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Shall Stonehenge go ? A National Relic in the 



Market. An article, also in the Daily Chronicle, Aug. 23rd, 1899, 

 which, together with a leading article in the same paper strongly advo- 

 cating an amendment to the Ancient Monuments Acts which should 

 make the alienation of such monuments from the nation impossible, was 

 called forth by the announcement that Sir Edmund Antrobus had offered 

 to sell Stonehenge and 1300 acres adjoining to the Government for 

 £125,000, an announcement made in the The Times of August 21st, and 

 followed by a letter in The Times of Aug. 22nd from the military corres- 

 pondent of that paper urging that action should be taken by the Govern- 

 ment at once. 



Shall Stonehenge go? Only to the Nation, says 



Mr. Thomas Hardy, is a further long account of an interview 

 with the novelist in the Daily Chronicle, Aug. 24th, in which he advocates 

 careful investigation on the spot. 



The Pall Mall Gazette, the Globe, and the Westminster Gazette, 

 quoted by the Devizes Gazette, Aug. 24th, also contain articles on the 

 sale, urging its purchase by Government, though the last-named paper 

 is doubtful as to the price asked. There is also a sensible article from 

 the Daily Telegraph of Aug. 22nd, reprinted in the same number of the 

 Devizes Gazette, on the subject. 



Stonehenge for Sale. Under this heading the Salisbury Journal of 

 August 8th, 1899, reprints the announcement made in The Times, as well 

 as an interview with an official of the Society of Antiquaries on the 

 subject, reported in another London paper, the articles from the Globe, 

 the Daily Chronicle, and the Daily Telegraph, quoted above, as well as 

 one in St. James's Gazette, ridiculing the idea of the Government paying 

 £100,000, or the half of it, for what practically belongs to the public 

 already. The Salisbury Journal has also an article in its issue of Aug. 

 26th hoping that the Government may buy it — at a reduced price. 



Under the same heading the Wilts County Mirror of Aug. 25th reprints 

 many of the articles mentioned above, as well as one from the Daily 

 Graphic, and a short account of the structure itself and its history. 



A Reasonable Price for Stonehenge is the title of a sensible 



article in the Spectator of August 26th, reprinted in the Wilts County 

 Mirror, Sept. 1st, and Devizes Gazette, Aug. 31st. The writer contends 

 that, as Stonehenge cannot be carried away like a picture, and as it is 

 most unlikely that any speculative purchaser could possibly make more 

 than £500 a year out of it by enclosing it and charging for admission, it 

 cannot be said to be worth at the outside more than £'10,000, which 

 allowing £12 an acre for the 1300 acres of land accompanying it, would 

 give £25,000 as a generous figure for the price to be paid for it by any 

 public body. 



W. J. Hamnett also writes to The Times, Aug. 28th, a long letter, 

 reprinted in Devizes Gazette, Aug. 31st., and Wilts County Mirror, Sept. 



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