The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

Littraturt.

gge.—Tb. December number a the ~gee .roun„a
gh, hi.h faaal ion th•t set i•I 1,..
os the chief espowlit of lash art and liclinr of art.
in,l4.try in this c.'111017. The steel engreviap
di month are Mr. attara charming pieta's,
engraved by H. Mourne, anti "Tb.
0„0„... by J. ilook, whir+ la • pleaeent atone de.
p etra with trio- feeling for the brawn,. of mot..e. in.
aby A Winston. hire. Rory Pa1he......0.ribg."
North nett Ot her 111011a.a4 tally tat bbitorie
(Wino sod beiges; the rpani•h, Portugese, and On•rk
tares in the Pails Exhibition are pared under
; end in other P.Per• the Eiotory of art during
ti rait ma'h is written. The ninth part of the des.
grption hf the Paris Exhibition is given with this part,
..h1 it amply fold's ihe promises held out when the
jrtsofwork was commeneed. As as elegant volume
for the Ilrerring room or a valuable snares of instruc-
ton to the art-rrorkman, no better work eon be found
Mom the Art Jamie.

Neewone AnD CAILTLI-11111 CONTRAPITID.—We an
'know what preachings of this kind mean, and to what
shey come ; for we so of tin hear them from the pulpits
of our thumb. Common tell us from Sunday to
,hiiiiJay that • total change is needed for us, and that
nothing short a total change will be of any service to
us. We are, we are a—nrs .1. wsllowing in the depths
,iri, loving ourselves, a. utterly disregardful of our
GA. We must, by sudden and pleat effort, absolutely
chzege all ti at, and change it at once. We must learn
to hate ourselves, and the world, and to care only for
the things of the nit world, smoke ! Now we
hese that, and such like denunciations on Sundays,
turning after morning, regarding them as the special
product of • ispesial half-boar; and We go away utterly
tin...tarot of them. The clergyman himself, having
aly performed a very difficult task as best he know
w, demure expect bin counsels to be obeyed. When
I. tell. his hearers that they are to surrender evary
thought to the thinia of the next world, he merely
hopes that he may induce some one to give up an
additionol im minutes to his prayers. His denuncia-
tions have been uttered in the superlative degree,
bream. the nry•rlatire is of all decrees the easiest used
to etteianre. idea not believe them himself, though
probably he thinks that he does Rut with Mr. Carlyle's
deouncistions there la this difference.—that he is
thoroughly in earnest, and does believe them himself.
When be tells methat we are going over • Niagara Am,
he hears the rush of waters in his ears. When he pro-
phesies ts us woe, woe, woe,—unless all be changed,
unless we submit onraelv.s humbly to some " ariatni,”
u arra cc torn altogether round in the path on which
we are sulking, and walk bultwaids, —which ho must
know ee shall not do, be seen the destruction, the utter
annihilation, coming on um from • distance, and hardly
from • distance. It is the truth of the prophet which
mates him ass prophet considerable, and which is now
toilncing many anxious, thoughtful men to ask whether
the thing be se Dun es the inan,—whether Carlylism
be as worthy of belief as io Mr. Culyle.—From the
December number of St. Perla, edited by Anthony
Trollops. This mogarine fully sustains the promise it
caveat t heheginning. It °mime. asnrt of gold. way position
between the old -look ioned and ponderous quarterlies and
the eltogether ephemeral monthlies filled with stories..
Every lumber contains severs] thoughtful well-written
essays on important public topics, which are pervaded
by a Liberal spirit, and ought to commend the magazine
to a large circle of read, in,, while entertainment for
the novel reader is not overlooked, for two capital tales
are in full swing. 'The Si. Paul. magazine fills an import-
ant else* hitherto unoccupied in the ranks of out serial
literature.

CONPLUIMITA—Rew far may one consistently with
truth and honour employ compliments in his intercourse
with society? This question requires as to fix the
messing of • compliment. Is it anything different
from flattery? Flattery may be given by means of
compliment, and yet there ire many compliments that
are true, well deserved, and iincere. Roth compliment
and flattery belong to the element of pram. Every
.nin holds that it is right to praise, if it be rightly done.
But when este is praised for things not meritorious, or
which the person haa not perfoi mid, or for qualities not
possemed, or .he the praise is out of proper proportion
to Inert or feet, it is deter,. And yet this does not
hit the ryes+. moral element that determines it.
Violation or exaggeration of the truth of facts my be an
indiscretion only. It must be dons intentionally, it
most be done insincerely, and fin a purpose. Flattery
is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose. A
•eom 'meat is moan, praise delivered in some
mrectsd and beautiful form. A compliment is praise
In an artforre. It may be • mere intimation, a gronful
'comparison, or as inference made or implied. It is
prolm crystalird. It bears abont the relation to praise
thin proverbs de to formal philosophy, or that form
does to deetry. Compliments may then be Christian!)
honest. Beyond exquisite instances are to be found in
St. Paul's letters and speeches. That men employ
then deceitfully, flatteringly, affords no just reSllOll
aasinat a sincere and honest use of them. On the
cia.rary, tin re is all the more need of showing by their
wise use that • perversi-n is unnecessary. Bat there is
• benevolence in compliments. It tempts one to look
for agreeable traits among his friends and not for faults.
Tilere is among the young of our time an none. sion
that caustic and critical things are smart and genteel.
lii, supposed that dashing wit, unscrupulous outs, end
s onetimee an abrupt and rude demeanour, are signs of
gentlemanly freedom. This is a sad declension from the
polished and kind gectilities of former ionools of good
inner. Bet a habit of saying agreeable thinp in an
elegant way, if it does not degenerate into falsemo,
will work benefit upon the speaker ; sweetening his
mind, turning him back from bitter and hateful things,
end inclining ht. to the gray of hinelseaa It wilt
confer greet ptemare on the object, since nothine cen
be more agreeable in the minor scenes of life thin
suddenly to receive praise for welldoing. in • form that
plemes at once both the moral sense and the taste. A
man, however, must be kind, of good tiote, and
thoroughly honest, to use compliments without danger
—to hiusselt—Oar °wit Fireside for December.

