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The current number of the Oxford Society's publication is as full of me terest for Oxonians as its predecessors. It is remarkable as being the first number to have articles by a non-Oxonian and by a woman, Dorothy L. Sayers, whose detective stories have helped to make that lunregarded step-sister of the novel into a literary form worth consideration, writes on "What is Right with Oxford?" and S, C. Roberts, Secret~ ary to the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, writes on the informal alliances which have sprung between various Oxford and Cambridge colleges, such as those between New College and King's, Merton and Peterhouse—the two oldest colleges at their respective Universities, with Merton antedating Peterhouse by some decades Magdalen and Magdalene and others, They involve reciprocal freedom of the Common Rooms and do much to increase the amity and understanding between the two Universities.
Old members of St, Catherine's Society will be glad to know that the University has decided to allot a re~ cently purchased site on St. Aldate's, just south of Christchurch Memorial Garden, to the Society for the purs pose of a new building. Although there will still be no provision for residence for the undergraduates, there will be a Hall and a well-lighted J.CR. and the undergraduates will be removed from the intolerable noise and darkness of the present building on the High.
The magazine is illustrated with 2 few fine photographs, one of "A Windy Day on the Downs" and another exceptionally fine one of the Ashmolean flood lit during the Jubilee celebrations. There is also a picture of the fourteenth-century stained glass window of St, Frides-wide in the Latin Chapel of Christ church Cathedral, and an article about the legendary foundress of the University in celebration of her 12th centenary.
In addition there is the usual University news and a short article on the Oxford University Provident Association, which will make possible {or students to Insure against the more serious expenses of illness while they are at the University. The publication maintains its high standard of format—Nabys-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.