The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-31
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/ BIACKwooDs MAGAZINE. leonard X Scott
Publishing Co., n. Y. $500 year. A large
portion of the May number is taken up with
the two serials-John Coldigate and Rcata.
The former is rapidly drawing to a close and
the interest, which has been well kept up
throughout, becomes intense In the other,
which promises also to be charming story,
the writer, with characteristic British confu-
sion of American geography, speaks o! the Ca
madam vine as the most beautiful Of tropical
crcepcrs" The present condition of France Is
the subject Of the leading paper in this mum
Der, and the writer recognizing the almost
phenomenal prosperity Of that country in con
trast with the general business depression OF
the rest of Europe, is obliged to confess that
France is mot a bad specimen OF Il republic
as republics 60" The remaining articles are;
I"Thc Pathans," semi-barbarous people VINO
live in caves and rude huts among the noun
tans OF India; The Life of the Prince Con-
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the sixty.elgth volume Of tins popular maya
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we have vigorous defense Of Phrenology, in
reply to an attack in recent English maya
zine. Then-an entertaining description OF
Two Curious Orchids; an instructive paper
on the Worlds Work for Women; a fine Por.
trait and Sketch Of the late LYDIA Foger Fow-
Ter: the continuation Of the juvenile story,
Uncle Jimmie, the Cripple: some suggestive
remarks on House Alteration, which are Illus
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The Search after the Ideal, by an English con
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Thrushes," illustrating poem by Mrs Whit
on. A story by Susan Fennimore Cooper
The Wonderful Cooke-tolows, with three
quaint pictures. Next comes another of En-
ma E. Browns charming Boston papers, this
time about Poor Chlldren's Excursions and
The Country Week, with eleven illustrations.
No of Benjamin's American Artists" is
devoted to Walter Shirlaw, chief instructor of
the Art Students League, and is accompanied
with several spirited engravings There is a
short paper on Oliver Goldsmith by Mrs. Lii
lie; an account of Remarkable Journey"
with two illustrations; and two humorous pic
lures are given, THE Dancing Lesson" and
"The Tables Turned In the serials, "The
Dogberry Bunch all get back home again;
the young people in "St. Olave's" find their
way ont OF the snow drift and "Don Quixotc,
Jr." valiantly protects his fathers house from
being taken" There are several poems of
merit, and large print stories puzzles, &c, for
the little ones
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