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242 the same time he shared with his pupils in their lessons in dancing, riding, and fencing.

It is refreshing, now and then, to read of a distinguished man of letters who did not distinguish himself, at Oxford, by being sent out of his college, or by leaving it, voluntarily, without the degree which he could not obtain.

Shelley went up to University College in 1810; and he went down, involuntarily, within a twelve-month. On account of a pamphlet he wrote upon "The Necessity of Atheism," his preceptors did not see "The Necessity of Shelley"; and the author of the pamphlet was summarily expelled

He is now represented at University, however, as a recumbent, nude figure, thrown up by the waves; and done in dull cold marble, by the sculptor Onslow Ford.

Shelley's room, according to Murray, was on the first floor of the staircase on the right of the Hall; and, according to the "Memoir of Shelley" by T. S. Hogg, it was littered with books, papers, philosophical instruments, air-pumps, electric machines, clothes, boots, pistols, bags, boxes, lamps, and crockery. Carpets and table-linen were burned, and spotted, and stained; and two piles of books supported the shovel and the tongs. His friend and chum and biographer,