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told, it is said, but a few weeks in Oxford. He was a graduate of the College at Durham, upon whose life he based his knowledge of university life in general.
This discovery was surprising, because the book is acknowledged to be one of the truest pictures of Oxford life extant; and it is comforting, because if "Verdant Green" were written by a man who had studied Oxford from the outside merely, it might not be impossible for a mere sojourner in Oxford, in the present day, to give some sort of view of the lives there of men who have written, there and elsewhere, things which make life worth living to the lovers of written and of printed words.
