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



Wilton and the Pembroke family, March, 1905, p. 41 ; both with re- 

 productions of old views; Eoad Hill House (two views, from prints), 

 in connection with the Eoad Murder of 1860, March and April, 1907, 

 pp. 35, 47 ; Stourton, with view from old print of the Lake, Jan., 1908, 

 p. 11 ; Wardour Castle and Lady Blanche Arundell, April, 1908, pp. 47, 48, 

 with reproduction of old print of " S. E. View of Wardour Castle." 



Avebury. The Excursion of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological 

 Society in 1907, to Marlborough, Piggle Dean, Aveburj', and Silburj-, is 

 described in their Transactions, xxx., 44 — 48, with illustrations of 

 " Sarsen Stones, Piggle Dean," " Stones of the Great Circle, Avebury," 

 "Ditch and Kampart, Avebury," "Font, Avebury Church." 



Tockenham. An article in Our Land, July, 1908, pp. 170—175 

 entitled " The Country Parson," deals with the Rev. W. H. Hewlett 

 Cooper's plan for the co-ordination of social and educational work in the 

 villages, and is illustrated with five photographs of Tockenham. 



Thirty years Afloat and Abroad. True Experiences 



of a Wiltshire Lad. By T. SkUSe. Price Sixpence. 

 1908. Wiltshire Times, Trowbridge. ['2nd Edition.] 



Pamphlet, 7^in. X 4Jin., pp. 80. Portrait of author on cover. 



The author, a native of Pickwick, in the parish of Corsham, the son 

 of a shepherd, worked in a S. Wales coal mine, ran away, joined the 

 Navy, deserted, served on various merchant ships, on the American and 

 African coasts, spent some time working on farms in the neighbourhood 

 of San Francisco, invariably drank the money he earned everywhere, 

 wandered from place to place, lost a hand as a railway man in the States, 

 acted as deputy constable, dug for gold, hawked books, and returned to 

 England in 1902. Each chapter ends in a moral or religious reflection. 



" Salisbury Cathedral, Last Sunday's Services, Sermons by 

 Canon Bankes and Canon Edgar N. Thwaites," is the four-page supple- 

 ment to The Record, August 7th, 1908. There are four good illustrations 

 of the Cathedral : " From the Meadows," " The Nave looking East," " The 

 Choir looking West," and " From the Close," with good portraits of the 

 Bishop, the Dean, and Canon E. N. Thwaites. 



Wiltshire Archseological Society's Meeting at 



Salisbury, July 15th— 17th, 1908. The papers read at the 

 Meeting : — " Notes on a Romano-British Midden at Rainscombe," by 

 B. H. Cunnington ; " Longford Castle and its Owners," by E. 0. P. 

 Bouverie ; " The Saxon Boundaries of Downton," by the Rev. A. D. 

 Hill; "The Mollusca of Wiltshire," by the Rev. R. E. Thomas; and 

 " Cerdic's Landing-Place, Wilton as the Ancient Capital of Wessex," 

 by the Rev. Geoffry Hill; are printed in Salisbury Journal, July 18th. 

 The fullest account of the excursions appeared in Wilts County Mirror, 

 July 17th and 24th, 1908. 



