Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-01-31
WRITER'S AND WRITINGS.
BENG Personal AND CRITICAL
COMMENTS.

BENG Personal AND CRITICAL
COMMENTS.
WE have received new and beauti-
full piece OF music entitled, My Beau
tiful Dead,'' companion piece to
:. Mother, Let the Angels in" from F.
w Helmick, music publishers, Cinein-
matt, Ohio.
-FHE Ashtabula Telegraph, evidently
was not in favor of Mr.. Cushing. Ii
declares that during the war he was
sneah-a rebel at heart, who only saved
his skin by a quasi-loyalty to the gov
ernment. Alasi how are the mighty
fallen. Poor Caleb!
An exchange suggests that Surgeons
righteous soul will be stirred up when
the Christmas issue of the Christian at
Work reaches England, for compost
tor, in setting up the London preachers
article on Prayer" impiously. made
the types say streptiles," instead of 'tre-
plies" in fine sentence referring to the
answers given to prayer.
OF late the Leader has spoken once or
twice of the Ashtabula Sentinel and the
result is shown in the sudden acquisi-
ton of importance by that inland sheet.
1t has even taken to criticising certain
of its contemporaries and. in late issue,
actually said 'we'' when speaking of it.
self IN connection with the truly good
Deacon Richard Smith of Cincinnati.
For some weeks the Reporter, Sentinel
and Telegraph Of Ashtabula county have
been engaged in triangular fight over
their respective circulations. But,
neither of the three having had courage
to put their assertions to the test of ac-
tual proof, the tomahawk has been
buried aHd the telegraph reporter says
all is quiet from outlying sentinel to
sleeping general.
THE fifth annual issue of the Public
Ledger Almanac, presented to the SUBJ
scribers of the Ledger as household
companion for the year 1874, has reached
us. from the publisher, George w. Childs
1t is furdished free of cost; is not pub
lished for sale, and none are to be sole.
The Table of Contents shows that this
issue of the Almanac is, like its prede-
cessors. handy book OF useful infor-
nation for everyday reference.
The best way to treat poor books is to
go by them. They are written by fools
and purchased by feols, and publishers
will not issue them when the public re-
fuses to buy them. There is no more
sense in everybody's reading bad book
to see that it is bad than for everybody
visiting cholera patient to see that he
DQS fha cholera That ia yyhof critics
are made for, and is about the only use
they can be put to, anyway.
The st. Nicholas maintains its high
character as decidedly the handsomest
and best child's magazine yet published.
In the February number are coutribu-
tions by William Cullen Bryant, J. T.
Trowbridge, Mary n. Prescott, Celia
Thaxter, Frank r. Stockton, and others,
while its illustrations are almost with
out number. Not only is this the best
of juvenile magazines. but it is this
month decidedly the most brilliant of all
the monthlies.
d. Appleton & Co. have brought out
Herbert Spencer's Sociological History
of England of which Mr.. E. B. Taylor
writes, in Nature: SO much III formation
eucumbered with so little rubbish has
never before been brought to bear or
the development of English institutions.
There is hardly living student but will
gain something, by looking through the
compilation, which relates to his own
special subject, whether this be law or
morals. education Or theology, the divis-
| ion of labor or the rise of modern scien-
| tific ideas.'
The February number of the Ameri-
can artisan is in no way inferior to the
January number, and gives evidence
that the publishers intend to maintain
/ the character of this first-class period
ical. Neither editorial labor nor expense
have been spared. The engravings are
of the most superior order, 38 in mum.
ber. We do not see how any manufac
turer, foreman, or inventor can affOrC
to do without this most useful monthly
The general reader, also, may alway:
| find in it much of great interest.
i The January number of the Technolo
gist, or Industrial Monthly, for 1874, is
sued by the Industrial Publication Co.
l76 Broadway, New York. has reached
us filled with valuable and interesting
, information. The table of content
gives list of nearly fifty important ar
ticles, not including mere current item
of Information, of which there are sever
or eight columns. Of these articles min
teen are illustrated, the illustrations in
, Guiding two full-page engravings. prin
! ted in colors. Those of our readers VIII
are interested in industrial progress
: ought by all means to examine this pc
riodical, the subscription rate being OH
ly $3.50 per year.
THE February number of the Aldin
is at hand. A dozen pictures embellisl
, its pages, mole than half or which ar
t original American views. Mr.. w. NJ
= Cary has spirited full-page picture O
, Antelope Hunting on the Plains;" NJ
: John Hows has series of FIVE pictures
, which he drew last summer in the love
ly region OF the famous Juniata Rive
in Pennsylvania. Mr.. John S. Davi
e contributes sketch of the village "ne'
er-do-well." Specht has fine pictur,
of Scotch greyhounds. Gentlemen o
LEISURE" and " Cinderilla," is a pictur
after Lejeune. '.Y'he Old Bible,
picture Of young lady seated on tn
;. howery bank of a stream, 81 A child n
more! maiden now," and a dashin
0 sketch called " Budding Genius"
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