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144 "Demyship" of Magdalen; and as long as he remained in Oxford this latter College was his home. Like certain other " Demys," we are sorry to learn that Collins was given to dissipation; that he was contemptuous of academical pedants, and of college discipline generally; that, at Magdalen, he was guilty of not a little very fair verse; and that he was not dissipated enough to forfeit his degree; although he left Oxford in debt to his tradesmen.

It is rather discouraging to think that so many of the Men of Letters who distinguished Magdalen in its history by their presence, did not, while at Magdalen, distinguish themselves. And it must be a comfort to Magdalen to have had a Tyndale and an Addison to leaven the lump of undergraduate indifference.

George Home was graduated from University College in 1749, and became a Fellow of Magdalen in 1750. He was made the President of this College in 1768. He was Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University; and he became Dean of Canterbury in 1781, retaining, however, the headship of Magdalen until 1790; the double duty, as was natural, breaking down his nerves and his health. He died two years later as Bishop of Norwich. He is said to have been familiar with Oxford and Canterbury; and, by reason of his frequent journeys, equally familiar with the