134 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



was buried at Wimborne. The author regards it as certain that Alfred 

 must have been at Pewsey at the time of his brother's death, and he 

 goes on to derive Raf en in Pewsey from the raven banner of the Danes, 

 and reconstructs in fancy the course of the battle at a spot unnamed 

 by the chroniclers, as taking place here. 



Salisbury Cathedral. "The Parthenon of England " is the title 

 of an important article in The Building News, Dec. 13th, 1912, pp. 

 820—825, with four illustrations from Bond's Cathedrals of England 

 and Wales, viz., West Front, Nave looking W. by W.N.W. ; Across 

 the Greater Transepts to N. ; and Chapter House Interior. It is the 

 full report of a lecture delivered to the Society of Architects by E. W. 

 Harvey Piper. The whole building is systematically examined and 

 criticised from an architectural point of view, the actual description of 

 the various parts being only such as is necessary for this purpose. In 

 this way the article rather stands alone among the hundreds of de- 

 scriptions of the building. The exterior meets with almost unlimited 

 praise from the author, as the title of the article sufficiently declares, 

 but as to the interior he is fain to confess that " our first impression on 

 descending into the nave was one of chilling disappointment, the interior 

 seems so bare, so uniform, so correctly monotonous." " By degrees," 

 however, " interest is awakened in the purity of the mouldings, &c." 

 There is a curious slip in describing the wooden table of the Chapter 

 House, as a "circular stone seat carried on slender columns." The 

 article wasireprinted in Salisbury Journal, Dec. 21st, Wiltshire Gazette, 

 Dec. 24th, and Wiltshire Times', Y>ec. 28th, 1912. 



Broillliam and Tom Moore. Article by J. Lee Osborn in 

 Wiltshire Times, December 28th, 1912, with two photo illustrations, 

 Sloperton Cottage, and Celtic Cross in Bromham churchyard. A 

 well-written three column article giving the main facts of Moore's life, 

 with an account of the present condition of Sloperton Cottage, and a 

 description of Bromham Church. 



" Right Hon W. H Long, MP, Character Sketch, 



an Honest Tory." Article in Daily News, reprinted in Wilt- 

 shire Times, December 28th, 1912, with portrait, cut of Bood Ashton, 

 and two columns of letterpress of appreciation from the superior 

 Badical point of view. 



The Centenary of Isaac Pitman, January 4th, 1912, 



by Arthur Reynolds. Article in The Treasury, January, 1913, pp. 

 398—403. A good portrait from a photo taken in 1868 when he was 55, 

 and photos of the title and a page of " Stenographic Sound Hand" are 

 given. Another article in the Times, Jan. 4th, 1913, on the history of 

 Shorthand, and Pitman's life and industry. Another article in Wiltshire 

 Times, Dec. 28th, 1912, giving some account of Pitman's life with ai 

 good portrait, and an illustration of the school formerly standing in 

 Trowbridge churchyard where he received his early education. 



