THE BOOK SHELF.
(Conducted by ALBERT LEE, "91.]
‘‘ Memoirs of Marshal Oudinot.”’
A recent contribution to Napoleonic
literature is the ‘“‘Memoirs of Mar-
shal Oudinot.” (New York: D. Apple-
ton & Co.) The book is interesting, not
alone because of the sidelights it throws
on that important and picturesque pe-
_ riod, but for the tale it tells of a brave
man, a gruff soldier, who would have
been as well worth reading about, had
be lived in any time, although perhaps
in another age he might not have had
the opportunities that Napoleon afford-
ed him. His wife, the Duchess de
Reggio, figures as almost as important
a figure in the drama as her husband,
the Marshal. She was a true soldier’s
wife. When Oudinot was wounded in
the Russian campaign she betook her-
self to Moscow in a big coach and
nursed the Marshal back to health
again, returning with him through the
snows and storms of the famous re-
treat.
One of the interesting features of the
biography is the opening instalment of
the Appendix. This is a table which
shows the “services’’ rendered to his
country by Oudinot. He entered the
army as a private of the Medoc Regi-
ment in 1784, and advanced rapidly un-
til he achieved the rank of General of
Division in 1799. He was made a Mar-
shal of the Empire in 1809. After Na-
poleon’s downfall, Oudinot became loyal
to the King, and as Marshal of France
he was put in command of the ‘‘Chas-
seurs of France,” the corps: which had
formerly been the Imperial Guard. Ou-
dinot died in Paris in 1847—an old man
and still in the active service of his
country.
** Ziska,”
Miss Marie Corelli’s latest story is
“Ziska”? (New York: Stone & Kimball),
and she emphasizes the title by telling
us that the tale is ‘‘a problem of a
wicked soul.’”’ I am not quite certain
as to whether it is the Princess Ziska’s
or the French artist’s soul, that is be-
ing worked out in the problem—for the
latter’s, when it belonged to Araxes,
was no doubt wicked, whereas Ziska’s,
of the nineteenth century, is unques-
tionably vindictive. I am inclined to
think, however, that all the wicked-
ness in the problem may be laid at
the door of Ziska.” She is a lady wiio
has been on earth several times and
dwells under a pyramid in Egypt,
when she is dead, and in a palace in
Cairo when she is alive. She has an
old grudge against the soul that was
once worn inside of Araxes, and when
that soul comes back, these times, and
masquerades as ‘a French artist, she
makes up her mind to get her long-de-
sired revenge. The Frenchman falls in
love, of course, and so does -a little
Englishman, but Ziska never knew the
Englishman’s soul in the good old days,
so she devotes herself to the downfall
of the other fellow. Her methods are
described by Miss Corelli in the regu-
lation style of the Corelli school of lit-
erature, which is light, sometimes clev-
er, frequently tiresome. But this gives
her a chance to string out her dia-
logue and to make reflections on Egyp-
tian and British society and to express
her opinion on various. other subjects
that lie very close to her heart. In the
end Ziska gets the artist under the
pyramid, and there is some blue fire
and odors to close the problem. I don’t
believe there is anything moral to the
tale, and neither is there anything im-
moral. The cover is one of the most
picturesque features of the book.
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Omega Lambda Chi Celebration.
The annual Omega Lambda Chi
celebration, took place Monday night,
May 24. The various classes assembled
at the fence under the leadership of
men apopinted by the Football Cap-
tain. The various buildings were
cheered in the regular round :2f the
Campus and finally the column
. marched through between South Mid-
dle and Lyceum. Here the recently
adopted tradition of chastising the
Freshmen was followed out. After the
three upper classes had reached the
open Campus they formed a double line
extending out towards the Library and
with some hesitation the Freshmen
followed. Their front ranks stumbled
on the stone pavement and about two
cords of nineteen hundred blocked the
pass asa result. No serious injuries
seemed to have resulted, and the rest
ran through the gauntlet of
upper classmen. As the latter
were somewhat unskiiled in thair ef-
forts to ‘‘discipline’”’ the new class
Nineteen hundred escaped without seri-
ous damage. There was some ialk of a
fence rush, but the influence of a few
seniors prevailed against it.
The system of chastisement, used on
the Freshmen in this exercise, invoives
principally the use of those muscles
ealled into play in punting contests.
YALE ALUMNI
CALCIUM LIGHT NIGHT
Men Given Elections to the J unior :
Societies ‘Tuesday.
The elections to the Junior Societies:
were given out in the usual way on the
Campus, Tuesday evening May 25. Psi.
