Pembroke College, Oxford. By Douglas Maclaine, lit. A. (F. C.
Robinson and Co. 5s. net.)—We reviewed Mr. Macleane's larger history of his college between two and three years ago, and there is little to say about the volume which he now contributes to the series of "College Histories." It is always an advantage, though, if we take the whole of human life, a very rare one, to be able to do a thing over again. This is not exactly what Mr. Maclean° has done, but he has had and used an opportunity of retouching, adorning, and illustrating. He claims for the abridgement, if such it can be called, a more orderly arrangement, a reform sometimes forced upon a writer by restraint within a smaller space, of making some corrections—we had not noticed any errors—and of adding some new material. New material, indeed, the historian of a college always has at his command. In this case Mr. Maclean° has to record a great loss, the death of one. of the most brilliant writers of the day, Mr. G. W. Steevena, and a great gain, in the unanimous election—unanimity not being always a note of these proceedings at Pembroke—of a new Master, to whom the college had and will have, we hope, in the future, good reasons for being grateful.
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