Historians of higher education need to review this issue and the twenty-five volumes of History of Universities. As a result, they are likely to deepen their knowledge of specific institutions, individuals, groups, and disciplines. And, they may expand their research to new topics and to areas outside of Western Europe and the United States.

• ARTICLES ; Rex Fundator. Royal interventions in university colleges: Paris, Oxford, Cambridge (fourteenth-fifteenth centuries) ; Inventing Islam in Support of Christian Truth: Theodor Hackspan's Arabic Studies in Altdorf 1642-6 ; Book Economy in New College, Oxford, in the Later Seventeenth Century: Two Documents ; University history teaching and the Humboldtian model in Scotland, 1858-1914 ; REVIEW ESSAYS ; Walter Charleton, Physician Extraordinaire ; The Making of Princeton University ; BOOK REVIEWS ; Agostino Sottili, Humanismus und Universitatsbesuch. Die Wirkung italienischer Universitaten auf die Studia Humanitatis nordlich der Alpen ; J.R.L. Highfield, Registrum Annalium Collegii Mertonensis 1603-1660 ; Alex D.D. Craik, Mr Hopkins' Men. Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century