Upsilon, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Alpha,
Delta Phi appeared at half past nine,
and marched to the rooms of their can-.
didates singing their several songs. The
following are the chosen men from the
Sophomore Class:
Psi UpsilonCharles Westley Ab-
bott, ’99’ Plainfield, Ne J.; John Brown
Adams, ’99, New York city; Mason
Tlyer Adams, ’99, Amherst, Mass.;
Sullivan Dorr Ames, ’99, Providence,
R. I.; ‘Charles Augustus Belin, ’99,
Scranton, Pa.; Coburn Dewees Berry,
Jr., °99, Nashville, Tenn.; Henry Wick
Chambers, ’99, Cleveland, O.; Freder-
ick Martin Davies, ’99, New York city;
Arthur Wendell Davis, ’99, Hartford,
Conn.; William Henry Field, ’99, Rut-
land, Vt.; Richard Earp Forrest, ’99,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Arthur Sears Ham-
lin, *99, Canandaigua, N. Y.;. Dennie
Meredith Hare, ’99, New York city;
Charles Edward Hay, Jr., ’99, Spring-
field, Ill.; Nelson Clarke Holland, ’99,
Buffalo, N. Y.; Henry Hutchinson Hol-
lister, Jr., °99, New York city; Thomas
Kearny, Paris, France; William De-
lancey Kountze, ’99, New York city;
Joseph Harrison Morey, ’99, Buffalo,
N. Y.; George Sturges Oliver, ’99 Pitts-
burg,.'Pa.;.. Ord. Preston, »:’99;° Engies
wood, N.. Ji;
799, New Haven, Conn; Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt, °99, New York city; Eliot
Watrous, ’99, New Haven, Conn.; Wil-
liam Fitz-Hugh Whitehouse, Jr., ’99,
New York city.
To D. K. E.—Walter Frederick Bart
Berger, of Denver, Col.; Frederick
Hiester Brooke, of Birdsboro, fPa.;
Jamot Brown, of Chicago, Ill.; Norman
Macleod Burrell, of New York City;
Hugh Andrew Calahan, Chicago, IIL;
Ledyard Cogswell, Jr., of Albany, N.
Y.; Robert Darling, .of. Brooklyn,” Neos
Y.; Murry Witherbee Dodge, of New
York City; Charles Martland Fair, of
Chicago, Ill.; Thomas Wells Farnam,
of New Haven, Conn.; Louis Freeman
Greene, of Albany, N. Y.; Merwin
Clark Harvey, of Cleveland, O.; Samu-
el Willis Hawley, of Bridgeport, Conn.;
Edward Foote Hinkle, of Ashland,
Wisce.; Richard Hooker, of New Ha-
ven, Conn.; William Roderick Kelley,
of Chicago, [Ill.; Thomas Skinker
Maffitt, of St. Louis, Mo.; James Mc-
Dewitt Magee, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Alex-
ander Burr Marvin, of New Rochelle,
N. Y.; Harrison Grey Otis, of Cleve-
land, O.; Howard Platt, of Poughkeep-
sie, N. Y.; Arthur Fitch Way, of West-
field, Mass; Charles Hopkins Wells,
dr,; of Scranton, Pas Walter
Hart West, of St. Louis, Mo.; William
Mersereau Wheeler, of Portville, N. Y.
To Alpha Delta Phi—Charles Gris-
wold Bartlett, jr., of Black Hall, Conn.;
Henry Thornton Bowles, of New York
City; Charles Asahel Brayton, of Cleve-
land, Ohio; Charles Horace Conner, jr.,
of New Albany, Ind.; William Bodui-
not Conner, of New Albany, Ind.;
Dwight Huntington Day, of Indian-
apolis, Ind., Clarence Phelps Dodge of
New York City; Berne Holbrook
Evans, of Pittsburg, Penn., Anson
Conger Goodyear, of Buffalo, N. Y.;
Frederick Augustus Gorham, jr., of
Grand Rapids, Mich.; William Edward
Schenck Griswold, of Erie, Penn.;
Thomas Denison Hewitt, of Brooklyn,
N. Y.; George Angelo Kernan, of Uti-
ca, N. Y.; Thomas Fisher Lawrence,
of Hartford, Conn.; Elisha Sears Lewis
of Springfield, Mass.; Robert Payson
Loomis, -of Brooklyn, N. -Y.; Herpert
Morean Morgan, of St. Louis, Mo.;
Howard Lawrence O’Fallon, of .St.
