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Recent Wiltshire Books and Articles. 



Salisbury : Churches, &c. Mr. Doran Webb's description of the City 

 Churches, &c, during the visit of the Dorset Field Club to Salisbury, Aug. 

 25th and 26th, is to be found well reported in the Salisbury Journal, Aug. 

 28th, 1897. 



Stonehenge not Druidical. In this chapter of Prehistoric Man and Beast, 

 by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson [London : Smith, Elder, & Co.], an attempt is 

 made to prove that Stonehenge is not a temple, and that it was not built by 

 the Druids, but by the " little folk," or dwarfs, whom he identifies with the 

 people of the long barrows and chambered cairns. See the review in 

 Salisbury Journal, 28th Nov., 1896. 



Longleat. The Ball Mall Magazine, Nov., 1897, pp. 292— 306, contains 

 an article on Longleat by the Rev. A. H. Malan, giving a readable account 

 of Sir John Thynne, the builder of the house, and of the interior of the 

 house itself, touching on the principal portraits, &c, therein contained, and 

 ending up with the gardens and the park. Its principal value, however, 

 lies in the process illustrations, all of which, except, perhaps, the portraits, 

 are distinctly excellent. They are as follows : — " East and North Fronts," 

 Portrait of " Sir John Thynne, Builder of Longleat," " In the Hall," " The 

 Hall," "The Corridor," "Lady Louisa Carteret," "The Library," "Mary 

 Villiers, Lady Thynne," " The Drawing-room," " The State Dining-room," 

 "The Library," "The Long Gallery " (two illustrations), " The Garden," 

 " The Lake," " Heaven's Gate." 



Longleat. Country Life Illustrated, Aug., 1897, has an article by John 

 Leyland, quoted in Wilts County Mirror, Aug. 20th, 1897, illustrated 

 with a full-page view of the House across the lake and sketches of the 

 Library and Drawing-room. It gives a good account of the building of the 

 house. 



Wilton House. The Ball Mall Magazine, pp. 148—161, Oct., 1897, has 

 an article by Lady Pembroke, beginning with genealogical details as to the 

 line of the Earls of Pembroke and ending with a short notice of the house 

 its contents, and the beautiful gardens. The chief value of the article, itself, 

 however, lies in the really admirable series of eighteen photo-process illus- 

 trations, which do ample justice to the glories of Wilton, the views of the 

 interior of the rooms, especially, being marvellously clear and good. They 

 comprise the following subjects : — The Entrance Gates, West Front, Holbein 

 Front, " Double Cube," Great Vandyke in the Double Cube, Corner Room, 

 " Single Cube " (two views), Colonnade Room, Cloisters (two views), The 

 Writer's Sitting-room, Lucas van Leyden's Card Players, Library, Palladian 

 Bridge, Lawn, Holbein Porch, Italian Garden. 



Wilts Archaeological Society's Meeting at Bradford, 1897. A fairly 

 full account of the meeting and excursions is given (with many misprints) 

 in The Antiquary, Oct., 1897. Full accounts are given in Devizes 

 Gazette, Aug. 5th. 



