The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-12-14
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Palmer MA, Professor OF Arao'c ~ nv S"'
yersity Of Cambridge, Author OF "Ihe Deser'
If the Exodus, etc Revised Edition, edited 10y
Rev 5, +. Smith, ID. Boston, ID. Lothrop "
Co. Ottawa: for sale by Osman ~ Hapei'a'''
We have here. within the limits of one octave
volume, "A history Of the most interesting people,
in their relation TO the welfare OF the Whoe h"'
man family, that ever lived. The history en-
braces the separate existence of the jewish race
from the time of Abraham through the ehtlre
narrative of the Old Testament and the perlou
intervening between the old and new dlspehsa'
lion, and traces their dispersion among 'he h'"!.
doms of the earth down to the present tiihe II
all history as Rollin says, is valuable only "s IL
traces the hand of God in his dealings win 'he
children of men, the history of the Jews must DC
especially so, for they were, more than any other'
his "pecuar people," and it is In their story
shove all Others that the truth OF the divine "oru
Is unfolded through the ages. Have the prophe'
sizes been fulfilled? God made constant promises
Of rood 10 the Hebrew people If they obeyed hlin'
and threatened evil AS the fruit OF disobedicncc
Those nromises and threats covered not only the
time they dwelt in the Holy Land, but all time,
Are they in their dispersion to day monument
of the faithfulness Of Gods word: Can any ms
tory be of more momentous import than lha'
which undertakes to deal successfully with TINS
problcmg The history before us, by one OF the
greatest scholars and thinkers OF the age, handles
II at least with clearncss, skill and grace That
are, TO our idea, within the range OF human at
tainment. satisfying. The book is made all the
more attractive by its admirable illustrations.
ATrrrIr WOMAN. A Story for other Little Wom-
Pal tIo Rastpn. ID LOtnrOp ~
Co. Ottawa: for sale by Osman IL liapeman.
This is the first Of the "Allie-Bird Series" pub
lished by d. Lothrop & Co., Boston, and is to be
followed BY H.-Grandma Crosby's Household;
lila Girls Money No !. relates the adven-
lures and little womanly heroisms OF kinnlc
Crosby, a wise matron of the mature age OF 10
summers The story is in the Louisa Alcott
STYLE. with incidents enough to keep up lively
interest, and a tone sufficiently religious and
pure in morality to give it a healthy influence.
The series promises to become a great iavoritc
with Sunday School libraries, to which ii is adj
mraby adapted.
THE GoDsoN OF A MARQUIS. From the French
of Andre Theurlet New York: ID. Appleton ~
Co, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg ~ Co. Otta-
wa: for sale by Osman IL llapcman Price 5Oc'
This is No TX. in the Appleton collection OF
foreign authors, and is Il novel of more than or
binary power There are but few characters in
ii. but they are drawn with singular distnctncss;
and though the novel is French, Gas if the French
were less pous and virtuous than other peoplcD
and the scenes, incidents, machinery and con
comitants are all French, the morality OF the sto'
nv is unobiectonable, and sacred things and
places, as they figure in the scenes, are treated
with becoming reverence, Indeed, the Appleions
are much too shrewd to admit a work of an oppo-
site character into collection by which they
seem to set so much store
FRANKLIN SQUARE LIBRARY. Published by IIar-
per ~ Brothers, New York. Chicago: Jansen,
McCurg IL Co. Ottawa: Osman ~ llapeman
There are books and books. People of COM
Portable means, fixed habits and settled homes
want nicely printed and substantially bound
books. suitable for center tables or library
shelves. There is an army of peripatctic read
ers, who want books in the most evanesccnt
form, to be read once and then cast aside; and
there is a great army Of mpecunious readers,
who hunger for good books, but can only afford
the cheapest possible editions The wants of the
latter two classes are admirably met in the
"Franklin Square Library OF the lIarpcrs. The
books are got up in quarto sized pages OF three
columns of close but clear print, and single
number, costing from 10 to 10 cents, contains al
book which in the ordinary form would cost from
one to two dollars. No. II, for instance, for 15l
cents, gives you Stephen York's fascinating nov
el ''Clevendcn;n in No II, for Is cents, we have
complete copy of Twenty Years Residence
Among the People of Turkey" by Consuls
Daughter and Wife, of the most popular
books of the day, and which in no other form
can be bought for less than 500 to 500. mi
No. 10, for Is cents we have Benz, Dsracli's fa-
nous novel, "rhc Young Duke" and No. al
gives us for 10 cents, "llavcrholmc,' the satire
in which Edward jerks made such hit The
Harpers certainly deserve credit for presenting
in such cheap form Il class OF literature that 9th
erwisc would be inaccessible to large army of
eager readers.
The YEAR Book or EDUCATION FOR 1878. Edited
by Henry Riddle superintendent, and \, j
Schem, assistant superintendent of Public
Schools, New York City. New York. f. Ste
ger. London; sampson, Low ~ Co.
The CycioD1did u Ed'catioH, issued year ago
was a work involving stupendous labor, and nI
importance took rank at once with the great en-
eycopndias, like the Britannica, Americana, &c,
now found in all libraries Of any pretension. New
facts, new discoveries and new achievements
however in education as in general science and
history are constantly occurring, so that all
standard encyclopedias need annual additions
and so the volume before US is intended to bring
the Educational CyclopGdia OF year ago down
20 the present date. 1t is a large royal octayoI
volume OF AZ pages uniform in size and print
ing with the great work to which its main purpose
is TO form an addendum, though independent.
ly Of that relation the information it contains is
Of the highest interest and value.
The Apple in the Bottle.
On the manel piece ofmy grandmothcrs best
parlar, among other marvels, was an apple in
aphial. Itquite filled up the bottle Childish
wondcrment constantly was, How could i'll
have got there?n BY stealth climbed chair
to see if the bottle wound unscrew or il there
had been a joint in the glass throughout the
lpught oi the pbtal | Uas sofistinl h,. oar,,,,l