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Disbanding of local forces ; Later Royalist movements in Dorset ; Finance- 

 Dorset Standing Committee and its work ; Ecclesiastical affairs. (Barnicott 

 and Pearce, Taunton. 10s. 6d. net.) 1909. 



DOESET EECORDS. (i.) The Dorset Feet of Fines, 1441-1460. (ii.) Dorset 

 Wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1700. (E. A. Fiy. 

 " Dorset Records," 124, Chancery Lane, London.) 1909. 



NELSON'S HARDY : his Life, Letters, and Friends. By A. M. Broadley and 

 R. Grosvenor Bartelot. (John Murray, London. 10s. 6d. net.) 1909. 



THE STORY OF FORD ABBhY from the earliest times to the present day. 

 By Sidney Heath and W. de C. Prideaux. Profusely illustrated with plans, 

 photographs, drawings, &c., and also reproductions of contemporary 

 drawings by Edmund Prideaux. Contents : Foundation and early history ; 

 General plan ; Church and Chapter House ; the Abbots of Ford ; Thomas 

 Chard ; the Dissolution ; Armorial bearings at Ford ; Post -Dissolution 

 owners and history ; Ford Abbey as a modern mansion ; the Prideaux 

 Pardon. (F. Griffiths, 34, Maiden Lane, London. 10s. 6d. net.) In the 



TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS AND OTHER VERSES. By Thomas Hardy. 



Contents : Time's Laughiugstocks ; Love Lyrics ; A set of Country Songs ; 



Pieces occasional and various. (Macmillan and Co., London. 4s. 6d. net.) 



1909. 

 BIRD LIFE AND BIRD LORE. By R. Bosworth Smith. Popular edition. 



(John Murray, London. 2s. 6d. net.) 1909. 

 THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BARNES, Poet and Philologist. By his daughter, 



Lucy Baxter ("Leader Scott"). This book, originally published by 



Macmillans, can now be obtained from H. G. Commin, Old Christchurch 



Road, Bournemouth. 2s. 6d. 

 A SELECTION FROM POEMS OF RURAL LIFE IN THE DORSET 



DIALECT BY WILLIAM BARNES. Edited by his son. (Kegan Paul, 



Trench, and Co., London. Is. 6d. net.) 1909. 



DORSET. By A. L. Salmon. Cambridge County Geographies series. (Cam- 

 bridge University Press. Is. 6d.) In the Press. 

 STOEIES OF OLD DOESET. By Alex. M. Luckham. (Bennett Brothers, 



Salisbury. 6d.) 

 THE BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN BAVEESTOCK KNIGHT, a Dorset Artist, 



1785-1859. By Francis Knight. (Lavell House, Moseley. 6d.) 

 WHEEE TO STAY IN THE WEST COUNTRY Dorset, Somerset, Devon, 



and Cornwall. (Homeland Association. 6d.) 1909. 



YEAR BOOK OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND LEARNED SOCIETIES of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. A record of the work done in Science, Literature, and 

 Art during the session 1907-8 by numerous Societies, Field Club., &c. 

 tC. Griffin and Co., Exeter Street, London. 7s. 6d.) 1909. 



