Register of Old Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral, 
1810—1897. Compiled by E. E. Dorling, M.A., 
Master of the Choristers’ School. London. Cr. 8vo. 
1898. Cloth. pp. xvii., 43. 
This is a chronological list containing a hundred and sixty-nine names of 
those who since 1810 have been members of the Choristers’ School, at 
Salisbury, with their birth, parentage, and such particulars of their 
subsequent career in life as could be ascertained. It includes, also, a list of 
the masters of the school during this period—a list of choristers of the 15th 
century, nineteen in number—a list of the fines for misdemeanours, in force 
in 1851—a copy of a tailor’s bill for the clothing of a chorister in 1632, for 
“Cloath Coate and hose and Sharge Weskett,” and ‘ Flaning to line ye 
Coate ’’—The Latin school song, written by an old chorister—and the service 
used at the present time on the admission of the “ Bishop’s Chorister.” 
Mr. Dorling tells us in the preface that the Register is based upon a list 
of old choristers first compiled by Miss Edith Moberly and given to the 
schoo] in 1888; and he asks for further information as to many of the 
names, especially as to some of the earlier ones—as to whom the information 
he is able to give is, in some cases, naturally scanty. He has done his work 
well, and compiled a record which will be of great interest to members of- 
the school, and of permanent value as a work of reference. 
Wiltshire Folk Songs and Carols, collected and 
edited by the Rev. Geoffry Hill, M.A., Vicar of 
East with West Harnham, Salisbury. The Music 
edited and arranged by Walter Barnett, F.S.A. 
First Series. W. Mate & Sons, Bournemouth. 4to. Price 2s. 
Wrappers. — 
Mr. Hill, in his preface, says :—‘ How far these songs and carols possess 
a Wiltshire origin, I find it impossible to say. One of the songs I know to 
come from Hampshire; one of the carols is also claimed by a Dorsetshire 
village. But all of them were being sung in Wiltshire at the time of their 
discovery, and the origin of nearly all of them, as far as it could be traced, 
is to be found in some Wiltshire village. When I lighted on them they 
were all being sung in one small village near Salisbury.” Of the music, 
Mr. Barnett says:—“It is not suggested that the whole of these melodies 
are now published for the first time ; some of them, at least, have appeared 
in previous collections, differently arranged and set to other words. Nor do 
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