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Type, paper, and binding alike reflect high credit upon the puhlishers, while 

 the compiler's share of the work is no less well done. The selections are en- 

 tirely from the Story of My Heart and the five or six other volumes which 

 are comprised in the " Life of the Fields " cycle, nothing published earlier than 

 1883 being included. They are, however, made with much judgment, and 

 form a fairly representative anthology, as the earlier works are in a style which 

 would afford few passages suitable for such a collection of " Thoughts " as this. 

 The book has been favourably noticed in Saturday Review, 3rd Aug. ; 

 Notes and Queries, 21st Sept., 1895 ; and other papers. 



The Old Mcanor-House, South Wraxall. Pamphlet. 8vo. Bath. 1893. 

 Price Is. (By Walter Chitty, F.S.Sc.) This is intended as a popular 

 description of the house, with notes on the Longs of Wraxall and Draycot, 

 and a long notice of the present owner— Mr. W. H. Long, M.P.— is reprinted 

 from the Country Gentleman. An election poem—" Ye Grande Political 

 Songe " ; and " The Pedigree of Walter Hume Long, Esq., M.P., done in 

 poetry "—twenty-eight stanzas of very indifferent doggrel— complete the 

 pamphlet. 



The Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Eegiment. A little pamphlet 

 giving an outline of the history of this distinguished regiment has been printed 

 for H.M. Stationery Office by Messrs. Harrison & Sons. Its object is stated 

 to be " to interest the inhabitants of this county in the corps which represents 

 their share in the defence of the Empire." 



Report of the Marlborough College Natural History Society for 

 the year ending Christmas, 1894. 



This report, though it contains nothing of very special interest, is a record 

 of steady and excellent work in many branches of natural history done by the 

 vigorous society of which it is the organ. The number of school members in 

 the three terms with which it deals were, one hundred and seventy-one, two 

 hundred and fifteen, and one hundred and sixty-nine respectively, in addition 

 to thirty-one life members and forty-seven annual subscribers. 



The report of the botanical aud entomological sections show that three 

 hundred and sixty-seven species of flowers were found, including grasses, in 

 1894, and the list of local lepidoptera has now reached a total of one thousand 

 and twenty-three species. This excellent entomological work, carried on under 

 Mr. Meyrick's guidance, is the more important inasmuch as it is the only work 

 of the kind of any importance that is being done at the present time in the 

 county. , 



A series of careful meteorological observations, together with the anthropo- 

 metrical report of the height, weight, chest measurement, and drawing power 

 of the members of the school are carefully tabulated. Perhaps the most in- 

 teresting part of the report is the " Handbook to the Museum " — not a 

 catalogue, but a really useful, short, pithy, accurate, and yet quite intelligible 

 and readable compendium of natural history, by way of an introduction to the 

 study of the excellent museum, a process plate of which forms the frontispiece. 



