Ideas of Good and Evil. Ibid, July 16th and 23rd, 1903. A Piano and an Omnibus. Weekly Critical Rev., May 28th; A Kitten: that's all. Weekly Survey, Dec. 12th, 1904. Another Prodigal. Ibid, Dec. 27th, 1907. A Yokel's Impression of London. Daily Mail, Aug. 31st, 1907. Fun o' the Fair. Daily News, 1908. The Prawner. Ibid, 1908. Robbery Robbed. Ibid, 1908. Touch and go with the Sea. Country Life, 1908. Squalls. Ibid, 1908. From a Poor Man's House (i.-v.). Albany, 1908. Longshore Fisheries. English Review, 1908. A Steam-burst Afloat. Daily News, Aug. 31st, 1908. What Workmen think of Conscription. Nation, Feb. 13th, 1909. Seems So! The Suffragettes. Spectator, Feb. 20th, 1909. The Coastguard. Daily Mail, Dec. 16th, 1909. Turned Out. New Age, May 11th, 1910. The Character of the Era now commencing compared with the Victorian Age. Westminster, June 2nd, 1910. With Baby's Help. New Age, June 30th, 1910. Fisherman and Motor Boat. Daily News, July 5th, 1910. His Majesty's Medal. Westminster. Aug., 31st, 1910. Log of the Bristol Beauty. T. P's Weekly. Christmas, 1910. Brother Christmas and Mr. Bookman. Daily News, Dec. 26, 1910. A Dog's Life. Open Window. June 1911. Week Ends at Nesscombe :-" Hannaford Himself. West minster, June 3rd and 10th, 1911. "The Commonplace," June 17th and 24th, 1911. "Age against Youth," July 1, 1911. "Sweet William," July 8th, 1911. "Tragedy," July 15th, 1911. "The Conquest of Ugliness," July 22nd and 29th, 1911. “Deadman's Escape," Aug. 5th, 1911. "The Concert," Aug. 12th, 1911. “London,” Aug. 19th, 1911. "Nakedness," Aug. 26th, 1911. "Rabelaisianism," Sept. 2nd, 1911. "Immortality," Sept. 9th and 16th, 1911. Sillie Saltie. Throne, Nov. 11, 1911. Ships versus Men. English Review, 1911. Mrs. Tripp's Flutter. Bristol Times, June 5th, 1912. The Great Silent Navy. Daily Chronicle, July 10th, 1912. Ibid, July 17th, Aug. 3rd, 1912. Men of the Lower Deck. The Lower Deck. Ibid, July 22nd, Aug. 13th and 24th, 1912. How I began. T.P's. Weekly, Oct. 18th, 1912. Puffin Home. Blackwood, Nov. 15th, 1912. Commonwealth, Jan. 22nd, 1913. (Interview.) Christian Free Libraries and Novel Censorship. T.P's. Weekly, Sept. 12th, 1913. £9,000,000 Worth of Fish. Daily Mail, Sept. 13th, 1913. The Peacemaker. Ibid, Sept. 20th, 1913. Wealth and Life:-" Politics," Nation, Nov. 14th, 1913. "Un rest," Nov. 22nd, 1913. "Wealth Itself," Nov. 29th, 1913. The Faith I live by. Christian Commonwealth, Dec. 10th, 1913. Labour and Religion. Challenge, May 1st, 1914. Our Unconquerable Fishermen. Daily Mail, May 18th, 1914. Fish Prices and Profits. Ibid, June 23rd, 1914. Sea Fish at Home. Daily News, July 25th, 1914. Fish Food in War Time. Daily Mail, Sept. 18th, 1914. Frank Brandt, R.N. Asiatic Review, Feb. 1915. Daily Mail, Feb. 20th, 1915. Inshore Fisheries Development. Country Life, two illusts., Apr. 22nd and May 20th, 1916. Fish as Food. Times Trade Supplement, Jan., 1917. Poems. Pecunia Fugit. Owen's Coll. Union Mag, Dec., 1901. Song. Ibid, Dec., 1901. A Correspondence: From Chopin's Nocturne, Op. 48, No. 2. Ibid, Jan., 1902. Prisoners. New Weekly, April 11th, 1914. The Fisherman's Song. Ibid. Letters to the Press. The Coastguard and the Longshore Fisheries. Sidmouth Herald, April 4th, 1908. Times. Capstans on the Road. Ibid, July 11th, 1908. The Economics of Longshore Fisheries. Ibid, 1908. The Poor and Education. Spectator, Feb. 5th, 1910. Inshore Fisheries. Times, April 5th, 1912. Shore Fishermen and the Insurance Act. Ibid, May 25th, 1912. Harvest Bugs. Daily Mail, Sept. 1st, 1913. Inshore Fisheries. Times, June 10th, 1914. He was also the author of a great number of reviews of books in the Bookman, the Daily News the Daily Mail, and other papers, and a list of about 140 of these has been placed with the MS. Wilts Bibliographical collections. WILTSHIRE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, [N.B.-This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books, or views, in any way connected with the county, to send him copies of their works, and to editors of papers, and members of the Society generally, to send him copies of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers.] Devizes Castle: its History and Romance. By E. Herbert Stone. (Photo of Waylen's Picture of the Castle). Devizes: George Simpson & Co., Devizes, Ltd., 1920. 