448 Recent Wiltshire Books, PnmiMets, Articles, &c. 



was not sold), 210 guineas. A high-back arm chair, tetn^). Ch. II., made 

 30 guineas. 



A good account of the sale in Wilts County Mirror, May 25th, 1906. 



StOnelieUgCe. An article on "The Case of Attorney-General y. Antrobus " 

 in Evening Standard, reprinted in Wiltshire Advertiser, April 27th, 

 1905, praises Sir Edmund Antrobus's efforts for the preservation of the 

 monument. It states that up to January 1st, 1905, ^£980 had been taken 

 at the gate, and £960 had been expended on the care of the stones and 

 the payment of caretakers. 



"The French StOUeheUg'e. An account of the Principal Megalithic 

 Eemains in the Morbihan Archipelago, by T. Cato Worsfold . . . 2nd 

 Edition, London, Bemrose & Sons." n.d. 1905 '? 



Cloth, 9|in X 6:^in., pp. 44, with 3 pp. of index. A book useful as 

 a sketchy guide, and for the sake of the good illustrations it provides. 

 The author devotes pp. 29 — 35 to a short comparison of Stonehenge and 

 Avebury with Carnac, and gives prints of Stonehenge, and of "Avebury 

 Kestored," with photos of " Temple Stones, Avebury " (j.e., the Cove of 

 the Northern Circle), and " Remains of the Southern Inner Circle and 

 Outer Circles." 



Stonehenge and other British Stone Monuments 



Astronomically considered. By sir Norman Lockyer, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S. London: Macmillan, 1906. 



9in. X 6in., pp. xii. + 820, with sixty-five illustrations. 



This is a difficult work to express an opinion on. The astronomical 

 theory of Stonehenge is, of course, by no means a new one. Under 

 various forms, indeed, it has been with us almost as long as any theory 

 of the origin of the structure, but probably this is the first time that an 

 accomplished astronomer has really set to work to prove the theory, and 

 this consideration makes the book one to be reckoned with. On the 

 other hand the author does not claim to be an archceologist in the ordinary 

 sense of the word. He does not work with the tools of the archseologist. 

 The implements of bronze and stone, the pottery, the human remains, 

 that mean so nmch to the latter, are hardly mentioned in this book at 

 all. The astronomical test is applied first of all to certain megalithic 

 monuments, Stonehenge, the Brittany alignments, Stanton Drew, The 

 Hurlers, the Dartmoor avenues, &c. If they answer to the test they • 

 are taken to prove the theory, if they do not— as many of the Dartmoor 

 avenues do not — they are set aside with the remark that these particular 

 structures were doubtless built for other than astronomical purposes. 

 And then, having secured, as he believes, the support of a suflicient 

 number of circles, avenues, and dolmen^, to establish his theory, the 

 author sets forth on an extended journey through the wide realms of 

 folk-lore and legend, picking up anything that he can find in the way of 

 custonrs and survivals which point to fire or stone or well worship, 

 which in any way lend countenance to his theory by proving the 



