Our purpose to compile at once a short record and a working handbook has made our task largely that of selection and arrangement. We have drawn freely for information upon many sources. Thus, the first chapter is based almost entirely upon facts set forth in Mr. W. T. Stead’s _Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes_; the second chapter is merely an arrangement from a copy of Rhodes’s Will; the third rests upon information obtained from Dr. Parkin’s written statements, especially from an article in the London _Times_ of October 13, 1904, and from an address before the Royal Colonial Institute (December, 1904), and from answers which have been given to direct questions; the fourth is based on published ‘Memoranda’ of the Rhodes Trust; and the sixth represents a condensation or rearrangement, with some personal comment, of information from the official publications of the University of Oxford (see also Bibliography, p. 169). The fifth and the seventh may be said to have more of the personal colouring, but they, too, represent impressions gained from various reading and comparison of opinions, as well as of those of personal experience. The division into Parts I and II has been determined by the fact that the first four chapters (Part I) deal largely with matters outside Oxford, while the remainder (Part II) deals rather with Oxford phases of the question. In addition to the desire to present general information it has been our constant purpose to meet the questions—first, of the person who is considering whether he wishes a Rhodes Scholarship; second, of the person who is an intending candidate; third, of the elected Rhodes Scholar. This motive has prompted the addition of considerable matter in the form of an Appendix which contains: a List of the Rhodes Scholars up to date; a List of the Committees of Selection; a set of questions illustrating the qualifying examination; a list of the members of the Instructional Staff of the University; a Lecture List illustrating the Oxford ‘Honour School’ Lectures; a list of Affiliated and Privileged Universities; and a Bibliography. We have endeavoured by means of a complete Index to make it possible to find at once the information, so far as herein contained, which one is seeking.