346 Recent Wiltshire Books and Articles. 
Barrow (2)—Full-size Diagrams of Skulls (3). There are also six cuts in 
the text of Flint Implements and Sections of Excavations. 
The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Davenant, D.D., 1572— 
1641, Lord Bishop of Salisbury. By Morris Fuller, B.D. London : 
Methuen & Co. Portrait. 8vo. 1897. 
Opinions differ. The Guardian, Oct. 6th, 1897, says :—“ Mr. Fuller 
; . has succeeded in giving us an accurate account of the English Church 
of that period. It was an age of theological giants, whose conversation was 
as ponderous as their erudition. They made the English Church to be 
respected in Europe . . . The age was therefore most important, if it 
was not very attractive, and Mr. Fuller has laid us under an obligation for 
the exhaustive memoir he has now made public.”” The National Church, 
July, 1897, says :— His was an honourable rather than an eventful career. 
He was not ambitious of power, but he exercised both in Cambridge and in 
his diocese a very real and salutary influence by virtue of his learning and 
high character. . . . Mr. Morris Fuller has provided those who wish to 
study the events which led up to the Great Rebellion with a very useful 
volume.” Zhe Atheneum, Sept. 4th, 1897, on the other hand, describes 
Davenant as a clumsy writer, a drearily dull preacher, a commentator who 
threw light on nothing, “a buried divine who would have been better left 
quiet in his grave,” etc., and hints very broadly that the mantle of the 
illustrious Thomas Fuller has zo¢ fallen upon his descendant Morris Fuller, 
who is as ponderous and unreadable as Davenant himself. 
Ben Sloper’s Visit to the Zalsbury Diamond Jubilee Zelebrayshun, 
what he zeed and zed about it. By the Author of Wiltshire Rhymes, 
&c. ([E. Slow.] Pamphlet. Cr. 8vo. Salisbury. (1897). Price 3d. 
Pp. 19. 
Mtr Slow gives a capital account of the Salisbury festivities, in this little 
pamphlet, and Ben Sloper tells his story well—though perhaps his dialect is 
not quite so pure as that of some of the author’s former heroes. 
The Bradford-on-Avon Pictorial Guide, to which is added “ Fifty 
~~ Years of Progress in Bradford-on-Avon.”’ 1837 to 1887. 
Printed and published by C. Rawling, Bradford-on-Avon.  4to. 
Price 1s. 2nd edition. The Guide, pp. 11. “ Fifty Years,” &c., pp. 9 
(unpaged). 
This rather inconvenient-sized guide-book begins with a description of 
the town from the Bristol Times and Mirror, and a slight sketch of its 
history. The various buildings and objects of interest in the town are then 
described—the Parish Church from notes by the late Canon Jones. The 
illustrations comprise three views of the Saxon Church (one on the cover) ; 
a frontispiece of the Parish Church; The Interior of the Hermitage, or St. 
Mary’s Chapel, Tory ; The Town Hall; the Monastic Barn; the Barton 
Bridge; The Old Chapel on the Bridge ; and a General View of the Town 
