. S o perhaps the suggestion I have just thrown out will not seem to be entirely devoid of fitness. I m ay , perhaps, venture just this further. It does make a great difference to a man w ho is preparing for ordination that he should live in a Society which has long centuries of tradition behind it, in a Society where he will meet all sorts and conditions of r elig ious opinion. And I would like to add that, personally, I cannot imag ine any r ecognition of the great ma n, the great orator a nd the great priest whom w e are gathered to honour which would be more in accordance with his ideals and w hich would promote more effectively those principles for which he gave himself throughout his life, th ose principles which were to him the breath of life itself.

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gratitude for his life and work than in some such way as I have ventured to suggest. And so I will conclude, hoping that what I have tried to say may have shown the veneration I feel for this great Englishman, one of the fairest flowers of our priesthood in . the last century, and I ask you to consider as favourably as you can the practical suggestion I have dared to throw out.'

The Warden of Liddon House, who followed, explained the work and the needs of Liddon House, Mayfair, which since its foundation has been in touch with a continuous stream of young men of the professional classes in London.

After the conclusion of the meeting, tea was served in the Senior Common Room.

No more suitable place could have been found for this commemoration than the great Hall of the House of which Dr. Liddon was a student for forty-four years. There will be many besides those present that afternoon who will feel glad and grateful that by the hospitality of the Governing Body of Christ Church this meeting was held there. To the Dean special thanks are due for the kindly and ready way in which he facilitated its arrangement.

The proposals for a Centenary Memorial !O Dr. Liddon were put forward in a letter to The Times which appeared on August 17, three days before Liddon's birthday. The letter had the support of the signatures of Sid Walter Buchanan-Riddell, Bart., Principal of Hertford, the Bishop of Carlisle, Lord Hugh Cecil, Bishop Gore, Lieut.-Colonel Francis Meynell, D. S. 0., the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Sherborne, Bishop Talbot, the Warden of Liddon House, and the Dean of Christ Church. Dr. Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, wrote later and asked that he might be associated with the signatories to this letter.

In September the~e appeared a Centenary Memoir, published

by Messrs. A. R. Mowbray and Co. It is hoped that this Memoir may not only serve as a centenary tribute to the memory of Dr. Liddon, but also may help to make known as widely as possible the two memorials that were being raised in his honour. It contains an article in appreciation of Dr. Liddon by the Rev. W. M. Whitley, Chaplain of Liddon House, an account of Dr. Liddon's associations with Christ Church by the Bishop of Oxford. Bishop Talbot has contributed some recollections, and Dr. Darwell Stone, Principal of Pusey House, a study of Dr. Liddon as a preacher.

To these I added a brief account of Liddon's Vice-Principalship at the Hall. Besides these biographical articles there is included a sermon, hitherto ¡ unpublished, which Liddon preached on St. Edmund of Abingdon in the Chapel of the Hall on November 17,

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r86r, 'unquestionably,' says the reviewer of this little book in the Church Times, 'the most interesting document in this volume.'

It is nearly forty years since Dr. Liddon died. Those who are still able to say that as undergraduates they heard him preach at St. Mary's must be close on sixty years of age. Nevertheless, the response so far made to the Centenary Memorial Appeal has been more substantial than I at least had dared to expect. And certainly no tribute could be more eloquent of the abiding impression which this remarkable man made upon those who came within the range of his influence than that of the many letters which I have received since first the proposal for these memorial funds was published, telling me of the associations with him that prompted the writers to contribute their tokens of esteem.

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THE VICE-PRINCIPAL'S STUDY. ISCOVERIES were made during the Long Vacation in Rooms No. 23 and No. z6 on No. 4 Staircase, as a result of which there, have been brought to light original decorative features of considerable interest. Many Aularians will have read the letter to The Times of October 30, in which I gave an account of these discoveries, and will have seen the photograph of the Vice-Principal's -study (Room No. z6), as now restored, which was published on tbe illustrated page of SThe Times on the following clay. But it is fitting that I should give here a fuller description of what has been found.

At the beginning of the Long Vacation instructions were given for the redecoration of the Vice-Principal's rooms and the double set of undergraduate's rooms (No. 23) on No. 4- Staircase. This involved the removal of all existing canvas and wallpaper and the rendering of the walls with plaster. On cutting away the canvas over the lintel of the door in the Vice-Principal's study (Room No. z6) that leads to the Vice-Principal's dining-room, there was revealed a painted wooden panel of late sixteenth or early seventee~th century design. Further stripping of the canvas disclosed the original elm board partition on the right hand side of this door and the original oak studding along the side of the room that ¡ borders on St. Peter's Churchyard. The removal of the mantelpiece and grate revealed the remains of the original stone-lined and stone-arched fireplace. Unfortunately, the moulding of the arch had been completely hacked away when first an iron grate was introduced. A few fragments of coloured decoration were

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traceable on the small portion of original plaster that was found on the chimney-breast.

The finding of the mutilated remnants of this fireplace and of the suggestion of coloured decoration above it put us on our guard when the time came to strip off the canvas in the room below.

Our hopes were well rewarded. On cutting away the canvas over the fireplace 'in Room No. 23 there appeared a large fragment of mural painting of the same period as the painted panel in the room above. On taking down the mantelpiece, there was found the original stone arched fireplace, severely defaced but with enough of its mouldings intact to enable drawings to be made for the working of an exact replica.

The removal of the canvas from the other walls of these two rooms did not lead t o any further discovery. But already enough had been found to make possible a reconstruction of the original decorative features of the rooms in this part of the HalL It was decided, therefore, to restore the Vice-Principal's study as nearly as possible to its original appearance, and for that purpose to remove there the fragment of mural painting found in the room below.

These discoveries may now be described in detail. The painted wooden panel over the door-lintel in the Vice-Principal's study shows a conventional design rough'ly executed on a white ground in two shades of green . p icked out in black, and consists of a cut-card pattern with two eagles on either side, each with a swag of fruit suspended from its beak. The framing of this panel was mottled red and edged with a black line. It was evident on examination that the panel is in its original position, and that at some time two or three inches of the lovver part of the panel were cut away in fixing a new door-frame : this has removed a small portion of the decoration. The uneven fitting of the upper piece of the frame in which the panel is set gives the impression that the framing¡ has slipped and obliterated part of the eagles' heads, but this is not so; on clost; inspection it was found that this unevenness was the result of carelessness in the original fitting of the wood-work, and is characteristic of the r a ther rough and ready fashion in which the whole work of construction was originally carried out at the first building of this part of the Hall. , Th e oak studding on' the north wall of the same room still bears ex tensive traces of the paint-'\vork v'l.i th which it was first decorated, that is, a yellow ground stained with blotches of reel and stippled all over with black. The patches from which the paint has flaked off show that the oak timbers were first dressed

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with a grey-coloured priming, poss ibly a mixture of lime and charcoal. And it is noticeable that wherever the original decorators found an opening in the timber they covered the crack with p ap er or some woven m ateria l and painted it over. The panels form ed by the oak studding¡ were filled with plaster laid on rent oak laths.

Excep t for one p anel, the upper one on the left ha nd side of the wall, the plaster-work was very dilapidated, and has had to be renewed. But an examination of as much of the old plaster-work as r emained showed that the. original decoration of the plaster panels had consisted of whitew~sh w ith a narrow striped border, either in green and black or in red and black. In order to res tore the room as completely as possible to its original appearance, oak-s tudding has b een fitted on the other walls, a nd plaster on rent oak laths inserted; these new plaster p anels have been dis- ' tempered and deco rated with coloured borders.

The removal of the fragm ents of mural p ainting from over the mantelpiece in Room No. 23 was a delicate operation. But, than ks to the genero us admixture of cow hair in the plaster, the operat ion was successfully carried out. The fragments discovered comprise the right-hand half of the original de sign . A plaster panel has been made incorporating th ese fragme nts a n d th is, with another panel of equal size, has b een affixed to the chimn ey-breast of the Vice-Principal's study. From what remained of the original d esign it has been possible to reconstruct almost the whole of it. It consists of two oval panels between p airs of columns , surmounted by a cornice and frie ze. The oval pa nels are coloured bottle-green , having the spandrels pink ~ith dark red ornamenta tion ; the shafts of the columns are black wi th strong high-lights in greyish white -; the capitals and bases are p icked out in yellow and brown to r epresent gold; the cornice is g reyish white with a frieze of light blu e w hich shows traces of h aving -had an ela borate des ig n p ainted on it in yellow and brown. The necessary restoration h as been carried out most skilfully in egg tempera by Mr. Alec Mille r, of Chipping Campden.

Underneath this pi ece of ri:mral pain ting' there has been erected a replica , in Farmington stone, of the Eliza b ethan stone-arch ed fir ep lace fo und in th e r oom below.

It m ay be claimed that special interest attaches to these find s, because, so far as is known, th ey comprise the only examples of mura l p ainting of the late Elizabetha n or early Stuart period that have been discovered in college rooms in Oxford . It is probable that ' water-work , of t h is description was qui te a usual form of deco rat ion for a college room , as it was in hostelries and private

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houses, during the reigns of Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts.

It had the advantage of being much cheaper than wainscot. But the re-plastering of walls for the reception of wall-paper seems to have been fatal to the survival of these mural paintings in Oxford Colleges and Halls.

The part of the Hall in which these discoveries have been made is believed to have been erected about the year r 596 by Principal Bousfield. It seems likely that all the rooms on the ground, first, and second floors on No. 4 and No. 5 Staircases originally contained stone-arched fireplaces and had their walls decorated in this way. I am told that in the course of repairs about 1914 the remains of a stone-arched fireplace similar to the one found in No. 23 room, but much mutilated, was seen behind the existing fireplace in one of the other rooms. To complete the restoration of the original decorative scheme in the Vice-Principal's study Mr. Miller has decorated the plaster panels over the other two doors of the room with designs in. the style of the original elm-:board panel over the door leading to the Vice-Principal's dining-room. In the panel over the door leading to the Vice-Principal's bedroom there has â&#x20AC;˘ been incorporated a small piece of painted plaster forming the centre spike of a cut card design which was found under the canvas above the staircase door of the Vice-Principal's study.

Pieces of the ceiling were removed in order to ascertain whether originally the joists had been exposed, but we found good evidence for concluding that the ,original ceiling, although a little higher than the present one, had been plastered all over, only , leaving the transverse beams exposed. When the beam over the fireplace was removed last year owing to its insecurity, traces of the original colour were found. This colouring has now been reproduced on its successor, with the only difference that no attempt has been made to reproduce the stippling in black on the parts of the beam that are painted red.

The Vice-Principal's study, restored as it is now as nea ~ly as possibl e to its original appearance, exhibits very pleasingly the simple but effective scheme of decorative treatment which it may be supposed all the rooms in this part of the Hall were given on their completion in the last years ¡of Elizabeth's reign.

The discoveries made in the course of the redecorarion of this room and the room below were not con:Qned to the Elizabethan or ' early Stuart pe riod. In the Vice-Principal's study the removal of the board forming the soffit of the bow window that gives on to the churchyard disclosed pieces of a green flock wall-paper adhering to the oak timbers above. These pieces were carefully re-

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moved~ Some of th em had suffered from damp, but one or two of the pieces, particularly a short length of border, are still remarkably fresh and unfaded. It has been possible to arrange most of these fragments so as to regain something of the origin a l pattern. Mr. C. C . Oman, of the Victoria and Albert Museum, who was formerly an Assistant in the Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and is the a uthor of the excellent Museum Catalogue of Wall-papers, considers that these are fragm ents of a flock-paper belonging to the year 1740 o r the1·eabouts. \tVith its wealth of highly conventionalized fruit·s , flowers and foliage the design was evidently one of those intended to imitate the Italian c ut velvets or brocades that were then fashionable for hangings . Little appears to b e known about the decoration of college rooms during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; the Victoria and Albert Museum only possesses one other fragment from Oxford of a flock wallpaper of the same period as ours, and that came from All Sou ls, where it was found in the lumber-room between the Hall an d the . Chapel. An examinatfon of the wall-papers removed from the walls of Room No. 23 brought to light some pieces of a paper of Indian design which Mr. O~an assigns to the year 1760 or thereabouts. • From a section of the canvas removed from the walls of the same room . I · soaked off as many as twelve d iffe rent wall-papers. As I do not know who was responsible for the· choice of wall-papers in Hall rooms twenty or thirty or forty years ago, I will reserve judgment on th.e range of papers disclosed. A few of the smaller pieces of the flock paper that cc)uld not be fitfed into th e pattern and a piece of the wall -paper of Indian design have been presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum ; but the fragments that can b e pieced together of the flock paper have been skilfully mounted at the Museum and will be preserved in the Hall.

The work of preservation and restoration in Rooms No . 23 and No. 26 has been carried out under the supervision of Mr. R. Fielding Dodd, F.R.I.B.A. It has not been an easy task; and we owe much to his sympathetic direction of the work and to his choice · of collaborators. I have a-lready referred to Mr. Alec Miller.

He left off holiday-makin g at St. Nicholas-at-\i\Tacle to come to the rescue of these fragil e dis.coveries . Confederated w ith him were Messrs. Pyment and Sons, builders of Chipping Camden. The succe~s which has attended this atte mpt to preserve for the Hall a unique relic of Tudor clays in academic Oxford is largely due to the lively interest taken in every detail of the work by those who we re engaged upon it.

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THE OLD LIBRARY. H E Library has received a very gen erous and acceptable gift from the Provost of the Queen's College. In re sponse to the Desiderata adve rtized in a former issue of the Magazine, Dr. Magrath has presented from his own library the five :works of Thomas H earne that we n eeded in order to complete our collection of H earne's publications. As these five a re among the scarcest of the chronicles and other r ecords which Hearne edited, the Provost's g ift is the more welcome.

I have been able to secure two more volumes that once had a place in H earne's own library . One is the second edition of J ohn Speed's The H isto rie of Great Britaine (r 62 3). It is inscribed: 'Suum. cuiqtte, Tho. H earne , Jan . ro, 1728.' The other is John W eever' s Ancient Fun emll Monuments within the United M onarchie of Great Britain (r 63 r ). In addi t ion to Hearn e' s signature, it has a slip inserted containing a m emorandum in H earne's hand of subscribers to one of his publications .

Another book by a former member of the Hall, with a personal association· a ttaching to it, has been added to the Library- a copy of the first edi tion of Sir Richard Blackmore 's Creation, w ith a n inscription on the title-page : 'Eliz. Ward given by the Author.'

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Dr. Aglionby, Queen's College, h as very kindly presented to the Library a copy of Sir Isaac vVake's Rex Platonicus , which gives an account of the visit of J ames I to O xford in August, r 6o5. This g ift has a special interest in that it record s the fact (p. 86) t hat Dr. Aglionby's a ncestor, Dr. J ohn Aglionby, Principal of the Hall, opened the theolog ical d ebate arranged fo r the King on that occasion , the s ub ject being: vVhether Angels have ears? It also contains a felicitous reference to the Hall (p. 223) as studiosorum Aula Sancti Edm.wuli nostri norn.ine cr m emoria insignis.

Including those given by the Provost of Queen's, the fo llowing books of Aularian interest have been presented to the Library during the year :~ From the ReV: the Provost of the Queen 's Co lleg e:~ HEARNE, Thomas (matt·ic. r 6gs)- ( r) A luredi Beverlacensis Annales . 8vo, Oxon., 1716. (z) Gulielmi R operi Vita D . Thomae lvfori, Equitis Aurati. 8vo, Oxon., 1716.

(3) H emingi · Chartu.larium Ecclesiae Wigorniensis. 2 vols.

L arge 8vo, Oxon., 1723.

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(4) I oannis Confratris & M onachi Glastoniensis Chronica.

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vols. 8vo, Oxon., 1726. (s) .4dwrn de Domerham Historia de rebus ge·stis Glastoniensibus. 2 vols. Svo, Oxon., 1727.

From the Rev. Dr. F. K. Aglionby : vVAKE, Sir Isaac-Rex Platonicus: si'L>e, De Potentissimi Principis Jacobi, Britanniarum Regis, adillustrissimam Academicam Oxoniensern ad11entu, Aug. 27, An. r6os. 4th Edn. I 2mo, Oxon., r627.

