Brasenose Quatercentenary Monographs. Vol. II., " Special Periods." (B. H.
Blackwell, Oxford. 10s. 6d. net.)—Monographs IX.-XIII. deal with five "special periods," Mr. I. S. Leadam, taking the time from the foundation down to the death of Henry VIII., Mr. R. W. Jeffery the reigns of Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth, Mr. E. H. Wakeling the early Stuarts and the Common- wealth, Mr. R. Lodge the later Stuarts, and Mr. R. W. Jeffery the period 1690-1803. "Brasenose Rowing," from the pen of Mr. H. C. Waco, is honoured with a liberal proportion of space, some two hundred pages. Brasenose College has a great record on the river. Though it has had vicissitudes, it has often been head (eighteen times between 1815 and 1900). In cricket Mr. Madan has not a few distinctions to record. Brasenose College and Christ Church were the first Colleges to have clubs of their own. Perhaps the greatest hero was R. E. Butler, who in 1871 bowled all the Cambridge wickets in the first innings and five in the second,— fifteen wickets for ninety-five runs. In this year Brasenose College had eight men in the University eleven, having had six the year before, in 1872 as many, and five in 1873. This was its perihelion. The record of University honours is reputable, but Brasenose men seem to have been more industrious in the first two centuries of the College. Workers it has had in sufficient abundance ; the nine whom Mr. Buchan, who has already written the history of the College, specially commemorates are Henry Addington, Sir Tatton
kes, Reginald Heber, Barham (" Ingoldsby Legends "), Milman, F. W. Robertson, Sir W. Grove (Judge and man of science), Sir John Lawes of Rothamsted, and Walter Horatio Pater. We must not forget Mr. Humphry Ward's pleasant "Reminiscences" of the College in the " sixties," Principal Cradock being the central figure. Here is a delightful little story of him. Mr. Ward was looking on at a University match when C. S. Carter of Worcester
was doing wonders in the bowling line against a hostile eleven. The Principal came up and said "less than half humorously": " We might have taken him for scholar when we took you."
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