characters in the book are meant to depict living persons. The dominant idea of the book is that a boy gets out of a public school very much what he brings to it. If he brings brains he will find the means of cultivating them; if he does not, he is satisfied with games. Paul, the hero of the story, an unconventional boy who has never been to school before, spends a first term of utter misery at "Martinsell," and ends by writing from the front "When all's said and done, it's Martinsell, Martinsell, Martinsell that I long for, Martinsell that somehow I don't know how-has given me strength and power, and has made me love. I don't know whether its system be right or wrong, but it is Martinsell that has made me come out here and fight, and has guided me right all along."

Reviewed, Times Lit. Supp., Feb. 19th, 1920.

The Wiltshire Regiment's Marching Song.

An

interesting correspondence as to the origin both of the words and of the music of the song, "The Vly be on the Turmuts" is printed in The Wiltshire Telegraph, May 22nd, 1920. Two versions of the song are given, one from "Roger Plowman's Excursion to London," pub. at Cirencester; the other "Newly arranged by permission from the authenticated melody by H. Millington, late Bandmaster of the 1st Wilts Rifle Volunteers and Western Counties Brigade." Mr. Reuben George maintains that it is a Gloucestershire song. Mr. Edward Slow states that in 1871 he sent a copy to Captain the Earl of Pembroke, through whom the War Office adopted it as the Marching Song of the Wiltshire Regiment. But as to the origin of either song or tune nobody seems to be able to get further back than this. Shepherd's Shore and Bagdown Hill. A number of letters in Wiltshire Telegraph, noticed in Wiltshire Gazette, April 8th, 1920, followed by others in the issues of April 15th and 28th, discussed the derivation of "Shepherd's Shore" as it is now, and as it appears in Andrew and Dury's map of 1773, or "Shepherds Shard as it appears in Cary's map of 1793. Mr. R. S. Gundry and Captain Cunnington rightly point out that "Shore or "Shard" is simply the gap in Wans Dyke through which the road passes, and the latter instances "Red Shore," the corresponding gap in the dyke through which the Marlborough to Alton Road passes. Mr. E. Coward points out that "Bagdown Hill" is probably a corruption of Beacon Down Hill, but that there are two "Beacon Hills," about a mile apart shown on the Rev. A. C. Smith's Map of a Hundred Square Miles Round Avebury, whereas the hill marked " Bagdon" on that map, overlooking Bishops Cannings, has always been called "Haydon " locally. On April 28th Mr. R. S. Gundry writes citing three highway acts and summing up their evidence, concludes that "Bagdown" is Beacon Down Hill, “between the encampment and Heddington," and that "Horsley Upright Gate" (as Mr. Talbot pointed out in Wilts N. & Q.) indicates the top of Bowden Hill. Mr. E. Coward returns to the charge in the issue of May 13th, arguing that Haydon or (? Baydon) Hill is that overlooking

Bishops Cannings (i.e., that called "Bagdon " in Smith's map), on the strength of entries in an old diary kept by William Gaby, of Netherstreet, dating back to 1656, mentioning the hauling of stones thence. There is a bed of particularly hard chalk rubble on this hill.

Salisbury Cathedral. 1220-1920. An Architectural Triumph. Good article in Daily Telegraph,April 28th, 1920, with two views of the Cathedral. Salisbury Cathedral, 1220-1920. Article from the Architectural standpoint, by H. Heathcote Statham, in the Observer, reprinted in Wiltshire Times, May 8th, 1920.

The Early History of Salisbury. A series of lectures by Mr. F. Stevens, F.S.A., during the winter 1919-20, was reported at considerable length in The Salisbury Journal. The issue of Nov. 22nd, 1919, contains an abstract of a lecture on Stonehenge. He suggests that the sarsens were floated on rafts supported by inflated skins down the Avon, and that one came to grief and fell into the river at Bulford, where it remains to this day. "Salisbury in the Bronze Age" (Dec. 13th) describes the contents of the barrows, and the succeeding culture of the Late Celtic people of the Highfield pits, on the site of the present Fisherton Waterworks. In that on "Old Sarum" (January 31st) he attributes the outer ditch with certainty to Alfred in his struggle with the Danes, and regards The Moot at Downton as the finest example of a Saxon meeting place in England. Two lectures on Old Sarum and the Norman Occupation," with the accounts of Bishops Osmund and Roger, &c., are reported Feb. 21st, and March 13th, 1920.

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Salisbury Cathedral Copy of Magna Charta.

Chan

cellor Wordsworth gave two lectures on this document, which are reported in the Salisbury Journal of Feb. 14th and 21st, 1920. He mentioned incidentally that the Upper Treasury of the Cathedral above the Canons' Vestry, with its massive iron-bound chest, perhaps as old as the building, was the repository for all records and evidences of of the Chapter. The Dean and others who had "Peculiar" jurisdic tion had a separate repository over the great north door of the Cathedral, whilst the muniments relating to the Bishop's jurisdiction and official estates were formerly kept in the Beauchamp Tower at the Palace, and are now placed partly in a strong room at the Diocesan Registry in Bishop's Walk, and partly in the Exeter Street gateway building. As regards the copy of Magna Charta now preserved in the Cathedral Library he concludes that it was a contemporary copy made specially for the Cathedral, as was that still preserved at Lincoln Cathedral. The other two known copies are in the British Museum. It was certainly not the copy mentioned by Bishop Burnet in his "History of his own Time," as then in his possession. This copy was in the possession of his son, Sir Thomas Burnet, and of his executor, and his executor's daughter sold it in or before 1769 to Philip, 2nd

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Earl of Stanhope. It was obtained by Bp. Burnet from Archbishop Laud's cabinet at Lambeth.