CCIIIOOB IVT AT CITA DO I Itrr. —There is a very
onrions ivy•tree at ehedkirk, a small village about four
sidles from Stalwart. This ivy grows upon, and almost
erivers the walls of (I believe) the clergyman's house.
It is an obi tree, the main stein being four or five
lorhee in diameter. About ton year* ago • doer was
Mule at Oil. end of the house, and to give roost
for it. many of the largeet branches of the ivy wero cut
thrdugh, the lower parts being taken away, the upper
parts b•-ing left on the vial,. Thus, at lesat onethird
of this ins plant was severed front the main tree, and
all supple' of 1101111•11111ent from the soil out off,
litrange to say, the severed limbs have not died, as is
u..eal in such oues, but the aerial roots by which
the ivy flies itself to the well, and of which the sole use
Ii usually to enable it to cling, appear to hive atioointno-
datod themselves to eiraumstanoes, and to have acted
Lb., trite rate, drawing enough moisture from the
stone wslls to enable the ivy to lies, and is at the
present moment as green aa any other part of the tree.
The leave' are, however, a little smaller than the rest,
looking more like the common will ivy; so that the
slivered part is evidently short flood, and will probably,
sooner or later, die.-11.031111 HOLLAND, in Ilardwicke's
Science Gouip.

POST NUPTIAL INTIDIMINTS TO 11•TIMOST. —A
girl need not give up all tor amusement. because she
hal captured • husband ; but the young married woman
who is to be non, night after night, racing down a
ballroom with whiskered widows and Agree boners,
most And difficulty in attending to her household duties
in the morning. Ten to one the husband breakfmts
by himself, or in oompany with the newspaper only;
not • bed substitute, it may be, for a wife who is not
snor• than half awake, and woes from weariness and
want of sleep. There is no reason why the married
sister should drifts more dowdily than the unmarried ;
but the hideously extravagant fashions of dress which
prevail in good society are too often caricatured and
burlesqued by the young English wife. The matron
now-a-day's quite eclipses the maiden. She flirts more
industriously • she waltzes more violently; she dresses
more outrageously. " Hang it!" said D—, the other
day, speaking of a well•known beauty, who hag not
yet ceased to reign, "she knows as much slang es a
cabman, the drinks& mach as a Bah, only it's curium.,
she gambles like Fox sod Sheridan together, she wears
a dress which the French polio, would exclude from
the Jordan Mein.; and it's for • jade like this that
you ask me to give up my crust of bread and liberty,
my shilling 'Mat and my pips. Not if i know it."
D—is a cynical philosiopber; but I suspect that lemma
respects his sketch is not mush overdrawa.—Praser's
Magazies for December.
A LoIDLIIO Hum TO • 814? TN THE UTTER ROMS&
—"I knownothing whatever about politics," said Lord
Chiltern. "1 wish you did." said his sister,—" with
ell my heart." " I never did.—and I
all yoar wishing. It'. the meanest trade going. I think,
and I'm sure it's the most dishonest. They talk of legs
on U.* turf,ffind cf eosins there are legs; but what are
they to the legs Is the Hosea. I don't know whether
you me in Parliament, Hr. Finn." "Ye., I am; but
do not mind MO." "I beg your pardon. Of course
there are honest men there, and no doubt you are one
of them." 'He as indifferent honeyt.—as yet," said
Lady Laura. "I was sneaking of 4en who go into
Parliament to look after Cloverament places." said Lord
Chiltern. "That is just what I'm doing," said Phloem.
"Why should not a man serve the Crown He has to
wok very hard for what be ears.." "I don't believe
that the most of them work at all. However, I beg
your pardon. I didn't mean you in particular." "
einla is such a thorough politician that he will never
forgive you," sold Lady Learn. "Yea, I will," said
Phloem, "and moved him some day. If he does
00113, into the House, Lady, Laura, I suppose he'll come
on the right side r I'll never go into the House, as
PM Call it," said Lord Chiltern. "Bet I'll tell you
what; I shall be very happy if you'll dine with me to-
morrow at Moroni's. They give you • capital little
dinner at Moroni's, and they've the best Chateau
Itilurrn in London."—" Moms Fine," by Anthony
Trollop*, in st pa. 4.
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Pr ,vincial sod Colonw Bankers. Mears cot Britisi
Colonies, Heads of Colleges and Public Schools, the
11°Yal 11""1"41, Privy Council, Ladd Lieelmants of
Counties and Orders of Knighthood, Home and Colonial
Balsam, Alphabetical list a Lord. and COMMON',
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and Consular Service, Public Income end Expenditure
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mos, and is • marvel of °biscuits',

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band of aerials, which asek to impart edifying infirm.•
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Visitor,* and "The Servant's lldagantne." In neck of
them this praiseworthy end is elealleAly worked out,
and in their delightful pages both old and young mb
find • store of attraetive and wholesome information.
The illustrations are especially well done—see bane
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are se moderate as to place them within the reach of
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eommend the seriida we bare named, the volumes o
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all, and we tan only say that if their airealatioa be at
all commensurate with their merit. and power of
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