Dec 1898

THE

PETERITE. Vol. . XIV .

DECEMBER, 1898 .

No . 136.

SCHOOL LETTER. INCE the last number of the Peterite " appeared, several events of importance have taken place ; the most important of these was the long .promised visit of the Bishop of Bristol . After preaching at the Minster, on Sunday evening at a special service, which was attended by the School, on the Monday following he came up to the School where he was presented with a small gift in commemoration of his election to the See of Bristol a fuller account appears on another page.

Among the other subjects most prevalent in our minds at this time of the year are Football and Theatricals . The Football team is now practically settled and so far has done fairly well ; they have won two and lost 5 matches, but most of the hest matches have been played and before the end of the season we hope to see the number of " wins " nearer to that of the " losses " than at present.

We were very glad to see the Giggleswick match once more arranged, and the match turned out to be the best yet played after the long journey we were only beaten by z tries to nil ; perhaps the balance would have been the other way had the match been at York . The second fifteen are a promising though small team, and consequently were beaten badly by St . John ' s A, who brought a heavy team against them . Mention of the 2nd XV calls to mind the subject of znd XV caps which was talked about a short time ago are any steps being taken to obtain them ?

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The Theatricals this year are handicapped by the number of novices who have had to take large parts, as nearly all last year' s actors have left and at least two of those still at school are prevented from acting by working for " Schols ." The play chosen is " Love's Labour ' s Lost," it was last performed in 1892, so it will be witnessed by a few for the second time . Each rehearsal shows marked signs of improvement, and we have no doubt the play this year will maintain the high level of former years.

The Rev . Norman Bennett gave a most interesting lecture on Northern Palestine to the School, and of the large number of limelight views shone, a few were taken by the Headmaster on his tour in Palestine.

Why do not the Members of the School try to relieve the hard worked Editors, by contributing something to the " Peterite ?

SERMON BY THE BISHOP OF BRISTOL. A special service was held in the Choir of York Minster on behalf of the Home and Foreign Mission Fund of the School, the sermon being preached by the Right Ri v . Forrest Browne, Bishop of Bristol, who received his early education at the School . The Head Master, and a large number of the scholars were present . His lordship took for his text, " Behold I make all things new, "

Rev.

xxi ., 5 . He said that they knew that in the physical body of man there was no such thing as stagnation, if there be it was the foreboding of death .

Men of science, who had so much to

tell us in understanding the things eternal and Divine, told us that our tissues changed in the course of seven years, and that no part of the body, he supposed of the more tender tissues, was the same as it was before . "There in that ancient building, those who knew its history, had very direct teaching of how the old was kept new . "There might he some present who remembered the fire of 1829, when that end of York Minster was burnt down by a fire lighted at what then corresponded with the

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throne opposite to him . Some might vividly remember, but not with the same vividness as he remembered it, the fire of i 8+o.

Why he remembered it so vividly was because he was taken out of bed and carried through the streets lest the towers should fall on the house in which he lived . Their thoughts were also turned that day to an ancient school which in outward form had changed, and changed, and changed, beginning from the time when as far as they could tell its site was just on the west side of the Chancel screen and extended down the middle of the Nave . In all cases the outward form changed, but the life continued . He might carry them down later to the year 188o, when the South Transept, which looked so essentially a part of the old building, was built absolutely new . Like the body of man with the same soul, those great institutions, those great fabrics were kept healthily alive by being made new . But the principle was not new . So it was with that ancient school to which their special attention was being called . From the first account they received of it, more than 1,200 years ago, Bishop Wilfrid received the sons of nobles and others to educate, and he educated them on the principle that when their education was finished, and the time came when they should choose their lots in life, whether their lot be in the service of the King in arms or whether they served God in an ecclesiastical station, they should be found fit for their work . No more beautiful principle could be found in the life of the oldest school in the Kingdom than that . That had been the string—the golden thread —from that time on which had been strung the pearls of many a successful life. Some, great ones in the eyes of the world, and many not as the world knew them . Those quiet and successful lives which passed away without leaving any mark except the gratitude of those who had seen them live . They could look at the School 1,150 years ago, when the School had Kings for its nursing fathers and Queens for its nursing mothers ; and again, some fifty years later when Charlemagne sought advice from the Head Master as to the teaching of his turbulent nobles how to guide themselves.

The Head Master obtained leave from the King and Council, so great was his position in those times, to absent himself ; and he

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went in person and ruled and governed all the educational and religious affairs of that enormous Empire which stretched from Spain to the furthest limits of what is now known as Germany . So he might go on mentioning one interesting fact after another, all telling the citizens of York that it was no mean educational inheritance on which they had entered . He was told that there was to be a new governing body, but they would never do better than with the ancient governing body, the Dean and Chapter, under whom the School had attained great success, and to whom he was grateful for four years of complete and free education, and was also helped in his University course, a help without which Ite could not have gone through that course, and without which he would not possibly, humanly speaking, be standing there . But the times changed, and they had to keep abreast of the time, and he would ask and urge the citizens of York that they would make all things new . There was much that the School wanted to bring it up to modern requirements, and if the citizens tinder the new governing body will provide what was absolutely necessary, he was sure that the work and intelligence of Yorkshire boys would produce in their generation such results as from the earliest times had made the City of York proud and the citizens glad . As he was told that no small number of the boys was present, he would urge them to remember that much as might be done by the School, by equipment, by carefully selected masters, and, by the curriculum which might fit for any work, that, so to speak, was the machinery, but the real living thing was just the boys, and it rested with t hem to do their part, and if their part was done that famous School would go down to the future generation not shorn of its past glory ; higher;,and greater than in the long past they could not expect, yet it might be the greatest thing of all, the leaven of religious influence and of hearty sincere work in this part of England . He said that they who were away from York anxiously watched the career of the School and its successes . He was - told that the collection that evening was to be given to a fund dear to the hearts of the boys of the old School . The aim and object of the boys of St . Peter's Schoo l to-day was quite worthy of the most noble, the most lofty of the

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achievements of the past . He mentioned the objects of the Clergy Orphan School and the help to the Diocese of Caledonia in the far North-West of America, and went on to say that he had another sign of the temper, and spirit of the boys in this, that when they desired to give some grateful old school-fellow a token to mark a step in life, they could not think of a better gift, and he could think of no better one, than a plain old Holy Bible.