From the Principal : BLACKMORE, Sir Richard (matric. r66g)- (r) Creation, a Philosophical Poem in Seven Books. rst Edn. Svo, London, 1712.

(2) A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. Svo, London, 1718.

(3) Redemption, a Divine Poem, in Six Books, the three first demonstrate the Truth of the Christian Religion, the three last the Deity of Christ; to •which is added, a Hymn to Christ the Redeemer. rst Edn. Svo, London, 1722.

From Mr. A. L. Clegg, B.C.L. : Judge Jenkins, The Learned, Loyal and Courageous Judge who was kept prisoner in the Tower, N ewgate, and elsewhe1'e for many years after being sentenced to de,a th by the House of Commons. Collected and edited by vVilliam H. Terry, Barrister-at-Law. Svo, London, 1929. (Judge .Jenkins entered the Hall in I597·) A.B.E.

THE REUNION, 1929.

HE. Seventh Reunion of old members took place at the Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington, on Tuesday, April 23.

There were present at the dinner: The Right Rev. the Bishop of Sherborne (formerly Principal), Capt. E. C. Priestley (formerly Tutor), Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, Rev. R. H. Evered, Rev. R. S. 0.

Tayler, Rev. Canon A. D. Barker, Rev. A. L. Browne, Rev. K. M. Ffinch, Rev. F. L. M. Millard, Sir Mark Hunter, Rev. R. H. O'Donovan, Rev. T. E. R. Phillips, Mr. H. N. ffaring·ton, Rev. C. W. Fisher, Rev. E. E. Crawford, Rev. F. G. Croom, Ven. F . W. M. Hamerton, Rev. Canon F. Peacock, Rev. Dr. A. C. Keene, R ev. P. A. W. Skinner, Rev. G. Branson, Rev. R. Shepheard, Rev. R. M. French, Rev. A. R. Browne-\1\Tilliamson, Mr. C. D. Walker, Rev. \1\1. A. Congdon, Mr. R. Sayle, Rev. F. N.

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Robathan, Rev. F. McGowan¡, Mr. H. A. Barnes-Lawrence, Mr. H. C. Ingle, Mr. B. C. W. Johnson, Rev. H. Livesey, Mr. D. J. Parsons, Mr. J. F. A. Porter, Mr. H. C. Shearman, Rev. F. J. Fish, Rev. P. G. Reddick, Mr. A. B. Hodgson, Mr. C. Lummis, Rev. C. A. Plaxton, Rev. C. N. Wardle-Harpur, Rev. E. Royle, Mr. J. B. Allan, Rev. P. S. Sprent and Rev. R. F. Yates.

The Principal called a roll, when the dessert stage had been reached, requesting members to stand as their names were called so that the process of all-round introduction might be simplified.

The Bishop of Sherborne in a characteristically felicitous speech proposed the toast of Floreat Aula. He made a playful reference to the Principal's roll-call , and provoked a good deal of mirth by attributing to the Principal sinister motives for employing his apparently innocent method of introducing members to one another.

He said that it gave him peculiar pleasure to see so large a gathering-almost a record number-in spite of the fact that the Reunion was being held in new surroundings. There had been fears expressed that if Aularians could not foregather at their familiar Headquarters in Oxford, they would not be likely to turn up in large numbers elsewhere. The splendid response to invitations, however, showed that those fears were without foundation. At the same time he was certain that members would like to think that the normal meeting-place would be at the Hall, and he believed that they would receive assurance on that point.

Congratulating the Principal on his appointment, the Bishop said that there was never any doubt in the minds of Aularians that the only possible successor to that responsible office was Mr. Emden. It was not a question of the Queen's College electing a suitable man, it was a question of their electing the one and only eligible candidate. They had clone so, and the Hall had been congratulating itself ever since. There was, he said, no need for ¡him to emphasize in the hearing of Aularians the debt they and the Society to which they belonged owed to Mr. Emden. His energy was phenomenal, and it was directed to one end-the advancement of St. Edmund Hall.

The Bishop went on to say that members would be very glad to know that the Rev. John Brewis was succeeding Mr. Emden as Vice-Principal. Those present who had enjoyed the privilege of woddng under the direction of the Senior Tutor in their undergraduate clays would be especially gratified that the Senior Tutor's son was joining forces with him in the service of the Hall.

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Tutor of the Hall when the War broke out. H e said that they all very much regretted the unavoidable absence of the Bishop of Carlisle.

Reviewing the happenings of the past year, the Principal paid a tribute to th e memory of the late Principal whose short t enure of the office had deprived th e Hall of the services of a man well known in Oxford for his amazing energy, his experience in administration, and his good-heartedness. H e said that he was glad to h e able to report some creditable performances in the Schools and in other directions. The various Hall clubs were in a flourishing condition, and the number of men in residence m ade is possible for the H a ll to compete successfully in inte r-college events.

The Principal, referring to the immediate problems which confront ed him on taking up office, said that the most difficult might well have been the search for a suitable second-in-command. He was clear that the Vice-Principal must be in Holy Orders, since he himself was a layman, and that he must be a bachelor so that he might live in the Hall. Fortunately for himself and for the Hall, the Rev. J. S. Brewis, at present a master at Eton, had accepted the post, . and they looked forward to his joining them in the Michaelmas Ter m. The presence of father and son on the same staff w ould serve to emphasize the strong fa mily spirit which pervaded the Hall and distingui shed it from les s ancient academical societies. Speaking of the Senior Common Room, h e said that it was unfortunate that the Chaplain could not be present at the Re\ union, since it fell to his lot to superintend the activities of Exhibition candidates a t th at m oment in r esidence at the Hall. Since th e last gathering of Aula rian s the Ch aplain had married, and the Principal said that m embers ought to know how fortunate the Hall was in its lady patronesses, Mrs. Brewis and Mrs. Fletcher.

D ealing with the question of future Reunions, the Principal assured m embers that h e was well aware of th eir preference for Oxford as the meeting-place, and he said that as far as possible the annual Reunions would be held at the Hall. H e believed, however, that this could be effected only by altering the da te of the Aularian Gathering, since accommodation in the H a ll wo uld probably be required for E xhibition candidates during the week befor e the Summer Term, as the experim ent of moving the date of the Exhibition Exam ination s in Classics and Modern Hi story to an earlier date was proving very satisfactory. This of course was a question for discussion at the Gene ral Meeting, and he hoped they would find a satisfactory solution.

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The Principal announced that he had acquired for the Association an excellent portrait of the .Bish;p of Carlisle which was on exhibition in the room in which the General Meeting was to be held. The portrait was th e work of Mr. Richary Murry. The Pr incipal said t hat he was sure members woufd agree that it was a welcome acquisition .

After dinner a genet-a! m eeting of the Association was held in an adjoining room.

R . SAYLE .

THE AULARIAN ASSOCIA TIQN. HE Executive Committee met at the Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington, on Tuesday, April 23, at 6 p.m. The following members attend ed the meeting :-The Principal (in the chair), the Bishop of Sherborne, Sir Mark Hunt er, the R ev. Canon B a rker, th e Rev. C. Vv. Fish e r, the Rev. V'l. G. D. Fletcher, · the Rev. Dr. A. C. Keene, the R ev. F. McGowan, the R ev. T. E. R .

Phillips, Mr. C . D. Walker, and Mr. R. Sayle (Hon. Secretary).

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The General Meeting was h el9 after the R eunion Dinner at t he hotel. The President took the chair.

The minutes of t he previous meeting were read and signed, and th e Hon. Treasurer made his report.

The accounts h ad been audited by the Hon. Auditor, Mr. H. C. Ingle. There was a credit balance of £'66 r8s., but £ ro ros. had been earmarked for the Aularian Directory in accordance with the proposition passed at the last meeting.

The Hon. Treasurer said that he had spent thirty g·uineas o ut of the Activities Fund without any authority. His action was , he said, the more reprehensibl e because it had been decided at the last meeting to a llow the amount standing to the credit of the fund to accumulate on deposit . Thi s vvas, moreover, his own proposal.

He was prepared to don the penitential w hite sheet, but befo re he did so he t hought he would like members to know how great was th e temptation to which he h ad succumbed. The truth was that a special opportuni ty presented itself of commissioning Mr. Richard Murry to paint a portrait of the Bishop of Carlisle. H e had taken that opportunity, a nd h e hoped members wo uld forgive him in view of the excellence of the portrait and the reasonable sum 1t had cost.

There wet-e expr essions of approval' from members, a nd it was generally fe lt that such expenditure provided evidence of the need

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The election of officers and committee followed. The Bishop of Sherborne was unanimously elected a Vice-President.

The President proposed Mr. J . B. Al!an for election as his s uccessor as Hon. Treasurer, and Mr. R obert Sayle for re-election as Hon. Secretary, and these m embers we re duly elected. Under R ule 9 the retiring members of the Committee we re the rept-esentatives of the years I 88 s~1894, th e R ev. P. C unning ham and the R ev. T. E . R. Phillips. They were unanim ous ly re-elected.

The Bishop of Sherborne presented the portrait of the Bishop of Carlisle to the Principal on behalf of the Association . H e said that h e would like to record the g ratitude of the members to the Principal for the happy way in which he had negatived his own propos ition. In accepting it the Principal said tha t it was a gift which the Hali would value most highly, and he thanked t h e Association for their generosity .

In view of the n ew arrangem ent w ith regard to Exhibition examinations at the Hall it was decided to hold the next R eunion on Tt.i"esday , July 1 , 1930.

R. SAYLE .

OBITUARY. JOS EPH WELLS, \;VARDEN OF VVADHAM ·I 9IJ - 27, VIC E-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY 1923 - 6, TR USTE E OF THE HALL 1926-7.

The Hall has lost a m ost trusty friend in Dr. Joseph Wells, som etime \!Varden of ·Wadham a nd Vice-Chancellor of the Uni ve rs ity, who died on February z::.. Dr. \!Vells came up wi th a scholars hip to the Queen' s College in 1875. It was as a n unde rgraduate there that he form ed a life-long fri endship with the R ev. T. K. Allen, father of the Bishop of Sherborne, recently Principal of the Hall. He was godfather of the Bishop, and Dr. Allen, when he came up to vVadham as a scholar, became a member of a college of which Dr. Wells was th en a Fellow. Dr. \!Vells, therefor e, had reasons of his own for welcoming th e appointment of Dr. Allen to be Pt-incipal of the H all in 1 92 0. But apart from personal considerations, he was very a miably disposed towards the H all, for he was a devoted student of Oxford a ntiquities. Both before and after he became Vice-Chancellor h e showed himself keenly appreciative of the difficulties as well · as of the distinction to w hich the Hall is

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h eir by virtue of its unique position in the University. He neve r failed to let go any opportunity that was given him to render a service to our Society or to those who had the responsibility for its direction. His death has deprived the Hall, in common with the whole University, of a sage counsellor than whom there was no one in Oxford more respected and beloved by men of every sort of opinion.

VERNON HARCOURT ALDHAM. The Rev. Vernon Harcourt Aldham, M.A., died at All Saints Lodge, Babbacombe, South Devon, on January I I, at the age of 85. H e was the third son of th e R ev. H. Alclha~ , of Stoke Prior, near Bromsgrove. He entered th e Hall as an Exhibitioner in Michaelmas Term, 1862. H e was Captain of Boats in 1866. He graduated B.A. in 1866, and M.A. in 1870. In the same year that h e went clown from Oxford h e was ot路dainec\ to the curacy .of H andsworth, in Staffordshire. H e was ordained priest in 1868, and in the following year moved to a curacy at Old vVinc\sor. In 1871 he became curate of St. J ohn-in-Bedwardine, Worcester, and three years late r was appointed Rector of Boconnoc with Braddock, in Cornwall. This rectory he held for thirty-two years. H e was twice Rural Dean of vVest Wivelshire, fnilm 188o to 1884路, and again from 1903 to 191 r. In recognition of his good work in the diocese he was appointed to the Honorary Canonry of St. Winwoloe in Truro Cathedral in r88g. After his retirement in 1916 he lived first in Torquay , and then moved out to Babbacombe.

JOHN MICHAEL GIBLIN. The R ev. John Michael Giblin, M.A., died at Saffron W alden on March 7, at the age of 74路 He was third son of Mr. H enry Giblin, of Swaffham Bulbeck, Co. Cambridge. He entered the Hall in Michaelmas Term, 1877, a t the age of 22, and after reading the Honour School of Theology he graduated B.A. in 188o and M.A. four years later. He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of London in 1881, and was curate at St. Mark's, Clerkenwell, from 1881 to 1882, and at Edmonton from 1882 to 18go. In the latter year he was appointed Vicar of Good Easter on the presentation of the Dea n and Chapter of .St. Paul's; he continued in this living for thirty-five years. It has been said of his work there that he ' discharged a long and faithful ministry, 路respected by all and b eloved by hi~ own people; as the people, so was the priest, simple and unassuming-so they understood and loved each other.' From 1903 to 1924 he was Rural Dean of Roding. During his retirement he .assisted in the parish of Saffron Walden.

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LOUIS HENRY KING. The Rev. Louis Henry King, M.A., died at St. Barnabas, Dormans, Surrey, on March I 5¡ He was the only son of Mr. Richard King, of Newcastle-under-Lyne. He entered the Hall in Michaelmas Term, rSSo, at the age of 24, and graduated B.A. in r883 and M.A. in r887. H e was ordained to the curacy of Ambleside in I 883, and was there fo ur yea rs. Afterwards he held curacies at Cattistock, in Dorset, from r887 to rSSS, at Brecon from rSSS to r889, at St. John 's , Bridgwater, from r88g to r89o, at Chedzoy from 1890 to 1891, and at Creech St. Michael from 1891 to 1894¡ In that year he was appointed Vicar of North Newton. In 1903 the Vicarage of St. Michaelchurch, Bridgwater, was annexed to that of North Newton. H e retired from both livings in 1921.

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UT FAMA EST. The Rev. Professor L. Hodgson (Vice-Principal 1914-19) IS to be congratulated on his receiving the honorary degree of D.C.L. from Bishops' University, Lennoxville, Quebec. The degree was conferred on June 20.

W e are very pleased to record that the Rev. J. W. C. \iVand, Dean and Fellow of Oriel, and Lecturer to the Hall in Theology, has been appointed a Select Preacher to the University.

We are very glad that the Rev. D. Armytage, Warden of St. Anselm's Hall, Manchester, who underwent a severe operation in May, has made a very good recovery and is back at work .

The Rev. D. J. Arter, Vi ca r of Llanyro, Llandrindod Wells, has been appointed Vicar of Ysta lyfara , Glamorganshire.

The Rev. W. A. Baker-Bea U, Vicar of St. Mark's, Manningh am, Bradford, has been a ppointed Rector of Vil est Alling ton, Lincolnshire.

Lieut.-Comdr. T. R. Beatty is attached to H.M.S. President for duty at Shoe bury Ness.

The Rev. L. O'S. Beere has gone out to Corea as a missionary.

The Rev. E. 0. Bennett has been appointed Vicar of Lightcliffe, Yorkshire.

Mr. F. W. Benton is Deputy-Editor of Publications to the British Commercial Gas Association. He was married on August 24, at St. Edmund's, Amberley, Su~sex, to Miss Cordelia Saleeby, younger daughter of Dr. C. W. and the late Mrs. S aleeby, and granddaughter of Wilfrid and Alice Meynell.

Mr. F. Burnett is to be congratulated on his appointment as Deputy-I{irector of Agriculture in British Guiana. He spent a few

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days in Oxford with his wife at the beginning of Michaelmas Term on a flying visit to the School of Agricultu_re.

The Rev. W. R. M. Chaplin was m arried on September z6 in the parish church of Metiden, Flintshire, to Miss Mildred Kay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kay, of Meliden .

Mr. A. L. Clegg has been appointed Assistant Solicitor to the Corporation of Bootle.

Mr. H. Cloke has been appointed an assistant master at Gillingham School, Kent.

The R ev. Canon E. C. Corfe resigns the precentorship of Truro Cathedral at the end of this year. He has been Precentor for twenty-five years .

