Architecture in Cambridge. By Theodore Fyfe. (Cambridge University Press. 8s.
6d.) This little book illustrates the styles of English architecture by reference to various buildings in Cambridge : it makes no pretence to be a guide to the whole architecture of the city. It is reliable, though unnecessarily sketchy at times, especially about the archi- tecture of the Gothic and Classical Revivals and of the twentieth century—from the whole body of which only three or four illus- trations are included. The fifty-four pictures are from drawings in pen and pencil by the author. His elevations of doors, windows and other details are so useful and so excellent that one wishes he had used such explanatory drawings throughout, for the more pictorial studies, though they have a certain charm, are often amateurish and unsatisfactory in their statement of shapes and textures. The book is pleasantly produced and contains a glossary and index.
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