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RECENT WILTSHIRE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, 

 ARTICLES, &c. 



[N.B. — This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor 

 appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books, or views, in 

 any way connected with the county to send him copies of their works, 

 and to editors of papers and members of the Society generally to send 

 him copies of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers.] 



Salisbury Plain its Stones, Cathedral City, Villages 

 and Polk. By Ella Noyes, illustrated by Dora 



Noyes, 1913. London & Toronto : J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited. 

 New York : E. P. Dutton & Co. 



Linen, 9in. X 6Jin., pp. including title, xii + 320, 10s. 6d. net. Six- 

 teen coloured illustrations and forty-one line illustrations in text from 

 pen drawings, and a sufficient index. Many of the coloured illustrations 

 are very charming, indeed only two of them, Old Sarum and Wilton 

 House, are otherwise than successful. Salisbury Spire ; High Street, 

 Salisbury ; Salisbury Cathedral ; The Cloisters ; Butcher Row 

 (quaintly misprinted in the list of illustrations as " Butcher Boy ") ; 

 Heytesbury ; The River Wylye at Wishford ; and an Old House at 

 Imber are particularly pleasing. Some of the line illustrations seem 

 to be a little pale and indistinct, as though the paper had not taken 

 the ink properly, but many of them are very pleasant little impres- 

 sions of the various houses or villages which they illustrate. Among 

 them are Stonehenge ; Salisbury from Old Sarum ; St. Anne's Gate ; 

 Tomb of William Longespee ; The Market Place ; and Old House, High 

 Street, Salisbury.; Fittleton Church; Upavon ; Enford ; Amesbury 

 Church ; Lake House ; Heale House ; Battlesbury ; Longbridge 

 Deverill Almshouses; 14 Vicarage Street, Warminster; . Knook 

 Manor ; Boyton Manor ; Codford St. Peter, Cross Shaft ; Stockton 

 House and Village; Little Langford Church, Doorway; Stapleford 

 Church and Street ; Fisherton de la Mere ; Bringing the Boughs 

 from Groveley ; Chirton Font ; and Mere Church. 



Miss Noyes has interpreted " Salisbury Plain " in a liberal sense, 

 and the villages of the Avon and Wylye Valleys take up a larger 

 portion of the book than the Plain itself. 



Salisbury too, the Cathedral, the city, the houses in the close, and 

 the 18th century life of the place is dealt with at some length, and the 

 descriptions both of the Cathedral and of the architecture of the 

 various village Churches round the Plain are for the most part 

 knowledgeable and scholarly. Moreover they are in most cases well 

 up-to-date. The screen and the font for instance at Amesbury are 

 both back in their places. There is no attempt at a full description of 

 the Churches, but their leading features of interest and the general 

 character of their architecture is happily hit off in a few words. Of 



