The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-10-15 00:00:00

DORCHISTZA SCHOOL OF ART.

The annual westing of this institution for the (Betel.
button of prime took plies on Wednesday arming at
the Guildhall, before a large aesecublage, Including
a goodly nerokor of ladles. 'l'he walls were hang with
produotions of the students of the wheal in water I
odours, araymo, eepA. ink, and pecan, and they
utanifemed a high degree of proackney. .1. rimer, Mg.. I
President of the Beheol, ettooded to dietsibate the
prises, sod was guested with applettee. On the anti orm I
woes me Mayer of Donated« (B. Damon, the
Rm. B. L. Welem, Kr. H. Look (Hon. Bea), Mr. M.
Burnett (Hon. Tromarer), and Mr. Dewar Oriesphell,
the master of the !shoot. Amoust the badness we
soilood—R3v. H. iverett, Mr. Alfred Pope, Mr. A.
Leek, Mr. B. F. Look, Mr. Lush, Mr. Symonds,
Jen., Mime Symoads, An. Andrews, Mr. G. W.
W. Andrew., Mrs. Coombe, the Mimes Coombs, Mrs.
Look, Mr. F. Look. Rev. J., Mrs. and Mime Banderraton,
the Mims Pantos, Miss Connington, Mrs. Boblneria,
Dr. Robison°, Kra Darden, Mies Crow, ke., As.
The Peaoreeer oxprosied .regret that the Anandel
state of Ora Wool la hardly satiefaetory, ea they had to
walk • little ea the oaplral raised by • It.swer, amid he
Naked the ladies to mallet the Mormeed support e
friends. 'rho drib of Dr. Oraniall they all felt very
deeply. Presidia( • spatial budding for the Bawl of
Art still oempied the attention of the commitise,bot Its
retaliation could set at present be aotiolparad with
mash ennfirionee. The work of the students had
bees very fakly eatklactory In the peal year sad Is the
Goversomat emminations several had Mown meek
prollelracy. Be peemeded—l sertainly sheen oat be
prepared =melt to congest aoy rake for year guides*,
se pupils, but there le one old rule often Wikned nom
that emnos be too oft.. moollectroL It is &pea/sable
to everyildng in the shape of a proemial or seder.
=r, and blued is. thing that is worthy of h
e profession. or worthy of the aamel
I • mai enterprien it is the rood old nibs
of wows hoed work. (Hear, keen) I believe thet In
art, ea ia all slat, SWOON is only atimdaable by good,
Marty, honest, raborioss eadeeroar. It is Pros we
warn promise stomas or the highest atiainsamet to all
who week had, but of this I am quite we, sad I MBA
you will agree with me, that tiers 1... 0611 min Wale
mews without It (door, heir). Now you may my,
" Well, then, If we are to work hard, what are we I.
get for It; what good remit have wit to *sweet?" That,
I thick, id a very fair quentoo. An Ingllehmea le
generally • peiratieal person; If he has le work hard,
or men if bio hoe to do that whisk is mesh kee hard
work —to subseribe or give his mosey—l think hie
iles " Whet shall I gei for it r It is a
graser:qi((w
airy, althovit It mar look • Utile eemnieretel,
MO lA. net Mink* any worse for that I masider
Is t preeeleal ego we way fairly put that qmstloo.
Well, thee, what dorm get by ming students ta the
Wool of art? I may ens say tkat I hope Mire are
many here premat, and I am sore lb has bees Um ow,
to witwelle Wee experlerwe of an mosses has kw Its
owe reward. (Applause.) You oionot work in any
mailer whisk le worth working for, sod be setweelful ia
It, and be oweime of having achieved what yoe
desire, without &Meng greet ealiefeetlott fres that
aehlevement. ill, that feeling, or a feeling very skin
toll, which carries so oozy of our young men, for the
ewe's. of their monk, leek wind, and their bodily
river, too the tops of high mountains in Switserlaud—
It is the conanonsories of mbleving what requires • hard
straggle to Mann. It se snob the saw In it. wzrI.
art; but there le a higher object', and that is the om
of whieh the Latin poet spoke when he said that the
arts cultivate the aged and Improve the morels el
moiety. That, too, it me of the rewards of those who
ars 'talents of art Well, but beyond this, looking is
Is more preotimily, I think we have In these days •
pnblie which NOM and more appreciates the results
attained in works of art. (Hear, bear.) In former
centuries, whether • me..i devoted himself to literature
or to art, he could not rest upon the apprraration of the
public, he mutt not meantime his time and his lebonr
and all that nsay be important to him In life, so far as
his employment g 0..; he aonld tel writ* them to
works of literature or art, ante. be oould look to some
special patron oho would rake him it. and support
him in his studios and his martian. We karts how
It was with enthralls writers; vi all remember what
the great moralist of the last *eatery said Tweeting
Ibis, when he speaks of pogrom. It is sons years
linos I read the lines, bat, if I molten them rightly,
he spoke's' these terms:

What numerous ills the unhappy bard wall,
Toil, envy, wast, the peers% sad the poL"
It shows how deeply la his 1711111111/121, seergetlo bled,
that aoseedty had struak; the noomietty of obtainlog a
patron before he could venture to put forth the..
works withal have renderedJoitneon'e name toimorteL
It wee to too with great platen ; tbey had to look to
royal and titled preonspe sad to met of 60e.1 position,
sad oakum they amid obtain their favour there was
great risk that their wasgallioeat works would be nes-
lasted, and they would bare to straggle, u into; of
this did, with great difiloulty for their saistertea Eigt
this is the osee co leaser. A greet painter does oat
require a patroa sew; ha looks to the great potato ; so
math to the middle as the higher dares—to me who
have beet amweedul In ludo to the great atoraltante
the day, who are sameapi the met malteest pokes'