The Library.

The path of the librarian is not strewn with fragrant petals of blown roses, but the thoughtless acts—we put it as euphemistically as possible—of certain students conduce neither to the improvement of his temper nor to the lightening of his responsibilities. The friend who, while the lightening is at lectures, persists in engaging in continuous conversation, interesting to nobody but himself, has already been referred to, but is unfortunately still with us. But there are other habits which show much less thought for other students, and far greater personal selfishness, than even talking and moving about. We refer to the action of some students who—we presume at moments when no attention is directed to them—surreptitiously removes volume from the library shelves, and take them away for their own use. The librarian discovers that the books are gone, but of course has no trace of their-whereabouts till perhaps two or three weeks later he finds them lying on one of the library tables. If students wish to take books from the library there is a legitimate method of doing so; but we did think that this College possessed no students (we at least hope that they are only few in number) who are so mean—we will not say dishonest—as to do any such act as that just referred to.