JOHNIAN DINner. So much success has attended the Johnian Dinner held in London this year and last at the time of the University Boat Race that it is proposed to arrange another dinner to be held under similar circumstances in 1892. It will probably take place on the evening before the Boat Race. Any Johnians who wish to take part in the gathering are requested to apply for further details to one of the following members of the Committee, as at present constituted :-R. F. Scott, J. E. Marr, G. C. M. Smith, J. A. Cameron, G. R. Joyce, W. M. Payne; R. H. Forster, 6, Fanthorpe Street, Lower Richmond Road, Putney, S.W.; E. Prescott (Hon. Sec.), 76, Cambridge Terrace, London, W. ..... Michaelmas Term (80 days, 60 days to keep). [Term kept ....Saturday ......Dec. 6.] Entrance Examinations will be held on Jan. 15, April 20, June 10, and Oct. 7. THE COLLEGE MISSION. Whilst the work at the Mission has been going on satisfactorily, work in college in connexion with it has been, if anything, rather less successful, and the Junior Officers regret being obliged to admit that neither in the number of visitors during vacation nor in the matter of subscriptions and old clothes has this year been so satisfactory as the last. It is hoped that next year may more than make up for this temporary depression. The Mission has experienced a great loss in Mr Benoy, the sometime Junior Missioner, who left us early in November, to be married; the members of Committee, Senior and Junior, and some other resident members of the college testified to their sense of the services he had rendered during the time he was with us by presenting him with a few books including two by distinguished Johnians, Bishop Moorhouse and Prebendary Sadler. In answer to an invitation from the Committee, A. T. Wallis B.A. in the Classical Tripos of last June, has, during the last six months, been residing at the Mission and he hopes to be ordained as Assistant Junior Missioner in December. He has been doing excellent work, especially in club-matters, which he has already reduced into better order than the great stress of work which fell to them allowed the Missioners a chance of doing. The house, No. 6 Chatham Street, which for nearly a year was occupied by Mr Benoy and in which members of the College staying at the Mission were put up, has been given up in favour of a house exactly opposite the Vicarage and situated in Chatham place. The house next to it has been taken also and is devoted to the most recent development of our work, which consists of supplying shelter and a place in which to rest to the factorygirls during their dinner hour. Cocoa is supplied at a halfpenny a cup, and, after the first feelings of suspicion had worn off, the boon was evidently appreciated. Mrs Phillips and Miss Jaquet-the latter of whom lives in the house-hope to extend its sphere of usefulness, but great care is necessary to avoid frightening the girls, who are apt to look on all such efforts with distrust. Small pamphlets giving an account of the origin, purpose, and present position of the Mission have been sent round the college in place of the descriptive sheet previously used. The following account of the terminal meeting is extracted from the college correspondence in the Cambridge Review : "On Thursday, Oct. 29th, a meeting was held in Lecture Room VI in connexion with the College Mission, the Master in the Chair. The Rev T. L. Palmer B.A., an old secretary of the Mission, first addressed us, giving a brief account of the work as it at present exists. In the course of his speech he paid a warm tribute of praise to Mrs Phillips, wife of our Senior Missioner, and called on all present to support Mr Phillips to the utmost of their power in the splendid uphill work he is doing. The Rev R. P. Roseveare, sometime First Captain of the L.M.B.C., now Assistant-Master at St Dunstan's, Catford, gave an amusing account of his summer outings with boys from Walworth and other parts of South and of East London. He pointed out that though many might feel little inclination or power for work in the lower parts of London, all might do good work and find pleasure in doing it by turning their attention to this department. A. T. Wallis, who met with a great reception, and who is at present preparing for ordination as additional Missioner, then gave an account of his work with the men's and boys' clubs, a part of our work to which we are now able to devote more time and funds than when the actual necessities of mission life claimed all our resources." THE LIBRARY. • The asterisk denotes past or present Members of the College. Donations and Additions to the Library during Quarter ending Midsummer 1891. Plautus. Miles Gloriosus. Donations. A revised Text, DONORS. with Notes, by R. Y. Tyrrell. 8vo. Official Year-book of the Church of England. *Abbott (E. A.). Philomythus. An Antidote against Credulity. 8vo. Lond. 1891. 11.17.25 Roby (H. J.). A Latin Grammar for Schools. 8vo. Lond. 1880. 7.24.11 ... 8vo. Danneil (John F.). Wörterbuch der Altmärkisch-plattdeutschen Mundart. Salzwedel, 1859. 7.10.3 Marshall (W. W.). Cruces and Criticisms. Professor Mayor. An Examination of certain passages in Greek and Latin Texts. 8vo. Lond. 1886. *Wilkins (A. S.). Roman Literature. Fermat (Pet. de). Oeuvres. Publiées par Brandt (Sebastian). The Ship of Fools. Translated by Alex. Barclay. [Edited by Mr Pendlebury. & Lond. 1874. 4.35.41, 42 Latham (Henry). On the Action of Exami nations considered as a means of Selection. 8vo. Camb. 1877. 5.42.31 Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions for 1890. Vol. 181. (2 parts). 4to. Lond. 1891. 3.6 India. General Report on the Operations of the Survey of India during 1888-89. fol. Calcutta, 1890. 6.1 Account of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of. Vols. XI— XIII. 4to. Dehra Dun, 1890. 6.1.... Bonney (T. G). Old Truths in Modern Lights. The Boyle Lectures for 1890 with other Sermons. 8vo. Lond. 1891. 11.17.24 Cambridge University. A Guide containing) a comprehensive Account of the different Colleges..likewise a Description of the Professor Babington. The Author. Town, County, and Neighbourhood of Rev Francis Procter. Cambridge. New Edition. 1811. Ff. 15.1 8vo. Camb. Seyffert (Dr Oskar). A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Litera ture and Art. Revised and edited, with Dr Sandys. Routh (E. J.). A Treatise on Analytical Meyer (Ernst von). A History of Chemistry 8vo. ... Greenhill (A. G.). Differential and Integral Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Royal ...... ... Neale (Richard). The Medical Digest, or busy Practitioner's Vade-mecum. 2nd Edition. 8vo. Lond. 1882. 3.26.23 .... *Griffin (W. N.). Solutions of the examples appended to a Treatise on the Motion of a Rigid Body. 8vo. Camb. 1848. 3.37.73 *Ashe (Thomas). Pictures, and other Poems. Dr D. Mac Alister. 8vo. Lond. 1865. 4.38.46.... Songs now and then. 8vo. Lond. 1876. .... Paley (F. A.). The Gospel of St John; a Verbatim Translation from the Vatican MS. 8vo. Lond. 1887. 9.5.25 •Cook (F. C.). The Origins of Religion and Language considered in Five Essays. 8vo. Lond. 1884. 9.19.49 Gaskin (Thomas). Solutions of the Trigono. metrical Problems, proposed at St John's College, Cambridge, from 1829 to 1846. 8vo. Camb. 1847. 3.37.72 Ashley (Hon Evelyn). The Life and Corre- Potts (A. W.). School Sermons. 8vo. Q |