The collection was in aid of the Home and Foreign Missions of St . Peter ' s School.

PRESENTATION TO BISHOP OF BRISTOL. Several of the parents and friends of the boys witnessed the presentation . Hearty cheering greeted the Bishop when he arrived, accompanied by the I-Iead Master and the Dean of York.

The Head Master in introducing the Bishop of Bristol, said that as a foundation scholar of St . Peter's his lordship put his foot on the first step of the ladder of his long and distinguished career.

At Cambridge he took his degree among the wranglers, and obtained honours in what then corresponded to the theological tripos . In due time he was elected to a fellowship of his College, and then for many years he managed the great system of the Cambridge University local examinations . Then he became successively Canon of St . Paul's, Bishop of Stepney, and Bishop of Bristol . They all wished his lordship every success in his high position, and if he might very respectfully offer a little advice he would ask the Bishop if possible to reserve the great experience and judgment he had gained in his long and varied career, and apply them to the great questions in the Church which demanded judicial . firm and kindly treatment . The bishops of the present were much too hardly worked, and there was a danger of their energies been expended on details . They felt very grateful to the Bishop of Bristol for the kind interest he had always shown in the School, and he would ask the captain, in the name of the present.

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School, and of the old boys, to present the Bishop with a Bible which, by his lordship ' s own choice, was to be placed in his private chapel . (Applause .)

D . \V . Roy, the captain of the School, then presented the Bishop with the Bible amid applause.

The Bishop of Bristol first expressed his gratitude for the most useful, valuable, and highly prized token of their regard which he had just received . Very few of them, he supposed, had ever seen him in the flesh, but their hearts went out towards him because he was an old boy of their own School . It should be the first aim of a boy at school so to act, that when he came back, however old he might be, his return should be accompanied with a sense of thankfulness and gratitude, and he should be able to look straight in the face of those who had known his career as a boy . He should endeavour to go through life so that there could be no one before whose eyes his own had to fall because that other person knew something that was not to his credit . If they did that, it would always be a pleasure and delight to them to come back to the scene of their early boyhood . Personally, he got, he hoped, into at least as many scrapes as any boy of his time . (Laughter .) But there were scrapes and scrapes, and it was as much the business of a boy to get into wholesome scrapes as it was the business of a master to come down upon the boy for those mistakes . (Laughter and applause .) He exhorted the boys to accept from the masters that kindly discipline which was so much less severe in the present days than it was in his own boyhood, If on both sides there was a pleasant friendly recognition of their mutual relations, then they would have nothing to recall with regret . It was more than fifty years since he obtained his scholarship at that School, and he remembered meeting the then head master, who afterwards became Archdeacon Hey, a name much beloved in York, and, who, putting his hand on his shoulder, said, " You are one of the scholars . " The advice given him by the head master was so sound, so unquestionably sound, that there was not the slightest chance of his following it .

(Laughter .)

No one could merely reserve himself for big things . It was impossible for a Bishop to pick and

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choose . The people who did that were just the people who did not get on with their work . The prominent men in England today were the men who were so immensely full of work that they had time for nothing else . (Applause .) There was no chance of getting an average distribution of wealth throughout the country ; nor was there any chance of an average distribution of work.

Certain lives had to engage in a large amount of work, and they had to give themselves up to it . He could assure them of the intense gratitude with which he looked upon that great School and the great pride with which he regarded it . Having referred to the ancient origin of the School, its association with Egbert afterwards Archbishop of York, and Alcuin, his lordship said he had very little doubt that in founding his great School, Charlemagne based the institution on the example set him in the city of York.

(Applause .) The words of the anthem sung in the Minster on the previous evening, " Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way," gave them a strong golden thread, on which every detail of their life should be based, gathered and strung . He hoped they would begin early in life to spin that golden thread, and that none of them, whether in time or eternity, would ever have to say that that thread had snapped . (Loud applause).

The Dean of York then addressed a few words to the boys, referring to the distinguished career of the Bishop of Bristol, and adding that above all they admired his sterling qualities of character Referring to the recent changes in the governing body of the School, the Dean said he hoped that in the future the School would be conducted on the lines of the days gone by, and if that was so they could have every hope that the prestige of the past would be continued . (Applause .)

The proceedings then concluded with cheers for Bishop Browne, the Head Master, the Dean, etc .

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IV.—THE PROBLEM EXPOUNDED, (With a Reflection on Pessimism).

Of the sequence .

It may hap that you have been heart-searching : but how can I gue-s aright what have been your thoughts ? and how can I then lay before you their true answer ? Yet, if it cannot be that I should wholly content you and lay to rest all your heart-burnings and asking, I may still enlighten you in some little way, though even here I feel fearsome, of the beginnings of the riddle.

r Pessimism .

In these days, the spirit of man is darkened ; there has been broadcast the seeds of evil teaching, the teaching that this is the worst of all worlds, which our God were able to make . Since thus boldly outspoken are these teachers, small wonder is it that they

the pTace of have even that they have even dared to speak ill of Love,—Love to L. 1n which all our noblest clearest seers look for the hope of our dear evoTution

earth, Love from which has sprung all that is beautiful and good among us, all the self-sacrifice by which we mount towards the Godhead . For would you but ponder over man ' s story and mark the path by which he has come from a very beast to a being a little lower than the angels crowned with glory and honour, underneath whose feet all things are put, the temple of the Indwelling God, you could not fail to find how large a part this wondrous feeling of ev„Totion of Line .

Love has played . But Love has not always been the same ; it too, has grown purer and loftier and withal methinks not any the rarer.

Let me show you : it was one thing to love a woman for herself, it is another to love her for her soul, for all that makes her a thing unto herself. And sure am I, there is a kinship of soul, even though some may mock and some may scoff.

f a form of It is alive and kindled, when we make our choice ; it moulds the oraT Selccun towit— trend of our inmost wish . You may remember these verses from ctive Affinities one of those quaint tales in " The Earthly Paradise " where, mid

" the wild tumult of the ruined day " Walter draws rein before the darksome cavern in the Hill of Venus . They run so :—

" Of such fair women, as he erst had seen, The names he named and thought what each had been .

