The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-09-01 00:00:00

MESSRS. CASSELL .4110 CO.'S PUILIC4IIOI4I.

Th, V.l'i :in. .t 1 A rt. —Tlei Septeniber iiiimber of
this artistic publication is inisiully attractive.. As is
fnmtispiece, Wt. iIAVI. All esquirite enraving by
Iriedera of Incksee's .le:ebony picture, Chivalry.
.tii article on llocklin is enriched by ongvavings .4
several of his word p t.nt infs. The paper on " Celtic
Metalwork," dealing particilarly with thin Pagan
'series!, will lie found very readable. one if the MINA
effective Wake this month is the reproduction if
fforliC4 picture "Chloris," which is exucuted with the
utmost' irirfection of art. Thu fourth instalment of
" Current Art " is embellished with plaice of fainmss
pictun., including Whistler's painting if the famous
violinist Sammie. This, are other equally interesting
;epees. Itealing with the It iyal Academy as a
national institutem the magazine sap The truth
is, the academy haa not kept pace with the times, but,
like so many legacies from the part, is rapidly
developing into a practical anacianinioni. It is still
fashionable, and in • genre still influential; so that
a place at its banquets and its private views is yet in
pettiest, and the fact that a painter is rejected (nun
its contribution* is in some 'sort a sentence to • year's
diatnies. Hut at exhibition time it is far inure derided
for ita ahorteimings than praised for its achievements ;
and on all save ilocasions of feasting and alter -dinner
oratory, its Cillilll4 upon the national consideration are
with scant respect. That it must change or be
swept away is inevitable. It would be well if the
change might coins, from within ; from without it.
operation cannot fail to be other than deadly. As we
have said, the present is a disestablishing ago ; and a
eeopenstive society for the production and sale .4
trauma is not more sacred than a national church."
10014 ikwripflor, mu{ Pleguresqur.—
Proirwww Elwell work increares in interest. Part V.
concluder the Prnfereir's ninarks on (leshen, and
eminences a deeply.interesting account of Memphis
and the Pyramids. The plates and letter•press
maintain their excellence, and, as we have before
reinarked, this is one of the bent works on the 1.,n4 of
the Phil-oaf's yet publishes'.
Gleanings from Popular A ottAqrs.—Ntwaans. Cassell
and C.i. are now imning a work with this and it
should be an extreelingly popular one, tire have
been Wonted with Part 1., which contains, besides
a large presentatiim plate, extracts from hest known
authors. We note with Oriente, that the piece of
honour has linen given to iour l)orset novelist, Mr.
Thomas Hardy, his mew (11111011 s cariil.sjn4i, scene
from " Under the Greenwood Tree" being repro.
duce], in company with works by such authors as Max
Adeler, Longfellow, Starrynt, and Dickens.

The Scotch harvest is late, but in the east • good
start has Is*oot mule. In the north oats urn not
ready for cutting, but in earlier district* barley.
cutting is general. Turnips are improving. Pootatoes
ellatidalit, and woo.s an. low.
Captain Sutherland, of the Royal Nlsrine Artil.
1,17, was on Friday c.onvicted of drunkenness loy a
4-snort-martial held at Portsmouth.

At Leeds on Friday& tailor OA mad Lewis wee fined
£1,400 for smuggling tUbIICCO.
A curious iseirtahip developed into a formal offer of
marriage ,in Thursday. At the Bolton Poliee.court, a
photographer, named Frederick Law, and Susannah
Bridge, both staying at eme house,
"rt Charged with
creating a breach of the peace. The female offered t,, marry her conipanion and then leave the town.
Law was agreeable to the prancer'', hut the
Bench insisted on their finding sureties or going to
linen.

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