366 Leaves from the Journal of the Poor Wiltshire Vicar. 



is a widower with two daughters, the lovely Jenny and the lively 

 Polly. The Swiss writer or printer turns Dr. Snarl into " Snart," 

 but he contrives to give us some appearance of Wiltshire sur- 

 roundings. The Vicar, "passing rich on 20 pounds a year," lives 

 in " Crekeladc." He writes to old friends at Salisbury and " J-For- 

 7/iMisi(r," and reflects that the Bishop of Salisbury, to whom he applies, 

 has three hundred and four parishes in Wilts to look after.^ The 

 Vicar has made himself responsible to Mr. Witliiel, of Trowbridge, 

 for a debt incurred by waggoner Broolce, who hangs himself. His 

 own late wife had inherited some fields in " Wootton Bassett," long 

 since sold. How Jenny comes at last to be happily married to 

 " Baronet Cecil Fayrford, who has been masquerading under the 

 name of John Flcetman as a needy strolling play-actor on his way 

 to Manchester, (just as Goldsmith would have fancied him,) and 

 whose sister, " Lady Sandum," she has unconsciously benefited, 

 the reader may discover from the fifth editioji of Elementary 

 German Fxercises, compiled by Mr. W. E. Mullins, recently 

 Assistant-Master of Marlborough College, and head of Preshute 

 House, post 8vo, Nutt, 1894, pp. 8 — 69, English translation, with 

 the German original modified for declension of the verbs by pupils 

 — or ui Chambers's Miscellany, vol. ii., No. 17 (1845), — No. 10 in 

 a later issue. 



English versions of Zschokke's Leaves from the [3Io)itJi's] Journal 

 of the Poor Wiltshire Vicar are more numerous than reprints of 

 the [Week's] Journal of a Wiltshire Curate. For of the later and 

 longer composition the following translations may beenumerated: — 



{Before 1845.) Mrs. Ellet's version, in a magazine, Philadelphia. 



1844. The Gift, published by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 

 containing a translation by an American writer (Eev. W. Furness). 



' At the present day the Bishop of Salisbury has the care of 278 parishes in 

 Wilts, but the deaneries of Cricklade and Malmesbury have been transferred 

 to the Diocese of Bristol since the days of the Poor Vicar, and other changes 

 have been made. The particularity of detail in this instance suggests, to my 

 mind, Zschokke referring to a gazetteer, rather than Goldsmith, who would 

 have made a wild shot at a round number. Bp. Setli Ward counted 291 

 churches and chapels in Wilts, about A.D. 1680. Notiiice, p. 3. But Bowen's 

 county map (1756) gives "304 Parishes," like Zschokke. 