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Yet as he told them over, one by one But dimly might he see their forms and still Some lack, some coldness cursed them all, and none The void within his straining heart might fill ."

There was none whose soul, his soul might love . ' Tis a sad tale, save where at the end the old Pope dies, full of faith, in the wonder which he has seen, " Too glad for smiles or tears or any speech . " But I wander.

It gladdens me to think it is not so with us all, that many of us, nay, can I not say, most of us, win the heart of her, who shall make whole and fair and sweet our life here and may we not hope, hereafter too . I trust we have no cause to say with the Preacher : " One man among a thousand, have I found, But a woman among all these, have I not found ."

His was a gloomy outlook, he missed all the brightness, all the earth and it disheartened him . " What profit bath man of all his labour, Wherein he laboureth under the sun ?"

There is no cheer, no hope of progress in his toil, he does not look for better times to come.

It is an ill teaching, which dulls the soul of the learner, which mars his life and saps his strength and force.

Deep source of sorrow is the direful ruin, it has spread among the youth of our towns whose lives it has embittered and in no way has it been more harmful than in hardening our hearts to the tenderest and, from its very place and purpose in life, the most ennobling of passions . We still love and wed, but alas! our love, it has lowered from its proud height.

Much more I would say but I cannot now.

This Eastertide I have been out alone into the presence of Nature . The world was just awakening from its winter sleep and standing on you high wold and looking forth on fruitful dale, where the church spire peeps out from amid the trees and like incense, the blue smoke curls gently heavenward from the clustering white washed cottages, or on glittering streamlet, where it winds

The return of Pessimisn

of the? consequence: Pessimism HopeTessne and ""hero i.istTessnes

The Conde

>>„st,, .,p, of the ear beautiful

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along through flowering meadows to meet the shimmering waters

of

the horizon, wreathing with mist and vapour, where the blue

waves sparkle in the flood

of

sunlight, and far out over which we

longingly imagine " Some shadowy isle Midmost the beating

of

of bliss

the steely sea,"

Some island-valley of Million f ° Deep meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns, " where we can heal us

of

our hurt ; at such a time, it seemed as

if

soon, the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches should pass away like some horrid nightmare and the fair dream of our beauty-loving seers might soon perhaps come true, and then—As I write these last words, the shadows lengthen and our busy world is hushed, and through the deepening gloom, a vision floats before my eyes . The truth is slowly borne in upon me, as I sit silent in the falling night .—Soul of my soul ! My delight, after all thou art the best !

FAUNUS.

FOOTBALL. ST . PEFEK ' S SCHOOL, V . OLD PETERITF :S. Bingham kicked off for the School and play settled in the Old Boys' 25 . The Old Boys by good kicking on the part of Shepherd worked into the School zs, and Walton dodged over about halfway out ; Eastwood failing to convert . Play for some short time was in the School 25, and the Old Boys by smart passing got the ball out, to Sullivan, who ran round and scored in good position . Shepherd missed the goal . The School forwards now playing a hardworking game, the hall was carried to the Old Boys ' 25 and shortly after into touch in the corner . Teasdale got possession from the line-out and scored in the corner . Bingham landed a very fine goal . The School forwards now playing a very fine game, made repeated attempts to score in the corner, many times the ball being

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held over the line . Nelson kicked to Shepherd who made a mark, and landed in touch at half way . Scrummaging occurred in the centre, and Sullivan running strongly was pushed into touch at the School corner . From the line out Russell got over unmarked, and Sullivan converted . The School again worked their way up the field and were in the Old Boys ' 25 when half time was called . Score: I goal and 2 tries I I points to I goal 5 points.

Russell kicked off, and Otley found touch at half way . The Old Boys got possession, and Walton dodged over between the posts ; Shepherd converting . Soon after the Old Boys got possession in a scrimmage, and Sullivan scored halfway out .

Shepherd missed the goal .

The Old Boys pressing strongly ; Nevile scored from the line out . The Old Boys again pressed strongly, and the School repelled a good bout of passing by their forwards .

A bout of passing by the Old Boys ' backs resulted in Rose being pushed into touch at the corner . Another bout of passing resulted in Joicey scoring under the posts . Tomlinson converted . Walton again got away and scored, Eastwood converting . The School now pressed again and a minor resulted . Henson kicked off and Otley found touch at the Old Boys ' 25 . The Old Boys gained ground, and Eastwood getting possession kicked into the middle of the field, and a School back kicked and followed up causing Walton ' s kick to go wide . Nelson gained possession and scored far out . Bingham failed to convert, soon after time was called with the score—4 goals 4. tries 32 points to to I goal i try S points . The School forwards played a very good game, holding their own against their heavier opponents and often shoving them . The School backs, with a very fine combination against them, were obviously out-classed.

SCHOOL . F'

JOHN ' S COI .I .EOE.

S . John's kicked oft and play settled down at half-way . Good work by the School forwards and a good kick from Otley, found touch at S . John ' s 25 . From the line out Smith broke away, but was tackled, S . John' s forwards using their feet smartly made a rush, but Roy saved ; several scrummages on the touch line resulted

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in a free-kick against S . John ' s, for not putting the ball in straight.

Bingham had a shot at goal, but the ball vent wide . S . John's dropped out, Bingham returned into touch, a loose rush by the S. John's forwards sent the ball in touch in the School 25 ; exchange of kicks by the backs, resulted in Roy getting possession, and running to S . -John ' s 25 ; the ball went into touch . Wilson got possession at the line-out and passed to Nelson, who scored far out ; Bingham failed at goal . From the drop-out Bingham got possession and kicked across, following up strongly ; good passing by the School forwards was seen and Bingham got over but was called back to the whistle . From a scrummage on the line B . Nelson got possession and dropped a fine goal . S . John's pressed from the kirk-oft but the ball was kicked iuto touch in cue . Good kicking by B . Nelson carried the ball to half-way where a scrum occurred . C . Nelson passed to Harrison, Harrison to Roy, Roy to Ode)", Otlev to B . Nelson, who scored in the corner.

