420 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
There are the usual valuable series of meteorological observations, the 
rainfall having been 44:30 inches; the previous highest record having 
been 43°79 inches in 1882, 41:99 inches in 1872, and 41°91 inches in 1876. 
The Dialect of Pewsey (Wiltshire), with a Glossarial 
Index of the Words treated. By John Kjederquist, 
Ph.D., Docent in the University of Lund. London: published by the 
Philological Society, 1903. 8vo, pp. 144. Paper covers. 
It has been reserved for a Swedish professor to do for the Wiltshire 
dialect what no Wiltshireman was capable of doing, setting down in 
exact terms, through the medium of Mr. Ellis’s ‘‘ Glossic”’ characters 
and signs, a really scientific account of the phonology of our native 
speech. Dr. Kjederquist was led to select Pewsey as the place of his 
dialect investigations because he thought Wiltshire was the most im- 
portant of the English dialects for which Ellis’s word-lists needed sup- 
plementing to facilitate historical researches, and because from infor- 
mation he had received he hoped to find a fairly distinct idiom in this 
place. He accordingly settled down at Pewsey. The first sixty pages 
of the present work were published in 1902 (see Wilts Arch. Mag., 
xxxiii., 72), under the same title, and have now been supplemented by 
the remainder of the work, including chapters on ‘‘ The French Element,” 
“The Vowels of words and syllables which have not the principal accent,” 
‘“The Consonants” (their source), and the Glossary and Index combined 
of all the words treated of in the body of the work. The work now 
completed is the result of two residences at Pewsey of some weeks 
duration each, during which the author took down the words from the 
lips of dialect speakers in “‘glossic.” The result is an authoritative 
treatise on the pronunciation and articulation of the dialect such as 
is to be found nowhere else. The work may be obtained of Mr. 
Woodward, bookseller, Devizes, or of Messrs. Brown, Salisbury. 
Reviewed, Devizes Gazette, September 8th, 1904. 
Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 45, March, 1904. 
The Editor’s paper on Isaac Walton and his connection with Wiltshire 
is continued, with a photo of Poulshot Green and another of ‘‘ Walton’s 
House in Salisbury Close.” The wills of Isaac Walton, Sen., Isaac 
Walton, Jun., and William Hawkins are printed in full. Erchfont 
Records, a Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire, and Quaker Birth 
Records are continued. A note on the Corr family, of Aldbourne, bell- 
founders, follows. Another, on De Chyrebury, of Seend, suggests that 
Wyganus de Chyrebury, who died in 1283, lord of the new manor of 
Seend, was possibly the ancester of the Yerburys of Trowbridge and the 
neighbourhood. 
Canon Wordsworth crosses swords with ‘‘A.S.M.” as to the latter’s 
protest against the use of the name ‘‘ Sarum” as a modern vulgarity. 
He brings forward chapter and verse to prove that at all events from 
1463 down to the present time it has been continuously in use, indeed 

