342 Recent Wiltshire Books and Articles. 
Sir J. D. Astley, the late, statuette of. St. Paul’s, Dec. 28th, 1895. 
J. M. Hayden, tenor in Salisbury Cathedral choir. Notice and portrait in 
Sunday Companion, Aug. 6th, 1897. 
Charles George Wyatt, head of the firm of Keynes, Williams, & Co., 
nurserymen, of Salisbury. Notice and portrait in Gardener's Magazine, 
quoted in Wilts County Mirror, July 16th, 1897. 
Mrs. White (Mayoress of Wilton), Gentlewoman, Nov. 27th, 1897. 
Aecent Wiltshire Pooks and Articles. 
The Popular History of Old & New Sarum. By T. J. Northy. 
Salisbury: published by the “ Wiltshire County Mirror and 
Express”? Co., Ltd., 1897. 8vo. Cloth. Pps. viii., 348, xxviii. [Price 
to subscribers, a list of whose names and addresses is given at the end, 2s. 6d. ] 
Printed first in the Wiltshire County Mirror and Express in instalments 
from April 5th, 1895, to Sept. 25th, 1896. Now revised with many additions. 
This book at once deserves notice and disarms criticism. As a well- 
conceived attempt to make the facts of the history of the capital of our 
county known and popular to its citizens, and to Wiltshiremen, it deserves 
notice and praise in these columns. On the other hand, the circumstances 
under which it was written—as a series of urticles in a Salisbury newspaper 
—have militated against its being regarded as a learned and finished 
literary effort. The writer, who has written a “ History of Exeter,” and is 
a well-known journalist on the staff of the “ Wiltshire County Mirror & 
Express,” appears to have set before himself three objects, which he has 
very fairly successfully accomplished. First, he seems to have studied 
that invaluable mine of wealth, the History of Old and New Sarum, by 
Robert Benson and Henry Hatcher, which is alike too ponderous and too 
inaccessible for the general reader. Secondly, he has gleaned from the 
journalistic resources at his command many interesting facts in the modern 
history of Salisbury since 1843, when Benson & Hatcher's work was 
published. Thirdly, from the materials before-mentioned, and others, he 
has constructed a history of the city in a thoroughly popular style. Though 
but few references are given, there are signs that Mr. Northy has tried 
to read round his subject in order to give his readers the best and latest 
