158 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



off the country parishes and the residuum, the Tag, Rag, and Bobtail, left 

 behind to propagate their species and add to the inhabitants of the County 

 Asylum. Favourably noticed in British Medical Journal, Nov. 19th ; 

 Devizes Gazette, Sept. 8th, 1898. 



Ben Sloper at tha Military Manoovers on Zalsbury 

 Flaain ; being a humorous description of the 

 various Camps, Battles, an tha G-irt March Fast, 



by the Author of the Wiltshire Rhymes and Tales. Price Sixpence. 

 Salisbury : R. R. Edwards, 4, Castle Street. [1898.] Pamphlet, cr. 8vo, 

 pp. 26. Anyone who likes good Wiltshire speech, accurately written and 

 printed, cannot do better than expend sixpence in Mr. Edward Slow's racy 

 account of the late manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain. 



Tommy Atkins on his Autumn Campaign. Article in the 



Windsor Magazine, Nov., 1898, pp. 612—616, written and illustrated by 

 S. E. Waller. 



The letterpress chats of the Ludgershall Camp and the March Past. 

 There are six good illustrations from drawings :— Chalk-dust reveals the 



Enemy ; You may take a Horse to the Water, but' ; The Campbells are 



coming ; The Lancers' Camp ; The Hare that Charged an Army ; The 

 Rick that failed. 



The Salisbury Manoeuvres. Article in Biacfavood's Mag., Nov., 



1898, pp. 676—81. 



The Manoeuvres were fully reported iu many of the London daily papers, and in 

 all the local papers, of the first week in September, 1898. 



The Founding of Marlborough College. An interesting 



account of the foundation of the College is given by Mr. C. H. Holcomb, in 

 The Marlburian, May 24th, 1897. The writer was born at Marlborough 

 in 1831. He recalls the forty coaches which in those days passed through 

 Marlborough daily ; " Thompson's Stile," on which it was said the poet sat 

 whilst he wrote his "Seasons," and other old landmarks, now improved 

 away. About 1840 the Vicar of Preshute was ill, and Mr. Bowers, Rector 

 of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and afterwards 1st Dean of Winchester, came 

 to take his duty for a while. He was full of a scheme for the foundation 

 of a new school " for the sons of clergymen and others." The writer's 

 father pressed on his notice, and on that of Mr. Robert Few, who was 

 also interested in the scheme, the suitability of the Castle for the purpose. 

 They dined together in the summer of 1841, were taken down by Mr. 

 Holcomb, Sen., after dinner, and were judiciously shown the fine old brick 

 front from the Bowling Green in the mellowing evening light. The due 

 effect was produced, and the College was founded at Marlborough, and not 

 elsewhere. 



William Beckford, the Caliph of Fonthill, by cfcas. 



Whibley. New Review. January, 1897. 



