PUBLICATIONS OF THE CAMBRIDGE 
UNIVERSITY PRESS 

ik University of Chicago Press has become the American 
agent for the scientific journals and the following books 
issued by the Cambridge University Press of England: 
BOOKS 
The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, 
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. By Philip C. Yorke, 
M. A. Oxon., Licencié-és-Lettres of the University of Paris. 
Royal 8vo. Three Vols., with six illustrations. Vol. I, pp. 702; Vol. II, pp. 606; 
Vol. IIT, pp. 662. Price $13.50, postpaid $14.22 
This solid and significant work is based on the Hardwicke 
and Newcastle manuscripts and, in addition to the life of Lord 
Hardwicke, gives the whole history of the Georgian period from 
1720 to 1764. Anaccount of the great judge’s work in the King’s 
Bench and in Chancery is included. The characters and careers 
of Walpole, Newcastle, Henry Pelham, the elder Pitt, Henry 
Fox, the Duke of Cumberland, George II, and George III and 
various incidents—such as the fall of Walpole, the Byng catas- 
trophe, and the struggle between George III and the Whigs— 
appear in a clearer light, which the author, by aid of original 
papers and manuscripts, has been enabled to throw upon them. 
These documents are now published, or brought together and 
annotated, for the first time. 
The North American Review. It corrects errors of previous ill-informed or 
prejudiced biographers of Lord Hardwicke, and presents an apparently 
just portrait of a really eminent man, together with a wealth of his- 
torical information. 
The Genus Iris. By William Rickatson Dykes. With Forty- 
eight Colored Plates and Thirty Line Drawings in the Text. 
254 pages, demi folio, half morocco; $37.50, postpaid $38. 36 
This elaborate and artistic volume brings together the avail- 
able information on all the known species of Iris. The account 
of each includes references to it in botanical literature and a 
full description of the plant, together with observations on its 
peculiarities, its position in the genus, its value as a garden 
plant, and its cultivation. As far as possible the account of the 
distribution of each species is based on the results of research in 
the herbaria of Kew, the British Museum, the Botanic Gardens 
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