Many buildings of importance, all designed in good taste, grew up in
Cambridge during this century. The library of Samuel Pepys,
including the manuscript of his celebrated _Diary_, was left to his
old College of Magdalene in 1703, and reached Cambridge in 1725, when
it was placed in what are now called the Fellows' buildings, a range
built to do honour to the bequest. To the University Library,
enriched by King George I's present of Bishop Moore's collection, was
added a new wing designed in the Classical style. The Senate House
as we now see it is an eighteenth-century building, and a fine
example of its period. At King's College the Fellows' building by
Gibbs is another notable addition to the architecture of the place,
and the alterations at Clare, Trinity Hall, and Emmanuel are all good
of their kind.
The beauty of Cambridge does not consist in broad streets or in
imposing public buildings. The greater Colleges lie with their
gatehouses towards the town, their courts and lawns stretching
towards the river, which is spanned by their private bridges. Beyond
the river the eye is charmed with a vista of tall trees and flowery
gardens. In every College there lurk particular treasures. Corpus
Christi, with its old Court abutting on the Saxon Church of St.
Benet, where in bygone days the scholars were wont to worship, can
show the hall in which Kit Marlowe dined and Parker presided. This
College has one of the most interesting libraries in the University,
and one of the best collections of plate in the country. Jesus
College has an unique chapel. Norman and Early English masonry, fine
old stalls, and a mediæval organ may here be seen, and, for those who
care for such things, there are windows by Morris and Burne-Jones.
Examples of Wren's work in Cambridge have already been noticed. The
bridge built from his designs at St. John's is illustrated in the
present volume. No one should miss all there is to see in this
stately College. The Combination Room is a typical Tudor gallery;
and on Feast Nights, when illuminated with wax candles in silver
sconces, it presents a picture unforgetably beautiful. Trinity and
St. John's are the only Colleges possessed of statuary. In the
anti-chapel of the former College the statues of Newton, Bacon,
Barrow, Macaulay, Whewell, and Tennyson form a striking group. That
of Newton is by Roubiliac, and some busts by this admirable master
may be seen in the College library, where too is the celebrated
statue of Byron by Thorwaldsen, and numerous enrichments of the
bookcases by the hand of Grinling Gibbons. This library, which is
one of the principal Collegiate libraries in Europe, has over 100,000
volumes. Among its manuscripts are the celebrated Canterbury
Psalter, a volume of Milton manuscripts (including the first sketch
of _Paradise Lost_), the manuscript of Tennyson's _In Memoriam_, that
of Thackeray's _Esmond_, and several Byron manuscripts. The library
of St.
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