MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Merton College, Oxford. By H. J. White, M.A. (J. N. Dent and Co. 2s. net.)—Mr. White vindicates the claim of Merton to be the oldest College in Oxford. That there were earlier foundations of a kind at University and Balliol must be conceded ; but the College proper was first seen at Merton. The place which it occupied in early days was of proportionate importance. It was to Merton that an observer in the fourteenth century would have looked if he had wanted to examine the new development of the academical system. Mr. White proceeds to give a complete account of the buildings. Merton has suffered something from the hands of destroyers and restorers, but on the whole has been fortunate ; the worst dangers have "blown over." Then we have sundry details from the College history, and finally an account of "Worthies." Before the Reformation there was Wycliffe (possibly), Walter Burley, and Archbishop Bradwardine ; after, John Jewel, W. H. Savile, Thomas Bodley, and Antony Wood, among others.
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