Charles Vickery Hawkins. Memorials edited by Rev. W. E. Waddington
and Rev. J. T. Inskip. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-- C. V. Hawkins died at the age of twenty-two, not long after his graduation at Cambridge. "The University," said one who was well competent to judge, "has not suffered a sadder loss since the death of Henry Kirke White." He had resolutely fought his way up, mounting the "ladder" of academical progression by which the scholar of the primary school reaches the University,—and a very hard climb it is. Hawkins was always weighted by defects of early training, but he achieved great successes. These are in- teresting to read about ; still more interesting it is to mark the vivacity and keenness with which he threw himself into University life. This is one of the most striking, as it is one of the most detailed, pictures of a student's life that we have ever seen.
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