Even those who have lived hi Oxford for the three
years necessary to qualify for a degree-even those who come from .across the Atlantic specially to see Oxford-know probably little or nothing of West Oxford. Most people would say 'that there was little or nothing to know that could be worth a further long trek round the town after an exhausting day in the company of a very bored undergraduate, or a very boring, and presumably equally bored, gentleman with " guide " written on his arm. But Mr. Thomas Squire's In West Oxford (Mo*bray, 7s. 6d.) tells us that round about the railway station, the gas works, and the prison are hidden • many 'buildings of beauty and historic interest,- and 'he has ' given us' a detailed description of some of them, illustrated with maps and plans and drawings 61-01(1-03tford. A' book for the lover of Oxford, but emphatically, as Mr. Squire would probably be the first to say, not for the general reader.
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