294 SOME RECENT AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS. 



Hardy; Some Wessex towns and places; The Wessex Novels; Ihe 



Pageantry of the Past; The dialect, and a glossary; "Wessex Place-names 



identified ; and a Bibliography of Thomas Hardy. (F. Griffitlis, 34, Maiden 



Lane, Strand, W.C. fs. net.) 1908. 

 BADDELEY'S GUIDE TO SOUTH HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTH 



DORSET. (T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, London. 3s. 6d.) In 



the Fress. 

 SELECT POEMS OF WILLIAM BARNES.— Chosen and edited, with a 



Preface and Glossarial notes, by Thomas Hardy. Contents: Lj-ric and 



Elegiac poems ; Descriptive and Meditative poems ; Himiorous poems. 



(Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, London. 2s. 6d. net.). 1908. 

 OLD SWAN AGE, OR PURBECK PAST AND PRESENT. A collection of 



articles, topographical, historical, antiquarian, biographical, and anecdotal. 



By William Masters Hardy. With 20 illustrations. ("Dorset County 



Chronicle " Printing Works, Dorchester. 2s. 6d. net.). 1908. 

 A HANDBOOK TO THE WESSEX COUNTRY OF THOMAS HARDY. 



With an Introduction by Hermann Lea. Hlustrated with 32 photographs 



and 3 sketch maps. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., London. Is. 6d.) 

 WARD LOCK'S GUIDE TO WEYMOUTH AND SOUTH DORSET. 



With maps and plans and 70 illustrations. (Ward, Lock and Co., London. 



Is.) 

 WONDERFUL WESSEX— Wilts, Somerset, and Dorset.— From SaUsbury 



Plain and Severn Sea to the English Channel. By a Dorset writer. With 



200 illustrations. (G.W.R. Co., Paddington Station, London. 6d.) 1908. 

 OLD PORTLAND TRADITIONS AND FOLK-LORE. By C. King Warry. 



(Warden and Co., Portland, 6d.) 1908. 

 ST. MARY'S CHURCH, PUDDLETOWN. By William Gover. With 



5 plates. ("Dorset Cormty Chronicle" Printing Works, Dorchester. 6d.) 



1908. 

 FOLK SONGS FROM DORSET. CoUected by H. E. D. Hammond, with 



pianoforte accompaniment by Cecil J. Sharp. (Novello and Co., London. 



2s. 6d. net.) 1908. 

 PRAISE O' DO'SET. Words by William Barnes. Music by Boyton Smith. 



(Weekes and Co., 14, Hanover Street, Regent Street, London, 4s.) 



DUMOURIEZ AND THE DEFENCE OF ENGLAND AGAINST 



NAPOLEON, By J. Holland Rose, Litt.D., and A. M. Broadley. 



Illustrated with numerous portraits, maps, and facsimiles. (John Lane, 



The Bodley Head, London. 21s. net.) 1908. 

 ANNE SEYMOUR DAMER. Sculptor and Woman of Fashion, 1748-1828. By 



Percy Noble. With 35 illustrations and a coloured frontispiece. (Kegau 



Paul, Trench, and Co., London. 12s.6d.net.) 190S. 



