324 Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pam^Mets, Articles, &e. 



" woad " and " coracles," and the usual stock-in-trade of the writer and 

 illustrator of history books, when dealing with the " Ancient Britons," 

 for the descriptions are for the most part archaeologically sound and the 

 illustrations are of objects now in the Devizes Museum. It is a pity, 

 however, that in the chapter on the Romans in Britain there should 

 be an illustration of a Bulla of Pope Boniface VIII. ! 



A slip, too, occurs in the chapter on White Horses, in which one of 

 these figures is credited to Winterbourne Bassett, whereas Broad Town 

 is the place at which it exists. 



The illustrations, in addition to those of objects from the Devizes 

 Museum, include Wootton Bassett ; G. W.R. Express Engine ; Melksham ; 

 Cherhill White Horse ; Stones at Avebury ; Silbury Hill ; Stonehenge ; 

 Wansdyke ; Longleat ; Old Sarum ; Trowbridge ParishChurch ; Malmes- 

 bury Market Cross, Abbey, and High Street ; Salisbury Market Place, 

 Poultry Cross, Close Gate, Cathedral W. Front, From Palace Grounds, 

 Interior (2); Lacock Abbey; Portrait of Col. Peiiruddocke; Coate 

 Reservoir ; Swindon, High St., Regent St., and Town Hall; Bradford, 

 Saxon Church ; Calne, High Street, The Hatches, Wessington Avenue, 

 and Bacon Factory ; Chippenham, The Bridge ; Devizes Castle and 

 Market Place ; Trowbridge, Fore Street, Parish Church Interior, Town 

 Hall, &c. ; Warminster, Market Place, &c. 



Eoliths on HackpeU Hill. The Rev. H. G. O. Kendall is the 

 author of an article in Man for June, 1907, vol. vii., pp. 81—86, entitled 

 " The Case for Eoliths restated." He founds his arguments on what he 

 believes to be worked stones forming part and parcel of the drift on the 

 top of Hackpen Hill at a height of 875 feet. Some of these cannot, he 

 argues, have been carried up there and dropped by Palaeolithic men, for 

 they are abraded almost beyond recognition. How did the drift get on 

 the top of Hackpen ? Mr. Kendall argues that it can only have been 

 deposited there when the top of Hackpen was a valley bottom, i.e., when 

 the conformation of the country was entirely different from what it is 

 now, and from what we know it must have been in Palaeolithic times. 

 Therefore the worked stones found in that drift must be of a date long 

 anterior to the Palaeolithic Age. 



George Crabbe as a Botanist is the title of an article by John 

 Vaughan in The Monthly Eevieio, Feb., 1907, pp. 90—104. The writer 

 points out that Crabbe's enthusiastic love of Botany has not been 

 adequately noticed by those who have written on his works. He was 

 the first English writer distinctly to depict natural scenery, and almost 

 all his descriptions are of the neighbourhood of Aldeburgh, his birthplace. 

 He was chiefly interested in the Grasses, Sedges, and Cryptogams. He 

 even wrote an English treatise on Botany which was never published. 

 The article is an interesting one but the whole of the Botanical references 

 are concerned with the Suffolk coast. 



