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" The Rivers and Streams of England." Fainted toy 



Sutton Palmer, described A. G. Bradley. Published 



by Adam and Charles Black. London. MOMIX. 9in. X 6jin. 



Pp. xiii + 287. With seventy-five coloured illustrations and folding 



■ sketch map. Price 20s. net. 



Of the nine chapters of this book, two, on " The chalk streams," and 

 " The two Avons," touch Wiltshire. And of the beautiful water colour 

 drawings, beautifully reproduced, two, " The Avon near Salisbury," and 

 " Stapleford on the Wiley," are of views within the county. The 

 Kennet, the Salisbury Avon, and the Wiley, are treated of as typical 

 chalk streams differing in every characteristic from the other Wiltshire 

 Avon, the Avon of Chippenham and Bradford and Bath. Mr. Bradley 

 touches lightly but surely on their respective charms both for the lover 

 of scenery and the lover of the rod. The illustrations are, perhaps, 

 amongst the very best coloured reproductions of water colour drawings 

 yet produced. 



The South Country. By Edward Thomas. London : J. 



M. Dent & Co., 1909. 



Linen, 7^in. X 5in., pp., not including titles, 279. 3s. 6d- net. 



The author, upon whom more than upon any other living writer the 

 mantle of Kichard Jefferies in his later moods seems to have fallen, 

 knows his Wiltshire, or the Down portion of it, well, and Wiltshire has 

 its part in these musings of a wayfarer over the Downs of Southern 

 England, but it is almost impossible to say what part. It is true that 

 chapters xiii., xiv., and xv., pp. 210 — 254 are headed " August, Going 

 West — Hampshire and Wiltshire," " An Old House and a Book — 

 Wiltshire," and "An Outcast— Wiltshire," but only here and there is 

 a place mentioned by name. Localities are not identified or identi- 

 fiable. There are no descriptions of places, the various chapters are 

 somewhat melancholy meditations on the texts which head them, but 

 the texts might come equally well from Kent or Sussex, Hampshire, 

 Wilts, or Dorset. 



An Eighteenth Century Correspondence. Being the 



Letters of Dean Swift, Pitt, the Lytteltons, and the Grenvilles, Lord 

 Dacre, Robert Nugent, Charles Jenkinson, the Earls of Guilford, 

 Coventry, and Hardwicke, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Talbot of Lacock, 

 and others, to Sanderson Miller Esq. of Radway. Edited by Lilian 

 Dickins and Mary Stanton. With portraits and illustrations. London : 

 John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. 1910. 



8vo., cloth, price 15-?. net- Twenty-two illustrations, pp., xiv. + 466. 



Among the illustrations are Lacock Abbey, from the illustration in 

 Dingley s " History from Marble," (this shows the S.W. Front as it 

 existed in 1684, and is of much interest) ; John Ivory Talbot, from the 

 portrait at Lacock Abbey ; and the Great Hall at Lacock Abbey (photo 

 of the exterior). " The letters contained in this book form part of the 

 correspondence of Sanderson Miller, a Warwickshire Squire with a 



