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Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the 
Alfred Charles Smith—In Memoriam. 
so courageously originated, and so successfully carried out the many delightful 
Driving Tours recorded in this Book, in Belgium, France, Holland, Germany, 
Switzerland, and Italy in which I was his constant companion as well as in ~ 
the more distant expeditions we made to Norway, Spain, Egypt, the Holy ’ 
Land, and Portugal.” 
The illustrations, sixteen in number, are with two exceptions outline 
character sketches with a good deal of caricature in them. As in his other 
books of travel, the author purposely avoids dwelling on buildings, pictures, 
and other objects of interest which are described in ordinary guide books, 
and occupies himself chiefly with the every-day life of the people, and the 
actual incidents that befell himself and his companions. It is, indeed, a 
series of diaries boiled down, and would have been the better for the omission 
of the Passport and its moralizings. As describing a method of travel and 
a state of things which have now utterly passed away it is not without its 
interest for the general reader though it contains little information that is 
not to be found in the many, other books which cover the same ground. 
North Wiltshire Downs in a Hundred Square 
Miles round Avebury. Being a Key to the Large 
Map of the above. Published by the Marlborough College 
Natural History Society. Printed by Bull, Devizes. Atlas 4to. 1884. 
pp: Xv., 247, with iv. pp. List of Subscribers at the end. The illustrations 
include an index map, seven large plates (three of them from ‘ Ancient 
Wilts”), and one hundred and ten cuts in the text, of barrows, and the objects 
found in them, &c. The preface is dated Yatesbury Rectory, Dec., 1883. 
Of this first edition the greater portion was destroyed by a fire at the 
publishers, and a second edition was subsequently published by the Wiltshire 
Archeological and Natural History Society in 1885. Price £2 2s. 
This work, the most valuable, perhaps, of all the author’s writings, was 
printed as an accompaniment to the Great Map of the scale of 6in. to one 
mile which was issued in sections, and when joined and mounted measures 
81 X 50inches. On this map the antiquities are marked in red, and the roads, 
ponds, lanes, sarsen stones, &c., in other colours. The introduction, pp. 1—42, 
contains an excellent compendium of the British Antiquities of North Wilts, 
the barrows, dykes, camps, and circles, with numerous blocks of the objects 
found in them. The remainder of the book deals in detail with the different — 
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in the way of an earthwork that could by any possibility be a relic of 
antiquity. There is an appendix containing a full list of the altitudes of 
the Ordnance bench marks in the district round Avebury. Throughout t 
