266 Personal Notices. 
Mullins the Water-Finder. ‘It was noticed more than a 
century ago, both in Germany, France, and England, that ‘‘ peasants 
who: do not puzzle their minds with doubts or reasonings [I quote 
from Pryce’s famous mining work of 1778] are the most successful 
dowsers. Thisistrue to-day. The well-known dowser, the late J. Mullins, 
was a working mason and well-sinker, and his success as a dowser in the 
discovery of underground water was really phenomenal; he rarely was 
at fault, and I think we may take it he was the most remarkable dowser — 
this century has produced.’ ‘On the so-called Divining Rod,” by 
Professor W. F. Barrett, F.R.S., Bk. II., pt. I., p. 137. (Proceedings of - 
the Society for Psychical Research,” vol. xv., pt. xxxviii., Oct., 1900.) 
C. J. Woodrow. “A Salisbury Business Man.” Article in The 
Hardware Trade Journal, on Mr. C. J. Woodrow, of Castle St., Salisbury, 
with two illustrations from photos (portrait of Mr. Woodrow and view of 
.premises), by ‘‘ Reginald Reefer,’’ quoted in Wilts County Mirror, 13th 
July, 1900. 
James Kibblewhite, M.P. for Wootton Bassett in 1812. Interesting 
particulars of his life, and of his family, are given in a notice in the 
North Wilts Herald, Oct. 26th, 1900. A portrait of him has just been 
presented to the Wootton Bassett Town Hall. 
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article in Jemple Bar for June, 1900, pp. 182—212, giving a gossipping __ 
account of Beckford’s life, the reason for which is a series of letters 
from Beckford to his bookseller, Clark—unknown, apparently, to his a 
biographers, from which the author makes copious quotations, highly 
characteristic in the violence of their language, against booksellers, 
bookbinders, authors, and critics. 
Dr. Joshua Marshman. A notice of the life of this famous 
Baptist missionary and linguist, the son of a weaver at Westbury Leigh, 
born April 20th, 1768, died 1837, is given in The Wiltshire Times, Nov. 7 
, 17th, 1900. 
Wicholas Vansittart, M.P. for Old Sarum. “From Behind the 
Speaker’s Chair,” by H. W. Lucy, in The Strand, Nov., 1900, pp. 508—12, 
gives some account of Old Sarum and one of its Members, Nicholas 
Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer. 
