follow it, but they were not a little disappointed, for with the exception of the ballet dance which concluded it, it was a stupid affair.

The transition from Nixon's to '63's Glee Club was certainly refreshing. We think we can say without exaggeration that their singing has never been equaled, certainly never surpassed by that of any other club since we have been in College. They have taken pains not only to sing well when they do sing, but they use new and better songs than a vast majority of those we constantly hear, from Freshman year to graduation.

The exercises concluded with "A Romance under Difficulties." With this admirable play there was nothing out of joint. From the first sneeze of Diggles to the end of the piece, the audience was kept in a perfect roar. Better acting we have never seen off the stage and a good deal worse we have seen on it. Everything was in perfect keeping with the occasion, and decidedly better than we had any right to suppose. If everything before had been wretchedly poor, which was by no means the case, the Glee Club and "Tim-O-thy Diggles" would more than have redeemed them. As it was, the Jubilee, it must be conceded, was a success; and if future ones surpass it, there will be not a little pains to take and labor to perform.

Editor's Table.

OUR talk, in spite of ourselves, has to be short. That you needn't grumble because we have made no more of our Editor's Table, suppose we tell you a fact or two. Fact No. 1. We had a Thanksgiving Dinner-a regular, old fashioned, New England Thanksgiving Dinner—and, naturally, have not felt much like doing anything ever since. Fact No. 2. We agree with our publishers and with you, to furnish forty pages of matter-all over that you receive gratuitously, while we dig deep in our pickets to pay the printer the extra expense. If anybody thinks that is perfectly agreeable, let him issue a number of over fifty pages, as some of this year's have been. Fact No. 3, and conclusive. We are bound to be punctual in our issue, and were we as rich as we fondly hope some day to be, (which we are not,) and had we our head full of ideas, (which we certainly have,) we could not possibly add another page, because Messrs. MOREHOUSE & Co. have, in the most pesitive manner intimated, that there is no use of trying-it can't be done.-Well, if it can't so be it.

Speaking of impossibilities, a friend handed us a unique calculation of the rate with which Seniors travel through Chemistry. The result is rather surprising, but the less so when we consider that the most of its operations are conducted with "precipitation." When the present Senior Class shall have completed their course in this branch of science, they will have attended 20 recitations; which, at the large estimate of two hours per lesson, would make 40 hours in all, which are devoted to the study of Chemistry in Yale College. By means of a careful average of the number of lines in the two text-books-Silliman's larger, and Cook's Problems and Reactions-and words in a line, we have estimated that there are in both, in round

figures, 200,000 words, 2,000 numbers, 800 reactions, and 600 problems, which numbers are all far below what is accurate. Now, if we should allow only 5 minutes in which to elucidate each problem-a most meagre allowance, truly-that would more than fill the whole time-40 hours-without looking at the text ! ! ! ! Let us allow, then, less than half of that time, 2 minutes for each problem, and 1 minute for each reaction, and we have left 400 minutes for all the 200,000 words, including numbers; about 500 a minute, or 8 every second of your precious time!!! Think, too, that you cannot, for your life, repeat a line, and that these are not simple consecutive thoughts, but sentences, treating of the arcana of Nature-electrolysis, sublimation, pulveralency and-the deuce knows what. Remember that these are all called for at the term examination and Biennial, even to the numbers expressive of the coefficient of expansion!!!!!!!!!

And now, does some ingenuous and unsuspecting Freshman query whether the Seniors do really accomplish all this? We assume the sagest expression of our Editorial visage, and respond; OF COURSE.

Since our last Number, we have received from the publisher, Chas. B. Norton, Irving Bulding, N. Y., a small, neatly bound book, containing a full desciption of each of the figures in those magnificent Cartoons of Raphael. We advise all those who have not the engravings, to buy them as soon as possible, and then, to complete the whole, get in addition a copy of the book, entitled, "Analysis of Raphæl's Cartoons."

We notice with pleasure the December number of the Cosmopolitan Art Journal. Besides the typographical execution which is surpassed by no other periodical in the country, the present number is full of choice and interesting reading. Among other articles, we noticed a poem by Richard Henry Stoddard; Desert Sands, by the Author of "Sir Rohan's Ghost," and other contributions of unquestioned merit. We advise all lovers of art, at least to subscribe for it.

We wish briefly to return our acknowledgements to our contributors. Their articles not only speak for themselves but for the cosmopolitan character of the Mag azine-all the classes but one being represented in its pages.

Wishing you all a "Merry Christmas,”—a "Happy New Year," and a jolly vacation generally, we are

Sincerely Yours,

25 SOUTH COLLEGE.

ERRATA. The essay on DeQuincey in our last issue, was printed from a copy made by other hands than the author's, and without his supervision. In consequence, several mistakes crept into it, a few of which make the following corrections necessary.

On page 55, seventh line from the bottom, for "spirited" read "spiritual." On page 70, ninth line of second paragraph, for "poetry" read "prose." On page 71, read seventh line of second paragraph as follows-"gloomy, though it images majesty profound; for it betokens one."

On page 71, eighth line of third paragraph, omit "the" before" scholars."