Trinity College, Cambridge. By W. W. Rouse Ball. (J. M.
Dent and Co. Is. 6d. net.)—This is one of a proposed series of "College Monographs," and seems exactly suited to its purpose. It is a little book which can be conveniently carried in the pocket, and so utilised as a guide; and it is written in what may be described as an appropriate style. It is pleasant ; it is anecdotal; it is practical, furnishing just the details that one wants, with the relief of the agreeable and entertaining. The artist, too, Mr. Edmund H. New, gives excellent help to the writer. In noticing a book of this kind we naturally quote one of the good stories. Here is one told of a man who, besides doing plenty of other good work, largely increased the world's store of these things,— William Whewell. "Do you mean, Sir," he said to a. man who was smoking in the Great Court, "to deliberately insult me, or are you totally lost to a sense of decency P" It was a frightful dilemma, and the offender doubtless chose the blunter horn when he answered : "If you please, Sir, I am totally lost to a sense of
decency." ,
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