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The nine pages of this little pamphlet, originally prefixed to the 
Malmesbury Directory—to which, perhaps, attention might never have 
been called if the Society had not met at Malmesbury this year— 
positive bristle with a really marvellous display of philological learning, 
and the amount of light thrown on the early history of Britain from the 
author’s study of place names is almost bewildering inits volume. After 
stating, for instance, that in very early times the ancient Trojans sailed 
up the Thames and founded Troy-novant, whence the Trinovantes, or 
Trinobantes, he says:—‘‘ Some of the Trojans settled in Dorsetshire, 
where they were called Durotridges, these people were partly Trojans or 
Troges and partly Dorians.” ‘The Somer-setew were derived partly 
from the Sete and partly from the Semari, the latter were descended 
from Zemar the son of Canaan, the son of Ham; they came originally 
from the Zemarites of the land of Canaan or Palestine, they were after- 
wards called Samaritans and their capital city Samaria.” Mr. Painter 
does not lack the courage that learning gives, and, after referring to the 
erroneous theories of ordinary ethnologists and historians, he says :— 
‘their errors and misstatements I shall now sweep away, as I have 
traced all the nations in every part of the world and have discovered 
from whom they originally came, especially the British, the Welsh, and 
the Scotch.” 
On two pieces of Medieval Embroidery from 
Sutton Benger and Hullavington Churches, 
by W. H. St. John Hope, with two illustrations. -Proceedings of Society 
of Antiquaries, vol. xvii., pp. 289—243. 
[ Stonehenge. ] 
‘*Qn the age and purpose of the Megalithic Structures of Tripoli and 
Barbary,” by J. L. Myres. Proc. Soc. Antiq., xvii., p. 280—293. 
“On the Tripoli Senams; Idols or Oil Presses?” by H. Swainson 
Cooper. Proc. Soc. Antiq., xvii., 297—300. 
The purport of both these papers is to prove that the Trilithons of 
Northern Africa, which have been cited as the nearest analogues of those 
of Stonehenge, are really oil presses of Roman date, the supposed “altar 
stones” in front of the ‘‘Senams” being the channelled beds of the 
presses. Mr. Swainson Cooper, in his former writings, held strongly to 
the belief that the Trilithons were pre-Roman and connected with religious 
worship. He now joins Mr. Myres, considering it satisfactorily proved, 
by the analogy of presses still in use elsewhere, that their origin and 
purpose is as above stated. 
Srchfont Church. An account of the extensive works of repair 
lately carried out under Mr. Ponting’s supervision, and of the re-opening 
y ceremony on their completion, is given in the Devizes Gazette, Aug. 80th, 
1900. ; 
