House on 5 November, which 1819 had, though there was then no Latin Professor to make it. So far as surviving reputation is concerned, the advantage is sure, we think, to be with the men of 1905. We doubt if the ordinary man of letters could name more than two or three of the lights of 1819, and we cannot say that the period was one of distinction, though it has given us a chronicler in Gunning, whose reminiscences are unique, and ought to be reprinted. In 1819 it took a student of Law or Physic six years to take his degree. He was allowed, however, to wear the B.A.'s full-sleeved gown when the men of his year took their degree, and was stiled a Harry-soph.' There were tenyear men," too, in those days, of the age of twentyfour and upwards, toiling pretty leisurely after a B.D.!

Some of them are,

public is already familiar.
indeed, short-mere notelets. Others, however, are
of sustained interest; see No. 2518, to the Duc de-
Nivernais, which reaches Mrs. Toynbee from the
Princeton University Library. Besides showing:
Walpole in his most complimentary vein, this con-
tains some fairly important criticisni. No. 2558*, ad-
dressed to some one unknown, has also an admirable
piece of appreciation of literary flunkeydom. It is
needless to say that reference is, in innumerable
instances, facilitated, and will be so to a further
degree when the index is issued. Among the illus-
trations to the present volumes are those of Mary
Berry and her no less lovely sister Agnes; Mrs.
Fitzherbert, the wife of George IV., after 'Gains-
borough; Mrs. Piozzi, by George Dance; Edmond
Malone, by Sir Joshua; Dr. Burney and James
Boswell, both by Dance; Warren Hastings, by
Tilly Kettle; Mary Bruce, Duchess of Richmond
Marshal Conway; and others. There are also in-
teresting facsimiles. If Mrs. Toynbee's edition be
not definite and final, which it may well be, it is
that to which the scholar will turn by obligation as
well as by preference. There are three aspects in
which this work may be viewed: it is indispens-
able to the knowledge of the eighteenth century;.
it is a book to be dipped into and consulted with
advantage and delight; and it resembles the memoirs
of St. Simon and a few others, the thought of
perusing which in their entirety all but reconciles.
us to the period of enforced leisure into which, in
the end, the busiest of us have to decline.

We cannot deal with the very different aspect of modern Cambridge as revealed by its present Calendar.' The wonderful advance of science is, of course, a leading feature of the University. It is a feature of the age in general. What, however, we expect and need from the universities is a reinforcement of the taste which has become that of an honourable minority almost stunned by the forces of vulgarity and advertisement. We want, in fine, as many good men and good books to leaven the lump as can be procured, and we look for signs of literary activity in this 'Calendar.' So we regret to see that Caius announces the following among its records of this year: "English Essay, No essay sent in French Essay Prize, ditto; German Essay Prize, Not awarded"; and "Natural Science Essay Prize, No essay sent in." We notice, further, that LOUEY CHISHOLM is preparing for publication a at Christ's no exercises were sent in for the PrizeBook of Poetry for Children,' and invites suggesin Memory of Calverley, and that Prof. Skeat's tions of unfamiliar pieces. Her address is c/o English Prize was not awarded. Every educated Messrs. T. C. & E. C. Jack, Causewayside, Edinperson should cultivate his powers of expression, burgh. For he may have before long to yield his heritage of liberal education to the loud Philistine. It is no ime to

Sit as safe as in a Senate-House,
For Milton's simile has lost its aptness. We hope
hat this Calendar' may have a wide circulation
outside the special circles it immediately concerns,
of only to supply the daily press of the wilder sort
with corrections of some of its ill-founded state-
nents and conclusions.

The Letters of Horace Walpole. Chronologically
arranged and edited by Mrs. Paget Toynbee.
Vols. XIII., XIV., and XV. (Oxford, Clarendon
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iving us, in chronological sequence, the letters of
Horace Walpole trembles on the point of comple-
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f subscribers, and with the appearance, now im-
ninent, of the sixteenth, consisting of index,
he augmented price with which the timid and
he recalcitrant have been menaced will come
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he public. Of the 3,061 letters included in the
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umber is, in fact, much larger, many of the num-
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br the first time are in no respect inferior in
terest or importance to those with which the

This

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