The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-07-11 00:00:00

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TEM Art Jourwal for July. In a second nutlet
kora fsgsigemy ;pictures, furnishes visitors with
means of compering notes with the critic, and of
ing their ideas in r .i.pect to the work of the
The arehas ilogist will also fine in tii number a a t:".
and interesting account of the Bath Museum,
with engravings of an inscribed sepulchral .tune tgi"
bronss bead of Minerva. Mr. Jackson Janes's risvii
lion of the qualities of Japanese art, in his Is.t
entitled " A Genuine Artistic Race," is r.
instinctive and attractive to all enquirers att,
development of art among the Various uninhen ,f ;74
human family. Of the engravings in the .4.1
the principal are :—" Kept in." from a peintas,6"i.
Nichol ; "the White Cockade," fr nu Mr. lidiirlin„;:
painting; arid "Europe," from the Albert
Hyde Park.—ln this periodical for May, the Rev, Ell'.
Cutts gave the fourth part of his way
Merchants of the Middle Ages,' which vas ,
graphically illustrated from old painted gla4 .41.1
and ancient manuscripts; and the lut ;ramsn of "t:
notice of Haddon Hall was therein presented—gas,
to the May and Juno numbers is the illustrettg"7",
Mon or catalogue of objects of art in the
Exhibition, capable of being detached and
bound, and constituting a volume very si.tge.4
passing and future reference.
Macetiffast for July is an unusually go.jLzu.r.
It contains George Eliot's poetical c4ntrilati4
"Armgut," which is a dramatic sketch, with hr.:.
strictly dramatic power, but great trAtical beauty sag
the authoreee's customary depth of rtil ction
Insight into human nature. The story is simply ttst
a singer's triumphant debut, her subsequent Ism
voice, her despair, and ultimate resignation te
calamity. It is full of lofty mtality, and ethras
surrender to duty for its own sake. Another eeetass
lion which will excite attention is Der Rahn:,
kind of parody on the '' Battle of Dorking," it
a Brandenburg captain Is supposed to relate hoe ,
German army endeavoured to invade Englani tarsi,
the close of this century, and came to trod ,
high seas. But it is high time we had done with tt,
ugly sport
In the Dark Blue Mr. Ksrl Blind suppll sari ittersg
lug essay on the Anamergan passion•play,
out the time' which seem to indicate that it sze
after all, be a transformed relic of theancient litsgya
religion.
In Fraser Mr. Hj 'ltalie. a native leel in kr, cottn
butes an interesting article on the tracts of mai
worship among the ancient Norselieci. Ta.! innate
adduced, though conclusive as to the eaistatee ci
romantic fancies and superstitious observances ream
log animals, hardly seem sufficient to establish thefts
of actual animal -worship at any historic era,
English Working Classes and the Par., Commas'
is • most suggestive contribution by "The Jourserau
&Denser," The writer boldly states that in Li, opiti.:
the working alums in this country did sympatilbe
the Paris Commune, not upon stilotly commue
grounds, but because they believed the Friecline
be thorough patriots and true Itepublicaci. W,
not but regret to find an Englisa wonk.a tun, 'is:4
as foillwa

Though the workinif clsasss did not appr dc id tie:
In which the Communists destroyed (ho
objected to the proceeding rather as bad p dice thin
as others argue, utterly unjustifiable and CUIVICIBII2L,
remembered that, In tho minds of the C oun cc,:l
churches and palaces would be Inseparably associate' s
sacerdotal tyranny and monarchical selashgess, from sic.azi
people have sulfured no much and so lour. a,1!: vs, a
monuments of these things that they were destroyed r.r.c s
spirit of more vandalism. The working rlasiscs last .r.a.did
too, that if the Cnmmuntsts slew those they hull,' h
It was not until their own prisoners had bean sisuz:iters i
wild beasts. . . . The conduct of the Versailles !.
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persisting in the wanton sla)ing of unarinoil
toner* was what really led to the death of the Iv :
stigmatise the shooting of the hostages as assaoman .
murder, whilst calling the wholesale butchering of Comm ."..4
prisoner, executions, *bows partisanship ; and the
class idea on this point is that partioinship and a ilenrcl:
misrepresent are what the leading English papers ha'...4
varying dterrees, shown in dealing vrith the Couum.ne
An sassy on the Commune, by Mr. W. lt, Gres, i
well worthy of attention. From • native rsoldnsis
temperament, Mr. Greg Is slow to comprehend T..,
ideas at the root of popular movement.; but on IL:
occialon he is right ID pointing out that one of ta
most singular features of this movement was its is
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finiteness, which served to unite all who were from etl
CAttle discontented with the existing state of athes
and all theorists who imagined that their own favoums
idea might come out uppermost from the gei.eri.:
lottery. A narrative of • trip through Touraine
April gives • lively picture of the feeling of the proricse
at the time. It was strongly monarchical.

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The very satisfsetory restilta arising from the use of its
invaluable ointment, when the patients hats bets
suffering from any of the above disorders, have jolliest
the Medical Profession to introduce it into the halite'
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the [sufferer was considered incurable, liollowso
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most desperate cases. These medicines me also
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of the:skin, and the cures they effect are not tempurat7
or Imperfect, for their purifying powers bring abet:
marvellous and most beneficial change in the
system, end enable it, with renovated powers, to Lat
future attack of the smile ditessfo.