These two handsome and ably written volumes are, as the learned author says, an attempt to supply a complete series of the fellows, licentiates, and extra-licentiates of the college from its foundation, in the tenth year of Henry the Eighth, to the passing of the Medical Act, in the twenty-second year of the reign of Victoria. Of course the series contains the names of many worthy and useful men in their day, the mute and inglorious record of whose existence now is only marked by a date; but of more eminent men Dr. Munk gives a brief biographical sketch, in which the leading incidents of life and traits of character are drawn with scholarly skill, and gentlemanly feeling, qualifications which were, indeed, essential to an author who should be able to draw up a record of our professional predecessors, in which their frequent and not very dignified quarrels could be presented in a manner devoid of all offence to the present standard of good taste.