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Wiltshire Booh, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



01(1 Sariim. In The Sunday Magazine for October, 1894, there is an article 

 on " The Green Rings of Old Sarum," by Wm. Canton, with several illus- 

 trations by A. Quinton. 



Wilts Book Plates. The Journal of the JEx Libris Society, vol. iii., p. 92, 

 93, has an article on " Gore Book Plates," by J. R. B., with two illustrations, 

 in which they are attributed to Thomas Gore, of Alderton ; and in voL iv., 

 part 6, there is an article of two-and-a-half pages, with three illustrations* on 

 "The Hungerford Book Plate," by J. Whitmarsh. 



Early Man in Marlborough, by J. W. Brooke, 8vo, 12 pages. This is the 

 paper read bj Mr. Brooke at the Marlborough Meeting of the Society on July 

 19th, 1894. It was reported fully in the local papers at the time, and was 

 reprinted in pamphlet form from the columns of The Marlborough Times. 

 Mr. Brooke's record of the discovery of what he believes to be Palaeolithic Flint 

 weapons on the surface at Pantawick and elsewhere near Marlborough, and 

 still more his belief that he has found weapons of this age in situ in the gravel 

 pits of Savernake Forest, are very interesting points, but the scientific value of 

 his paper as a whole is quite marred by the very loose rein which the author 

 gives to his imagination in describing the life of Palaeolithic man in the Pewsey 

 Vale, and in the theories which he advances as to the origin and use of Avebury 

 and Stonehenge and Silbury. To say, as he does, that " the earliest objects of 

 worship in this locality were the two stupendous works of labour and patience 

 the Marlborough Mound and Silbury Hill " is to make a statement which he 

 brings forward no proof to support, and which will seem to the great majority 

 of those who have studied the subject very misleading. 



Cecily among the Birds is a bright story for children, in which birds are 

 the chief actors, by Miss Maude Prower (of Purton), which occupies 11 pages in 

 the October and November numbers of The Animal World. 



Robert Carroll, by M. E, Le Clerc (Miss Margaret E. Clarke), is an historical 

 novel of the time of the Young Pretender. Noticed in The Standard, 1893. 



A Toy Tragedy is the title of a story recently published by Mrs. H. de la 

 Pasture (of Malmesbury). 



Tha Parish Councils Bill is a Dialogue in Wiltshire Dialect by Mr. E. Slow, 

 of Wilton. Reprinted in pamphlet form, 12mo, from The Weekly Hecord. 



Lord Lansdowne's Yiceroyalty of India— a notice from The Times— is 

 reprinted in the Devizes Gazette, June 28th, 1894. 



Bichard J efferies. Longman s Magazine for June. 1894, has an unpublished 

 paper by him — "The Spring of the Tear." 



A. Blue Book, with a report by Mr. Aubrey J. Spenser on the condition of 

 Agricultural Labour in Wilts, &c, was noticed in the Salisbury Journal, 

 August 12th, 1893. 



