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LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.

(*) Denotes the Members of the Committee. (+) Late Members of the Committee.

THE REV. THE MASTER, D.D.

THE REVEREND STEPHEN PARKINSON, D.D., President.

Fellows of the College and Masters of Arts:

† Abbott, Rev. E. A., M.A. Adam, Rev. S. C., M.A. Adams, W. G., M.A. Anstice, Rev. J. B., M.A. Attenborough, RevW.F,M.A. +Baily, W., M.A.

Barlow, Rev. W. H., M.A. Barnacle, Rev. H., M.A. Bateman, Rev. A., M.A. Bateman, Rev. J. F., M.A. Beach, Rev. T., M.A. Beebee, M. H. L., M.A. Bennett, Prof. W. S., MUS.D. Besant, W. H., M.A. †Beverley, H., M.A. Bigwood, J., M.A. Bompas, H. M., M.A. Bonney, Rev. T. G., B.D. +Bowling, Rev. E.W., M.A. Brodribb, Rev. W. J., M.A. Brown, Rev. J. C., M.A. +Bushell, Rev. W. D., M.A. Butler, Rev. T., M.A. Butterton, Rev. G. A., D.D. Catton, A. R., M.A. +Cherrill, Rev. A. K., M.A. Cheyne, C. H. H., M.A. Churchill, S. W., M.A. Clark, Rev. J. H., M.A. Clifton, Prof. R. B., M.A. Coombe, Rev. J. A., M.A. Cope, Rev. S. W., M.A. Courtney, L. H., M.A. Cox, W. A., B.A. Creswell, Rev. S. F., M A. Davies, Rev. J. B., M.A. Day, Rev. H. G., M.A. Denton, Rev. J., M.A. Dinnis, Rev. F. H., M.A. Dixon, Rev. R., M.A. Drew, Rev. G. S., M.A. Durell, Rev. J. V., M.A. Eastburn, Rev. C. F., M.A. +Ebsworth, Rev. J. W., M.A. Evans-Gwynne, Rev. G. F. J. G., M.A.

Evans, Rev. J. D., M.A. Evans, Rev. J. H., M.A. Farman, Rev. S., M.A. Ferguson, R. S., M.A. Francis, Rev. John, M.A. Freeman, Rev. A., M.A. Fynes-Clinton, Rev. O., M.A. Gorst, Rev. P. F., M.A. Gorst, J. E., M.A.,

Adams, G. H. Allen, C. F. E.

Alexander, R. G. Almack, W., B.A. Andrews, Rev. F., B.A. Armitage, Rev. F., B.A.

+Graves, Rev. C. E., M.A.

Gwatkin, H. M., P.A.
Gwatkin, Rev. T., M.A.
Harpley, Rev. W., M.A.
+Hart, H. G., BA.
Hartley, J., LL.M.
Harvey, Rev. B. W., M.A.
Haslam, J. B., B.A
Haviland, Rev. A.C., M. A.
Hawes, Rev. R., B.D.
Hedges, Rev. G. N., M.A.
Heppenstall, Rev. F., M.A.
Hereford, Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of, D.D.
+Hiern, W. P., M.A.
Hiles, Rev. R., M.A.
Hiley, Rev. S., B.D.
Hill, Rev. E. B.A.
Hilleary, F. E., M.A.
Hoare, T., M.A.
Hockin, C., M.A.
Holmes, Rev. A., M.A.
Holmes, C. F., M.A.
Horne, B. W., M.A.
Hudson, W. H. H., M.A.
Ingram, Rev. D. S., M.A.
Jackson, Rev. G., M.A.
Jackson, Rev. A., M.A.
Jones, Rev. C. A., M.A.
Jones, Rev. H. D., M.A.
Kent, F. W., M.A.
Kitchen, Rev. J. L., M.A.
+Lee-Warner, H., M.A.
Lewty, Rev. T. C., M.A.
Liveing, Prof. G. D., M.A.
+Ludlow, H., M.A.
Lunn, Rev. J. R., B.D.
Lupton, Rev. J. H., M.A.
Lyall, Rev. F. J., M.A.
Main, P. T., M.A.
Marrack, J. R, M.A.
Marshall, A., M.A.
Marten, A. G., M.A.
Mason, Rev. P. H., M.A.
+Mayor, Rev. J. B., M.A.
Mayor, Rev. J. E. B., M.A.
Mc Cormick, Rev. J., M.A.
Merriman, Rev. J., M.A.
Mills, W., M.A.

