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"Playing Pigs" and "In Gamle Norge," two pictures of children at play, 

 by Gideon Pidler, of Teffont Magna; 907, a landscape, "Snow on the 

 Cuchillins, Isle of Skye," by Alfred Williams, of Salisbury; and 1086, "The 

 Old Market Cross, Salisbury," by William Alexander, of that city. In the 

 Architectural Room, 1568, a pencil drawing of the silver altar-cross of the 

 lady chapel of the Cathedral, by E. Doran Webb, and 1607, a pen drawing of 

 "New Country Residence near Chippenham," by T. B. Silcock. 



In the New Gallery. — No. 263, "Summer on the Kennett, the Old Lock," 

 by Thomas Ireland, and 297, a water-colour drawing of " St. Anne's Gate, 

 Salisbuiy, by Andrew B. Donaldson. 



In the Winter Exhibition of Old Masters, at Burlington House, three 

 portraits— Master Lambton, Miss Crokers, and Lady Jersey — by Sir Thomas 

 Lawrence, were exhibited, as well as Gainsborough's " The Mall, St. James's 

 Park," from Grittleton. 



A portrait of Sir W. Grant, Master of the Rolls, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 

 P.R.A., in 1802, has been presented by Mr. S. Young, Master of the Barbers' 

 Company, to the Corporation Gallery of the City of London. 



t% £sle of Canon pacta's Jikarir. 



The entire library of the late Canon J. E, Jackson, F.S.A., which was left by 

 will to his nephew, Mr. J. H. Jackson, was sold by Messrs. Hodgson, at their 

 auction rooms, 115, Chancery Lane, on May 7th, 8th, and 9th, 1895. There 

 were in all nine hundred and thirty-six lots, the majority of which consisted of 

 interesting books and pamphlets on county history and topography, with a con- 

 siderable number of works on general literature, history, the classics, &c, many 

 of them old and curious. 



The Wiltshire portion of the library— for the topographical items were by no 

 means confined to this county — was sold chiefly on the third day of sale, when 

 Mr. W. H. Bell and the Rev. E. H. Goddard attended as representatives of the 

 Wilts Archosological Society, with the object especially of securing Lot 933 — 

 eight folio volumes, bound in vellum, containing the collections of the late Canon 

 relating to the History of the Hungerford Family, drawings, autographs, 

 portraits, pedigrees, and an enormous mass of MS. notes— very much of which 

 has never been printed in any form. This was, of course, tho most important 

 item in the library, the collection of the material contained in those eight volumes 

 having occupied many years of Canon Jackson's life. It is needless to sny that 

 this would have been an extremely valuable addition to the Society's possessions, 

 but it fell eventually to Mr. Quaritoh for £158, a sum considerably beyond the 