The Rev. S. Cox has been appointed to a curacy at All Saints', Fulham.

The R ev. T. H. Croxall has been appointed Chaplain Organist of Allahabad Cathedral.

The Rev. A. B. Dex has been appointed curate of Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.

The Rev. S. A. C. Dickins has been appointed curate of St. Mark's, Ford, Devenport.

Mr. F. J. Field has been appointed an assistant master at the Edinburgh Institution.

The Rev. J. M. Ford resigned the rectory of Callington, Cornwall, in October.

Mr. R. S. Foster, of the Education Department, Tanganyika Territory, was married in Mombasa Cathedral on April zo to Miss Dulce Gardiner, eldest daughter of Mr. Justice and Mrs. Gardiner, of Cape Town ..

The Rev . J. D. Fox has been appointed curate of St. Nicolas, Guildford.

The Rev. M. D. Grieve has been appointed Vica r of Satterthwaite, Ulverston, vVestm orland.

The Rev. A. C. Hair, Rector of Willingham, Cambridgeshire, has been appointed Rural Dean of North Stowe. .

The R ev. C. M. P. H eath has been appointed Vicar of Holy Trinity, Dover.

Flying-Officer A : !):. Hill is attached to the R.A.F. Base, Calshot.

Mr. W. H. Hindle was married in St. Francis Chapel, San Diego, California, on May rg , to Miss Annette Hale Zeiss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Zeiss.

The Rev. S. A. Howard has been appointed Chaplain and Lecturer of Lichfield Theological College.

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Mr. S. Iguchi has been appointed Vice-Consul of the Japanese Consulate General at Shanghai.

The Rev. A. R. Janes has joined the Mission Staff of the U. M. C.A. , and has gone out to Mkuzi in the diocese of Zanzibar.

The Rev. P. T. Jefferson is Rector of Beaconsfield, South Africa.

The Ven. W. K. Knight-Adkin, O.B.E., Chaplain of the Fleet, IS to be congratulated on his appointment as a Chaplain to the King.

The Rev. F. A. ]. Lamb has been appointed to a curacy at Rathmines, Co. Dublin.

Mr. G. P. W. Lamb is with ]. Walter Thompson Company, and is at present at their London office.

The Rev. Canon C. Leeper, Vicar of St. Mark's, Mansfield, is to be congratulated on his appointment to an Honorary Canonry in Southwell Cathedral.

Mr. J. C. W. Ludlow has been appointed an assistant master at King Edward's School, Aston, Birmingham.

The Rev. P'. McGowan, Vicar of St. Mark's, Birmingham, has been appointed Rector of Cholderton, near Salisbury.

Mr. S. D. Mangan has been appointed an assistant master at W ednesbury Grammar School.

Mr. V. W. Miles was married at St. Anne's Church, Liverpool, on August rs, to Miss Isabel Braithwaite, daughter of Mr. and Mrs . .Matthew Braithwaite. He has been appointed an assistant master at the Grammar School, Hitchin.

The Rev. C. A. Peacock, C.B.E., has been appointed Vicar of .All Saints, Stamford, with the rectory of St. Peter's.

Mr. F. G. Phillips has been appointed an assistant master at Lower Canada College, Montreal.

The Rev. C. A. Plaxton was married by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Sherborne in St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury, on June r6, to Miss Eleanor Joan Elizabeth Sowerby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Sowerby, .of Croft House, Salisbury.

The Rev. R. E. Priestly has been a:ppointed senior curate of Barnet parish church.

The Rev. B. G. Richings, Vicar of St. Kew, Wadebridge, has been appointed Vicar of Baltonsborough, Glastonbury.

The Rev. Dr. A. C. Ridsdale has resigned the Senior Chaplaincy at Cuttack, Orissa. " Mr. P. ]. Sandison, of the Sudan Political Ser:vice, has been transferred from Mongalla to Kuttun, Darfur, ¡ where he is A. D. C. to the Governor of the Province.

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The Rev. A. Sargent has been appointed Resident Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Rev. G. Sayle has been appointed a curate of St. Chad's, York.

The Rev. F. K. Scott, Vicar of Swaffham, has been appointed Vicar of St. Mark's, Brighton.

The Rev. G. H. Sharpe, Vicar of St. Barnabas, vVorcester, has been appointed Vicar of St. Cuthbert's, Bensham, Gateshead .

Difficulties in connexion with the present condition of affairs in China have made necessary the closing¡ down of the Hostel for Chinese Students in Tokyo, of which the Rev. F. A. Smalley was in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Smalley and their two little daughters have moved to Chengtu, Szechwan, China, where Mr. Smalley is working at the West China Union University.

Mr. G. C . Smith was married on August 24 at St. Michael'sin-the-Hamlet, Liverpool, to Miss Florence Emily Thomas, eldest daughter of' Mr. and Mrs. Glegge Thomas, of Warriston, St. Michael's, L iverpool.

Mr. J. vV. L. Symes has been appointed Senior Master of the Royal Normal School for the Blind, Upper Norwood.

The Rev. A. H. Thompson, Vicar of St. Peter's, Eaton Square, has been appointed Rural. Dean of Westminster.

The R ev. H : W. Thorne, Vicar of Worsley, near Manchester, has been appointed Director of Education for the Diocese of Rochester.

The Rev. E. J. Treharne, Rector of Llanvetherine, Abergavenny, has been appointed Vicar of St. Arvan with Pentcary, Chepstow.

The Rev. I. F. F. Webb has been appointed curate of St. Peter's, Wallsend .

The Rev. F. L. Whatley, Rector of Shelsley Beauchamp, has been appointed Rural Dean of Martley.

The R ev. R. B. White has been appointed Vicar of St. Chrysostom 's, Everton, Lancashire.

Mr. W. T. Wilson has been appointed an assistant master at the Royal Masonic (Junior) School, Bushey.

We have gathered the following particulars concerning those Aularians who have gone down since the last issue of the Magazine : L. C. Baber is at Westcott House, Cambridge.

H. Bagnall has been appointed an assistant master at Exeter School.

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R. H. Barff is an assistant master at St. Edward's School, Oxford. ]. H. Beeley, who has been appointed to the Tropical African . Administrative Service, has gone out as a cadet to Southern Nigeria.

K. M. Bishop is at Wycliffe Hall.

L. P. Burnett goes to Cuddesclon College in January.

C. Cairns has been appointed to the Malay States Forestry Service.

E. P. Carter is at Mansfield College.

A. S. Chandler is at Westcott House, Cambridge.

W. J. S. Cooke has been appointed as assistant master at the Methodist College, Belfast.

S. A. C. Dickins has been at Salisbury Theological College.

P. G. 'Espinasse has been appointed Assistant Lecturer m Zoology at University College, Hull.

L. G. Hayward has been appointed an assistant master at Brentwood School.

C. R. Hiscocks has been appointed an assistant master at T rinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario. He was operated on for appendicitis on the clay after his 'Viva,' but had made a good recovery before he sailed for Canada.

D. M. John is in the Town Clerk's Office, Halifax.

D. E. M. G. Jones is at St. Michael's College, Llanclaff.

J. N . Keeling is at Bishops' College, Cheshunt.

G. E. Janson-Smith has joined the Mission Staff of the ·u . M .C.A. a s a layman and gone out to the Training College at Minaki, Tang anyika Territory.

C. I. Record has been elected to an Academical Clerkship at Magdalen College.

F. G. Roberts has been appointed an assistant master at Stafford School.

B. ]. Rushby-Smith has been appointed an assistant master at Southwell Gramm,ar School.

J. M. Scutt is at vVycliffe Hall.

F. S. ,iV. Simpson is at Ripon Hall.

A. E. Smith is at Wycliffe Hall.

J. A. Smith has been appointed an assistant master at Cambridge County School.

G. W. Thornhill has been appointed an assistant master at Stamford School.

T. C. Toland sailed for Rangoon in December, where he joins ' '' e st ?ff o' Messrs B· •lJoch Bros., East India Merchants.

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E. Urry has been appointed assistant master at Ryde Grammar School, Isle of Wight.

R. E. Walker, who has been appointed to the Tropical African Administrative Service, has gone out as a cadet to the Gold Coast.

P. L. ]. Westcott has been appointed an assistant master at Knox College, Wahronga, New South Wales.

During the course of the year the following Aularians have been ordained:Deacons.-R. L. Hordern (Wakefield), I. F. F. Webb .(Newcastle), F. A. J. Lamb (Dublin) , ]. D. Fox (Guildford), S. Cox (London), S. A. C. Dickins (Exeter), G. Sayle (York).

(Southwark), Rev. A. C. Parr (Newcastle), H . J. Rusbridger (Exeter), Rev. P. S. Sprent (Southwark), Rev. D. C. Barker (London), Rev. ]. W. Blair, Rev. vV. R . M. Chaplin, Rev. A. J. Foster (Carlisle), Rev. F. D. M. Richards (Gloucester), Rev. R. F. Yates (Derby), Rev. W. D. Gower-Jones (Manchester).

SOCIETIES, 1929.

THE DEBATING SOCIETY. HILARY TERM, 1929.

President-R. H . THORNE. Vice-Presiden"t- H. F . GREEN .

Secretary-E. R. VVE!LLE.S. Despondency and sorrow seemed to be the predominating emotions of the Debating Society in the Hila1-y Term. Whether this was due to reaction from the joys of a Christmas vacation or to a leaning towards the more gloomy of the German philosophers, we cannot say. Let it be sufficient to record that the Society was convinced of ' modern decadence ' and lived in hourly expectation of the ' twilight of the Gods.' The presence of American students in Oxford was regarded with apathy, and patriotism considered a minor virtue. The liveliest debate was that concerning blood-sports: during the evening we were informed that a gentleman was ' one who was never unintentionally rude ' : and the ex-President found sufficient evidence to include rowing and chess as blood-sports.

At the end of the term the Society expressed a desire to present some token of appreciation to Mr. G. vV. Thornhill, ex-VicePresident, whose benign influence had been at the service of debates for so many terms. Aft er an extensive search, the Secretary secured an Etruscan Vase, remarkable in desig-n and beauty. to the ex-Vice-Presi.cl ent's learning and wit: his 7eal f or truth and

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE to the ex-Vi ce-President's learning and wit: his zeal for Truth and the welfare of the Society was also appreciated. The Grand Patriarch formally presented the Vase, amid sustained applause.

Mr. G. W. Thornhill was so overcome with emotion that he was unable to reply. vVe are certain that this will prove to be as remarkable an event as any in the annals of the Society.

At the last meeting of the term the following were elected as officers for the Michaelmas Term :-H. F. Green, President; E. R. Welles, Vice-President; J. M. Edmonds, Secretary.

MICHAELMAS TERM.

President-H. F. GREEN. Vice-President-E:R. WELLES . S ecretary-].

M. EDMONDS.

Throughout the term the dignity and prestige of the Society have been upheld in a manner worthy of its traditions : the attend;ance never sank below 25, and there has been no lack of speakers.

At the first meeting of the term the President exhibited to the Society the pewter tankard that h ad been procured by the assiduous smoking of orie brand of cigarettes ; this has been inscribed ' S.E.H.D.S. 1929,' and each meeting of the Society is opened by the Grand P9-triarch tasting, or (as has occurred this term) consuming the beer with which it is filled. It is h oped that this tankard will ¡ for many years serve in its present usefu l and ornamental capacity.

The Society entertained guests on two occasions : at the third meetin g of the term the Vice-Principal and the Senior Tutor were so good as to accept an invitation to speak. In a delightful speech the Senior Tutor moved, 'That in the Times one should turn first to the sporting column,' which was opposed by the Vice-Principal, whose ironic assumption of the Society's intimate knowledge of ancient Greek was rec,e ived with great applause. This motion provided an excellent and entertaining debate. At the sixth meeting of the Society a joint debate with Ruskin College was held, and some effective speaking was heard on both sides upon the motion, 'That there is no Art without Propaganda '-a question which inspired some thoughtf ul speeches.

The high standard set by th ese debates was maintained throughout the term: of the , freshmen, many of whom have becom e keen and regular members of the Society, J. R. Hayston and N. G. Fisher have spoken consistently wei!. A ' Sharp Practice ' debate demonstra ted the general capacity of members for impromptu oratory on the most abstruse as well as the most trivial subjects,

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and a hilarious evening was concluded by the election of Trotsky as an honorary member of the Society, despite some fervent opposition.

At the final meeting, E. R. Welles was elected President, W. V. Reynolds Vice-President, and J. R. Hayston Secretary for the Hilary Term.

H.F.G.

ESSAY SOCIETY. HILARY TERM, 1929.

President-G. E.

JANSON-SMITH.

The term did not produce very much in the way of original thought, half the papers being biographical; but it was chiefly remarkable for two interesting and amusing contributions from American members.

A. vV. Henderson opened the term with an interesting but lengthy paper on' The King's Evil,' for which he claimed a certain historical importance as a register of popular feeling towards king- . ship and as an illustration of kingly character and wisdom.

N. C. Moses read an essay on 'Anton Tchekhov,' in which he maintained that Tchekhov, in his stories, urged us towards more courageous effort by throwing into prominence the -uglier aspects of life-a theory which was questioned subsequently.

A. vV. Read was interesting on ' The influence of Taboo in English Speech,' and showed a deep acquaintance with the English language.

His comparison of English and American Taboos amused the Society considerably.

Then came ' Campus,' by E. R. Welles, which kept the Society in roars of laughter, being a description of life in an American University with special reference to the psychological effects of Promiscuous Proximity.

H . F. Green's paper on 'Vermeer of Delft' provoked a fierce and prolonged discussion on the value of realism-which was a sufficient guarantee of its interest- and was illustrated by some admirable reproductions of Vermeer's pictures.

J. A. Smith concluded with a paper on 'Thomas Paine,' which contained an accurate estimation of the permanent value of that eighteenth century pamphleteer.

F. R. H. Murray was elected President for the Michaelmas

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MrcHAELMAS TERM.

President-F. R.

H. MuRRAY.

Perhaps as a reaction from the spate of biographical papers with which the Society was favour ed last year, there was no paper of that cha racter this term . Nearly a ll attempted to be controversial; some succeeded.

The first paper of the term was read by K . A . Muir : it was entitled ' Theaetetus,' and the Society was surprised to find that it dea lt with Relativity and Art. The paper was interesting and of a length m o re in keeping with the Society's dignity than were some of t hose read later in the term. The second paper was read by E. C. R. Hadfield, on ' Clothes and Status,' and received the approval of the Society implied in a long and animated discussion.

L. Lieven read a short and disappointing paper on ' Pre-Existence.'

A. F. Colborn's paper was entitled 'Thought Association: the Essay Society,' and was at once an exposure and a defence of Decadence : it did not meet the opposition one might have ex p ected. The visitor this term was Mr. E. S. Budden, of New College, who read a paper entitled 'Tradition and Education,' implying a sincere, if perhaps somewhat desperate hope that the transmission of ideas from generation to generation might be achieved without the accompanying over-belief. The last paper was b y J. L. Tadm an , and was a plea, if not a very positive one, for tolerance and encouragement of psychical research ; it provoked long discussion.

At the last meeting A. J. Phillips was elected President for the Hilary Term.

F.R.H.M.

THE JOHN OLDHAM SOCIETY. HILARY TERM, 1929.

Pres ident~K.

A. Mum.

S ecreta.ry-A . W.

HE NDERSON.

The Society, sated with the quintessence of Ibsenism and the spacious times of great Elizabeth, was stay-at-home in its choice of plays this term, both spatially and temporally.

'John Bull's Other Island' and 'Misalliance' by the inevitable Shaw; Galsworthy's partially impartial 'The Skin Game'; 'Hassan 'by Flecker (whose poetics pained the more sensitive members), and Chesterton's ' Mag¡ic ' were the plays read.

In addition , the reading of a play by a member of the Society, J. L. N. O'Loughlin, on Robespierre, entitled 'The Stalking Horse,' formed an inte resting and well-apprecia ted precedent.

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At a meeting held in the Trinity Term, the retiring secretary, Mr. A. iN. Henderson, was elected President for the Michaelmas Term, and Mr. H. F . Green Secretary.

