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8 ficulties and with the American-Philippino imbroglio of to-day.

The Colleges of Oxford, in the histories and in the guide-books, have been variously treated; generally chronologically, beginning with Merton, the senior, and ending with Manchester, the junior; sometimes topographically, according to the fancy of the peripatetic chronicler, who follows them as they are supposed to come to him, in regular sequence, as he walks abroad; but it will be simpler here, perhaps, to visit them alphabetically, from All Souls to Worcester.

This work was undertaken in a perfectly serious way. There was, in its inception, no thought of frivolity. But what is called "the deadly parallel" presented itself at once. The ridiculous comparison between the life in the British University in the olden times, and the life in the American College of the present day, asserted itself so strongly, from frontispiece to end of every volume consulted—and they were very many; from cellar to garret of every institution visited—and they were all of them, that its influence could not be resisted; and the result, it is feared, will be a somewhat disrespectful, but an entirely sympathetic, series of views of Oxford, Old and New, set down here, for the benefit of the general reading-public and of the college-men of to-day who