Bingham failed to convert . From the kick-oft 13 . Nelson found touch in St . John's quarters and Bingham passing to Nelson from the line-out, he dropped a tine goal at a difficult angle . The School again pressing, there followed a series of scrums in S. John's half. Half-time was called with score :--S . Peter' s School, z goals (both dropped), two tries, to S . John ' s College nil.

Bingham kicked oft, and shortly after from loose play in the centre, a S . John's man got off but was tackled by Lawrance ; another S. John ' s man got oft but was tackled by a back S . John's now pressed strongly and would have scored, but kicked too strongly over the (lead line : weak kicking by a S . John ' s man gave the ball to Roy who kicked across to Lawrance ; Lowrance ran strongly but was pulled into touch at the corner . From the line-out, Lowrance got oft and scored in fair position, but had to retire hurt for a time . Nelson failed to convert . 'I'hc School still pressed and Smith picking up in the loose scored in the corner, Bingham made a good attempt to convert, the ball hitting the post . At this point Lawrance returned to the field, and S . John ' s kicked down the field, Bennett returning into touch, S . John ' s again pressing, Bennett picked up well and kicked into touch ; Nelson shortly

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after relieved with a long kick into touch . Smart passing between Harrison, Otlev, and Nelson, resulted in Nelson scoring under the posts, the same player converted . From tke kick off Bingham got possession, and there was good passing by the School forwards, touch being found at S . John's 25 . A long exchange of kicks followed and shortly after time went with the score :—St . Peter's School, 3 goals (z dropped), 4 tries, 25 points, to St . John's nil.

The play of the School on the whole was good, the forwards might perhaps have done a little more work, considering their weight . Of the backs B . Nelson was the most prominent, his two dropped goals being particularly fine, the play of the rest of the backs was better than in the match before, the passing being much better ; still there is room for improvement, the backs generally being slow and prone to hesitate . Bennett's play at full back was good, his fielding and kicking being excellent ; he had not ho \% ever much tackling to do.

THE SCHOOL Z' . LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

Rain fell at the start and continued during most of the match.

Play settled down in the Leeds half, directly after the kick-off; Bingham passed to B . Nelson, who made a good attempt to drop a goal . The forwards rushed the ball over the Leeds line two or three times, but no score resulted . B . Nelson again dropped at goal, but the ball went wide . Longbotham dribbled to near the Leeds line, were a scrum was formed and the halves got the hall out smartly to Roy, who scored ; B . Nelson converted . Shortly after the halves again got the ball out to Otley, who passed when close to the line to B . Nelson, the last named getting a try . Leeds then gained some ground and R . Nelson saved twice in quick succession . The three-quarters then gained some ground, but Otlev passed forward . The forwards let the ball out promptly, and a good piece of passing ended in B . Nelson scoring again, and also kicking the goal . Teasdale took a pass well and gained some ground . Francis and another Leeds man then dribbled nearly down to our line, but Bingham saved and prevented them scoring .

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A Leeds three-quarter got off, but E . Nelson brought him down.

Bingham passed to Nelson who ran, the full-back tackling him low . Harrison passed to B . Nelson and he on to Wilson who scored . Bingham was the next to break through and Smith got a try . C . Nelson tackled well . Teasdale and Meek were then prominent, and Longbotham passed to Roy who ran strongly, but the full-back collared him low . Half-time 19 points to nil . Leeds pressed and E . Nelson tackled a man . Otlev passed to Stevens, who ran into touch . Moiser and 1\Ieek took the ball on . Stevens then followed up and scored a try . C . Nelson ran to near the Leeds line, and Meek shortly after dribbled the ball over and scored.

Scott and Wilson took the ball on . The forwards let the ball out and C . Nelson made an excellent opening for B . Nelson, who scored . Passing between Harrison, C . Nelson and Roy, ended in the last named scoring . Scott ran but was tackled . Bingham then got another try, no goal resulting . Good passing between nearly all the backs ended in B . Nelson scoring behind the posts.

The halves got the ball out to Roy, who made 13 . Nelson an opening, the latter, taking his pass smartly, scored easily . Time was then up . The forwards let the ball out frequently so giving their backs plenty of chances . The halves passed exceedingly well all through the game, and did not seem to be affected by the wet ball . B . Nelson took his passes very well . Leeds were without Phillips during most of the second half . Final score, 3 goals, 9 tries (42 points) to nil.

ST . PETER ' S SCHOOL V . DURHAM SCHOOL.

On the School ground on Saturday October 29th, Bingham kicked off for the School and the return found touch towards the School 25 . Durham forwards carried play into the School quarters, but for a quarter - of - an - hour, no great difference was shewn between the two teams.

Soon the Durham forwards got the ball better, and occasioned some good bouts of passing by the Durham three-quarters, Barrow nearly scoring in the corner . Eventually, from another

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fine effort by the Durham three-quarters Barrow scored far out and Ayton converted . The School still held their own fairly ; although much out-weighted forward, the School halves being considerably smarter than the other p ir . Harrison by a neat piece of play and a kick, carried play towards the Durham half. Durham forwards carried play to the School 25 and Cumberledge scored after a dodgy run . Ayton converted . Play remained pretty even till half-time when the score was :—Durham School 2 goals 10 points ; St . Peter ' s School nil . After the re-start, play soon settled clown towards the School quarters and Durham had all the best of the play . Most of the time the School were on the defence, but Barrow and Turner scored in quick succession . Durham still pressed and Turner had a drop at goal, but the shot went wide.

The School forwards got the ball out and it went to B . Nelson, who ran strongly but was tackled by the Durham full back . Good kicking by the Durham backs soon regained the lost ground, and they again pressed strongly, Turner scoring a rather soft try.

Shortly after from a bad mull by Otley, Haythornthwaite picked up and scored . Pearson scored from the line out but no goal resulted.

For a short time again, the School had the best of the play and B. Nelson dropped at goal and follow up strongly scored far out, Bingham kicked an extremely fine goal . Time went with the score . Durham School, 3 goals 3 tries (27 points) ; St . Peter's School, goal (5 points) . 1 he School were hopelessly outweighted forward but played a plucky game even when tired out . The School halves were the smarter pair, but could not do much behind beaten forwards . Bingham was as usual the main stay of the forwards . Harrison at half played an exceedingly plucky and neat game . B . Nelson kicked and ran well, his try was a fine effort .

