The Cambridge University Press continues its excellent series of Manuals
of Science and Literature (Is. net each). In their general appearance, and in the quality of their binding, print, and paper, these volumes are perhaps the most satisfactory of all those which offer to the inquiring layman the hardly earned products of technical and specialist research. From the ten volumes most recently published the student may without effort gather the latest news about Spiders or Earthquakes, Methodism or The Troubadours, The Ballad in Literature or Civilisation in Palestine, as well as other topics no less diverse. Mr. R. S. gait gives a most interesting account of Life in the Medieval University, with many quotations from contemporary records. His chapter upon "Town and Gown" shows how adventurous life in a Uni- versity town was in the Middle Ages. At Oxford, for instance, " of twenty-nine coroners' inquests which have been preserved for the period 1297-1322 thirteen are murders committed by scholars."
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