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Personal Notices. 



Mullins the Water- Finder, "it was noticed more than a 

 century ago, both in Germany, France, and England, that " peasants 

 who do not puzzle their minds with doubts or reasonings [I quote 

 from Pryce's famous mining work of 1778] are the most successful 

 dowsers. This is true to-day. The well-known dowser, the late J. Mullins, 

 was a working mason and well- sinker, and his success as a dowser in the 

 discovery of underground water was really phenomenal ; he rarely was 

 at fault, and I think we may take it he was the most remarkable dowser 

 this century has produced." " On the so-called Divining Kod," by 

 Professor W. F. Barrett, F.R.S., Bk. II., pt. I., p. 137. (Proceedings of 

 the Society for Psychical Research" vol. xv., pt. xxxviii., Oct., 1900.) 



C J. WOOdrOW. " A Salisbury Business Man." Article in The 

 Hardware Trade Journal, on Mr. C.J. Woodrow, of Castle St., Salisbury, 

 with two illustrations from photos (portrait of Mr. Woodrow and view of 

 premises), by " Reginald Reefer," quoted in Wilts County Mirror, 13th 

 July, 1900. 



James Kibble White, M.P. for Wootton Bassett in 1812. Interesting 

 particulars of his life, and of his family, are given in a notice in the 

 North Wilts Herald, Oct. 26th, 1900. A portrait of him has just been 

 presented to the Wootton Bassett Town Hall. 



" The Sultan of Lansdown Tower" is the title of along 



article in Temple Bar for June, 1900, pp. 182 — 212, giving a gossipping 

 account of Beckford's life, the reason for which is a series of letters 

 from Beckford to his bookseller, Clark — unknown, apparently, to his 

 biographers, from which the author makes copious quotations, highly 

 characteristic in the violence of their language, against booksellers, 

 bookbinders, authors, and critics. 



Dr. JOShua MarShman. A notice of the life of this famous 

 Baptist missionary and linguist, the son of a weaver at Westbury Leigh, 

 born April 20th, 1768, died 1837, is given in The Wiltshire Times, Nov. 

 17th, 1900. 



Nicholas Vansittart, M.P. for Old Sarum. " From Behind the 

 Speaker's Chair," by H. W. Lucy, in The Strand, Nov., 1900, pp. 508—12, 

 gives some account of Old Sarum and one of its Members, Nicholas 

 Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer. 