SCHOOL V . YORKSHIRE COLLEGE.

On Thursday, Nov . 3rd, on the School ground . Bingham kicked off for the School at 3 .15 . Play remained for a time at half way, but presently one of the College backs scored after a good run from half way, but the attempt at goal was unsuccessful . They

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were pressing again when Lawrence intercepted a pass, and dribbled up the field to half-way . Bingham was next prominent by dribbling away from a scrim . Play continued for a little about half-way, but their forwards by degrees brought it hack to our " 25 " and presently scored ; this time their attempt was successful . Scott got away from a scrum with a dribble but was stopped by a man collaring him, although he had not the ball, and soon after the College forwards worked the ball up the field and scored a try which was unconverted . B . Nelson presently made a mark and from his kick the College made a mark, but failed at goal from far out . Our opponents were soon penalized for offside play on our lines, but presently nearly scored after a long passing bout, but .ere ' prevented by good play on the part of B . Nelson . One of their men made an unsuccessful drop at goal . After good passing along the three-quarter line our opponents scored, and were successful at goal . "I'he College were passing again when Stephens intercepted a pass and brought us into their " 25, " but a good kick by one of their men brought us to halfway again where play remained for a minute or two, but they soon scored again, whereupon half-time was called with the score— Yorkshire College 2 goals 3 tries 19 points to School nil . Yorkshire College kicked off again, but were whistled back for having a man in front, they were penalized for offside play and Bingham kicked into touch in their " 25, " but a good passing bout by their three-quarters resulted in their scoring an unconverted try . Soon after their wing threequarter after a long run kicked across and one of their forwards following up scored . After the kick off they rushed it back into our " 25 " and presently scored ; the attempt at goal being successful . Soon after this Nelson took a long drop at goal, but the ball passed outside the posts . After the kick out Nelson made a mark, and dropped a fine goal from halfway . One of their three-quarters nearly scored but was pushed into touch just in time . B . Nelson then intercepted a pass and ran into Yorkshire College " 25," and after a few scrums time was called with the score : College— 3 goals 5 tries 30 points ; St . Peter' s—r dropped goal ¢ points.

School team : Back, W . N . Bennett ; three-quarters : B . Nelson,

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C . L . Stephens, B . G . Lawrance, Esq , and G . C . Otley ; halves: C . Nelson and R . Harrison ; forwards : R . G . Bingham, C . Moiser, R . Teasdale, G . N . Longbotham, W . Wilson, J . T . Meek, C . P. Scott, and E . D . Teasdale.

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PE'TER' S SCHOOL V . HEADINGLEY.

Bingham kicked off for the School at a quarter to three One of their halves made a mark from a kick by Harrison . The School broke away, but the Headingley three-quarters picked up and kicked to the School lines . Harrison saved well and C . Nelson gained ground by a good kick . Roy then tackled splendidly : and Lawrance charged down a kick . Harrison and Roy again saved well . The School forwards shoved the scrum but the Headingleti three-quarters brought them hack by good play . Our opponents got off-side and B . Nelson kicked far up into touch . Chaneley presently scored for Headingley, but Yeadon ' s kick at goal failed.

B . Nelson ' s drop out found touch beyond half-way ; but the Headingley forwards broke away with a dribble but were stopped, Roy saving well . J . Nelson of our opponents was hurt and went off the field, but came on again soon : from the next scrum Bingham and Lawrance dribbled to the Headingley " z5 ." C . Nelson here saved well and B . Nelson made a mark . From the kick Frank got away ; C . Nelson and Harrison saving by timely kicks . Through a misunderstanding as to an injury to Bingham, Perkins scored for the visitors, but Firth failed to convert . After the drop out Roy repeatedly spoiled the Headingley passing . Meek then gained some ground by a rush from a line out . From a kick by Harrison J . Nelson made a mark, but nothing much came from it, and Smith soon after broke away with a dribble . Harrison here saved well, but shortly afterwards Newstead scored an unconverted try.

After the re-start Roy tackled well, but presently Platts scored a try but the kick at goal failed . Soon after the drop out Chaneley again scored for them, but Mawson failed to convert . Headingley were awarded a free kick for off-side play by the School, but failed to kick a goal . Yeadon then scored and converted it . Soon after Roy saved well and Bennett returned by a fine kick into touch .

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Here the School wheeled the scrum, but were brought back for off-side play . Bingham gained ground by breaking away from a line-out . By the aid of two free kicks, the School got in their opponents' " 25 . " Here they got the hall out, but Harrison was smothered before he could pass . Bingham then saved a certain try by collaring a man after he had passed the full-back . R. Harrison picked up splendidly and kicked into touch, whereupon time was called with the score : Headingley, r goal 5 tries ; St. Peter ' s School, nil . School team :—Full-back, W . N . Bennett; three-quarter backs, B . Nelson, D . \V . Roy, G . C . Otley, C . L. Stevens ; half-backs, C . Nelson, R . Harrison ; forwards, R . G. Bingham, C . 1\Ioiser, R . Teasdale, C . S . Smith, W . Wilson, C . P. Scott, J . Meek, B . G . Lowrance, Esq . The tackling of the School team was a great improvement on former matches . The School forwards, although altogether outweighted, played a plucky game and kept it up to the finish . Harrison at half was conspicuous for neat and plucky play . Behind outweighted forwards the threequarters played a good tackling game.

SCHOOL 7' . GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL.

Played on Saturday, Nov . t 9th, at Giggleswick, in tine weather.

Giggleswick lost the toss and kicked off against a light air . B. Nelson returned, and Giggleswick found touch near the School 25.

Give and take play following, no great difference was apparent between the teams . Giggleswick three-quarters gained ground by their kicks, but the School forwards retrieved the ground by consistently good play . Play worked its way towards the Giggleswick half, and B . Nelson got possession and ran strongly, being pushed into touch in the corner . The School now pressed hotly but the defence was good, and the Giggleswick forwards rushed the ball down to the School half. Here they were awarded a free kick for C. Nelson not putting the ball in straight and took a place at goal, the shot, however, fell short, and B . Nelson kicking well, cleared the School lines . From a weak kick by a Giggleswick man, Bennett got possession and kicked into the middle of the field ; following up fast he dribbled almost to the Giggleswick line, where the full

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back got possession of the ball and was tackled . From a scrum here the School pressed strongly for some time, and Bingham was held up more than once in an attempt to score.

