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Wellesley (who took the name of Tylney Long Wellesley), son of 

 the Earl of Maryborough, and nephew of the great Duke of Wellington. 

 An interesting account of the wedding at St. James's, Piccadilly, is given 

 from a contemporary newspaper: — " The bride's dress exceeded in 

 costliness and beauty the celebrated dress worn by Lady Morpeth at 

 the time of her marriage, which was exhibited for a fortnight at least by 

 her mother, the late Duchess of Devonshire. The dress of the present 

 bride consisted of a robe of real Brussels point lace, the device a simple 

 sprig ; it was placed over white satin. Her head was ornamented with 

 a cottage bonnet of the same material, being Brussels lace with two 

 ostrich feathers. She likewise wore a deep lace veil and a white satin 

 pelisse trimmed with swansdown. The dress cost seven hundred guineas, 

 the bonnet one hundred and fifty, and the veil two hundred, and she 

 wore a necklace which cost ^25,000." The unhappy married life of the 

 lady is next lightly touched on, with the loss of her enormous fortune by 

 her husband's extravagance, the sale of the materials of Wanstead House, 

 which had cost £360,000 to erect, for £10,000 to a Norwich builder, the 

 retirement of Mrs. Long Wellesley to Draycot with her 6-year-old child 

 Victoria (so named, by the way, not after the Queen, for she was a year 

 older than Her Majesty, but on account of her father's " victory" in an 

 election contest), and the death and funeral of the former with much 

 pomp — the Church hung in black, thirty-two tenants in black cloaks, &c, 

 at Draycot. 



A number of letters of no special interest from the Duke of Wellington, 

 who became guardian of the children, follow ; and then the book settles 

 down to the life of Miss Long Wellesley from her childhood under the 

 care of her aunts, the Misses Tylney Long. Her father's accession to 

 the title of Earl of Mornington made her Lady Victoria Pole Tylney 

 Long Wellesley in 1845. Her brother, the fifth and last Lord Mornington, 

 dying in 1863, left Draycot and all his mother's property away "from her 

 to his father's first cousin, Lord Cowley, and she never visited the place 

 again. Of her quiet, wholly uneventful life, spent in deeds of charily 

 and unfailing support of all good works, more especially at Eastbourne, 

 where she built and endowed the fine Church of All Souls, the remainder 

 of the book treats. She never married, died aged 78, and was buried at 

 Draycot Cerne. 



Village Notes and some other Papers, by Pamela 



Tennant, with illustrations from original photographs. London : William 

 Heinemann, 1900, cr. 8vo, cloth, 6s., pp. xiv. and 208. 



The authoress, Mrs. Tennant, now of Stockton, has collected in this 

 book a number of short essays on village and country life, some of which 

 have already appeared in The Outlook. Some of them are concerned 

 with Scotland, but the majority — though but few names are mentioned 

 —are clearly inspired by the people and the country of the Wylye Valley. 

 Mrs. Tennant writes with great sympathy, and what is rarer, with a true 

 knowledge, of the South Wilts country folk and their tongue. In her 

 pages they talk as they really do to those they know — they are not 



