510 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



which had been closed to Wiltshire writers since the days of Aubrey, has 

 been most happily placed at the command of all future enquirers into 

 the family history of Wiltshire. The accuracy of the text has been 

 doubly secured by the kindness of Mr. C. T. Flower, of the Record 

 Office, who has collated the whole of the printed proofs with the 

 original MS. The Editor gives us a sufficient introduction dealing 

 with Thomas Tropenell, his family and his house, and then in each 

 volume provides a most valuable " Summary of contents," giving very 

 shortly the object and purpose of each deed printed in the text. His 

 index, too, is excellent, every name mentioned in the text seems to be 

 given in it, as it should be, and the whole index is in one. Too often 

 in genealogical books even now that old fashioned nuisance the index 

 in two or even three parts, '■' Nominum" and ''Locorum," exists to worry 

 readers. The book is well printed and got up, and is altogether a 

 notable addition to the topographical literature of the county. It is 

 a happy conjuncture that at the same time that the long-lost MS. 

 itself finds it way back to W^iltshire as the property of Mr. W. Reward 

 Bell, its contents should be made available as they are in these volumes 

 to all Wiltshire genealogists. Mr. Davies is to be congratulated on the 

 way in which he has completed his onerous labour of love. 



Wilton House Pictures by Captain Nevile R. 

 Wilkinson, Coldstream Guards. With an intro- 

 duction by the Earl of Pembroke and Mont- 

 gomery. 



Two vols., large square quarto, 15 jin. X 13|in. Seventy-five full page 

 photogravure reproductions of pictures. Price 12 guineas net. 300 

 copies printed. 1907. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press. 



Times Literary Supplement, December 19th, 1907, says, " Captain 

 Nevile Wilkinson, son-in-law of Lord Pembroke, has proved himself 

 qualified to produce a thoroughly satisfactory descriptive catalogue of 

 the famous collection at Wilton House. He has prepared a careful 

 catalor/ue raiso7ine of all the three hundred and twenty pictures, with 

 here and there a full excursus on the more important works, such as the 

 Wilton diptych and the great family piece by Vandyck. Lord Pembroke 

 himself, in a short introduction, gives a general account of the formation 

 of the collection, and incidentally explains his reasons for no longer lending 

 his pictures to Burlington House or other exhibitions, the principal cause 

 of this change of policy being that the house is open one daj' a week to 

 all the world and that it is better for students to be sure of finding the 

 pictures in situ." 



In addition to the unique fourteenth century portrait of Richard II. 

 and his patron saints, and the magnificent Herbert family by Vandyck, 

 there are authentic and important examples of Hugo van der Goes, Lucas 

 van Leyden, Lorenzo Lotto, Jan van Scorel, Giulio Romano, Rubens, 

 Rembrandt, Primaticcio, Lely, Kneller, Beechey, and nine portraits by 

 Sir Joshua Reynolds. Besides giving a full description and criticism of 



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