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Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford. By W. D. Cares:. (Oxford

University Press. 25s. net.) Mr. Cartie's tribute " To the honoured memory of a great Englishman renowned in the worlds of science and art " is a timely and illuminating volume, finely illustrated and pro- duced—the type used being that given to the Sheldoman Press by the celebrated Dr. Fell, Bishop of Oxford, to whom Wren wrote the delightful series of letters, here quoted at length, on the building of Tom Tower. In his commentary on the letters and the actual building, Mr. Cartie conducts us into many pleasant architectural and historical by-ways, reproducing some engaging old prints and extracts from contemporary: accounts and contracts.