11 JUNE 1904, Page 25

The Oxford and Cambridge Year Book. Part II., " Cambridge."

Edited by A. W. Holland. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 3s. 6d. net.) —Mr. Holland's purpose is to collect the names of all living graduates (or persons qualified to graduate) of the two old Universities. This volume contains between thirty and forty thousand names, the number of "names on the books " being but a small part of the total that might be there. The work is unevenly executed. No fixed rule has been followed in giving academical distinctions, and the extra-academical achievements are irregularly recorded. The question of space makes a difficulty, but why the string of unimportant titles given to a noble Lord on p. 718 ?