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We beg to Notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festiro Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced Rates ---

No. 1 BAMPER-$36.

1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial

1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port

Champagne.

Whisky.

1 Pt. Blastberry Brandy. 1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Bundy,

Qts. King Geo. IV. or Perfection

No. 2 HAMPER-$30.

110t. Quillemart Champagne,

1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Burgorne's Burgundy..

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy.

2 Qts. King Geo, IV. or Perfection

Whisky.

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2. Qts. St. Julien Claret.

1 qt. D.CL. Old Tom or Dry Gin."

1. Vino de Pasto Sherry.

1 phial Pomeranzan Bitters.

2 Qu. St. Julian Claret...

1 Qt. Ota Brown Sherry R.S. 1.QtD.C.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin 1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy. 1 phial Pomeranzen Bittera..

No. 3 HAMPER-$26.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1 PL G. F. Peppermint.

1 PL. D.O.M.

Qu. Sap. RO. Port.

2Qs. King Geo. IV. or Perfection

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1 Qt. Engrand'a XXX Brandy. 1 "Q Amontillado Sherry W.8.

1 Qt. D.C.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin. 2. Q Medoc Claret.

1 phial Pomeranzan Bitters.

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LETTER TO A FATHER,

[BY ALBU WAGON.]

The following letter from an under- graduate at Oxford may be assumed to have passed in different forms a number. of times through the post during the last few weeks. Where the arguments it pre sents have not been expressed in writing, they have been in personal discussions: and they have.1 neither written cor discussed, they have been thought. The attitude that is taken here would see to be what politicians are in the habit of describing as both typical and symptom- atic.

At any rate, here the letter is: "I am very sorry, my dear father the letter ruas," that my career in Ox- ford is making you unhappy I have done, you say, extremely little work dur ing the last three terms, and unless I put in about ten hours works day my chances of

even a second are most unpro- mising

18 Well, father, I have never at- tempted to deceive you. I have never pretended that I was working when I was not. I worked extremely hard to get my scholars not be able to come up because i knew that pro- bably I without it. I worked fairly hard to pass my history previous, because had not passed it I should have lost my scholar- ship. If I had worked harder I should pro- bably, you say, have got distinction. "1 vain enough to agree with you. I think I should. But I did not want distinction. only wanted not to lose my scholarship That was a year ago. Since then I have done the minimum of work, I am quite frank; you see. I confess to it. I have done Practically no work at all. It is most unlikely that I shall get a second, though I shall be surprised if I do not get n third."

Thirty years ago I should have been. told. I know, that my behaviour was un- filial and ungrateful, that the least I could do in return for all that you had done for me was to get a Erst That was the old attitude, and perhaps, father, that is the difference between our gener ations. You went up to Oxford feeling that you owed it to your father to get i first. For twenty years, you said, my father has given me a home, affection, and an education. He has worked dur ing those years extremely hard. He has denied himself a great deal so that I might go to a good school He has the right now to ask something of me in re turn. It will give him immense pleasure if I get a frst. At least I will do my best to give it him."

That is the way we are told in copy- books that we should feel towards our parents. But is it a cospliment to them, afer all, that we should feel like that? Is it not as good as saying that our career is nothing more than a focus for parental pride; that our parents are ask- ing us to succeed, not for our sakes, but for theirs, so that they shall be able to say in their clubs, Aly boy made eighty yesterday against Shrewsbury o

boy has got & a scholarship "1 -Isn't it a good as saying that our parenta

to schools and colleges, not that we chall it ourselves to take up our share in

the world's work but that we shall

Provide them with opportunities for self-lauda- tion That we are, in fact, to live, not our life there, but theirs, that school and Oxford are not to be the foundation to our careers, but the coping-stone of theirs? Is not that what it comes to really, the theory that we are to do at Oxford the things our parents expect. of us instead of the things that we feel are going to be of value to ourselves.

"That, father, I know has never been your attitudes Do you remember saying to me four years ago, when we were dis- cussing whether I should try for a his tory or a classical scholarship, that it was really more my concern than yours and my headmaster's! You will be bere,' you said, 'forty years after be and I are out of it. It's for you to de cide which way your inclinations, lie.", Σου

will say,

perhaps, that there is no real parallel between the two occasions: that the point at issue then was the sub- ject at which" I was to work; whereas, Bow the question is whether I am not to work or work. But they are really, I think, parallel nevertheless. For altim ately they come to the same thing by the following of which path shall I be the better off twenty years from now? To me my way seems the wiser.

"I am not going to be n school marter. ora barrister or a civil servant. And 1 cannot help feeling that outside the learned professions the distinction be tween a Arst and third is not going to matter much. Not enough, at any rate, to make me feel that the gaining of it would compensate for the number. things I should have to lose by working for it. I should, as you say, if I were to get a Ersts have to work during the next three terms for nine or ten bours. day. I should have to drop the Union and the O.U.D.S. I should have to give up rowing, and the many hours" I have spent in the Bodleian in discursive study: There would be an end of those long wars of dialectic that sharpen one's faculties more than lengthy study, and

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***I know what you will answer, that if it through that the mere discipline of work, even if the valus of the prize is negligible, is the finest of all trainings; that to be slack at one thing is to be slack in other things. But, father, I am not a slacker. I am mores things energies into other things; into that appear. to me to be more in

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