302 Wiltshire Drawings, Pictures, &c. 
The Times says :—“ All serious students will commend the enterprise of 
the Clarendon Press in issuing a new edition of this famous work and in 
securing the services of so competent an Editor.” 
Noticed favourably in Birmingham Post, Scotsman, and Scottish 
Review. 
A History of Pembroke College, Oxford, anciently Broad Gates 
Hall, in which are incorporated short Historical Notices of the 
more eminent Members of this House. By Douglas Macleane, 
M.A., sometime Fellow, Lecturer, and Chaplain, formerly King 
Charles the First’s Scholar ; Rector of Codford St. Peter, Wilts. 
Pp. xvii—d44. Price £1 1s. Published by Oxford Historical Society, 
Clarendon Press. The illustrations include a portrait of William Herbert, 
Earl of Pembroke, by Vandyck. 
Guardian, Aug. 18th, 1897, says:—“A volume . . . with abundant 
learning, grace, and wit . . . we warmly congratulate the Oxford 
Historical Society and Pembroke College, as well as the author, on the 
appearance of this wholly admirable college history.” 
Favourably noticed in Times. 
Wiltshire Drawings, Pictures, Ke. 
Two Portraits painted by Romney at Ferne, in 1784, were sold at 
Christie’s, May 8th, 1897. That of Mrs. Grove, wife of Thomas Grove, 
three-quarter length, was bought by Messrs. Agnew for £3500; whilst that 
of Elizabeth, d. of John Grove, and wife of William Chafyn Grove, of 
Zeals, sold for 700 guineas. 
Stansfield’s View of Erlestoke brought 240 guineas at the sale of the 
* Abingdon Baird” collection in June, 1897. 
Malmesbury Abbey Porch. A sketch by R. G. Alexander, exhibited 
in Royal Academy, 1897. 
Richard Jefferies. A plaster bust has been recently (1897) placed in the 
National Portrait Gallery. 
F. A. Rawlence, of Wilton. A collection of his water-colour drawings of 
the Riviera and Italy were on view during June, 1897, at the Fine Art 
Society, 148, New Bond Street, London. 
Exhibition of Pictures at Salisbury. A collection of over two hundred 
oil, water-colour, and pastel pictures was open during September, 1897, at 
the Church House. A large number of Wiltshire subjects by local artists 
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