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work of this kind than any other man now living in the county. The 

 marriage registers down to 1812, the lin)it beyond which the series does 

 not concern itself, of eight parishes are contained in this volume : — Mere, 

 Monkton Deverill, Kingston Deverill, Sherston Magna, Alderton, 

 Sopworth, Grittleton, and Leigh Delamere. 



The volumes as they appear are to be issued to subscribers only, at 

 10*. 6rf. each, and intending subscribers should communicate with Mr. 

 J. Sadler, 29, Batoum Gardens, Kensington Park, W. 



The next volume is to include the marriage registers of Marlborough. 



The value of* a work which thus practically insures the preservation of 

 the contents of the ancient registers is too evident to need pointing out. 

 It is a work which can only be carried out by the voluntary help of those 

 who have charge of, or easy access to, the various parochial registers. 

 In very many country parishes the work of carefully transcribing the 

 marriage entries from the commencement of the registers to the end of 

 the year 1812 would be by no means a very onerous one, and might well 

 be undertaken by the clergy. In this volume, for instance, the Sopworth 

 marriages only till four pages, and those of Leigh Delamere three. The 

 book is well printed on rather unnecessarily thick paper, and there is no 

 index, a fact which is thus apologised for in the preface : " This volume, 

 like all others hitherto printed in the series, is issued without an index, 

 but it is hoped that hereafter one general index to the whole series may 

 be issued, thus saving the searching and the need of consulting a multi- 

 plicity of indexes." This will certainly be an excellent thing for our 

 children's children, but it is but cold comfort for middle-aged folk of the 

 present day, who can hardly hope to live to see this desirable consum- 

 mation. 



Index to "Excavations in Cranborne Chase" and 

 King John's House, Tollard Royal," also a 

 Memoir of General Pitt Rivers, D.C.L., F.R.S., 

 and a Bibliographical List of his Works, 1858— 



1900. By Harold St. George Gray, Assistant and Secretary to the 

 late General Pitt Rivers; Curator and Assistant Secretary to the 

 Somersetshire Archaeological Society. Vol. V. of the Excavation Series, 

 pubHshed by the author at Taunton Castle, Somerset, 1905. 12Jx9f. 

 Cloth. 22*. net. pp. xliii., 52. 



This work is illustrated by three excellent photographic portraits — 

 from the life-size portrait by Frank Holl, R.A., 1882 ; from a photograph 

 taken cir. 1890; and from a painting by F. S. Beaumont, 1897. 



The author has performed a most useful work in making what he 

 claims is an exhaustive index to the great volumes which contain the 

 record of General Pitt Rivers' life's work in excavating on the borders of 

 Wilts and Dorset. These volumes have not hitherto, Mr. Gray complains, 

 been used or quoted by writers on the subject of antiquities nearly as 

 much as they should have been, and he attributes the fact to the want 

 of an adequate index which could be easily consulted. This want he has 



