KING'S HOSTEL, TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
King's Hostel, Trinity College, Cambridge. By W. D. Carob, M.A. (Heighten, Boll, and Co., Cambridge. 102. Bd. not.)— King's Hostel is, so to speak, the nucleus of Trinity College. It dates back to the fourteenth century,—more than two hundred years, that is, before the magnificent foundation of which it was, in fact, the substructure. In 1334 was acquired the house of Robert do Croyland, rector of Oundlo. From time to time various properties were added and buildings, domestic or other, erected. The records of these things have happily been preserved among the College archives, and the patience of recent investi- gators—notably of Messrs. Willis and Clark, and now of their successor—has discovered, a few doubtful points being loft, the history of the Hoetel. Tho place itself has now been given back, if we may say so, to the oyes of men. In the eighteenth century the range of buildings was fronted with brick, with the neglect of architectural features common to the time. (Trinity men and those who have enjoyed the hospitality of the College will remember the range of buildings which looked out upon the bowling green.) This modern work has boon cleared away, and the original restored to view. It may be a more matter of sentiment, yet it is something that the princeps, as far as fame
and magnitude are concerned, among Cambridge Colleges can now point to buildings almost as venerable for age as any that are to be seen in the University.
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