The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-03
Literary Notes.


standard Is an exponent Of the leading
political questions of the day. Among
some twenty articles in the number for
August, the one entitled "The Republican
Party" in which is shown its relations to
the welfare Of the country, is deserving of
. careful perusal at the present time So,
also, the articles on The Republican Par.
ty and Reconstruction, Transportation
Corporation vs.. Congress and the Supreme
Court The National Finance" and
others. This magazine is published mon
thly, at 81 per annum.
The Science Of Health for September is
a seasonable and excellent number of this
popular and useful magazine. 1t opens
with an illustrated article, explaining the
process Of Digestion; contains articles on
Nervous Force and Strychnia, Hay Fever;
How to Raise Water, with illustrations;
Conservative Power..of Alcohol; Disease
and its Treatment; Is Alcohol Food.
Abuse of Air; Quack Medicines, Preserv-
ing Fruits, with numerous recipes and
directions for canning; Picking and
Preserving Grapes; Ante-Natal Influence;
Self-Control; Death-Rate in Cities, etc.
Only 20 cents $500 year Address S.
r. WELLS, Publisher, $50 Broadway, New
York.
OPENING OF SCHooLs-As the schools
are now being opened for the coming year,
it is opportune to call attention to the fact
that the Young Folks RurM Monthly was
used as text book in thousands of
schools last season, for reading exercises
and as source for procuring dialogues
and matter for defamation and recitation.
An agreeable variety in reading lessons is
beneficial. This periodical is without any
doubt the best for young people now
published at a low price. I;has numerous
novel and attractive features, and pays
cash prizes for best compositions
poems, sketches, essays, etc. Sample
sent postpaid for fifteen cents, or fifty
cents will pay for a trial" subscription
for six months. Address the publisher,
II. n. r. LEWIS, Chicago.
OLIVER OPTICS MAGAZINE for Septem-
bcr This sterling monthly comes freighted
with y full cargo of attractive articles, as
usual. Oirer Optics .Dorcas Club
have their first lessons in rowing, and some
rather startling incidents are woven in by
the ingenious author. Elijah Kellogg's
serial Slowed by the Wind" takes the hero
to his American home, and recites some
thrilling Indian adventures. That Queer
Girl" Of Virginia F. Townsend, increases
in interest," and there is an illustrated art
Gle, ''Baffled Revenge" which is also
thrilling. The poems are Bartlett Pears,
by Nellie NJ. Garabrant, THE Nurse and
the Wolf, with full page illustration,
Dressing for Dinner" by Laura D.
Nichols, Indian Summer" by Annie
Moore, and If | were Daisy" by Jennie
JOY Mrs. George Cupples, author Of
Singular Creatures, has sketch entitled
Toby" and the Original Dialogue De-
partment,' Head Work." Pigeon Hole
Papers" and Letter Bag" are well filled.
There are 4 full page illustrations by the
best artists. The whole number is de-
cidedly readable and attractive LEE &
SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston, at So 90 per
year.
Tie Pdreno1ogiM Journal and Life
Illustrated for September, abounds in
freshness and spice of the best sorts.
Father, mother, son and daughter
can find something to please and in
struct them in its well filed pages. We
may note few subjects as worthy the at
teniion Of readers generally, viz: James
Lick, the Benevolent Millionaire of Cali
fornia; Oberlin College; Resolution and
Appetite; Finance-a Clear Presentation
of the Currency Question; Thomas A.
Scott, the Noted Railroad King, with %
Portrait; The School Girl Of the period; In
the Tolls of Fashion-Good Counsel to
Society Ladies, Ruined by Good Luck
Good Counsel to the Boys; The Venus Fly
Trap; Curious Facts About Curious
Body; Jeremy Bentham-What he Was
and What he Did; Telescopes in America
and Europe; Dr. Alex NJ. Ross, the Cand-
ian Naturalist; Hints on Private Reading;
Agricultural Hints, etc. Altogether an
admirable number Price 80 cents. 800
year. s. II. WELLS, 3S9 Broadway, New
York
Locke's National Monthly for Septem-
Der is replete with interesting reading,
while the proportion and arrangement Of
different classes OF matter appear to have
received more careful attention than
usual. The department of fiction is re-
presented by a most entertaining story
from the pen of Charles Barnald called
"Rawson's Ark" story of bogus
clergyman under the title of "A Choice Bit
of Scandal" by Jeanie Morrison, and an
English story, 'Bob's Reformation" The
humorous articles are the Widow of
Mansouf," by D. Il. Locke (Nasby); and
Miss Bilkinson's Enthusiasm, Miss Mary
Hartwell. The number also includes well
written and instructive papers on the
Problem of Cooperation, by NJ. IL.
Williams; Sex in Mind and Education"
by Miss Rosa L. Segur, Mrs. Browning
by Mrs J. G. Burnett, and Sumner and
the San Domingo Debate" by 5. 5. ID.
Poems are given by Edgar Fawcett on
peace and War" and by l.. Howard
Russell on the First Visit The re-
mainder of the number, including the
editorial pages, will be found of decided
interest Terms, one dollar year; LOCKE
& JONES, Publishers, Toledo, Ohio.
Several Democratic aspirants for..the