Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 157 
Excursion to Salisbury and Stonehenge, Sept. 15, 
7 pp., by E. Doran Webb. Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury Plain (including 
the drive up the valley to Lake and Stonehenge), Amesbury, and Old 
Sarum are the headings. As to Stonehenge Mr. Doran Webb remarks :— 
* All that can be said for certain . . . is that it belongs to the Bronze 
Age.” 
Excursion to Bradford-on-Avon, Sept. 10, pp. 8. By 
the Rev. W. N. C. Wheeler, and J. Moulton. The Saxon Church—The 
Parish Church—Orpin’s House—Horton’s House—Church House—The 
Shambles—The Town Bridge and Chapel—The Almshouses and Chapel of 
St. Catherine—Barton Barn and Tithe Barn—St. Mary’s Chapel, Tory— 
The Priory—Phe Chantry—The Hall—are all well dealt with. This is, 
perhaps, the best of the Guides for these Wiltshire Excursions. 
Account of the Excursions to Bradford; Swindon and 
Marlborough ; Salisbury ; and Avebury; is given in the Devizes Gacette 
Sept. 15 and Jept. 22; North Wilts Herald, Sept. 16, 1898. 
Geological Map of the Country round Bristol, by 
C. Lloyd Morgan, F.G.S., Based on the Maps of 
William Sanders and the Geological Survey. 
British Association, Bristol Meeting, 1898. 
G. Philip & Son, 32, Fleet Street, London. 133 x 10%. Folding. A very 
useful map, coloured geologically. It includes all N. Western Wilts. 
The Castle Inn, by Stanley J. Weyman. Smith & Elder. Cr. 8vo, 
with frontispiece. 6/- 1898. A novel which has been running in the 
Cornhill Magazine throughout the year. The scene is laid at the Castle 
Inn, Marlborough, and many of the incidents take place along the Bath 
- Road between Marlborough and Bristol. Well reviewed, Guardian, 
Nov. 16, 1898; Spectator, Academy, &c. 
Report as to the existing High Rate of Lunacy in 
the County of Wilts, by J. I. Bowes, Medical 
Superintendent of the Wilts County Asylum. Pamphlet, 8vo, Devizes, 
1898, pp. 22. This report, prepared in response to a request from the 
Visiting Committee of the Asylum, contains the results of statistics carefully 
_ drawn up and digested, and of enquiries diligently made. Dr. Bowes comes 
- tothe conclusion that insanity is not largely increasing in the county, 
_ though the numbers of the insane congregated in the asylum are increasing 
rapidly, but he draws a gloomy picture—a picture, too, which those who 
live in such districts know to be by no means overcoloured, of the practical 
 Gegeneration of the purely rural population, which is caused by agricultural 
depression, growth of education, and the means of locomotion, &c., by which 
the cream of the rising generation of both sexes is year by year skimmed 
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