The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-04-29
May Magazines.
Scrihner's.

The proximity of the Centennial opening
q, Philadelphia naturally suggests magazine
topics in that connection. AS one every
where in Philadelphia encounters statues,
busts or pictures of William Penn, the ques-
ton arises, what claim have any TO be true
portraits? This leads Col. citing, of one Of
The Centennial committees, to discuss the
"Portraiture of William Penn" The origin
of about all the pictures of Penn extant is thus
related:
When old Lord Gotham was adjoining his
garden at Stowe with the busts of famous
men, he made inquiry for picture OF WI
liam Penn many years after the death OF the
latter, but could find none; whereupon Syl.
vanus Bevan, an old Quaker apothecary re-
markable for the notice he took OF counte-
nances, and knaCk he had OF cutting IN
ivory strong likencsses OF persons he had
once seen, hearing of Lord Gotham S desire,
set himself to recollect Penn's face, with
which he had been well acquainted. lie ac-
cordingly cut a bust In ivory, and sent 1t to
Lord Gotham withou. letter or notice; where
upon my Lord, who had personally known
Penn, Immediately exclaimed, Whence came
hist is William Penn himseliH" From
This little bust the large one in the garden
was formed
1t is.agreed that while the portraits gener-
ally and correctly agree in giving Penn a.
broad, open, benevolent countenance, there Is
no good reason why most Of the statues and
pictures of Penn should make him cOrpu-
lent.
A chapter from the forthcoming Bryant
r,., 11g .l,
was the true Pocahontas While Bryant is
not iconOclast enough to annihilate the
sweet princess, he knocks all the poetry out
of he- history, by ruthlcssly disproying the
whole romantic story about her Tescuins
CAPTAIN Smith, which, had it ever occurred,
must have been when She was but nine years
old, at which time, tins hearless historian
tells u3,
"Pocahontas was well known at James
town. The Indian girls then wore no cloth
ing till the age Of eleven or twelve years,
nor were they much ashamed thereof ana
therefore, 'pOCahontas a well featured wan.
ton girl, PoWhatan's daughter says Strachcy
a cotemporary chroniclcr), NOW eleven or
Twelve years old, sCmetymcs TcsOrlcd 10 our
fort and would get the boys forth with her
into the market place, and make Them Whcclc,
falling on their hands, turning up their heels
upwards, whOme she would follow and
whecle SO herself, naked as she was, oll the
fort OyCr''
She did not, however, "wan.on' though she
vas as a child, 90 to the bad, but at 10 mar.
ricd Captain Roic, of the British army and
went with him to England, where she was
present to the Queen, and otherwise attracted
great attention and excited admiration for
her personal gr0ccs and the proprety and good
sense with which she conducted herself
The college series is continued by paper
on Bowdoin college, with "reminiscences
of Hawthorne, Longfclow, Cheeyer, and 9th.
crs Charles Barnard, the author Of cone
Thousand Homes in previous number,
commences a series of papers, which give pro.
mise Of deep interest, on American and for
eign experiment in cooperation. There Is
an illustrated sketch of John Gutenberg,
giving some curious facts and more curious
specimens, in illustration Of The early strug,
giles INTO assured existence Of the art OF print
ing And then we have the continuation Of
Bret EIarte's and Edward Hale serials, with
short stories by Miss lIowclls and Colonel
Waring concluding with the Old Cabinet,
Bric.a Brac, Home and Society, &C. Sc.