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Indeo to the Cole MSS. in the British Museum. By

George S. Gray. (Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge. 15s. not.)—William Cole (1714-1782) was an antiquary of indefatigable industry in tho work of collecting. He was doubtful what to do with his accumulations. "To give them to King's College "—he had migrated thither from Clare Hall—" would be to throw them into a horse-pond, the members of that society being so conceited of their Latin and Greek that all other studies are barbarous." Finally they went to the British Museum, with a proviso that they should not be opened till twenty years after his death. Here we have a catalogue of their contents. It covers 170 pages, and allowing for double entries must contain between two and three thousand items.