John's Hall stands the Chapel of St. Mary, which is used as the parish church for those in the vicinity of the Catholic faith. It was built about 1841, and is a well-proportioned structure. It is ornamented on the east and west sides with six brilliantly-colored stained-glass windows, imported many years ago from Europe. Saints Peter and Paul flank the altar, and the four evangelists fill up the other well-turned Gothic windows. One of the fathers officiates as parish priest. The infirmary, just west of the chapel, has the extensive garden of the college in its rear, which is kept in most beautiful order under the direction of one of the lay brethren. Another lay brother has the control of the infirmarj'. Dr. Purroy, of Fordham, being the attending physician. The Rose Hill house has, on the right of the entrancehall, a large, well-proportioned reception-room. Its

walls are hung with pictures representing sacred subjects, by Mexican and South American artists. The president's reception-room, to the left of the hall, has in it several very fine paintings. On the eastern wall is a picture by Louis Lang, representing Mary, Queen of Scots, bidding adieu to her maids of honor just before her execution. On the south wall hang two panel pictures of the Virgin and Child and a fair copy of the Annimciation of the Virgin, the original of which is in the Quirinal at Rome. There is

I also a fair copy, by Mols, of Rubens' " Descent from

I the Cross ;" and on the west wall, in the old German style, a beautiful Virgin, surrounded by twelve Sisters of the Ursuline Order, a work displaying fine coloring and reverential feeling. A portrait of the founder of the Order of Jesuits (Ignatius Loyola), by a Mexican artist, also hangs in this room, and the motto of the Order is displayed, on an open book before him, in the following order: "Ad majorem gloriam dei," though the usual order is " Ad majorem dei gloriam.^' The north wing of the Rose Hill house contains the offices and refectory, -- a fine room, rather gaudily frescoed and capable of seating from three hundred to four hundred people, without crowding.