Giggleswick playing a strong forward game and showing good judgment in kicking in their back division, gained considerable From a scrum, Giggleswick got the ball out, but the ground, B . Nelson was effort was frustrated by Roy, Otley, and Stevens . conspicuous at this point for a neat save and kick .

C . Nelson made a useful run, gaining some ground . Passing by the School three-quarters resulted in the hall going to B . Nelson, who was again only tackled by the full-back . From the resulting scrum, the ball passed through the hands of C . Nelson, Harrison, Otley, and Roy, the last named passing to Stevens almost on the line, but Stevens mulled badly, losing a certain score . Half time went with the School on the Giggleswick line . Score : School nil, Giggleswick nil . After half-time the School again pressed for a while and made some good attempts to score, but the Giggleswick forwards began to show their superiority in weight, and continually from this point got possession of the ball better than our pack . Our forwards, tired by the long journey still played a plucky game, and although they could not get possession, gave their Giggleswick opponents The Giggleswick forwards continuously letting the plenty to do . ball out, gave the School backs a lively time . Harrison and C. Nelson continually spoilt the passing of the halves, and the tackling of our three-quarters was the best seen this season . Time after time Giggleswick were tackled near the line, Meek and Bingham being especially noticeable in this respect from among the forwards, none needing especial mention from among the backs . At length, however, the tension was too much, and a Giggleswick forward, Ingham, dribbling over the line, scored through the full back omitting to save . The kick at goal failed.

The School still played up, and for a time play was carried to half way . But this was a game in which the team who first scored was a certain winner ; and the Giggleswick forwards again doing sterling work, heeled out, and Hodge dodged over and scored between the posts, no goal resulted . Time was called with the score—Gig-

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gleswick School z tries 6 points ; St . Peter ' s School nil . Giggleswick on the whole showed better condition than the School team, although this doubtless accounted for by the long and tedious journey which they had gone through . The Giggleswick forwards only just won the day by their superior condition . At half and three-quarters, as shown by the play in the first half behind winning forwards, we were superior . Probably had the match been played at home, the result would have been either a draw or reversed .

In this match the whole team played a far better game than they have clone hitherto this season .

After the match Meek and Harrison received their colours . School Team—W . N. Bennett, full back ; C . L . Stevens, D . W . Roy, G . C . Otley, and B . Nelson, three-quarters ; R . Harrison and C . Nelson, half-backs ; R . G . Bingham, C . Moiser, R . Teasdale, C . S . Smith, W . Wilson, G . N . Longbotham, J . T . Meek, and E . Creaser.

SCHOOL 7' DURHAM SCHOOL.

At Durham on the University ground in very wet weather.

Durham kicked off and B . Nelson returned into touch . Durham got possession and Henderson ran strongly and kicked but too hard, the ball being touched down . Bingham broke away from the touch line and gained some ground . Durham got away from a scrum but were brought up by tackling by Otley, Roy, and Bennett.

Otley broke away with a dribble and tackled the fullback, with the ball . A Durham man made a mark but no great amount of ground was gained . Bingham dribbled very neatly and Scott was conspicuous for good tackling . Durham were penalized and B . Nelson took the kick. Soon after Durham broke away strongly but B. Nelson and Bennett tackled . C . Nelson saved pluckily . Durham continued to press although not very strongly, their passing being spoilt by the state of the ball . York were penalized for offside play by Harrison, and Durham gained some ground, Wilson and Bingham dribbled well and so did Smith . Teasdale broke away from the lineout and gained some ground . Durham threequarters passed well and Heskett scored under the posts . Aston

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missed the goal . Nelson dropped off and Bingham followed up and tackled well . From a scrum Turner got possession and dropped a rather fluky goal ; and very shortly after Avton kicked a fine goal from a free-kick . Until half-time the School were nearly always defending and once had to touch down . Henderson also got over the line but went over the dead-line . Half-time : z goals (I dropped, i penalty and a try), io points, to nil . Bingham kicked off, the return going to B . Nelson who dropped at goal, the shot falling short . Durham continued to press as in the first half, but the tackling of the School was pretty good, although eventually Haythornthwaite scored . Shortly after, from a bad mull by I3ennett, Newcomb scored and Haythornthwaite converted . At the finish Henderson, Heskett, and Haythornthwaite, scored in quick succession . None of the goals were kicked . Final score: Durham School, 3 goals (1 penalty,) dropped), and 3 tries, 27 points, S Peter's School, nil.

SCHOOL T' E .

J . JOKEY,

ESQ . ' S TEAM.

Played on Tuesday, November zgt]i, on the School ground.

Bingham kicked off for the School, and play settled down in the centre of the field . One of the visiting team got the ball from a scrimmage, and carried it to the School 25, when the home forwards by a vigorous rush carried the ball back to half-way . In turn the visitors pressed, but Harrison saved well near the School line, and neat passing took the ball to the other end . Here C . Nelson made a mark, but Bingham failed to kick a goal . Then the scratch forwards rushed the ball into the School 25, but Stephens relieved the pressure by a long kick into touch . After a series of line-outs about half way, one of the visitors made a mark and kicked down the field, but C . Nelson received and found touch well . One of the visiting three-quarters scored far out, but the try was not converted . From the drop out the ball went into touch about half way, here the School forwards dribbled well, Meek being especially conspicuous . Scott got away from a line-out but was overtaken . One of the visitors got hold of the ball and kicked

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down the field, where Longbotham secured the ball, and passed to Bingham, who ran into touch . Half-time was called with the score E . J . Joicey ' s Team, I try (3 points), School nil . After the interval the visitors kicked off, and Neilson receiving kicked down the field, when the ball was knocked on . B . Nelson had a drop at goal, which just failed, and Stevens following up well scored a try for the School, which was not converted . After the drop-out the visitors were penalised for offside play, and Bingham kicking finely down the field, the ball was returned, and scrums followed on the School line, and C . Nelson had to touch down . From the drop-out one of the visiting three-quarters secured the ball, and kicked down the field and following up hard, scored the second try for Joicey ' s team . The kick failed . After the drop out, one of the visitors made a mark, and had an unsuccessful drop at goal.

