covered with a deal bookcase it is quite impossible to say more of it. On the right of the entrance to the crypt is a small but fine window. The Catholic church of St. Aloysius, St. Giles's-roadwest, was opened in 1875, and is a lofty, though rather bare and cold building, with a fine reredos and altar, the gift of the Marquis of Bute. BANKS.-Gillett and Co., 54, Cornmarket-street; London and County, 121, High-street; Oxford University and City, 119, St. Aldate-street; Parsons, Thomson, and Co., High-street. FAIRS.-May 3; Monday and Tuesday after St. Giles; Thursday before September 29. FIRE.-Volunteer: Engine-house, New Inn Hall-street. HOTELS." Clarendon," Cornmarketstreet; "Mitre," High-street; "Randolph," corner of Beaumont-street; "Roebuck," Cornmarket-street. INFIRMARY.-Radcliffe. MARKETS. Every second Wednes day (cattle); Saturday (corn).. PLACES OF WORSHIP,-Christ Church Cathedral, All Saints, Cowley St. John, Holy Trinity St. Ebbe's, Magdalen College Chapel, New College Chapel, St. Aldate's, St. Barnabas, St. Clement's, St. Cross or Holywell, St. Ebbe's, St. Frideswides, St. George the Martyr, St. Giles's, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Baptist (Summertown), St. Mary Magdalene, St. Martin's (Carfax), St. Mary the Virgin, St. Michael's, St. Paul's, St. Peter's-in-the-East, St. Peter-le-Bailey, St. Philip and St. James, and St. Thomas the Martyr. The Roman Catholic Church of St. Aloysius, and numerous chapels belonging to the Baptist, Congregational, Independent, Methodist, Primitive Metho dist, and Wesleyan bodies. POLICE.-Station, High-street; County Police Station, New-road. POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.-Post Office (money order, savings bank, telegraph, and insurance), St. Aldate-street. Mails from London, delivered at 6.30 and 9.30 a.m. and 12.30, 3.30, 5.15, 6.45, and 8 45 p.m. Sunday, 6.30 a.m. Mails for London, 8.25 and 11.15 a.m., 1.20, 3.20, 6.45 p.m., and 12 midnight; Sunday, 12 midnight. NEAREST Bridges, Folly; down, Abingdon 7 miles. Lock, down, Iffley about a mile, Railway Station, Oxford, If a carriage be hired by time, and the driver cannot return to the nearest cabstand within the hour, half-hour, or such other time for which he shall receive payment, he shall in such case be entitled to charge one-half the proper fare for so much time as may be necessary to enable him to return to the nearest cab-stand. CHILDREN BEING PASSENGERS.-Infants carried in the arms or on the lap, or one child not so carried, but under seven years of age, and accompanied by an adult, shall not be charged for as passengers; but every two children under seven years of age, not so carried, shall be charged for as one adult passenger. NIGHT FARES.-An additional half fare, both by distance and time, shall be paid for every fare or so much of every fare as may be performed by any carriage after twelve o'clock at night and before six o'clock in the morning. LUGGAGE.-Luggage allowed not to exceed 112 lb. in weight; 9d. to be paid for every 112 lb. weight carried in excess of the weight allowed. COMPUTATION OF DISTANCE. - The distance travelled shall be computed from the stand or place where the carriage may be engaged or hired, and shall extend to any distance not exceeding five miles within the district to be computed from the General Post Office aforesaid. DISTANCES (as given in the "Oxford Chronicle Railway Guide"). From the Great Western Railway Station (down platform) to the following places is one mile and a quarter: To the south end of Magdalen Bridge. From Oxford Post Office (St. Aldatestreet) to the following places is one mile and a quarter: To Iffley-road, midway between Henleystreet and Stanley-street. To Cowley-road, about 20 yards short of To Abingdon-road, at Cold Harbour. Oxford University. The following is a brief account of the sights of Oxford from the University point of view, and with its assistance, and that of the accompanying map, it is hoped that visitors will be able to see all there is to be seen with the least expenditure of time and labour. Where chapels, etc., are not open for public inspection at stated hours, application should be made at the porter's lodge of the college. A small fee is expected, which will generally frank the visitor to the hall, chapel, and library. There are plenty of guides always hanging about the streets, especially in the neighbourhood of the Sheldonian Theatre, whose charge is 1s. per hour, but except to point out the localities of buildings, they are of little use. ALL SOULS' COLLEGE, High-street, was founded in 1437 by Archbishop Chichele, its beginning having been as a chantry where prayers might be said for the souls of soldiers slain in the French wars. Above the entrance are statues of Henry VI. and the founder, and a group of figures in relief, variously said to represent the delivery of souls from purgatory, and the resurrection of the dead. The first quadrangle is in much the same con dition as it was in the founder's time. The second quadrangle was built by Hawksmoor, and is noticeable for its twin towers, and a rather incongruous sun-dial, said to be designed by Wren. The chapel, which faces the visitor on entering the first quadrangle from the High-street, open free on week-days from 12 to 1 and 2 to 4, except on Good Friday and All Souls' Day. It is approached by a gateway with