The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-11 00:00:00

Elie Vublications of the filo*.

Candi' Family Magazine im replete this month with
entertaining and useful Paers in addition to the two
serial Wes running in it. "Flab and bow to cook it"
is • seasonable &squisdtion. Referring to mackerel
the wrier aays :
" Mackrrel, by the way, is now in full season, and, to my
mind, is the only fish that really requires vinegar as au
accompaniment. I have tried to reason out the subject
with regard to—why I but can come to no satisfactory
wimp. Honest personal experiences arc al ways, I believe,
valuable. I associate plain boiled mackerel with parsley
and butter, and new potatoes, and vinegar. Perhaps it is
that the inackerel was invaribly eaten after a hard- morn-
ing's work, on the beach at Folkeston, with a spade. lam
gum sea child, it seemed to me the nicest form of fish,
and now the least palatable of all. It may be that
mackerels adapted for children. But the boiled mackerel
plainly requires no art. The beet way I know of cooking
them is to have them grilled for breakfast. Split them
open and cock them on a gridiron : squeeze • little lemon-
juice over them, place • tow pieces of butter on them to
melt, sprinkle a little pepper and ult, and put the dish
containing the mackerel in the oven for a couple of
mimatee after taking them off the gridiron, See, however,
that the are thoroughly done. If the mackerel are
intended for the breakfasts of bachelors who, owing of
course to circumstances over which they have no control,
are unfortunately obliged to keep somewhat late boars,
sprinkle the mackerel with a mixture—two parts of salt.,
two p sr.ts of black pepper, one part of red or cayenne
Pire are some useful hints by a "poor man'ewile"
as to "How we 'married on a small income," only
slightly detracted from by the income being fixed at
£3OO. This is worth noting.
"Our sittincroums were not large, and we arranged to
have their flours stained oak colour ti the depth of about
• foot, to that we required only squares of carpet, which
we bought both alike, so that in time to come the worn
portions might be cutout and the beat put together. And
here la me tell you that Instead of the costly concoction
sold as oak-staining, our hoards were coloured with •
mixture of lamp-black and turpentine and then varnished,
and looked as well as heart could wish. The doors of our
sleeping apartment we had painted all over in a warm
brownish drab, in Continental fashion, an that they could
be continually washed over and kept sweet and clean, and
a few sheep-skin mats, and one or two tiger trophies
which had been sent us as wedding presenta made them look
like to follow our example with regard to the painted
floors, I may as well mention that a large sponge is the
Very best thing for washing them with. A small portion
&Waal be sponged at a time and wiped dry with • cloth,
the lame Ma painted door or Wainscot.
Very commendable and attention deserving also are
the contributions by • Solicitor and the Doctor. One
of Small's powerful and characteristic drawings, forms
the Fr ,ntispiece.
Leisure Hour contains among a number of interest-
ing and useful papers one that readers in this locality
will be pleased to read—" A Strange Showman at
Bath," and the snack, of Hone, prefaced by •
beautifully coloured frontispiece, hae a paper on The
Use and Abuse of Pictures on Sacred Subjects," the
truthful criticism in which renders it valuable.
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In Bdgraris this month we have the opening
chapters of a new serial story—" The Haunted Hotel,"
by Wilkie Collins, and they promise that in it we
shall have a novel worthy of the powers of that great
master of sensational fiction. "The Return of the
Native" relates chiefly to the love-making of that
most remarkable young lady, Miss Vye. "The Great
Tropical Fallacy" should be read by intending (mil-
grants, it will serve to dispel many rose-coloured
illusions as to life in other lands. "Patient Kitty" is
a prettily written story with • happy ending, and
" The Mystery of Edwin Drood " is an ingenious and
well-argued 'peculation by Thomas Foster, as to the
probable termination of Dickens's unfinished work.
• Rocine at St. Cy'" is interesting, and altogether the
number is • good one.
TA, Dairy [Dickinson and Lobh, Farinedon-stresh) The
Intonation contained on the title page of this periodical
Is that it is "A Journal of pure literature, containing
amusing and instructive reeling for every member of the
family. Never were pretensions made upon better
foundations. We have read every page in the Jane
number with unflagging interest, and can safely say not a
word in them is to be found that the most fastidious could
object to. The continuous tales and short stories for the
most part seem to be the productions of eminent American
writers, and they are generally leavened with that vela
of quaint humour which seems almost the specialit• of
authors on the other side the Atlantic. " How the Old
Trapper Solved it" is as full of exciting episodes as the
fertile imagination of Mayne Reid ever penned; and
Lamle,'" Pardner" is • tenderly pathetic story, "Hi.
Inheritance" opens well, and the number literally teems
with useful and interesting papers.
The Christie. AP (same publishers) is another equally
'covetable work, with the dieerence that its contents are
of • graver character. Wearied with the platitudes which
too often fall from many pulpits, the reader with thankful
relief turn to the beautiful sermons contained in it. Its
contents are varied, touching upon everything interesting
to the Church in all its branches and connected with
morality and Christianity. Mr. Lobb, the editor, does
his work ably and well.
Link Pelle (Cassell). The two serial stories are con-
eluded this month in • way befitting the spirited writing
which bee characterised them throughout. Oardeging for
the children in sunny June will be found of interest to
children of larger growth than those to whom it is
dedicated. The illustrations are exceptionable, and the
letter-press, as twat, unexceptionable.
, In the Quiver. "moos its varied contents, will be found
a powerfully written paper by a Chaplain's Substitute,
entitled "A Month among the Mad," and • tender little
I Norwegian love story. The other contents are, as usual,
I sound and of solid interest. . . .

limed sad Eldon proves itself a most useful publication
in the cause of goad works. It is no vain boast which
makes the editor write :—lt is dcult to give an idea of
the good service such a newspaper render' to the various
roll ous and philanthropic movements of the ago.
Taking as an illustration the temperance movement, we
believe we could show by figures that in ono year the
temperance literature printed In Hand and Beast (at no
coat whatever to any society), allowing each column to
contain about at much reading as is found in • farthing
tract, would represent in value, if sold as tractit nearly
L 4.000. In other words we not only printed, but cir-
culated, in that year, what was about equal to 3,810,000
farthing temperance tracta We venture to say a temper-
ance society would consider this • fair year's result of its
labours. A similar calculation would show that our Rest
Day Puce, which contains as much reeding as is generally
found in a penny tract, would, if No reckoned, represent,
for the past two and i•half years, an issue of Sunday
reading exceeding in value £16.000. We might further
illustrate this practical use of our newspaper in diffusing
=legionary information, sanitary instruction, humanity
lessons, etc. But with the examples we have given
before them, our readers can gather others. We wish
simply to establish our claim to be regarded as "A waif-
sustaining cheap press association."
The iplate In Pessiline Wild Flowrs this month are the
Toadlax and the Woody Nightshade, as usual, exquisitely

Cassell's Domestic Diatiottary has arrived sw far so the
Mn A orgy...dye mass of inf3rmation.
Among other useful publications worthy refoosalltali•o,
ol the work they undertake we have received TAa Bring
Workmate, Ms Family Frietsd, The Day of Days. TM
roast layatieta, TA. Minh Compasion, rk. Catalpa and
Arnasa, Bows Words, sod The Amide.