Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1801-1850. Edited by W. W.
Rouse Ball and T. A. Venn. (Macmillan and Co. 21s. net.) —This is one of five volumes which are to include all the admis- sions to Trinity College and to the academical foundation which it succeeded, "King's HalL" The first volume, to be published hereafter, will contain preliminary matter, lists of college officers, and the admissions to the King's Hall ; the second will give the admissions from 1546, the year of foundation, to 1700; the third 1701-1800; the volume before us is the fourth ; the fifth will carry on the list down to 1900. The editors invite further information, and indeed the entries are certainly incomplete. Name after name occurs with no particulars except the date of admission and the name of the tutor to whom the new member of the college is assigned. That such carelessness should have prevailed at so recent a date in a college so flourishing would be incredible but for this,best of evidence; _
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