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Shall Stonehenge go? A National Relic in the 
Market. An article, also in the Daily Chronicle, Aug. 28rd, 1899, 
which, together with a leading article in the same paper strongly advo- 
cating an amendment to the Ancient Monuments Acts which should 
make the alienation of such monuments from the nation impossible, was 
called forth by the announcement that Sir Edmund Antrobus had offered 
to sell Stonehenge and 1300 acres adjoining to the Government for 
£125,000, an announcement made in the Zhe Times of August 21st, and 
followed by a letter in The Times of Aug. 22nd from the military corres- 
pondent of that paper urging that action should be taken by the Govern- 
ment at once. 
Shall Stonehenge go? Only to the Nation, says 
Mr. Thomas Hardy, is a further long account of an interview 
with the novelist in the Daily Chronicle, Aug. 24th, in which he advocates 
careful investigation on the spot. 
The Pall Mall Gazette, the Globe, and the Westminster Gazette, 
quoted by the Devizes Gazette, Aug. 24th, also contain articles on the 
sale, urging its purchase by Government, though the last-named paper 
is doubtful as to the price asked. There is also a sensible article from 
the Daily Telegraph of Aug. 22nd, reprinted in the same number of the 
Devizes Gazette, on the subject. 
Stonehenge for sale. Under this heading the Salisbury Journal of 
August 8th, 1899, reprints the announcement made in The Times, as well 
as an interview with an official of the Society of Antiquaries on the 
subject, reported in another London paper, the articles from the Globe, 
the Daily Chronicle, and the Daily Telegraph, quoted above, as well as 
one in St, James’s Gazette, ridiculing the idea of the Government paying 
£100,000, or the half of it, for what practically belongs to the public 
already. The Salisbury Journal has also an article in its issue of Aug. 
26th hoping that the Government may buy it—at a reduced price. 
Under the same heading the Wilts County Mirror of Aug. 25th reprints 
many of the articles mentioned above, as well as one from the Daily 
Graphic, and a short account of the structure itself and its history. 
A Reasonable Price for Stonehenge is the title of a sensible 
article in the Spectator of August 26th, reprinted in the Wilts County 
Mirror, Sept. 1st, and Devizes Gazette, Aug. 31st. The writer contends 
that, as Stonehenge cannot be carried away like a picture, and as it is 
most unlikely that any speculative purchaser could possibly make more 
than £500 a year out of it by enclosing it and charging for admission, it 
cannot be said to be worth at the outside more than £10,000, which 
allowing £12 an acre for the 1300 acres of land accompanying it, would 
give £25,000 as a generous figure for the price to be paid for it by any 
public body. 
W. J. Hamnett also writes to The Times, Aug. 28th, a long letter, 
reprinted in Devizes Gazette, Aug. 31st., and Wilts County Mirror, Sept. 
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