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achieve something not common. Oddly enough, there is no poet in 

 England except Goldsmith who appeals to simple people so much as 

 Moore." " But Moore's importance in the history of literature lies in 

 his connexion not with English but with Irish literature." " In Ireland 

 his poetry is still, as a matter of course, familiar to all Irishmen of the 

 Nationalist persuasion, young and old, and for the older men he has lost 

 none of his magic— they remember the days when many and many 

 an Irish peasant, leaving his country for the New World, carried with 

 him two books — Moore's Melodies and the £ei/ of Heaven. And certainly 

 it is no small title to fame for a poet that he was in his own country for 

 at least three generations the delight and consolation of the poor. 

 Tattered and thumbed copies of his poems, broadcast through Ireland, 

 represent better his claim to the interest of posterity' than whatever 

 comely and autographed editions may be found among tlie possessions o^ 

 Bowood and Holland House." 



Favourably reviewed Guardian, April 5th ; Monthly Review, March 

 (pp. 138 = 141), 1905. 



Thomas Moore. The nevizes Gazette, March 16th, 1905, prints a 

 letker from the Rev. A. S. Hartigan, Curate of Bromham, another from 

 the Secretary of the Committee, and a leading article from the Freeman's 

 Journal, dealing with the proposed erection of a Celtic cross over the 

 grave at Bromham, and the further proposal to remove the remains of 

 the poet from Bromham to Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. 



The Standard, May 1st, 1905, had a leading article on Moore's position 

 as a poet, in reference to the proposal to erect a memorial to him in Dublin. 



Neolithic Dew Ponds and Cattle Ways, by A. J, 

 and G. H. Hubbard. Longmans. 1905. Thin 4to- 



This book, though primarily connected with Cissbury and Chanctonbury 

 Camps, in Sussex, contains also amongst its numerous photographic 

 illustrations live Wiltshire views — and M'hat the authors say of dew 

 ponds and cattleways in Sussex applies, of course, also to Wiltshire. 

 Their theory is that the camps on the downs were not merely refuges in 

 time of war, but were regularly occupied, and that the cattle were driven 

 into them for safety from wolves, &c., at night, and that many of the 

 deep trenches and hollow ways seen on the sides of the downs below 

 and leading up to the camps were not intentionally formed but are the 

 cattle tracks worn by constant usage between the camps and the valley 

 below. They believe that some at least of the dew ponds are of Neolithic 

 date, and that it was by means of them that the camps were supplied 

 with water. As to the formation of dew ponds the authors say : — " We 

 are not aware that the thermo dynamics of a dew pond have ever been 

 elucidated, and it is evident that this cannot be done until the construction 

 of such a pond is understood. There is still in this country at least one 

 wandering gang of men who will construct for the modern farmer a 

 pond which in any situation in a sufficiently dry soil, will always contain 

 water, more in the heat of summer than during the winter rains. This 

 water is not derived from springs or rainfall, and is speedily lost if even 



