IN this historical monograph Dr. Rand presents several discoveries in connection with Berkeley's three years in America. He describes efforts made to include Berkeley to found his college in Newport, then the foremost cultural center in America, rather than in Bermuda, and shows why Berkeley, for good reasons, was unwilling to do this. It is also established that Berkeley preached in King's Chapel. Dr. Rand gives the first account, partly conjectural, of Berkeley's visit to Harvard, where President Wadsworth received him September 17, 1731, presumably in Wadsworth House.

A sketch of the sojourn in America puts these discoveries in their proper setting. Though it does not pretend to be a complete account of a visit on which much has already been written, it will be of interest to those who know only the writings of a philosopher who was gifted of "every virtue under Heaven," and actively interested in the westward course of Empire.

The title to an illustration of "Hanging Rocks, Sachuset Beach, R. I.," will shock natives who know of nothing but "Sachuest." But the name, like most Indian names, has been as shifting as the sands which have built in at the rate of three feet a year and left the rocks, where once the Dean sat gaping seaward, hanging only over dry land.