Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 189 
(reported Devizes Gazette, &c., August 6th,) the chairman announced 
the receipt of a letter from Sir Edmund Antrobus stating that he was 
willing to sell Stonehenge, including an area surrounding it not exceeding 
eight acres, for fifty thousand pounds to some public body, At the same 
. meeting the council unanimously declined to contribute £500 towards 
the expenses of the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society in 
taking legal action with regard to the right of public access to Stonehenge. 
Stonehenge. Sir Edmund Antrobus’s offer to sell is the subject of a 
leading article in the Standard, July 17th, 1903, expressing the hope 
that some millionaire may come forward and present Stonehenge to the 
nation. 
The Wilts County Mirror, Nov. 13th, 1903, quotes from an article 
in The Architect, on the subject, taking the side of the Commons Preser- 
vation Society, and the daily papers of Aug. 21st, the Salisbury Journal 
of Aug. 22nd, and Devizes Gazette of August 27th, print a letter from 
the Rt. Hon. G. Shaw Lefevre to Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice announcing 
that the Commons and Footpaths Preservation: Society were about to 
commence legal proceedings, but that they would be glad to see the 
. negociations for the sale of Stonehenge to a public body brought to a 
successful issue, ‘‘ provided it is clearly understood that the fence which 
so disfigures the monument will be removed.” 
Ne A aadniaal 
At a meeting of the County Finance Committee, on Oct. 17th, a 
letter from the Treasury was read stating that the Lords of the Treasury 
are not prepared to purchase Stonehenge at the price of 450,000. 
Devizes Gazette, Nov. ae 1908. 

| Malmesbury Abbey. The Monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul, by 
J.G. Holmes. A paper on the history and architecture of the Abbey, in 
Bristol Diocesan Magazine, Oct. and Nov., 1899, and Jan., 1900, with 
= three good process illustrations:—S. View, 1899—Ruins of East End, 
i showing North Arch of Transept—North Wall of Nave, showing Pier 
; Arches, Triforium, and Clerestory. 
_ Stanton Fitzwarren, The Church of St. Leonard, by C. E. Ponting, 
F.S.A. Reprinted from Wilts Arch. Mag.in Bristol Diocesan Magazine, 
March, 1900, with process illustration of the Font, pp. 75—80. 

