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possibility of feeling either gratitude or love. Except the three above 

 mentioned they have no other virtues, and they are absolutely devoid 

 of charm. Her pictures of cottage life are drawn with the fidelity to 

 detail of a Richard Jefferies, and much that she says of the growing 

 degeneration of village life in Wiltshire, of the fact that with the best of 

 the boys and girls alike their great ambition is to leave the village and 

 the land as soon as they leave school, with the result that the resident 

 population of the villages comes to consist largely of the aged, the 

 neer-do-wells, the slow-witted, and the vagrants who intend to stay only 

 six months or a year in the place, is alas ! only too true, as everyone 

 who knows North Wilts must sorrowfully confess. But to those who 

 really know and love the country it seems that there is another and a 

 brighter side to the land and to the people alike, which has scarcely 

 revealed itself to the eyes or to the heart of the authoress of A Modern 

 Boeotia. 



Appreciative reviews, Devizes Gazette, June 9th; Guardian, June 

 15th, 1904. 



Harold Brakspear, PSA. "Burnham Abbey" [Bucks]. 

 Paper in Records of Buckinghamshire, No. 6, vol. viii. 1903. 8vo. 

 Pp. 517 — 540. Also printed in Archceological Journal, lx., 294 — 317. 

 An excellent account of the existing remains, with folding plan, two 

 coloured plates, and fourteen photographic plates and cuts in the text. 



Thomas HobbeS. "Leviathan" (Cambridge English Classics). 

 The text edited by A. R. Waller. Cambridge University Press. 1904. 

 7f X 6^. Pp. 528. 4*. Qd. net. 



AddiSOn. " The Spectator in London." Essays by Addison and Steele. 

 7x5. Pp. 323. London : Sealey. 1904. 3s. net. 



Emma Marie Caillard. "Individual Immortality." John 

 Murray. Cr. 8vo, cloth. 1903. 3s. 6d. net. The first four chapters 

 appeared as articles in the Contemporary Revieiv. Favourably reviewed, 

 Guardian, Jan. 27th; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Feb., 1904, by 

 C. Ll. S[anctuary]. 



Maude PrOWer. "The Black Thorn," article in Globe, March 9th, 

 1904. 



C. R. StratOII. Lecture on " Birds in Motion " at Blackmore Museum, 

 reported in Salisbury Journal, March 26th, 1904. 



