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sense," he asks, " of supposing that semi-savage Britons .... would 

 go to the infinite trouble of dragging huge blocks of stone all across England 

 to be used in a building close to quarries {sic\ containing any quantity of 

 stone just as good from the builder's point of view? " He goes on to maintain 

 that uncivilised barbarians never could have erected the megalithic monuments 

 of the world — such, for instance, as the cap stone of a dolmen at Constantine, 

 in Cornwall, which, on the authority of Higgins, he tells us weighs 750 tons ! 

 The very idea he says is absurd. The only rational explanation of their origin 

 is that they are the work of the inhabitants of the lost continent of Atlantis, 

 to whom also the civilization of Yucatan on the one hand and Egypt on the 

 other owe their existence. This, so far at least as Central America is con- 

 cerned, has been, Mr. Sinnett tells us, put beyond doubt by the decipherings 

 by an American savant, Mr. E. J. Howell— of "a certain Troano MS." in 

 which " the submergence of the last piece of the now lost continent is said 

 to have taken place 8,060 years 'before the writing of this book,' and the 

 population sacrificed on that occasion is estimated as having been sixty-four 

 millions." The thanks of all persons in want of new material for " theories " 

 are certainly due to the writer of this article. 



Salisbury Museum. The Antiquary for September has a well-written 

 article, by Mr. J. Ward, F.S.A., on the Salisbury and South Wilts Museum, 

 dealing with its archseological contents ; this is followed in the October number 

 by a second article from the same pen on the Blackmore portion of the Museum, 

 calling attention to the excellence of its arrangement, as well as to the unique 

 value of the collection of stone implements housed therein. 



Castle Eaton. The August number of the Leisure Sour contains a 

 good illustrated article, entitled " Upon the Upper Thames," by Miss E. 

 Boyer-Brown, dealing with Castle Eaton and its neighbourhood and the dialect 

 of that part of Wilts. 



George Herbert and Bemerton. The sermon and lecture delivered on 

 the occasion of the recent celebration at Bemerton of the tercentenary of 

 George Herbert's birth, by Canons Kingsbury and Swayne, together with a 

 short account of Bemerton by the late J. E. Nightingale, a paper on St. 

 Andrew's Church, by C. E. Ponting, and a memoir of John Norris, Rector of 

 Bemerton, by the Rev. J. H. Overton, have been collected and published lately 

 in pamphlet form, making an interesting memorial of the tercentenary. 



Truffle Hunting'. The November number of the English Illustrated 

 Magazine has an article entitled " A Painless Hunt," descriptive of truffle 

 hunting on Salisbury Plain. 



Marlborough College is described in the September and October numbers 

 of the Ludgate Monthly Magazine, by W. C. Sargent, and the articles are 

 excellently illustrated with views of the college buildings, portraits of the 

 masters, and other subjects connected with the college. 