fine vaulted roof with fan tracery, and is deservedly one of the sights of Oxford. The 15th century reredos was discovered in 1870 behind a painted plaster screen in a ruined condition, but with much of the old canopy work entire and the old colour still remaining in places. It was restored by the munificence of the late Earl Bathurst, and the niches were filled with statues, the work of Mr. E. E. Geflowski. The principal figures comprise a number of very dissimilar personages, such as, besides a large collection of saints, the Duke of York; John Talbot of Shrewsbury, planting his flag under the walls of Rouen; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Catherine of France; Thomas, Duke of Clarence; John o' Gaunt; Margaret of Anjou; Henry V.; Cardinal Beaufort; and Earl Bathurst. The floor of the chancel is of great beauty. In the ante - chapel are the tomb and bust of Thomas Hoveden, 1614, and a few brasses, one dated 1490, another 1461. Eastward of the chapel is the hall, con taining several busts, among others one of Bishop Heber by Chantrey, and one of the founder by Roubiliac, as well as several portraits. Among the curiosities in the college is a very ancient salt-cellar of silver-gilt, supported by an armed figure, presented to the college by one of the descendants of the founder. The north side of the second quadrangle is occupied by the library, built with money left by Colonel Codrington in the early part of the last century. In it is a planetarium, a statue of Colonel Codrington, and a fine collection of books, more especially of a legal character. Christopher Wren's original designs for the building of St. Paul's are also here. One of the curious old customs, which are one by one disappearing from the Oxford of to-day, was annually celebrated at All Souls'. It was a tradition that when the foundations of the college were Sir being prepared, a very large mallard · flew from one of the drains, and that this circumstance gave rise to the adoption of a mallard as the college crest. On the gaudy day or annual festival, a song and chorus in honour of the mallard was sung by the fellows; a verse of this song, quoted by Shrimpton's local guide, is not calculated to inspire one with much idea of the versification of its author, or with! much regret at the custom of singing it having fallen into desuetude. The first verse runs thus: Griffin, bustard, turkey, capon, Let other hungry mortals gape on: And on the bones with stomachs fall hard. was Oh, by the blood of King Edward! Oh, by the blood of King Edward! It was a swapping, swapping mallard. ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, at the back of the Sheldonian Theatre, and hard by Exeter College in Broad - street, founded by Elias Ashmole in 1679, from which period the present edifice dates. The collections here, although not large, are of their kind good, and consist of Chinese and Japanese curiosities, flint implements, ancient pottery, arms, daggers, Polynesian weapons, Esquimaux and North American Indian objects, and a variety of relics interesting no less from their rarity than for their historical associations. Among the most notable objects may be mentioned-starting from the right on entering-some Burmese and Malabar MSS., written on talipot, leaves; a fine old carved powder-flask; Charles I.'s spurs; a mosaic portrait in shells of Fupe Leo. XII.; the sword sent by Leo. X. to Henry VIII. with the title, of Defender of the Faith, with a crystal handle highly wrought; King Alfred's jewel, enamelled in gold, and bearing the inscription in Saxon, "Alfred ordered me to be made;' Queen Elizabeth's watch and riding-boots; Charles II.'s bellows; a glove which belonged to Mary Queen of Scots; Henry VIII.'s hawkingglove; and Oliver Cromwell's watch. The "Oxford Collection" comprises a variety of implements, and of pieces of pottery discovered in the town during the process of excavations. Descending the staircase to the left there will be, found a number of clubs, arrows, patu patus, and other implements of war from Tongataboo, Fiji, New Zealand, and various parts of Polynesia, and on the basement are the celebrated Arundel Marbles. In the museum is a portrait of Ashmole, in a frame carved by Grinling Gibbons. The collection can be seen daily. BALLIOL COLLEGE is in Broad-street' and Magdalen-street. The date of the foundation of Balliol by Sir John Balliol, of Barnard Castle, Durham, the father of John Balliol, King of Scotland, is somewhat obscure. The year was perhaps 1268. The college has been practically entirely rebuilt, a small portion only of the older buildings now remaining, no part of the college being older than 1431. The south front, with the massive tower, was built about 1870 by Waterhouse, and ten years earlier the chapel was built from designs by Butterfield, who here employed the red and white Gothic, which he afterwards developed more fully at Keble. The library and hall, which have been enlarged, are of older date than most of the remainder of the college; on the west of the Broad-street entrance is a very beautiful oriel window. In the hall are some portraits, and the library has a good collection of illuminated MSS. Opposite the door of the master's lodging in Broadstreet are four small stones set crosswise, and it is supposed that it was here that Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer suffered martyrdom. It is scarcely necessary to add that other authorities are quite certain that the stones do not exactly mark the actual scene of the auto-da-fé. BODLEIAN LIBRARY.