Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-23
WRITERS AND WRITINGS.
PERSONAL AND CRITICAL.

8EIEG Personal AND CRITICAL.
WE have received copy OF s'sT. 8 |
Arthur, His Life and Works, by One
Who Knows" 1t was written by Mrs.
E B. Duffey, a daughter of Mrs. c. P
Bisbee, of Chardon, and is one more
evidence of the writer's ability For a
plain and yet elegant description of the
noted I. S. Arthur, Mrs, Duffey has
ended another work which is worthy
the writer's growing fame.
The Richmond Und.) Times. copies
from the Ariel, a literary paper publish
ed in Philadelphia in 1927, an incredibly
foolish item, which had previously been
taken from our weekly contemporary,
the Telegraph, and then asks if we can
vouch for the truthfulness of the arti-
Gle. We regret, exceedingly, that we
can vouch for but very little that that
sprightly sheet either says or does.
The editor. of the self styled "Novelty
among Newspapers" in recent article
upon political aspirants says rs. S.
Burrows of Geneva is by birth n
brother of our noted kelCounty Lib
eral, but in politics the relation between
them is as distant as that between q
mule and a magpie." AS specimen
of a country boys skill in compliment
ing the extract is difficult to equal.
The Plain Dealer of Cleveland proves
the appropriateness of its name. in the
following item, which we clip from its
issue of the 18th inst:
WE find the following fearful and WON
derful statement in the Painesyille Iele-
graph: tit n1t
a dispatch from Elm Greek, Nebraska, states
that on Tuesday morning, while party Of two
| ing near the Republican River, on Blackwood
q eek, they were surprised and att ack ed by Il
| sued resulting in the defeat of the Pawnees,
| whose loss was about one thousand PERSONS.
Here we have pack of irreligious and
unprincipled Sioux pitching into two hum
dred and forty quiet and law-abiding
PaWneeS, and dispOsing of one thousand OF
them! This shows to what an alarming
| extent improved weapons have been intro
duced among the Indians. 1t also shows
one OF two other things: (1) either that
| the Sioux Indians have carried the art oi
ma gic further than Hermann or Signor
Blitz ever dreamed of, or (2) that the edi-
| tor of the Telegraph has been lying ''cluss'
to a bottle of very poor whisky.
| The chronological Journal for Septem-
Der, now on our table, must be pronoun-
ced by every reader capital number
Its examination has given us much salts
faction. 1t contains over twenty sci
articles, besides shorter papers; among
them being Hiram Powers, with portrait
Extraordinary Scientific Discovery
Living Unto Life; DIR. Horatius Ronar
with portrait; Laughter, illustrated
Sketches from Real Life. No. 4, illustra-
ted Good Behavior-which everybody
should read; Prof. j. M. Kieffer, with
portrait; Mary Lees Dream, story fol
teachers; Over-training; Curiosities o
Abstinence; Local Option, or The Tenn
perance Experiment at Vineland; DIR
Wilder's Wit and Wisdom; From Che
boygan to Mackinaw ON Ice; The Chin
ese Wheelbarrow, illustrated; John Il
Gordou, Murderer, with portrait. etc
Subscription price, SO a year. S. r
Wells, Publisher. 399 Broadway. New
York.
The Atlantic Monthly contains it
usual amount of good and interesting
reading. Mr.. w. J. Hoppin gives hi
second paper on GA Glimpse at Contem
porary Art in England;" Mr.. james
Parton has as entertaining an article a
he usually produces on president JET
ferson's Chief Measures;' and Mr.
Robert Dale Owen, who is, perhaps, tn,
best qualified man in this country t.
speak Of such matters, tells his "EX
perience of Community Life" DIR
Oliver Wendell Holmes writes cleve
enough "Poem Served to Order" which
was delivered before the Phi Beta Kap
pa Society last June. There are also il
this number some careful reviews of re
cent literature-notably, remarks upol
Turgenief7s "Dimitri Roudine,' Tur
: genieff being man who is more praised
than understood in this country, wher
there has latterly been rage for trans
latien which has resulted in fOisting up
on lis some of the worst as well as SOM
of the best of German and Russian
J novels. Il. b. Aldrich has a poem ol
, .Frost-work.'' ssThe Shore House," b,
N. S. Shaler. is readable, and, on tn
whole, the number compares favOrabl.
with any of the other magazines Of tn
: month.
The Science Of Health for Septembe
is a good number, with facts and infor
nation which, if acted Oh, would rem
: der 1t worth more to every reader thai
years subscription, containing "Obed
: ience and Health - "How Long Ma,
We Live;" s.Practical Temperance :
5 ssEXpericnce in Water-Cure - s'Pre
q Natal Influences;'' 'EDisease and 1t
, Treatment" ''Nature vs. Civilization :
doctors and Malt Liquors. In Sea
{ sonable Dishes, under the head of tn
Household Department" we have in
structions for the Preparation and Us
= of Tomatoes in various ways; Peaches
Pears, Piums, Melons, ETC.; How to Re
i move Fruit Stains; Canning Corn; De
r scription of a Distilling Stove; and a
3 unusual amount of Information in Talk
with Correspondents. This magazine
published at the low and popular pric
: of two dollars a year, or offered for si
# months on trial, for $l.00. Address
e 4. Wells, Publisher, 3S9 Broadway
!, New York.
8 iScribner's for September has fai
proportion of light and summary, an
solid and substantial fare. Bret Harte'
!, story, Gan Episode of Fiddletown," j
!, continued, with his usual strength
:. there is story about 'Baum, the Coz
:, net-player;" an illustrated "Cruis
9 among the Azores;'' profusely pic
tured and very suggestive article on tn
8 New York "Central Park" delight
a full illustrated paper OH "rhe Birds
n the Poets,'' by John Burroughs; a curl
= Gus "Study" of Japanese Fans, by Noa
Brooks; Whitelaw Reid's Commence
n ment Address on '.The Scholar in Poll
= tics; the second of Blauvelt's importan
!. papers on "Modern Skepticism a repl
. to the recent article on '"The Liberty c
u Professionalism portrait and bio
t graphy of Edward Eggleston, anthor {
n title Hoosier Schoolmaster; and til
e usual quantity of poetry. DR.. Holland
the editor, gives us another installmen
of tArthur Bonnicastle," and the fol
lowing seTopics of the Day." The Out
look The New York Board of Educf