Cambridge

BY M. A. R. TUKER AUTHOR OF PARTS II. AND III. AND JOINT-AUTHOR OF PARTS I. AND IV. OF THE HANDBOOK TO CHRISTIAN AND ECCLESIASTICAL ROME, AND JOINT-AUTHOR OF ‘ROME’ IN THIS SERIES PAINTED BY WILLIAM MATTHISON
LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1907

Published May 1907

“OF making many books there is no end.” When I set about writing this book I was ready to believe that the University had not its fair share of the literary output. Cambridge indeed does not appear to suggest, does not lend itself to, the numberless little brochures or hymns of praise which accompany the honoured years of the sister university; in weighty tomes and valuable collectanea of MSS., however, it possesses works (such as Cooper’s Annals, the Cole and Baker MSS., and Willis and Clark’s Architectural History) not possessed by Oxford and unrivalled, perhaps, by any English town.
In the middle of last century the invaluable Fuller was the most readily accessible authority, but the last thirty years have seen the publication of the monumental work of Messieurs Willis and Clark, and of the History of the University by Mr. J. Bass Mullinger, while at the same time the slighter literature of the subject has not been neglected.
Nevertheless there is room, I hope, for a short book on the present lines.