Charterhouse, Old and New. By E. P. Eardley-Wilmot and E.
C. Streatfield. (John C. Nimmo.)—Mr. Eardley-Wilmot very rightly begins with an account of the Carthusian foundation, of which the school took the place. We must confess to being puzzled by the statement that St. Bruno "travelled to Grenoble, where a former pupil, Bishop St. Hugh, showed him a spot among the Alps where he might establish his house." Who was this Bishop St. Hugh ? Surely not St. Hugh of Lincoln, for be lived a century later. From the Carthusians we go on to Sutton and his founda- tion, and thence, again, to reminiscences, slight but amusing, of the school as it was in the pre-migration days. Old Carthusians, anyhow, will be glad to have had these memories preserved. A necessary, but of course less interesting, portion of the book is the account of the new building, which carries on at Godalming the traditions of the old school.
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