The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-22
LITERATURE.
Magazines,

c. W Benjamin on American Art. lhcy rep.
resent work, by Powers, Crawford Rogers,
Gould, Ward, story and Il dozen others. IN
other elegant specimen of the cngravcrs art Is
AbbyS page Illustration of Robert llcrricks
poem, "To Bed Of Tulips Helen ). Con
ant contributes charming illustrated paper
on merry old Edinburgh, in those days when
"A party Of its most respected citizens could
meet on Saturday night to drink clarct and
play whist. THE hours came and went, and
no account WAS taken by the jolly comrades
of passing time. The next forenoon the good
people of Edinburgh passing the house on
their way to church. were aStonishcd to see the
door open and three wclLknown gentlemen
issue forth, their hair diShcvclcd and their
costume in general disorder, while fourth,
with lighted candle in his hand, was endcav-
orlng to show them the way down the steps
Other illustrated papers are "Scenes IN ila-
vana" THE Philadelphia Ioo,' delightful
scrocomc paper by Olive Logan on "lhe
Ancestry OF Brudder Bones" and story, "Cor
Cordium," by Mrs. Champncy, But the most
interesting perhaps Of all to the general reader
will be found Col Warnings paper on the Ty-
rol. In this bread land where spacious farms
can be had on the simple condition of 0ccu
pancy and improvement one Is amazed to find
how, in other climcs, humanity will attach
itself to fertile lands without regard to toll or
danger Says Mr. Waring:
In the Wild-Schonau, North Tyrol, not few
of the houses are built on such steep slopes
that a heavy chain has to be laid round the
houses and fastened to some firm Object-a
large tree or bowlder of rock higher up. In
one village off the Pustcr Thai, and IN two
others off the Obcrinn Thai, many of the vii.
layers come to church with ClampOons on their
feet, the terrible steep slopes on which their
huts arc built, somewhat like swallows nest
on a wall, requiring this precautionary meas
urc. In Moos-a village not very far from
the Bremen, having population OF eight hun
drcd inhabtants-more than three hundred
men and women have been killed since 1853
by falls from the incredibly steep slopes upon
which the pasturagcs OF this village are stu
ated So steep are they, in fact, that only goats,
and even they not everywhere, can be trusted
to Craze on them, and the hay for the larger
cattle has to be cut and gathered by the hand
Of man
Among unilustrated papers the leading ones
are an admirable paper on the late Richard
Henry Dana by Stoddard; a. paper entitled
The Practical Interrogation of Nature by
DR.. Draper; Mrs. A. B. Blake on Church Mu-
sic, and Mr. f. p. Roc's article, "A Kitchen
Garden" The best short story is that entitled
How Able McAprl Preached for Mr.. Smith"
The Editors Easy Chair gives an unusual
to musical and theatrical gossip.
The Literary Record is full and critical, with
the Scientific Record contains
A vast amount of novel and interesting matter
in its field; and the Drawer, with its abound.
ing good humor, closes II number OF great and
varied interest
THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW for March
opens with an article upon the Administration
and Civil Service Reform, by Edward Carey,
in which the conduct Of the fraudulent admin
stration on that subject is sharply criticised.
Prof Shaler, of Cambridge, follows with an
original and suggestive article on Sleep and
Dreams The doctrine on which most stress is
laid is that to shorten sleep is to shorten life.
Mr. George Walker contributes very able ar.
Iicle on the currency question, from an eastern
standpoint, defending with great vlgor the
national banking system, Prof Ncwcomb, in
a kindred paper, treats the silver question in
a broad and Catholic spirit, pointing out the
errors both oi the mono and bi.mctallists
Chief Justice Wade, of Montana, makes a
strong plea III behalf of "Squatter sovereignty"
in the territories. Sidney Lancr revives the
memory of Bartholomew Griffin, a forgotten
poet of the Elizabcthan age. But the most
valuable paper of ALL and that which will de-
scrvcdly attract widest attention, is the one on
Robcsons administration of the navy. 1t is
written by master hand and shows thor
ough familiarity with all the ms and outs of
the subject. The number closes with the usu-
al literary criticisms among which caustic
review of WcisSc', English Language" will
pass as an admirable specimen of the "destruct.
I'VE and iudicious" "a. 5. Barnes Il Co, New
York, publishers. 81 a year,
EDINBURGH REVIEW Oicprintcd by
Leonard Scott Publishing Company, New
York - "A year, The number for the pres
cnt quarter opens with "Thc Golden Age" in
which are recorded the opinions and anticipa-
tioLs current Ill the first years Of the gold dis
covcrics in California and Australia, the effect
Of the mines on the value of money and the
influences which have caused the fall of silver
in relation to gold. In the next article, The
True Tale of Ccnci," the crime of Beatrice Cen
CT is shorn of all It's romance Mental PhySi
ology, the next article, is labored essay on
the action of the mind on the brain pulp And
then we have Memoirs of Mrs. Jameson; The
Road to India; Campanella and Modern ltal-
ian Thought; Walpolc's England in the 18th
Century; The Government and the Opposition
and Discoveries at Olympia,--thc last giving
a full account OF the explorations and discoy-
cries of the Germans since 1879.
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