The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-23
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Literary Nsttoss.
The Atlsntic Monthly maintains 10 the Oc-
eber number its supremacy in American
Magazine Literature. The contents are !.
nebriats Asylums and visit to ors; Pstro.
cum in Burmah The Man and Brother;
The Two Rabbis King Crowns and FOOLS
Caps; St. Michssps Night; Edmund Brook;
The Face 10 the Glass; Loves Queen; b.
son; Free Produce among the Quakers; The
Finances Of the United States; Pandora
Reviews and Literary Notices.
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i year.
Good news for the children. II il an.
in the Riverside Magazine for
October, that the great Hans Andersen, king
Of story-tellers, is hereafter to b : regular
to it, pages. Two stories are to
be given in the November number to start
with, and the next volume is to contain his
new stories regularly. ALI American childs
rem who read,-and who does not7-will
jump for JOY at this announcement. The
present number Of the magazine has an eye
evidently on the current Of public taste, for
Walter Scott is taken notice Of in an illustra-
ted sketch Of his life, and in IN article, for
older readers, on his novels and poems. A
frontispiece BY barley from 'lvanhoe,' is
promised for the next number; the one this
time is by the inexhanstible Stephens, two
chaps riding rooster back. N. E. Dodge be.
gins story With the taking title "Croques At
Midnight y J. c. Haywood, the dramstist,
has 40 imaginative story of little Agathe;"
r. Fellow treats Of sCroqust; there is .
chapter from Little Lou, with pretty pic
ture, and bright little fancy in Andersen's
vein, 'Prattle in the Pantry The serial,
"A Year among the Indians" has some spir.
tied pictures from 'dssigns By Bieratadt. Ev-
ideutly the Riverside 10 making ready for
freeh glory. Published BY Hnrd / Hough-
ton.
Messrs O. D. Case Co. Of Hartford, Conn
have issned IN one elegant volume, pro.
fusely and handsomely illustrated Sir. 8. ".
Bakers intensely interesting vork-'E xplo.
ration Of the Nile-Tributares pr Abyssin-
MA The province Of Sir Bakers sxplora.
tons ia thus set forth in the preface.
"The two grand afduents Of Abyssinnia on
the Aae Nile, and the Atbara which join the
main stream respectively in ,hs North lsti.
tude, i3o 80 min, Ito 81 min. These riverl
although streams of extreme grandeur during
the period Of the Aby.sinnian rains, from
The middle Of June until September, are re-
dnced during the dry months TO utter insignif
canca the Blne Nile becoming 80 shallow Al
to be unns vigable, and the Asbara perfec,l,
dry. At that tins the water supply o
AbyssinpiA having ceased, Egypt dspendl
solely upon the equatorial lakes and the af
tlaents Of the White Nils, until the raining
season shall have again flooded the two sreA
Abyssinnian arteries. That food occurs sud
denly about the Goth Of June, and the gran,
rush Of water pouring down the Blue Nil,
and the Atbara into the parent channel, in
uudstes lower Egypt and is the canss Of it
e1treme fertility.
Not only lie the inundation the effect Of th,
AbyssinniAn rains, but the deposit Of NUT
that has formed the delta and which is an
nually precipitsted by the rising waters il
also due to the Abyssinnian streams; more Is
pecialy to the river Atbsra, which is know
a. the Bahr 81 Aswat BLACK River,) carrie
larger proportion Of soil than any othe
tributary OF the Nile; therefore to the Alta
hara, above all other rivers must the wcalfl
| and fertility Of Egypt be attributed. It ma,
thus be statsd-the equatorial lakes fee,
| Egypt, but tho Abyssinnian rivers cause tn
inundstion.
| 'tThis being concise summary Of the Nil
System, shall describe twelve months ex
ploration, during which | examined ever
individual river that is tributary to the Nil
from Abyssinia, including the AtbAra, Set
tite, Royan, Salaam, AngrAb, Rahad, Dinde
and the Blue Nile. The interest attached i
these portions Of Africa differs entirely fror
that Of the White Nile regions, as the Who'll
Of the Upper Egypt and Abyssinia is capabl
| OF development and Is inhabited BY rice
either Mohammedan or Christian, while Cen
trail Africa is peopled by hopeless race {
savagea, for whom there is no prospect
civilization"
| The story Of these twelve months the ~
| thor has told in graphic and forcible VA
which W will hereafter illustrate BY quota
,ations from his work.
The book is published in most exceller
and attractive style by O. D. Case h Co
Hartford, Conn.
Mr.. D. G. Lowrey, OF the News Depo
hands US The Voter Text Book . vAls
/ able political compend, comprising collie,
ton Of the most important documents On
statistics connected with American polite,
history. II is compiled By James NJ. HAT
and published in ness anG snultantial forl
BY Asher, Adams / Higgins, Indianapolil
Indiana. Among the contents are Forms
/ ton Of the Original Union, Population I
/ tho United States 1t Decimal Periods; Det
laration Of Independence; Articles Of Cor
federation; The Constitution; Missouri Con
promise: Fugitive Slave Law; Ordinance /
! 1887; Crittenden Compromise; Amnes,
Proclamation; Emancipation Proclamation
Sketches and Electoral Votes Of the varior
Presidents; The various Reconstructio Bill
History Of the National Banks, etc., Of,
The matter isn't superannuated Her. il Il
text Of present political issues AID the ~or
is valuable TO every voter, especially to eve,
politician. /, can be procured Of D. {
!, Lovrey, new. dealer, Keokuk.