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A Humourous Tale in the West Countrie and Cock- 

 ney Dialects entitled : "Jan Ridley's New Wife " 

 with an account of her London Nephew Mister 

 Dick Daisher. By the author of the " Wiltshire 



Rhymes and Tales." Price : cloth, 3s. 6d. ; boards, 2s. 6d. Salis- 

 bury : R. R. Edwards, 6, Castle St. Wilton : Miss Winters and Wm. 

 Jukes. [1913.] 



7iin. x 4fin , pp. 260. 



This is one of .Mr. Edward Slow's well-known stories in Wiltshire 

 dialect, of greater length than its predecessors. In this volume the 

 Cockney tongue is contrasted with that of Wiltshire successfully, and 

 it is needless to say that the dialect is well done. 



Wiltshire Surnames. A note on the derivation of various 

 surnames, by J. C. Longstaff, is printed in Wiltshire Times, Feb. 28th, 

 1914. 



Holt and Bradford Surnames. J. C. Longstaff has an in- 

 teresting note on several curious surnames belonging to these two 

 parishes. Wiltshire Times, Nov. 15th, 1913. 



Wilisley. Abstracts of the wills of John Wy'thie, 1622, John Reynold, 

 1627, and William Hendy, 1647, of this place, are printed in Wiltshire 

 Times Nov. 15th, 1913. 



George Crabbe. An article on the recently-issued " A Romance of an 

 elderly Poet," with portrait of Crabbe. Wiltshire Times, Nov. 15th, 1913. 



Sir Isaac Pitman. Account of the unveiling of the bust in the 

 Town Hall, Trowbridge, . and speech by Lord Methuen. Photos of 

 bust and school formerly standing in churchyard, Trowbridge. Wiltshire 

 Times, Nov. 22nd, 1913. 



Bradford-On- Avon. Programme of Church Pageant in Six Episodes 

 and Miracle Play . . . Saturday, June 7th, 1913. 



Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 15, with cuts of Bradford, description of Episodes, 

 and Hymns. 



Church Work in Swindon. Article in The Home Mission Field, 

 Nov. 1913, pp. 97—102. Gives some account of the growth of Churches 

 and progress of Church work in Swindon since 1835, when the G. W.R. 

 bill was passed. 



William Nash, of Patney, and John Bartlett, of 

 Conock, in Chirton, Yeomen, 1613, abstracts of Wills printed. 

 Wiltshire Times, Nov. 29th, 1913. 



