Each man has now finished his cigar, and Jones proposes a game of short whist. Brown objects, on the ground that short whist is apt to extend to a very long game. Smith seconds the objection, for he says he does not like to be late, and being a bit of a poet, he gives his reasons in an impromptu rhyme

"Examinations are so near,

"Twould really not be prudent To taste of pleasure, which I fear Would interrupt a student."

'Bravo," says Robinson; come, old fellow, give us your celebrated song about the spring exams., and then we'll toddle." Smith is always singing, so he readily agrees to give the following song, which accurately describes the condition of a man who is going up for his intermediate examinations at the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in April, most fickle of months.

(We were at great pains to discover who wrote this song, but, having at last succeeded, the amiable author, while kindly allowing it to be printed, declines to append his name. For all that we thank him very heartily for the pleasure his song has caused to hundreds of good companions, and more heartily still for the incitement this proved to other students to write songs for special occasions in their college career.)

and xxvi. sung in this, the only gentlemanly music-hall in London. Among other songs from these books we may mention the following as very popular among students :-Sir Henry Bishop's glee, "The Chough and Crow to roost are gone;' ""The Hardy Norseman's house of yore;" "The Stirrup-Cup;" "Ye Mariners of England;" and "Rule Britannia."

One day a lecturer was late, so the whole class, consisting of about seventy men, joined in singing "Rule Britannia" with immense spirit. We never enjoyed it more thoroughly.

7.

If e'er I hear a tale of woe
For human sympathy,

The "sympathetic nerve" alone
Suggests itself to me.

8.

In spring I'm going up,-glad spring
No joy will bring to me ;

No verdure then shall I behold
In flower or forest tree.

9.

In place of gathering lovely flowers From nature's glorious glens, Cramming I then must sit for hours At those "dried specimens."

10.

So come I cannot, e'en although
Full well I be inclined;

For time flies fast, and 1, you know,
Must never cease to grind.

enable you to "pull through with a squeak;" and if you are a reading man, the worst lectures will do you no harm, for you will read for honours by books far more than any lecturer has time to tell you; and if your hospital have plenty of beds always full, you have merely to look about you sharply, and your "practice will keep pace with your "theory."

A large hospital in a pleasant neighbourhood, is all we ask for.

The majority of students become general practitioners-" G.P.'s;" for though it sounds very fine to be a

"Philosopher and Physician,
Author and Metaphysician,"

yet students firmly believe in the anagrams, that to be a philosopher is poorish help, and that physician means I say pinch! for a pure physician scarcely earns his daily bread till he has lost his teeth to eat it with.

Now a man who wishes to be a general practitioner must be "double-japanned," as we call being "doubly qualified," or, in other words, he is required by law to have two diplomas, one to practise surgery, and one for medicine. Formerly these were obtained from the College of Surgeons and the Apothecaries' Hall; that is to say, every medical man was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons-M.R.C.S.; and a licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company-L.A.C. This is what students mean when they talk of having "passed the College and Hall.”

Of late years the College of Physicians has granted a licence to practise medicine, but people stupidly distrust the licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians -L.R.C.P., though he has passed a much stiffer exa

ject as when he delivered them; he then observed, as we are told by one of his former pupils, "I do not find astrology mentioned at present, but I have no doubt such an important omission will ere long be supplied!"

(Ah, Dr Latham, Dr Latham, why do you not bring out another edition of all your valuable lectures? They are not to be had for love or money; we wish you could see our copy of them: it is composed of bits cut out of medical papers, and one or two in manuscript transcribed from the library volume.

Sir Thomas Watson's lectures, also, are out of print, and sadly want re-editing, for his style is equalled by very few medical authors of the present day; and of these few the majority shrink from the labour of writing so large a work without assistance; and we are therefore obliged to fall back on Dr Russell Reynolds's 'System of Medicine,' which threatens to become as ponderous as Mr Timothy Holmes's 'System of Surgery.' Will no physician of ability and experience come forward with a compendious treatise written as happily as Sir Thomas Watson's, and bringing the subject down to the present day? This seems to offer a fine field for a clever and energetic author.)

You attend the prescribed courses of lectures, and you discover that, if you are only going to take the diplomas of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, you have done all that is necessary, while, if you intend to graduate in the University of London, you must read infinitely more than you learn from your lectures. That being the case, it does not signify at what hospital you enter, for if you are a lazy man, the best staff of lecturers cannot make you study more than will