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Wiltshire Boois, Pamphlets, and Articles. 69 



The Rejaort of the Wiltshire Delegate, Mr. W. Weekes, of Cleverton, 



Chippenham, on Agiiou'.tural Prospects in Canada, is given in the Devizes 

 Gazette, January 4th, 1894. 



A Wiltshii-e Ballad, " Oh ! the pity of it." appears in The Pall Mall Budget 

 June 21st, 1894. 

 The Wiltshii'e rustic is made to talk of 



" Hushed glades of Heden land 

 Eose crystal spring." ! ! 



The Tendency towards Centralization in County Management. 



Edward Stanford, Cockspur Street. Reprinted from The Wiltshire Mirror. 

 A paper by Major Poore, noticed in The Guardian, August loth, 1894. 



Wiltshil'e Pictures. In the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition there was a 

 distant view of Salisbui-y Cathedral from the north-west, across the meadows, 

 by C. E. Johnson (No. 278) ; and in the New Gallery (No. 9), " Evening at 

 Stonehenge," by Frank Dillon, the sun setting behind the stones, the soil 

 sandy. 



The Grafton Gallery Exhibition of " Fair Women " included the portraits of 

 Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, by Marc Gheeraedts, lent by Lord de 

 L'Isle and Dudley ; Frances Seymour, Marshioness of Granby, d. of Charles, 

 Sixth Duke of Somerset, by Hogarth, lent -by the Duke of Rutland ; and the 

 following works of Sir Thomas Lawrence : — Eliza Farren, Countess of Derby, 

 lent by W. Beaumont, Esq. ; another of the same, lent by the Earl of Wilton ; 

 Mrs. Fraser, lent by Col. Mackenzie Eraser ; Georgina Lennox, Countess 

 Bathurst, lent by Earl Bathurst ; Jane Elizabeth Digby, Lady EUenborough, 

 lent by Alfred Morrison, Esq. ; Mrs. Locke, lent by Lady Walsingham ; 

 Harriet Maria Day, lent by A. Smith Wright, Esq. ; " Charity," lent by H. 

 Samuel, Esq. 



Obituaky Notices. 

 Mr. Alec Taylor. The Devizes Gazette, September 20th, 1894, had a notice 

 of this well-kuown trainer of racehorses, who died at Manton on September 

 13th. A notice from The Sportsman is also quoted. 



George William Thomas Brudenell Bnice, fourth Marquis of Ailesbury, 

 died April 10th, 1894. Born 1863. Succeeded his grandfather — the third 

 marquis — in 1886. (He was the son of George John Brudenell Bruce and 

 Evelyn Mary, second daughter of the Earl of Craven). Obituary notices 

 appeared in the Daily Telegraph, The Star, St. James's Gazette, Devizes 

 Gazette, Wilts County Mirror, and other papers. He never took his seat 

 in the House of Lords, and leaves no children. 



Rev. Richard Haking, Mus. Doc. A short in memoriam notice in The 

 Guardian, September 19th, 1894, by F. A. J. H. Mr. Haking was best 

 known as an accomplished musician. He published several pieces of Church 

 music. He was Vicar of Rodbourne Cheney, Wilts, 1862—73 ; Rector of 



