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rude, triangular garden-chair, which he used to occupy when superintending the workmen upon the grounds, or the edifice, is still preserved in the library ; and, seating myself within its no very luxurious purlieus, the pathos of his dying supplication to the pitying Ab bot, came freshly over me :

&quot; Give me a little earth for charity.&quot;

In the morning service at St. Mary s Church, there were present the heads of twenty-one colleges, several distinguished theologians, and multitudes of students, with whose reverent deportment, healthful aspect, and fine appearance in their scholastic uniform, we were pleasantly impressed. In the afternoon, at St. Magdalen s fine old church, with its noble stained windows and ivy-clustered columns, we heard magnifi cent music, from a grand organ, and a choir of one hundred voices, among which were sixteen perfectly trained chanting boys.

Delightful walks had we often, amid the meadows of velvet verdure, and on the banks of the Isis and Cher- well. We seated ourselves on the identical spot, by the last named stream, sprinkled by snowy flocks and antlered deer, where Addison produced that almost inspired version of the 23d Psalm :

&quot; The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a Shepherd s care.&quot;

Our researches in the Bodleian and Radcliflfe libra-

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