30 MARCH 1901, Page 22

The Story of the Inter - University Boat - race. By Wadham Pea. cock.

(Grant Richards. 2s.)—We had thought that this subject had been disposed of in previous books. This, however, has the merit of being cheap and giving all the facts in a handy little volume. The obituary is, in the form here adopted, a new feature. The crews of the first race seem to have lasted well. J. J. Too- good died sixty-three years afterwards, C. Merivale sixty-four, and W. T. Fremantle sixty-six.