The Honorary D.O.L.'s admitted at the Oxford Commemora- tion on
Wednesday included General Menabrea, Mr. Goschen, Mr. Burne Jones, the .Bishop of Limerick, Dr. Westcott, and Sir It. R. Lingen. At Oxford, there is at present a healthy reaction against the /Esthetio school, which prevented Mr. Burns Jones from being received with the sore of favour which so striking an artist would usually elicit from young men, were there nothing of the lackadaisical in his style ; but it is sin- gularthat two divines, the Bishop of Limerick and Dr. Westcott, anctthe Italiau General were the young men's favourites. Mr. Gt5S01011 has gone through a Herculean labour, but neither was it for Oxford Undergraduates one of the most popular kind, nor was it crowned with the obvious and visible success which obtains the plaudits of boys;. and Sir R. R. Lingen, with all his merit, savours of tutorial reminiscences and bristling figures. On thewhole, what Undergraduate Oxford regarded as the nearest thing.to an ideal it would wish "to live up to," was the learning of a scholarly and enthusiastic divine, and the achievements of a manly military politician.
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