338 Books, &c., by Wiltshire Authors. 
possibility of feeling either gratitude or love. Except the three above 
mentioned they have no other virtues, and they are absolutely devoid 
of charm. Her pictures of cottage life are drawn with the fidelity to 
detail of a Richard Jefferies, and much that she says of the growing 
degeneration of village life in Wiltshire, of the fact that with the best of 
the boys and girls alike their great ambition is to leave the village and 
the land as soon as they leave school, with the result that the resident 
population of the villages comes to consist largely of the aged, the 
neer-do-wells, the slow-witted, and the vagrants who intend to stay only 
six months or a year in the place, is alas! only too true, as everyone 
who knows North Wilts must sorrowfully confess. But to those who 
really know and love the country it seems that there is another and a 
brighter side to the land and to the people alike, which has scarcely 
revealed itself to the eyes or to the heart of the authoress of A Modern 
Boeotia. ; 
Appreciative reviews, Devizes Gazette, June 9th; Guardian, June 
15th, 1904. 

Hooks, Ke, by CAiltshive Authors. 
Harold Brakspear, F.S.A. “Burnham Abbey” [Bucks]. 
Paper in Records of Buckinghamshire, No. 6, vol. viii. 1903. 8vo. 
Pp. 517—540. Also printed in Archeological Journal, 1x., 294—817. 
An excellent account of the existing remains, with folding plan, two 
coloured plates, and fourteen photographic plates and cuts in the text. 
Thomas Hobbes. “Leviathan” (Cambridge English Classics). 
The text edited by A. R. Waller. Cambridge University Press. 1904. 
73 xX 61. Pp. 528. 4s. 6d. net. 
Addison. “The Spectator in London.” Essays by Addison and Steele. 
7 x 5. Pp. 323. London: Sealey. 1904. 3s. net. 4 
Emma Marie Caillard. ‘Individual Immortality.” John 
Murray. Cr. 8vo, cloth. 1903. 3s. 6d. net. The first four chapters 
appeared as articles in the Contemporary Review. Favourably reviewed, 
Guardian, Jan. 27th; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Feb., 1904, by 
C. Ll. Sfanctuary ]. 
Maude Prower. ‘The Black Thorn,” article in Globe, March 9th, 
1904. 
Cc. R. Straton. Lecture on “ Birdsin Motion” at Blackmore Museum, 
reported in Salisbury Journal, March 26th, 1904. 
