ately named, she being no mother at all. But what I set out to say was that with Dr. Schorten gone, I will be the only professor left on Seminary Hill. The fact that it is vacation time accounts for its depopulation. It will not be a great job, however for me to hold the hill down alone. I have become accustomed to hoeing a lone row in the seminary anyhow. This week we received a nice letter from Mrs. Sandrock, widow of the late Prof. Sandrock, who was a good friend of mine when he was a professor in our Seminary. Mrs. Sandrock is now in California trying to recuperate her health, which suffered greatly from all that she had to go through during her husband's long sickness. He wouldn't have any other nurse around him, and Mrs. Sandrock was exhausted and completely played out by the time he finally passed away. He had internal cancer and was probably too sick to realise that he was overtaxing his wife's strength. We had a letter again from Arthur this week. He informed us that his school will be out to-day a wee i.e. July 15th. It was cut two weeks short by government regulation. This was due to the coming of harvest time. In other years when the government's relation to Poland was different from what it is now, they employed Polish boys to help gather in the harvest, but this year they refused to import them; and as they had to have help, they conscripted the native University students for work in the harvest fields. This only shows the truth of the old saying, "Where there's a will, there's a way." Arthur, however, not being a native will not be conscripted. But this will not shorten his stay, it will give him more time to bicycle around Germany and visit places of interest. I don' t remember whether I told you or not in my last letter but he has bought a bicycle for this excursion. He doesn't expect to get back to Canada until September unless his money runs out before that time. We also had a letter from Robert. He told us that he got a nigh