The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09

that will bring fame to their country.
 The kitchen is a queer place, one to be seen to be appreciated In the top is square hole now covered with glass; through which the smoke passed when Cardinal Woolseys dinner was being pre- pared. There Is an immense fireplace fixed with spits for baking neat when the 1Ol students lived here this spit was used and today for traditions sake it is the way in which meat is prepared. The old mortar and pestle are used for 1 grinding sugar. and in making gallons of mayonaise; in one corner is the store I room for meat, something like a ton a week being used. When we expressed wonder at the quantity the boy an swered, "The gentlemen's friends come too."
 Christs Church is part of the college. or the college is part of the church, I do not know which. There are so many of these impressive Norman arches in the building, and this too, Is a burial ground for Englands great and titled dead. The windows date from various periods, some containing very old stained glass, and some being as recent as Sir Joshua Reynolds and Morris, whose coloring is so different from that of any one else, and Burne Jones, whose Faith, Hope and Charity" is so famous.
 Oxford is all churches and colleges. There are Queens college, New college Oriel college and Corpus Christi; but these are not all that are in the place, and there seems to be church to go with each till one is lost in a labyrinth of immense buildings.
 In New college there are perhaps the most striking windows of any of the churches, for here one Is liable to see and appreciate the difference between the old and the new stained glass on ac- count of their close juxtaposition. Sir Joshua Reynolds famous window show ing the seven virtues is between two windows made of very old glass, with it's indefinable design and general lack of value from a pictorial point of view. Yet in the analysis given it was shown that window is supposed to transmit light, and not be a canvass on which to show human figures So from this view point the older, more characterless glass is architecturally better; put I loved to stand under Sir Joshua's '"remperance." with its soft lights and delicate beauty, much more than beneath those of oldest time, or the later ones famouA for the rich crimsons and purples in the priests robes. While we were studying these in | New college student came to practice on the pipe organ, and being just an ex- ercise he played scales and single sns- tained notes. You can imagine how the
  could not even hear ourselves think; l can tell you very little of this chapel perhaps on that account
 The Magdalen, which is pronounced as If it were Maudlin, is also one of the very famous colleges. It is so large that one cannot help being lost and needing guidance every little while, in fact each time one goes into the grounds of one of these colleges there is a feeling of be- ing in a town hundreds of miles from any town, but in one large enough to ab- sorb all time and thought. This is so large that it has a herd of deer in the park belonging to 1t. We only saw them at distance. for as Professor Powers says. Tt is just as well not to be too familiar with deer" The building has a court of an acre or more in the centre in which English grass grows, for in England the grass seems greener and | finer than anywhere else, and from years | of care the lawns have the soft givy ! feeling of a thick velvet carpet. All the windows that open on this quadrangle have box of daisies and geraniums in | them, so they seem always in holiday at tire of red and white and the great trees on the other, here and there is a seat, and wonder a place to look into the water ] beneath bridge leading into the park. and a boat rowed by some students float l, ing slowly past A place to dream In, and to feel infinitely removed from all human life. if one so wishes.
 1 The broad walk is also very famous, it being walk literally in the middle of the street. edged with very large trees, and having seats placed at short inter vals It is a beautiful promenade and | being unpaved one does not tire of walk ing on it so quickly. I should think that when one wished to be in the world and of 1t, that this would be as fine in it's way as is Addison's Walk for solitude. The broad walk is very near the Thames, where the house boats stay, so 1t is pop | ular on this account. We saw a crew practicing for the races. which are to
 Many ladies are daily receiving treat