Designed primarily as a convenient guide book to the University for summer visitors and Tercentenary guests, this little volume resembles Baedeker in providing much incidental historical and architectural description. A completely up-to-date treatment, it gives a concise description of the material in the principal Museums of the University. The numerous illustrations will help the reader at a distance to gain a comprehensive idea of the grounds and buildings of Harvard. To those contemplating a trip to the University, it will of course be indispensable.

The six years of President Hill’s administration (1862–1868) brought to a focus all the conflicting movements of progress and tradition which finally resolved themselves under the leadership of his successor, Charles William Eliot. Living in a time of transition, Hill nevertheless made important contributions to American thought and to the development of Harvard, but in the course of years the real worth of his work has been obscured. William Goodfellow Land’s volume will do much to restore Hill to his proper place and to make the present generation acquainted with his lovable personality.