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Oxford is a good town to look at,' writes Dr. Sharp. 'It is not so merely because it has good looks. Besides having them, it shows them superbly.' It is the purpose of this unusually stimulating book to expound these propositions. This the author has done by assembling a number of carefully selected photographs of the city's streets and colleges and providing an analysis and appreciation of some of the subtleties and intricacies of the scenes they illustrate. Thus, the book is in effect a portrayal of the public character of the city' as a whole. But it is something more than that. Dr. Sharp does not give an appraisal of the ci.