82 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
Lacock Abbey isadmirably illustrated in Country Life, Feb. 7th, 1903, 
pp. 176—181. There is just enough letterpress to string the fine photos, 
two of them full-page, together. The views given are:—The Entrance 
Archway—South Elevation—Nuns’ Walk—East Cloister—East Front— 
Back of Stables—Stable Yard—and View from the North-East. 
Brinkworth Church. Good accounts of the service, and of the 
address of the Bishop of Bristol, at the opening of this Church after the 
excellent restoration of the nave by Mr. C. HE. Ponting, as well as of the 
work done at a cost of £2084, are to be found in the Devizes Gazette, 
May 7th, and North Wilts Herald, May 8th, 1903. 
Poulshot. A good note on the history of the parish, and the archi- 
tecture of the Church, illustrated by a south view of the Church, occupies 
two pages in the Worth Wilts Church Magazine for May, 1903. 
Spring Falconry. The Season on Salisbury Plain. 
An interesting article on Rook Hawking by the Old Hawking Club, 
whose head-quarters have this year been shifted from Amesbury to 
Shrewton. It is noted that one falcon has killed this year over fifty 
rooks. Morning Post, May 12th, 1903. 
White Horses, by H.G. Archer. Article in Good Words, March, 1903. 
pp. 187—197, with twelve illustrations of the principal turf monuments 
in England, including photos of the Westbury, Cherhill, Pewsey Vale, 
and Broad Hinton white horses. 
Bolingbroke and his Times: the Sequel, by Walter Sichel. 
Demy 8yvo. 12s. 6d. net. 1902. A critical analysis of Bolingbroke’s 
career from 1715 to 1751 in continuation of Mr. Sichel’s earlier volume. 
Sarum Tunes. By the Rev. H. J. Trueman. Published at Alfred 
Foley’s Music Warehouse, Salisbury, 1903. Pp. vi, 70. Cloth. 1s, 6d. 
Fox Talbot and Photography. The second report of the Fox 
Talbot Memorial Fund, 1902, is headed with an illustration of a negative 
photograph on paper, by Fox Talbot, to which the note is attached 
‘“‘ Latticed Window (with the Camera Obscura), August, 1835.” 
William Wild, of Aldbourne. The Marlborough Times, March 
28th, 1903, contains the following :—‘‘ Aldbourne. ‘The story of an 
interesting picture. In February last, the Vicar of Aldbourne received a 
letter from a picture-dealer at Brighton, informing him that he possessed 
a portrait in oils, of which he gave the following description :—‘ A well- 
painted portrait, on canvas, of a very, very old man. Head and bust 
life-size. He has strong features, long grey hair, very little hair on the 
face, clipped very close, shewing the shape of the jaw; the forehead is 
high, as in most of the portraits of that period. He is wearing a heavy 

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