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Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



LaCOCk Abbey is admirably illustrated in Country Life, Feb. 7th, 1903 } 

 pp. 176 — 181. There is just enough letterpress to string the fine photos, 

 two of them full-page, together. The views given are : — The Entrance 

 Archway — South Elevation — Nuns' Walk — East Cloister — East Front — 

 Back of Stables — Stable Yard — and View from the North-East. 



BrinkWOrth Church. Good accounts of the service, and of the 

 address of the Bishop of Bristol, at the opening of this Church after the 

 excellent restoration of the nave by Mr. C. E. Ponting, as well as of the 

 work done at a cost of .£2084, are to be found in the Devizes Gazette, 

 May 7th, and North Wilts Herald, May 8th, 1903. 



FOUlshOt. A good note on the history of the parish, and the archi- 

 tecture of the Church, illustrated by a south view of the Church, occupies 

 two pages in the North Wilts Church Magazine for May, 1903. 



Spring Falconry. The Season on Salisbury Plain. 



An interesting article on Rook Hawking by the Old Hawking Club, 

 whose head-quarters have this year been shifted from Amesbury to 

 Shrewton. It is noted that one falcon has killed this year over fifty 

 rooks. Morning Post, May 12th, 1903. 



White Horses, by H. G. Archer. Article in Good Words, March, 1903. 

 pp. 187 — 197, with twelve illustrations of the principal turf monuments 

 in England, including photos of the Westbury, Cherhill, Pewsey Vale, 

 and Broad Hinton white horses. 



Bolingbroke and his Times: the Sequel, by Waiter Sichei. 



Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net. 1902. A critical analysis of Bolingbroke's 

 career from 1715 to 1751 in continuation of Mr. Sichel's earlier volume. 



Sarum Tunes. By the Eev. H. J. Trueman. Published at Alfred 

 Foley's Music Warehouse, Salisbury, 1903. Pp. vi., 70. Cloth. 1*. 6d. 



POX Talbot and Photography. The second report of the Fox 

 Talbot Memorial Fund, 1902, is headed with an illustration of a negative 

 photograph on paper, by Fox Talbot, to which the note is attached 

 " Latticed Window (with the Camera Obscura), August, 1835." 



William Wild, Of AldbOUme. The Marlborough Times, March 

 28th, 1903, contains the following :— " Aldbourne. The story of an 

 interesting picture. In February last, the Vicar of Aldbourne received a 

 letter from a picture-dealer at Brighton, informing him that he possessed 

 a portrait in oils, of which he gave the following description : — 1 A well- 

 painted portrait, on canvas, of a very, very old man. Head and bust 

 life-size. He has strong features, long grey hair, very little hair on the 

 face, clipped very close, shewing the shape of the jaw ; the forehead is 

 high, as in most of the portraits of that period. He is wearing a heavy 



