The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-01
September Magazines.
ScrIbner's.


The special element which, with possibly
one exception has made Scrbncrs the most
popular publication of It's kind in the world,
must be the prolusion and excellence of its IL
Illustrations. The September number contains
! 90 of these, accompanying eight different pa.
pcrs The first, The Immigrants Progress
from the village inn in the old country to the
prairie farm in the ncw-has some very re-
markablc wood cuts; the I'd satisfies ocularly
and historically all our curiosity in regard to
the Fam in the third we have new glmpscs of
the Land Of the Arabian Nights; the 4th shows
us numerous Old Streets and Houses of Eng
land, with many pleasant anecdotes therean-
cnt, the 9Th shows us Fort George Island,
Florida, which Moran illustrates and Julia b.
Dodge describes with great enthusiasm; in the
9th practical and valuable instruction is i'm.
parted in the Construction of Wells; in the 18th
Mrs IIcrricks instructs us with regard TO Mi.
croscOpic Corals; and the Sth gives several
pictured scenes in DR.. Hollands Nicholas Min
turn, which will come To an end in the next
number.
Other interesting papers are \ Russian Fun
cral; Hints on the Use and care Of The Eyes
College Instruction, &c.
In fiction we have the second part of His
Inheritance, Miss Trafton's new novel and
the first part Of Lodusky, new story by Mrs
Burnett, author of That Lass O'Lowrie's; with
several shorter stories. There is the usual in
stalmcnt of poetry; and in his own peculiar
departments DR. Holland displays his wonted
wealth of wholesome talk We make single
extract:
We are at Trenton Falls, and here We meet IN
Ioher dream, or what seems very much like {
Idrcam,-a landlord who is Il connosscur in ar
and lover of science and who understands
his business Paintings, old and new, adorr
the walls Here is Durand, there a Boutclle
There, and there, and there, how many paint
inrs by Hicks we do not know. They are on
tall the walls of the first story of the large house
In the Office stands cabinet of natural hisor,
special branch of (which has cost thu
Landlord ten thousand dollars. The specimens
form the record of geologic are so remot,
that no Imagination can grasp it. Proiesso
: Ag;lssiz declared that the land reaching from
Trenton Falls to Saratoga was the first that ap
lDcarcu above the sea on the creation. But her,
are the trilobtes in great variety, all modcle,
in black marble, 50 perfectly preserved in form
THAT the multitudnous lenses of their eyes ar,
h rs apparent under the microscope as are thos,
, of living fly. Millions of years before maj
. walked the earth these creatures lived their lii
y tie life the limestone took on their forms, ant
u here they are! What is n sevcntecnycar locus
h To tcn-millon year trilobitcy A trader il
these curiositicS offers us one of the size for
pin, and now We own IN antique that deserve
the name. What are ScdIUbPi and ancient in
- tdglii, or any other engraved or modelled sem
i dances of the old life compared To this whicl
Ii we hold in our handy This creature lived no
t. only, hut had become everlasting stone million
d of years before there was a living man Ia Sc
q. it, The old hotcl-kccpcr is enthusiastic owe
c his treasures, and proud of the distinguishc,
# visitors who have been attracted by what h
- has To show them. In September hc says
:, with touch of pardonahlc pride, II shall hav
u Tyndall and Huxley and Darwin here all tC
n gcthcr, for they have written me that they ar
e. coming" May the light that came into Tia
:. old landlords eyes rs he made this annoEc,
Il mcnt last for many years!