The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-09-24


THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, its Causes,
Character, Conduct and Results By Alexand.
er H. Stephens. Ziegler 81 McCurdy, Phila.
dslphia.
The announcement of this work, three wears
ago, created a profound sensation, and the first
volume which appeared at that time, was eager.
ly sought for and read. 1t was generally felt
that the task of transmitting to posterity the
southern version of the history OF our great civ
il war could be placed in no more fitting hands
than those of the Hon. A. H. Stephens. But if
the volume then issued, which, being confined
mainly to the causes of the war, and necessarily
the dryest portion of the history, was read with
eager interest, what may we not predict of the
second volume, which is now ready for dstribu-
ton? The favor of the reader is won at once
by the absence, in the narritive, of all bitter
ness and sectional feeling. Mr.. s. writes with
calm dignity, dealing in clear, straightforward
statements of what was done, rather than in
speculations of what might or ought to have
been DONE
The book is for sale by subscription only, and
agents are sought in all parts of the country.
VERONICA. A Novel. By the author of "Aunt
Margrets Trouble" "Mabers Progress" &c.
Harper Il Bros, New York; Western News
Co., Chicago.
Something above an average novel. Veronica
the heroine, is the daughter of a clergyman,
comparatively poor and chafes to escape from
the humdrum existence to which she is confined
solely by the parental appropriateness, being,
BY education fitted, as she imagines, for a much
higher circle She attains by questionable
marriage, the wealth she covets, but is naturally
disappointed not to find herself on the fowery
bed of ease she had pictured. The story is ad-
mirably told and The moral wrought out with
impressive distinctiveness
RECoILECTIoNs OF EToN. By an Eton;an
With illustrations by Sidney p. Hall. Harper
q Bros, New York. Western News Co., CHI.
cago.
The author of Tom Browns School Days at
Rugby, gave us one of the most delightful books
OF hepresent century. The author of " Eton I"
has attempted something similar in reference to
school life at the latter school. But what fail.
ure Tom Browns school boys are flesh and
blood, brmming over with life and vivacity.
Ihe Elton boys are automatons, as stiff and
dreary as I" wax tiggers," We are surprised that
the Harpers would reproduce book so hum
drum and tiresome.
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