of the rooms in Trinity, their windows just peeping out of clusters of ivy, and all along the banks smooth lawns shelving to the water under venerable trees, and the grey old bridge of St. John's, all telling you you are in dear domestic England.” The new quadrangle is as pleasantly situated as any in the University. A vaulted cloister extends along the whole south. side, in the centre of which is a handsome gateway with a roof of fair tracery, with a rich central pendant. This stately set of buildings makes up a hundred and five sets of rooms; it forms a body and two wings in imitative Tudor, the body chiefly consisting of a massive lantern tower with corner turret. Mr. Everett writes: "It is said that the architect, a very zealous reviver of the Gothic style, on seeing an undergraduate in the court shut his window on a very cold day, rushed up to his room, and begged him never to shut both halves of his window, because the best effect of the building depended upon one half being open." We need hardly say that this pleasant story is to be taken cum grano.

The grounds of the college are very beautiful, with greater variety than elsewhere in the University. The college walks. have lost many of the fine trees they once possessed. Some of the elms are said to be more than two hundred years old. Wordsworth speaks of the walks of his college:

"Whenever free to choose

Did I by night frequent the college groves
And tributary walks."

One venerable elm, which Wordsworth never failed to visit when-
ever he was at Cambridge, has fallen, among others. The
Fellows' garden is so thickly wooded that it deserves the name.
of grove.
It is also called the Wilderness. It has a pleasant
bowling-green, and the trees are planted in such order as to
resemble the interior of a church.

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We must now say a few words concerning the magnificent new chapel. For many years it had been deeply felt by members of the college that there was great need of a new chapel, and that its erection would be in the highest sense a good work. This feeling was especially manifested in the year 1861, in constant college discussions, and found special expression in a sermon preached at the annual commemoration of Benefactors on the 6th of May by Canon Selwyn, the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, and former Fellow. In this sermon he strongly and pointedly urged on the college to proceed with the good work which had been so much in their hearts. In the same month it was resolved by the Masters and seniors of the society to commence the building. On the long bright midsummer day of 1863 the contractors commenced, and once more on St. John Port Latin day the foundation-stone was laid by a former scholar of the college, the late lamented Henry Hoare, the banker.* The consecration of the chapel took place on the 12th of May, 1869, by the Bishop of Ely, who is the official visitor of the college and diocesan, the sermon being preached by Bishop Selwyn, like his brother a former Fellow of the society. Many other prelates also took part in the services. The Master and Fellows had issued invitations to the consecration three months beforehand to all non-resident members and subscribers. A special train ran from town, and about nine hundred Johnians were present on the occasion. One account of this memorable

In a note to a work recently published, "Memoir of Henry Hoare," we read the following: "His connection with the addition of a tower to the magnificent chapel recently consecrated at St. John's College, Cambridge, his family college, is now no secret. His offer was of £1,000 yearly, for five years; but with the distinct and careful proviso 'that the offer should be understood not to extend beyond his life. In other words, that there were not to be more contributions of £1,000 each than the years he should live.' I have this from Dr. Bateson himself [the present Master of the College]. He was then only fifty-five years of age; but the importance of attending to the rule laid down by St. James (iv. 15) was sadly exemplified by the fact that he lived only to offer two of the intended instalments."

day says: "And so ended this spirit-stirring service, with which we have set apart our beautiful and now holy house for Almighty God to be His dwelling-place amongst us in our college."

It is built after a design by Sir George Gilbert Scott, in

the Early Decorated style, like the old chapel before the Tudor alterations. It has some resemblance to the Sainte Chapelle at Paris, and also to Exeter College, Oxford. It projects beyond the gateway into the street, and its noble tower is one