The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

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Tll9 LIT JOCIIMAL (London Virtue and Co , 26,
Ivy lone) -This beautiful serial is eo uniformly super.
excellent in Be engravings, its letter-prees, end its
ripen on nit, that we can do no more than say it is
One month (owl as usual, and note its principal
content' The line engravings are "The Wayside in
Andalusia," • charmingly picturesque composition by
J. Phillip, IL t., ml K. A:I4AL A.R C.. s. lendidly
engraved by C. Conseil, awl Mns Ward's " Pvlnay.
the Potter," depicting a distrewing incident in his
wryer, engraved by C. W Sharpe Notices of the
Royal Academy and other exhibitions occupy 'con-
siderable space, tare lithe second part of Miss E
Rogers's interesting " Wooks afid bookbinding in .yria sad
Paladins," and the other papers will be found of much
veue to art atu 'enta With it there is a further
Instalment of the Paris Exhibition illnstreel cat. woe,
which is a wonder ul work, and will bring lasting
renown to the publi here.
tin ST. PAUL'S Manistee (I 011,1,11 : Virtue sad
Co., 294. City Ito•A) contains several more chapters of
11r nthony Trollopc's clever and attrAct re story
" Ph'nes. Finn, the Irish member "sod a well written
novelette entitled " For • year" The more solid
reading consists of articles on • ti' Eastern question"
a paper hr stung with facts, showing how the several
European Powers are affected by it, and the manner in
which British rule has been conducted in India I here
Is also an int-renting memoir of Madame de SevigniS, an
ab •an caustic reply to articles in the S day
Ne-ereron "Women of the day ' des. riptive a-counts
of he wilds of Cheshire, an•l of "Fishing"
pArtienlarly in Scotland a poem enttle I " ni •
correspondent " which we quoted last week, and No 2
of ' Life twlies" or the " • nalo•womsoa"
In an a ry strain the problem. what is to l•xime of thaw
emigrant F nglish who winter Annually in conic now
they Are exclude.' from the Holy city by the combined
terrors of Pap I Zouares, A ntonelli, Garibahlians,
explosive shells, detonating newspapers, end per-
cussion cig re. From this paper we give an extract,
)'peeking of the several c awes of countrymen who have
p •id their winter vis t to Rum] with laudable regularity,
he say. :
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There sem • Pprlotting .1 titualidle folk. who toyed to
attn.-Le tith Pope,. oh aßeeted draperies, and won
addiete to •Itse cloth., and ob. t oh,MT k yto the
roo•ry of rell4loto wordste, to 111Vi4enowl la ineetue, sed
dildayed by sem tepee; but yet, •Ith the.e, wouldn't,
qu in g. over to 11...ne. They took thel• Romanian no
deep"e., do their porter—lel-and-half —and they tou..d
tt mewed with them. Thee people really I bed Rooe.
It Idled t em out or the comno.n uniformity of daily
111., WA. 110 to my, demeaned existence to them ; which,
as they were very ordinary humdrum toil. I folk f .r the most
p.m was no small boon. They were not Indeed on the stage,
n•.e .1 the company, but they were privileged to .troll behind
tho K.oll* • and to stand by the fl and talk to • super-
-I,nimerary ; and all or us, who have lased that bl.w Ist
enjoyment st th• Itaymarket, may Imagine the delight
It conferee' when the piece mu played at SL rater'', and with
the whole tteength of the enutreny. . . . . . It was to
courageou. to our High Church re pie to play with lee, to flirt
with +-tint worship and costume.. and never be led out of the
Thirty-nine Arth-he ! This Waying Toot Tiddler's ground with
the Pope trAt rattly ansuslutt to our Ritualist. though now and
then his tlohne.• 411 catch • piny Lerma and carry hint of
triuspha,tly to his fold.

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TR it VICTABIA NAG .11:11t (London : Victoria Press,
Princeastre t, tfanover•square) for tune is an a- ersge
• ..her. The openi g article on "Ital. twenty years
nr.," is em moir of ianiel el.nin, lovingly recounting
his labours to sexure Venetian entancipatio • ; the story of
" A year in a life" is continued, with intertet ; there I.
a roe. able paper on .nstrian women from which we
learn something of court life in Vienna ; three more
cherters are given of Miriam Pow:lna do'. roue
autobiography ; and then there is • lea ible art cle on
co-operation Following the ewe have t • usual
miscellany of extracts concerning wo lien, their education,
their property, female suffrage, Ito.
Ova Owv Fiegaing (London : Ount and ('o.' Rollos
street) is full of inter-sting and instructive reading
be fourth • f a eerie of papers, "light on Church
matter.," by the Edit r, the lieu. Char.. bullock, is
deserving of attention at th a juncture.
Ilaatiwicee s Fgoteez Gouile (london : Robert
Hardwick, 192, Piccadilly) contains several excellent
illustrated papers on eciantilic suajecta, and the usual
inter sting notes of numerous c rrespondenta on thing.
curious in zoology, botany, and microiloopy. It is a
capital fourpenny monthly