Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-09-09

Demorest's Monthly shows no sign
OF falling away from its usual excel
lence. The fashion plate is enlarged
this month and the Ladies' Club occr.
pies little more space. The stories
are not often worth mentioning, but
Mrs. Croly's articles will always pay
perusal.
The Caxton Publishing House, OF
Chicago, proposes to soon issue work
entitled, "Satan in Society" in which
an eminent physician of Chicago, will
discuss, from high moral and physio-
logical standpoint, topics connected
with some of the great social evils OF
the day.
Every Saturday, for september a,
contains one of the neatest satires on
false antiquarian lore we have ever
met. "Thc Woman OF the Future in
the number tor August 90, indicates
the drift of the most advanced and in
telligent minds OF the age. This week
~ periodical is reprint Of tha best ar
ticles in the European Reviews on
topics of interest to Americans.
Our Young Folks, this month, is as
rich and entertaining, as lively and
spirited as usual. The Bad Boy con-
tinues his revelations of his badness,
and never fails to force US to like his
very faults. which, we confess, are not
OF very serious character. We hope
our young folks are ready to say with
us that The Bad Boy is not the only
attraction which ou' Young Folks
possesses.
Among the many good things in the
chronological Journal, for September,
we find portrait and biography of
John Rogers, the eminent painter; Of
Hon. Joseph Wright, of Indiana; of
Won Baer, the distinguished Russian
Naturalist, and of Winnie Ream. the
Sculptures, There are. also, articles
on Beauty, Apoplcxy, The Rhinoceros,
The True Relation of the Sexes. and
the Ape Man. S. r. Wells, publisher,
N. Y.
Bible Lyrics, by Rev. John A. Mu--
ray. will soon be issued in an elegant
volume of about 500 double-columned
pages, AMI embellishod with 16 full
page photo-li;hographs The work
will be sold only by subscription, for
which the publishers desire an agent
in every county. Parties desiring to
take agencies for this work should adj
dress J. S. Goodman & Co. No. 3,
Custom House Place, Chicago We
shall give the work more extended
notice as soon as issued.
The publishers Of Hearth and Home
offer until October l, to those subscrib-
ers who wish it, a copy Of Mrs Stoves
new novel "Oldtown Folks" and
Hearth and Home one year for 81. 1t
see rs hardly possible that any one
should need coaxing with gifts to sub.
scribe for this excellentpaper: but since
Messrs Pettengill & Bates make this
generous offer. our friends would do
well to avail themselves OF it, thus Sc.
curing very readable book and the
best of family papers for tho usual price
of an illustrated weekly.
Teachers and School officers who
desire to keep themselves well-informed
in regard to their respective dnties
and calling. cannot do better than tc
subscribe for the Iowa School Journal
It is published bv Mills & Co. Of Des
Moines, tor One Dollar and Fifty Cents
per year. At the late meeting ci the
State Teachers Association. Prof. Je-
rome Allen. of Monticello. Jones conn
ty, one of the ripest scholars in the
State. was selected as the editor of the
Journal We are glad to find that the
Journal is meeting the success it de-
serves.
The Western Monthly is not devoid
of interest this month. It opens with
a sririted photograph and biography
of Hon. Schuyler Colfax. "a Practic
al Solution OF the Eight Hour Cues
ton is one of the most readable, as
we'll as valuable. papers on political
economy that periodical has ever con.
tanned, if not the only one, and it goes
far to free it from the growing suspi.
cion that articles on political economy
Of only one SHADE could find room within
its covers. We are glat TO note cvi.
dences of prosperity in its enlargement
and Improvement
Harpcr's Monthly never fails to be
both entertaining and instructive. In
it's sphere Of duty it has no serious
competition, and it deserves all the
success it has obtained. Theillustrated
articles, for this month. are: Photo.
graphs from the High Rockies, The
Eye and the Camera, Border Reminis-
cences, A Trip to Brazil and Bob
White. The Editors Easy Chair makes
some very sensible and seasonable re-
marks respecting the American Press;
and, we may remark, en- passant, that
the Editors Easy Chair, in Harper, is
always very readable and very sensi-
bic.
The Atlantic Monthly, for Sep.em-
Der, is good. James Freeman Clark,
one of the profoundest of American
scholars, contributes another asticie on
the Religions Of the East, namely:
"Contucious and the Chinese, or the
Prose of Asia" James Parton con-
tributes an exposition OF the modas ope-
candi Of Log Rolling at Washington"
Parton Is always readable, and We are
sorry to observe him gong SO far out
OF his way as he does several times in
this article, to cast slur and sheer