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THE

COLLEGIAN'S GUIDE.

Works by the same Author.

A COURSE of ENGLISH READING; or, How and What to Read. On various Subjects, and adapted to various Tastes and Capacities. With Literary Anecdotes. 3rd Edition.... Fcp. 8vo. 5s.

VIRGIL. With Marginal References to 6,000 parallel Passages in Theocritus, Hesiod, the Iliad and Odyssey, besides Livy and other Authors, Ancient and Modern.

Fcp. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

PYCROFT'S VIRGIL, the Text (from Wagner), with Marginal References only, 3s. 6d. GREEK GRAMMAR PRACTICE: Comprising Lessons of Vocabulary, Construing Lessons, and Easy English Exercises, 12mo. 3s. 6d.

LATIN GRAMMAR PRACTICE: Comprising Lessons of Vocabulary, Construing Lessons, and Easy English Exercises, 12mo. 2s. 6d.

THE CRICKET FIELD: Our National Game treated historically, scientifically, and classically. Second Edition, with Plates and Woodcuts.... . Fcp. 8vo. 5s.

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THE

COLLEGIAN'S GUIDE:

OR

Recollections of College Days.

SETTING FORTH THE

ADVANTAGES AND TEMPTATIONS OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

BY THE REV. JAMES PYCROFT, B.A.

TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD;

Author of

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"THE CRICKET FIELD, A COURSE OF ENGLISH READING,'

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Shallow. I dare say my cousin William is become a good scholar: he is at
Oxford still, is he not?

Silence.

Indeed, sir; to my cost.

SHAKSPEARE: Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS.

1858.

The right of translation is reserved.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.

NEW-STREET SQUARE.

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PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

THIS work was one of the last that had the honour of diverting the care-worn and agonised mind of that much lamented Artist, Mr. B. R. HAYDON. Only two months before he died, he wrote to Messrs. Longman :

"I must possess a copy of the book you lent me, the 'Collegian's Guide.' It is a capital, sensible, entertaining, and true-to-nature work.”

What is true to nature is true always. Things merely accidental and conventional pass out of date, but such matters never formed a material part of the work before us. A few alterations only appeared necessary to make the Guide still trustworthy, and those alterations, it is hoped, have been carefully effected in the present Edition.

BATH:

January 1, 1858.

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