420 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



There are the usual valuable series of meteorological observations, the 

 rainfall having been 44*30 inches ; the previous highest record having 

 been 43*79 inches in 1882, 41-99 inches in 1872, and 41-91 inches in 1876. 



The Dialect of Pewsey (Wiltshire), with a G-lossarial 

 Index of the Words treated. By John Kjederquist. 



Ph.D., Docent in the University of Lund. London: published by the 

 Philological Society, 1903. 8vo, pp. 144. Paper covers. 



It has been reserved for a Swedish professor to do for the Wiltshire 

 dialect what no Wiltshireman was capable of doing, setting down in 

 exact terms, through the medium of Mr. Ellis's " Glossic " characters 

 and signs, a really scientific account of the phonology of our native 

 speech. Dr. Kjederquist was led to select Pewsey as the place of his 

 dialect investigations because he thought Wiltshire was the most im- 

 portant of the English dialects for which Ellis's word-lists needed sup- 

 plementing to facilitate historical researches, and because from infor- 

 mation he had received he hoped to find a fairly distinct idiom in this 

 place. He accordingly settled down at Pewsey. The first sixty pages 

 of the present work were published in 1902 {see Wilts Arch. Mag., 

 xxxiii., 72), under the same title, and have now been supplemented by 

 the remainder of the work, including chapters on " The French Element," 

 " The Vowels of words and syllables which have not the principal accent," 

 " The Consonants " (their source), and the Glossary and Index combined 

 of all the words treated of in the body of the work. The work now 

 completed is the result of two residences at Pewsey of some weeks 

 duration each, during which the author took down the words from the 

 lips of dialect speakers in "glossic." The result is an authoritative 

 treatise on the pronunciation and articulation of the dialect such as 

 is to be found nowhere else. The work may be obtained of Mr. 

 Woodward, bookseller, Devizes, or of Messrs. Brown, Salisbury. 



Reviewed, Devizes Gazette, September 8th, 1904. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 45, March, 1904, 



The Editor's paper on Isaac Walton and his connection with Wiltshire 

 is continued, with a photo of Poulshot Green and another of "Walton's 

 House in Salisbury Close." The wills of Isaac Walton, Sen., Isaac 

 Walton, Jun., and William Hawkins are printed in full. Erchfont 

 Records, a Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire, and Quaker Birth 

 Records are continued. A note on the Corr family, of Aldbourne, bell- 

 founders, follows. Another, on De Chyrebury, of Seend, suggests that 

 Wyganus de Chyrebury, who died in 1283, lord of the new manor of 

 Seend, was possibly the ancester of the Yerburys of Trowbridge and the 

 neighbourhood. 



Canon Wordsworth crosses swords with "A.S.M." as to the latter's 

 protest against the use of the name " Sarum " as a modern vulgarity. 

 He brings forward chapter and verse to prove that at all events from 

 1463 down to the present time it has been continuously in use, indeed 



