Except for the collection of legal portraits in the Harvard Law School and the collection of Indian portraits in the Peabody Museum, this catalogue lists and describes 390 of the many portraits scattered through the buildings of Harvard University. The portraits were not donated or purchased wholly from the art collector’s point of view. The emphasis rests, rather, on the personalities of Harvard men, the great majority of the portraits representing officers of the University, prominent graduates, benefactors, and leaders in science and government. Nevertheless the volume presents a compendium of tastes in portraiture from the middle of the eighteenth century down to the present. It is accordingly an invaluable guide both for the collector and for the student of Harvard history.