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from the River. They are of varying degrees of merit—some decent 
sketches and others wretched cuts. 
The “ Fifty Years of Progress,” with a Jubilee cover with Royal portraits, 
contains poor woodcuts of Ye Market Place, 1837; New Market Place, 
1887 ; The Grange; The Old Bridge; The Parish Church ; The Cemetery ; 
and Gainsborough’s Portrait of the Parish Clerk. The letterpress gives a 
list of buildings erected or restored since 1837. 
Beecham’s Photofolio, 24 Choice Photographic Views, One Penny. 
Southampton, Winchester, and Salisbury. Published by Thomas 
Beecham, St. Helen’s, Lancashire. Oblong 32mo. A pamphlet with four 
very fair process views of Salisbury Cathedral and one of the High St. Gate. 
Salisbury. Directory of Salisbury and District, published by 
Langmead & Evans, 1897-8. Price 1s. [Cloth, 2s.] Cr. 8yo, 
Pp. 248. First edition. 
This publication, of which the present is the first number, gives the usual 
information found within the covers of directories, including lists of residents 
in the city itself and in all the neighbouring parishes for six or seven miles 
round, 
Rose’s New Cycling, Touring, and Driving Road Map of Forty 
Miles about Trowbridge, with one-mile circles, showing the 
distance from Trowbridge to any part. Scale half-an-inch to a 
mile. G. W. Rose, Bookseller, Trowbridge. (1897. Price 1s.) 
21$ x 16. A very handy folding map, on strong cloth, with the main roads 
clearly shown and coloured. 
Monumental Inscriptions in Devizes Churches. The Devizes Advertiser, 
May 6th—June 17th, 1897, did an excellent work in printing the inscriptions 
on the mural tablets and monuments and ledger stones in the Churches of 
St. Mary, St. John, and St. James, Devizes. 
The White Horses of Wilts are most of them mentioned, and three of 
them illustrated from photos, in an article on “ Turf’ Monuments and what 
they mean,’ by J. R. Creed, in Pearson’s Magazine, Oct., 1897, pp. 417— 
422. The Cherril (sic), Westbury, and Marlborough Horses are those which 
figure amongst the illustrations. 
Salisbury and Stonehenge. Bright's Illustrated Guide to Bournemouth 
and Neighbourhood contains an account of Salisbury, Stonehenge, and Old 
Sarum, pp. 59—64, with good process views of the Cathedral, Stonehenge, 
and Salisbury Market Place. 
Salisbury Cathedral, its Altars and Chapels. An exceedingly valuable 
and learned paper on this subject was read by Canon Wordsworth at the 
Salisbury Meeting of the Dorset Field Club, and is printed in full in the 
Salisbury Journal, Aug. 28th, 1897, 