Salisbury Cathedral Commemoration. Nov. 4th, 1920. Sermon by Canon G. C. Hutchings, Vicar of Beaminster. Printed in full in Salisbury and Winchester Journal, Nov. 8th, 1919.

"A Wiltshire Water Meadow in May." By George Southcote (Major-Gen. Sir Geo. Aston, K.C.B.). A fisherman's article on a chalk stream in the Salisbury neighbourhood. Country Life, May 15th, 1920. pp. 651-2.

ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

Museum.

Presented by COL. HENEAGE: Animal bones found at Cherhill.

MR. W. G. COLLINS: Fine Fint Arrowhead with long barbs
from Conkwell, and leaf-shaped ditto from Westwood.
MR. W. J. HEMP Portion of Red Deer Antler, possibly a
pick, from Wilsford, S. Wilts, Barrow 9.

MR. J. C. MOULTON: A number of Fossils from the Bradford
Clay and Oolite, Bradford-on-Avon.

CAPT. CUNNINGTON: A Cross-bow found in a barn at Beck-
hampton. A small square leaden Seal with merchant's
mark, 17th century, dug up in the garden of No. 33, Long
Street, Devizes. An Iron Cannon Ball found in the found-
ations of No. 50, Long Street, Devizes. Two Iron Cannon
Balls found in St. James' Churchyard, Devizes. A 17th
Century Token bought in London, of Highworth? Box
Wood Quadrant, inscribed "William Holloway Liv. in All
Cannings anno Dom 1709." A large collection of scrapers,
knives and other finely worked flints from Shepherd's Shore,
&c.

COL SIR AUDLEY NEELD, BART. A number of English
Silver Coins found at Grittleton.

Library.

Presented by THE CURATOR: Report of Salisbury, South Wilts, and Blackmore Museum, 1918-19.

SOMERSET ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Wiltshire Deed.

THE AUTHOR: MR. A. SCHOMBERG: "Griffin Curteis," reprint from Misc. Geneal. et Herald.

Presented by THE AUTHOR: MRS. M. E. CUNNINGTON: Notes on Stone Mould from South Wales. Man, 1920.

CAPT. B. H. CUNNINGTON and the REV. E. H. GODDARD:
Britton's " 'Salisbury Cathedral," with extra plates and
original MS. preface.

CAPT. B. H. Cunnington: 50 Wiltshire Prints and Maps.
A number of Old Devizes Deeds.

MRS. CUNNINGTON: Index Map to Ordnance Survey of
Wilts.

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The Record of the

THE AUTHOR, CANON E. P. KNUBLEY:
Parish of Steeple Ashton in relation to the Great War."
MR. J. J. SLADE: 21 Wilts Sale Catalogues. Two Wilts
Prints. Old Wiltshire Deed. "How it is done," a Patriotic
Play by J. Lee Osborn. "Pictures in the Fire and other
Soldier Ballads," by M. K. Dowding. "Verses to the
Fallen, Inscriptions for Cenotaphs," by T. G. W. Henslow.
A number of Wiltshire Pamphlets. 'Olympian Odes of
Pindar," by Cyril Mayne. "County Courts," by Whit-
marsh. Marlborough Coll. Calendar, 1850.

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Mr. H. W. DARTNELL: "Some account of John Rose, of
Amesbury." "Lectures on the Catechism," and "Explana-
tions of the Duties of Religion," by W. Gilpin.
Castle Children," by Mrs. Stephen Batson. Three Wilts
Pamphlets.

MISS DARTNELL: 6 old Wilts Prints.

"The

THE AUTHOR, MRS. RICHARDSON : "The Story of Purton."
1919.

THE AUTHOR, MR. T. STURGE COTTERELL: Historic Map of
Bath.

MR. E. C. GARDNER: Several scarce Wilts Pamphlets.
Marshall's Rural Economy, 4 vols., and other volumes. Two
Prints of Salisbury Exhibition.

CANON F. H. MANLEY: Wiltshire Pamphlet. MS. on Arms
of Wiltshire, by Canon Jackson. "The History of Michael
Kemp," by Mrs. Woodrooffe.

MR. H. BIZLEY: Old Deed.

THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, through MR. A. WHITE-
HEAD: A large number of Old Deeds connected with
Berwick St. James, &c.

MRS. MC MILLAN: A parcel of Notes, Newspaper Cuttings,
Letters, &c., by and concerning John Britton, from Canon
Jackson's library.

MR. A. WHITEHEAD: A parcel of 18th cent. Deeds relating
to Meeting House at Salisbury.

MISS REYNOLDS: "The Theatre of the Empire of Great
Britain," by John Speed. 1876.

Presented by MR. A. W. MARKS: 10 Wilts Deeds, Highworth, &c.

THE AUTHOR, MISS F. E. BAKER (of Salisbury): "The
Standardisation of Colours." "Address on the Beauty and
Usefulness of Colour." 1920.

THE PUBLISHERS : "Devizes Castle, its History and
Romance," by E. H. Stone.

MR. A. D. PASSMORE: "Then and Now, or Fifty Years Ago,
by William Mate." 1883.

MR. GUY PEIRSON: "Handlist of Flowering Plants of the
District. Marlborough and Ten Miles Round. By Rev. T.
N. Hart Smith-Pearse, O.M." 1919. "Handlist of the

Birds of the District," by L. G. Peirson. 1919.