K.A.M. MrcHAELMAS TERM.

P1'esident-A. W.

HENDERSON.

Sec1'eta1'y-H. F . GREEN.

The John Oldham Society read eight plays during this term.

Two of these were written by an ex-President of the Society still in residence, K. A. Muir, entitled 'The Tattered Loving,' preceded by a curtain-raiser, 'The Two Householders . ' The other plays read were 'Rosmersholm,' 'The Devil's Dis-¡ ciple,' Pirandello's ' Henry IV,' 'The Father,' 'The Playboy of the Western 'vVorld,' and ' The Duchess of Malfi.'

At a business meeting of the Society, H. F. Green was elected President and A. F. Colborn Secretary for the coming term.

A.W.H. THE MUSICAL SOCIETY.

P-resident-M.

J.

V.

PRINT.

Secretary-G . S. WAMSLEY.

At a meeting of the Society at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term it was decided to abolish the Committee and to place the executive in the hands of a President and a Secretary, who were to hold office for one year. The Chaplain, who had held the office of President for many years, said that he felt obliged to resign, since he no longer resided in Hall, and since his absence might cause difficulties when the arrangements of the Society were being made.

All members regretted this decision, since the success of the Eights' Week concerts and of other meetings during the year had been largely due to him, but luckily he remains unofficially connected with the Society.

Two concerts were given during the term, and both were open to all members of the Hall. On Wednesday, November 20, Miss Denne Parker and Dr. Ernest Walker at very short notice kindly provided an entertainment, which consisted of some songs of Schubert, Brahms and 'vVolff, while Dr. Walker played some Chopin Studies. Miss Parker said that the Hall had very good acoustic properties, and certainly Der Musensohn, for instance, gave ample evidence of this .

On Saturday, November 30, a concert was given by members of the Hall, followed by 'Cox and Box ' (Burnand and Sullivan) which had been so successful two years ago. The earlier part of

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE the programme consisted of some quartets, three Beethoven Marches by F. H. Trott and G. S. Wamsley, and four songs by C. I. Record. In ' Cox and Box ' the Chaplain and R. C. Thomas took their former parts, but since R . L. Franks was no longer in Oxford Sergeant Bouncer was taken by T. V. Nicholson. The encores throughout the entire programme showed an appreciative andience, and the attendance at both the concerts given was good.

T.V.N. THE MAKERS. HILARY TERM,

President-A.

W. HENDERSON.

!929.

Secretary-K. A.

MuiR .

The beginning of 1929 was a bad season for eminent personages. They were coy and fast on the wing. None were brought down by the Makers.

The Society held a magazine evening. Short stories, poems, essays and plays by members were reacl. The main aim of the Society was fulfilled and the members enjoyed a pleasing and mellow evening.

K. A. Muir was elected President and B. M. Forrest Secretary for the Michaelmas Term.

A.W.H. MICHAELMAS TERM.

President-K. A.

MuiR.

Secretary-B.

M . FoRREST.

Two meetings have been held this term. At one Mr. L. A. G. Strong was the guest of the Society : he read numerous poems and the title story of the then unpublished book ' The English Captain.' At the other meeting, in accordance with its custom, the Society delighted itself with its own prose and verse. 'Tout ce qui n'est point prose est vers: et tout ce qui n'est point vers est prose.'

B. M. Forrest was elected President for the Hilary Term, and A. Read Secretary.

K.A.M. ORDINANDS' SOCIETY. HILARY TERM , I929.

Chairman-]. E.

T. PHILLIPS.

Secretary-E. R.

WELLES.

The Society experienced a sad loss in the death of Mr. Cranshaw, after he had been President for a very short period. There was a unanimous feeling of satisfaction when our new Principal expressed his willingness to become President of the Society.

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Unfortunately circumstances forced us to abandon the addresses promised by Canon Streeter and Dr. D. C. Simpson.

At the first meeting of term Dr. Goudge, Regius Professor of Divinity, gave us an a ddress on ' Life and Work.' His main theme was the relationship between character and competence, between intellect and emotion.

At the second meeting, F. S. W. Simpson read an excellent paper, in which he put for ward a fair and accurate apology for Modernism.

The term's programme ended with a talk on the Naval Chaplain's Departmen t by an old Aularian, Ven. W. K. Knig ht-Adkin, Chaplain of the Fleet.

The meetings and services throughout the term were well attended, and our thanks are due to the Principal and the Chaplain for their active interest in the Society, which is much appreciated.

E. R. Welles was elected Chairman and G. S. Wamsley Secretary for the Trinity Term.

J.E.T.P. TRINITY TERM .

Chairman-E. R.

WELLES.

Secreta1·y-G. S.

WAMSLEY.

The first meeting of the term was held on Sunday, May 5· In private business a prolonged discussion took place as to the desirability of changing the name of the Society. In public business, A. E. Smith read an excellent paper on ' Methods of Evangelization.' The second meeting, on June z, was addressed by the Rev. J . S. Bezzant, Chaplain of Exeter College, his subject being 'Reason and Christian Faith.' Both of th ~se meetings were well attended as were also the Corporate Com'm union services and the helpful Meditations conducted by the Vice-President, the Chaplain.

E.R.W. MICHAELMAS TERM.

Chairman- E. R. WELLES. Secretary- G. S. WAMSLEY. The first meeting of term was held on October at which the President, the Principal, gave an interesting talk on ' Parish Churches.' Mr. A. E. Sulston read a paper on ' Spiritual Healing ' at the second meeting, held on November 3· Dr. K. E. Kirk was the guest of the Society at its third meeting, which took place on , I November 24. Dr. Kirk's delightful dissertation on the subject of Moral Theology was much enjoyed by his listeners. At the last meeting of term, on December I, Mr. R. G. Cornwell read a paper

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on 'The Religious Education of the Child.' A. E. Sulston was elected Chairman, and C. H. Sutton Secretary for the Hilary Term.

There were two Corporate Communion services and two Meditations for the Society during the term. In this connection , especially, is the Society deeply indebted to the Vice-President, the Chaplain.

E .R.W.

CLUBS, 1929.

THE BOAT CLUB.

Captain-R. E. WALKER.

Secretary-M.

J.

V. PRINT.

During the first week of practice several changes were made in the order of the Torpid, the most notable being that A. C. Hordern was moved from No. 3 to No. 7, and that D. K. D. Dixey entered the boat at No. 5, thus causing the displacement of P. S. Smith from No. 4· After this the order remained unchanged throughout practice, excepting absences hom illness and strains, with .which we were seriously handicapped. O wing to the Great Frost, practice was impossible for a week, shortly before the races , which were therefore postponed and reduced to four days. The coaching was chiefly undertaken by the Captain, and also by the Secretary, with useful help from outside.

A noticeable feature of the races was the unusually small number of bumps, which was probably clue to the break in practice caused by the frost. The T orpid maintained its position, rowing behind Trinity all four days. We gained some distance on Trinity each day, coming to within half a length in the Gut on the first clay, but failing to hold this advantage . The next day we repeated this, and being ha rd pressed by Wad ham II we drew up again at the Boathouse. On the third clay we made our best attempt to bump, being only three feet from Trinity opposite the mouth of the Cherwell.

On the last day Trinity showed much improvement, and we did not gain more than tht·ee-qu arters of a length.

The crew improved considerably during the races, but their efforts to make a bump 'were frustrated largely by the Trinity stroke, who timed his spurts with remarkably good judgment.

CHARACTERS OF THE TORPID. Bow. PRINCE L. LIEVEN, 9 st. 10 lbs. Quite a n eat bow. • He was very light and appeared rather fragile, but ;when in a boat there was a great difference , and he certainly was effective . .

No. 2. A. F. CoLBORN, 12 st. A very hard worker, who really tried to move the boat. His heaviness over the stretcher rendered his timing erratic and wasted much effort; but he was new

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to rowing, and when he is rid of this fault he will be very effective. He rowed his hardest in every race.

No. 3· C. I. RECORD, I2 st. 4lbs. Quite a good oar. His main difficulty was to keep in time at the beginning of the stroke, owing to a belated turning off the feather. He rowed well in the races.

No. 4· J. M . SCUTT, IO st. 5 lbs. He is an experienced oarsman , and probably did more than was apparent in holding the bow oars together. His fault is a rather exaggerated shoulder catch, with too little real leg-drive.

No. 5· D. K. D. DrxEY, I I st. 6lbs. His style was the best in the crew. Allowing for one term's practice he fitted it well.

With a little more drive and determination he will be an asset to the Eight.

No. 6. G. M. MERCER, I 2 st. 4 lbs. Rather a ponderous oar but a very hard worker. He was slow at the beginning and his finish was weak, but his work did come from the stretcher and he sent down a large puddle.

No.7· A. C. HoRDERN, II st. I lb . Very much improved since last year, and an asset to the boat at No. 7· He followed and backed up stroke well, and certainly did more than his share of the work. He rowed with a bent back, but with astraight swing and a hard leg-drive.

Stroke. W. W. J. BoLLAND, II st. I2lbs. He had learnt to row before in the ' Fairbairn ' style, and he really knew how to work. During prac tice he improved his form without losing any effectual work. His rowing was unsteady and he collapsed at the finish; his beginning was very hard, and he did his utmost to drive the crew.

Cox. H. W. SUGARMAN, 8 st. 5 lbs. He steered very good courses in the races, though in any emerg·ency he was rather slow to act.

TRINITY TERM. We were rather ove rwhelmed with material for the Eight, as all of last year's crew were in residence, and several members of the Torpid deserved a trial. About ten men came up a week early, and we were still experimenting with t.he crew-a policy to be avoided if possible. Mr. Barningham, late of Cambridge, coached us for a few days before Mr. C. M. Johnston, of Brasenose, came up. Mr. Barningham gave the captain much good advice as to the order of the crew , which was more or less settled by the beginning of term. Under Mr. Johnston we did two long journeys clown t~ Radley, -vvhich helped us a great deal in getting toge ther as a crew.

About ten days before the races W. V. Brelsford, the stroke, was taken ill, so W. Vv. J. Bolland took his place. He did very well at such short notice, doing as much work as anyone in the boat-no light task at that stage of training. Mr. Johnston being unable to take us for the last week, we managed to obtain the help of Mr. J. A. Ingles, of Magdalen, w ho tried his utmost to instil into us

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the rhythm we had been lacking all along . In the races we did not fulfil expectations. We started behind University II and in front of Oriel II. On the first night we rowed over, in rather worse form than during practice. , liVe started much harder on Friday, and were overlapping University at the Long Bridges, where we caught a crab; cox did what he could on the instant, but we did not start properly and were bumped by Oriel just before the Boathouse. On Saturday Oriel II bumped University II. On Monday and Tuesday we were within half a -length of University by the Boathouse, but could not press home this advantage. On the last day we rowed in much better form, gaining on University from the start; cox excuted a very good rudder-bump just before the Free Water Stone.

We thus regained our position.

CHARACTERS

OF

THE EIGHT.

Bow. A. C. HoRDERN, IO st. 7lbs. An excellent bow, being smart at both ends of the stroke. He developed a stiffness coming forward, with the result that he skied his blade to an extraordinary degree. He worked very hard, having discovered the art of the·proper use of the legs. He should be very useful next year.

No.2 . H. ·E. PEGG, wst. II lbs. He improved 9-lot on last year's form, though he still retained his tendency to swing out of the boat and ride up on his slide. He rowed very hard in the races.

No. 3· D. K. D. DIXEY, I I st. I I lbs. He fulfilled his promise of the Torpid and became quite a nice oar. His slide-work was rather hurried at times and he still had the fault of being late at the beginning, due to delay in turning off the feather. He did a great deal of work and helped to keep the swing in the bow oars.

No. 4· E. L. G. Powvs, I I st. 7lbs. A very bard worker. His violence caused a lack of control over h is slide, but he flung his weight on to his oar and pulled it right through.

No. S· R. E. WALKER, II st. I2lbs. He rowed very hard and with great determination. His strength was more in his legs than in his body, and at the finish his back was round, maki11g it difficult to recover quickly. When rowing he always worked his very hardest.

No. 6. M. ]. V. PRINT, I2 st. Izlbs. The effect of a good com• bination of leg-drive and body-swing was greatly decreased by his fault of stiffness over the stretcher. He was only effective in the middle of the stroke, as he did not always hold out the finish.

No. 7. B. ]. RusHBY-SMITH, I I st. I I lbs. He was an excellent No. 7 in that he was never out of time, and he helped to steady stroke and give him rhythm. He was, however, not using his legs to the best effect, and he rather washed out at the finish. He rowed very hard in the ra~es.

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Stroke. vV. W. J. BOLLAND, I I St. 8 Jbs. He stroked the boat extraordinarily well considering the short tim e he had with t h e crew . He set us a great deal of work. His finish is still his difficulty and he still pulls w ith his shoulders, but if he corrects these faults and continues to move his blade as he has hitherto, he will mak.e a very good oar.

Cox. J. N. KEELING, 8 st. 7lbs. A very good cox. and a great h elp to the boat-more cannot be said. His rudd er-bump on the last night was a really excellent piece of steering.

The gratitude of all members of the Cl ub goes to the coaches; Mr. Barningham , Mr. C. M. Johnston and Mr. J. A. Ingles . . "W<t wish we had done better in the races for the sake of their enthusi~ asm and good advice.

MICHAELMAS TERM.

Captain- M. ]. V. PRINT. Secretary-W, _vV. ]. BoLLAND. We managed to persu ade about half of the freshmen to pay a visit to the barge. As a good many of these ¡visits were of but short duration, we were just able to collect two Mawdesley Fours, which; by the time of the race, were rather above the usual standard. In the race G. S. Wamsley's crew led from the start, ancj rowing ~i steady stroke, gained all the way and won by . two and a ' half lengths. The winning crew was : Bow. Prince L. Lieven.

2.

C. A. Coomber.

3¡ ]. H. Tyzack.

Str. G. S. vVamsley.

Cox. B. M. Forrest.

For the first time for five years we entered a crew for the Senior Clinker Fours, chiefly as practice and experience for eightsmen, and also to stimulate interest in rowing. W. V. Brelsford coached us for the first ten days; afterwards, during the latter part of training, Mr. J. A. Ingles (Magdalen) and Mr. C. M. H. Glover (Magdalen) very kindly gave us much of their spare time. All our coaches did their utmost t o instil rhythm and neatness into our rowing, but at the best we were a rough, hard-working crew, capable of keeping up a fair rate of striking over the whole course.

We won our first two races against Hertford and New College, both in a very strong stream, the former by ten seconds and the latter by fourteen ~econds. In the semi-final we rowed a very close race against Wadham, this time in a following wind; although we gained at the start, the superior watermanship of our opponents soon began to have effect in the following wind and we were a length down at the Boat-house. By a continuous spurt a long the

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Wall we reduced this lead considerably, but lost the race by a fifth of a second. Considering our two victories, and this la st very good race, our whole performance was very encouraging, and each individual member of the crew benefited by the experience. Stroke is to be commended on his pluck and determination in driving the crew, especially when losing in the last race. J. C. Yates, a freshman, made a thoroughly good showing and is already an asset to the Club. Cox steered a very good course in every race, always making the most of such advantages as were given him. The crew was :Bow. H. E. Pegg.

2.

J. C. Yates.

3¡ M . J. V . Print.

Str. W. W . J. Bolland.

Cox. S. A. R. Guest.

After our second race, J. C. Yates and S. A. R. Guest were awarded Eights Colours.

During the seventh week of term a prospective Torpid took some strenuous exercise in a ' tub ' eight, but in the last week the abnormal strength of the stream rendered an eight unmanageable and we were forced to content ourselves with fours.

Congratulations are due to W. W. J. Bolland for ten days' practice in Trial Eights, and to D. K. D. Dixey for fo:.::- days .

M.J.V.P. THE CRICKET CLUB. Captain-K. C. OLIVER. S ecretary-C. F . CARDALE. The Cricket Club enjoyed a most successful season. Of the sixteen matches played, eleven were won , two drawn and only three lost. After a disappointing start, when only one of the first four m atches was won , the eleven settled down into a really good matchwinning team . The outstanding qualities that enabled us to win so many matches were the efficient fielding, the knack of being able to score runs very quickly when necessary, and the keenness and enthusiasm of every member of the team.

