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is due chiefly to his sense of humour, which induced him to record the 
capital stories current in the brilliant social circle in which he was petted and 
admired.” Spectator, Dec. 31st, 1898. 
pune UseofSarum. PartI. TheSarum Customs as 
set forth in the Consuetudinary and Customary. 
| Edited by Walter Howard Frere, M.A., Priest of the Community of the 
q Resurrection. Cambridge University Press. 12s. net. 
The book contains a sketch-plan of Salisbury Cathedral to show the 
position of the altars and other points which are mentioned in the old 
customs, &c. It is well reviewed in the Guardian, March 8th, 1899. The 
; “Customary ” had never before been printed. 
“Wr. Walter Long’s Arms, Pedigree, and Estates,”’ 
is the title of a couple of articles by ‘‘ Veritas,” with three cuts of Long arms, ~ 
in Zo-Day of March 15th and 22nd, the greater portion of which has been 
reprinted in the Wiltshire Advertiser, April 13th, 1899. The writer falls 
with much violence upon the present owner of Rood Ashton, asserting that 
he has no manner of right to use the arms of “ Long of Wraxall,” which as 
a matter of fact he does use, that indeed he has no arms, for by the will of 
Walter Long of Wraxall and Bath, who died in 1807, a strict injunction was 
laid upon the legatees to take and bear his arms (j.e., those granted to 
Edward Long in 1589, viz., Sable, a lion passant argent, on a chief of the 
last three cross crosslets of the first,) and the writer affirms that this has 
never been done. 
Salisbury Cathedral. Chapter iv., pp. 93—100, of “A Cathedral 
Pilgrimage,” by Julia C. R. Dorr, Macmillans, New York and London, 
1896, royal 32mo, 3s. 6d., is headed “A Boy Bishop,” and deals with 
Salisbury Cathedral. The authoress is American. 
‘Salisbury Cathedral. The Sunday Magazine, January, 1899, has 
an article on “Our Cathedral Churches,” with twenty-three illustrations 
from models. That of Salisbury, the south side, showing Chapter-House 
and Cloisters, is from a model lately in possession of Mr. Thatcher, College 
Green, Bristol. 
George Crabbe. An article by Maude Prower appears in the Gentleman's 
Magazine for April, 1899, pp. 356—367, containing a careful appreciation 
___ of the work of this too generally forgotten poet, and an interesting comparison 
of his genius, more especially in the descriptions of nature, and the annals of 
the poor, with that of Wordsworth when dealing with kindred subjects. 
Estcourt Family and Devizes. The Devizes Gazette, April 20th, 
1899, contains a good account of the connection of the Estcourts with Devizes, 
and of the property held by them in and around the town, including the 
Green, which now passes by purchase into the possession of the Corporation. 
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