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Early Days of Marlborough College. Amongst the books apparently 

 called into existence by the occurrence of the Jubilee of Marlborough College 

 in 1893 is " The Early Days of Marlborough College, or Public School 

 Life between forty and fifty years ago, to which is added a Glimpse of 

 old Haileybury ; Patna during the Mutiny ; a Sketch of the Natural 

 History of the Riviera ; and Life in an Oxfordshire Village : by Edward 

 Lockwood, Indian Civil Service (retired), author of 'The Natural Historj 

 of Mongliyr.' Illustrated. London. 1893." Square 8vo. 



The author appears to have had but a poor time at Marlborough, and 

 he takes advantage of every opportunity that offers to talk about anything 

 else in heaven or earth rather than Marlborough. The book is plentifully 

 besprinkled with illustrations, but what the mammoth which meets us on 

 p. 4, or the " Skeleton of a Fish Lizard," or the Andalusian Quail, or the 

 Roller, or the Spanish Bull Fight have to do with Marlborough or its 

 College it is difficult for anyone but the author to say. 



Stonelienge, by the Eev. E. H. Goddard, forms part of the M. Handbook 

 to Woodhouse Park, London, and the full-sized model of " Stonehenge as it 

 was," therein erected, opened to the public on May 19th, 1894. Its twenty- 

 eight pages contain, as concisely as possible, the chief facts as to the history 

 of the structure ; the various theories of its origin and use ; the petrology of 

 its stones ; the means by which they were worked and erected ; the barrows 

 and cursus ; and the arguments for the different dates to which it has been 

 assigned. 



The "Origin of Stonehenge" by Struthio (H. W. Estridge, Minety 

 . House, Malmesbury), price &d., is not an archaeological treatise, but a small 

 pamphlet of thirteen pages containing an imaginative story of the last 

 Emperor of Atlantis and his wife, as a mysterious memorial of whose 

 greatness Stonehenge was set up, just before the general submergence of the 

 empire. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 4, for December, 1893, contains a 

 short account of Marshwood House, Dinton, with an illustration, by A. W. 

 Whatmore ; seven pages of Wiltshire Folk Lore ; jottings of various kinds ; 

 The Hyde Family and Trowbridge ; children's games — none of which, 

 however, seem to have any special connection with Wiltshire ; several extracts 

 from Britton's Beauties, Waylen's History of Marlborough, Sec, and old 

 Magazines ; seven pages of queries, and fourteen of replies — some containing 

 matter of considerable genealogical and historical interest. 



No. 5, March, 1894, has a photo of the Westbury White Horse as a 

 frontispiece, with a short account of it ; genealogical notes on Dugdale of 

 Wilts, by Mr. A. Schomberg ; and a continuation of " Children's Games " — in 

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