Rev. James Bliss. Died November 8th, 1894, aged 86. Educated at

Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford. B.A., 1830; M.A., 1833. Formerly Vicar of Ogbourne St. Andrew; Vicar of St. James the Less, Plymouth, 1858-72; Rector of Manningford Bruce, 1888-1892. An industrious contributor to Anglo-Catholic theology. Editor of The Latin and Miscellaneous Works of Bishops Andrews and Beveridge, and vols. iii.—vii. of Archbishop Laud's Works in "The Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology." Translator of vol. iii.—St. Gregory on Job-in "The Library of the Fathers." He was buried at Manningford Bruce. Notice in Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, December, 1894.

William Fawcett. Alderman of Salisbury. Mayor in 1870. Brother of the late Professor Fawcett. Born January 30th, 1828; died February 23rd, 1895; buried at Fisherton. Well known and widely respected in Salisbury. Notice in Wilts County Mirror, March 1st, 1895.

George Mayo, F.R.C.S. Born at Seend, January 8th, 1807. Son of Rev. Joseph Mayo, Curate of Seend. Practised some years in Devizes. Emigrated to South Australia, 1836. Held a high position as a medical man in Adelaide, and died December 16th, 1894. A full notice of him appears in Wilts Notes and Queries, March, 1895, with quotations from the South Australian Register, December 17th, 1894.

George Robert Charles Herbert, Thirteenth Earl of Pembroke and Tenth Earl of Montgomery. Baron Herbert of Cardiff, Baron Herbert of Thursland, and Baron Herbert of Lea. Died at Bad Neuheim, after a long illness, on May 3rd, 1895. He was the eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert, afterwards Baron Herbert of Lea. Was born July 6th, 1850. Was educated at Eton. Succeeded his father as second Baron Herbert of Lea in 1861, and his uncle as Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery in 1862. From 1867 to 1871 he spent much time cruising amongst the islands of the Pacific, with Dr. Kingsley-Charles Kingsley's brother. "South Sea Bubbles, by the Earl and The Doctor," which went through three editions, is descriptive of these voyages. He also wrote a philosophical treatise entitled "Roots." In 1874 he married Lady Gertrude Frances Talbot, daughter of the eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. In 1874-5 he was Under Secretary for War under Mr. Disraeli, but soon resigned the post and ceased to take a prominent part in politics. The fact that his health was never robust probably prevented him from taking the prominent place in public affairs to which his great abilities seemed to entitle him. As a landlord of the most excellent type he will be widely missed not only at Wilton but throughout South Wilts. Obituary notices have appeared in the Salisbury Journal, May 4th; Salisbury and Wilton Times, May 10th (special supplement with portrait and view of Fugglestone Church); Illustrated London News (with portrait), May 11th; Guardian, May 8th; Black and White (with portrait); Saturday Review, May 25th; and The Album (with portrait and view of Wilton House from photos), May 20th. Buried in Fugglestone Churchyard.

William Saunders, M.P. Died May 1st, 1895. Son of Mr. A. E. Saunders, of Market Lavington, farmer and miller. Was born 1823, and educated at Devizes Grammar School. For some time connected with large quarries near Bath, he in 1860 established at Plymouth the Western Morning News, and at Hull in 1864 the Eastern Morning News. He also was the proprietor of the Central News Agency. He was elected a member of the London County Council in 1883 and 1892, and became M.P. for East Hull in 1885, and for Walworth in 1892. He was a Radical in politics, though he could and did take an independent course when he felt it right to do so. He wrote on various subjects connected with social and political matters, publishing "The New Parliament of 1880"; "The Land Laws"; " Mr. Hare's System of Representation," and a volume of travels " Through the Light Continent.” Obituary notices in Standard, May 2nd, and Illustrated London News (with portrait), May 11th.

Rev. Bryan King. B.A., Oxon (B.N.C.), 1834; M.A., 1837. Fellow of B.N.C., 1835-43. Perpetual Curate, St. John's, Bethnal Green, 1837–41 ; Rector of St. George's-in-the-East, 1842-62; Vicar of Avebury, 1863-94. Died January 30th, 1895, aged 83. An article in the Guardian of February 6th, 1895, signed Thomas Hughes, and entitled "Bryan King and Septimus Hansard," recalls what the author justly styles "perhaps the most incredible chapter in the recent history of our Church "-the notorious riots at St. George's-in-the-East in 1859-60, consequent on the introduction of certain points of ritual by Mr. Bryan King, who was then Vicar. Obituary notices appeared in the Illustrated London News, Standard, Church Times, and Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, March, 1895.

