Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 67 



Report on Experiments with Potatoes and Onions in "Warminster 

 and District, 1893. 4to ; wrapper. London. 1894. Price 1*. Is pub- 

 lished by the Technical Education Committee of the Wilts County Council, 

 and consists of 32 pages recording the results of elaborate investigations into 

 the value of different manures, the best methods of checking disease, and the 

 varieties of ])otato best suited to different soils and circumstances, &c. The 

 analyst's reports are by J. M. H. Munro, and the general report by E. S. Beaven 

 and E. H. Smith. It is illustrated by a good plate of six micro-photographs 

 of the organisms which are responsible for the potato disease. Noticed in 

 Salisbury Journal, March 24th, 1894. 



Salisbury Cathedral. In Messrs. Cassell's " Cathedrals, Abbeys and 

 Churches of England and Wales," 4to, an article of 7 pages, by H. T. 

 Armfield, is devoted to Salisbury. This, though written in a popular form, 

 is by no means of the ordinary " handbook " type, but is full of valuable 

 suggestions and criticisms — as to the original position of the high altar — the 

 different effect of the polychrome decorations in ancient times and at present 

 — and other like points. The article is illustrated by an excellent full-page 

 photo-print of the Palace and Cathedral from the Palace grounds, and by four 

 other decent woodcuts in the letterpress. 



Poems in Pint. By W. Phillpotts Williams, Master and Huntsman of the 

 Netton Harriers. Cr. 8vo, cloth, pp. 79. Salisbury, Brown & Co. ; London, 

 Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. Price 5*. This volume contains some thirty 

 pieces, of which the majority are hunting ballads. Many of them have 

 already appeared in Bailey's Magazine, Land and Water, The Sportsman, 

 and The Country Gentleman — others are printed here for the first time. 



A favourable review of the book appeared in the Salisbury Journal for 

 September 22nd, 1894. 



Truffle Himting. The Standard of October 6th, 1894, contains an article 

 descriptive of the process of hunting for truffles with dogs — with special 

 reference to the neighbourhood of Winterslow and Salisbury. English truffles 

 we are told are worth about 2*. 6c?. per lb., and the counties in which they 

 most abound are Wilts, Hants, and Dorset. 



Winterslow is again brought into notice by a long article iu the Pall Mall 

 Gazette of September 20lh, 1894, on Major Poore's extremely interesting 

 experiment there in the sale or lease of plots of land to small holders. 

 This article has been reproduced by many of the count\" papers. 



Downton. An article from The Agricultural Gazette on the College of 

 Agriculture at Downton, by H. E., is noticed in the Salisbury Journal, 

 February 24th, 1894. 



Marlborough. Great Public Schools, published by Edward Arnold, London, 

 1893 — 6*. — contains an illustrated article on Marlborough College. 



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