The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-26
August Magazines.

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| SCRIBNER's MONTHLY. (Scrbncr N Co.
New York. 81 year, Though enough like
its later predecessors to be readily recognized
there are many evidences about the Midsum
mer Tor August Scribner of special effort to
produce number unusually attractive Fol-
frontispicce there is very striking portrait OF
| Whittier-one of those nebulous apparitions
by Marsh, of which Emerson, in "A preceding
number was an example. The opening arti
Ter, an English artist, and though clever at
tempt to define the methods and standing as a
painter and etcher OF this unique and much dis
cussed artist, the chief purpose of the article is
apparently to serve as vehicle for the intro
ducIon of the very interesting illustrations
that accompany II. There are woodcuts ofth
very highest merit the best being the copy OF
Whstcr's portrait of himself and "Thc White
Girl" though there are ten of them and all are
excellent. The next article, a continuation of
the talk on Summer Entomology, again affords
an excuse for the introduction Of more OF Mr..
Marsh's remarkable illustrations Of insects.
These, we are told by way Of advertisement,
were originally engraved for work by DIR.
Harris on "Insects Injurious to Vegetation"
Some beautiful sketches Of Low Country
Scenery are given in another richly illustrated
and Holland" A rather lengthy sketch of
Whittier, biographical and critical, affords DC
casion for another series fsplendid woodcuts;
so also an entertaining article by Redwood,
giving "reminiscences Of the Confederate army;
and another article ON Wales, entitled The
NanOwcSt Narrow Gauge In fiction, ia
worth's' is continued; a new serial story by
Henry James, entitled "Coniidcncc, " is begun;
and there is "Our Archery Club an amusing
sketch by f. Il, Stockton; "Out Of the World"
Il charming description Of visit to the Shak-
ers; THE Man with u Hobby" "a Kansas po-
litical sketch; "Lalarge,' story by Elinor
Putnam, &c. The poetry includes ballad of
Puritan Massachusetts,, by John G. Holland,
as well as poems by Irwin Russell, Mrs Mary
Mapes Dodge, Bayard Taylor Celia Thaxter,
&c Topics of the Times" and the other de-
parmenis give their usual agreeable variety.
ST.. NICHOLAS. (Scrbner 4, Co, New York
So year, The August number has ~ pages,
eight more than usual II opens with long
illustrated poem, by Celia ThaXter, in which
the Emperor of Germany and two small peas.
ant children are the principal figures. Next
comes "A Mississippi Chowder," brisk ac-
count of a fishing frolc, with two striking
pictures; and then an illustrated description of
the wonderful aquarium at Brighton, Eng
land, with its fnny treasures The new and
fashionable game of Lawn Tennis is described
with diagram and pictures, and then follows a
funny story of Il boy who tried TO initiate Her
cules. In short, the instructive articles and
stories are in due proportion and SO mixed that
one never tires of the one before he comes to
the other In conclusion for the very Little
Folks there are nine pages of concentrated de-
lights, with Jack in-the.Pulpit" Letter Box"
&c, &c.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON. Springfield, Mass
$3 year, Bearing in mind the hot weather
the articles IN the August number are consid-
erably brief making up by number and vari-
ETY., The stories and their authors are Ruth,
Ellen W, Oney; Through Glass Darkly,
Lizzie W. Champney; The Brass Androns,
M. f. Bennett; The Peoples Prayer, David
ker; the two chapters of Calvin. Rev. &. Nj. |
Boynton sketches real character IN the Gen. |
tleman lIostler, and Alfred Terry Bacon gives
Il pen portrait of Leadvllc
The Hebrew Faith in Immortality is reply |
to Our Debt To Socrates in the March number |
Prof Borden j. Bovine writes on rhe AS If"
Of Atheism. Some Opinions About Opinions,
and contributions by Rose Terry Cook, Susan
Coolidge, and Mrs. Edward Ashley Walker,
Of the poems Elaine and Dora Goodale and |
heir mother, Mrs, ID. ii. X. Goodac, have each |
me, Another young poet Kate st. Clair
ircenleai, Of Kentucky, has little poem Of
which the poet Whittier expressed this opin-
on -" 1t seems to me to have much sweetness
md rhythmical beauty" Other verses are by |
Frank Foxcroft, G. F. Richardson, Lucy Lar
'Om, :. w. Dufficld, and Alice NJ Eddy The
Editors Table talks of Rebels and ReprObates,
The Colleges and Public Morals, anu Studying
Scripture by Samples,