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human history ; (4) to focus the attention upon the special study of 

 some one great man who stood out from among his fellows." No one 

 was ever, or could be, bored at these lectures. The most unlikely 

 people found themselves gaining an interest in some subject that had 

 never appealed to them before. One of his sons' schoolfellows, a boy 

 keen on athletics and sport mainly in those days, said many years 

 after that it was to the breakfast-table talks of his host, during the 

 holidays, that he owed his present love of both natural history and 

 poetry. How Sir Jonathan, with his great surgical and consulting 

 practice, found time to study such a multitude of other subjects, and 

 to learn by heart much of our best poetry, will always be a marvel 

 to those who knew him. But he never said in his life that he 

 " hadn't time," until the closing months, when he would sometimes 

 sigh that there was so much still to do, so little time and strength 

 to do it. 



L. H. 



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"J." A Memoir of John Willis Clark, Registrar y of the University 

 of Cambridge and sometime Fellow of Trinity College. By 

 A. E. Shipley, Master of Christ's College. Smith, Elder 

 &Co. 



This is a delightful book to read ; it describes a unique 

 personality, a hard-working official, and an enthusiastic lover of 

 his University; he was, moreover, a zoologist in taste, zeal, and 

 museum activity. The fact that he was known as " J." denotes 

 his popularity, though he was not apparently always all smiles, 

 nor did he seem to " suffer fools gladly" ; but the book describes 

 a real man, and one more loved for being very human, as well as 

 staunch and sincere. His father issued, at the age of sixty- 

 eight, his translation of Van der Hoeven's ' Handbook of 

 Zoology,' and as translator had to learn Dutch before he could 

 put it into English ; as Dr. Shipley remarks : " a remarkable 

 performance for a man nearing seventy." 



