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of more permanent preservation than their original pamphlet form 
promised ; and the other shorter stories added to them here are many of 
them very amusing. Of the longer ones the “ Zelect Invitation Ball” is 
perhaps the best—but they are all quite worth reading by anyone who 
knows the Wiltshire tongue. Those who do not, and don’t want to learn it, 
had best leave the book alone, for it is written in genuine South Wiltshire 
dialect throughout. It is not an easy thing to catch Mr. Slow napping, 
but there is one word used several times in this volume that we had 
always regarded as exclusively the property of the fancy “‘ Rustic” in 
novels and the comic papers. Does Mr. Slow really assert that a genuine 
Wiltshire labourer would say ‘‘ Howsomdever ” ? 
Eelly’s Directory of Wiltshire, 1898. This, the 10th 
edition, of this useful work of reference, is distinguished from its pre- 
decessors by a new map of the county, a great improvement on that of 
previous editions, where for years Stanton Fitzwarren appeared in the 
Vale of Pewsey and many other strange vagaries were conspicuous. These 
seem now to have disappeared, and the map is very much up-to-date, 
marking even the light railways from Pewsey to Upavon and from 
Salisbury to Amesbury, neither of which have as yet passed beyond the 
stage of talk. 
Marlborough College Natural History Report for 
the Year 1898 contains the usual report of lectures and field- 
days, the latter at Liddington, Calstone, Manningford, Shalbourne, and 
Chedworth. 
In the Botanical section one new species—Cotyledon umbilicus—was 
found at Pewsey. Itis curious that this plant, so abundant in many places, 
should be so entirely absent from the Marlborough neighbourhood. 
Thlaspi arvense, Carum Carui, and Carex remota were other rarities 
found during the year, the total number of flowering plants observed 
being four hundred and seventeen. 
The Entomological section has a large record for the year—no less 
than nine species of Lepidoptera, new to the district, having been added 
to the list, which now numbers one thousand and seventy-one. The new 
species are:—Uraba strigula, Scoparia truncicolella, Epiblema im- 
mundana, Commophila amandana, Elachista trapeziella, Mompha 
_Schrankella, Nepticula argentipedella, Lithocolletis nigrescentella, and 
Lithocolletis Kleemannella. A number of other rare species were also 
taken. 
The Geological, Ornithological, and Archxological sections seem to 
have nothing special to report. 
Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 26, June, 1899. 
‘“Old Lackham House and its Owners,” illustrated with a full-page 
plate of the arms on the monument of Col. Baynard, in Lacock Church, 
and blocks of the Baynard shield and of one of the figures from the 
Baynard brass, fills fourteen pages of this number with accurate and 
