would have been even better.

* * * * *

"The Examiners appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Natural
Science give notice that Wilfrid Dyson Hambly, Jesus College,
having submitted a dissertation on 'Tattooing and other forms of
body-marking among primitive peoples,' will be publicly examined
on Monday, November 12, at 2.30 p.m., in the Department of Social
Anthropology, Barnett House."--_Oxford University Gazette_.

We trust he showed, and obtained, full marks.

* * * * *

TO ATTILA'S UNDERSTUDY.

[Reuter reports that a British prisoner has been sentenced to a
year's imprisonment for calling Germans "Huns."]

The choice was yours, we understood.
We thought that, when you wished to cater
For China's spiritual good,
This name received your imprimatur;
"Go forth," you said, "my sons!
Go and behave exactly like the Huns!"

Though under any other name,
However alien to their nature,
Your people would have smelt the same,