Orford Commemoration. By "A Fellow of Experientia." (Simpkin, Marshall, and
Co.)—The writer of this book has a certain amount of knowledge of University life ; beyond this his work has little to recommend it. The book is marred throughout by a striving after facetiousness which is as painful as it is 1111-
successful, and not unfrequently ends in distinct vulgarity. There are two points to which we should like to draw the author's atten- tion. Undergraduates are not in the habit of throwing away half- sovereigns as if they were sixpences ; and, secondly, a B.A. is as much under the power of a proctor as an undergraduate. Through courtesy, this right is now hardly ever used. But did any B.A. behave to a proctor as Mr. Le Morier represents himself as doing, we have no doubt as to what would have been the result. Unhappily, this fact makes the story fall a little flat.
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