churchman, who is doubtless practically of the opinion that the prayerbook is rather superior to the Bible, as being of greater authenticity, and having received more directly the sanction of the "Bishops and other clergy." Thoroughly English too in all his tastes and prejudices, everything which does not look to him precisely as he has been accustomed to see it, strikes him as being perfectly ridiculous, as did some of the French customs an Englishman who spent a few days on the other side of the channel, and who mentioned as among the absurd of all absurdities "a way they had over there of calling a hat a chapeau." But notwithstanding all this, he carries with him such an air of innocence and downright sincerity, he hates everything which he has been taught to hate so cordially, and praises everything which he has been taught to admire so earnestly, and shows such a streak of good nature, good sense and taste in matters where education and prejudice had no hold upon him, that we cannot (and we certainly do not wish to) avoid thinking him a downright clever, whole-souled sort of a fellow, with whom we would dearly love a ramble over Scotch, English or American hills which history or fiction have noted; caring little whether the peculiar associations of the place drew from him praise or blame.

In another particular too he deserves credit. His "facts" are uncommonly full and acurate for a mere tourist, so much so that it led us at first to suspect that he might be some Anglicized Yankee, who had gone through his regular four years at Yale, and then, with leisure and money, had gone abroad to complete his education, until enamored of the old countries, he had sighed for the flesh-pots, and casting off his allegiance and his first love, was across the water, giving tourist-like sketches of scenes among which his boyhood had been passed. We have, however, no sufficient evidence on which to ground such a theory. He comes at commencement time from New York to New Haven, to see how we do such things in Yankeeland, and the things which he saw here, and their suggestions, form this article.

A few of his scenery sketches we have taken the trouble to transcribe, as being rather pretty, and concerning points that we have often noticed with interest ourselves. Here is his entrance into the harbor:

"Here it was that I first caught sight of two bold headlands, looming up, a little retired from the shore, and giving a diguity to the coast at this particular spot, by which it is not generally distinguished. We soon entered the bay of New Haven, and the town itself began to appear, embosomed very snugly between the two mountains, and deriving no little beauty from their prominent share in the surrounding scenery. I judged them not more than four or five hundred feet high, but they are marked with elegant peaks, and present a bold perpendicular front of trap-rock, which, with the bay and harbor in the foreground, and a fine outline of hills sloping away towards the horizon, conveys a most agreeable impression to the approaching stranger of the region he is about to visit. A person who stood looking out very near me, gave me the information that the twin mountains were called, from their geographical relations to the meridian of New Haven, East and West Rocks, and added the remark, for which I was hardly prepared, that West Rock was celebrated as having afforded a refuge to the regicides Goffe aud Whalley."

And here permit us to add that if the reader wishes to get a beau tiful view of this beautiful city, (and if he does not, it is time that he

did) where he can enjoy it more leisurely than in a moving boat, let him go the first fair afternoon, or if he be an early riser, just before the sun begins to give signs of his approach in the east, down on the east side of the harbor, in the beautiful lane that runs parallel with the shore, and turning to the left hand ascend the hill where are the ruins of the old fort, and never turning his back until he get fairly up, then take a seat upon the grass-grown battlement, and take a long, long look, and he will carry away from there in his mind such a picture as but few galleries can show him. Often have we sat there and envied the first voyagers who entered this beautiful bay as we have tried to imagine the green banks, sloping down to the water's edge, and the waving woods stretching away in the back-ground, till the eye was relieved by the beautiful blue outline of the surrounding hills; while those two noble brown rocks with their castle-looking sides, seemed two great stone giants, one on either hand, standing as petrified sentinels over this enchanted land. But Yankee enterprise plays the very mischief with scenery, and where formerly

"The aisles of the dim woods rang,"

nothing now is seen but the white shining sides and brown roofs of thickly clustered houses, or as Byron says of England,

Still there are the same noble rocks and the same beautiful mountains beyond, and it is, and ever will be, a beautiful sight.

On board the boat, our friend from across the water met with a man whom he took or mistook for a "Puritan Parson," who very politely pointed out to him the chief objects of interest, and who apparently amused himself by practicing somewhat on his credulity, or in plain English, humbugging him, by cautioning him against speaking of the Regicides as any thing but Judges: probably leaving on his mind a faint impression of tar and feathers, or the ducking-stools, or other such like Puritan methods of discipline, in case of transgression.

Shade-trees and green grass-plots are no part of religion or politics, and therefore after giving "The Calvinistic College" and "Sectarian University" a passing thrust, and recognizing "Puritan Dons and Doctors," by their "rigid features and polemical address," he speaks of these things like a mere human gentleman, and not like a disciple of any particular school.

But here: "In the middle of the square, a Church (we italicise) of tolerable Gothic still remains; in amiable proximity to which appear two Meeting-houses, of a style of architecture truly original, and exhibiting as natural a dvelopment of Puritanism as the Cathedrals display of the Catholic religion."

