THE
PETERITE. VoL. XXI.
OCTOBER, ag5.
No.
220.
SCHOOL LETTER.
Iacet ingens litore truncus. Avulsumque umeris caput, et sine nomine corpus. Aen. 2, 557. UCH was the result when, following the example of the ancients, I tried what the future had in store for the Peterite, by means of the sortes
Vergilianae. The same result was achieved by Charles I., and the portent for him was an unlucky one, but we trust the result will not be the same in this case. The interpretation of this passage is also not very- clear at first sight. Some people might take it to be a prediction of the fate of the Editors, and—well we sincerely hope that such will not be the case. Instead we take it to refer to the lack of contributions to the Peterite. The answer to our appeal for contributions in our March issue has been most disappointing. In looking over some Peterites of about ten years ago, we found that a great feature of these Peterites was the number of contributions which they had received, but now we find it very rare to get one at all. We would point out that it is the original compositions which make a School Magazine interesting, and we once again issue our appeal to all Peterites, past and present, and we hope that this time our appeal will meet with a much better response. As many people have doubtless noticed there was no July issue of the Peterite last term. The edition of this number was
