334 Recent Wiltshire Books, PamjMets, and Articles. 



associations of the place are treated cleverly ; naturally nothing can be 

 fully gone into within the space of 35 pages, but many things are 

 suggested, and suggested, too, in a really readable way, and this is not 

 an easy thing to compass. If the title had been " A Popular Guide to 

 the History of Devizes," it would more nearly have expressed the scope 

 of the work — for the " District " comes in merely as a very small tag-end. 

 The author's picturesque style and flowing pen run away with him 

 occasionally, as when he speaks of heather as being one of the char- 

 acteristic glories of the Downs ! of the " few urns," &c., found in Silbury 

 Hill; of the " Shrapnell" used in the Civil War; or the " string of 

 mattresses" used for match during the siege (when surely he meant bed 

 cords) ; but on the whole he has put together, in a form in which they 

 can be read with pleasure, an immense number of allusions, whilst the 

 valuable description of the existing state of the town in 1859 given in 

 the Deoixes Seqister of that date, is reprinted, and supplies much definite 

 information not to be found elsewhere in the pamphlet. That it does 

 not supply all the information that everyone may desire is evident from 

 the fact that the only notice of the Museum is this: "The County 

 Museum in Long Street is open every day." 



The Alabaster Panel, of the Adoration of the Magi, found in a 

 garden under the Castle Hill, at Mere, about forty-five years ago, and 

 now preserved in the Church museum, is the subject of a good note, 

 illustrated with a photo, by Rev. J. A. Lloyd, F.S.A., Vicar of Mere, in 

 The Antiquary, Jan., 1906, vol. II. N.S., pp. 26, 27. 



Salisbury, The old George House, High street, one of the 



oldest houses in Salisbui'y; an account of the outbreak of a fire which 

 was got under owing to the old oak beams refusing to burn, is given in 

 Salisbury Journal, March 31st, 1906. 



Records of the Manor of Durrington, Wilts, by 



T. F. Kirby. Archceologia, LIX., pp. 75 — 82. Illustrated by plate of 

 six seals from charters of the manor of Durrington, in possession of 

 Winchester College. 



BOWOOd: Article in Bath Argus, by J. F. Meehan, reprinted in Fishing 

 Gazette, Nov. 4th, 1905, p. 324, with one illustration from an old print. 



Salisbury and West Harnham Charities Enquiry. 



Reported, Salisbury Journal, Feb. 10th; and Wilts County Mirror, 

 Feb. 9th and 16th, 1906. 



Dauntsey Church, account of the Re-Openlng on Feb. 8th, 1906, 

 after restoration by Mr. H. Brakspear, and of the work done, Devizes 

 Gazette, Feb. 15th, 1906. 



Index to Fitt Rivers' Excavations in Cranborne 



Chase> Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 17th, 1905. 



