The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-12-15 00:00:00

Littraturt.

Tug Ater JOT-11111AL (Leedom : Virtue sad Co., 26,
Ivy-lane) this month completer another volume of the
splendid series, begun seven years sgo, and continued
throughout that period with unflagging well-directed
zeal on the part of its editor, supported by the most
spirited enterprise of its publishers, the chief of whom
we •re lorry to notice., has just been laid low by death.
The I seerneber part. as utast, contains three beautiful
line engravings, in the finat style of art, sad its
Interesting literary matter isaniply illustrated by wood.
ruts which are morsels of beauty. As the next issue
°sameness a new volume, we cordially commend tide
journal to our readers, feeling sure that subscribers is ill
be highly gratified with it.
ST. PAOLS (London : Virtue and Co., 294, City-road),
under the ekilfel editorship of Mr. Anthony 'Trollop°,
h. secured • high pines amongst the many shilling
monthlies which are now candidates for public favour.
The inteosely interesting story of "Phinea• Finn" will
be pl.ced amongst the bwt of the many stories which
have been charmingly told by the Editor, while the
second tale which ie continued from month to mouth
and the miscellaneous articles, make tip • hundred and
twenty-eight pages of varied reading, calculated to
gratify every taete, and to entertain every reader. Here
is an extiact from "Phinese Finn." showing how that
young gentleman, after he lox. lost his seeend love,
Violet Effingham, goo. to ilailauto Max Geissler for
ooneolation :
COenOl.ATloll.—On the fourth day after his sorrow
bad befallen him. rbineas went again to the cottage in
Pink-line. And in order that ho might not be balked
in his search fin sympathy he wrote • line to Medium
sOreeler ti ask if she would be at home. "I will be at
.honie from five to six, and alone.—hl. M. 0." That
was the answer from Marie Max (leerier, and Phineste
'Woe of course at the cottage a few minute. after five.
It is not, 1 think, surpri.ing that • man when he wants
sympathy in such • calamity as that which had now
befallen Phineas Finn, should seek it from • woman.
Women sympathise most effectually with men, se men
do with women. 1310 Ills, perhaps, a little odd that •
man when he wants consolation Immune his heart has
been erokee, always liked to receive it from • pretty
woman. One would be disposed to think that at aura
• moment he would be profoundly indifferent to such •
matter, that no delight could come to him from female
beauty. anti that all he would want would be the soft.
nem of • simply sy_npathetie soul. But he generally
wants • soft hand as well, and in eye that eaa be bright
babied the mutual tear, and lips that shall be young
and fresh as they attire** their concern for his sorrow.
All these things were added to Thtneas when he went
to Madame Goosler in his grief.
an. BO glad to see you," said Madame Max.
" You are very good-natured to lot me Dome."
"N"; but it is so good of you to truet me. But I
was sure you would some after what took place the
other night. 1 saw that you were pained, and I was so
awry for it."
•• I made such a fool of myself."
"Nit at all. And I thought that you were right to
tell them when the quet.tiou had been asked. If the
thing was not to lie kept a sectret„it was better to speak
It out. You will get over it quicker in that way then
in any other. I have nevei seen the young lord,
myself."
• Oh. there ia nothing amis. about him. As to white
Lord Fawn said, the het( of ii is simply exaggeration,
and the other half is misunderstood."
" Is this country liii so meals to be a lord," said
Aladame.Gomiler.
l'itineas thought a moment of that matter before he
replied. AX the Standieh family had been very good to
bhn, sod Violet Effinghern had been very good. It was
not the fault of any of them that he was now wretched
and hack-broken. He had meditated much on this. and
had resolved that be wnald not even think evil of them.
"I do not in my heart believe that that hashed ;turtling
to do with it," he said.
But it has, my friend.—elways. I do not know
your Violet Efiingham."
"Sin is not mine.'
"Well ; I do not know this Violet that is not yours.
I have met her, sod did not specially admire her. But
then the testes of men and women about beauty are
never the sane. But I know she is one that always
lives with lords soil countesses. A girl who has always
lived with countesses feels it t, be hard to settle down
as • ilsia Mistre.a."
"She hashed plenty of choice among ell eerie of men.
It was uot the title. She wenlit not have socepted
CLiltsrie unle.s she had—. But what is the use of
talking of it?"
"They had known each other long r
"Oh, yee—as children. Aid the Earl desired it of
all things."
"Ah ;—then he arranged it."
"Not exaetly. Nobody road arrange anything for
Chiltern,—nor, as far as that res. for Miss Effingham.
'They arranged it theintelves, 1 tansy."
"You lead asked her!"
