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months, so that the truffle-man has to fall back upon hurdle-making or labourer's 

 work during great part of the year. The best hunting-ground is under beech 

 trees in a wood of from twenty to forty years' growth, and the dogs used are 

 half-bred poodles. 



Malmesbury Abbey. A descriptive article, by R. W. Paul, on the building 

 is given in The Builder of March 2nd, 1895, well illustrated by a good process 

 reproduction of a fine old engraving of the south porch (said to be by Le Keux, 

 but which appears really to be that engraved by Basire for the Society of 

 Antiquaries), reproductions of good pencil drawings of the south side and of 

 the interior, by A. Needham Wilson, with ground-plan and smaller drawings 

 of a view in the south aisle, the carvings on the rood-screen, King Athelstan's 

 tomb, the watching loft, and armorial tiles, by R. W. Paul. A list of the 

 sculptures of the south porch, made in 1634, is reprinted from " Brayley's 

 Graphic and Historical Illustrator." 



Littlecote. The Rev. A. H. Malan contributes to the May number of the 

 Pall Mall Magazine a pleasantly-written chatty article on Littlecote, 

 discussing shortly the evidence for and against the traditional stories of Wild 

 Darrell and Judge Popham, and describing the house and its contents. The 

 paper is lavishly illustrated with excellent photo half-tone plates of the Hall, 

 the Dutch Parlour, and the Room used by William of Orange, and with sketches 

 of the House from the Ramsbury Road, the North and South Fronts, the 

 Wings at the West End, Staircase, Hall, Haunted Chamber, the Judge's Chair 

 and Thumb-stocks, the Silver Mace of Charles the First's Life Guards and 

 Greybeard Jug, the Long Gallery, the Tulip Trees, and the portraits of 

 Nell Gwynne, Chief Justice Popham, Lord Burleigh, Anne Dudley, and the 

 Spanish Lady. 



Richard Jefferies. No. III. of the " Poet Naturalists," by W. H. Jupp, in 

 Great Thoughts, March 23rd and 30th, 1895 ; and " Nature and Lternity," 

 in Longman's Magazine, May, 1895 {vide page 166 of this number of Wilts 

 Arch. Mag.). 



Woodbridge House, Potteme. The Devizes Gazette, April 25th, 1895, 

 has a letter giving an account of a curious ghost story connected with this 

 house — the scene of the recent murder. 



Salisbury Palace. An article on this subject appears in the Sunday Magazine 

 for February and March, pp. 118—123, 188—193. It is well illustrated by 

 the following views, reproduced from excellent pen drawings by Alexander 

 Ansted:— the Terrace Walk, Beauchamp Tower, Bishop's Entrance to the 

 Cloisters, the Original Portion of the Palace, the old and new Front Doorways, 

 the Palace and Cathedral from the south, the Undercroft, the Interior of the 

 Chapel and the North Front. The letterpress— one of the last works undertaken 

 by the Rev. Precentor Venables before his death— is, it is hardly necessary to 

 add, whether dealing with the architecture or the history of the Palace, at 

 once accurate and interesting. 



