ne crede colori_), encasing each limb in fat, and condemning him to be his own porter to the end of his days. “Then I am your man--and I--and I,” cry a crowd of self-satisfied youths: “sound are we in wind and limb, and none have quicker hand or eye.” Gently, my friends, so far well; good hands and eyes are instruments indispensable, but only instruments. There is a wide difference between a good workman and a bag of tools, however sharp. We must have heads as well as hands. You may be big enough and strong enough, but the question is whether, as Virgil says, “_Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus_ _Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet._” And, in these lines, Virgil truly describes the right sort of man for a cricketer: plenty of life in him: not barely soul enough, as Robert South said, to keep his body from putrefaction; but, however large his stature, though he weigh twenty stone, like (we will not say Mr. Mynn), but an olden wicket-keeper, named Burt, or a certain _infant_ genius in the same line, of good Cambridge town,--he must, like these worthies aforesaid, have νους in perfection, and be instinct with sense all over. Then, says Virgil, _igneus est ollis vigor_: “they must always have the steam up,” otherwise the bard would have agreed with us, they are no good in an Eleven, because-- “_Noxia corpora tardant,_ _Terrenique hebetant artus, moribundaque membra;_” that is, you must suspend the laws of gravitation before they can stir,--dull clods of the valley, and so many stone of carrion; and then Virgil proceeds to describe what discipline will render those, who suffer the penalties of idleness or intemperance, fit to join the chosen _few_ in the cricket-field: “_Exinde per amplum_ _Mittimur Elysium et pauci læta arva tenemus._” Of course _Elysium_ means “Lords,” and _læta arva_, “the shooting fields.” We make no apology for classical quotations. At the Universities, cricket and scholarship very generally go together. When, in 1836, we played victoriously on the side of Oxford against Cambridge, seven out of our eleven were classmen; and, it is doubtless only to avoid an invidious distinction that “Heads _v._ Heels,” as was once suggested, has failed to be an annual University match; though the _seri studiorum_--those put to school late--would not have a chance. We extract the following:-- “In a late Convocation holden at Oxford, May 30, 1851, it was agreed to affix the University seal to a power of attorney authorising the sale of 2000_l._ three per cent. consols, for the purpose of paying for and enclosing certain allotments of land in Cowley Common, used as cricket grounds by members of the University, in order to their being preserved for that purpose, and let to the several University cricket clubs in such manner as may hereafter appear expedient.”