This compliment to the architect of the "Center Church," though a very handsome one, is undeserved; for there is in the goodly city of London, if we mistake not, a church of some celebrity, we do not know the name, whose spire and front are here nearly or exactly copied, though the building itself is said to be larger by about one third.

In regard to his remarks concerning the State-House, we have nothing to say, except that it is somewhat remarkable that eyes which were

so keen to detect "brick and mortar," here should have failed entirely to observe the wooden top of the Gothic stone tower on the left. Some people see better at a certain angle perhaps.

"Still further in the back-ground are seen spire and cupola, peering over a thickset grove, in the friendly shade of whose academic foliage a long line of barrack-looking buildings were pointed out to me as the colleges.

"These shabby homes of the Muses were my only token that I had entered a university town. The streets, it is true, were alive with bearded and mustached youth, who gave some evidence of being yet in statu pupillari; but they wore hats, and flaunted not a rag of surplice or gown. In the old and truly respectable college at New York, such things are not altogether discarded; but, at New Haven, where they are devoutly eschewed as savoring too much of Popery, not a member of its faculties, nor master, doctor, or scholar, appears with the time-honored decency which, to my antiquated notion, is quite inseparable from the true regimen of a university. The only distinction which I remarked between Town and Gown, is one in lack of which Town makes the more respectable appearance of the twain; for the college badges seem to be nothing more than odd-looking medals of gold, which are set in unmeaning display on the man's shirt-ruffles, or dangle with tawdry effect from their watch-ribbons. I have no doubt that the smart shopmen who flourish canes and smoke cigars in the same walks with the collegians, very much envy them these poor decorations; but in my opinion, they have far less of the Titmouse in their appearance without them, and would sooner be taken for their betters by lacking them."

We let these things go for what they are worth. Our friend is not the first man who has imagined that true dignity must hang in a gown, and real knowledge be covered by a wig. In regard to the front College buildings, we would like respectfully to suggest to the Corporation, that a good coat of brown paint would do much to relieve their present really stiff appearance.

There were some few things in regard to the Regicides and his peculiar views of them, that we had wished particularly to notice, but want of space forbids.

His touching picture of King Charles-his "resignation, resolution, kingly dignity, and Christian submission," to one who appreciates the Stuart character is, to say the least, queer. He forgets, or does not care to know, the strong, nay overpowering reasons that the Puritans had for sympathizing with these exiled wanderers-that they themselves had so recently been driven from their homes by the same government, and a not dissimilar course of oppression and persecution which began the rebellion of Charles's time.

But we cannot enter upon those themes now. The history of those men is known throughout the world, and the present generation are hastening to award to their memories that justice which was denied them in their own times, and by their own countrymen, but which a little New England colony, weak in everything but moral courage, and a trust in God, braved the wrath of a licentious and depraved king, and a wicked and venal council, to grant to them in the time of their sorest need.

Nor was this kindness altogether unrequited. From the cellar in Hadley-from the hiding-place in Boston-from the caves and fastnesses of the wilderness, they came forth as angels of mercy to the deliverance of the chosen people of God. Even after a lapse of two hundred years, and with a knowledge of all the facts to strip from

them their supernatural charm, there is nothing in history or fiction, which awakens such emotions, or sends such a thrill through the nerves, as the simple recital of these mysterious deliverances.

For their memories we have no fear. But we would add, let no one visit New Haven, and, especially, remain here any time, without reading the History of the Regicides-without visiting their various hiding places their cave, their harbor, their bridge, and the rude stones which mark their final resting place their only home. And when, in after years, the fireside and the easy-chair shall have taken the place of the active cares of life, he will be proud to tell those who are then gathered around him, that he has walked in the paths where the Regicides walked, and has stood by the side of their graves.

"OBSCURITATIS PLENÆ QUESTIONES" ENODATI, ET COMITATI CUM NOTIS COPIOSIS PRO TIRONIBUS.

