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readily transform it into the image of a departed friend. 

 The " double " is generated by the well-known property 

 of double refraction, obtained by a lens under certain 

 circumstances of unequal pressure, or sometimes by 

 inequalities in the process of annealing. So vanish 

 two ghosts which might have been more or less 

 troublesome to those who are ready to see the super- 

 natural in commonplace phenomena. Will the time 

 ever come when no more such phantoms will remain 

 to be exorcised ? 



(From the Daily News, March 2, 18G9.) 



THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ROWING 

 STYLES. 



WHATEVER opinion we may have of the result of 

 the approaching contest (1869), there can be no doubt 

 that this year, as in former years, there is a striking 

 dissimilarity between the rowing styles of the dark- 

 blue and the light-blue oarsmen. This dissimilarity 

 makes itself obvious whether we compare the two 

 boats as seen from the side, or when the line of sight 

 is directed along the length of either. Perhaps it is 

 in the latter aspect that an unpractised eye will most 

 readily detect the difference we are speaking of. 

 Watch the Cambridge boat approaching you from 

 some distance, or receding, and you will notice in the 

 rise and fall of the oars, as so seen, the following 



