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Recent Wiltshire Boohs and Articles. 



Barrow (2) — Full-size Diagrams of Skulls (3). There are also six cuts in 

 the text of Flint Implements and Sections of Excavations. 



The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Davenant, D.D., 1572 — 

 1641, Lord Bishop of Salisbury. By Morris Fuller, B.D. London: 

 Methuen & Co. Portrait. 8vo. 1897. 



Opinions differ. The Guardian, Oct. 6th, 1897, says " Mr. Fuller 

 . . . has succeeded in giving us an accurate account of the English Church 

 of that period. It was an age of theological giants, whose conversation was 

 as ponderous as their erudition. They made the English Church to be 

 respected in Europe . . . The age was therefore most important, if it 

 was not very attractive, and Mr. Fuller has laid us under an obligation for 

 the exhaustive memoir he has now made public." The National Church, 

 July, 1897, says : — " His was an honourable rather than an eventful career. 

 He was not ambitious of power, but he exercised both in Cambridge and in 

 his diocese a very real and salutary influence by- virtue of his learning and 

 high character. . . . Mr. Morris Fuller has provided those who wish to 

 study the events which led up to the Great Rebellion with a very useful 

 volume." The Athenceum, Sept. 4th, 1897, on the other hand, describes 

 Davenant as a clumsy writer, a drearily dull preacher, a commentator who 

 threw light on nothing, " a buried divine who would have been better left 

 quiet in his grave," etc., and hints very broadly that the mantle of the 

 illustrious Thomas Fuller has not fallen upon his descendant Morris Fuller, 

 who is as ponderous and unreadable as Davenant himself. 



Ben Sloper's Visit to the Zalsbury Diamond Jubilee Zelebrayshun, 

 what he zeed and zed about it. By the Author of Wiltshire Rhymes, 

 &c. [E. Slow.] Pamphlet. Cr. 8vo. Salisbury. (1897). Price 3d. 

 Pp.19. 



Mr. Slow gives a capital account of the Salisbury festivities, in this little 

 pamphlet, and Ben Sloper tells his story well — though perhaps his dialect is 

 not quite so pure as that of some of the author's former heroes. 



The Bradford-on-Avon Pictorial Gruide, to which is added " Fifty 

 Years of Progress in Bradford-on-Avon." 1837 to 1887. 

 Printed and published by C. Pawling, Bradford-on-Avon. 4to. 

 Price Is. 2nd edition. The Guide, pp. 11. " Fifty Years," Sec, pp. 9 

 (unpaged). 



This rather inconvenient-sized guide-book begins with a description of 

 the town from the Bristol Times and Mirror, and a slight sketch of its 

 history. The various buildings and objects of interest in the town are then 

 described — the Parish Church from notes by the late Canon Jones. The 

 illustrations comprise three views of the Saxon Church (one on the cover) ; 

 a frontispiece of the Parish Church ; The Interior of the Hermitage, or St. 

 Mary's Chapel, Tory ; The Town Hall ; the Monastic Barn ; the Barton 

 Bridge ; The Old Chapel on the Bridge ; and a General View of the Town 



