364 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



The Wiltshire Times, August 30th, had an article, " Stonehenge as it 

 was and as it is," with three cuts showing the barbed wire fence and 

 entrance turnstile— the writer maintaining that "as it is "it is a great 

 improvement on the former state of things when the stones were besieged 

 by picnic parties, and carriages and ginger-beer bottles were the principal 

 objects in the view. 



Sir Robert Hunter is the author of an article in " The Nineteenth 

 Century" for September, partly reprinted in the Wilts County Mirror, 

 Sept. 5th, abusing the antiquaries who suggested the enclosure. " To 

 such men as those who would treat Stonehenge as a mere curiosity to 

 be boxed up, examined, and ticketed — it is due that the study of antiquities 

 has been voted a dreary science." He then proceeds to deal with the 

 history of the enclosure and the question of the right of access. He 

 maintains the right of the public to traverse the tracks which have been 

 been blocked by the wire fence, but as Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice's 

 statement to the County Council appears to point to a renewal of 

 negociations for purchase he trusts that the question may be settled in 

 that way. 



Stonehenge, Guide to, by Lady Antrobus, 2nd Edition, 1902, has 

 three more pages of letterpress and two new illustrations, " The Finds," 

 and " The Work of Eaising the Stone." 



The Salishury Journal, March 1st, 1902, in the course of a short 



review of the " Stonehenge Bibliography" number of the Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., whilst praising Mr. Harrison's work as " remarkably full and 

 of great value," remarks : — " The only contemporary description 

 quoted of the fall of the great trilithon at Stonehenge in the year 1797 

 is that of an anonymous writer in the Gentleman's Magazine. An 

 earlier account of that catastrophe, however, was published in the 

 Salisbury and Winchester Journal of January 16th, 1797, and took 

 the form of two narratives by persons who had visited Stonehenge 

 shortly after the trilithon fell." 



Crabbe as a Parish Priest, by w. h. Hutton, is a good article 



in The Guardian, Aug. 6th, 1902. 



" The Artillery Season on Salisbury Plain, what the 



practice is like." Article in Pall Mall Gazette, April 15th ; quoted in 

 Salisbury Journal, April 19th, 1902. 



Chandler Family of wilts. The North WHts BeraU, August 15th, 

 1902, under an obituary notice of Mr. John Chandler, of Swindon, notices 

 a " Bicentennial Re-union in America of 1200 of the members of the 

 family, out of the 3000 who claim in some way to be descendants of the 

 George and Jane Chandler who, as Quakers, left their home in Wiltshire, 

 " Great-hodge," presumably somewhere in the Pewsey Valley, in 1687, 

 and emigrated to America. 



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