ACADEMY.—“In a book of its size the information is, of course, much condensed, but so far as it goes it is excellent.”
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods. The Rede Lecture, delivered June 13, 1894. By J. W. Clark, M.A., F.S.A. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes.
Footnotes
[1]. 1. William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. An Account of his Writings, with Selections from his Literary and Scientific Correspondence. By I. Todhunter, M.A., F.R.S., Honorary Fellow of S. John’s College. 2 vols., 8vo. (London, 1876.)
2. The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell, D.D., late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. By Mrs Stair Douglas. 8vo. (London, 1881.)
[2]. In the fifteen years from 1800-1814 inclusive the average was 205; from 1815-1829 it was 402; and from 1830-1844 it was 433; from 1845-1859 it was 444; from 1859-1874 it was 545.
[3]. Todhunter’s Life, ii. 91.
[4]. Life and Letters of Sir C. Lyell, ii. 38. In the same letter he expresses his astonishment at finding that Whewell, while writing one of his papers on the Tides, was passing through the press four other works.