ught."_

"I prefer 'will reflect,'" Wedderburn interrupted, in bass accents of
positive opinion.

"I don't think it very much matters," said Michael, "as long as you
don't think that 'contemporary undergraduate thought' is too
pretentious. The question is whether you can see a ghost in a mirror,
for a spectral appearance is just about as near as undergraduate thought
ever reaches toward reality."

Neither Avery nor Wedderburn condescended to reply to his criticism, and
the chief promoter went on:

_"Some of the subjects which The Oxford Looking-Glass will reflect will
be Literature, Politics, Painting, Music, and the Drama."_

"I think that's a rotten sentence," Michael interrupted.

"Well, of course, it will be polished," Avery irritably explained. "What
Wedders and I have been trying to do all the evening is to say as simply
and directly as possible what we are aiming at."

"Ah!" Michael agreed, smiling. "Now I'm beginning to understand."

"_It may be assumed_," Avery went on, "_that the opinion of those who
are 'knocking at the door_' (in inverted commas)----"

"I shouldn't think anybody would ever open to people standing outside a
door in inverted commas," Michael observed.

"Look here, Michael," Avery and Wedderburn protested simultaneously,
"will you shut up, or you won't be allowed to contribute."

"Haven't you ever heard of the younger generation knocking at the door
in Ibsen?" fretfully demanded Maurice. _"That the opinion of those who
are knocking at the door," he continued defiantly, "is not unworthy of
an audience."_

"But if they're knocking at a door," Michael objected, "they can't be
reflected in a mirror; unless it's a glass door, and if it's a glass
door, they oughtn't to be knocking on it very hard. And if they don't
knock hard, there isn't much point----"

"_The Editor in chief_," pursued Maurice, undaunted by Michael's attempt
to reduce to absurdity the claims of The Oxford Looking-Glass, "_will be
M. Avery (St. Mary's), with whom will be associated C. St. C. Wedderburn
(St. Mary's), C. M. S. Fane (St. Mary's), V. L. A. Townsend (B.N.C.)_. I
haven't asked him yet, as a matter of fact, but he's sure to join
because he's very keen on Ibsen. _W. Mowbray (Univ.)._ Bill Mowbray's
very bucked at the scheme. He's just resigned from the Russell and
joined the Canning. They say at the Union that a lot of the principal
speakers are going to follow Chamberlain's lead for Protection. _N. R.
Stewa