much taste, and enclosed by the city wall, which is preserved with care.

The front of ORIEL COLLEGE towards the street, is simple, uniform, and commanding. Over the gateway rises a square tower, the face of which is ornamented with a bay-window, or oriel. The interior of the quadrangle is eminently pleasing: its eastern side, in particular, is a fine Gothic elevation, occupied by the hall and entrance to the chapel. The Hall was built about the year 1637; it is a handsome room, wainscotted, and embellished in the Doric style. The Library, a chaste and classical edifice, was begun in 1788, under the direction of Wyatt. The Chapel, which succeeded a more ancient edifice, was completed in 1642, and is simple and unostentatious. Oriel College was founded by Adam de Brom'; of whom little is known, except that, in the year 1324, he obtained permission from Edward II. to purchase land and premises in Oxford, to the annual value of £30, for the purposes of this institution. From a large messuage called La Oriole, bestowed upon the society by Edward, the college derived its name.

PEMBROKE COLLEGE, which took its rise from a combination of circumstances whose enumeration here might appear prolix, was founded early in the seventeenth century. It consists

chiefly of two courts, both on a contracted scale, with the usual appendages of Chapel and Hall. The latter is the original refectory of a very ancient seminary pertaining to the priory of St. Fridiswida; the former a small but tasteful building, of the Ionic order, finished in 1732 by the liberal assistance of Bartholomew Tipping, Esq. of Oxford. That famed "colossus of literature," Dr. Johnson, was a student of this college.

The grand front of QUEEN'S COLLEGE constitutes one of the chief ornaments of the High Street, rich as is that street in architectural beauties. Though it takes the sixth place among the colleges in the order of foundation, all its splendid buildings are of a comparatively modern date; and being among the finest examples of modern collegiate elegance, they afford the highest gratification to the examiner, in whose mind the magnificent solemnity of Gothic architecture is not too intimately blended with every notion of structures of this kind. All the buildings, for public and private use, are on a grand scale: and the, embellishments of the Hall, Chapel, Library, &c. too numerous to be here particularised.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE has two quadrangles, of which the first, containing the hall and chapel, the president's lodgings, and chambers

for the fellows and scholars, is Gothic, surmounted by an embattled parapet. A similar character pervades the second-with the exception of two splendid Grecian gatewaysalthough the architect of this part of the buildings was Inigo Jones, the reviver in England of the classic styles. There is a farther range of structure, forming a second front to the eastern division of this quadrangle, which consists of five bay-windows of delicate workmanship, supported by brackets of sculptured stone, and terminating at either end in an airy pediment, while a battlement ranges along the intermediate space. The beautifully disposed and extensive gardens spread from the base of this fine elevation.

The Hall of this college is a fine, well-proportioned room, the sides wainscotted, and the arched roof very chastely decorated. The Library boasts several interesting productions of art, besides some natural curiosities; and there are two Chapels, both which will give pleasure in the inspection.

The founder of St. John's College was a wealthy citizen of London, Sir Thomas White, who became its Lord-Mayor in 1553, and was knighted by Queen Mary for his services. against Sir Thomas Wyatt, when that misled partisan headed the impotent insurrection in the city that took place in her reign.

TRINITY COLLEGE was founded, and most liberally endowed, by Sir Thomas Pope, who obtained its charter, in 1554, from Philip and Mary. When he arranged the settlement of his college, Sir Thomas, purchased for the students some commodious and extensive ancient tenements, erected in the fourteenth century by Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, and from him termed Durham College. These consisted of a quadrangle, a hall, library, and chapel. Some improvements took place in the early part of the seventeenth century, and important additions were made in the course of the next hundred years. But the edifice is still destitute of that harmony of parts, which leads to grandeur of architectural display. The front consists of the Chapel, which was completed in 1694, and the entrance-tower; and is a pleasing, though not august specimen of classic elegance. The Hall, which is in the first court, is a plain but spacious and well-proportioned room, built early in the seventeenth century. The Library, in the same court, though improved by Sir Thomas Pope, is the identical room used as the receptacle of their scanty literary stores by the monks of Durham. The inner court, which has only three sides, the extensive gardens of the college spreading from its front, is entirely occupied by the scholars'

chambers. The north side of this court will interest, as the earliest effort of the modern style of architecture in the University. It was finished in 1667; but the other buildings, though the whole accord with a plan given by Sir Christopher Wren, were not completed till 1728.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE is believed to take name from its inmates having at first resided in the ancient building called University Hall, which occupied a part of the site whercon now stands Brazen-Nose College. It was founded about the middle of the thirteenth century, by William of Durham, rector of Wearmouth. Its regular and commanding front is upwards of two hundred and sixty feet in length; and is pierced by two gateways, each surmounted by a tower, leading to the two courts which comprise the principal buildings. The larger court, formed at different periods of the seventeenth century, is regularly and handsomely Gothic; the smaller is not more modern in appearance, though more recently erected, its style being judiciously consistent with the former. The Hall, Chapel, Library, and Common Room, of this college, are each well deserving the visit of the curious stranger.

WORCESTER COLLEGE was founded so late as the year 1714, in consequence of a bequest