splendid evening. We arranged to dine there, so that we were not sorry, on driving into the yard, to see the skin of a recently killed elk stretched on the end of the barn, on enquiry we were not disappointed, for the good woman of the station promised us steaks from the very animal which had been shot some twenty miles off, by native hunters. We had some time before dinner, and we examined the skin. We were struck by the great length of the divided hoofs, and it was easy to understand the noise we had heard elks made in running.

Skoien has the reputation of being one of the best stations in Norway, and so we found it to be, for our elk steaks were A.1., and charges most reasonable. Though after even a second-rate English Inn, a station would seem a very primitive affair. Fresh meat is a rarity in many, and all travellers should take a small stock of eatables with them. Biscuits and sauces we found very acceptable. They are to be procured in Bergen, or any large town. Below Skoien the river Etna expands into the Rands Fjord, along the shore of which a road, indeed the road generally taken, runs to the capital. But we had decided to go by the Nyosin Lake, and so turning to the left we pushed on over the ridge which separates the two valleys. With bad ponies, I think the only really bad ones we ever had, we found the long ascent to be slow work. The redeeming point being the glorious extent of wood and water that lay stretched before us. In fact we hardly knew whether to admire the immense panorama from Lieu-pine woods rolling away for miles and miles, or the more varied scene on the way up, the most. Our lazy animals were here changed for excellent ones, and we did the next six miles in thirty-five minutes, very fast for mountain ponies. Usually, if one attempts to drive at all fast, the "skyds-gat" or boy, whose duty it is to take the ponies back, will remonstrate most strongly, rubbing the animal all over in order to find a wet spot, when he draws your attention to it most significantly. These boys are quite an institution in Norwegian travel, some are most amusing, not a few very cheeky, and all are most pressing in their requests for artificial flies, should they see them round the fisherman's hat, as they often do.

While fresh horses were being got out at Mustad, our last change, we amused ourselves by inspecting the homestead, and as the cows were just coming in, we heard the old woman remonstrating with those which went into the wrong stalls as she would have to a child had it done wrong.

Long before we got to Gjovick we descried the waters of the Mjosen Lake lit up by the rays of the sun as it died away in the

west, tinging the clouds with the most superb colours. As we drove into the town, at seven o'clock, it was with many regrets that we pulled up our ponies at the Hotel, to think that we had done with our carrioles, for a more pleasant mode of travelling surely never was devised.

On Monday we steamed down the lake, carrioles on board; the same evening we were established in the Hotel de Scandinavei, and the following Friday we were on our way back to England.

B.

C.C.B.E.

The Scratch Races, which close the Boating season, took place at Tewkesbury, on Wednesday, Oct. 2nd. The entries were not so numerous as could have been wished, but this was amply compensated for by the excellence of the races; none of which were won by more than a length, one or two of them being so close at the finish that it was almost difficult to decide which boat was first. The following is the crew of the winning boat:

C. Potter, bow.
Mr. Musson, 2.
H. Matthews, 3.

W. N. Beauclerk, stroke.

F. Money, cox.

Five Boats started, and there were consequently four races to decide the winner. Lowther's boat rowed with three oars, on account of the incapacity of their fourth man, who was making his first essay in rowing, but they pressed their opponents very close nevertheless.

Mr. Martin, the jeweller, has very kindly given five cups to the Boat Club, which it has been decided are to be given to the College four in recognition of their having won the Shrewsbury race this year.

Our Contemporaries.

The Eton College Chronicle begins with a goodly list of Eton honours gained in the past year;—a Balliol Scholarship, carried off by F. Peters; a Cambridge Craven Scholarship by W. R. Kennedy; a Bell Scholarship by his brother; a Chancellor's Medal by Pollock; three wranglers; four in the 1st class of the Classical Tripos, in which Pollock was second; not content with these, it goes on to notice the victories of the Football Eleven, and the Eight at the Harrow match, "which was almost equivalent to a victory; the batting averages of the Eton Eleven are given, and from these we learn that the average number of runs per innings, taking the whole Eleven together, is 16, the highest three being C. J. Thornton, 33; C. J. Ottway, 29; C. R. Alexander, 251.

The Wykehamist devotes itself, in one of its leaders, to the refutation of the opinion

"The heights that great men reached and kept,

Were not attained by sudden flight;

But they, while their companions slept,

Were toiling upward in the night."

Preferring, rather, the old creed—

"Early to bed, and early to rise,

Makes a man healthy, and wealthy, and wise,"

A preference which no one on earth, we should imagine, could have a word to say against. But by far the most notable thing that it has to record is the acting of "Macbeth," which was undertaken by the boys and apparently carried out with great success. Mr. Hawkins, who acted Macbeth, took a new view of his character, and one which shocked the old play-goers, acting on the opinion that heretofore the virtues of the husband and the vices of the wife have been exaggerated.

From the Meteor we learn that all Rugby is suffering from a somewhat violent attack of "hat complaint." New boys, it seems, have to wear tall hats during a certain period of noviciate. They object, and write to the "Meteor; " "An Utter Fool," writes in reply, and so the thing goes on. The anti-hat case is briefly put by a correspondent in the last number-"Hats are annoying to the new boys; mere annoyance does no good to them, and certainly no good to others. Which of these statements is false? If they are true, what more is there to say?" We can conceive no more.

A proposal is set on foot for the enrolment of the Rugby Rifle Corps, which will be attended with great advantages, such as we have ourselves felt.

We had heard vague reports of hundreds, some said thousands, which Rugby had made against the Butterflies. We now see the actual score, viz., 528, 246 of which were made without the loss of a wicket.

The Marlburian.—We have five numbers of this periodical sent, but confine our remarks to Nos. 12, 13, and 14, the last three issues. We feel justified in noting first of all, the general excellence of those numbers which we have seen, and having thus paid our tribute, proceed. Two most interesting papers appear, entitled "Battlefields and Battles," wherein an account of a visit to the field of Königgratz is given, and wherein, also, some interesting discussions are recorded. The Debating Society appears to prosper; on September 9th, twenty-eight members declared their belief that "Private Schools, so far as they are preparatory to Public Schools and in which the pupils are not allowed to remain after thirteen years of age, are highly beneficial institutions." Five gentlemen thought otherwise. On September 16th, only two members believed that "The system of competitive examination is prejudicial and injurious," while twenty-six disagreed. It is a sad fact, but a division on the "Women Franchise," showed only three believers and twenty recalcitrants. High scoring appears to have been considerably in vogue at Marlborough: witness the following-C. S. Gordon against Mr. Ward's Eleven, 104 and 59; R. Leach, in the same match, not out 61. The Common Room, v. The Eleven-alas, for degenerate Cheltenham!-E. E. Money, 62. R. W. Wickham, 84, for the Rifle Corps against the Savernake Club. Hillyard, 34, and not out 185, for the First Eight, against the next Eleven. For the same side, which made 412 in their second innings, Cummings got, not out 47 and 60, and MacCregor, 14 and 50. For the other side W. E. Leach got, not out 153, and T. W. Kewley, 53. In rifle shooting, the College beat the Town by 246 to 205, and, in the return, 362 to 305. The class shooting came off, Captain Dumergue and Private Yeatman scoring highest; Captain Dumergue also, by magnificent shooting, won the Challenge Cup with a score exceeding by 17 any hitherto made. There is an article in No. 13 on House-feeling," and some notes on the Reform Bill. Accounts of the doings of the Natural History Society, conclude each number.

No. 14 is enriched by an account of the past Cricket season, which includes a list of the matches played and characters and