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Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



with illustrations by G. Tidier, on Wilton House. The woodcuts, seven in 

 number, of the entrance, the house and bridge, cloisters, interior of the bridge, 

 house from the west, Holbein's Porch, and south-west view of the house, do 

 not do justice to their subjects, and the singular charm of Wilton is hardly 

 reflected in the sketchy letterpress. 



Tlie Jutes and Wansdyke. In the October number of The Antiquary, 

 vol. xxx., p. 152 — 156, Mr. P. M. Willis has a paper entitled " Notes on the 

 Jutes," in which he puts forward arguments, principally etymological, to prove 

 that the Jutes took a much more prominent place in the Teutonic conquest of 

 Britain than has hitherto been supposed. Mr. Willis does not dogmatise on 

 the point, but professedly gives the reasons for his theory for what they are 

 worth. How far his etymological arguments are sound is not easy to judge. 

 He quotes from Henry of Huntingdon the following passage : — " A.D. 478. 

 Hengist, King of Kent, died in the fortieth year after his invasion of Britain, 

 and his son Esc reigned thirty-four years. Esc, inheriting his father's valor, 

 firmly defended his kingdom against the Britons,and augmented it by territories 

 conquered from them." He considers that until the coming of Cerdic and 

 Cynric and the West Saxons in 519 the supreme power lay with the Jutes, 

 the " Kingdom of the Kentish people " being a much more extended district 

 than that which we know now as Kent. " It is with this extension of Kent," 

 Mr. Willis says, " of which Henry of Huntingdon speaks that I connect 

 Wansdyke, and although the latter was probably never completed, it was, I 

 imagine, iEsc's intention to carry it right across the island from channel to 

 channel as a northern boundary to the larger kingdom for which he was striving." 



The Museums at Farnham, Dorset, and at King John's House, 

 Tollard Royal, pp. 166—171, in The Antiquary for October, 1894 (vol. 

 xxx.), is the title of a long and extremely appreciative article by Roach le 

 Schonix on the wonderful series of institutions which Gen. Pitt-Rivers has 

 established near Rushmore. The arrangement, classification, and labelling of 

 these collections are spoken of in the highest terms. Of the collection of 

 ancient pottery the writer says : — " We know of no other museum that has 

 anything like so perfect a general collection illustrative of the various styles 

 of pottery prevailing in different countries and at different periods, though 

 there are a few that have a far richer variety under one or other special 

 heading." 



" A Short Ghride to the Larmer Grounds, Rushmore ; King John's 

 House ; and the Museum at Farnham, Dorset, by Lt.-Gren. Pitt- 

 Rivers, F.R.S., F.S.A.," is an 8vo pamphlet of 16 pp., giving a short 

 account of the pleasure grounds and museums already mentioned. It is 

 illustrated with a map of the neighbourhood, plans of the museums, and 

 fifteen photographic views of the Larmer Grounds, Rushmore Park, the 

 museum, and King John's House, admirably reproduced, as well as a cut of 

 the Larmer Tree. 



A long notice of the book, with an illustration of King John's House, appears 

 in the Illustrated Archceologist, September 1894, vol. ii., p. 115. 



