OXFORD : ITS PLACE IN NATIONAL HISTORY By Sir John
A. R. Marriott
Sir John Marriott has written .a pleasant and interesting book on Oxford : its Place in National History (Clarendon Press, 6s.). He begins with the Saxon border-fortress, first mentioned in 912, traces the evolution of the mediaeval university from the twelfth century, and emphasizes the part played by-Oxford in national crises: -Wyelif and the Lollards, the Reformation, the Civil War, Jacobitism, Wesleyanism, the Oxford Movement, whose centenary is soon to be cele brated, and the Rhodes Trust . which has made Oxford an Alma Mater for the picked youth of the Dominions and the United States are all discussed in turn,- and Ruskin College is not forgotten. Sir John will distress some Cambridge Inn by casually remarking that Cambridge was founded by migrants from Oxford. But he is modest enough to print in an appendix refutations by specialists of some of the other good old Oxford legends that he repeats in the text, such as the theory that Oxford was founded by a migration of scholars from Paris. The little book gives useful information about the colleges and is attractively illustrated.
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