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Alfred Charles Smith — In Memoriam. 



so courageously originated, and so successfully carried out the many delightful 

 Driving Tours recorded in this Book, in Belgium, France, Holland, Germany, 

 Switzerland, and Italy in which I was his constant companion as well as in 

 the more distant expeditions we made to Norway, Spain, Egypt, the Holy 

 Land, and Portugal." 



The illustrations, sixteen in number, are with two exceptions outline 

 character sketches with a good deal of caricature in them. As in his other 

 books of travel, the author purposely avoids dwelling on buildings, pictures, 

 and other objects of interest which are described in ordinary guide books, 

 and occupies himself chiefly with the every-day life of the people, and the 

 actual incidents that befell himself and his companions. It is, indeed, a 

 series of diaries boiled down, and would have been the better for the omission 

 of the Passport and its moralizings. As describing a method of travel and 

 a state of things which have now utterly passed away it is not without its 

 interest for the general reader though it contains little information that is 

 not to be found in the many other books which cover the same ground. 



Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the 

 North Wiltshire Downs in a Hundred Square 

 Miles round Avebury. Being a Key to the Large 



Map Of the abOVe. Published by the Marlborough College 

 Natural History Society. Printed by Bull, Devizes. ' Atlas 4to. 1884. 

 pp. xv., 247, with iv. pp. List of Subscribers at the end. The illustrations 

 include an index map, seven large plates (three of them from "Ancient 

 Wilts "), and one hundred and ten cuts in the text, of barrows, and the objects 

 found in them, &c. The preface is dated Yatesbury Eectory, Dec, 1883. 

 Of this first edition the greater portion was destroyed by a fire at the 

 publishers, and a second edition was subsequently published by the Wiltshire 

 Archaeological and Natural History Society in 1885. Price £2 2s. 



This work, the most valuable, perhaps, of all the author's writings, was 

 printed as an accompaniment to the Great Map of the scale of 6in. to one 

 mile which was issued in sections, and when joined and mounted measures 

 81 X 50 inches. On this map the antiquities are marked in red, and the roads, 

 ponds, lanes, sarsen stones, &c, in other colours. The introduction, pp. 1 — 42, 

 contains an excellent compendium of the British Antiquities of North Wilts, 

 the barrows, dykes, camps, and circles, with numerous blocks of the objects 

 found in them. The remainder of the book deals in detail with the different 

 sections of the map, describing the various earthworks and remains existing 

 in each section, and giving the field and local nomenclature and etymology 

 of the district. Throughout, the earthworks, large and small, are most 

 carefully laid down and described — the work, as the author says in the 

 preface, being the fruit of thirty years' rides, during which he had with his 

 wife visited almost every yard of the country dealt with and noted everything 

 in the way of an earthwork that could by any possibility be a relic of 

 antiquity. There is an appendix containing a full list of the altitudes of 

 the Ordnance bench marks in the district round Avebury. Throughout the 

 book full references are given to all authorities quoted. The district dealt 



