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from the River. They are of varying degrees of merit — some decent 

 sketches and others wretched cuts. 



The " Fifty Years of Progress," with a Jubilee cover with Royal portraits, 

 contains poor woodcuts of Ye Market Place, 1837 ; New Market Place, 

 1887 ; The Grange; The Old Bridge ; The Parish Church ; The Cemetery ; 

 and Gainsborough's Portrait of the Parish Clerk. The letterpress gives a 

 list of buildings erected or restored since 1837. 



Reecham's Photofolio, 24 Choice Photographic Views, One Penny. 

 Southampton, Winchester, and Salisbury. Published by Thomas 

 Beecham, St. Helen's, Lancashire. Oblong 32mo. A pamphlet with four 

 very fair process views of Salisbury Cathedral and one of the High St. Gate. 



Salisbury. Directory of Salisbury and District, published by 

 Langmead & Evans, 1897-8. Price 1* [Cloth, 2*.] Cr. 8vo. 

 Pp. 248. First edition. 



This publication, of which the present is the first number, gives the usual 

 information found within the covers of directories, including lists of residents 

 in the city itself and in all the neighbouring parishes for six or seven miles 

 round, 



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Eose's New Cycling, Touring, and Driving Eoad Map of Forty 

 Miles about Trowbridge, with one-mile circles, showing the 

 distance from Trowbridge to any part. Scale half-an-inch to a 

 mile. Gr. W. Eose, Bookseller, Trowbridge. (1897. Price Is.) 

 21f X 16. A very handy folding map, on strong cloth, with the main roads 

 clearly shown and coloured. 



Monumental Inscriptions in Devizes Churches. The Devizes Advertiser, 

 May 6th — June 17th, 1897, did an excellent work in printing the inscriptions 

 on the mural tablets and monuments and ledger stones in the Churches of 

 St. Mary, St. John, and St. James, Devizes. 



The White Horses of Wilts are most of them mentioned, and three of 

 them illustrated from photos, in an article on " Turf Monuments and what 

 they mean, 1 ' by J. B. Creed, in Pearson's Magazine, Oct., 1897, pp. 417 — 

 422. The Cherril (sic), Westbury, and Marlborough Horses are those which 

 figure amongst the illustrations. 



Salisbury and Stonehenge. Bright' s Illustrated Guide to Bournemouth 

 and Neighbourhood contains an account of Salisbury, Stonehenge, and Old 

 Sarum, pp. 59—64, with good process views of the Cathedral, Stonehenge, 

 and Salisbury Market Place. 



Salisbury Cathedral, its Altars and Chapels. An exceedingly valuable 

 and learned paper on this subject was read by Canon Wordsworth at the 

 Salisbury Meeting of the Dorset Field Club, and is printed in full in the 

 Salisbury Journal Aug. 28th, 1897. 



