250 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, avd Articles. 



of his encounter with the landlady of the inn when he gets there ; he fingers 

 Isaac Walton's books one by one lovingly in the Cathedral Library ; ha 

 moralises on Bemerton and Wilton ; he avoids Stonehenge because it was 

 " ringed with a cordon of wagonettes and flecked with a light foam of 

 summer blouses." Sir Edmund Antrobus meets with but scant justice at 

 his hands ; and of Swindon he says : — " A grim junction for green places, 

 a hard and hideous halt in a pleasant pilgrimage, a town to pass through 

 with eyes shut and fingers in your ears —such is Swindon, for which I seem 

 to have conceived a peculiar spite." The book runs on pleasantly from one 

 thing to another, and the author laughs self-satisfiedly at his own singular 

 ignorance of anything not to be found in books. 



Famous Houses of Bath and District, by J. f. Meehan, 



with an appreciative introduction by the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava : 

 illustrated with about sixty reproductions of original drawings and rare 

 prints in the possession of the author. Bath: B. & J. F. Meehan, 32, 

 Gay St. 1901. Large 8vo , cloth, pp. siv., 228. 



A nicely got up, well printed, and well illustrated gossippy book, containing 

 the following Wiltshire articles and illustrations : — Longleat, pp. 59 — 61, 

 with view from old print; Kingston House, " The Hall," Bradford-on-Avon, 

 pp. 129 — 131, with view ; Romance of Elizabeth Chudleigh, alias Duchess 

 of Kingston, with portrait, pp. 132—136 ; Fonthill Abbey, pp. 153—156, 

 with view from print ; William Beckford's Bath Eesidence, pp. 157 — 160, 

 with view; S. Wraxall Manor House, with view from print, pp. 166 — 168; 

 Great Chalfield Manor House, view from print ; Wraxall and Draycot, the 

 Legend of the White Hand, pp. 169—178. 



Notes on the Cathedrals. Salisbury. Published by 



E. R. Edwards, 4, Castle St., Salisbury, and Swan, Sonnenschein, & Co. 

 Price Irf. [1901.] A really charming little booklet of 16 pp., well printed, 

 with short notes on the building, and the monuments, a list of the Bishops, 

 and a list also of " some books to be consulted " by those who desire to 

 know more of the subject. The process illustrations are excellent ; they are : 

 The Cathedral from S.W.— W. Front— Cathedral from N.E.— Choir Screen 

 — Choir — East Transepts — West Transepts — Bishop Bridport's Tomb — 

 Lady Chapel — Nave Triforium — The Nave— Chapter House. Altogether a 

 wonderful pennyworth. 



Handbook to the Missionary and Colonial Ex- 

 hibition to be held in the Council Chamber, 



Salisbury . . . June 26th, 26th, 27th, and 28th, 1901. Pamphlet, 

 cr. 8vo, pp. 112. Price &d. Compiled by Mr. C. W. Holgate. Amongst 

 a number of missionary illustrations it contains the following of local 

 interest : Portraits of the Bishop of Salisbury, Earl Nelson, and W. Palmer, 

 Esq.. M.P., and views of the Missionary College of St. Boniface, Warmin- 

 ter, and of St. Deny's Missionary College for Women, Warminster. 



