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 his father's home furnished with an unusually large sum of money, and goes to one of the big towns in which a college is situated. There his first care is to make arrangements for lodging, and in close proximity to the college he finds a quarter or bazaar which caters for the student population—there are booksellers and sweet-sellers, cloth-dealers, grocers, wine-sellers, and followers of even less reputable callings, clustering side by side in dusty alleys, and some of them have an upper room to let. One of these the student furnishes with a lamp and bed, and then proceeds to the college to be enrolled. After consulting the time-table, he attends classes for about four hours a day, at one of which an Englishman—the first, perhaps, he has ever seen—expounds certain books. When the class is over, the Englishman jumps into his dogcart and drives away, while the student sets out on foot in the opposite direction. From his class-fellows who walk back with him to the bazaar he learns that Mr. Smith is a very good lecturer, who gets all his students through the examinations, but that Mr. Jones is not thought much of; in any case it is unlikely he will ever come more closely into contact with either of them than he has that day. 'Are they harsh and violent men,' he asks, 'as people in the village say all Englishman are?' 'Oh no; Mr. Smith is a very good man. Students occasionally go to his house to have their essays looked over, and he is very kind. But it is a long way off, and it is rather alarming.' In the course of talk the new student discovers that some of his class-fellows belong to the same caste as himself, and that they club together to employ a cook, and take their meals in common. He, too, from motives of economy, probably joins this 'mess,' and thus completes his simple arrangements for board, lodging, and tuition. Amid such surroundings he lives for four or five years. Except for his attendance in class during college hours, he may spend his days and nights how he pleases. There is no check upon his going out or his coming in. The only stimu-