8vo, 8in. × 5in. Cloth, pp., including title, viii. 201. Price 7s. Five folding plans:-The Castle, General Plan; Keep of Rochester Castle; Probable General Plan of Castle and Borough in the 13th Century; General Plan of the Town of Devizes at the present date; The Old Park; Frontispiece of the Castle from Waylen's imaginary picture in the Town Hall; Prehistoric fortifications from Viollet le Duc ; Plans of the King's House in the Castle; The dilapidated Keep (of Rochester): Devizes in the year 1723 (from Stukeley); Two Views of the Round Tower (from prints); The Castle of to-day, 1919 (photo of House and Garden.) Mr. Stone's work, which first appeared in a series of instalments in the Wiltshire Gazette, from May 29th to Sept. 4th, 1919, in a somewhat abridged form, is now published in a substantial volume with considerable additions and enlargements, but on the same lines as were followed in its serial publication. As it appeared serially it has already been noticed in the Magazine (vol. xl., pp. 438, 439). In its book form it gathers together very conveniently all that has been published concerning the history of the castle. For those who desire to study the subject more fully, the author's type-written history on a larger scale, giving full quotations from authorities, is available in the Society's Library at Devizes Museum, and in addition the author states that he will be glad to show his collection of plans, sections, and notes, to anyone interested in the subject. There is a fairly full table of contents of four pages at the beginning of the book, but this does not adequately take the place of a full index, which would have added much to the practical value of the book. A large number of appendices dealing with various matters of interest are added at the end of the work-one of which contains translations of the earlier charters, down to that of Ed. III. On p. 192 a quotation from the Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, it is evident that the "vi. bukkes" which "the Keper of the parke of the Devizes" brings "Thens to Fayreford to the Quene" are not books, as is assumed in the text, but bucks. A long and good review appears in the Wiltshire Gazette, April 1st; there are also notices in the Wiltshire Advertiser, and Wiltshire Times, April 10th, 1920. The author replied to some points raised by the reviewer in Wiltshire Gazette April 8th, 1920. "The Story of Purton. A Collection of Notes and Hearsay gathered by Ethel M. Richardson. With illustrations. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, Ltd., 11, Quay Street. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Company, Limited, 1919." Cloth, 8vo, pp. 143. Eight photo plates, containing good photos of "The Church, Manor House, and Old Cottages"; "Chimney Pieces (2) in College Farm"; Purton from an old Print "; “The Church before Restoration (interior)." Portraits of "Old Mrs. Cook" and "Curly Tom." "Purton House and Cedar in the Grounds." "The Manor House, N. and S. Fronts." "Restrop House, Front, and Hall." "Purton House, 1800, from a Sketch." This nicely got up book is not a History of Purton, but just what its title claims for it, "A collection of Notes and Hearsay," and the value and interest of it lies almost entirely in matters of the 18th and 19th century, recollections of the oldest inhabitant rescued by Mrs. Richardson, or events of even more recent times. For earlier events she has relied chiefly on the pages of this Magazine and of Wilts Notes and Queries, and where she quotes she does not always give her references, so that the student of Wiltshire history must not expect to find any new light thrown on the early history of the place, though the modern inhabitant of Purton, for whom the book is primarily written, will find much to interest him. The story of Edmund, Earl of Clarendon, who lived at College