342 Recent Wiltshire Boohs and Articles. 



Sir J. D. Astley, the late, statuette of. St. Paul's, Dec. 28th, 1895. 



J. M. Hayden, tenor in Salisbury Cathedral choir. Notice and portrait in 

 Sunday Companion, Aug. 6th, 1897. 



Charles George Wyatt, head of the firm of Keynes, Williams, & Co., 

 nurserymen, of Salisbury. Notice and portrait in Gardener 1 's Magazine, 

 quoted in Wilts County Mirror, July 16th, 1897. 



Mrs. White (Mayoress of Wilton), Gentlewoman, Nov. 27th, 1897. 



The Popular History of Old & New Sarum. By T. J. Northy. 

 Salisbury : published by the " Wiltshire County Mirror and 

 Express " Co., Ltd., 1897! 8vo. Cloth. Pps. virf., 348, xxviii. [Price 

 to subscribers, a list of whose names and addresses is given at the end, 2s. 6d.^\ 

 Printed first in the Wiltshire County Mirror and Express in instalments 

 from April oth, 1895, to Sept. 25th, 1896. Now revised with many additions. 

 This book at once deserves notice and disarms criticism. As a well- 

 l conceived attempt to make the facts of the history of the capital of our 

 county known and popular to its citizens, and to Wiltshiremen, it deserves 

 notice and praise in these columns. On the other hand, the circumstances 

 under which it was written — as a series of articles in a Salisbury newspaper 

 — have militated against its being regarded as a learned and finished 

 literary effort. The writer, who has written a " History of Exeter," and is 

 a well-known journalist on the staff of the " Wiltshire County Mirror Sf 

 Express," appears to have set before himself three objects, which he has 

 very fairly successfully accomplished. First, he seems to have studied 

 that invaluable mine of wealth, the History of Old and New Sarum, by 

 Robert Benson and Henry Hatcher, which is alike too ponderous and too 

 inaccessible for the general reader. Secondly, he has gleaned from the 

 journalistic resources at his command many interesting facts in the modern 

 history of Salisbury since 1843, when Benson & Hatcher's work was 

 published. Thirdly, from the materials before-mentioned, and others, he 

 has constructed a history of the city in a thoroughly popular style. Though 

 but few references are given, there are signs that Mr. Northy has tried 

 to read round his subject in order to give his readers the best and latest 



