158 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
off the country parishes and the residuum, the Tag, Rag, and Bobtail, left 
behind to propagate their species and add to the inhabitants of the County 
Asylum. Favourably noticed in British Medical Journal, Nov. 19th; 
Devizes Gazette, Sept. 8th, 1898. 
Ben Sloper at tha Military Manoovers on Zalsbury © 
Plaain ; being a humorous description of the 
various Camps, Battles, an tha Girt March Past, 
by the Author of the Wiltshire Rhymes and Tales. Price Sixpence. 
Salisbury: R. R. Edwards, 4, Castle Street. [1898.] Pamphlet, cr. 8vo, 
pp. 26. Anyone who likes good Wiltshire speech, accurately written and 
printed, cannot do better than expend sixpence in Mr. Edward Slow’s racy 
account of the late manwuvres on Salisbury Plain. 
Tommy Atkins on his Autumn Campaign. Article in the 
Windsor Magazine, Nov., 1898, pp. 612—616, written and illustrated by 
S. E. Waller. 
The letterpress chats of the Ludgershall Camp and the Marvel Past. 
There are six good illustrations from drawings :-—Chalk-dust reveals the 
Enemy; You may take a Horse to the Water, but-— ; The Campbells are — 
coming; The Lancers’ Camp; The Hare that Charged an Army; The 
Rick that failed. 
The Salisbury Manceuvres. Article in Blackwood’s Mag., Nov., 
1898, pp. 676—81. 
The Manwuvres were fully reported in many of the London daily papers, and in — 
all the local papers, of the first week in September, 1898. 
The Founding of Marlborough College. An interesting 
account of the foundation of the College is given by Mr. C. H. Holcomb, in 
The Mariburian, May 24th, 1897. The writer was born at Marlborough 
in 1831. He recalls the forty coaches which in those days passed through 
Marlborough daily ; “ Thompson’s Stile,” on which it was said the poet sat 
whilst he wrote his “Seasons,” and other old landmarks, now improved 
away. About 1840 the Vicar of Preshute was ill, and Mr. Bowers, Rector 
of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and afterwards lst Dean of Winchester, came 
to take his duty for a while. He was full of a scheme for the foundation © 
of a new school “for the sons of clergymen and others.” The writer's 
father pressed on his notice, and on that of Mr. Robert Few, who was 
also interested in the scheme, the suitability of the Castle for the purpose. 
They dined together in the summer of 1841, were taken down by Mr. 
Holcomb, Sen., after dinner, and were judiciously shown the fine old brick 
front from the Bowling Green in the mellowing evening light. The due 
effect was produced, and the College was founded at Marlborough, and not 
elsewhere. 
William Beckford, the Caliph of Fonthill, by Chas. 
Whibley. New Review, January, 1897. 
