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not to shoot them there would be no danger of their forsaking tke spire, 

 which offers them such a safe retreat. As it is they are seen there every 

 year — often every day for weeks together — and the Britford keeper, at 

 least, has orders never to molest them. 



After this come Notes on Great Somerford, by M. E. Light — six pages of 

 Quaker Marriages in Wilts (continued from former numbers)— a Translation 

 of an interesting document in the Record Office, describing the taking 

 sanctuary by a felon in the Chapel of St. Thomas in the Church of Bulbridge 

 — and a verbatim copy of a very curious Pre-Reformation document which 

 belonged to Seend — " The Stocks of Seen' Church e," which might well have 

 received fuller annotation. The usual number of Queries and Replies com- 

 plete the number. One of the former asks for information as to the obscure 

 Saxon word " Crundell." " Annes Crundel " appears in a perambulation of 

 Stanton Berners parish of A,D. 903. 



Richard JefFeries : Field Naturalist and litterateur, 



by Oswald Crawfurd. Illustrated by Val. Davis. Article in The Idler, 

 Oct., 1898, pp. 289 — 301. The writer was the editor of a magazine in which 

 several of Jefferies' early papers on country subjects were published, and he 

 thinks that his advice then given had something to do with Jefferies giving 

 up the attempt to write fiction, in which he would never have accomplished 

 anything, and finding his true vocation in the description of the life of the 

 fields. He urged him strongly to write a series of articles on natural 

 history — two years before " The Gamekeeper at Home " was published. 

 The article is well and pleasantly written. It recognises the limitations of 

 Jefferies' writings, such, for instance, as his entire lack of anything like wit 

 or humour, though it ranks him with Gilbert White, or even above him, 

 and above all other English writers, as an observer of the facts of Nature — 

 and as a true artist in the description of them. There are eight nice 

 illustrations of Coate, though two or three of them might be anywhere. 

 The Lake and West Shore — Coate Reservoir— Supposed Hulk of Jefferies' 

 Boat — Jefferies' Seat in the Garden — A Tributary Stream — Gateway of 

 Coates (sic) — A Secluded Pool— Coates (sic) from the Back. 



Marlborough College, by L. W. Byrne. Article in the Public 



School Magazine, July 1898, pp. 1 — 14. This is a good compressed 

 account of the history of the school from its foundation. A large number 

 of facts and dates are given. The whole is readably written, and anyone 

 who wants to know what Marlborough has been, and is now, will find a 

 great deal of apparently reliable information on all sorts of subjects in these 

 pages. There are fourteen process views of the College, and two good full- 

 page process portraits of Dean Bradley and the present Head-Master, the 

 Rev. G. C. Bell. The views are : — Marlborough College, 1843 — View of 

 Lord Hartford's House, Marlborough, June 29th, 1873 (a misprint for 1723) 

 — The Qhapel (full-page interior) — Cricket Pavilion — Cotton House — The 

 Bradleian— New Buildings and Bradleian — Exterior of Chapel — Back of 

 C. House — Dining Hall — B. House and New Buildings— Court from C. 

 House — Back of C. House— Court from C. House (Winter). 