CHARACTERS OF THE ELEVEN. C. F. CARDALE. An enthusiastic and energetic Secretary. He was kept out of the side by an unfortunate injury for nearly half the term, but once he was fit played several excellent innings.

Should make many runs next year.

R . C. THOMAS. A polished bat who could always be relied on in a crisis, and helped the side out of several awkward situations.

A useful cover-point.

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J. N. C. HoLLAND. Once he had found his form kept wicket soundly, and on occasions was really brilliant. Failed to find his true form as a batsman. \N. W. E. GILES. The best bowler on the side. Bowls unusually fast, swerves both ways, and has a clever break-back. Can make runs quickly when necessary.

R. WAYE. A prolific run-scorer, being particularly powerful on the leg-side. His fielding was an inspiration to the rest of the side. ¡ C. I. RECORD. A sound bat, who made many useful scores. A good fielder.

A. J: PHILLIPS. A steady, medium-paced bowled who flights the ball cleverly. He played one invaluable innings, but his batting was generally disappointing. Quick in the field.

L. W. HANSON. A slow left-hand bowler of more promise than achievement. A powerful but erratic bat. A good slip-fielder.

A. vV. u. ROBERTS. A forcing left-hand bat. With practice should develop into a useful fast bowler.

H. F. GREEN. A useful member of the tail who could be relied on to make runs. Very keen and hard-working in the field.

P. S. HoRDERN. A medium-paced bowler, useful at the beginning of term, who lost his length by trying to bowl too fast. On several occasions showed himself capable of making runs quickly. Useful in the field.

At a Colours' meeting at the end o.f term C. F. Cardale was elected Captain and R. Waye Secretary.

During the season Colours were awarded to R . Waye, C. I. Record, A. J. Phillips, L. W. Hanson and A. W. U. Roberts.

K.C.O. [The keenness of the side was largely due to the skilful captaincy of K. C. Oliver.-ED.] THE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB. HILARY TERM , 1929.

Captain-W. JoHNSON. Secretary-]. N.C. HOLLAND. This term, with better luck in the draw for the Inter-College Cup, the team created new records in the history both of the Club and of the Competition itself. Keenness was maintained at a high level, the backs especially being unwearying in working out schemes of attack. When we finally met St. Catherine's they excelled themselves, and we ran up a score of 66-o, which is a record in Cup-tie matches since the war. The forwards worked well, and all the backs made good use of the opportunities given them against an indifferent opposition. C. F. Cardale made many good openings,

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and K. C. Oliver was able to send A. J. Phillips in for no fewer than seven tries. In the second round we faced Trinity on their own ground, which was frostbound. A wet day might have helped us considerably. Up to half-time we held our own, after scoring the first try-from a neat cut-through by P. S . Hordern. Then the heavier Trinity pack got the upper hand, and so tired our forwards that half the points scored against us were made in the last twenty minutes of the game. The final score was 38-8. C. F. Cardale and A. W. U. Roberts did good work in defence, and H. F . Green's flying tackles were inspiring to the weaker brethren.

Of the forwards A. F. Lee, C. E. Passey, J. A. Smith, J. R. Ormiston and J. P. Thorp did much throughout the term to pave the way for the backs' success. The Secretary's enthusiasm was unquenchable.

Colours were awarded after the cup-tie to J. R. Ormiston, H. F. ¡ Green and A. J. Phillips.

W.J. MICHAELMAS TERM. Captain-}. N.C. HOLLAND.

Secretary-C. F. CARDALE.

The Club enjoyed a most successful term in spite of being somewhat unlucky through injuries. Of the fourteen matches played ten we.r e won, one drawn and three lost, scoring 2 I 8 points against I I g.

Perhaps the best performances were the one-point victory over Keble by q-I3 won in the last five minutes of the game, and the I 7 - I I victory over Queen's.

K . C. Oliver on the left-wing has been the most consistent scorer, obtaining 23 tries, and although he obtained some of these by his determined running, he owed many to the unselfish play and clever openings made by A. J. Fyfe, his centre, who proved to be the steadying influence of the back division.

The halves, A. J. Phillips at stand-off and P. S. Horder.n at serum, have combined very wdl, and between them led up to many tries.

The pack sadly lack weight, though in the loose they are sometimes brilliant. N. G. Fisher has hooked consistently well and A. F. Lee was always prominent in the loose. There seems rather a lack of initiative at times , but this should be remedied by next term. ¡ 'The absence of a really good place-kicker is unfortunate, as it nearly lost us two matches.

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In the first round of the Inter-College Cup we have drawn Balliol, last year's winners.

Congratulations to A. W. U. Roberts on playing for Surrey and N. G. Fisher on playing for Richmond.

Colours have been awarded this term to P. S. Hordern, A. J. Fyfe and N. G. Fisher.

J.N.C.H. THE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB. HILARY TERM, 1929.

Captain-E. URRY. Secretary-0. C. TRIMBY. A quite enjoyable term was somewhat marred by an unusually large number of 'scratched ' matches. In the matches that were actually played, the team showed to better advantage than in the Michaelmas Term, though inconsistent and erratic play was again its great weakness.

In the first wund of the Inter.:Collegiate Cup, we had definitely bad luck to lose to Jesus, 3-2. Though playing against an admittedly superior team, we had most of the play, and the game might have been ours but for the woeful lack of precision in the forward line. It must be mentioned, however, in extenuation, that Jesus were only beaten in the final3- 2 by B.N.C. J . M. C. Clayton played some good games in goal, and showed improved judgment and decision. 0. C. Trimby and C. Broadhead were sound at full-back, the kicking being appreciably better than in the previous term.

The half-backs again did sterling work, and in the Cup-tie R. Waye and J. M. Edmonds played particularly good games. Little can be said of the forwards. At times they showed re~l combination and goal-scoring ability, but they were never reliable. D. M. John and R. W. Britton, though on occasions inspired, were never direct enough in their quest for goals .. On the right wing, W. J. Lancf ster sometimes showed speed and good ability to centre.

Colours were awarded toR. Waye, C. Broadhead and F. Yates .

At a meeting of Colours, 0. C. Trimby was elected Captain, and R. YVaye Secretary for the season 1929-1930.

E.U. MICHAELMAS TERM. Capta.i n-0. C. TRIMBY. Secretary-R. WAYE. The Club is able to look back upon a term which has been most sati(>factory from several points of view. In the first place the num-

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ber of available players has arisen considerably, so that the Club has been independent of the aid of other Clubs.

Moreover, the standard of football attained by the first team has ¡ at tim es reached a high level, and the record of the Club for this term is one of th e best in its history. Of sixteen games played, eleven have been won and one drawn, with a goal average of 2-r : 38 goals for and 19 against. The second team won two matches out of three played. An outstanding feature of the term's play has been the soundness of the first team defence, as exemplified by the following figures. I n only four games did the defence concede more than one goal, and in seven games no goals at all were scored by the opposition.

Again~t St. John's early in the term we did not show our best form, but were perhaps a little unfortunate to lose by the odd goal in th ree. We were obliged to meet St. Catherine's with a disorganised team, and could not hold them in the second half. Perhaps our best performance was a r - r draw wi th J esus College, who are a very strong side, on their ground.

Other good performances have been against Reading University second team, whom we beat 3-0 away; and against Alleyn's School, Dulwich, whom we beat 4-1.

The following brief characters may be of interest:-

J. M.

C. CLAYTON. Has not had a great deal to do in goal; but has pe rformed c reditably at times. Keeps his head, and has never let us down badly, but lacks the quick decision of a really good goal-keeper. His kic king is a great weakness.

C. BROADHEAD. Right-back. A fearless player with useful weight and a very strong kick. Tackles quite brilliantly at times, and has improved enormously in his positional play. Sometimes a li t tle slow in recovery, and could place his clearance kicks to better advantage.

R. B. I. PATES. Right-half. To be congratulated on gaining a Freshers' Trial. A natural footballer, though a little handicapped by size. H as played consistently well throughout the term.

R. WAYE. Centre-half. H as filled the key-position with distinction, although one feels he has not always quite been at his best.

First-class wi th his head, and in general defensive play, a nd has improved in attack consid erably. At his best he is quite irresistible, and is always a source of great strength to the side.

G. S. BESSEY. Left-half. Completes a very strong half-back line.

Another natural footballer, with a courageous tackle and an excellent sense of positional play.

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J.

C. YATES. Outside-right. Moved up from the half-back line as an experiment, has retained this position. Adds weight to the forward line, is direct in his methods, and has scored several excellent goals.

M. HEALEY. In side-right. Has dash and natural ability. Knows how to shoot, but does not do so often enough . On his day, perhaps the best of the forwards.

P. J. BRITTON. Centre-forward. Is settling down into this position.

Can make openings, and g路et the ball to his wings, bL)t needs more thrust and a great deal of shooting practice.

M. G. RoBINSON. Outside-left. The most consistent of the forwards. Makes ground cleverly, and generally centres well.

Is excellent vvith his corner-kicks. Might try cutting in towards goal a little more often when the opportunity occurs .

O.C.T. THE HOCKEY CLUB. HILARY TERM, 1929.

Captain-R. C. THOMAS.

Secretary- W. W. E. GILES. The defence played excellently throughout the terrn. L. W. Hanson was frequently brilliant in goal and showed great judgment in coming out to clear. \ N. W. E. Giles and C. C. Shaw at back were reliable in taclding, and hit hard and cleanly. Giles is very much quicker on his feet than he used to be, and Shaw, a player of comparatively little experience, showed great improvement.

The wing-halves improved in their stick-work, and showed greater resource in combination w ith their forwards. C. G. Lawrence played some inspired games at centre-half. He never knows 路 when he is beaten, but it is only on very rare occasions that he is .

The forward-line as a whole was never really dangerous. The inside-forwards worked hard, but lacked initiative, and were apt to lose their heads when they found themselves in possession of 路the ball. J. C. Toland improved steadily on the left-wing. H e takes his passes admirably and turns them to the fullest account. K. C. Oliver at centre-fonvard was fast and resolute. He did much to keep the forward-line together.

The Hall lost the cup-tie match against Wadham by two goals to one . . Hanson, and F . R. H. Murray at left-half were at the top of their form, 路but othenvise the team did not give a very impressive display.

Bad weather interfered very seriously with the hockey during the term, and as a result of lack of sufficient practice, the standard of play was not as high as that of .the previous term.

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MICHAELMAS TERM.

Captain-W. W. E.

GILES.

Secretary-C. G.

LAWRENCE.

The Hockey Club had the most successful Michaelmas Term it has had for many years. Of the nineteen matches played, eighteen were won and one lost. In these matches we amassed the huge score of 135 goals, whilst 43 were scored against us. In the match which we lost to Queen's 3-2, three of the regular members of the forward line were absent, whilst our opponents had a full side.

Our success was chiefly due to the fact that we soon played as a team and not as eleven individuals. There were no actual weak points, and in the rare event of anyone being unable to play there were capable substitutes to take his place.

The second eleven were unbeaten. They were unlucky, however, in having very few games during the last three weeks of term, as the ground was always unfit for play on the days on which they had fixtures The defence, ¡with the exception of the goal-keeper, was the same as that which represented the Hall in last year's Cup-tie. We were lucky in finding in A. W. Keith-Steele a goal-keeper of considerable merit. He rushes out and kicks well, but needs more practice in stopping shots from the edge of the circle. The backs were vV. W. E. Giles and C. C. Shaw. [The exceptional record of the Club this term owes much to the sound defence and capable captaincy of the former.-ED. J The latter played a greatly improved game and was always reliable. C. G. Lawrence got through an immense amount of work at centre-half. His constructive play and sense of position were excellent. The wing-halves, E. H. Kentfield and F. R. H. Murray were generally quite sound, but were inclined at times to leave their opposing wing forwards unmarked.

The forwards were in excellent form throughout the term. The average number of goals scored per match (seven) gives ample proof of their accurate shooting. R. C. Thomas at outside-right was very fast, and proved a thorn in the side to all the half-backs who had to mark him. At outside-left J. C. Toland played a greatly improved game, and filled this difficult position with great credit to himself. The three inside places were filled by H. K. Pusey, G. A. D. Calderwood and C. W. Boothroyd, all of whom are very hard workers, and very accurate when in the circle. They need, however, to be more accurate in passing, and to remember that they are playing beside forwards equally as effective as themselves.

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K. C. Oliver was a great asset to the team when he was able to play, and kept the line together.

Colours were awarded to C. C. Shaw and E. H. Kentfield.

W .W . E.G. THE ATHLETIC CLUB. HILARY TERM, 1929.

Captain-]. H. BEELEY. Secretary-N. C. MosEs. The athletic activities of the Club centred around the InterCollege Sports. The Hall tried very hard to get into the upper division of the College Athletic Clubs, and was splendidly supported in its effort both by volunteers for some of the less popular events such as Putting the vVeight and the High Jump, and by vocal support from the stand. vVe failed in our task by one point, but had the satisfaction of having compiled r3t points in one afternoon, more than any other college compiled in one day's running throughout the Sports. We were without the' services of E. R. vVelles, which was a great loss; and we condole with him on being cut off from further participation in athletics owing to leg trouble. We hope for a continuation of hearty support, and would point out that we gained a point in the Inter-College Sports as a result of having entered a team for the High Jump .

N. C . Moses was elected Captain and E. R . Welles Secretary for Michaelmas Term.

N.C.M. MICHAELMAS TERM. Captain-N . C. MosEs. Secretary-,E. R. WELLES. The Inter-College Cross-Country Race was run in the third week of term. The Hall was unfortunate in that one of its representatives had to retire from the race with an injured knee. Only the order of the first three college teams count, but unofficially it is learnt that the Hall came fifth in the list of competing colleges.

The Hall had it~ first two runners home fifth equal.

For the Inter-College Relays a blight of mishaps settled on the Club: In the long-distance relay unfortunately it was found expedient to scratch, since various ailments prevented us from turning out an adequ ate team. High Hurdlers were very much in demand. The supply was poor; Our team for the Low Hurdles had little practice before the event. In the Four Hundred Yards' Relay our team was good .

It was unfortunate that the Secretary of Athletics should not have been able to compete owing to disability. He did much valuable work, however, in coaching, and his ~nthusiasm for athletics

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generally was recognised by an invitation to judge the Inter-College Relays.

Colours were awarded to C. J. Mabey.

'N.C.M. THE SWIMMING CLUB. TRINITY TERM,

Captain-E. P.

1929.

CARTER.

The race for the Matthews Cup was swum in the river on Saturday, June rst. Four competitors only could be induced to brave the perils of cold and dirty river-water, weeds, and swans; but despite the small entry, the race was close, H. F. Green just managing to draw away from N. · C. Moses towards the' finish. E. L. G. Powys was third, the remaining competitor, N. A. Perry-Gore, accepting a tow from the attending boat.

H.F.G. THE TENNIS CLUB. TRINITY TERM,

~929.

Captain-}. C. ToLAND. Secretary-C. C. SHAW. The Tennis Club enjoyed a most successful season. The record of last year was beaten , for we won eight of the eleven matches played, and so justified the g·enerosity of the Amalgamated Clubs in providing us with six courts.

Unfortunately our Cup-tie with the Bouse had to be scratched, as three members of the side went sick; in fact we were never at our full strength all through the term. Perhaps, however, this sudden visitation of appendicitis, measles and chicken-pox was a blessing in disguise, for it adequately inoculated the team against the more distressing disease of ' staleness.'

R. Waye is to be congratulated upon winning what I hope will be the first of a series of annual open Single Tournaments. There were fifty-six entries for this event, and its popularity alone proved the worth of the enterprise.

For an almost indecent number of y ::: ars R. L. Franks has played tennis for the Hall : for at least three · summers he has been the mainstay of the side, and we have come to regard him- as we do Mrs. Barratt-as a necessary and natural adjunct to the welfare of the Club. It has been said of old soldiers that they never die. Incredible though it may seem, ' Shaky' has 'faded away.'