—This famous library, now one of the most important in existence, had a very humble origin. It was named the Cobham Library, after its donor, and was situated in the northeast of St. Mary's Church. It was begun about 1367, and fully fitted out about 1409. The portion of the present library used by readers was finished about 1480. As Duke Humphrey assisted in the undertaking by gifts of money, books, and MSS., he is commonly considered its founder. In 1550, Edward VI. sent com. missioners, who destroyed all illuminated MSS. and books which they considered tainted by Popery, and so reduced the library that by 1556 it had become a timber-yard. Sir Thomas Bodley, at one time British Minister at the Hague, began the restoration in 1598, and finished it in 1602. The library now numbers over 450,000 volumes. That portion of the library which is accessible to the public is situated just over the Divinity School and the Picture Gallery. The entrance is in the south-west corner of the quad. It is open from 9 a.m. to 5p.m, in April, May, June, July, and August; from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in February, March, September, and October; from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in January, November, and December.. Graduates and other persons who have been admitted on suitable recommendation have the privilege of reading here. If the sight-seeing visitor be not accompanied by a member of the University in academic dress an admission fee of 3d. is charged. Some of the curiosities of the Bodleian are always exhibited under glass cases, and are changed from time to time. It is not, therefore, certain that any of those here mentioned will be on view at any given time. Among them are the first book printed in the English language by Caxton at Bruges, circa 1472; a Block Book, the Apocalypse, to which the date 1440 is probably erro neously assigned; the declaration made by the Duke of Monmouth on the morning of his execution, with his signature and those of six bishops; a MS. book in the handwriting of Queen Elizabeth, a New Year's gift to her brother Edward; gloves worn by the Maiden, Queen when she visited the University in 1566; Euclid's Elements, written A.D. 888; Edward VI.'s exercise-book ; a psalter, with beautiful miniatures, 1340; some fine ivory carvings of the 9th century; and a list of illuminated missals, MSS., Korans, autographs, &., &c., to enumerate which would be too long. The PICTURE GALLERY,! which also serves the purpose of a minor museum, is approached by the stairs on the left of the entrance to the library, and contains books, portraits, medals, models, seals, casts, ivories, busts, and curiosities of every kind. Some of the most notable of the latter are Sir Thomas Bodley's chest, with most intricate arrangement of locks; Queen Elizabeth's fruit trenchers; a chair made from the timbers of Sir Francis Drake's ship; the chair of Fortesque, Chancellor of the University in the time of Queen Eliza beth; and Guy Fawkess lantern, as to the authenticity of which perhaps it is not unreasonable to express a doubt. Near the portrait of the Prince of Wales is the following humorous admonition: "Touch what you like with your eyes, but do not see with your fingers." BOTANIC GARDENS, opposite Magda. len College, formerly the Jews' cemetery, and, when first opened, called the Physic Gardens. Founded by Earl Danby, early in the 17th century, for the improvement of the faculty of medicine. The gardens are entered by a characteristic gateway, designed by Inigo Jones, ornamented with statues of Charles I. and II. They are of considerable extent, and are a pleasant lounge, though perhaps more generally interesting to the botanist than to the mere pleasure-seeker. There is a remarkably pleasant walk along the Cherwell. The buildings on the right of the entrance contain the herbarium, lecture-room, &c. The collection of dried plants is remarkably complete. On the left of the gateway are the Professors' dwellings, in which there is an excellent library, particularly rich in books of the 16th and 17th centuries. The greenhouses are not impressive, but contain a fine collection of aquatic and succulent plants. Entrance is free. BRASENOSE COLLEGE, to the westward of the square in which stands the Radcliffe Library, was founded by Bishop Smith, of Lincoln, and Sir Richard, Sutton, of Prestbury, 1509. Over the entrance gateway are statues of the Virgin and Child and two saints, and just above the door is the immense brazen nose from which the college is sometimes erroneously supposed to take its name. The real derivation is said to have been a corruption of Brasenhas or Brewery of King Alfred, but it may airly be supposed that there is not much more reason in this derivation than in the other. The first quadrangle contains the hall with a few portraits. In the middle of it is a group of sculpture, respecting which the authorities are at variance; some asserting that it was intended for Cain killing Abel, while the other side avers that the group represents Samson slaying a Philistine. One thing is very certain, that the sculpture itself is entirely devoid of merit. The passage to the |