OXFORD 
A SHORT GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND CITY 
(Reprinted from the Official Handbook of Oxford 
by courtesy of the Visitors' and Entertain¬ 
ments Committee, and revised by the kind¬ 
ness of the Author, the late Mr. B. H. Black- 
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well.) 
▼ * HE one place to study Oxford is in 
f Oxford itself; a walk down the High 
tells more of its actual life than all the 
books and treatises in the world.’ So writes John 
Richard Green, one of Oxford’s most brilliant 
sons, in a double sense, for, while the City gave 
him birth, the University was his nursing 
mother. He, however, is thinking of the human 
current which runs through the place; we are 
more immediately concerned with its outward 
aspects, and this Handbook, issued by Bell’s 
Travel Service, 137 High Street, is in no sense 
intended to take the place of a guide book; it is 
compiled with the object of giving the intending 
visitor some idea of the attractions of a city, 
' which, whether we regard it from the point of 
view of its antiquity, of its architecture, or of its 
historical associations, is one of the most beautiful 
and interesting in the world. 
‘ See Naples and die ’ is an ancient proverb 
familiar to most of us, but Naples is a far cry, 
and if it is to be the end and crown of our sight¬ 
seeing we shall most of us wish to defer the plea¬ 
sure ; on the other hand, Oxford is readily access¬ 
ible from many parts of the kingdom, and all who 
have the wandering instinct, or the love of beauty, 
should rest unsatisfied until they have feasted 
their eyes on, and felt something of the glamour 
which surrounds that city, in whose praise poets 
innumerable have sung, and of whom one of the 
greatest tells us that whether we look upon her 
in summer or in winter, in autumn or in spring, 
“ Lovelv all the time she lies.” 1 
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• 1 Mathew Arnold. 
