L. B. Hamilton of Yale, who rode at the bicycle meeting last spring, now rides a "Star" Machine.

Prof. John Nichol contributes to the current Fortnightly a readable paper on "Scotch Universities, their friends and their foes."

It is said that Herbert Spencer's great work on Descriptive Sociology has been at last completed. The eight parts are in folio form, for convenience, and it aims to epitomize the past and present social life of the globe.

Ten years ago Emerson was chosen candidate by the students of Glasgow University for the Lord Rectorship. He was defeated by Disraeli, who obtained 700 votes to Emerson's 500.

The Williams College Catalogue, just published, gives the number of students as two hundred and seventy-five, apportioned among the several classes as follows : Seniors, fifty-four; juniors, seventy-four; sophomores, sixty-one, and freshmen, eighty-five. In the faculty are fifteen regular professors.

A man in New South Wales offers to reveal the name of the writer of plays and sonnets written by the author of Hamlet. This is as funny as the Boston merchant who after reading Shakespere said that he did not think "there were twenty men in Boston who could have written the plays."

Football and Matthew Arnold vie with each other in the amount of space devoted to them in almost all of our exchanges. The Princetonian devotes most of its energies to foot-ball, with an occasional remark on our distinguished literary visitor, while some of our other exchanges reverse matters and show a literary spirit to predominate over the physical. [Brunonian.

An account of the college life of the poet Poe, written by a classmate of his in the University of Virginia, has just appeared. Poe is described as a man of great influence among his companions, of much personal magnetism, wild and unmanageable, and the ringleader of every escapade indulged in by the students; "yet," says his biographer, "whatever Poe may have been in after years, he was when I knew him at the University of Virginia as honest a friend as the sometimes waywardness of his otherwise noble nature would allow. There was not the least touch of insincerity, and never the slightest indication of that maliciously fickle disposition which in after times was so often brought up against him."