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its scouts and ‘“bedders” — porters and proctors—bursars and battels! Just as I was leaving the walls of the college a copy reached me from a continental professor of his Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha, to which I had

furnished a slight contribution some months

ago. “Pray accept this trifle,” I said toa sorrowful friend, “for your own edification during the ‘Long’; I am now going to another region rich in apocryphal acts, to wit,

those of the war correspondent.”

There is no need to dwell upon the trite journey to Alexandria. Such a subject may

well be left to the pen of the tourist, who,

under the capable management of Dr. Lunn, enjoys at the same time economic and religious satisfaction, and travels at reduced

fares to further the reunion of Christendom. The Messageries steamer which conveyed us from Marseilles carried, as is generally the

_ ease, scarcely any passengers, except a con- glomerate mass of human beings at the

foc’sle, and very little freight. Nevertheless, thanks to the enormous subsidy furnished by

the French Government, these half-empty steamers invariably afford good accommoda-