The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-04-12
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IGALAM,, or, The Bcggars, (thc founders q the
! Dutch Rcpuhlc) BY j. b, DeLiefdc Scribncr
Armstrong d Co., New York; Western News
Company Chicago. Price - cents.
The name Of the author is new to Us, though
he writes as with II practiced hand. The oh
jcct of the author is apparently by the ma,
chnery Of a well constructed plot, and a
deeply interesting story, to enticc the reader
into the perusal of a somewhat pungent and
very bitter tract against Jesuitism. The story
is presented as az episode Of the prolonged
struggle of the Netherlands for independence
! from the power of Spain, struggle which,
| in its main features was religious war
though attended with such important and
gratifying political results. The book, like
Garibaldis famous novel, will be read with
JUNCTION only by peculiar class
THE DoCToR'> DILEMMA. \ Novel. BY lcsba
Strctton. With Illustrations. d. Appleton Il
Co., New York; Jansen, McClurg n Co., Chi.
cago, Price - CENTS
This is novel of much more than ordin-
airy merit Its style is bright and charming,
and its morality pure and healthy. There is
AN UNDERGONE protest against that barbaric
feature of English law, which makes the wife
as much the chattcl Of her husband as the
slave of IN Eastern harcm is; but the point
is barely touched, and by no means enough
to spoil the novel By making it a tract. The
characters, which are we'll drawn, are natural,
never overstraincd yet far from common
place. The plot is admirable and hccimaX
emincntly satisfying. 1t is novel in a hun
drcd.
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George Eliot author of Adam Bede, Romola,
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Il stranger grasp of conceptions, or a greater
power Of picturesque description worked to-
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After hanging over its pages during every
leisure hour for Il week, we can cordially en-
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is in every way book to be glad of; and if
it does not enhance George Eliot's fame, it
is because she has already attained the fore
most rank among novelist who write novels
that contain more religion than all the ser
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reading.
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