The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-01-12
January Magazines.
international Review.

| A very cursory glance at the contents will
satisfy any one that the initial Number Of a
new wear and new volume of this well known
Review is an exceptionally able one Ttopens
with charming sonnet by John G. Whittier
to VI. Theirs, in which Americas favorite po-
ct, on his roth anniversary gives expression to
his sympathy with the struggling French re
public Mr. Wells, the well known political
economist, follows in an able paper on The
Conditions OF National Wealth. showing that
in this country the conditions are favorable for
u speedy renewal Of unprecedented national
prosperity, the only present hindrances in the
way being the unsettled state of the currency
question and certain alarms TO capital arising
out of the late granger decisions of the l..
Is. Supreme Court! Major Ben Pcrley Poor
the well known congressional biographer, tells
what he knew of Senator Sumner, The sub
| iect is one on which no one surely, from his
| long intimacy with the Senator, has better
right to speak. In the second Harvest at
Olympia" Prof Ernst Curtius, Of Berlin, de
scribcs what was the result of the excavations
prosecuted by the German government on the
site of the ancient Olympia, during the season
beginning Sept %, 1876. Some very valuable
finds" have been made, and the learned Pro
fcssor examines them critically and thinks
that some of the marble heads found reveal
the very master Of feminine beauty Mr..
Edward \. Freeman, the historian having
about two years ago given, in the Review, his
first impressions of Rome, contributes in this
number his First Impressions of Athens,
the result of Il visit there this year Professor
Sumner takes up recent work on Money and
Its Laws, by Mr.. II. V. Parr, and impales the
author on some of his own bad points of logic. |
Baron Won Holtzcndorff, of Munich, in the
first Of series Of papers prepared expressly |
for the Review, defines and explains what is |
meant by the scope Of Imperial Federation in
Germany. Samuel Osgood dIscourses delight
fully on the difference between love in modern
and in ancient times Alexander II. Stephens
contributes a paper on the electoral count, and
dwclls especially on the importance OF the let
ter of Thomas Jefferson, produced in fac simi.
I6 IN tnc New 1OTk W OVU II year ago. III
which the great democratic leader, strict con
structionist though he was, fully maintained
the power of congress to define by law how
the question as TO the validity of Presiden-
tial election was to be decided The "Contem-
porary Literature" is the best that has ever
appeared in the Review, comprising signed
notices of recent American, English, French,
German and Italian books by competent hands.
The political and scientific summaries have
been wholly omitted. They were often sheer
impcrtinences, and grown stale before appear
ing in print, were as often absurd. Better
leave that business to the Nation and like able
wecklics.
As the International invariably comprises
literary, material not aooossiblo elsewhere, 50
cannot be better expended than in a subscrip.
ton to it, Copies of the january number may
be found at the bookstore Of Osman & lIape-
man, 10 La Sale St, Ottawa.