O! homines, mulieres et pueri! horribile dictu: audi mei caudæ ; magnifice illustriossissime splendidissime, riproarinissime: nunquam aliquis similis ital, Newtonius tenere non protest candelam mihi; est tantum res mihi; Galileam jacto "sub tegmine patulæ fagi." Oculus solvi plus problemata qúam tremas fustem ad. Ludejustus (grandissimus mathematicus) proposuit problemata; illa fuerunt dura-dura ut Diabolus; non aliquis fecierit illa; sed nunquam mens dixi, ita obtinebam illa. Laborabam diligentissime; consumpsebam oleam mediæ noctis, radebam meum caput, mirabile dictu: operabam omnia eorum extra: actio erat mirabilis, et non aliquis (me excepto) potuerat facere id; itaque universum genus hominum debuit laudare me -Vir partarum ut sum; Alii philosophi sunt clari in aliis rebus; varii suut rami scientiæ Copernicus vixit jampridem et erat celebrissimus, ille studebat scientiam astrorum, cæli, et planetarum; sequebatur "modus operandi" Pythagoræ; acquirebat magnam gloriam. Newtonius erat sol scientiæ: ante eum tenebra tenebat "subulam ;" feriebat lucem. Sedebat sub arbore unus dies. Pomum cadebat pluma. Ille serrula id; celeritissime invenit "Lex qua omnia in centum vergunt." Magnus vir erat Newtonius, notabilis vir: amicus lectus mihi: sed neque Copernicus aut Newtonius operaverint tanta problemata ut illa: si resergerint ab sepulchis et vident hæc problemata, illi quæsiverint iter ad aream-ossorum, necesse est ut vir esset extraordinarius qui fecierit hæc problemata. "Confiteor ut nos censemus honestam superbiam in dicendo nos fecimus." O Tirones et Sophmores audite attentissime; tacete et capite instructionem. Studete hæc problemata; censete in illa; illa adjuvabunt vos plus quam nescio quantos Euclidos. Illa extendent tuos mentes, si habete ullos: tumescebunt tua capita. Brevitur-quum scitis hæc problemata poteritis facere aliquid-eritis maximi mathematici ætatis. Quum habetis "premia problemata❞ data extra, æquus manus hæc in, et omnes vestrum habebunt "prima premia." Obstupefacietis omne corpus populus findet illos egos et gradus: ambitiosi dicent O, uti eram Tiro-utinam essem Sophmoris. Rape meum exhortationem: este confidentes: quatuor hæc sunt problemata magna, mirabilia et, non surpassenda. "Verbum Sat."

RESPONSA AD QUESTIONES.*

1. If three men work ten days on a fertile farm, what is the Logarithm? Ans. Bisect the three men, and to this remainder add any thing that happens to be convenient. Afterwards take an observation through a double refracting brickbat; put the contents in a half-bushel, and divide the two equations by each other. Then if any man can get out of the muss right side up, he may be considered the "natural number," and his square root being extracted, it will be the answer required.

Note. Let the seed sown, and y = the ground-work of the formula.

2. If three men, one of them a colored man and the other a female, set out simultaneously, which will get there first?

Ans There are several modes of working this, but either is preferable. It must be first ascertained, however, which of the two, "the colored man or the other female," went by telegraph, and how they felt when they got there.

3. Of what use is a compass without a needle, and which way does it point? Ans. This is solved by "boxing the compass;" after which, institute the proposition," Will saltpetre explode?" A clear and correct result will follow of course, and if nothing interferes, will continue to do so.

Note. Vide "Ars chemica edita et composita, per STULTUSVIR," tom. ii.

4. What is the required length of a limited steel wire which runs the other way? Ans. This depends upon how fast the wire "runs," and where to. When that is determined, apply the rule, and said wire will be found to be about as long as a string, or we know nothing of mathematics.

5. As a general thing, which will do the most good? Ans. A dose of salts will work this.

Note. Corollary-Etiam cognoscite, et tentate, O tirones Brandreth's pills-warranted to cure in all cases—“speed increased and fare reduced—through by daylight.” See advertisement.

6. If three watches don't keep time with either of them, which will gain? The first was an English watch, the second a French Lepine.

Ans. This may be solved by the "double rule of three," or a single one of six, according to the taste and fancy of the person watching.

7. Given The complexion, age, and height of a middle-sized man. Required, the nature of his business, his annual gains, and prospects in life.

Ans. Complexion, age, and height, all equal-so are his prospects in life.

Note 1. Lemma- Divide 4th of July by 2.

Note 2. Di-lenna-Who struck William Patterson?

8. In a large household, neither father nor mother knew any thing; how was it with the family?

Ans. We consider that it is none of Mr. Playfair's business "how it was with the family." The sanctity of private life should be inviolate, and moreover questions of this kind are not within the limits of true science. It must be a source of infinite pain to the heads of said household, to be thus ruthlessly dragged before an inquisitive public, and have their literary and scholastic attainments made the object of scientific investigation.

9. Is a man ever justifiable in either case, and if so, which? Note.-2c-both. Ans. Wo" flunk" on this.

* The questions which are here answered with such precision and elegance, will be found more at large upon page 139 of Vol. XI. The mathematician who has so successfully solved them, certainly deserves the thanks of the entire college community-but particularly those of members of the Freshman Class, as we have understood that it was in contemplation amongst the Faculty, who were at the offset greatly struck with their originality, to give them out as "Berkleian Prize Questions," so soon as the new Tables" were finished. We are sorry to have broken through this excellent arrangement, but it could not have been helped. Science must flourish, and merit must be rewarded, even at an expense of feeling. "God and Liberty [EDS.) 36

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