Louis, Mo.; Joseph Coolidge Palmer,
of Syracuse, N. Y.; Edward Spencer
Parmalee, of New Haven, Conn.;
Charles Alonzo Powers, of Cleveland,
Ohio; Carroll Fuller Sweet, of Grand
Rapids, Mich.; Harry Brookings Wal-
lace, of St. Louis, Mo.; Joseph Walker
Wear, of St. Louis, Mo.; Guy Wellman,
of Friendship, N. Y.
The members of Zeta Psi held their
usual annual banquet on Tuesday night
and the elections of the following men
were announced: William Augustus
Barstow of East Orange, N. J.; David
Milton Boyd of St. Louis, Mo.; Ger-
hard Hutchinson Cocks of Brooklyn,
N. Y.; William Sterling ‘Johnson, Jr.,
of East Orange, N. J.; Ballinger Millis
of Galveston, Tex.; Marvyn Scudder of
New York City; Carl Bovee Spitzer of
Toledo, O.; Laurence Tweedy of Dan-
bury, Conn.; Ezra Joseph Warner, Jr.,
of Lake Forrest, Ill; Edward Esher
Yaggy of Lake Forrest, III.
Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, °
IV SA IS
New Law School Prize.
A valuable prize has been offered to
the Law School Faculty by the pub-
lishing firm of Edward Thompson &
Co., of Northpert, L. I., and has been
accepted. It is to be awarded annually
to that member of the Senior Class who
shall be voted to be most faithful and
Successful in his studies during the
course, and will consist either of ‘‘The
American and English Encyclopedia of
Law,” or “The Encyclopedia of Prac-
tice,’”’ according to the wish of the re-
cipient. This year the winner will be
selected by a vote which will be taken
the latter part of this week, in which
every Senior will cast one ballot and
every Faculty member five. Hereafter
the prize will be awarded on the merits
of theses submitted on a given subject.
——_+o—_____
® Bb. K. Catalogue.
The work of collecting material for
the catalogue of all past members of
the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa,
has. been. progressing rapidly during
the past few weeks. It has been
deemed advisable, however, to delay
the publication of the work-until next
year. Charles U..Clark, "97, President of
the Society, will return to College, and
probably superintend its editing.
Tiffany & Co.
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Loving Cups, Salad Bowls,
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ROOMS
for ’97-’98.
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33d York Street.
New, select and private dormi-_
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All modern improvements and
conveniences, includiny steam heat,
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Location convenient to all depart-
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very reasonable.
Also a few choice rooms at No. 1
Hillhouse Avenue.
THE ROXBURY,
1076 Chapel St.
Students’ Apartment House, with
rooms arranged in flats, suites and
singles,
Location, directly opposite Camp-
us, and convenient to various depart-
ments of the University.
Mrs. C. F. LOCKWOOD,
155 & 159 Elm St., near York.
NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS
In desirable suites and singles.
Immediately next to Gym., one-half block
from Campus, and one block from Commons.
Commencement visitors accommodated.
Mrs. A. G. K. GARLAND,
238 & 242 York Street.
First-class accommodations for Yale men
for season ’97-"98. Rooms single and in
suites.
Very best location.
THOMAS ALLEN,
130 & 132 Wall St.
Very desirable rooms in suites for parties
of 2, 3 and 4. |
' Terms moderately reasonable, and leea-
| tion convenient to Campus and Sheff.
Students’ Apartment House.
248, 250 York Street.
Accommodations for 30 men. Furnished in
attractive style, with all modern improve-
ments. Most desirably located, within one
minute’s walk of the Campus. An early ap-
TS we will secure choice of rooms for 1897—
MRS. F.. C. SMITH.
114 HIGH STRERT.
Nicely furnished rooms, in suites and
singles.
Very desirable location, near Campus
and Sheff.
Mrs. Burr S. Peck, 116 High St.
Mrs. EF". C. Smith,
99 Wall Street.
Rooms suitably arranged in suites and
singles, and well furnished.
Location very convenient to Sheff.
Mrs. C. ow s MOSELEY.,
238 York Street.
First class dining hall for Yale men,
one-half block from Campus.
Reserved tables for Commencement
visitors. ;
A. A. WHITE, - 126 Wall Street.
Rooms handsomely furnished,
and arranged in desirable suites
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Convenient both for Sheff. and
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TABLE BOARD, $6.00 per Week.
Catering for Germans, Class Reunions, &c.
Furnished Rooms, single or en suite.
SUPERIOR CUISINE.
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Try the Dining Hall at 250 York St.
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