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and debated. They are described in the excellent little pamphlet 
which has been put in every freshman’s hand. You can at the 
least do what is in your power to attend and support them. 
You can take care that your undergraduate days do not pass 
without the great names of literature becoming more than names 
to you. Books can be had for the asking from public libraries, 
they can be bought for pence where they used to cost shillings. 
We owe to the generosity of Prof. Perry the nucleus of a college 
library containing books which are not scientific. He who 
now devotes to literary trash time which he might spend in 
learning something of one of the greatest literatures of the world 
has nobody but himself to thank if his reading vulgarises instead of 
refines him. Taste is educated only by tasting; and it rests 
with yourselves whether you will learn to appreciate the differ- 
ence between the great masters of the pen and penny-a-liners, 
between the wit of a great humourist and the vulgarities of the 
funny corner of a second-rate newspaper. 
A bicycle ride will be none the less enjoyable if you train 
yourself, not merely to travel far, but to take an interest in the 
sights and scenes through which you pass. For the sake of 
example, let me remind you that no country is so rich as 
England in the architecture of its village churches. It is. no 
hard matter to learn to recognise the principal peculiarities of 
the architectural types which prevailed from the days of the 
Saxons to Sir Christopher Wren. The text-books are, I 
presume, to be found in the Art Library. But as soon as the 
elements of English church architecture are known, an old 
church ceases to be merely a picturesque object. It is an 
historical document which you yourself can read. You do not 
need the aid of the sexton to tell you which is the oldest part. 
You can make a good guess at when that aisle was added, or 
that window knocked in a wall obviously older than itself. A 
visit to a cathedral becomes an intellectual pleasure. Weariness 
at the drone of the verger as he recites his oft-repeated lesson is 
ceplaced by an alert desire to know if the authorities from whom 
he learnt it confirm or correct the rapid conclusions as to date or 
history to which you yourself have come. 
I might multiply such examples. Nowhere in England can 
you so easily or so cheaply as in London hear and learn to 
appreciate the best music the world has produced. 
The wet half holidays of an undergraduate’s career well spent in 
the National Gallery would give you a familiarity with all the 
great schools of painting which few travellers attain. 
Every day as you come to or leave your work you may pass 
through one of the greatest art collections in the world, and it 
depends upon you alone as to whether you shall or shall not 
Jearn anything from it. 
Understand me clearly when I reiterate that I am laying 
down no rules. I have tried only to lay the problem before you. 
How to combine the proper care for pounds, shillings, and pence 
with the love of knowledge for its own sake ; how best to balance 
your various studies ; how to add to the concentration required 
yor the mastery of a single subject the open eye and the refined 
taste which may lead you to appreciate arts which you cannot 
emulate, and things beautiful which you can neither copy nor 
produce ; these are problems in which a university may help 
you, but can help you only if you are willing to help yourselves. 
I have to-day aimed at nothing more than at reminding you that 
each one of the mental forces we have discussed is essential to 
the equilibrium of intellectual life ; that if you wilfully neglect 
any of them, or devote yourselves too exclusively to one, you 
will iall short, and, it may be, sadly short, of the ideal which the 
true university holds up to her sons. 
FORTHCOMING BOOKS OF SCIENCE. 
M R. EDWARD ARNOLD'S list includes :—‘‘ Dynamics for 
2 Engineering Students,” by Prof. W. E. Dalby ; ‘* Physical 
Calculus,” by Percy E. Bateman; ‘‘ Text-book of Physical 
Chemistry,” by Dr. R. A. Lehfeldt ; ‘*A Manual of Elementary 
Chemistry,” by W. A. Shenstone, F.R.S. ; ‘‘ Magnetism and 
Electricity,” by J. Paley Yorke ; ‘‘A Manual of Botany,” by 
David Houston; ‘f A Manual of Physiography,” by Dr. Andrew 
J. Herbertson ; ‘A Text-book of Domestic Science,” by Mrs. 
S. J. Shaw; ‘Elementary Natural Philosophy,” by Alfred 
Earl; ‘Wood: its Natural History and Industrial Applic- 
ations,” by Prof, G. S. Boulger ; ‘‘ The Dressing of Minerals,” 
by Prof. Henry Louis ; and a new edition of ‘* Animal Life and 
Intelligence,” by Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, F.R.S. 
NO. 1564, VOL. 60] 
The list of Messrs. Bailliére, Tindall, and Cox contains :— 
‘Dictionary of French-English Medical Terms,” by H. De 
Meric ; ** The X-ray Case-book for Noting Apparatus, Methods 
and Results, with Full Diagrams of the Human Body,” by Dr. 
