The Carnival.

This year's Capping Carnival, held on Thursday and Friday, June 30th and July 1, was in no degree inferior to its predecessors. The capping songs themselves, although they may, from the point of view of wit, have fallen below the average level of some previous Carnivals, fully made up for this deficiency by the brightness of the tunes to which they had been set. The Glee gave a few items, including the "Soldier's Chorus" form "Faust," and astonished everyone by the great improvement they showed in their performances. Miss Strack sang Ardit's "Rosebuds," whilst Dr. D. N. Isaacs excelled himself in his realistic rendering of "A Melodrama: in Five Acts and Fifteen Scenes." But probably the best appreciated item of the first half of the programme was J. D. Smith's natural and amusing rendering of the topical song, entitled "Smoking."

The extravaganza, which was entitled "The bended Bow," was composed by an industrious band of students—Miss E. Fell, and Messrs. A. Bogle, G. M. Nicholls, S. Eichelbaum, F. A. de la Mare, and G. H. Nicholls. The first tableau showed how the calls to arms was obeyed in the time of the ancient Britons. "Three ancient" ladies, representing the Peace Society, of the existence of which among the Druids we were heretofore all quite ignorant, gained the applause of the audience by their quaint incongruity, and pleased the feminine portion in particular by the originality of their costumes. In the next tableau representing the call to arms in Roman days, L. P. Leary scored a great success in the Praetor's Song. The third tableau portrayed the arrival of dashing Captain page 36 Cook in these islands, and was enlivened by one of those splendid hakes which are such established features of our Carnivals. The last tableau contained an impressive allegorical representation of the response of the Dominions to Britain's call for assistance, and concluded with an amusing burlesque of modern militarism:

"And the world must bend the Knee
To the famous O.T.C.,
The last and finest product of the state."

On the second evening, as usual, the annual capping dance was held after the performance.