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Recent Books, Pamphlets, Articles, §c., on Wiltshire Matters, 199 
there has been no guide to the Cathedral which is at once cheap and good— 
but now the visitor to Salisbury can buy for one shilling and sixpence a 
guide book in which he will find the information contained in the large and 
expensive works of Hatcher, Britton, Dodsworth, Price, and others most 
carefully boiled down for his consumption. It is, in fact, an admirable 
little book. The casual tourist will find in it just as much as he wants to 
know of the history of the Building and the Bishops and the See, and may 
rest secure, as he takes it for his guide round the Cathedral, the Cloisters, 
and the Chapter House, that no feature of interest—whether ancient or 
modern in its origin—will escape his notice, and that the information which 
he derives from its pages is thoroughly accurate and up to the level of 
modern architectural and antiquarian knowledge. Even the professed 
student of architecture will find very little indeed that is not accurately 
described and commented on with knowledge, and in cases of doubt—such 
as the attribution of the various monuments—the views pro and con are 
shortly and carefully stated and the authorities by which they are supported 
are given, The title on the cover, “ The Cathedral and City,” is somewhat 
misleading, for Old Sarum has to be content with four pages and New Sarum 
with only one, A singular slip, too, occurs on p. 35, where “the grey colour 
of the stone roof” is spoken of; and the present great work of repair on 
the spire is not mentioned : but otherwise the book is a model of what such 
books should be, and the visitor to Salisbury cannot do better than arm 
himself with it forthwith. 
It contains the following illustrations :—Salisbury from an old print, the 
Cathedral from the South, Cathedral and Bell Tower, West Front, one Bay 
of Nave, Corbel, Plan, Nave, Interior Bay of Nave, N. Aisle, Nave Transept, 
Choir looking East, Portion of Old Organ Screen, Piscina, 8. Choir Aisle, 
Chantry of Bp. Bridport, Bay of Chapter House, Interior of Chapter House, 
Carvings of Chapter House, Cloisters, One Bay of Cloisters, Doorway in 
East Cloister, Cloisters looking North, Old Rings, Hanging Parapet on 
Close Wall, Death and the Gallant, Hungerford Chapel, Stained Glass, 
Bishop Poore’s Monument, Bishop Bingham’s Monument. 
Noticed in Notes and Queries, Jan. 23rd, and Salisbury Journal, Jan. . 
23rd, 1897. 
Salisbury Cathedral, by the Very Rev. G. D. Boyle, M.A., Dean 
of Salisbury. Tlustrated by Alexander Ansted. London: 
Isbister & Co. mpcccxcvir. 12mo. Pp. 65. [Price 1/-] 
This dainty little booklet, dressed in white, does not enter into competition 
with the handbook noticed above. It is really a reprint of two articles 
written by the Dean for The Sunday Magazine, in which he discourses 
pleasantly of the history of the Cathedral and its main characteristics, merely 
touching here and there on the architectural details of the structure and 
the monuments, dwelling rather on the constitution and work of the Chapter, 
the various worthies connected with it, the parts which the successive 
Bishops took in the events of the times in which they lived, and their 
influence on the work of the Cathedral body. The illustrations are from 
charming pen drawings, and altogether, without pretending in any way to 
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