Colours were awarded to C. C. Shaw.

At a Colours' meeting at the end of term C. C. Shaw was elected Captain and E. L. H. Kentfield Secretary for the ensuing year.

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whole thing started because the Governor wanted to build a road between Mongalla and Bor, a station about eighty miles further up the Nile. And then, when he was in this constructive mood, along come two p eople in a motor-car and say that th ey vvant to go in it to Bor. Of course the first impulse of everyone was to say: 'You can't.' But t he Governor,. thinking of his road and of the latter end of man, restrained himself and sent me with them to find out what the country was like.

As a matter of fact, we reached Bor without any great trouble, and .I had about six days to wait until the steamer going· south should pick me up.

Bor you must know is a cluster of huts and houses at the edge of the Nile, and is situated on the only piece of firm ground for miles . The mosquitoes are awful, and they seem to have inbred with the houseflies, who can all give you a shrewd pinch. No one would think of staying the re for more than a night, unless he was a D . C., or unless he wanted to shoot a Mrs. Gray . _ Now Mrs. Gray is an antelope that has become depraved'. It has abandoned the dry land, and seeks all the most quaking, ·the most muddy, the most unhealthy places in which to live . . And to make things worse, the beast masquerades under the name of Mrs. Gray. A harmless English lady is brought in to make the a nimal respectable. Heuglin discovered it, and called it the ' Nile Lechwe,' which was certainly sufficient punishment. And as ' Nile Lechwe ' it was known until someone shot one, and s.e nt its skin and h ead back to the British Museum. There it was examin ed by Mr. Gray, who nam ed it after his wife, although she had never even seen the Sudan. But all this is a disgression. The Lechwe is one of the Cob family, with wonderful horns. curving back over his tubby barrel of a body. His hoofs are webbed, and he loafs about in the m arshes, swimming from island to island. He is comparatively rare, and everyone who has never been the re before wants to shoot one. And so did we.

By the time that we had got to Bor, we had been through enough difficulties to dispense with surnames, and so it was just Andy, Teddy, and Sanely. Teddy had b een -in the Sudan four or five times , and had shot almost everything. Andy was on his first trip, and was slowly getting. accustomed to the Sudan formula, 'Trust in no one and wait. ' I live here.

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So we hired two trackers, and a vast number of canoes. Then we chose a clay when it was raining hard in the early morning, and set out. The rain was not my choice, but it made the expedition more heroic. In the first canoe were two natives, Andy and myself.

Then came one of the trackers and Teddy, and two more natives.

Then more trackers, my two policemen, some friends of the paddlers, who thought it might stop raining, and fat old Osman Kambo, who never had any such illusions. H e is the skinner, and we thought he might be useful. For about half a n hour we paddled , south, along the Nile, and then suddenly, when the sky was clearing, we plunged into a side-stream . Nature realized what we were going to do ; of course she retaliated, and the rain came down harder than ever. In a little while we were sitting in deepish pools of water. We turned off again into a still narrow~r stream, where great tufted heads of papyrus nodded baptismally over us. And little by little the stream grew narrower and ¡narrower, and the reeds and the papyrus thicker and thicker, until at last we entered a tunnel of wet green stalks. At first the men paddled, then they punted the canoes, and at last they leaped out into t he ditch, and hauled us through. All this we saw in the intervals of killing mosquitoes and flying-ants, of rescuing our helmets , and of warding off the wet green stalks that reared to hit us. It is wonderful how vindictive both the plant and the insect world can be.

However, after about another hour we came out of the ditch into a wide lagoon . All the hippopotami came up into the rain to look and grunt at us. Another plunge through tangled plants brought us to another lagoon . vVe just let the men paddle along, and wondered wheth er our cigarettes would be w etter in trouser or shirt pockets. Experiment proved that there was no appreciable difference.

Osman Kambo had gone a moist sallow colour, and was murmuring disrespectful things about the English. But when he went on to steady unimpassioned blasphemy, we felt the end of our journey must be nea r.

It was . As we rounded a point, we saw some small black dots in the distance. They moved slightly, and then were identified. We stopped all noise, all except the pattering of the rain, and the ostentatious chattering of Osman Kambo's teeth.

The black specks got larger and larger, as we crept towards them; soon we were only four hundred yards away , and close to land. vVe ran the canoes on to the mud, and got out. We were so wet that when the water ran off our Burbe rrys on to our legs, and down our legs into our shoes, it overflowed at once, and .joined

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the lagoon. The natives, paralysed .with cold, all huddled behind some clumps of grass. We left Osman Kambo wringing his hands, and went off to stalk our quarry. Three watercourses had to be passed, in crouching attitudes, before we came into range. But by this time we were so black with mud, and so wet with rain, that we looked exactly like the surrounding country. I believe that we could have walked right up to the Lechwe.

However, we let Andy fire from a respectable distance, and he took quite a nice one. Then Teddy dropped the biggest buck in the herd. But it was hit far back, and it got up again and ran round some rushes where we could not see it. So Teddy made frantic signs to Andy, who was somewhere in that direction, and a minute afterwards he brought it down. vVe looked back, and waved Osman up, but he was as much hindered by his fat sticking in the mud as helped by its extra buoyancy. By now the rest of the Lechwe had disappeared into the mist. So somehow we got the beasts dragged to the canoes, and paddled back, wetter and wetter. It stopped raining just before we got to Bor. Of course, you may say, n6 one but a fool would go stalking Lechwe in wet weather. But hear the sequel, and judge. The next day was fine, and brilliantly hot and sunny. So the fleet set off again; Andy wanted a museum specimen of a Lechwe for Vienna.

I pass over the horrors of getting there. We sat in the canoe, immovably wedged between starboard and port, and the sun beat down upon our arms and knees, and the sun was reflected up from the water on to our faces . Some of us burned, and some of us peeled.

However, we got there, perfectly dry. And at the same corner, we gazed eagerly ahead. There was a thick black line on the hori. zon. All the boatmen leapt to their feet and shouted, 'Feel, feel, feel'; m eaning, 'Elephant.'

After a short consultation it was decided that Andy and I should go and look for the Lechwe, and Teddy should make a circuit round behind the elephants and have a look at them. If any large ivory showed itself, he was to shoot. We paddled on to the landing place of the day before, and found that the elephant had taken the Lechwe's playground. As we landed we were within a hundred and fifty yards of the herd. And Meyer, the cinematographer, whom I've forgotten to m ention before, wanted to film them. But we decided that he could not be sacrificed to herds of elephant cows and calves, and restrained him. He transferred his lens to some pelicans who were stalking gravely about.

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The next problem was to ~nd the Lechwe. And soon a careful study of the elephants showed that the Lechwe were calmly g razing in among them. This was rather a blow ; but wh ile we were wondering what to do, the problem settled itself. As Ted dy cam e up behind them the elepha nts m oved slowly off. He did not see th e L echwe, but of course they went off too. But they did ndt go far, and we cou ld see a Lechwe standing up wind of us , and slightly to the left of the elephants. So telling Teddy to remain behind, Andy went off again, and I follo wed. This time it was only up to the knees, but water on burnt skin is not pleasant, and when the mud dries it is agony. After some floundering about in long g rass, we · got within range, and Andy fi red. The L echwe sank without a murmur. But our immediate concern now was for the elephants.

They had been standing about tw o hundred yards to our right .

When the shot was fired, there w as immediately a terrific commotion. Trunks were waved in the air, and a horrid strangled trumpeting broke ou t. In a few seconds the whole herd tu rned round and trotted in T eddy 's direction . vVe got up hastily and walked , stumbling over old elepha nt tracks, to t h e J'eft, for if t h e elephants should g et our wind, they might be nasty. On the left there was a deep muddy stream, and after much plunging we got across w ithout getting stuck. vVe paused for breath, and iooked round, but just as we turned towards T eddy we heard two s hots. The elephants halted for a minute, and then on they went again with dust and trumpeting strai g ht towards the place w h ere he and the others were sta nding.

Suddenly , when they were only about a hundred yards away, I saw T eddy bend down a nd set light to the gras s. The wind was bl owing from the elephants to him, and so the fla mes could not hurt them.

H e then fired over" their h eads- it was the only thing that h e · could do. That checked their rumbling march , and w e thought ' that the excitement was a ll over.

Not at a ll. For when the elephants checked, they turned in their tracks and , still trumpeting, came back. They crossed · the stream where we had ·crossed . As we hurried down wind, to the left again, we looked anxiously ov,e r our . shoulders. They ha d ploughed through the mud , and were standing uncertainly, as if debating which way to go. They tried a few steps .in our direction, .and then h esitated. · At last, an old bull, in the middle of the herd, forced his way through the mud, and stood on the bank waving his trunk.

Then suddenly b e turned away from us and blund ered off into som e tall grass , and the others followed him. We stood and panted.

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I can understa nd the man w ho dislikes ho use-flies. But the man who sets out to kill a house-fl y in the middle of a swa rm of a ngry hornets, I cannot understand. Anyway, Vienna w ill have a very nice head : t he best one measured thirty inches on the curve. And the mosquito bites h ealed sooner than the sunbu rn .

P.

J.

SANDISON.

THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S VISITATION OF 16 f 3 URING the reign of Elizabeth a nd the first two S t uarts every Hall in the University underwent periodical visitation by the Vice-Chancellor. The supervision to w hich the Halls were thus subject is typical of the stricter standards of teaching, adm inistration, and discipline to which the whole University was being 1;equired to confor m . It is one of the characteristic features of this period of energetic reforma tion , which m ay be said to have begun with t he Chancellorship of the Earl of Leicester in I s64 and to have ended w ith that of Archbishop Laud 1 whose .famous Code of Statutes was published in r636.

In the University Archives there is p rese rved a volume (Pyx D , 24-27), entitled Visita.tiones A ularum. It contains copi es of the Articles of Enquiry min istered by several Vice-Chancellors in their Visitations of t he Halls , and other pap er s relating t o these Visitations . These documents range from rs8o to r649 . . It is not clear how often th ese Visita tions of Halls . took place. In this volume there is evidence of at least seven Visitations ha ving been carried out between these da tes.

The usual procedure w o uld seem .to have b een for the ViceChancellor to cause a copy of the Articles of Enquiry which he had drawn up for hi s Visitation to be posted in. every H all; and at the sam e time to app'o int a day on wh ich h e would visit t he Phncipal, schola rs a nd servants of each Hall in respect of the Articles ' to everie w h er eof true presentment is. to be made by them or such of th em, as s hall have speciall charge therefore, in writinge w ith their names thereto subscribed.' T he Articles of Enquiry were obviously very largely based on the Aularian a nd oth er Stat utes of the University, a nd each Vice-Chancellor would seem to have ha d b efore him t h e Arti cles of Enquiry issued for the previous Visitation and to have framed his own on the earlier model. But notw ithstanding this conventionalis m , these successive Visitation Articles make instructive reading for the picture of contempora ry University lifei>

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which they present. For this reason it is to be regretted that only a few of the returns that were made by the Halls in response to these Articles of Enquiry have been preserved.

In respect of St. Edmund Hall this volume contains: (I) the list of absentees from the Visitation of I58o; (z) the names of the three members of the Hall who were required to reply to the Visitation Articles in I597; (3) a set of sixteen special Articles of Enquiry attached to the Visitation Articles in I6oo, and the names of the members of the Hall who were required to reply to them; (4) the special Visitation of the H all which follow ed at the end of that year in consequence of certain 'disorders and negligences' reported of Principal Bousfield ; (5) the replies made for the Hall to the Visitation Articles of I6IJ; (6) 'a note of fees due to ye Principal!, manciple, butler, and cooke in Edmund Hall,' I6JI; and (7) the 'Customes of Edmund Hall,' c. I649¡ The case of Principal Bousfield apart, the only Visitation for which complete returns exist for St. Edmund Hall is that of I6I3.

The replies made to the Articles of Enquiry on that occasion are contained in ' a presentment made by Samuel! Deacon, Michael!

Thomson, Robert Bower, Rob. Greenwood, Charles Yonge, and Robert Jackson unto s uch articles as were delivered unto them by the right Worll Mr. Dr. Singleton, Vicechauncellor, the Igth of April!, I6IJ.' This presentment is printed here together with the Articles of Enquiry ministered by Dr. Singleton in his Visitation , which took place in the Dining-Hall between 9 a nd I I a.m. For the sake of convenience in reading, the presentment and the Articles of Enquiry have been combined , so that each article is followed Immediately by the answer made to it in the presentment.

I. Imprimis, you shall inquire and present whether you have morning praier dailie, and at what houre, and whether everie person of yo ur hall come dailie to yt. And whether you have grace before and after meales reverentlie saide , and whether all comminers come to and staie the saieing thereof reverentlie, and whether you have a chapter read e and hearde wth silence at dinner tyme in your hall.

Imprimis, unto the I article, vVe have morninge prayer dailie, in tearm e time betwixt 5 and 6 of the clocke, out of tearme time betwixt 7 and 8. Sundayes and holie dayes at 8 : a nd all the studentes frequent them. Alsoe wee have grace reverently saide before and after meales, all the commoners usually there present, and a chapter read at dinner tim e and heard wth silence.

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vice, and whether ·all have receved the holie communion yerelie accordinge to the Iawes in your parish church or else where; and who they be that faile in performance of the premisses.

Item, to the 2 article, all the studentes of our house yearlie receave the communion, though not soe often as the law requireth.

3· Item, whether all that be not graduates be taught the Cathechisme published by authoritie and have tutours over see them as well in religion as in learning and manners, and whether anie Cathechisme lecture be openlie reade in your Hall, according to the statutes.

Item, our Undergradua.tes have tutours, and are by them instructed in the groundes of religion . We have noe publique catechisme lecture reade in the hall.

4· Item, whether all kinds of exercise of learninge, as lectures, disputations, theames, and such like, be observed, according to the accustomed manner : And whether you have weekelie corrections, and whether alf Scholers and Bachilars do speke latin not onlie to the Principall Readers and Maisters of the house, but amongst themselves also and whether you have weekelie impositors to note offendours herein. ' Item, to the 4 article, omnia bene, except that the bachelours and schollars are negligent in speakinge of latine.

5· Item, whether any by wordes or deede amonge you have shewed themselves favourers of Papistrie in any poynte or given any vehement suspicion theirof by havinge any popishe prohibited books or by conversinge with such as be suspected of Poperie or otherwise, and who th ey be.

Item, to the 5, omnia bene.

6. Item, whether there be anie that doe seduce anie youth of this universitie in persuadinge them to goe to the seminaries beyonde the seas.

Item, to the 6 article, omnia bene.

7· Item, of what age be the ministers of your house yt be beneficed and whether they be studentes of divinitie, and frequenters of publique lectures, and exet-cises of divinitie, and whether they be graduates, and do weare apparell meete for their degree and calling. And who they be that are faultie herein.

Item, wee have 3 beneficed men in our hall, Mr. Busted, a bachelour in divinitie, about the age of 48 years, Mr. Zankie senior, Mr. in the artes, about the age of 30, Mr. Zankie junior, Mr. in the artes, about the age of 29, all preachers, and are apparrelled answerably to their professions.

8. Item, whether all your house above fifteene yeres of age ~P sworne to be true to commons; and whether your allowance of breadde, drinke, and meate be holsomlie and reasonablie provided : Whether your manciple laie out redie monic, or buye uppon credit: Wpether you have alwaies single beere accordinge to the custome of the Universitie, for the reliefe or poore scholars : Whether decrements in anie one quarter doth exceede the rate of ij d. a man weekelie, a nd how much : What servantes or officers you have

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belonging to your hall, as manciple, porter, b utl er, coque, or anie other : Howe mani e of each sorte :, Howe Ionge hath your ha ll had so manie : What wages, stipen de, or fese doth . each of them receve : vVhether a nie fese be latelie increased, wch hath not bin xxtie yeres since paide : Whether everie one doth his dutie in his owne person, or by another : vVhat the deputie hath for his paines and of whom : And whether to your knowledge a nie of the officers bought their places, or come freelie by t hem, a nd who they be.

