The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-01-26

work OF more than twenty years OF literary
labor and experience.
We find in this first volume page after
page Of extracts, which will be wholly new
to almost every reader, being taken from,
manuscripts and books which have long been
out of print.
The poems and ballads Of the colonial and
revolutionary period, are quaint and charac.
tcristic Of the times which produced them,
irrcsistably carrying the reader back to the
''times that tried mems souls"
/ The biographical and critical notices Of
authors, as far as we have perused them,
appear to be honest and just.
The two hundred and twenty five faithful
and finely executed portraits Of authors,
which have cost world Of labor, add a de.
cided attraction aud value to the volumes ;
and the seventy-iive views of colleges, rcsi-
dcnccs Of authors, &c, add very much to
the ornamental part Of the work
To those whose means do not permit them
to possess large collection OF books, these
1900 closely printed, double column PAGES,
will actually be a library in themselves
Everybody who reads a book naturally
desires to know something OF the author
and here, brought down to the present
time, is treasury Of biographical facts, re.
specting every American author.
josiah Quincy, in his history Of Harvard
University, says
while passing down the series Of sue.
cced'ng years as through the interior OF
,I''.' I'.'1"' ,'"'f'., N''''n "SP''lS on q,
friends md hrncfoctors wc Should s,ay r,r
a moment in the presence Of each, doing
justice to the humble Illustrating the OBJ
l'"'"7 J." '"1 "s"' Wv ",1"'S''
an" u"Ihe fhPiuIy the moral ana lhttHectn'
al traits witch time has spared to the end
,'i' '"',,'u, ,ne i'o'',p'"' s'n ~ IL,
letters and that whoever feeds the lamp Of
science, however ohscurcly, however scanti.
y, may KNOW, 'nAt sooner or i''er, MS
p IT, lab, and ,hr"m.,,' iI ,f,,', ,u,,''
pany its lustrc"
Here is a monument to American litcra-
turc, answering to the venerable sentiment
Just quoted.
Our country, for the past year, has been
flooded with agents aud subscription books
of all kinds, too many Of which have been
suited to morbid taste for steamboat disas.
tcrs, Indian fights, and other glaring mon.
strosities. We should choose the volumes
before Us in preference to a large pile OF
such books, and think any person Of taste
would make the SAME choice.
The work is sold only by subscription
Specimen copies can be seen at ltathbun
Orion ) book store.
Wy owN TIMES embracing also tbr History o: Ny l.c
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our own with the rest, and from their gene
raj knowledge of its distinguished author.
who ~ an active r,r,icir,n, :, al our Indi,
u" wars as J"use Vi our supreme court
as governor III one oil the most trying times
in our history-as member of congrcsS-
sneaker or the bouse in our sto,o lo,i.Io,,ro
g. :, ,..s.d ,,.o,.h 90 ..e....,...,
w. W. f"'''' ''''"s" ~ many eAo'''"s
scenes quorum mH9H" P"fS J"H, ana natu-
rally came in possession Of so much rare ma
trial for such book.
n,..,lo :, ,ho,
rat''e' STa'h'hs as il''Ic AFTER ehect' ana as
severely impartial as the book of Genesis
deyoutly recognizing the Divine Hand in
o,ch ,vcnt narrated and ovc,Aov;r,, :,
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e'''s P'6'' WI" '''"' mum VI "u''"h h'"u-
mes which so eminently charactcrizcs the /
author. Where but in the sacred volume
can we look for more simnlc and ,o,,chi,., |
tho ,h,n e s,,d il ,ho c,u,.s;y
p"'''o' va" 10 '' ~ Wv 'o'o""s 'c'
count OF inc a"'hor VISIT 10 MS carry home
Ia 1913, paid visit to the State of
iCH''Sa''' anu H'duc pIISIIllirc 10 tnc .
home of my infancy and childhood, the 1
place where once stood the humble frontier
cabin OF my father. now revisited that
spot for the first time sncc we babe it adcu
in 1900, aad removed to Illinois. | had left F.
it mere boy; careless, happy child.
returned to it in the wanc OF lfc NJ re
than half a century stood between those two
points of times During all that long period
of my humble yet eycntful history, the
home Of my carly years lived fresh and
green in my memory, Just as had seen il
in childhood.
| had expected to find the whole appcar.
ancc of the country changed, and was not
surprised that highly cultivated farms with
their elegant mansions, occuped rccion
which had seen covered with almost nm.
brokcn forest Hut the most s,ril;nr f,,.
iurc If thc landsronc remained nnchanrcd
rio mountains were Tho somc Thoir INV
SUBMITS rose to the Heavens with the same
sublime grandeur that excited my awe and
admiration when child