The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-09 00:00:00

Literature.

MAGAZINES, &c.

The Art Journal produces a most effective en-
graving by J. Cowen, of Lee and Cooper's joint
landscape and figures" Svening in the Meadows,"
In atmospheric distance, and breadth and detail of
foreground drawing the landscape part is magnifloent,
whilst of course Cooper's cattle groups have not been
excelled since Cuyp and Paul Potter. The original
is in dm National Gallery, and is one of those for
which the public are indebted to the liberality of the
late Jacob 'Bell. Messonier's figure of the Student
with the severe and simply, almost Dutch, details of
• still if. interior, has about it a remarkable aspect
•A repose. A Cupid of Weetmacott's, engraved after
the statue, exhibits the exquisite Greek taste of
herrnaphrod.te outline neither male nor female—but,
where beauty is concerned, more fetnahs than male.
Several wood engravings, illustrative of Mr.
Dafforne's "Modern Painters of Belgium," axonl
anything we have seen of late, even in the Art
•Journit. Mr. and Mrs. Hall's contribution to
their "Memoirs of Authors of this age" relates to
•James Hogg—it is just and trite.

The Journal of Agriculture contains a very
matter•of-fact memoir of Mr. Hall Maxwell,
••iilently not a popular man with the writer; yet
treated with strict impartiality. The portrait which
accompanies it is far too juvenile to convey an idea
of what Mr. Maxwell had become, although it is like
him when younger, and ruffling it with the Duke of
Athol at a cattle show on the loch of Perth. In
this number there are excellent Essays on Leases
and on the permanent improvement of Landed
Estates, the management of trees, itc. The former
writer attacks the *lceboats in leases prescribing
the destruction of moles ; but is the authority of
Mr. Wren Hearn sufficient to oonvinoe any farmer
, where the runs and galleries of Master Talpa
radiate that moles are not a nuisance? A judicious
ogrioulturist would surely prefer the mole•plough to
tbe stele for stirring u his tilths, after he ham settled
than to his own mind.P

TO, Motor% of Alniciek (Northumberland). —This
oontribution to the most valuable of all history—
local history, by George Tate, Esq., V. •S.
approaching completion, discloses the able and pains.
taking nature of the author's labour, in a manner
well oalculated to determine the high value of the
work.

Hardwickes Science °quip has its lead every well-regulated period,o4 of
an erg.like
and the October leader is on Coniervatt:enm°D.
political but territorial—not how Part, holds its—own
against porgy, but bow the earth ttaell holds de
ground against encroachment, how the oasis of the
desert is preserved against the sand, and
how the sand dunes preserve the coast
%mind the sea. Bellflower. (the genus co rn•
pankla) form another chapter of tnterrirting
rominisoanoes. —There are besides aneodotes of rare
companimiehip amongst beasts and birda. A demerit).
ton of that strangest of created beings, the Amoeba,
a creature without mouth, teeth, stomach,
claws, eye', nose, bands, or feet, which yet sucks in
its prey into a dimple in lie body and does very well.
Th. fairy Hog champignon is shown to be an ex-
quisite edible mushroom by Mr. ht. C. Cook. Those
wonderful ereateres, the gall atics of the oak, are
vividly illustrated. We ate also glad to acknowledge
the miming figure of one of the prettiest of our land
shell., the Pies mead, which it teems the artist was
enable to supply in time kw Mr. Wallace /Pyre's
peter on the Helices in last camber.