482 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets^ Articles, &c. 



M. H. Nevil Story Maskelyne (1823—1911). 



Obituary notice of, with portrait and bibliography. Reprinted from 

 the Mineralogical Magazine, Oct. 1911, Vol. xvi., No. 74, pp. 149—156. 

 The notice itself is a good one, dealing chiefly, of course, with his 

 career and work as a mineralogist, at the British Museum and elsewhere. 

 The bibliography is a very full and complete one, containing a good 

 many entries which did not appear in the list of his writings given in 

 Wilts Arch. Mag. xxxvii., 171. The portrait is from a photograph 

 taken in 1898. 



Perhaps the best obituary notice, however, apart from the bibliography 

 of his works, which has appeared at all is that by A. W. R. and H. A. M., 

 pp. 9, royal Bvo, reprinted from Transactions of the Royal Society, 1912» 

 This gives details of his life and work, especially at Oxford and in the 

 British Museum which do not appear elsewhere. 



The Kennet and Avon Navigations. Article by F. C. 



Warren in Great Western Railway Mag., Nov., 1911, vol. xxiii., 

 pp. 307 — 313. This is an excellent article, full of what appear to be 

 accurate statistics as to the course, history, and present condition of 

 the canal, with tables of its receipts, which have fallen from £52,910 

 in 1838 to £4093 in 1909. During the last ten years the expenditure 

 by the G. W. R., who now own the waterway, has exceeded the receipts 

 by £48,056. There are a series of good illustrations : — Plan, with 

 Longitudinal Section ; Flight of Locks at Devizes ; Crofton Pumping 

 Station ; Crofton Reservoir, the source of the canal water supply ; 

 Dundas Aqueduct (near Limpley Stoke) ; The Two ends of the Bruce 

 Tunnel (at Savernake) ; " Blow " in Canal Bank at Limpley Stoke, 

 January, 1902 ; Typical View on the Kennet and Avon Canal ; A View 

 at Little Bedwyn ; Rivals, the Ancient Bath Road, the Canal, and the 

 G. W. R. at Froxfield ; Typical Brick Bridge and Canal Feeder. The 

 article is reprinted in Wiltshire Gazette, Nov. 9th, 1911. 



The Old Age Pension Act A Dialogue between 

 Fred, a woold Varm Leabourer and tha Squire's 

 Bailee. In the Wiltshire Dialect Also Good 

 King Edderd's and Queen Alexander's Visit to 

 Zalsbury an Wilton. June, Nineteen underd 

 and halght. Salisbury : R. R. Edwards, 6, 

 Castle Street. [i9ii.] 



Pamphlet, 6|in. X 4iin., pp. 31. The first item is in verse, the second 

 in prose, by Edward Slow. 



Leighton Estate. "Particulars, with Plans . . . 1700 acres 

 . outlying portions of the Leighton Estate, Westbury . . . 

 Hampton & Sons ... at the Laverton Institute, Westbury . . - 

 30th June, and 1st July, 1911." 



