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is due chiefly to his sense of humour, which induced him to record the 

 capital stories current in the brilliant social circle in which he was petted and 

 admired." Spectator, Dec. 31st, 1898. 



The Use of Sarum. Part I. The Sarum Customs as 

 set forth in the Consuetudinary and Customary. 



Edited by Walter Howard Frere, M.A., Priest of the Community of the 

 Resurrection. Cambridge University Press. 12*. net. 



The book contains a sketch-plan of Salisbury Cathedral to show the 

 position of the altars and other points which are mentioned in the old 

 customs, &c. It is well reviewed in the Guardian, March 8th, 1899. The 

 " Customary " had never before been printed. 



" Mr. Walter Long's Arms, Pedigree, and Estates," 



is the title of a couple of articles by "Veritas," with three cuts of Long arms, 

 in To-Day of March 15th and 22nd, the greater portion of which has been 

 reprinted in the Wiltshire Advertiser, April 13th, 1899. The writer falls 

 with much violence upon the present owner of Rood Ashton, asserting that 

 he has no manner of right to use the arms of " Long of Wraxall," which as 

 a matter of fact he does use, that indeed he has no arms, for by the will of 

 "Walter Long of Wraxall and Bath, who died in 1807, a strict injunction was 

 laid upon the legatees to take and bear his arms (i.e., those granted to 

 Edward Long in 1589, viz., Sable, a lion passant argent, on a chief of the 

 last three cross crosslets of the first,) and the writer affirms that this has 

 never been done. 



Salisbury Cathedral. Chapter iv., pp. 93—100, of " A Cathedral 

 Pilgrimage," by Julia C. R. Dorr, Macmillans, New York and London, 

 1896, royal 32mo, 3s. 6d., is headed " A Boy Bishop," and deals with 

 Salisbury Cathedral. The authoress is American. 



Salisbury Cathedral. The Sunday Magazine, January, 1899, has 

 an article on "Our Cathedral Churches," with twenty-three illustrations 

 from models. That of Salisbury, the south side, showing Chapter-House 

 and Cloisters, is from a model lately in possession of Mr. Thatcher, College 

 Green, Bristol. 



George Crabbe. An article by Maude Prower appears in the Gentleman*s 

 Magazine for April, 1899, pp. 356 — 367, containing a careful appreciation 

 of the work of this too generally forgotten poet, and an interesting comparison 

 of his genius, more especially in the descriptions of nature, and the annals of 

 the poor, with that of Wordsworth when dealing with kindred subjects. 



Est court Family and Devizes. The Devizes Gazette. April 2i >th, 



1899, contains a good account of the connection of the Estcourts with 1V\ izes s 

 and of the property held by them in and around the town, including the 

 Green, which now passes by purchase into the possession of fche Corporation, 



