The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-01
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volume of that most excellent family ma gn zine.
Conspicuous among its contents are, William
Orton, President Western Telegraph Co.
What is the Tariff Question By Horace Gree
ID, p; Monticello, Famous as the Home Of
Thomas Jefferson; Expression The Chinese
in the Philippines Preachers and Preaching :;
Boys Library: Carbon aud its Different Forms.
Paul Du ChaiIlu, the famous Traveller Life
Insurance A Bad Pen, etc. With numerous
fine illustrations and portraits. A new volume
begins With the July number. A good time to
subscribe /: fine premiums offered. Terms So
q year. 80 cents number. 8. r. Wells
Publisher, New York. ~ q
= SoRIBNER's MONTHLY for June has as many
as fifty-three illustrations, those acco ompanyin,
Mr. Richardson's "Trav cling by Telegra PHI
! (second article) being of extraordinary rich
ness and beauty. There pictures of Har
| risburg, glimpsts Of the SIs9uehanna, Havana
aud Watkins Glens Seneca Lake, &c, &c
Another interesting illustrated article is on
1T ne City of Warwick - Professor Hilgard
of the U. s. Coast Survey, explains with maps
tables, etc, his curious and important theory
Of the centre of gravity of populations; Mr.
Whiteaw Reid, managing editor of the TRI
BUNE. ably discusses "Schools OF Journalism -
MIR. Wilkinson continues his criticisms of Mr.
Lowell's prose; Mr.. Warner gives us anothcr
charming chapter of Backlog Studies;" Mr.
w. J. Stilman pre- ents an interesting sh etch
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''At his Gates" Is, as usual, stroLg and mas
terly; Sax Holm's "Draxy Miller's Docryp
has a singular rush and breeziness-this in
stallnent contains an excellent little hymn by
Drsxy herself. Then there is a power full story
in the Lancashire dialect, by Fannie Hodg.
SON The separate poems are by Harriet Nc
Even Kimball, E izabeth Akers Allen and
Mary l.. Ritter, DR.. Holland, in Topics of
the Time" writes of Theatres and Theatre
going" and The Loneliness of Farming Life
! in America " The Old Cabinet talks about
cousin Bertha" "Our Standing Among our
Friends, 90 aiking about the Absent" ''Hu
man Sympathy" TIE AftergIow >" "Imita.
tion," and "The Big Picture The Scientific
Department is we'll filled; Home and Society,
among other timely papers, has an excellent
little article with ilustrationsl on crouuet
Culture and Progress has critiques on Church 3
''Parthenon," Thos. Moran's "Grand Cauyon
of the IellOwstone,' music, new books. etc e.
and the etchlDgs are very graceful and suggest
i've. The contiUuted and editorial pa pers alto
gether cover a remarkably wide range.
THE ALDINE for June is the most America n
of all our magazines. 1t contains three full
pa &c original illustrations of American Forest
Scenery. by Moran. Nehlig, and Hows-
Moran has selected the primitive forest, and
given glimpse OF its wilderness and gran
deur His subject is * wasind, The Strong
Man." in the "Song of Hiawatha, - and he ha .
handled it magnhcsntly. with all the strength
and none OF the extravaganza of Dore. Nehlig
has selected the Colonial forest so TO speak -,
and has given US a gliaApss of its sunny OPEN
Inss, rooted with foliage. draped with vines,
carpeted with flowers and MOSS and peopled
with happy birds. His subject is Campbell s
Gertrude OF Wyoming" the spirit OF which be
has realized in his figures of Gertrude and
Albert who are rambling through the " woods in
fanciiul Indian garb. Huws has selected the
forests Of the AdirOndacks. and has given US a
oil INN .,,f he nj, ftIxo
shoot up before Us, with their tall trunks and
crooked. ragged branches. struggling with
summer sunshine frightened and darkened by
turns as they stretch al, ng the winding stream
shat brawis over its rocky bed. A nobIer trio
of forest pictures than these were never drawn
and they ought to make the fortune of The
ALDINE Ms an Art journal, The rest of the
illustrations are of various degrees of merit
the most noticeable being Davis's RAINY
| Day." after LoBGfellows poem of that name
and a characteristic design, by Stephens for
one Of Esop's fables. The literature is of a
more varied character than that of any other
periodical published in this country The
poetry OF The ALDINE puts to shame the am
oltions verse Of the period, it is so fresh, and
characteristic, There are editorials on The
Noble Savage" THE Heart of Kosciusko, ;"
Love AlOit," and The King. fisher -
Altogether the June ALpISE is the best that
has vet been published. The publishers are
~, IN
and the price is $500, including oil chrome.
OuR DroFsrIoN; Or, Ny JoLLr FRrEsp's Sc
cRET.-We have just received from the WELL
known publisher of frst-class Subscription
Books, Geo. Maclean a copy of his last pub-
lIcatIon. entitled "OUR DIGESTION" oy the cell
ebrated author, Dio Lewis This Justly popu
lar writer and lecturer on health has done good
service to humanity by his efforts to pro
mote physical education, and we gladly wei :.
q 10 F-o
the preface of the book before us that the au
thor considers it his IMPORTANT WORK
and we entirely agree with him. In fact we
believe there has long been need for Just
sLch book as our Jolly Friends Secret, :"
and feel sure that the information it contains
Is calculated to do great and lasting good in
the community. The subject here treated are
really oil vital Importance. and it is passing
strange that 80 little attention has heretofore
oeen paid by Americans to the simplest rules
Tor eating and drinking Dio Lewis, who ia
emInently pratical, Inculcates the necessity of
boldly exercise. of temperance in eating as
"ell as IN drinking, of simplicity in diet, of
proper attention to the cooking of victuaIs of
fresh air, of not overlooking and eveItasking
the stomach, oil slow mastication, of regularity
IN eating' and OF other means whereby indges-
ton and dyspepsia may be avoided and cons
quered. Three-fOurtHs Of all the sickness and
unhappDess in our midst has a weak digestion
Tor lis prime cause, and DYSPEPSIA NAV almost
be considered national failing. How easily
this can be overcome our author clearly shows
IN hls usual felicitous, chatty, home like style
The doctor talks right to the heads and hearts
OF the whole peOple-rich and poor alike-aLo
this is the secret of his great popularity The
simple reading of one Of Dio Lewis books will
dispel fit of 1.-The blues" Our Digestion
is simply INVALUABLE. and "Our Jolly Friends
Secret" which means long life, health and
strength, physical and moral. is worth many
times the price asked for the volume. This
book ought to supersede Buchan's and every
other Domestic Medicine a household
work, for it shows how medicine may be dis
pensed with. to a considerable extent in a ma
jority OF cases. The book is issued in sple lendid
style, and contains a striking portrait of the
author, on steel, and other fine engravings.-
We predict for "Our Digestion" an immense
sale and lasting popularity, and for the benefit
OF all those who may wish to secure an agency,
We give the address of the publisher in full:
George Maclean. 733 SAMSON street, Philadel-
phia. -