This truly monumental work is, we are glad to see,
making progress. The compilers promise that the fourth volume, completing the biographical record of "all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Ciunbridg a frow the earliest times" to 1751, will appear a year hence. The new volume contains, it is said, some 20,000 names, with a short notice appended to each. No one save those who have attempted a similar task will appreciate the vast amount of patient labour that has gone to the production of the book. • It is labour well spent, for all students of history, literature genealogy and even eugenics may consult the book with profit. The pages are studded with famous names, like Hobbes or Harvard, but the book will of course be consulted chiefly for the lesser men whose names and Cambridge careers the compilers have rescued from oblivion.
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