"Yea—twiee. And she had refused him mere than
twice. I have nothing for 'lslet to blame her; but yet
I bad thought.—l had thought—"
"She it a jilt then r
"No will not let you say that of her. She is no
jilt. But I think she has been strangely ignorant of her
own mind. What is the use ot talking of it, Madame
Goeeler r
"Not—only sometimes it is better to speak • word,
'than to keep one's sorrow to oneself."
"So it is ;--and there is not one in the world to
whom IMU &peal such • word, except yourself. Is not
that will? I have sister., but they have not hoard of
Miss Effingham. and would be quite indiffereet."
"Ihrhaps they have some other favourites."
"At, ;—well. That does net matter. And my best
.friend here in London is Lord Chiltern's own sister."
"She knew of your attachment"
"Oh, yes."
"And she bold you of Mire Effinghtun's engagement.
Was she ilea of it?"
"She has alsreys desired the marriage. And yet
.• . . .

4hink she would 'have been satisfied ne-4 it been Other.
wise. list.! course her heart must be with her brother.
I seed not Lave troubled myself to go to Mankenberg
after all."
It was for the belt, perhaps. Everybody says you
behaved so well."
" I mould not but go, ae the thing* were there."
" What if you bed—shot him'"
"There would have been an end of everything. She
-would never have seen me ate- that. Indeed I should
Lane shot myself next, feeling that there was nothing
au, left for me to tio."
"Ah ;—yoa English are se peculiar. But I suppose
It is best not to shoot a man. And, Mr. Finn, there
are other ladies in the world reettier than Miss Violet
Effinghain. No ; —at course you will not admit that
now. Just at this meneeit, and for a month or two,
she is peerless, end you will feel yourself to be of all
Thin the most unfortunate. But you have the ball at
your feet. I know no one so young who has got the
ball at his feet so well. I call it nothing to bane the
bell et your feet if you are born with it there. It is so
easy to be a lord if your father is use before you, and so
easy to marry A pretty girl if yea con make her •
countess, But to make yourself a lard, or to be as good
aa a lord, when nothing has been barn to you, thet I
call very much. And then there Cr., women, and pretty
women, too, Mr. Finn, who bare spirit enough to
understand this, and to think that the man, after all,
is more important than the lord.' Then she song the
old well-worn vane of the Scotch sag with wonderful
spirit, and with a clean:ea of voice aid knowledge of
musio for which he had hitherto never rivee her credit.
" A prince col mai' • belted knot,
A marquis, duke, and a' the;
But an honest man's shoot, hi might,
Gull faith be manna fa' that"
—Phineas Fran, edited by Anthony Trolope.
Tits Gm Or Tilt PreloD ALMANXIC (1.0r.,I011:
.." fieheee" office, 19, Catherine-street, 8 rand,) i• well
illustrated with smart sketches of the feat noti,na of
the celebrated " G:rl of the Period," as desicted he the
cSaterdny Reri4ll. end shows in a superlative Lem,
the teedencies of that small section of modern ioca:ty.
Hardwick(' it ScivireGoesip (London: Reber !lard-
wick,, 192, Piccadilly) fully supports its previcua high
character as an interesting and instructive mouhly of
ple•sant chit-chat on scientific matters. It iswortby
.of a very large circle of reedeia
Oen OWN FIENSIDN (London: Hunt and (0., 23,
Bolles-street), as • skeane, monthly, full ol sound
and entertaining reading for the Christian fenny. It.
religious articles are conceived in an earnest eva,geliell
church of England spirit, and the wide diffusion 0 such •
magazine at this juncture in the history of the church is
calculated to effect much good.
"WHAT CHURCH?" is the title of an sdeirible
pamphlet by the Bev. C. Bullock, of Worcester, pub-
lished by Heat and Co., of London, in whidi this
'Eportant question is ably argued, to the fouidstion
th that no vieible church may claim to he tie one
ly Catholic Church, and the position is supplted by
each interesting evidence. An extract will set forth
Oa •iews of tbe *leiter :—" As there is • counterfeit
C 'et and • counterfeit gospel, so Satan has devised a
oo terfeit church; end, in few words, that oointarfeit
ehu h mriy be maid to be cony visible or tart.cular
thu which claims to high. Oise Holy Catholi• Church,
I\
utile is "the Body of Christ." The &node which
prefek each a claim usurps the authority of Christ,
meuenbe the place of Christ, end becomes, eventually,
In its divelopment, Arlie:Aria. The development may
I* eralive, hut it is cute. "The chorea,' as one of
Our bidlove expreeses it, "is first an abstraction, and
then • PWsoo, and then • Saviour." The Church of
Rome, &visible each-await:al orgaeisation or body—in
eontrut 10 the Church of the Reforsl•ll.o.. the
Prote.dant Church cili .
