We have to acknowledge the second volume of Beeton's Science,
Art, and Literature: a Dictionary of Universal Information. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.)—The subject is limited by the exclusion of biography. Still it is comprehensive enough, and surpasses, it may be imagined, the capacity of two volumes, even though they contain each more than a thousand closely-printed pages. We cannot find any notice of Keble College in its pages, though the older foundations of Oxford are separ- ately described. Such an important institution, again, as Owens College, Manchester, should appear, especially as a third of a column can be spared for the "Shell Exhibitions" at BallioL Nevertheless, there is a vast amount of information in the volumes, and creditable pains have been taken to bring it up to the present time, no easy work, when the process of change and discovery is going on so rapidly.
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