lucent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 157 



Excursion to Salisbury and Stonehenge, Sept. 15, 



7 pp., by E. Dorau Webb. Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury Plain (including 

 the drive up the valley to Lake and Stonehenge), Amesbury, and Old 

 Sarum are the headings. As to Stonehenge Mr. Doran Webb remarks : — 

 "All that can be said for certain ... is that it belongs to the Bronze 

 Age." 



Excursion to Bradford-on-Avon, Sept. 10, pp. 8. By 



the Rev. W. K C. Wheeler, and J. Moulton. The Saxon Church— The 

 Parish Church — Orpin's House — Horton's House— Church House — The 

 Shambles — The Town Bridge and Chapel — The Almshouses and Chapel of 

 St. Catherine— Barton Barn and Tithe Barn— St. Mary's Chapel, Tory— 

 The Priory— The Chantry— The Hall -are all well dealt with. This is, 

 perhaps, the best of the Guides for these Wiltshire Excursions. 



An Account of the Excursions to Bradford: Swindon and 



Marlborough ; Salisbury ; and Avebury ; is given in the Devizes Gazette 

 Sept. 15 and Jept. 22 ; North Wilts Herald, Sept. 16, 1898. 



Geological Map of the Country round Bristol, by 

 C. Lloyd Morgan, F.Cr.S., Based on the Maps of 

 William Sanders and the Geological Survey. 

 British Association, Bristol Meeting, 1898. 



G. Philip & Son, 32, Fleet Street, London. 13^ X lOf. Folding. A very 

 useful map, coloured geologically. It includes all N. Western Wilts. 



The CaStle Inn, by Stanley J. Weyman. Smith & Elder. Cr. 8vo, 

 with frontispiece. 6/- 1898. A novel which has been running in the 

 Cornhill Magazine throughout the year. The scene is laia at the Castle 

 Inn, Marlborough, and many of the incidents take place along the Bath 

 Road between Marlborough and Bristol. Well reviewed, Guardian, 

 Nov. 16, 1898; Spectator, Academy, Sfc. 



Report as to the existing High K,ate of Lunacy in 

 the County of Wilts, by J. I. Bowes, Medical 



Superintendent of the Wilts County Asylum. Pamphlet, 8vo, Devizes. 

 1898, pp. 22. This report, prepared in response to a request from the 

 Visiting Committee of the Asylum, contains the results of statistics carefully 

 drawn up and digested, and of enquiries diligently made. Dr. Bowes comes 

 to the conclusion that insanity is not largely increasing in the county, 

 though the numbers of the insane congregated in the asylum are increasing 

 rapidly, but he draws a gloomy picture— a picture, too, which those who 

 live in such districts know to be by no means overcoloured, of the practical 

 degeneration of the purely rural population, which is caused by agricultural 

 depression, growth of education, and the means of locomotion, &C, by which 

 the cream of the rising generation of both sexes is year by year skimmed 



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