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Excerpt from The Compleat Oxford Man It is not a matter of wonder that of books written about Oxford there is no end. Oxford has been, is, and will be one of the few places in England which sets up the cacoethes scribendi. There is no library that does not contain not only those books of Oxford which are appropriately called "works," but those slim volumes of verse and parody that have caught something of the spirit of their author's time. Nearly all of them are interesting, and many are valuable. One or two, containing the Juvenilia of Oxford men who have written their names on the scroll, are not only interesting and valuable, but witty, delightful, and essentially Oxford. There are, of course, others. These, written by the all-too-daring lady novelist who invariably disguises the Alma Mater by calling her Oxbridge and similar ineptitudes, and who nearly always regards the don with a sort of sneaking affection which is peculiarly feminine and romantic, are generally funny and often painful. It has, however, been left to the present author to give us the Compleat Oxford Man - according to himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.