*204 Recent Book*, Pamphlets, Articles, fyc, on Wiltshire Matter*. 



it is difficult to see what bearing the question of its age can have in any 

 way upon the date of Stonehenge, if the general mass of the barrows are 

 ruled out of court, as Mr. Barclay rules them out, as having nothing to do 

 with " the Temple," and as being themselves of " unknown age." Altogether 

 we do not seem to get much forwarder from the study of Mr. Barclay's 

 answers to his critics. 



Establishment of a Village Council and a Small Freehold Colony 

 at Winterslow. The Landholders' Court. Price Sixpence. Printed 

 and published by the Salisbury Times Co. 8vo. n.d. [1894.] Pp. 12. 



This pamphlet gives an account of the extremely interesting experiment 

 of Major Poore at Winterslow, in the formation of a representative Parish 

 Council — before the passing of the Local Government Act — and the 

 establishment of a colony of freeholders cultivating their own land and 

 governed by a " Landholders' Court." 



Gleams of Sunshine in Dark Corners of Dorset and Wilts. What 

 can Dorset and Wilts do in regard to Darkest England ? 8vo 

 pamphlet. Salisbury. 1896. Pp. 15. 2nd thousand. [By Eathmell G. 

 Wilson.] With three process illustrations : — " Our Toy Makers at Work," 

 " Toys made in Dorset and Wilts," and " Spare Time Exhibition at 

 Dorchester, 1896." This pamphlet, by the Secretary of the C.E.T.S. in the 

 Diocese of Salisbury, sets forth the objects aimed at and the work done by 

 that society, with special reference to the " Spare Time Movement," which 

 proposes to give employment in the evenings to the men and boys of agri- 

 cultural districts in making home-made toys. 



The Sarum Office Book. Primes and Hours (with other Services) 

 for the use of Sarum Theological College) . London : John Hodges. 

 1897. 3/- nett. Pp. xxii., 132. Preface by the Bishop. 



Life and Work of Bishop Richard Poore. A valuable lecture at St. 

 Edmund's, Salisbuiy, by Mr. A. R. Maiden, reported in Wiltshire County 

 Mirror, April 2nd, 1897, in which he makes the interesting suggestion 

 that the old quarries of Downshay, in the parish of Worth Maltravers, in 

 the Isle of Purbeck, are those which furnished the Purbeck marble for 

 Salisbury Cathedral, the manor of Worth Maitravers having then belonged 

 to Alice Bruer, the donor of the marble. 



The Stourhead Collection in the Wiltshire Archaeological Society's 

 Museum at Devizes. Article by the Rev. E. II. Goddard describing the 

 principal objects in the collection, with 52 illustrations (from the Stourhead 

 Catalogue). Reliquary and Illustrated Archceologist, Jan., 1897, pp. 

 20-36. 



Malmesbury, the Old Corporation. An interesting account of the ancient 

 system of municipal government, from the f< Report on the Municipal 