B . Nelson dropped out and one of the visiting team got hold, and after a long run, passed, an unconverted try was the result.

After the drop out scrums in the School z5 followed, but Joicev's team were penalised for not putting the ball in straight, and B. Nelson had a long kick into touch . Bingham got away from the lineout and passed to Meek, who was tackled near the visitors ' line.

One of the scratch team got away but was run into touch near halfway . Shortly afterwards time was called with the score :—E . J. joicey ' s Team, 3 tries (q points), S . Peter ' s School, try (3 points .)

The following represented the School :—(Back), W . N . Bennett ; (three-quarter backs), B . Nelson, G . C . Otley, A . Neilson, C . L. Stevens ; (half-backs), C . Nelson, R . Harrison ; (forwards), R . G. Bingham, C . Moiser, R . Teasdale, C . S . Smith, G . N . Longbotham, J . T . Meek, C . Y . Scott, B . G . Lawrance, Esq.

ST . PETER ' S SCHOOL V . SPEN VALLEY CASUALS.

The Casuals did not play their full strength owing to a portion of their team having lost their train, which accounts for the ease with which the School won . I3ingham kicked off for the School at 3- 1 5, and almost immediately after the start he scored from a lineout, but failed to convert .

After the drop out there followed a

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long spell of scrumming about half-way, and the School began to press, when one of their halves intercepted a pass and got well away, but was finely collared by Roy. The School worked the ball back again to their half, but one of the visiting forwards nearly scored after a splendid dribble being prevented by Roy kicking dead . B. Nelson had a shot at goal but failed, and Stephens following up nearly scored . About ten minutes before half time 13 . Nelson scored after a dodgy run and converted . The School were awarded a penalty kick for off-side play by the opposing halves, but Bingham failed to kick a goal Longbotham and Moiser broke away with a line dribble which ended in 11oiser scoring an unconverted try, whereupon half time was called with the score : School : i goal 2 tries (1 r points) to Spen Valley nil . After a good deal of play in their 25, Bingham scored again from a line out but failed at goal.

Soon after this, good passing by the School forwards ended in Bingham scoring his third try, which, however, he failed to convert.

The School were pressing in the visitors ' " 25 " when Spen Valley worked the ball into our half by good kicking, but B . Nelson by a fast run brought the ball back into our opponents ' " 25 ." A good run by C . Nelson further helped the School, and B . Nelson presently dropped a goal from close in . Meek shortly after dribbled over their line, but a scrum five yards out was ordered.

One of the Spen Valley halves by a good run brought the ball into our " 25, " and presently ran over but lost possession . Time was then called, with the score St . Peter ' s, z goals (i dropped), + tries (z points), to Spen Valley Casuals nil . School Team-Back : \V . N . I3cnnett ; three-quarters, B . Nelson, D . W . Roy, G . C . Otley, and C . L . Stephens ; halves : C . Nelson,R . Harrison ; forwards : 13 . G . Bingham (capt .), C . Moiser, R . Teasdale, C . S. Smith, G. N . Longbotham, J . 'I' . Meek, C . P . Scott, and B . G. Lawrance, Esq. ST . PETER' S SCHOOL 2ND XV. V . LEEDS

G .S . 2ND XV.

Played at Leeds on Saturday, October 22nd, and resulted in a win for the School by 5o points to nil . During the first half, the School only scored 12 points owing to the forwards not letting the

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ball out sufficiently . In the second half, the School played more together, and added 38 points before time was called . The scorers for us were Creaser 5, Leonard 3, Kirke 2, Neilson, Denby, Sale, Final score—School, Pulleyn, Robinson, and Teasdale i each . r goal 15 tries (5o points) to Leeds nil ; School Team : full back, M . \V . Richards ; three-quarters, A . Neilson, E . H . Creaser, E. St . G . Kirk, and H . Leonard ; half backs, C . H . Sale and J . S. Denby ; forwards, T . Pulleyn, J . Russell, E . D . Teasdale, E T. Otley, J . H . Robinson, R . Dunning, J . S . R . Gibbons, and G. Armstron g .

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DURHAM

2nd XV.

Played at Durham on Saturday, 29th Oct ., and resulted in a win for our opponents by 27 points to nil . Durham scored 17 points in the first five minutes before the School team woke up . Creaser and Winn got away with some good dribbles, and Sale made a good run but was collared by the full hack . Durham scored again three times about ten minutes before time . Final score : Durham 2 goals 6 tries (z8 points) to St . Peter's School nil . Neilson was alone prominent among the three-quarters for good defensive play.

School Team—Full back, M . AV . Richards ; three-quarters, A. Neilson, E . `t . G . Kirke, E . R . Wilson, and A . Leonard ; halfbacks, C . H . Sale, and H . Denby ; forwards, T . Pulleyn, T . A. Russell, E . H . Creaser, R . Winn, E . J . Otley, J . H . Robinson, R. Dunning, and G . Armstrong.

LIBRARY. The following books have been added to the Library this term : Grenville Cole Aids to Practical Geology Andrrzv lung Customs and Myth Red Deer je ieys j~ffiels Story of My Heart Wood Magic belies : c Field and Hedgerow /-,gnI Baring Gould Curious Myths . of the Middle Ages

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Voyage of the " Sunbeam " Where 'Three Empires Meet Africa in the Toth Century With Kitchener to Khartoum Arabian Nights Entertainments Story of Marco Polo The ( ;olden Butterfly Beyond the Dreams of :Avarice The Master Craftsman Micah Clarke The Refugees Count of Monte Christo Marguerite de Valois The Forte-five Guardsmen Fascination of the King Nada the Lily King Solomon ' s Mines Alan Quatermain (new copy) Scalp Hunters Headless Horseman Corleone (leg Kelly Mehalah Grettir the Outlaw The Little Minister Robbery under Arms Shade) ow Tom Cringles Log Perly Cross Lost Sir . Al assingberd " Ph roso '' Lewis Arundel "Through the Looking ( ;lass Notre Dame Les Miserables

6 47 Lady Blaze}, E. F. Knight (;.

