rt (Trinity)._ Nigel Stewart is most tremendously keen, and rather
a good man to have, as he's had two poems taken by The Saturday Review
already. _G. Hazlewood (Balliol)_----"

"That's the man I've come to talk about," said Michael. "I met him
to-day."

Avery asked if Michael liked old Guy and was obviously pleased to hear
he had been considered interesting. "For in his own way," said Avery
solemnly, "he's about the most brilliant man in the Varsity. I'd sooner
have him under me than all the rest put together, except of course you
and Wedders," he added quickly. "I'm going to take this prospectus round
to show him to-morrow. He may have some suggestions to make."

Michael joined with the Editor in supposing that Hazlewood might have a
large number of suggestions. "And he's got a sense of humor," he added
consolingly.

For a week or two Michael found himself deeply involved in the
preliminaries of The Oxford Looking-Glass, and the necessary discussions
gave many pleasant excuses for dinner parties at the O.U.D.S. or the
Grid to which Townsend and Stewart (both second-year men) belonged.
Vernon Townsend wished to make The Oxford Looking-Glass the organ of
advanced drama; but Avery, though he was willing for Townsend to be as
advanced as he chose within the limits of the space allotted to his
progressive pen, was unwilling to surrender the whole of the magazine to
drama, especially since under the expanding ambitions of editorship he
had come to the conclusion he was a critic himself, and so was the more
firmly disinclined to let slip the trenchant opportunity of pulverizing
the four or five musical comedies that would pass through the Oxford
theater every term. However, Townsend's demand for the drama and
nothing but the drama was mitigated by his determination as a Liberal
that The Oxford Looking-Glass should not be made the mouthpiece of the
New Toryism represented by Mowbray; and Maurice was able to recover the
control of the dramatic criticism by representing to Townsend the
necessity for such unflinching exposition of Free Trade and Palmerston
Club principles as would balance Mowbray's torrential leadership of the
Tory Democrats. "So called," Townsend bitterly observed, "because as he
supposed they were neither Tories nor Democrats."

Mowbray at the end of his second year was certainly one of the
personalities of undergraduate Oxford. For a year and a term he had
astonished the Russell Club by the vigor of his