SOME RECENT BOOKS, &c. 



OLD ENGLISH HOUSES OF ALMS. A pictorial record with architec- 

 tural and historical notes by Sidney Heath. (Francis Griffiths, 24, Maiden 

 Lane, London 21s. net.) 1910. Plates of the following Dorset examples 

 are given : Beaminster Ahnshouses ; Nnpper's Mite, Dorchester ; 

 Milton Abbas Ahnshouses ; Hospital of SS. John, Sherlorne ; 

 S. Margaret's Hospital, Wimborne. 



FEET OF FINES FOR DORSET. Edward III. to Richard 111. 

 (1327 1485). With an index names and places, for the period 

 (E. A. Fry, "Dorset Records," 227, Strand, London. 21s.) 1910. 



THE DYNASTS. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon, in three 

 parts, nineteen acts, and 130 scenes. By Thomas Hardy (Messrs. 

 Macmillan, London. 7s. 6d.) 1910. 



TURBERVILE'S BOOKE OF HUNTING. 1576. The Noble Arte of Venerie 

 or Hunting, wherein is handled and set out the Vertues, Nature, and 

 Properties of fiveteen sundrie Chaces, togither with the order and nianer 

 how to Hunte and kill every one of them. Translated and collected for the 

 pleasure of all Noblemen and Gentlemen, out of the best approved 

 Authors, which have written anything concerning the same ; and re- 

 duced into such order and proper termes as are used here, in this noble 

 Realme of England. (Reprinted page for page and line by line from the 

 Bodleian copy of the black-letter edition of 157(5 Clarendon Press, 

 Oxford. 7s. 6d. net.) George Turbervile was a native of Winterbourne 

 Whitechurch. 



THE SOUTH DEVON AND DORSET COAST. By Sidney Heath. Vol. II. 

 of the County Coast series. With a coloured frontispiece, maps, and 32 

 other illustrations. (T. Fisher Unwin, Adelphi Terrace, London. 6s. net.) 

 1910. Eleven of the twenty -three chapters deal with Dorset. 



BOURNEMOUTH. 1810 1910. The History of a Modern Health and 

 Pleasure Resort. By C. H. Mate and C. Riddle. With preface by 

 the Duke of Argyll. 32 illustrations. (W. Mate and Sons, Bourne- 

 mouth, os.). 1910. 



POEMS IN THE DORSET DIALECT. By Robert Young ( " Rabin Hill " ), of 

 Sturmiiister Newton, " an olde Dorset songster," 1811 1908. Edited 

 and revised by the Rev. J. C. M. Mansel-Pleydell, M.A. (Dorset County 

 Chronicle Office, Dorchester. 2s.). 1910. 



THE PLAYS OF THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. Published for the first 

 time. Edited by A. B. Young, Ph.D. Contents : The Dilettanti ; 

 The Circl of Loda ; The Three Doctors. (David Nutt, Long Acre, 

 London. 2s. net.) 1910. Peacock was a native of Weymouth. 



