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Princeton. By Yarnum Lansing Collins. (H. Milford. 6s. 6d. net.)—This

admirable history of Princeton University will find a far larger audience in the United States than in this country. But we can strongly recommend it to those English readers who wish to know the lines on which the older American Universities have developed—Princeton was founded, as the College of New Jersey, in 1746—and to under- stand the essential features of College life on the other side of the Atlantic. We note President Wilson's definition of a liberal education in his inaugural address of 1902: " This is not the place in which to teach men their specific tasks except their tasks be those of scholarship and investigation; it is the place in which to teach them the relations which all tasks bear to the work of the world."