Item, All our studentes in our house are sworne to be true to commons : Our a llowance of bread, drinke and meate is reasonably provided : Our manciple layeth out r eadie money : Wee have allwayes single b eere : What decr.e mentes come to, shalbe presented in the last a~;ticle: Wee have one cooke, one butler, one m anciple, and one bible-clarke who is our porter: they doe all their duties in their owne persons : such officers wee have had time out of minde : They came fr eelie to their places for anie thing wee know, or have cause to suspecf: What pay each of them receaveth wee have presented in the last article.

9¡ Item, whether all in your Hall as well servantes as other be matriculated according to the orders of the U niversitie : vVho they be yt are not : Howe jonge they have so remaiened; And who are their tutours?

I tern, to the 9 article, Cateseby is not matriculated : he hath beene of our ha ll above halfe a yeare: Mr. Thomson is his tutour.

10. Item, whether. the common goodes of vour Hall be well preserved a nd whether your hall, kitc hin, chambers, and¡ other places be well kepte in reparations?

Item, our dining ha ll, some windowes and stayres are not well repayred.

I I. Item, whether the statutes of yo ur Hall be openlie readde in the presence of all your .house .once everie halfe yere : And whether they be from tyme to tyme put in execution: And whether your gates be shut in due t ym e? ' Item , to the I I article, Our gates are ordinarilie shutt presently after 9 of the clocke : our statutes are dulie read, but not all executed; as, not speakinge of latine .

12. Item, whether anie of your Hall be walkers, lodgers out of your hall, haunters .of anie suspected houses, spreaders of unlawfull or seditious libells, freq uenters of unlawfull games, common swearers or blasphemers of God's holie name, drunkerds, quarrellers, contentious, or incontinent livers, and who they be?

Item, to the I2 article, omnia bene .

13 .. Item, whether anie of your Hall use anie hand gun, dagge, cros-bowe or such like by night or by daie, at home or abroade : And whether anie of your Hall keepe anie graiehoundes, spaniel, h awke, ferr et, or nett , or hunt the Kings Maties deere in the forrests adioyninge, or anie like game in a nie other parke or purlue without warrant or licence, and who they be?

Item, to the I3, omnia bene.

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE I4. Item, whether anie of yo ur H a ll other .than t he sonnes and heires of knightes use to be covered at anie publique assemblie wherein a doctor, maister of Artes, or Bachilare of !awe is present : or in the streetes, scholes or other places yeelde not dutie and severence to the superiours, and who they be?

Item, to the I4 article, All whom this article cloth concerne are faultie in not givinge due reverence unto doctors and mrs in publique meetinges.

IS · It\O m, whether there be anie usurers or simoniacall persons amongst yo u, and who they be?

Item, to the IS, omnia bene.

I6. Item, whether anie Schole·r doth ordinarilie weekelie spend in Battles a bove iiij s. vi d ., excepting the sonnes of noblemen, and the sonnes and heires · of knightes : and who they be that do exceede, what they do ordinarilie exceede?

I tern, our scholl ars spend in battles ordinarilie v s., wch summe if anie exceede he is usuallie punished by the principal!.

I7. Item, whether there be anie that do studie anie unlawfull stu die or science in your house and who they be?

Item, to the I7 article, omnia bene.

I8. Item, whether anie holidaies or fasting daies abrogated by authoritie are by anie superstitiouslie observed, and by whom?

Item, to the I8, omnia bene.

Ig. Item, w hether anie of your house doth goe out of the towne about the tyme of Visita tion, or about Easter, to th' intent (as it · maie be thought) that they be not present, w hen the rest of th e house receve the communion; and who they be?

Item, to the Igth, omni,a bene. ., 20. Item, whether anie have died in your house, whose testament is neither proved before the Vicechancellare for the tyme beinge, nor administration taken : and who they be that so died, and who so adrninstred the goodes of the decessed wthout authoritie?

Item, there died in our house since the last Visitation Henry Davies, gent, , George Steere, bachelour in artes , Abel \ tVilson, Mr in artes; their goodes were taken away by their friends, but what their names were wee know not.

21. Item, whether anie Scholare of your house ordinarilie go into the towne wthout leave of the Principal\,, or his tutoure, or use or frequent anie Tavernes, Alehouses or Tobacco houses or shoppes or places of Riout, or excesse, either in diet, or game, or goe abroacle in the streetes, standing in publique places , as Innes, pennielesse bench, or other publique places of the. towne, cont.rarie to the orders of this universitie, and who they be?

I tern, to the 2 I article, our schollars use to walke abroad wthout leave: in caeteris omnia bene.

22. Item, whether anie graduate or scholare· of yo ur house goe with anie disguised , Ionge, or shagged h a ire, or were unseemlie

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apparell, as bootes being not to wide, unseemely for schollers of ye U niversitie : And who they be?

I t ern, some of our house weare apparrell light coloured : in caeteris omnia bene.

23. Item, whether you knowe anie Scholare, or anie other in the countenance of a Scholare to lodge and ordinarilie to table in the towne : And who they be that so lodge or table ; And the house keepers that give them intertainment.

Item, to the 23 article, omnia bene.

24. Item, what rentes you paie quarterlie for your chambers; what paiementes for lectures ; and what paiementes you have beside lectures, commons and chamber rentes : Whether you have anie extraordinarie taxations wch might cause Scholares to forsake halls and lodge in the towne : and howe these paiements and uppon what stile they arise?

Item, to the 24 article, as followeth : r. The duties everie commoner payeth quarterlie.

Imprimis, to the poore vy d. xiij d.

Item, to the' butler by a pennie a weeke Item, likewise to the bible-clarke xiij d. xxd.

Item, lecture money Item, chamber rent xxd. iii d.

Item, culet to the principall iij s. vj d .

Item, to the cook e for fire, salt, &c. viij d.

Item, to the manciple Item , to the cooke for keeping the quadrangle ij d. iiij d.

Item, to the cookes wages vj d. ob .

Item, to the servantes Summa totalis ij s. v d. ob.

2. The feese due to th e principall. vj s. v j s.

Imprimis, for admittance to the house Item, for a fine for upper cha mbers X S. Item, for a fine for lower chambers vj s . vii j d. xxd.

Item, for lecture money quarterlie xxd.

Item, for chamber r ent quarterlie iij d.

Item, for c ulet money quarterly Item, of every one that taketh a degree X S. 3¡ The butlers feese.

Imprimis, at the admittance of everie commoner vj d.

Item, for writing their names he hath weekelie of everie man j d. vj d.

Item, for wages weekly

4¡ The cookes feese. iiij d.

Imprimis, at admittance of everie commoner Item, for coales, salt, candles in the buttrie and h all of everie commoner quarterlie iij s. vj d.

Item, for wages weekelie iiij d.

Item, for keeping the quadrangle and finding i j d. pot-hearbs of every commoner quarterlie Item, the kitchin feese

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5¡ The manciples feese.

Imprimis, at the admittance of everie commoner vj d .

Item , for going into the markett, weekly viij d.

Item, for everie 20s. he payeth the baker he hath ij s. viij d.

Item, for everie 20s. he payeth the brewer he hath j s.

Item, for everie 2os. he payeth the cooke he hath j s.

Item, for everie 2os. he payeth the mercer J s.

Item, for everie 2os. he payeth the cheesman j s.

Item, his quarterlie wages of everie commoner viij d.

6. The bible clarke hath weeklie for his feese of everie commoner resident in the hall j d.

7. Everie commoner that sitteth at the maisters table payeth at his admittance a peece of plate for the use of the house, or else 40 s.

If he sitt at the bachelours table he payeth to the same use 20 s.

8. Feese augmented wthin this 20 ye!kres.

Imprimis, the entrance is augmented ij s. vj d.

Item, the fine at the entrance into an upper chamber x s.

Item, the fine for- the entrance into an under chamber vj s. viij d.

Item, for coales quarterlie everie man j s. xxx s.

I tern, for sitting at the maisters table Item, for sitting at the bachelours table x s.

Item, ~or the poore quarterlie vj d.

Item, to the bible clarke weekelie everie man ob.

Item, the servantes wages weeklie everie man ob.

All these augmentations stand wth the consent and good likinge of the studentes.

SAMUELL DEACON (M.A.) MrcHAELL THOMSON (M.A.) RoBERT BowER (B.A.) RoBERT GREENEWOOD (B.A).¡ RoBERT }AcKSONN.

(M.A .)

It is Mr. Principalls request to your Worp for the good of those who may succeede him, to have a decree renewed and reestablished, wch was. heertofore eyther made, or confirmed

by Mr. Dr. Rives, when he was Vicechancellour, wch decree being recorded in the original! booke of statutes for the hall , was lost immediatelie after the death of Dr. Aglionbee, the late Principal!, and before the election of Dr. Rawlinson, Principal! that now is.

There is a certayne lodginge, part wherof standeth upon our hall ground, built by Mr. .Busfield, sometimes Prihcipall of the sayd Hall, for the use of himselfe and his successours, CHARLEs YouNGE

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A.B.E.

LET US ALONE. A Lyric Poem, descriptive of the Joys and Sorrows of the Sudan Government Offic~al.

The cares of a Government official are such That he doesn't need brain~and he doesn't do much.

If a difficult question falls to his share He says HAL,r BASH KATIB, * and ceases to car:e.

We rise early each morning, because in a place Where the army is also, we must save our face.

We walk round the station and see all the work; When they see that we're watching~of course they don't shirk.

We go to the office from nine until tw6, And for half of the week there's nothing to do.

But of course, as OFFIGE-ials, we have to be here, And you never can tell when some work may appear.

P' rhaps the afternoon really's our busiest time, For to work after lunch here is almost a crime; And HOrr as it may be-we 've just got to keep On ~triving and striving to get off to sleep.

After tea, in the evening, our duties are done, And we're free to admire the down-setting sun.

I think you'll agree that this is quite rightThe Government can't make us work day AND night.

Such then is the life that we lead at Mongalla, Though around us are scenes of extraordinary squalor.

It isn't too bad; for there's always the peaceGiving thought of our LEAVE, when this toiling will cease.

Your poet, REPOSITUM. *A peculiar cry, native to the Arab tongue, expressing resignation with an admixture of terro r : literally, ' Call the chief cleric'

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REVIEWS.

Under this heading there are noticed or reviewed recently published books or articles that possess a special Aularian interest due to their authors hip or to their contents. We shall be glad to hav¡e such books and articles brought to our notice.

LrTERARNI CrNNOST M. JANA RoKYCANY, M. ]ANA PRIBRAMA, M. PETRA PAYNA. By F. M. Bartos. Sblrka pramenu k poznani literarnlho zivota Ceskoshovenskeho, Vol. III, No.9¡ Prague.

1928. pp. I 14.

In this volume Dr. Bartos has added to the collection of literary sources for the history of Czechoslovakia , published under the auspices of the Czech, Academy, a learned catalogue of the works of three leading figur es in the Hussite Reformation, John of Rokycana , Archbishop of Prague, John of Pribr:am, a vigorous opponent of the Taborites, and Peter Payne, the Wyclifite Principal of the Hall, who made Bohemia his adopted country. It is the section relating to Peter Payne that concerns us here. Dr. Bartos, who is Lecturer in Hussite History at the University of Prague, is recognized in Czechoslovakia as one of the chief authorities on his subject, and it is, therefore, very satisfactory that he should have undertaken the task of compiling a full explanatory catalogue of as many of Payne's writings in MS. as he has been able to discover. The catalog ue is introduced by a preliminary review of existing literature treating of Payne, in which Dr. Bartos shows a thorough acquaintance with the English . s,o urces of information.

He has grouped Payne's writings into sections representing the chief phases in Payne's residence in Bohemia; each section is preceded by a brief introductory note. The first section, which covers the years 1415-21, is devoted to the early years of Payne's participation in the religious controversies that absorbed the Czech people. Eight tractates are assigned to this period. The earliest of these is ascribed to the year 141 s. and must have been written very soon after P ayne's arrival in Prague; It is a polemical tractate on the Calixtine question written in reply to Havlik. The next section contains nine MSS. bearing upon Payne's controversies with John of Pribram, a catalogue of whose writings is also included in this volume, and upon the successive diplomatic missions on which Payne served between 1426 and 1434. One of these MSS. is a sermon preached before the Emperor Sigismund at Bratislav (Pressburg) in 1429. After the battle of Lipan, so fatal to the Taborites, whose cause he had actively championed, Payne

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led a precarious and fugitive existence , being incarcerated for a time by one of the leading nobles of the Catholic party. By 1441 he h ad regained his liberty , and is found launching another tractate against J ohn of Pribram contra errores circa sacramentum altaris ~¡ en era bil e . Payne was indefatigable. Among the writi~gs of Payne's la ter years, Dr. Bartos includes the Ai(3EAAo<; -r~<; 7Ti<YTEW<; of a Hussite envoy who visited Constantinople in 1451. In an article which he contributed to the Sitzungsberichte der Konigl. bohm.. Gesellschaft deY Wiss enschaften in rgr s, Dr. Bartos showed good reason for a ttributing this confession of faith to Peter Payne.

If this ascription be correct, th en this exiled Oxfor.d Principal did not h esitate at the age of over seventy to try to get into sympathetic contact with the Eastern Chu rch. It is to b e hoped that Dr. Ba rtos will one day write a full biographical s tudy of this very remarkable man.

A.B.E. JunGE J ENKINS. By W. H. T erry. 1929. London, The Cayme Press. ros . 6d.

Mr. T erry's edition of some pamphlets by Judge J enkins and his opponent H . P. deserves m ention h ere b ecause Jenkins was a member of the Hall from 1597 t o r6oo. H e was, as his name suggest, a Welshman; h e was made a vVelsh judge; and, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, having joined the Royalist forces, he fell prisoner to the Parlia mentarians.

J enkins became a publi c figu re in r647, when, from his Parliam entary prison , h e wrote pamphlets to refute th e common arguments which were used to justify the attack on King Charles.

These pamphlets drew forth the a nswers of H.P., and, with som e censure of the new order of government, caused Jenkins to b e broug ht before the H ouse of Commons on a charge of hig h treason.

At the bar of the House-so the s tory was told in r68z-Jenkins refused to r ecognise the authority of the House wi th these words : ' Mr. Speaker, since you a nd the House have renounced all your duty and allegiance to your sovereign and n atural liege lord, the king, and are become a den of thieves, should I bow m yself in this house of Rimmon, the Lord would not pardon m e in¡ this thing. ' For his nicety, J enkins was voted g uilty of liig h treason and was sentenced to death; but his execution was deferred. H e was disappointed because he h ad prepared himself for martyrdom : ' I will tell you what I intend to do at that time. First, I will eat much liquorish and gingerbread, thereby to strengthen my lungs, that I may extend my voice fa r and near, for no doubt there will be great multitudes a t the place. And then I will come :vith Bracton' s book

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hung upon my left shoulder, with the Statutes at large hung on my right shoulder, and the Bible, with a ribband around my neck, and hanging on my breast. Then I will tell the people.' Instead, he lingered in prison till the Restoration, and had no more satisfaction than that of seeing p eace made on the terms which he had described in 1647. He died in 1663, unrewarded by the royal house whose rights he had defended .

In the claims which he made on behalf of S-tuart monarchy Jenkins was orthodox and moderate. He put forward common royalist theories, e.g. , 'that the supreme power in the kingdom is in the king only and not in the two Houses of Parliament,' that the king could do no wrong, and that the two Houses of Parliament could not act without the king. He was ready to admit that in the years before the war the ministers of the king had often been at fault, but he said that all faults of policy had been remedied and all legitimate cause for discontent removed by 1642 ; then, ' no people in the world so free, if they could have been content with laws, oaths and reason.' These were the opinions of enlightened royalists.

Jenkins was less orthodox in the choice of arguments to support his assertions regarding the king's power. Others argued that the king was absolute because he was God's lieutenant, or because reason taught the wisdom of putting supreme power in the hands of one man; but Jenkins, while he m entioned these arguments, laid chief emphasis on the teaching of the common law. The law recognised no other authority than that of the king Who has power to call a nd to dismiss Parliament, to do justice. to order the militia, to coin money, to make treaties, to veto bills r The law says, the king. H as any institution power to set limits to the king's au thority? The law says, no. Jenkins did not try to describe the sphere of a uthority enjoyed by the two Houses of Parliam ent, . nor did he ask what were the rights of the subject.