Edmund Grove Bennett. Died suddenly March 12th, aged 54. Of the firm of Bennett Brothers, proprietors of the Salisbury and Winchester Journal, which has attained a high position among provincial newspapers under his direction. Much respected in Salisbury. Buried in the Cloisters. Notices in Salisbury Journal; Wilts County Mirror, March 15th; and Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, April, 1895.

C. E. H. Hobhouse, M.P., for Devizes Division of Wilts. Portraits of him as mover of the address in the House of Commons appeared in the Illustrated London News, February 2nd, and the Penny Illustrated Paper, February 9th, 1895.

Successful Wiltshiremen Abroad. Under this heading the Devizes Gazette of August 8th, 1894, quotes from the Pontiac Gazette a notice of the career of two of the most prominent business men in Pontiac, U.S.A.John Pound, who emigrated from this county in 1857, and Thomas Turk, born at Bremhill in 1820.

Notes on Wiltshire Books, &c.

"The Fifth Series of Wiltshire Rhymes and Tales in the Wiltshire Dialect," by Edward Slow, Wilton, N.D. [1895], pp. 150.

This volume, which is, we believe, the first book that has ever been entirely printed, bound, and published at a Wilton press, contains a further instalment of those humorous sketches in prose and verse which we have so long been accustomed to associate with Mr. Slow's name. The dialect in which they are written is mainly that of South Wilts, which is well adapted to such work as this, though hardly so racy, perhaps, as the folk-speech of the northern part of our county. Local festivities, teetotalism and politics, the hunting-field and the bean-feast, the aged poor and the hard measure dealt to them-all in turn furnish Mr. Slow with a theme. We have only space here to mention two or three of them. Among the best of the humorous pieces is Tha Parish Council Bill, an amusing dialogue, in which one over-sanguine rustic reckons up what he expects to get out of the act personally-a new cottage, cow-shed, spring-cart and pony, and a hundred things besides, while his friend plaintively wonders where the money is to come from for it all. There is a hunting song, Tha would Grovely Vox, which has plenty of "go" about it and a swinging chorus, and a Haymeakin Zong which reminds us not ungracefully of William Barnes. We are glad to see that Mr. Slow has given us some short sketches in prose this time, including Tha Caird Pearty and tha Chimley Sweep, which deals with a certain well-known incident in "Passen Hootick's" life.

The Recollections of the Very Rev. G. D. Boyle, Dean of Salisbury. London: Edward Arnold, 37, Bedford Street, Strand, W.C. 1895. 8vo. Cloth. 16s. pps. xiii. and 302, with frontispiece process portrait of the author.

Three things strike the reader with astonishment in the pages of this interesting volume. First, the amazing number of notable men with whom the author has been brought into more or less close contact in the course of his life; secondly, the powers of memory which the Dean must be possessed of to be able to set down, as he has done, the observations and criticisms made by one after another of these men twenty, or thirty, or forty years ago; and thirdly, the remarkable fact that apparently not one of this mixed multitude ever did or said anything that was in any way unkind or disagreeable. As the son of the Lord Justice General of Scotland the Dean in his boyhood saw and knew most of the lights of literary society in Edinburgh-including Sir Walter Scott. Later on as boy at Charterhouse he enjoyed unusual advantages again in becoming acquainted with many of the well-known men of letters of that day in London. At Oxford he numbered amongst his friends the men best worth knowing in the university-and through all his after life as Vicar of St. Michael's Handsworth, and of Kidderminster, and as Dean of Salisbury, he seems never to have lost touch with the multitude of friends eminent in

literature or in the Church with whom he has become acquainted in the course of his life. He does not tell us much about any of these-a sketch of character admirably given-a criticism of a poem or a book-a remark made in conversation at a dinner party-and he passes on to the next, leaving the reader often longing to hear more. His heroes are literary men, and their talk is for the most part of literature-but occasionally a good story is allowed to slip in, as in the case of a singularly excellent anecdote of Rogers and Wordsworth, for which the Dean, however, immediately afterwards as it were apologises by saying that he has an "immense store" of such sayings of Rogers'-which, however, he refrains from giving us. The book is charmingly written-the Dean has never a hard word to say of anybody-and the only bad thing about it is the colour of the cover he has chosen to clothe it in.

It has been favourably reviewed in The Times, February 21st; Standard, February 13th; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, March; Daily Telegraph, February 15th, 1895.

