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containing the Pedigree of Ludlow, a Sketch of the Civil War in Wilts (pp. 

 439 — 482)— the account of General Ludlow — Ludlow's services in Ireland — 

 and the Wiltshire Election of 1654 ; whilst vol. ii. contains appendices 

 occupying 131 pages, on Col. Nicolas Kempson — Ludlow's command in Ireland 

 — the articles against him — the Election for Hindon, 1660 — Letters of the 

 English Exiles in Switzerland— Ludlow's visit to England in 1689 — Epitaphs, 

 from Vevay — The site of Ludlow's House at Vevay. Of these, as will be seen 

 several are concerned more or less with Wiltshire matters, whilst the Sketch 

 of the Civil War in Wilts is an excellent outline of the general course of the 

 struggle in the county, supplementing Ludlow's own account of the events in 

 which he himself took part. There are a good many illustrative footnotes. 

 The index at the end seems fairly full, and the Editor seems in every way to 

 have done his work well. The text is that of the edition of 1698 with the 

 errata noted in vol. iii. corrected. 



Stonehenge, the Balearic Isles, and Malta ; Ancient Temples com- 

 pared. By Capt. S. P. Oliver, F.S.A., is a paper in The Illustrated 

 London Neios of August 4th, 1894. 



Capt. Oliver apparently maintains, as he did a year or two ago in The Times, 

 that the original condition of Stonehenge is to be explained by the analogy of 

 the megalithic monuments of the Balearic Isles and of Malta. He argues 

 that as it has been fairly proved that the upright pillars with cap stones on them, 

 or "Taulas," found in the Balearic buildings, were really not altars, but pillars 

 to support a roof— so the lintels of the outer sarsen circle at Stonehenge were 

 to support the roof of a cloister or terrace surrounding the higher central 

 roofed building— supported by the great trilithons, corresponding with the 

 conical towers or " Talayots " of Minorca. The notion, he says, "that 

 Stonehenge was hypsethral, or open to the sky, may certainly be dismissed 

 from the mind " — though he does not tell us what the roof was made of, or 

 what has become of it. He apparently believes that there was no outer circle 

 at Stonehenge at all, but that the south-west side was cut off flat, as in some 

 of the Mediterranean buildings, and that the entrance was on the south-east 

 side. 



Of Avebury he says : — " Avebury is generally quoted as a larger and ruder 

 counterpart of Stonehenge, but so few stones remain in situ that is is almost 

 impossible to re-construct it even in imagination. It is classed as a circle with 

 interior circles, yet if Aubrey's plans (however uutrustworthy) are consulted, 

 it will be seen that even in his day the circle is a stretch of the imagination — 

 one side, that to the south-west, is decidedly flat, and the so-called circles 

 within are decidedly of horseshoe shape, with straight facades also to south- 

 west and south. The so-called avenues may have been lines of Cyclopean 

 fortification, or portions of an enciente, and probably only the central stones 

 inside the inner circles represented the ruins of edifices not dissimilar to those 

 now seen in the Balearic Islands." The paper occupies two pages, and is 

 illustrated with a plan and two photographic blocks of Stonehenge, with four 

 others of megalithic structures in Minorca and Malta. 



Wilton. In Good Words for July, 1894, is a paper by Geoffrey Winterwood, 

 VOL. XXVIII. NO. LXXXII. F 