+ Moss, Rev. H. W., M.A.

Moss, T., B.A. (Sec.) Newton, Rev. H., M.A. Newton, T. H. G., M.A. Newton, Rev. W., M.A. Newton, Rev. W. A, M.A.

*Palmer, E. H., B.A.

+Pearson, Rev. J. B., M.A. Peckover, Rev. E. G., M.A. Pennant, P. P., M.A. Percy, Rev. W. I. E., M.A. Pickles, Rev. J. S., M.A. Pierpoint, Rev. R. D., M.A. Pieters, Rev. J. W., B.D. Previtè, Rev. W., M.A. Potts, A. W., M.A. Quayle, M. H., MA. Reyner, Rev. G. F., D.D. +Richardson, Rev. G., M.A, Rippin, C. R., M.A. Roberts, Rev. W. P., M.A. Roby, H. J., M.A. Rounthwaite, Rev. J.F.,M.A. Rowe, Rev. T. B., M.A. Rudd, Rev. E. J. S., M.A. Russell, Rev. C. D., M.A. Russell, Rev. H., B.D. +Sandys, J. E., B.A. Scholefield, Rev. C. C., M. A. Secker, J. H., M.A. Selwyn, Rev. Prof., D.D. Sharpe, Rev. H. J., M.A. Shoults, Rev. W. A., M.A. Smith, Rev. C. J. E., M.A. Smith, J., M.A. Smith, W. F., B.A. Snowdon, Rev. J., M.A. +Stanwell, Rev. C., M.A. Stevens, A. J., BA. Steele, R. B., M.A.

Bachelors and Undergraduates:
Arnett, B.

Ash, Rev. T. E., B.A.
Atherton, Rev. C. I., B.A.
Bagnall, H. H., B.A.
Bainbridge, T.
Baker, H.

Tarleton, Rev. W. H., M.A. +Taylor, Rev. C., M.A.

+Taylor, R. W., M.A.
Taylor, Rev. W. T., M.A.
Terry, F. C. B., M.A.
Thomson, Rev. F. D., M.A.
Tom, Rev. E. N., M.A.
Torry, Rev. A. F., M.A.
Underwood, Rev. C. W., M. A.
Valentine, J. C., M.A.
Wace, F. C., M.A.
Walton, Rev. T. I., M.A.
Wetherell, Rev. J. C., M.A.
Whitby, Rev. T., M.A.
Whitehurst, Rev. J., M.A.
Whitworth, Rev. W.A.,M.A.
+ Wilson, J. M., M.A.
Wilson, W. S., M.A.
Wood, A., M.A.
Wood, Rev. J. S., B.D.
Wood, J., M.A.

Bakewell, J. W.

Barlow, S. B., B.A. Barnacle, J.

Barnett, J. W.

Baron, E., B.A.

Barrett, W. F., B.A.

HAMLET: AN ANALYSIS.

(Concluded from p. 164.)

CT IV. Scene 1. The king, when he hears of Polonius' death, is true to the character which had before been drawn of him. Not a single expression of pity for his fate, but first the thought that that fate might easily have been his own, and indeed was probably intended for him; and next, the fear that the death of one who, from the part which he had borne in his election, was evidently a man of influence in Denmark, would be laid to himself. The queen is still in the tender mood which Hamlet's remonstrances have called up; but she meets the king as before. Hamlet's sorrow for Polonius' death has appeared to her more real than we can deem it ourselves. His removal is finally determined upon-it would seem by the language of the king that it had before been mooted.

We must notice here once more the utter absurdity of the division of the acts. This scene is inseparably connected with the three previous ones, as indeed are the three that follow.

Scene 2 is chiefly remarkable for the mixture of biting earnestness and ambiguous talk. Hamlet's indignant denunciation of these "sponges" that soak up the king's authority, &c. is a natural fruit of his knowledge of their counsel, which he can keep so well. (The allusion, I suppose, is to the plans of their voyage). There is something ridiculous in the way in which Guildenstern fires up at the king's being called a thing,

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and yet it shows some trace of honesty in his courtiership.