of England—does 1 ' to be the
One Holy Detholie Church. Upon this asmmption she
rests her telehiee, demands universal suhuisu,on to her
dogmas as lifallible, and excludes ft rtn sal rition all who
reject or desy them. I ray, the Church 61 Rome, in
ady..(og tles claim to be "the One Italy Catholic
Church," °marmite with, et rather stands i A
opposition to, the ober& of tb. ytefi, -e -Blot
Church of Eo and. The Ghee.* ne ibotaftwo -theti
jort.a...
takes the posi n held, r .0T example, by •th Reformation
which waa at ." It is • • 1.4.64 ceb:rhelleab
"• congregat o of faith'sl men, Is the wes.b th A'
Wonlof God il reaebed, and the liseraredos
ministered, ing to Cheat's ordinance,' .. •"'"7
church"—a eo aloe of faithful men, i ~,,:',ri.l2l_.
In any place, in y building, professedly ticae;i.:T,7
0,
it
Articles of the ristian Faith se they are eee5.7.4.1.
the Scriptures ofGod. One of these Articles is ..tb.
Holy Catholic Church;" and whereas die Chui.l, 0,
Rome requires its adberente to believe if to he H 1.%
*booth, the chetah of the Reformation requires us to
believe in that church—that a that there is • Holy
Catholic Church, the mystical holy of theist, which I.
"the bleated company of all faithful people."
lime& Parrenomeit ictorraergn Atersotie.—We
have received from Mews. 8, W. Pittridge and Co.,
9, Paternoeberdow, KC., • para.l al their beautiful
annual volumes of maguinet suited to canoes sma and
classes. TM lefanl's itagesise, eolith's 3, is printed in
large (dear type, and abundantly illustrated with
engravings suited to enlarge the minds of the very little
onr s.-7%' Children's Prima indulges ill pretty little
tales, rhymes roiled to oblides" above the age. of infants,
and nese mite A feature le the himueMigni *minty
peadings, which, representing familiar objects by
pictures lasteed of words,andso provide a pleasant oars-
ratio n for the ingenuity dills juveniles.-- TAc Triend/y
Irisieer dads in • deeply relifkies spirit with thought.
sailed to mime the bead sad soften the Mart' of
adults, and, as its type, while not so large es that of
the Infants Mo9urenet, is hem sad dictioas,
It see= 10 ea well Muted for ttl= tadothao of life.

The articles are such as to soothe andealm under tronbls,
or nerve to noble deeds when opportunities arias. It
is also respectably illustrated with drawings in good
style, and occasionally its pages are illuminated with
some beautiful test of Scripture in graceful form.—The
Band of Hops Review contains a great variety of abort
anecdotes and longer tales, pretty rhymes, and beautiful
poetry, with capital cuts, all tending to forward the
cacao of temperance, carefulness, and religion. It has
noble fullpage picture., as has also its still larger
collaborateur, the British Workman. A °Thal picture
of the barn door hen nod chicken nicely dose in
oolours on the frontispiece of the Renew will
attract the younsderar while older eyes will
gage with pleasant on the " Artist's Daughter,"
an engraving of a young girl leaning against • column,
with • harp placed by her side on the snow, the light
and shade of which is • credit to the engraver's art.
Still finer are the magnificent whole-page illuatrations
of the BritisA Wartime*, which bears on its covers •
splendid painting—we were going to aay—of an African
prince, the boldness and vtgoar of the engraved lines
being wonderfully softeoed and yet increesed in effect
by the brilliant colouring. A great portrait of Lord
Brougham salmi has the (Ajar° Near° natural as in •
phr.tograph, and is well worth • frame. The matter of
these two mapzines is so good that we can only assign
the palm to the one read the last.—The Servants'
llaaazine is a decent volume well suited for the library
of the young person entering life by service away from
home, and into her pocket, if she have leirure time, it
may well go, for recreation on occasions when she has
nothing el,e to do. Such "clippings" will not tend, like
thotte into the aervantgal literature too mush patronised,
to unfit her for her "place," but will put her in posses-
sion of many an idea by which to make comfortable
those around her, and establiah content in her own
heart. It need scarcely be added that the whole of the
above, being founded on the Bible, and plentifully
enriched with exttaate from its sacred pages, may be
safely put into the hands of any one, as well as of those
belonging to the perticialar class for which each is
specially designed. Could such books he universally
Introduced into the homes of the people, and received
into their hearts, the moat fearful could scarcely hold
the "power of numbers" in dread.