The Student's Handbook to the University and Colleges of Cambridge.
(Cambridge University Press. 3s.)—It is explained in the preface that the information given in this volume is not official, but that it has been carefully collected and revised ; it has been supplied, in fact, by official persons. The various subjects of discipline, study, expense, and the aid furnished by scholarships, &c., are fully discussed. Particulars of each College are also supplied. Some of the figures relating to expense may be quoted. They are taken, we are given to understand, from actual accounts. In the case of an economical student the total comes to 272 17s. 8d. for the year. Rooms and service, food and fuel, come to 251, and tuition to 221. This student paid nothing for outside tuition. Another who required it paid £44 on this account. A less economical person's account comes to £110 16s. 7d. Here hospitality figures for some £25. A boating man who had to have a private -tutor paid £127 16s. 10d. ; another student, who is described as " an extravagant person with wealthy parents," reaches the total of £170 12s. 10d. This is, of course, a good deal of money for the twenty-four weeks of an academical year; but it is not ruinous. To all these *Nis something must be added for travelling, clothes, and items of food, &c., not supplied by the College. On the whole, it results that a man may manage on £110, or even £100, but that the attainment of comfort need not involve more than £250. Matters more strictly academical are adequately dealt with, but the information cannot be epitomised.
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