Ambitions and vag¡ue ideals did not concern him; his sole task was to piece together the specific provisions of the law w hich dealt with the right to execute acts of government in England, and to read their story. It was a simple story: ' the government of this kingdom by a royal sovereign hath been as long as his tory is.'

And the moral was: ' hold to the laws, this great body recovers; forsake them, it w ill certainly perish.' J enkins m ade o ut a case for monarchy which could not be controverted in law. Its strength seems to have been seen by his opponent, or H.P . , who, abandoning his attempt to m atch legal arguments with Jenkins, said in a later pamphlet that the king's power must ' submit to reason of

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state, and law is not violated but hetter improved when true reason of state takes place above it.'

It was J enkins's chief virtue as a controversialist that he turned upon the Parliamentarians the weapon which they themselves had perfected and used in their attack upon James and Charles. It was they who had first searched among the law books for p'recedents with which to o'verawe the king, saying, as H.P. does at first, 'our books proclaim our n ation to be a free nation and our kings to be limited from doing wrong.' Jenkins showed that the books spoke otherwise, and took pleasure in refuting the claims of Parliamentarians with the words of their oracle, Coke. To go back to the law for guidance in the constitutional struggle was to teach the Parliamentarians that they were the innovators, and to set forth the appeal for return to orderly government in the form most likely to be accepted by moderate men. Jenkins deserves praise for his wisdom in choosing this line of action, and for his courage in holding to it under the shadow .o f death.

Mr. Terry's work as editor of these pamphlets will bring him little but criticism. The t ale of his scholarly offences is too long to be told here. Let it suffice for comment that it must have brought a blush to his cheeks to read in an eminent review that he deserved credit for printing an unknown manuscript account of Jenkins's trial. There is nothing new or original in the book, except the idea of bringing together these few pamphlets concerning J enkins . It is hard to see how anyone could have given form to that idea with less labour or less scholarship.

F. G. MARCHAM. HENRY PARRY LIDDON. A Centenary Memoir. rgzg. Mowbray. rs . pp. xii and 52.

(The followif!Jg re-view is reprinted from THE CHURCH TIMES.)

Henry Parry Liddon was a child of the Oxford Movement. He held its main principles with firmness and loyalty throughout his life. ¡ He wrote the Life of Dr. Pusey, And yet he never claimed to b e a lead er of that Movement. He regardecj himself, so Bishop Talbot, who has contributed some interesting recollections of him to this Memoir, puts it, as a henchman to the great leaders of the past-one whose duty it was to carry on a great tradition. But in so doing he acquired an influence far beyond the circles into which the Oxford Movement had penetrated.

Through his sermons, the pulpi t of St. Paul's became a centre of religious inspiration to multitudes, which included Evangelicals and Nonconformists, as well as Catholics and High Churchmen.

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The secret of his power as a preacher is well explained in this booklet by Dr. Darwell Stone in these words: 'Dr. Liddon's supreme g-reatness as a preacher did not always mean that his words were more satisfying or more permanently valuable than the teaching of any other of his time. It was the union of oratorical power and skill with knowledge and thought and character that gave him his unique position' . . .

Unquestionably, the most interesting document in this volume is the hitherto unpublished sermon of Liddon himself on St. Edmund (Rich) of Canterbury. Liddon preached this sermon in the chapel of the Hall, of which he was the Vice-Principal, on November 17, r861. It we would realise the intellectual force of this discourse, it would be well to compare its estimate of St. Edmund with the more Protestant presentation of the same Saint offered in Dean Hook's 'Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury. ' Dean Hook was, we must never forget, a High Churchman.

H e believed in the continuity of the Church; and he sympathised with the Oxford Movement in its early stages. But his anti-Roman prejudices warped his historical judgment. For this reason he could never grasp the exact theological position of St. Edmund, which Liddon thus accurately explains: 'Since the time of Abelard, a rationalistic spirit had made itself felt in the professorial chairs of Europe, and the authority of Aristotle was commonly preferred against the Gospel by the adherents of the intellectual movement against the Faith. The earnest piety of St. Edmund could .have no sympathy with these errors, so fatal to his Master's honour; and from the notices of his teaching which remain, nothing is more obvious than its double character of doctrinal positiveness and tender reverence. ' In connexion with this passage, it must be remembered that the philosophical reconciliation between Aristotle and Catholicism had not been accomplished in St. Edmund's time. Liddon himself, in a Catholic sense, was an Aristotelian. On this very point, as Bishop Talbot writes, he was an Aristotelian rather than a Platonist; indeed, he thought if a man preferred Plato to Aristotle, it was likely to be theologically disastrous. Preaching, be it remembered, in r86r, Liddon, while not regretting the separation of the Anglican Church from the control of the Ro~an jurisdiction, could yet say : 'These blessings are not unbalanced; the divisions of the Western Church and the upgrowth of the Puritan spirit, which in its turn has generated, however unintentionally, the modern infidelity, are sorrows from which St. Edmund in his day of trial was mercifully spared. '

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And in conclusion let us quote the preacher's impressive words on St. Edmund's advance in sanctity: ' St. Edmund was always making progress ; he ~as greater at Oxford than at Abingdon, greater at Paris than at Oxford, greater at Salisbury than at Oxford or Paris; greater still, not merely after an ecclesiastical, but as measured by a moral standard, at Canterbury; greatest of all, when his character was perfected in sorrow and sickness at Pontigny . ' To read such passages as these is to regret that L iddon did not devote some of his time to the writing of books on the Saints of the Middle Ages .

Liddon's attitude to the theological and ecclesiastical controversies of his own time was Conservative, though politically he was a Gladstonian Liberal. One of the last of the old ' Students of Christ Church,' he deeply regretted the abolition of life fellowships and the clerical and celibate qualifications in respect of them .

Bishop Strong, who portrays his life at Christ Church, admits that ' some of the things he most feared, as a result of this change, have happened ' ; but adds, ' their effect has not been quite as he expected.' It is, we may submit, still too early to dogmatize on the point.

This, however, must be said. Oxford and Cambridge have certainly been largely secularised as educational institutions, and the effect is bad. The fact that good Christian work is done in these Universities cannot obviate, if it may mitigate, the official loss¡ of religion and tradition.

Dr. Liddon was, in a sense, a fundamentalist; but it is well to be reminded by Dr. Strong that he was less anti-Darwinian than was Pusey, and also that Pusey himself criticised 'the rigour of Liddon's arguments as to our Lord ' s earthly knowledge. ' On the whole, every page in the booklet, including the contributions from the Chaplain of Liddon House and the Principal of St. Edmund Hall, which we have not space to discuss, deserve reading. And we trust that the two Appeals here made, for a Liddon Exhibition Fund at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and the other for Liddon House, will both obtain warm support from our readers.

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MEDIEVAL TREATIS E ON LETTER - VVRITING, WITH EXAMPLES, FROM

RvLANDS LATIN MS. 394¡ By \IV. A. Pantin. rgzg. Reprinted from' The Bulletin of John Rylands Library,' Vol. 13, No. 2 , July, rgzg. Manchester University Press. zs. pp. 6o.

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designed to teach medieval students the laboured art of letter writing . T h e author appears to have been ' a clerk of the k ing or some magnate or, more prabably, a teacher of dictamen at O xford, in the firs t quarter of the fifteent h century.' The chief interest of the t reatise lies in the letters which the author has brought t ogeth er to illustrate various kinds of correspondence. P articularly noteworthy are the letters which touch ul?on Oxford.

One of these (No. 76) calls for special mention h ere . It is a letter addressed to his father by a yo ung graduate who is s tud ying Civil Law at a Hall in Oxford, and as such it is a r ar e document m uch to be prized. As the occasion of the letter is the writer's need of money, it will be r ead ily understood why the com piler of the treatise selected this letter as likely to prove an acceptable epi stolary exemplar. The Latin in which the letter is written is sorry stuff. Translated, it m ay be said to run as follows : -¡ ' May this not come upon you as a surprise, even though I dare a lready to assail your benignant ears with profuse petitions that of you r piety you send m e money. I cannot escape from h eavy expenses; with difficulty will my money scarce suffice for my n eeds un ti l the return of the bearer of this letter, since not only in common s am I not able to do with less than 8d. a w eek, but also in divers other neces saries I h ave spent or needs must now spend the money that I brought with me, viz., in travelling expenses to Oxford for me and .my horse, 3s . 4d.; In the purchase of two books in O xford after I cam e up, to wi t, the Codex and the Digestum V etus, 6s. 8d. ; to the doctor whom I attend for the ' ordinary ' lecture, zs . ; and when there is also taken into account t h e r emuneration of our manciple and cook, the rent of m y study, anu many oth er necessaries which for the sake of brevity I refrain from enumerating , it will be clearly seen that I have not incur red unreasonable expenditure. ' There is, too, another thing I was minded to tell you in this connexion. There has not b een better instruction here for students in Civil L aw than is obtained this year, for there are two doctors here lecturing continuously, whereas hitherto there was only one ; and as they try to em ulate one another th ere is great er progres s made and more useful instruction given. Certai nl y in the H all w h ere I a m things are well and properly ordered , and we h ave good instruction; and so, w ith the h elp of God's grace and your assistance, I shall purs ue to a happy perfection the studies that I have begun . vVherefore I have been moved the more instantly to beseech yo ur b enevolence that you deign to send me by the bearer of this letter whatever it please you, and be certain to write clown

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in any reply you give to the courier the amount of the sum, whatever it is, you send . me, and at the same time particularly make known to me the state of health of your praiseworthy self. ' Besides, I would wish that I may be informed through the courier whether ¡you received a letter from I. W. de H., which I sent to you by him about the Feast of Saint F. These matters being set forth and by your discerning judgment more intimately understood, I shall feel assured that my petitions will be effectually satisfied at your hands; and so I will continue to devote myself to scholastic study which I will not dishonour with the slumber of slothfulness, but I will be assiduous and vigilant until such time as I shall attain to the knowledge that is so much to be desired.

'Fare you well in Him whose mercy is without number; may the virtues of your body and soul be for ever strengthened ; and pray have me commended [ . . . . J and to my mother, all my friends and all your family to whom [ . . . . J I am duly bound by indis soluble ties, for thankfulness to Him [ . . . . J has [not] escaped [my J memory nor ever suffers the loss of obiivion.'

From what is said in this letter, it may be supposed that the writer, having graduated in Arts, was studying Civil Law at an Inn, as the Halls to which Law students belong¡ed were commonly called. It was generally recognised that the cost of residence at one of these Halls was rather more expensive than it was at a Hall for undergraduates reading for an Arts degree. The 'ordinary' lecture referred to was the morning lecture given on the regular lecture-days in the Schools.

A. B. E. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SACRAMENTALISM. By the Rev. ]. W. C. vVand, M.A., Fellow, Dean and Tutor of Oriel College. 1928.

Methuen & Co. 6s .

This book is a lucid account of the genesis and development of Hebraic sacramentalism and of its incorporation into the religion of Christ, where it comes to full fruition. The evolutionary process is traced with care from the beginnings up to the present day.

Interesting analogies with ethnic observances are drawn, and an attempt is made to trace the influence of pagan rites on Jewish and Christian sacramentalism.

The author, in his interpretation of the prophetical message, indicates a new way of approach which, in the case of the later prophets, bids fair to prove the true one. But it is to be doubted whether Amos and Hosea were as thoroughly sons of their age as their successors. Comparison with the obscure sect of the Rechabites leads one to suppose that these two prophets were

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quite as iconoclastic as their writings appear to testify. The evidence ad duced to prove the influence of the mystery-cults m Galilee is suggestive but not conclusive, particularly when it IS considered in the light of the Gospels.

The pre-eminent virtue of the book is its sense of continuity , whilst its keen perception of the fundam entals underlying both the Jewish and Christian sacramental rites is balanced by an understanding of the differences between them.

A. E. A. S. TORYISM AND THE PEOPLE¡, I8i3Z~I846 . R. L. Hill. vVith Foreword by Keith Feiling. 1929. Constable. ws. 6d. pp. 278.

Owing to the indisposition of our reviewer, we are unable to include a review of Mr. Hill's book in this issue of the Magazine.

MYTH AND MIRA;CLE, AN ESSAY ON THE MYSTIC SYMBOLISM OF SHAKESPEARE.. By G. Wilson Knig ht. 1929. Burrow and Co. zs. 6d.

The commentator upon Shakespeare starts under a severe handicap : already the bones of Shakespeare have been preserved from disturbance by a mountain of commentaries high enough to form a more effective safeguard thari all the curses engraved on old tombstones. The humble reader of Shakespeare, confronted by this mass, recalls with thankfulness the vision of Gulliver at Glubbdubdrib.

Mr. Knight asserts his intention of ig noring the possible effect of sources and cop.temporary manners upon the work of Shakespeare, and declares that he will 'fix attention solely on the poetic quality and human interest of the plays conc~rned,' herein making the primary error of assuming that the attention is ever likely to wander. He traces the development of Shakespeare's mind through the ' sick soul ' period of the problem plays to the more noble conflict of the tragedies and thence to the Final Plays.

He remarks that the storms w hich play so large a part in the atmosphere of Macbeth and King L ear, symbolising the tragic conflict of th e human element, give place in Antony and Cleopatra (one of the last of the tragedies) to a 'new mystic symbolism' in the scene based on Plutarch's account of the weird music heard in Alexandria the night before Antony's final defeat, and suggests that this shows the merging of tragedy into the mysticism which is to be the keynote of the Final Plays.

This mysticism he finds in Pericles' listening to the music of the spheres on his m eeting with Marina, in the reviving of

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Thais a by Cerimon' s combination of magic and music, and in the restoration of Thaisa to Pericles. He stresses the storm-symbolism in this play and in the Winter's Tale, and attempts to vindicate the universally-criticised Vision of Jupiter in Cymbeline ; the rhythmic soothing of tragic wounds is supposed to reveal in Shakespeare a knowledge of the transcendental, a mystic interpretation of the sufferings of humanity, wherein death itself is a delusion.

Mr. Knight's final point is that in the Tempest Shakespeare is delineating the development of his spiritual powers; he proves this by referring the characters and the part they play in the Tempest to the mental states he has assumed Shakespeare to reveal in the problem-plays and the tragedies. At first sight, the argument is effective, for this essay shows a consistency and a poetic instinct in the author; but the grounds for assuming mystic symbolism in these four plays are scarce. The first three have been ignored, or at least have received no serious consideration ever since their composition three hundred years ago : it is unlikely that beauty or skill could have passed unnoticed for so long; and the Tempest, perhaps the best-loved "of all Shakespeare's plays, can only lose, by analysis, some of the fantasy which gives it its charm.

H.F.G. The October number of A me ric an Speech (Vol. V, No. I) contains a very informing article by A. W. Read, entitled Observations on lmva Place Nanws . If anyone were to suppose that the varied interest that attaches to the study of place names is confined to those of ancient origin, he should turn to Mr. · Read's article. R. L. Stevenson, as Mr. Read has ·discovered, once expressed the opinion that ' there is no part of the world where nomenclature is so rich, so poetical, humorous and picturesque as the United States of America.' How far the place names of Iowa may be said to substantiate this opinion is one of the questions which has exercised Mr. Read's attendon, and he honestly warns us that 'we may find on the average a banal mediocrity,' with only a sprinkling of oddities __:____, a Broken · Kettle or a Big Whisky Creek here and there to mark the path of less conventional pioneers. But whether or not they be picturesque or poetical, the place names of this prairie State provide a very complete synopsis of the conditions that have characterized a hundred years of hustling exploitation and development in the Middle West. Mr. Read has made this admirably clear in his careful and well ordered survey.

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Sir Mark Hunter has contributed an article entitled Spiritual Values in Shakespeare to Speculum R eligionis, being Essays and Studies in Religion and Literature from Plato to Von Hugel, presented by the Members of the Staff of University College, Southampton, to their President, Dr. Claude G. Montefiore, and published by the Clarendon Press.

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