C.S. LEWIS'S CAMBRIDGE
A walking tour guide
By Jacqueline Glenny
Christian Heritage Press
36 pages. £4.95
ISBN O 95417622 1 9
C.S. Lewis's Cambridge is exactly as the subtitle describes - 'a walking tour guide'. It begins with sensible advice on walking shoes, the advisability of an umbrella and the inadvisability of stepping on the grass in the College courts.
Then Dr. Glenny, a Professor of Communication from North Western College, Minnesota, takes the reader on a tour of all the places in Cambridge connected in one way or another with C.S. Lewis between 1954 and 1963, when he was the Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University. She does this well, weaving in his character, his spiritual experience and his academic work with the various buildings described. Refreshingly, unlike some other writers, she does not concentrate on his late marriage and loss, but in the guide's 36 pages she succeeds in giving an excellent account of his life and his Christian and literary writing. Dr. Glenny also touches on other facets of Cambridge's history, buildings and well-known alumni and the guide is well designed and produced by Martin and Stephen Lown, with a wealth of beautiful little photographs.
