256 



Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



The Luck Of the VailS. By E. F. Benson. 1901. The scene 

 of this novel is laid in " a wrinkle of the great Wiltshire Downs — 10 

 miles from Didcot Station " ! There is no local colour. 



The Sacred Precincts of the Close, a Tale of a Cathedral 



City, by Sidney Wardase. London : Sands & Co. A novel. " Darminster " 

 is manifestly Salisbury, and divers inhabitants of the Close find themselves 

 depicted — or caricatured — by the authoress, a Salisbury lady. Noticed, 

 Salisbury Journal, Nov. 30th, 1901. 



Wiltshire Regiment, The Volunteer Service 



Company. The return of the Company, with the reception of the 

 members in the various towns of the county, and a history of the part 

 taken by the Wiltshire Volunteers during the war, appeared in Devizes 

 Gazette, May 2nd, 1901. 



The presentation of South African medals to the members of the 

 company at Trowbridge on September 21st, 1901, is described in Devizes 

 Gazette, Sept. 26th. 



Lydiard TregOZ Church. Restoration and Discovery of Mural 

 Paintings. A long account of the opening of the Church, the Bishop of 

 Bristol's address, and some mention of the paintings, is given in North 

 Wilts Herald, Jan. 24th ; a more accurate account of the latter in 

 Devizes Gazette, Jan. 30th, 1902. 



History Of the Sarsens, Part II., by Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. 

 Paper in Geolog. Mag., Decade IV., vol. viii., pp. 54 — 59, 115 — 125, Feb. 

 and March, 1901. These are notes additional to Part I., published in 

 Wilts Arch. Mag., xxiii., 122—154, and as the author says, " are here 

 given with the view of making the History of the Sarsens, or Sarsen 

 Stones, more complete, and more easily available, especially by indicating 

 the chronological succession of observed facts and published opinions." 

 The occurrence of sarsens in various parts of England is noted, and a 

 bibliographical list of works treating of the subject is given at the end. 

 In the same number of the Geol. Mag., pp. 1 — 2, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S. , 

 has a valuable " Note on the Structure of Sarsens." 



Footprints of the Druids, or Saersen Stones and 



Grey Wethers, by E.L. Williams. Grays: Wilson .v. Whitworth. 



1899. Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 20. Has several references to Stonehengo, 

 witli new derivations of Saersen, \c. It also states that at Coldrum, 

 near Aylesford, Kent, there is a stone circle of sarsens, two of which 

 have been squared like those of Stonehenge. 



Old Wiltshire Market Crosses, a mtm > ni Mnieies i,y Mis* 



M. K. Dowding have appeared in the Devizes G azet te for December 24th, 



