Good Stories from Oxford and Cambridge. Compiled by T. Selby
Henrey. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is a well- arranged and amusing collection of anecdotes and sayings, most of which are none the worse, as Sir Herbert Warren says in an Intro- duction, for being old and well seasoned. Dr. Thompson, Master of Trinity, defined an examination as " a presumptuous attempt to fathom the depths of human ignorance." It was he, and not Dr. Jewett, who remarked that " we are none of us infallible, not even the youngest among us." We do not remember to have seen else- where the story of the ardent Jacobite lady who made a daily practice of toasting James III. of England and VIII. of Scotland. Having to entertain a British commander, she said after dinner r " Sir, I will give you a Biblical toast—• The tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil '—James the 3rd and 8th."
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