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Sevmour House, Marlborough College ; Savernake, Grand Avenue ; 

 Ramsbury • Cottage at Aldbourne ; Town Hall, Wootton Bassett ; Stones 

 atTvebu7y'(2); Malmesbury Abbey ; Lacock Street ; Salisb-y. Cathe- 

 draT Close Ga^e, and Poultry Cross ; Wilton House; Westbury White 

 Horse; and Wardour Castle. 



The book is a popular book in the best sense. History appeals to the 

 writer more than archaeology, and a local legend or a story more than 

 history. If you want to know the age and style of a bmldmg you had 

 better! as a rule, go elsewhere. If you wish for archaeological details 

 you will not find many of them here. But, on the other hand, ^^ you 

 want to be able to picture to yourself what manner of county Wiltshire 

 is, what sort of enjoyment the downland and its villages -Jiafford you 

 a^d what manner of people live in them, or, knowing these things 

 already, with the inarticulate knowledge of the native, you desue to see 

 your appreciation expressed as you cannot express it yourself, you can 

 hardly do better than expend 6. on Mr. Bradley's book. For he knows 

 Ws Wiltshire and understands it, being happily not of the number of 

 those writers who regard it as deriving its only claim to interest frorn 

 the fact that Richard Jefferies lived and wrote m it, just as they look 

 upon Dorset as only worthy of a superior person's notice because it has 

 nleased Mr. Hardy to call it " Wessex." 



^ It is indeed to be wished that that he had been a little more carefulm 

 the spelling of names and in the correction of the proofs, Mr. James 

 Waylen appears as " Wayland," and Dr. Gowland, the excavator of 

 Stonehenge,asMr."Dowland," Barbury is more than once written 

 "Barbary." Laburnum is spelt " Laburnam," and Verlucio appears in 

 one passage as " Veluccio." Stanton St. Bernard, too, is called 

 Stanton Fitzwarren. His statement of facts also are not quite 

 free from errors. The Cobham effigy at Clyffe Pypard is not made of 

 pure chalk, though other effigies in that Church are ; and Upper Upham 

 Manor House is by no means of the 15th century, but as the date still on 

 the porch shows, wholly of 1599, or later. Again, it will surprise a good 

 many people to read that the water was ^' ^/ello^o with water- 

 buttercups." But these and other such are small blemishes which can 

 easily be corrected in another edition, and the book-f or it is a book, and 

 not a series of essays-remains one which most Wiltshire folk who read 

 anything beyond novels will be charmed to read, and very many of them 

 will wish to buy and keep. It is indeed excellent reading, witha pleasant 

 sense of humour, constantly accompanying the author's remmiscences. 

 a humour which finds good points in most things, except, mdeed, m 

 Trowbridge and the deputy-sexton at BremhiU. wj.^i.:^^ 



Reviewed very favourably, Devizes Gazette, May 16th; J^*"^*'^^ 

 Advertiser (by R. D. G.), May 9th; Wilts County Mirror, May 31st; 

 wZ^e TiLs, May 11th; P.mc/. May 29th; T.P's WeeUy, May 

 17th ; Daily Chronicle, June 6th, 1907. 



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