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we saw some years ago on the wall of Oaksey Church. 
There are only five or six dona fide examples in England 
and Wales of this particular form of Nature-worship, 
namely, that of the female organs of reproduction, though 
there are forty in Ireland. Payne Knight in his 
“Worship of Priapus,” a singularly scarce book, gives 
several illustrations of the Sheela na Gig, identical with 
the Oaksey example, and in the third. volume of the late 
Major Forlong’s “ Faiths of Man”——alas that it has had to 
be published now by his Executors—other examples are 
noted. 
Mr Sawyer was most helpful to the Members of the 
Gloucester and Bristol Archzological Soceity when they 
visited Cheltenham last summer. As one whose book on 
the Parish Church of Cheltenham is a classic, his remarks 
upon that really lovely building were much appreciated. 
As I am upon the subject of Literature, I cannot refrain 
from mentioning that charming book by Messrs Davie and 
Guy Dawber upon the “ Cottages and Farm Houses in the 
Cotswold District.” The possession of such a book is a 
pure delight. 
“The Highways and Byways in Oxford and the 
Cotswold” by H. A. Evans—to go from a book of true 
art to a mere Guide Book—seems to me trustworthy and 
useful. i 
And with the promise not to mention any other book 
connected with the district from which we take our name 
—though sorely tempted to do so, for it seems almost 
invidious to pass over the charming description of Burford 
in Canon Hutton’s “Burford Papers,’ and Harper’s 
“ Oxford, Gloucester and Milford Haven Road,” which 
takes us through the heart of our County, and the new 
edition of Leland’s “Itinerary,” with its quaint account of 
*Ciceter—I feel bound to draw your attention to that 
-most interesting book published by Mr Ashbee, and 
