The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-06-30
July Magazines.



Harpel'5 Magazine for July is enriched
by nine illustrated articles, with eighty.fiv,
engravngs. The first Is curious one b.
Maj Thompson, entitled Hunting with III,
Long Bow, and gives the writer's experience
for years in this novel sport, coupled will
much interesting information. In the next
John Muir, the scientific explorer of the Cal
ifornia Serras, describes and illustrates VIII
striking pictures, what he calls Snow Ban
ners Of the California Alps. The third is de
voted to the battle between Gen. Herkimer'!
troops and the British forces in the Mohawl
Valley in 1777. Mr.. Lyman Abbott, in an
Of Westminster Abbey. \ few extracts vii
show its spirit The author is speaking o
wha, is known as the Jerusalem chamber
Here it was that Henry ", coming up tC
! London, covered with hidcons leprosy, anC
almost bent double with pain and weakness
laid him down to die. 1t was, apparently
the only room in the Abbey which had con
venIences for fire. 1t was the early spring
the Abbey itself was chilly; and to the Jeru
salem Chamber the king was carried by his
attendants, and there lald upon pallet be
tore the great fireplace. 1t is in room IN
the palace OF Westminster adjoining that
Shakespeare places that most affecting scene
In which the young prince puts on his OWL
head the crown of his sleeping father; and
thence he represents the king carried at his
own request to the Jerusalem Chamber for
his death.
Hing Hary Doth any name particular belong
~, Il I.
Udrio,ck. It's calrd Jerusalem, my noble lord
Hing Harry. Laud be to God!-even there my
life must end
II hath been prophesied to me many years,
shoald not die but in Jerusalem;
Which vanly supposed, the Holy Land
But, bear me TO that chamber; there pll lie;
In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
The other, and more important though less
dramatic, scene, which renders this chamber
memorable in history is intimately connect.
ed with the history of the church and the de-
velopment of theology. Here 1t was, driven
by the cold, as Henry ~ had been, from the
Abbey itself, that the famous convocation of
Presbyterian clergy was held which under
took to change the entire character OF the Es.
tablshed Church of England, but which, end
Ing seemingly In failure, really resulted in
organizing church whose scope and inilu.
ence have out run their widest dreams This
little chamber is the birthplace of the Pres
hytorian denomination. Here, and IN the
chapel of Henry VII, changing their sessions
in part according to the weather, sat the tam
GUS Westminster Assembly. Out of these
walls came the Directory, the Longer and
Shorter Catechsms, and that famous Confess
sion of Faith which is still the accepted sym
Dol of theological doctrine of one Of the larg
est Protestant denominations in England and
the United States.
The Orkney and Shetland islands are des
cribed by Edward Roberts, with numerous H.
Illustrations of their picturesque scenery; and
Ii. ID. Minot tells us many curious things
about birds nests. In the way of fiction, of
course the serial of Charles Reade, The Wo-
man.IIater, which is completed, and Erema,
by II. ID. Blackmore, take the chief place,
though there are several short stories also,
and some very choice poetry is contributed
by Bret Harte, j. T. Trowbridge, Ellis Gray,
&c. Ia politics there Is trenchant paper on
Our Civil Service, by Hon. +. NJ. Morse,
whose diplomatic experience ought to make
him an authority on the subject
The five Editorial Departments are well
sustained, in mprehensiveness of scope, and
in the novelty ofthe material included in their
various field