478 Becent Wiltshire Boohs, Bamphlets, Articles, &e. 



Poems in Wiltshire, by Alfred Williams, author of 

 " Songs in Wiltshire." £rskine Macdonald, 17, 

 Surrey Street, Strand, W.C. 1911. 



Cloth, 8vo, pp. xi. + 105. Price 3s. 6c?. This second volume of the 

 writings of the Wiltshire workman poet, Alfred Williams, of Soutk 

 Marston,has a good deal more local flavour than the " Songs " possessed. 

 Many of the poems are definitely connected with Wiltshire persons and 

 places, as, for example, " About Wilts," " Music in Salisbury Cathedral," 

 "In Sevenhampton Fields," "In My Garden," "To the Rev. W. 

 Caldwell Masters, M.A." (of Stanton Fitz warren), " On the Death of 

 my old Playmate, Charlie Ockwell," "To Lord Fitzmaurice in his 

 illness," " On the Druidical Remains at Avebury," " On the Road to 

 Baydon," " Hinton Parva," and " Home-land." The poems, which 

 include a number of translations from the Greek and Latin and French 

 poets, have the same wholesome simple outlook which characterised the 

 "Songs," and the same pleasant old-fashioned eighteenth century flavour 

 about them. His new volume will doubtless advance the author's 

 reputation. 



Long review, with portrait, in Salisbury Times, January 5th ; Wilt- 

 shire Gazette, February 1st; Wiltshire Times, Feb. 3rd, 1912. 



The Times Literary Supplement of Jan. 4th, 1912, begins a long and 

 very appreciative review with these words : " Wonder and astonishment 

 are great words with great associations. But there are few men living 

 in England to-day of whom they can be more fairly used, in their most 

 exact and literal sense, than of Mr. Alfred Williams. Here is a man 

 born on the land, working on it for a time, and then ever since in the 

 exhausting occupation of ^ hammerman in the works of the Great 

 Western Railway, who has in his scanty leisure managed to add first 

 English Literature, then French, Latin, and Greek to the scanty learning 

 which he carried away from the village school." 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, March, 1911, No. 73. 



The Washington Memorials at Garsdon (with a good photo of the 

 Washington Manor House) ; Quaker Burials in Wilts, by Norman 

 Penney; Wiltshire Wills, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,, 

 by P. M. Shelley ; Steeple Asliton Churchwardens' Accounts, by Rev. 

 E. P. Knubley ; Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum, by Rev. 

 E. R. Nevill ; are continued from previous numbers. The Family of 

 South, by A. St. J. S. Maskelyne ; the Wiltshire Protestation Returns- 

 of 1841-2, by E. A. Fry ; Oliver Cromwell's Wiltshire Relatives, by 

 R. Boucher ; and a note on Crawlboys, near Ludgershall, are included 

 in the number. 



Ditto, No. 74, June, 1911. Contains a very good portrait of 

 the Rev. Thomas Hickman, with notes on his life by Mr. J. J. Hammond. 

 " The Family of South," by Mr. A. St. J. S. Maskelyne, is continued. 

 Mr. C. H. Talbot has a note on the " Will of Joan Trye," and the Rev. 

 W. Symonds a paper on " The Memorandum Book of Thomas Gardiner 



