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there has been no guide to the Cathedral which is at once cheap and good— 

 but now the visitor to Salisbury can buy for one shilling and sixpence a 

 guide book in which he will find the information contained in the large and 

 expensive works of Hatcher, Britton, Dodsworth, Price, and others most 

 carefully boiled down for his consumption. It is, in fact, an admirable 

 little book. The casual tourist will find in it just as much as he wants to 

 know of the history of the Building and the Bishops and the See, and may 

 rest secure, as he takes it for his guide round the Cathedral, the Cloisters, 

 and the Chapter House, that no feature of interest — whether ancient or 

 modem in its origin — will escape his notice, and that the information which 

 he derives from its pages is thoroughly accurate and up to the level of 

 modern architectural and antiquarian knowledge. Even the professed 

 student of architecture will find very little indeed that is not accurately 

 described and commented on with knowledge, and in cases of doubt — such 

 as the attribution of the various monuments — the views fro and con are 

 shortly and carefully stated and the authorities by which they are supported 

 are given. The title on the cover, " The Cathedral and City" is somewhat 

 misleading, for Old Sarum has to be content with four pages and New Sarum 

 with only one. A singular slip, too, occurs on p. 35, where " the grey colour 

 of the stone roof " is spoken of ; and the present great work of repair on 

 the spire is not mentioned : but otherwise the book is a model of what such 

 books should be, and the visitor to Salisbury cannot do better than arm 

 himself with it forthwith. 



It contains the following illustrations :— Salisbury from an old print, the 

 Cathedral from the South, Cathedial and Bell Tower, West Front, one Bay 

 of Nave, Corbel, Plan, Nave, Interior Bay of Nave, N. Aisle, Nave Transept, 

 Choir looking East, Portion of Old Organ Screen, Piscina, S. Choir Aisle, 

 Chantry of Bp. Bridport, Bay of Chapter House, Interior of Chapter House, 

 Carvings of Chapter House, Cloisters, One Bay of Cloisters, Doorway in 

 East Cloister, Cloisters looking North, Old Rings, Hanging Parapet on 

 Close Wall, Death and the Gallant, Hungerford Chapel, Stained Glass, 

 Bishop Poore's Monument, Bishop Bingham's Monument. 



Noticed in Notes and Queries, Jan. 23rd, and Salisbury Journal, Jan. 

 23rd, 1897. 



Salisbury Cathedral, by the Very Eev. Gk D. Boyle, M.A., Dean 

 of Salisbury. Illustrated by Alexander Ansted. London : 

 Isbister & Co. mdcccxcvii. 12mo. Pp. 65. [Price If-"] 



This dainty little booklet, dressed in white, does not enter into competition 

 with the handbook noticed above. It is really a reprint of two articles 

 written by the Dean for The Sunday Magazine, in which he discourses 

 pleasantly of the history of the Cathedral and its main characteristics, merely 

 touching here and there on the architectural details of the structure and 

 the monuments, dwelling rather on the constitution and work of the Chapter, 

 the various worthies connected with it, the parts which the successive 

 Bishops took in the events of the times in which they lived, and their 

 influence on the work of the Cathedral body. The illustrations are from 

 charming pen drawings, and altogether, without pretending in any way to 



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