Scene 3 gives the reasons for the king's discord and dismay. On the one side stand the dangers that arise from Hamlet's going loose; on the other the affections of the multitude, who, attracted by his many brilliant qualities, would be likely to look only at the punishment and not at the offence.

Hamlet is brought in a prisoner, and entertains his audience with one of those disquisitions on the progress of bodily decay, of which we have so much in the graveyard scene. He seems to be partial to this revolting side of death. But here there is a slight undercurrent of meaning which must not be unnoticed-"your fat king, and your lean beggar is but variable service.... that's the end." The king himself will come to this same death.-Hamlet is sent away, and at his last parting refuses to take any notice of his uncle.

Scene 4 is another of those interesting additions which belong to the play in its later form. The character of Fortinbras, which is omitted in the acting editions, is of very little importance in the developement of the story, and can well be dispensed with from that point of view but as the type of a bold and chivalrous soldier, who cannot be content to rest at home, he only brings out in stronger relief the weak points in Hamlet's character, his want of energy and sustained effort. Laertes is the man of the world, not a man of restless activity, but ready, when once an object is set before his eyes, to follow it up at all hazards: Fortinbras is the man of honour that will, in honour's cause, greatly find quarrel in a straw-restless and longing for employment-two sides of the active temperament both in strong contrast to Hamlet.

The latter on his way to the coast, to take ship for England, falls in with a detachment of the army which was originally levied against Denmark, but now is being led against the Poles. The question in dispute

is the possession of a little patch of ground of no value in itself; but the brave soldier looks not at that, but at the stain on his honour if he resigns it without a struggle. This gives Hamlet an occasion for another of his delicate analyses of character. He cannot but be struck by the contrast. His very sense of the loftiness of the powers of man serves to taunt him with his inaction. He is perfectly sensible of his own weakness, that looking with craven scruple too precisely on the event, that scanning it ever on all sides, which is fatal to action. Action must proceed from extremes; the judicial and the executive faculty must always be distinct. No truer, no nobler definition of true greatness could be found than those lines

Rightly to be great

Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake.

To abide by principles and not to suffer them to be attacked in the slightest way, but to be ever ready to make concessions on points of little consequence where no principle is involved.

And yet, like all his great soliloquies, it leads to nothing:

From this time forth

My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth. Bloody they are, but the blood is that of his two innocent mates. He makes no effort to escape the voyage; but though he has cause and will and strength and means and the strongest excitements to his revenge, yet he lets all sleep.

Scene 5. Some short time has elapsed: Hamlet is gone. Polonius' death has produced the troubles which Claudius feared, and he himself by letting him be buried in secret, has only deepened the impression which he thus dreaded, and given rise to more unwholesome thoughts and whispers. Laertes, on the news of his father's death, has secretly come from France,

and is led to suspect foul play. Ophelia's mind has not been strong enough to bear up against such a blow, her reason is gone, and she is a poor harmless maniac. Yet the old threads of thought are not wholly severed: the very words of her madness are suggestive of its cause, the very songs she sings of that which is uppermost in her thoughts. Her true love is gone across the seas like a pilgrim :

How should I your true love know

From another one?

By his cockle hat and staff,

And his sandal shoon.

Her father" is dead and gone":

At his head a grass-green turf,

At his heels a stone.

We know what we are, but we know not what we shall be who would have thought such a fate would be her's?

I do not know what to say of the Valentine song; whatever may be said of the songs of Shakespeare's time, I do not find that in other places the songs are inserted haphazard, certainly not here. The main idea expressed by this, is that of desertion by her lover; the form of it implies a more sensuous mind than that of an Imogen or an Isabella. But whatever we may think of this, no one can refuse a tear of sympathy to that pathetic sigh, "I cannot choose but weep to think that they should lay him in the cold ground."

The guilt of king and queen has some of its fruits in an uneasy conscience, which dreads every comer. The queen refuses to speak even with the innocent and harmless Ophelia, and it is only the thought of the dangerous conjectures which she may strew in illbreeding minds that make her consent to give her admittance. The king is haunted by the same fears: "Follow her close-give her good watch." "Where are my switzers? let them guard the doors." The queen as yet knows nothing of the plot against Hamlet's life, to

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