The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-01-24
NEW PUsLIcATroNg.

Managements IA. The Character OF Jona-
than Swift. .-by AS. Hill ~. Frsser's Re-
port on the Common School System Of the
United States, by S. Eliot VI. Co-opera-
: tion, by L. L. Godkin VII. Witcbcfalt, Ivy
james Russell Lowell VIII. Nominating
4 GphvAricSsybySiduey S. Fishet i Iks Govt
efnof Andrew The Critical n Offices which
dinarily numerous and elaborate. =. The
review of the works Of the Italian poet,
francesca DALI .ongare by. W, D. Howells,
is at this time Of especial Interest 10 Ameri-
can. readers, aside from literature; 1t adds
to eur knowledge Of the Italian character,
This poet is a, representative man, and when,
We get at his thought we, comprehend the
people whose mouth;p:eceyh he is. Ongaro is
| patriot and politician, as vel. as poet ,ex7
priest, editor, lecturer and writer of dramas
versatile as an American in his pursuits, but
stesdfast 70 tte principle Of patiqnali unity
As 9, scholar he has turned 70 the sources
Of pationsl poetry and. from popular ls7
gends and traditionary traits in the daily life
Of the people gathered fragments Of songs
and aimed to reproduce a complete and sym
metrical national poetry, in the Language Of
the, nation. As a patriot, he shared the
dangers and glory of,Fevolgtions with Gac7
ibaldi, and wrote the, songs the Italian soil
diers sing on itheir. marches and in their biy7
ouacs. '0nc must take him TO be intensely
italian, and therefore a coed representative
Of Italian thoughts aud aspirations ), also, Of
italian culture. To. know well a few such .
men, is 10 know definitely about all there is
worth knowing of their countrYm6n in the
mass. Mr., HowellS services in making US
! acquainted with Modem Italian Poets are,
as, we said at The beginning, OF Impotence
aside from Literature, They arc enhanced,
too, by The copiQqs auotationsr not merely
4 of such Passages, to be found in all great
poets, where the Thought is SO great that it
alppst becomes palpable to everyone thro'
the, veil of any unknown language but
translatieus Of entire songs, from which the
reader can forp his ownf opinion Of the ge
MUS pr no genius of the author quoted, The
Italy of TO- day is mot the far off, dreamy
Americans; Garibald aud his red shirled
! volunteeTs and the Atlantic Cable have Civ
en- us-downrigh practical notions Of Italy |
! and Americans especially, y,-becsuse luf the
struggles Of the Italian people fopi rePubli-
can national unity y,-7-weuld become familiar
with their present habits and characteristics.
This they are doing by many ways, but
chiefly through such careful and critical pa
pers as that of Mr.. HUweils in the North
American Review. The article on Frasere
Report on the Comfn2n School System of
the, United States discusses thoroughly all
Questions cppnected with school govern
rneBt, aud briugss out many new ideas, by
comparison with the systems Of other coun-
tries, on, discipline, culture Of teachers, COM
pulsefF attendance, course of study, etc. :. ~
It,is a common habit to dwell ON the great
Improvement made iu machinery, Of the im-
imense. superiority of any given invention
now over the same invention Primitively
the article in the Review on Railroad Man
agement shows what Improvements have.
| ilieeu,; made in the mechanism of Railroads
since the first loconK tive was made forty.
| two years ago it also enters into every de-
tail Of railroad management, Poiuts out de-
fects ard suggests remedies. =. The article
on Nominatiug Conventions, aside from its
self contradictions ard self.evident incon-
| sistenoy,'i is in the main a thoughtful paper,
| and effective as protest against the indif- |
ference the9better class of men manifest toi
| ward nominating conventions, and the cor
| rupt practices of dishonest politicians The
substitute proposed is an absurdity because
il is impraqGcable If practical, it would ,in-ll
| crease the evils complained Of. 80 Lowclls
article on Natchcrsft we purpose TO read one
tof these rainy Sundays. 'in $50. o.. ibh
4 .JN .lsli5-5 ism TT-,i .hrh /. idutn1
| THrEa .FFFw ,MyH4rEAcA NoyEEhr- Appleton
4 Co.. sihmitt to the spuble approval auoth-
q Mubl1ach novel The subject, THE |
Empress josephine, is une with WHICH the
author necessarily BECAME famiIiT in the
course Of explorations for her previous
rpmancesi in which, NaRqlepn and Josephine
have, played parts. There are few persans
who can resist the mysterious aud painful
attraction which, dwells about the very name
of the i'll lfsted Josephine and it seems as
if The Muhlbach had become so fascinated
by the contemplation lof that PersOnsge in
the production of her, former novels, that
! she had resolved TO dedicate one book to
t,Josephine exclusively None but woman
would have dreamed of making the empress
the pivotal figure OF the book, that place
being comri0niy monopdlizef IN Napoleonic |
liteFstuIe ,by the great son of Corsica. 1t |
remained for. Miss Muhlbaoh 10 Claim for
this unhappy representative, OF her sex the |
| position Of the sovereign Of Napoleon's heart,
and virtually the arbiter of bis destinies
| The chain of events Of which Josephine
was the fated' victim is one Of the most won
,defful TO be found in the treasure house Of
history; and no one but writer Of ample
lbrairi and heart could make it the material
Of story, without belittliDg the theme
Miss MuhlbaGh, is fully equal to the great
task. She details the conversation of i'm
petial reople as smoothly as if she he'd been
born in palace r. Mr., CASTOR Fay s beauti
i full illustrations form most agreeable &C
compartment to the text. We might say
that they give promise Of anew epoch in
I American art.
sod - Ia.l l,-aLolsio1 go sjEf iraI
1 The NpRTH ERNl MONTHLY i uK JAM sRF, al
though late iu.making its appearance, tdses
nothing in freshness and raoipess by the de-
lay. Mrs. Harriet Prescott rSpcfford opens
the ball with serial story, entitled, The
! Thief. in the Night" which is singularly
brilliant in treatment, and gives promise of
SURPRISING allprevious efforts of It's author.
Another, continued story, '..Miss Van Ars-
dale, lis by the well-known author of "In
Trust Miss Amanda VI. Douglas. The
style is happy, and the plot one of peculiar
interest. Judging from the current inum-
Der, il might almost be, said that the NoRTu-
ERS was the offspring Of the woman brain
of the country. Besides Mrs Spoiford and
4 Miss Douglas, we have Harriet McEweu
Kimball, who contributes delightful little
poem called "Befricnded Miss Walsing-
ham, whose poem, @Elsie vanc," is marvel
Of rhythm and ireland Miss Sterling,
i whose scholarly translation of the beautiful
fairy tale, PRINCES, Ilse, is likely 10 meet
with wide favor. .,.. +.,..-i-...., .i;l
But the masculine element is mol less visi-
be- A caustic writer has . Some Plain
Words with Charles Dickens, that places
this distinguished author in Eew light,
and is certain TO provoke a great deal Of