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the Down Country the authoress writes " Perhaps one must be bred 

 so to speak of the chalk, have its thin blood in one's veins, to feel the 

 peculiar appeal of this country," and the whole book gives the 

 impression that the writer has been so bred and knows that of which 

 she writes — not as having " got up " the local colour for literary 

 purposes — but because she is of the " Winterbourn " herself. Of 

 course in a book covering so wide a space and touching lightly on so 

 many subjects, history, legend, architecture, archaeology — it is inevitable 

 that there should be inaccuracies — and they are not absent here. Yarn- 

 bury Castle for instance has not " a single rampart," The Bustard Inn 

 has not been transformed into Racing Stables, The Muniment Room 

 of the Cathedral is hardly " Brick vaulted," the contents of the Upton 

 Lovell " Gold Barrow " are at Devizes and not in the British Museum, 

 the two stones of Stonehenge which fell in 1900 have not been set up 

 again, and the House at Amesbury was not " completely re-built " in 

 1824. On archaeology she touches lightly but for the most part soundly 

 — though it is not correct to say that there are " abundant traces of 

 the Late Celtic period in the contents of the Barrows," at least if 

 " Late Celtic " bears the meaning usually attached to it, nor is the 

 later pottery of the Bronze Age better than the earlier. But in a book 

 of this kind the ordinary reader does not expect or desire minute 

 archaeological or architectural detail. What he wishes for, if he is 

 sensible, and what he will find in these pages, is a characterisation of 

 the various places described, set full in admirable style and taste, 

 without any pretentiousness of word painting, but with a knowledge 

 of history and literary reference, always at hand where it is needed to 

 give interest, but never thrust forward in undue display. A book that 

 South Wilts folk will like to have on their shelves and to give to their 

 friends. Noticed, Times Lit. Suppt., May 8th; Salisbury Journal, 

 May 10th, 1913. 



Leopards of England and other Papers on Heraldry. 

 By E. E Dorlingr, M.A., ISA. London : Constable 

 & Company, 1912. 



Cloth, 9in. x 5 fin., pp. viii. + 136. 7s. 6 d. net. Printed by Butler 

 & Tanner, Frome and London. Nine coloured plates, fifteen half-tone 

 plates, and twenty-seven cuts in text. 



This book contains seven papers, four of which are reprinted from 

 the Ancestor. Of these two deal with Wiltshire matters. "Armorial 

 Glass in Salisbury Cathedral," pp. 57 — 72, describes six shields of the 

 latter half of the thirteenth century, formerly in the Chapter House, 

 and now in the west window of the Cathedral. 



They are (1) Gold three cheverons gules. Gilbert of Clare, 3rd Earl 

 of Gloucester and Hertford, 1262. 



(2) Paly gules and gold of eight pieces, a variant of the arms of the 

 Kings of Aragon borne by the Counts of Provence from 1166 ; to 1245. 

 Eleanor, Q. of Hen. III., was one of the daughters of Raimond 

 Berenger IV., the last Aragonese Count. 



(3) Azure powdered with fleurs-de-lis gold. Old France (there are 

 ten whole lilies on the shield). This shield is to be ascribed to Louis 

 IX., brother-in-law of Hen. III., 1226—70. 



