Who would not weep, if Atticus were he!’
CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Cambridge Described & Illustrated. Being a Short History of the Town and University. By Thomas Dinham Atkinson; with an Introduction by John Willis Clark, M.A., F.S.A., Registrary of the University, late Fellow of Trinity College. With Twenty-Nine Steel Plates, numerous Illustrations and Maps. 8vo. 21s. net.
DAILY CHRONICLE.—“He has conferred a favour upon all lovers of literature and its early seats by going at much length and with great care into the questions not only of municipality, but of the University and the colleges.... A good thing well done.”
DAILY NEWS.—“All Cambridge men will be interested in the many quaint and curious descriptions of mediæval manners and customs of the University Town which Mr. Atkinson has collected. To all with archæological interests we strongly recommend the volume.”
ACADEMY.—“His book will be welcomed by all those who desire to get, in the compass of a single volume, a comprehensive view of both Town and University. The illustrations throughout the volume are well drawn and excellently reproduced.”
MORNING POST.—“A volume which is copiously illustrated by excellent plates, drawings, and maps, and to which an admirable general index lends an additional value.”
SPECTATOR.—“We hail this interesting volume, which attempts to do what has heretofore been neglected (save in Cooper’s monumental work),—viz. combine in one survey the general history and description of both the University and town of Cambridge.”