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Rural Reminiscences, by J. Stratton. Fred Smith, 



Winchester. [1901.J Pamphlet, cr. 8vo, pp. 42, with preface. Mr. 

 Stratton, now of Chilcombe, near Winchester, has collected his remi- 

 niscences and gleanings from the old men of his youth at Broad Hinton, 

 in the form of a description of Farmer Sterling's (Mr. Stratton, the 

 writer's grandfather) farming doings in Wiltshire in the "good old days " 

 of the war times at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when corn 

 was up to £5, and once, in 1800, to £5 13*. per quarter— and the baser 

 sort of farmers drank the scandalous toast at market ordinaries, " a bloody 

 war and a wet harvest "—whilst the villages were over-populated, the 

 labourer's wages seven shilHngs a week, and cottages not fit to live in 

 —a condition of things which culminated in the Machine Eiots of 1830. 

 " Mr. Sterling," however, was of the best type of Wiltshire farmer, and 

 the account of his sturdy upright ways is pleasant reading. 

 Reviewed Devizes Gazette, June 13th, 1901. 



Swindon Junction. Article by Rev. H. Cocks in Railway Mag. 

 Illust. Noticed Devices Gazette, Sept. 12th, 1901. 



Bradford-on-Avon Saxon Church. Article, with one iiiust., 



in Churchwoman, July 12th, 1901, p. 539. 



Warminster and Maiden Bradley. Excursion of Geologists' 



Association. Note on in Proc. Geologists' Association, xvii., 166. [Aug., 

 1901.] 



Salisbury Cathedral. "West Fronts of Enghsh Cathedrals. 

 Salisbury, Wells, and Winchester." Article in Builder, by H. H. 

 Statham. Reprinted in Wilts County Mirror, March Ist, 1901. 



Lines suggested by S.P.G. Bicentenary. Leaflet by W.S.S. [1901.] 



Salisbury Bell Foundry. short article, signed "R. O'L.," in 

 Salisbury Times, 22nd Nov., 1901. 



A Salisbury Sergeant- At-Mace 140 years ago. Some account 

 of Daniel Peace, who died 16th January, 1762, reprinted from Londofi 

 Chronicle of 21st Jan., 1762, in Wilts County Mirror of 29th Nov., 1901. 



Salisbury Plain, Falconry on. Article from The Field, re- 

 printed in Marlborough Times, 19th Oct., 1901. 



Ben and Nancy Sloper's Visit to Zalsbury Vair, what 

 thay zeed, and how thay enjoyed therzelves. 



Pamphlet, cr. Bvo. Salisbury. [Edward Slow. 1901.] Pp. 30., with 

 cut of the Cathedral. In this Wiltshire dialect story Mr. Slow keeps 

 well up to the high standard of his many previous publications of the 

 same kind. 



