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Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



extracts from his two published Works on Christianity and 

 Democracy. Edited and arranged by W. H. Mallock and Lady 

 Gwendoline Eamsden. London. Ii. Bentley & Son. 8vo, cloth. 

 1893. 



This is a well got up book of x and 547 pages, with a good autotype portrait 

 of the Duke from a bust by Brock. It cannot be called a biography, for, with 

 the exception of here and there a small print explanatory note, the letters are 

 left to tell their own story. They deal with his home life, his travels on the 

 Continent, and the active part which he took in politics for more than forty 

 years. The large majority were written to his father, his wife, and his 

 brother-in-law, Brinsley Sheridan, and although they cannot he said to be of 

 any great public interest— here and there they contain a good story — yet they 

 present the writer as an honourable and upright English gentleman, bound to 

 his own home circle by the ties of great affection. 



The epitome of his work on " Christian Theology and Modern Scepticism " 

 shows that he entertained very liberal views on the doctrines of Christianity, 

 and that, in his view, religious controversy should cease in the future in the 

 presence of a latitudinarian scheme of comprehension for all Protestant denomi- 

 nations. In his work on " Monarchy and Democracy " he traces shortly 

 the growth of modern political opinions, quoting the various doctrines pro- 

 pounded by distinguished writers on political science and comparing their 

 predictions with the teaching of subsequent events and very shrewdly points 

 out the dangers of the modern democratic ideal of government. 



The Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire, vol. ii., from 

 1884 to 1893, by (Col.) Henry Graham. 8vo. Liverpool. D. 

 Marples & Co. 1894. 



This is a thin volume of 44 pages with an unnamed portrait (we believe of 

 Col. Estcourt) as a frontispiece. In it the author continues the work he began 

 in his first volume in 1886. The annals of the regiment are traced up to date, 

 and end with an account of the centenary celebration. There are three ap- 

 pendices, a list of officers 1884 — 1893, a list of regimental prize-winners, and 

 the centenary muster roll. Noticed in Salisbury Journal, June 23rd, 1894- 

 Th e Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Lieutenant- General of the Horse 

 in the Army of the Commonwealth of England, 1625 — 1672. 

 Edited, with Appendices of Letters and Illustrative Documents, 

 by C. H. Firth, M A. Two vols., 8vo. Oxford. Clarendon 

 Press. 1894. Vol. i., pp. xlix. and 436 ; vol, ii., pp. 571. 



Since their first appearance in 1698 Ludlow's Memoirs, which are at once an 

 autobiography and a history of his own time, have been looked upon as one of 

 the chief authorities for the history of the period, and have been repeatedly 

 reprinted, but Mr. Firth claims that this is the first edition in which a number 

 of suppressed passages in the memoirs have been printed. The critical in- 

 troduction of 49 pages by the Editor is partly intended to complete 

 Ludlow's account of himself, and partly to estimate the value of his contribution 

 to the general history of the period. In vol. i. there are five appendices, 



