Full many a roll of pony leaves serene,
The dark, unfathomed sleeves and text-books bear;
Full many a crib is born to blush unseen,
Yet shed assistance hidden by a chair.
Andrew Lang has written a judicious and delicately worded criticism upon Poe's poetry for the "Parchment Library." It is in general somewhat after the Matthew Arnold school of criticism, which is on the whole high commendation.
The five years' course in the department of science at Cornell, which was heralded at first with so much satisfaction by many of the students, has now begun to present several disadvantages over the old arrangement of studies and classes. - [Cornell Era.
A new "meridian photometer," with object glasses four inches in diameter, is being constructed for the observatory. Observations with the meridian circle have been made on two hundred and fifty days of the past year. Eleven papers have appeared from the observatory during the same time, and its "Annals" (13th volume) are now being published.