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by old Marlburians as an interesting record of their famous school. The 

 subjects chosen are Duck's Bridge, The Pavilion, The College Gate, The Oldest 

 House in Marlborough, The East End of the Chapel, The Old House, Foster's 



j Shop, The Town from the Cricket Field, and The Approach to the College from 

 the High Street. They are of very unequal merit. In three of them the 

 artist has doubtless been inspired by the special charm of his subject, and has 

 put forth his powers with quite admirable results ; " The Oldest House in 

 Marlborough " is a delightfully picturesque bit of half-timbered work ex- 

 cellently rendered — " The East End of the Chapel " well conveys the beauty 

 of proportion and sense of ordered solemnity that the building itself possesses 

 in such a remarkable degree— and the view of St. Peter's tower and the garden 

 front of " The Old House " is a not unworthy presentment of what is, perhaps 



| the most beautiful thing to be seen in Marlborough. These three plates are 

 excellent as etchings, and exceedingly pleasant to look on as pictures. On the 

 other hand " The Pavilion " is a hopelessly prosaic theme, and has evidently 



i been felt to be so by the artist, and " The College Gate " is also bald and poor. 

 From an artistic point of view, indeed, the series would have gained con- 

 siderably by the exclusion of these two views. " Foster's Shop " runs the 

 three first-mentioned hard, and the remaining plates are quite pleasing. On 



j the whole the artist is much to be commended, and the series is quite worth 



j the price at which it is published. 



jBob Beaker's Visit ta Lunnen ta zee tha Indian & Colonial 



j Exhibition, by the Author of Wiltshire Rhymes, 8fc. Salisbury. 



I 12mo. Sewn. [1896.] pp. 13. 



This little pamphlet contains a dialect prose story by Mr. Slow which ap- 



i peared as an appendix to some of the local almanacks this year. It is quite 



j one of the best things Mr. Slow has ever given us, exhibiting, as it does, real 



j humour and genuine South Wilts dialect — a combination which is none too 



! common. The story of Bob Beaker's adventures in Duval's Dining-room, and 



J the swopping of his watch with the man " vrim Mericky " whose "fiather's 



I vrens war Willsheer voke," is very diverting reading. 



;A Holiday in Salisbury and District. Published by Oliver Langmead. 



Compiled (by permission) from notes furnished by T. J. Northy. Price 3d. 



Post 8vo. Salisbury, 1896. Sewn. pp. 24. 

 ; This is a useful little guide-book, giving just the main facts as to the 



principal objects of interest in Salisbury and the neighbourhood. 



jLancaster's Stonehenge Handbook : containing the opinions of some 

 [J of the most eminent writers on the origin and object of that 

 Mysterious Monument, &c. Salisbury. Cr. 8vo. [1894.] Sewn. 

 < pp. 26. 



The introduction to this little pamphlet is in the true penny-a-line stylo, and 

 contains a good deal of information about the Druids, mistletoe, and so forth, 

 and several curious statements as to facts, e.g., that " there are indications of 



j two ovals of stones intervening " [between the sarsen and blue stone circles], 

 and that there are " three entrances to the Temple from the Plain." The rest 

 of the pamphlet consists in extracts from various writers, beginning with 



. Camden, 1600, and ending with Hatcher, 1834. 



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