D. Walsh; ‘‘The Pathological Statistics of Insanity,” by 
Francis O, Simpson; ‘‘ Difficult Digestion due to Displace- 
ments,” by Dr. A. Symons Eccles; ‘‘ An Introduction to the 
Diseases of the Nervous System,” by Dr. H. Campbell Thom- 
son; ‘fA Manual for Nurses,’’ by Florence Haig-Brown 
“The Artistic Anatomy of the Horse,” by Dr. U. W. Arm- 
stead, illustrated ; ‘* Statistics of Food Adulteration and Sug- 
gested Standards,” by C. G. Moor and C, U. Cribb; and new 
editions of ‘* A Synopsis of the British Pharmacopceia, 1898,” 
compiled by H. Wippell Gadd, with Analytical Notes and Sug- 
gested Standards, by C. G. Moor. ‘‘ Practical Guide to the 
Public Health Acts. A Vade Mecum for Officers of Health and 
Inspectors of Nuisances,” by Dr. T. Whiteside Hime ; ‘‘ Manual 
of Surgery for Students and Practitioners,” by Drs. W. Rose and 
A. Carless ; “‘ Heart Disease, with Special Reference to Prog- 
nosis and Treatment,” by Sir W. I!. Broadbent, Bart, M.D, 
F.R.S., and Dr. J. F. H. Broadbent; ‘‘ Practical Horse- 
Shoeing,” by Dr. George Fleming. 
In Messrs. G. Bell and Sons’ list we find :—‘‘ Comparative 
Physiology,” by G. C. Bourne ; ‘‘ Physiography,” by H. N. 
Dickson ; ‘* Chemistry,” by Prof. James Walker ; ‘f Mechanics,” 
by Prof. G. M. Minchin, F.R.S.; ‘‘ Electricity and Mag- 
netism,” by Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S.; “ Elementary 
General Science,” by D. E. Jones and D S. McNair. ‘A 
Short Course of Elementary Plane Trigonometry,” by Charles 
Pendlebury. 
In Messrs. A. and C. Black’s list are :—‘‘ Newton’s Laws or 
Motion,” by Prof. P. G. Tait ; ‘* A Text-Book of Zoology,” by 
Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R S. 
The list of Messrs. Blackie and Son, Ltd., includes :— 
“Among the Birds in Northern Shires,” by Charles Dixon ; 
‘© A Book of Birds,” by Carton Moore Park, illustrated. 
Messrs. W. Blackwood and Sons promise :—‘‘ Practical 
Nursing,” by Isla Stewart and Dr. Herbert E. Cuff ; ** Physical 
Maps for the Use of History Students,” by Bernhard V. Darbi- 
shire ; ‘‘ A Manual of Classical Geography,” by John L. Myres ; 
‘* Exercises in Geometry,” by J. A. Third. 
Messrs. Gebriider Borntraeger (Berlin) will publish :—‘‘ Eine 
Landschaft der Steinkohlen-Zeit,’’ by Dr. H. Potonié. 
Mr. T. Burleigh announces :—*‘ Our Common Cuckoos, other 
Cuckoos and Parasitical Birds,” by Dr. Alexander Japp. 
The announcements of the Cambridge University Press in- 
clude :—*‘ Scientific Papers,” by Prof. P. G. Tait, vol. ii ; ‘* The 
Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams,” vol. ii, edited by 
Prof. W. G. Adams, F.R.S., andi R. A. Sampson; ‘‘ Scientific 
Papers,” by Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S.; ‘‘ Scientific Papers,” by 
the late Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S., in 2 vols. ; ‘‘ Scientific 
Papers,” by Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S.; ‘* Aether and 
Matter,” a development of the relations of the aether to 
material media, including a discussion of the influence of the 
earth’s motion on the phenomena of light; being one of two 
essays to which the Adams prize was adjudged in 1899 in the 
University of Cambridge, by Dr. Joseph Larmor, F.R S. ; 
** Aberration,” a study of the relations between the ether and 
matter : being one of two essays to which the Adams prize was 
adjudged in 1899 in the University of Cambridge, by G. T. 
Walker ; ‘‘The Theory of Differential Equations,” part ii., 
ordinary equations, not linear, by Prof. A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S., 
in 2 vols.; ‘‘The Strength of Materials,” by Prof. J. A. 
Ewing, F.R.S. ; ‘‘A Treatise on the Theory of Screws,” by 
Prof. Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S. ; ‘* A Treatise on Geometrical 
Optics,” by R. A. Herman; ‘‘ Zoological Results based on 
material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and 
elsewhere, collected during the years 1895, 1896 and 1897, by 
Dr. Arthur Willey, part iv., illustrated ; *‘ Fauna Hawaiiensis, 
or the Zoology of the Sandwich Islands,” being results of the 
explorations instituted by the joint committee appointed by the 
Royal Society of London for promoting natural knowledge and 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and 
carried on with the assistance of those bodies and of the Trustees 
of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, edited by Dr. David 
Sharp, F.R.S.; vol. ii., part i., Orthoptera, by R. C. L. 
Perkins ; vol. il., part ii., Neuroptera, by R. C. L. Perkins ; 
‘* Fossil Plants,” by A. C. Seward, F.R.S., vol. ii. ; ‘* Elec- 
tricity and Magnetism,” by R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S. ; 
“Crystallography,” by Prof. W. J. Lewis; ‘‘ Military 
