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hoped will prove useful to our Members ; such as " The Roman 

 Era in Britain " and " Romano-British Buildings and Earth- 

 works," both by Mr. John Ward, F.S.A., " The History of 

 Gothic Architecture in England and France," "The Concise 

 Oxford Dictionary of Current English." Five Vols. -.Natural 

 History, Handbooks, or Catalogues, from the British Museum ; 

 Elementary Manual of Roman Coins ; and a History of Amphi- 

 theatres translated from the Italian. The chief acquisition 

 of this class is the 1st Volume of the Report by Mr. Bulleid 

 and Mr. Gray of the Glastonbury Lake Village Excavations, 

 1892-1907. It gives detailed description of the work, with 58 

 plates, and 136 illustrations in the text, and contains a valuable 

 treatise by Dr. Monro on " our present knowledge of Lake 

 Dwellings." We have acquired several useful maps, including 

 3 sheets of the new Geological Survey of Dorset ; 3 sheets of 

 the original 1 inch Ordnance Survey 1809-11, and maps of 

 Dorset by Blaeu, Kip, and Morden, XVIIth Century. 



The one acquisition to the library which demands special 

 notice is the original MS. of " The Mayor of Casterbridge," 

 presented to the Museum by the Author. It consists of 479 

 pages of ruled quarto paper, bound in boards, green calf back 

 and corners, and bears the date " Written 1884, 1885." It ex- 

 hibits not only the care with which the copy was prepared for 

 press, but its interest is enhanced by the names here and there 

 of the compositors through whose hands the sheets passed, and 

 occasionally by the unmistakeable impress of their fingers. 

 We have become possessors of a unique literary treasure which 

 would indeed be highly valued all the world over, but by none 

 surely so much as by ourselves, who may rightly claim as 

 " our own " both the distinguished author himself and the 

 " pleace the teales a-twold of." 



" Vor Do'set dear, then gi'e woone cheer," 

 and for Mr. Thomas Hardy. 



