The Pedestrian's Record

THE PEDESTRIAN'S RECORD. 19 youth and manhood devoted to the acquirement of knowledge brings a storehouse of never-ceasing pleasure to the bent form and grey head. In this mental exertion has a very great advantage over bodily exercises, although the two should always, especially in early life, go hand in hand. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is an old but true saying which the athlete often repeats to the parent or guardian who warns him that examinations are near at hand, and that time spent on the cinder- track should be given up to classical or mathematical research. There is a time for all things, as we read : a time to cry and a time to laugh ; there is a time also to read and write, and a time to walk and run, and the two well blend together. In fact, the training of the mind and body alone can produce that combination of perfection which has constantly mani­ fested the "Mens sana in corpore sano." Many instances have occurred in which an Oxford undergraduate who, after two years' study, during which time little exercise had been indulged in, having taken to running, has induced disease or injury from such undertaking. In this case the nervous system has undergone severe strain ; the nerves con­ nected with the locomotive system have at rare inter­ vals been called into requisition, and consequently the muscles have lost their tone, rendering the body unfit for exertion, and the limbs unable to withstand the effectsof even a short walk. Such a young man re­ quires long and careful preparation ; his wholesystem C 2