The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-08
LITERATURE.
Books. SC.

"strOng minded" woman, and in the better sense
of strong as opposed To wcak-mindtd, no person
in a lecture tour over the country would be so
likely to encounter many original characters and
not Il few lunatcs With Anna strong minded
ness rests on the Legitimate ana solid basis OF
masculinity Of intellect, presided over by plenty
of good common sense. With her lecturing Is
pursued as II profession because it pays, and Wo-
mans Rights selected AS one Of her themes be-
cause it draws. Among her converts and wor.
shippers, on the other hand, are oftener moon
struck fools Of both sexes than people Of sense.
No doubt Anna has found their fawning and pa
tronage or faulttndng and criticism disgusting
enough, and possessing withal q keen sense of
the ridiculous, she takes revenge on them by
showing up their foiDles IN a very racy little
book In her sketches she CONSIDERABLY conceals
names, though identihcations no doubt in most
cases are easy enough. If the book has no other
value. it is at least q delightful brochure over
which to while among agreeably a few idle hours
Milton. By Stohord \. Brooke. New York:
d. Appleton q Co. Chicago; Jansen, McClurg
| & Co. Ottawa: for sale by Osman ~ Hape-
| man. Price GO cents
| This admirable little work is printed by the
Applctons in their biographical series OF English
Classical Writers, edited by John Richard Green,
Though intended mainly as educational, SO meth,
odcal and systematic is its arrangement and so
thorough the writer's familiarity with his theme,
that we doubt il any more extended work wOald
give the ordinary reader more thorough com.
prehension of the actual scope and ajcsty OF the
genius Of Englands only great epic poet; for
what Homer was to ancient Greece and Virgil tol
Rome, such was Milton to England-thc one and
only great master Of her epic Tyre. THE story
Of Milton, aside from his career rs poet and pc.
tical thinker and writer well, is one OF touch
ing interest. Like so many Of England's intel.
lectual Titans, hs had his early struggles with
po,erty, neglect and want Of appreciation, and
though overcoming these, the latter and what
should have been the happier half OF his life WAS
clouded by the great misfortune OF his blindness,
shutting him out, in his own pathethetic Ian.
guagc, from sight Of
Day, or sweet approach OF ev or morn,
Or verna bloom or summers rose,
Or flocks or herds or human face divine"
Yet he owned that the inGrmity only helped his
wonderful creative power, and protested against
being regarded as an object Of pity. Our author
assures us that his latter days were sweet and
restful, until at last he Joined himself
with those just spirits that wear victorious
palms"
DoRcAs. A Novel. BY Georgiana NJ Craik, au.
thor OF mildred" "Sylvias Choice" &c Har-
per u Brothers, N. Y; Jansen, McClurg Il Co.,
Chicago. Price Is cts
THE GREEN HAND A "Short Yarn" BY George
Cupplcs Harper d Brothers. New York: Jan
sen, McClurg ~ Co., Chicago Ottawa, for
sale by Osman ~ Hapeman. Price Is cts.
The above are Nos. 6S and 90 of the Franklin
Square Library Harpcrs' popular cheap edition
OF standard novels. Dorcas, which had such
run" II few years ago and then took its perma.
nent place in the list Of standard novels, il q
49,. r--~-.'J ....b. --.-Ss."'i"s snv ioiSc Vi
caste in that country. All the troubles OF the
heroine arise from suspicion that the cerulcan
of her veins may be tainted with the slightest
infusion Of plebeian blood The chasm is bridged, |
however, and the pning lovers meet on level
ground and are made happy.
The other n "short" yarn the word short be.
ing ascd in the tic sense of unfinished for it
is long enough to fill two volumes of the con-
ventional novel is, with exception of occasional
prolixity, very fine tale. Aside from the
sllken thread of fascinating story upon which
the whole story is strung, one gets such vivid
ideas OF the dangers as well as destinations of
navigation in the South Atlantic and Indian
Oceans as can be obtained from few other, though
more prctentious books.
Local GOVERNMENT At Home and Abroad. BY
Robert 7. Porter, Esq, Chicago. PRINCETON Re.
vi6,O.
series OF articles on the above important sub.
jet is being contributed to the Princeton Re,ie,p
by Judge Porter, of Chicago and after their ap.
pearancc in the ReUie,c are printed in pamphlet
form for general circulation at Sets. a copy We
have only No, Of the series before us, from
perusal of which we Judge the writer's object to
be, to demonstrate the Importance to the preser-
walton Of the liberties rs well as general well be.
Ing OF the country of the maintenance of our To-
cal governments-state, county and municipal
IN their vigor, in opposition to the dangerous, alb.
'orbing and ccntrazing tendencies of the day
To that end, however, he enters a vigorous plea
or the correction OF many crying abuses that
nave entered into one many crude and compli-
'ated systems OF local administration, bearing
lpon which the article brstles with startling ,
acts
MODERN WHIST BY Fisher Amcs. 20 cts. !
NAssAIL. BY Col. Charles Hamley. 20 cts IIar- I
per " Brothers, New York Jansen, McClurg {
Co, Chicago; Osman Il llapcman, Ottawa.
There is no game of cards to be played for ,
mere ahusement-that can be named by the side ,
If whist. There are games that are more lively
md bostcrous, but they are trivial in compare.
on. The game is played by everybody in Otta. I
va, yet few really understand its principles or
re familiar with its laws in anything like detail
The little book before us, No ll9 of Harper's t
Iaf Hour Series, is an excellent treatise on the |
Jane, and in an appendix gives its laws from the
English Club Code [
The second book named above-No lis of the :
anne Half Hour Scries-is very pretty Christ U
mas story, the scene Of course being laid In Eng
and where Christmas tide one hundred years agoI
clipsed all the other national festivals, religious
n secular. /
'uBLIc OPINION: As expressed by the Leadin.
Papers OF the World. Wesserman Il Morris.
Philadelphia. 81 year
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