The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-23
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| Magazines.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. (Repubishcd
by Leonard Scott Publishing Co, n. Y. -
YEAR, The August number opens with long
article on Free Trade, Reciprocity and For
eign Competition" denying that the stagnatlor
in England is due TO free trade and combat
ting the arguments urged in favor of pro,cc
ton Instead of tariff tinkering, the writer
would seek remedy for present ills in reform
of the land laws, IN the encouragement OF IN
veniions, &c The second article is on emi
grafton, urging England to send emigrants to
her own colonies rather than let foreign ma.
tons have the benefit OF them. 3, "Aryan SO
ciety" is an inquiry into the origin and his
tory of the most important institutions OF civil
LIKED society. 4, State Papers-Charles l.
An interesting chronicle Of many events in
that reign taken from state papers recently
published s. The Life of the Prince Con.
sort" G. 4 crtique of George Eliot's last nov.
el, TheophraStus Such, estimating the book as
valuable essay on feelings and foibles, eniv.
ened here and there with touches OF genial hui
NOR. The number closes with a long article
on India and Our Colonial Empire and the
usual glance at Contemporary Literature
SUNDAY AFTERNOON. Springfield, Mass.
50 a year. The September number announces
that the name of tins magazine will hereafter
be "Good CompanN' the change OF name in
volvlng no change in the character or manage.
ment of the magazine, The present number
has stories by Rose Terry Cook and Elizabeth
w. Denson; several readable sketches, as "A
Bit of New England" The Old Log School
House" Sketches IN Southern California
&c, and a very readable account Of the sum-
mer charities of New York by William H.
Rideing. From the last we cannot resist trans
ferlng paragraph, referring to ride given a
lot of tenement house children to the country
The ideas of what the country is, possessed
by the children taken to it through the benc.
ticence of the fund previously referred to, would
be amusing were it not for their pathos. I've
been to the country before. My pa once took
me to jersey City" said "A little girl, as she
was on the point of leaving New York so
have l." said another with a burst OF pride :;
and when she was asked what country, she an.
swered, "Ireand," probably from the fact that
she had heard it spoken Of by her parents as
the old country" once beyond the city, and
among the fields and hills, their interest and
wondermcnt were unbounded How nicely
the hills 90 up" SAID one boy. who's been
wetting this grass" asked another, as he felt
the morning dew as it real 2" said third,
as he felt lawn; and when he was convinced
q 4. l.
and rolled over it and over it again. Every
object had freshness and interest to them. DC
casionally an incident became laughable, de-
spite the pitiable ignorance that led to it. Sew
eral children at village in New York asked
for permission to play with the chckencoops,
and although the attraction of the chicken
coops could not be understood by the farmer,
the desired consent was given. The playfel-
lows came back in little while, and il was
evident that chicken-coops as source OF pleas
ure had fallen vastly in their estimation. When
a reason was sought, one Of the children ex-
planned that the flies "bit too hard" and en- a.
further investigation 1t was discovered that
the chicken coops were the beehives the in
mates Of which had severely opposed the ex-
periments made upon them
Other articles treat of the pernicious peri
odical literature for children now so abundant i
about the peculiartes of the Book of Esther i
on Latime- as social reformer on the pub
lie schools and national culture, &c; while
the Editor in his usual vigorous way takes in
a variety of topics
LITTELLs LIVING ACE. (Littell & Co.. Bos-
ton. IS IA year, The numbers for Aug. 9th
and 10th contain the following articles:
Wordsworth by Matthew Arnold, and the
Mirabeaus, Macmillan; Food ana Feeding,
by Sir Henry Thompson and Moose Hunting
in Canada Nineteenth Century; The Last
Jewish Revolt, and Chloral and other Marco
tics, Contemporary; The Evangelical Move
ment its parentage, progress and Issue, by
Mr. Gladstone, British Quarterly; The Birth,
Lite and Death of Storm, Popular Science
Review; How to Popuarlze Wordsworth, The
Journey of Colonel Prjevalsky towards Tibet,
The Influence of India on China, and the Les
sons of Prince Napoleon's Funeral Spectator;
Egyptian EXiles Saturday Review The Chan.
ces of War, Natal Mercury; and In the way OF
Fiction, The Ghost OF Morcar's Tower, The
Grey, and instament of Jean Ingelow's Sarah
de Berenger;' and Sarah Tytlers "The Brides
Pass" and the usual amount of poetry.
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