S/erzens Audnw Lane IN'oah Brooks Resanl and Roe Besant

Recant Conan Doyle Conan Doyle Dumas Dumas

Dumas Guy Boolliby Rider Haggard Rider Haggard Rider Haggard Maine Reid 1laine Reid Varian Cra7tf~rd S . R . Crncke/1 Baring Gould Baring Gould Barrie Rolf Boldrewood Capt . Marryal Michael Scott Biackmore James Payn t'n/honP Hope 5'nred/ty Levis Carrot 1ic/or Hugo Victor Hugo

The Librarians request that Subscribers should treat the books better . Many of the books which were added to the Library a year ago have been much illused, and we beg to remind subscribers that in thus 'Busing or not taking proper care of books, they are acting a very selfish part, in that they deprive other subscribers of the use of the books, who have just as much right to the use of them as they have themselves.

A number of new books have been added this term with stronger bindings, in the hope that more wear may be got out of them . But

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this will be of no avail unless those who take books out look after them properly and treat them as they would treat books which have been lent them by a friend.

No one would think of wholly or partly destroying a book lent them by anyone for whom they had any regard ; and similarly no one ought to think of destroying a Library Book, which is just as much lent to him by the rest of the subscribers to the Library.

Hoping that these few words will have some effect in preventing the very quick destruction of books which has taken place heretofore .—Yours, &c ., THE LIBRARIANS.

NOTES AND ITEMS. Rev . J . Raine, B .A ., has been licensed to the Curacy of Bromptonwith-Stain ton.

G. W . Mitchell has been gazetted Major.

A . J . Montgomery, has been gazetted Lieut .-Colonel.

A . T . Weller has been gazetted Lieut .-Colonel.

Capt . F . H . Eadon was with the 21st Lancers in the charge at Omdurman.

Old Peterites will be sorry to hear that the Rev. Canon Adams, D .D ., has had a stroke of apoplexy . He is however, we are glad to say, progressing towards recovery.

We hear that H . Crossley, who it will be remembered, presented the tub pairs to the School, gets many prizes with horses from his ranche in Muskoka.

L . E . Stevenson, M .B ., has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.

H. R . Partington has passed the Intermediate Examination of the Incorporated Law Society. \V . L . Crombie has passed the Final Examination of the Incorporated Law Society.

Rev . W . Jackson, Chaplain of H .M . Prison, Preston, has been appointed Chaplain of H .M . Prison, Wakefield.

At the Church Congress, on the 27th September, 1898, the Bishop of Bristol drew attention to the Ancient History of our School .

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R . F . Russell has got his colours for Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

F. Mitchell has gone out to South Africa to play for Lord Hawke's Cricket XI. T. R . Heap has got a Commission in the Royal Naval Reserve.

The following have been elected Members of the O .P . Club :— W. L . Attley, N . P. W . Brady, G . W . Filliter, J . E . Fawcett, P . J . C . King, H . A . Longbotham, G . E . Raine, J . P . Sowerby, J . P . Watson, S . Watson, G . R . Walker, E . J . Walton, R. Wood.

BIRTHs .—October 3oth, 1898, the wife of B . H . Abrahall, of a son.

November 7th, 1898, the wife of the Rev . E . S . Fox, of a daughter.

November 19th, 1898, the wife of F. W . Pixley, of a son.

MARRIAGE .--October 25th, W . H . Cobb, I .C .S ., to Edith Augusta Harland, 4th daughter of Rev . A . A . Harland, Vicar of Harefield, Middlesex.

We extract the following from an unsigned article in The Leisure Hour :

"In Strype' s life of Sir John Cheke it is recorded that Sir Thomas, the eldest son of Henry Cheke, was bred in a school at York, where he had two memorable schoolfellows though of different inclinations and reputations.

The one was Morton, Bishop of Durham, the other Guye Fawkes.

The School where these afterwards notable men received their education is discovered to have been the Free School in ` Le Horse Fayre," near the City of York, originally founded by the Royal Charter of Philip and Mary, and placed under the protection of the Dean and Chapter ."

Xole .—This " Free School in Le Horse Fayre" was St. Peter's School which had, in the reign of Philip and Mary, obtained the Hospital of St . Mary Magdalene, outside Bootham Bar in an open space called the Horse Fair, as an endowment .

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F . M . Bingham has been playing for I3lackheatlh this Season, and three times for Middlesex County.

E I . Walton played half-back for the ~S ripcs in the Yorkshire ('ounty trial match, Whites v . Stripes, at Kirkstall ; he also played half-back with J . Shepherd for Yorkshire County v.

The Rest of Yorkshire, at Cleckheaton, and for Yorkshire County v . Durham County . Ile also played for Queen's College, Oxford.

J . Shepherd played half-back in the Yorkshire County Trial Match, Possibles v . Probables ; he also played half-back Nvith E . J. Walton for Yorkshire County v . The Kest of Yorkshire, centre three-quarters for Yorkshire County v . Durham County, and half-back for Yorkshire County P . Northumberland County; he has also been playing for Durham City.

E . J . Joicev has been playing centre three-quarters for Percy Park.

G . AWinn has been playing forward for Hartlepool Rovers.

C . Dobson has been playing for Lennox F .C. H . Wheelwright has been playing full-back for St . "Thomas's IIospital.

A . M . Sullivan was picked to play for Cambridge University on one occasion ; but was unable to play through injury he has also been playing, when fit, for Christ' ; College, Cambridge.

R . F . Russell has been playing forward for Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

G . G . Yeld has been playing forward for Pembroke College, Cambridge.

F . P . Fausset has been Captaining the Peterhouse team this season.

H . 13 . Greeves has been playing for Peterhouse.

G . Crowther has played full-back occasionally for Caius College.

1 . . Hood has been playing for Rosslyn Park.

J . P . Watson has been playing for Durham City.

Will Old Peterites kindly forward their subscriptions to E . M. 1IINGsTON, Clifton Asylum, York, and not to the Ilead Secretary.

We beg to acknowledge the following contemporaries : Dunelmian (z), .Sedber~hiarr, Denslonian, L_eediensian, .S't. .$rightonian, Edward's .S'chool Magazine, I;aslbnurnran, Abin donian, Culhberlian (2), Dozerian, The Lily, .51 .

Michael's Chronicle (Pietermaritzburg).