The New Chapel of Marlborough College. By the Rev. Newton
Mant. (W. H. Allen and Co.)-This monograph cannot fail to have a success. The chapel of Marlborough College is one of the finest that England possesses. Among all modern buildings of the kind, there is scarcely one that surpasses it, though, doubtless, when Lancing is finished, it will rightly claim the first place. Mr. Mant has an interesting story to tell. The first idea was to enlarge the old chapel. But the builders of that had done their work so badly that enlargement was impossible,-so good came out of evil. A new chapel was determined upon. What it is may be learnt from these pages by those who have not the oppor- tunity of seeing it. The details were worth giving. Archdeacon Farrar has written a brief preface, and Mr. Thomas, the Bursar of the College, has added a very readable chapter of " Reminiscences." These reach back to 1848, when the College had been in existence four years and a half, a time when, it need hardly be said, Marl- borough was a very different place from what it is now. The stories that we are told of the discipline in those days are curious in the extreme. Marlborough was, indeed, a proverb for disorder, and there were not wanting those who attributed this to the fact that it was peopled with " sons of the clergy." Nevertheless, Mr. Thomas vindicates the memory of Dr. Wilkinson, the first Master. He was set to achieve the impossible. We must not forget to mention Archdeacon Farrar's speech and Dean Bradley's sermon.
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