Memorials of the Danvers Family (of Dauntsey and Culworth), their ancestors and descendants from the Conquest till the termination of the Eighteenth Century, with some account of the alliances of the family and of the places where they were seated: by F. N. Macnamara, M.D., Surgeon-Major (retired), Indian Army. London: Hardy & Page, 21, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. 1895. 8vo. Cloth: pps. xxvi. and 562. Price to subscribers, £1 1s.

This book is a mine of genealogical information. The British Museum, the Record Office, the muniments of several of the colleges at Oxford, the Register of Thame Abbey, at Longleat-not to speak of endless other sources of information, original and printed, have evidently been diligently searched. The amount of labour that this involved must have been immense, and the result is a storehouse of information on everything and everybody connected in any way with the family of Danvers. The places where they held property and the Churches in which they were buried are all described. The pedigree of their wives is traced whenever possible. Even the probable circumstances of their lives are dwelt upon, and the events of general history with which they happened, even in the remotest way, to be connected are set forth at length. The line traced is that of the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Danvers, and the family is derived from Auvers in the Cotentin-though the evidence in favour of this particular Auvers out of many places of the name in France seems inconclusive. D'Alvers appears to have been the earliest form of the name, for a Roland d'Alvers fought at Hastings. Robert de Alvers occurs in Domesday, and Will. Danvers, of Tetsworth, is decided to the author's satisfaction to be the great-great-grandson of the Conqueror's knight. Some of the earlier links in the chain naturally rest rather upon conjecture-often very ingenious conjecture-than upon evidence capable of actual proof; and although the information added so lavishly is in some cases of much interest--as, for instance, the churchwardens' accounts of Culworthyet much of it—such as the description of life at Winchester College-has but

the slenderest connection with the subject of the book, and certainly makes it rather hard to follow the ramifications of the family pedigree. For instance Simon Danvers appears in the Rolls of Parliament in 1316, and at once the author digresses for a considerable space into the reasons for the summoning of that Parliament, and the work that it accomplished, the armour that Simon probably wore, and the probable incidents of his journey north to Berwick. Again, John Danvers is living at Ipswell in the time of Edward III., and we accordingly have a long description of the kind of house in which he probably lived and of the furniture of every room. Again, it seems hardly necessary to describe the Houses of Parliament as they existed in 1420 at considerable length merely because John Danvers was knight of the shire for Oxford in that year.

The first two hundred pages are taken up with the earlier history of the Oxfordshire family, the Danvers of Tetsworth, Bourton, Ipswell, Colthorpe, Prescote, Culworth, and Waterstock. It is not until well on in the fifteenth century that the family appears to have become at all connected with Wiltshire. Thomas Danvers was M.P. for Downton in 1460. Corston (Corton in Hilmarton) came to John Danvers circa 1425 ? with his wife, Joan Bruley, and circa 1490 John Danvers married Ann Stradling, the heiress of Dauntsey, and the family became Danvers of Dauntsey.

In describing Dauntsey Church the author gives an interesting explanation of the probable connection of the Danvers with St. Fredismunde, Fremund, or Frethmund, a figure of whom remained in one of the windows in Aubrey's time. Another interesting point is connected with the murder of Henry Long by Sir Charles and Sir Henry Danvers, described in vols. i. and viii. of the Wilts Arch. Mag. A new complexion seems to be put on the affair by the petition from the Domestic State Papers here printed, in which Lady Danvers (the mother of the offenders) describes the insolent and violent behaviour of the Longs as provoking the affray at Corsham, in which Henry Long was shot by Sir H. Danvers in order to save his brother's life.

The Danvers families of Baynton, Tockenham, and Corsham are dealt with somewhat shortly at the end of the book. Indeed the story of the Wiltshire Danvers throughout seems hardly dwelt upon at the same length as that of the Oxfordshire members of the family.

There are seventeen folding tables of descent, and fourteen illustrations, amongst which are the tombs and brasses of Sir John and Ann Danvers, at Dauntsey, and a portrait of Sir H. Danvers, Earl of Danby.

The book is excellently printed; the index at the end is a fairly full one, and the author throughout gives us chapter and verse most religiously for all his statements, in the copious references to authorities at the foot of every page. It may seem invidious to find small faults in such a monument of conscientious labour, but Tockenham should not be described as a hamlet of Lyneham; "Harn," on p. 401, should surely be "Hartham "; the Bruley shield as illustrated is Ermine, on a bend or four chevronettes gules—whilst it is described on the next page as Ermine, on a bend gules three chevronettes or; and our own" Magazine" is always referred to as the "Wilts Archæological Journal."

Favourably reviewed in The Genealogist, vol. xi., April, 1895.