The Library

Waine, supported patiently by Mr. Lionel Dakers, the Cathedral organist, had moulded six choirs into one, and we congratulate him on this considerable achievement.

The Service was at four o'clock, and details of the music sung are given elsewhere. The Dean of Ripon, to whom we are indebted for the invitation to the Cathedral, delighted us with his simple and warm words of welcome, reminding us of the value that trained choirs can have in Christian worship, and urging us to keep up our choral singing.

The Dean's words were given effect in a very short time. Caught by the enormous majesty of Fountains Abbey in the evening, the Choir, without their Choir Master or staff members, began to sing on the grass slope before the West End of the Abbey. Two American visitors, walking in the silent cloisters, were at first chilled, then entranced to hear a plain song chant echoing round walls that must have heard that very chant long ago. They will return to California, and no doubt for years will tell how the great ruin was brought to life for a few minutes by the Choir of St. Peter's, York.

It was not a day by the sea; but all members of this year's Choir will remember it, and may well draw strength from it in years to come.

D.G.C.

As the Head Master announced in his annual Speech Day Report, the new Library Extension has provided a much-wanted sanctum, where boys seeking peace and quiet may come and work. The number of boys using it for this purpose is rapidly increasing and we hope will continue to do so; the atmosphere is certainly congenial to work, surrounded as it is by books, and overlooked by the portrait of our Head Master, whose persuasive and paternal eye catches ours if they stray from work.

We can justly claim that the selection of new and old books that we possess caters for every taste, both for serious study and for light refreshment.

In the past term we have had four presentations of books, and we acknowledge these on behalf of the Library with great appreciation :-

Roman Spain—F. J. Wiseman, presented by the Author. British Civil Engineering Construction Industry, presented by Mr. H.

Stephenson. The Roman Republic, 3 vols., by W. E. Heitland, presented by Prof.

Davison. History of the Great War, by C. R. M. F. Crutwell, presented by

F. C. Botting, Esq.