204 Recent Books, Pamphlets, Articles, §c., on Wiltshire Matters. 
it is difficult to see what bearing the question of its age can have in any 
way upon the date of Stonehenge, if the general mass of the barrows are 
ruled out of court, as Mr. Barclay rules them out, as having nothing to do 
with “the Temple,” and as being themselves of “ unknown age.” Altogether 
we do not seem to get much forwarder from the study of Mr. Barclay’s 
answers to his critics. 
Establishment of a Village Council and a Small Freehold Colony 
at Winterslow. The Landholders’ Court. Price Sixpence. Printed 
and published by the Salisbury Times Co. 8vo. N.D. [1894] Pp. 12. 
This pamphlet gives an account of the extremely interesting experiment 
of Major Poore at Winterslow, in the formation of a representative Parish 
Council—before the passing of the Local Government Act—and the 
establishment of a colony of freeholders cultivating their own land and 
governed by a “ Landholders’ Court.” 
Gleams of Sunshine in Dark Corners of Dorset and Wilts. What 
can Dorset and Wilts do in regard to Darkest England? 8vo 
pamphlet. Salisbury. 1896. Pp. 15. 2nd thousand. [By Rathmell G. 
Wilson.] With three process illustrations :— Our Toy Makers at Work,” 
“Toys made in Dorset and Wilts,’ and “Spare Time Exhibition at 
Dorchester, 1896.” This pamphlet, by the Secretary of the C.E.T.S. in the 
Diocese of Salisbury, sets forth the objects aimed at and the work done by 
that society, with special reference to the ‘‘ Spare Time Movement,” which 
proposes to give employment in the evenings to the men and boys of agri- 
cultural districts in making home-made toys. 
The Sarum Office Book. Primes and Hours (with other Services) 
for the use of Sarum Theological College). London: John Hodges, 
1897. 3/- nett. Pp. xxii., 132. Preface by the Bishop. 
Life and Work of Bishop Richard Poore. A valuable lecture at St. 
Edmund’s, Salisbury, by Mr. A. R. Malden, reported in Wiltshire County 
Mirror, April 2nd, 1897, in which he makes the interesting suggestion 
that the old quarries of Downshay, in the parish of Worth Maltravers, in 
the Isle of Purbeck, are those which furnished the Purbeck marble for 
Salisbury Cathedral, the manor of Worth Maltravers having then belonged 
to Alice Bruer, the donor of the marble. 
The Stourhead Collection in the Wiltshire Archzological Society’s 
Museum at Devizes. Article by the Rev. E. H. Goddard describing the 
principal objects in the collection, with 52 illustrations (from the Stourhead 
Catalogue). Reliquary and Illustrated Archeologist, Jan., 1897, pp. 
20—36. 
Malmesbury, the Old Corporation. An interesting account of the ancient 
system of municipal government, from the “Report on the Municipal 
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