Farm, now the property of Worcester College, to which his father, Henry Hyde, had removed from Dinton, is illustrated by good photos of the two fine and well-preserved armorial mantelpieces still existing in the house, though there is no description of their heraldry. The account of the Church is taken from Mr. Ponting's article in Wilts Arch. Mag., but an interesting note or two is added. The fourth bell, inscribed "Edward Deane, Humphrey Stanley, Churchwardens, A.R. 1750," being badly cracked, was re-cast in 1916, the old inscription being reproduced with this addition :-"Re-cast M.C.M.XVI. A.M.D.G. et in piam memoriam Mervyn Stronge Richardson, 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, killed in action at Fricourt, France, March 19th, 1916, aged 21 years. Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori. Arthur Richardson, Captain. Frank Kempster. Churchwardens. John Veysey, Vicar." A list of the Vicars and Patrons is given from 1299, Some account is given of the Prower family, two of whom, father and son, both named John, held the living for all-but a century from 1771 to 1869. The account of the restoration of the Church in 1872 leads to the story of the female (?) skeleton found lying in a recess 4ft. above the floor in the chancel wall. Of course this at Purton is always regarded as that of an immured nun. Mrs. Richardson suggests that it is that of an anchorite who dwelt in the chamber now used as the vestry, though there is really no evidence that this was so. And the reported finding of a sword with the skeleton seems to throw doubt on the accepted fact that it was that of a female at all. Notes follow on well-known characters and all sorts of parish institutions and their founders, school, cottage hospital, institution, cricket club (famous in its day in N. Wilts), mills, and charities. In connection with the "Poors Platt Charity" the letting of the twentyfive acres appropriated to the poor of Purton Stoke on the disafforesting of Braden in lieu of their former rights in the forest, on the first Thursday after Old Christmas, is still carried out by the ceremony of "Chalking the Bellows." "The Bellows are taken round by the Landlord of 'The Bell' at Purton Stoke, accompanied by one of the tenants of the preceding year, who is given the option of making the first bid. This is done by chalking the amount on the bellows. When the bellows have been passed round the room three times without an advance, on arriving the third time at the last bidder he becomes the tenant for the ensuing year." Previous to its purchase, about the middle of the 17th century, by Francis Goddard, Purton House, the residence of the authoress, was known as "Chainberlaynes." The drawing made in 1800 suggests a substantial house of the time of Queen Anne or somewhat earlier. This appears to have been mostly pulled down and the modern house built a little before 1840, when Mrs. Sarah Miles sold it to Horatio Nelson Goddard, of Clyffe Pypard, who in turn sold it later to Major Prower. The fine cedar was planted by Sir George Hayter, the portrait painter, about seventy years ago. The Manor House, which with its great barn forms with the Church a group of buildings which it is hard to match in Wiltshire, was re-built at the end of the 16th century by Lord Chandos practically as we see it now. He sold it to Sir John Cooper and it remained the property of the Earls of Shaftesbury until in 1892 it was (as Church Farm) sold to Mr. Charles Beak, on whose death in 1900 it was sold to Mrs. Walsh, the present owner. The south front of the house was not altered but a new wing was then added to the north side, and the interior, which had long been adapted and used as a farm house, was entirely re-modelled. In 1912 the old Vicarage, a house of no architectural interest, was pulled down, and the site was added to the churchyard. Mrs. Richardson notes that several skeletons have been since discovered in what was the Vicarage garden. Some interesting reminiscences are given of the hanging at "Watkins' Corner," in 1819, of Robert Watkins, for the |