The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-18


pronouns and sonorous adcctives-ls always
the same. While complaint has been made that
his style way pitched on too high key, none
could question its clearness Others nave
written clearly, but in no writer that can DC
named is matchless clearness combined with
such brilliancy
But besides being man Of letters, LORD
Macaulay was a statesman and Jursh lie en-
tered parliament before he was thirty, and shared
In the great reform battles, In the storms "hich
preceded the fall OF the Melborne Ministry, ana
in the bitterness Of the opposition which arrayed
itself against Peel. His speech in July 1888, on
the East India Company's Charter, Manners
sutton, for many years speaker OF the house.
pronounced the best speech he had ever heard.
II Is not the least attractive feature, them OF the
volumes before us, that one OF them Is deVoteu
to his parliamentary speeches. The whole are
printed in large octave pages, in bold, clear
type, on the best paper, and generally gotten up
in tho best style Of the Harpers.
CI.Up ESSAYS BY David Swing. Jansen, NC
tlurg IL Co.., ChiCago; Osman ~ iapehiah'
Ottawa. Price 81.
This attractive volume, foreshadowed by US
several weeks ago, has made It's appearance anu
is proving a great success The ESSAYS are
fl We in number The first tells the story OF 81.
Augustine and his mother, as drawn from the
Confessions Of the good father, and gives I"
very pleasing picture Of religious life among tue
early Christians. "a Roman Home, the next
essay-depicts the home life OF the great Cicero
in his quiet DAYS at Tusculum, with his VIE,
daughter, little Greek slave, his secretary,
books, flowers and barn-yard pets US his only
companions. What a charming picture it is,
as drawn by the writer In his lnini'aoie way
.'Parlez You francais," another OF the essays,
declaims against the study OF French ana olher
foreign as well as the dead languages before OBJ
tanning a full understanding Of our own. But
as the English language is mainly derived from
the Latin and Greek, how are we to obtain a full
understanding of it without at least some study
of the originals? "The History OF Love" is a
bright and piquant treatment OF very ola
theme; and lastly, "The Greatest OF the FINE
Arts"-where5y Is meant literature to W.T. Is
treated in a way that few can Initiate Inc DOCK
is splendidly printed and bound, and will Vt in
excellently we'll in package of holiday presents
BnIcKs WITHOUT STRAW. A novel. by Albion
". Tourgce. LII. d.. late Judge OF the Superior
Court OF North Carolina, author Of "A Foops
Errand" &c. New York: Ford, Howard q
Hubert Chicago: Jansen, McClurg ~ Co.
Ottawa: Osman IL Hapeman.
While this last novel OF Judge Tourgce has
been pronounced even greater success Than
his Fools Errand" n third edition having
already been called for after exhausting two pre-
vious editions OF $4,000 copies each in two
months, VIC can hardly be expected, as the pub
fisher Of a conservative democratic newspaper
to ivin in the loud cnconiums OF partial part-
san press upon what is essentially u stalwart re-
publican tract. We admit that his style IS at
trnctive-even at times brilliant, and that he has
woven into his stump speech very interesting
story, with all the pleasing features OF first
class novel But the teaching is one.sided and
vicious. His indictment against the southern
people is based on no better foundation than that
there Is too much human nature among them
His heroine "Mollie," surrounded by 300 chill
dren and u whole village Of friendly, sanity
negroes, may lament her isolation and yearn for
more congcnial society But the southern peo-
pie must smother their sentiments (or prejudlces
IL you please in which for generations they were
bred, change their institutions and civilization
i'm day because beaten in war, submit 10 be
plundered and misgoverned by cormorant ad-
ycnturers and an ignorant horde, and receive
with open arms and assimilatc at once alien ele-
men,s of population and distasteful ideas which
even free New Nngland has been unable wholly
to absorb in the patient progress Of centuries.
There is no reason in it,. The southern whites
and negroes are naturally friends, and even with
negro suffrage Will get along pleasantly II left to
themselves, but the attempts to wrest the local
governments of the south from the whites and
place them in the hands OF unprincipled northern
adventures and ignorant negroes with the help
of government bayonets, will always be bad-for
the negroes
Including full and accurate description OF
the cave and the science OF its formation. by
r. s. Thompson. Springfield, Ohio: Live
Patron Publishing office.
A nicely printed volume OF lbs pages, giving a
clear description Of the great natural wonder, Its
immense galleries, fathomlcss pits, echoing
rivers, eyelcss fishes, Nc. Its interest Is also
heightened by giving the adventures OF party
who went with n wagon and team from Southern
Illinois to visit the cave and had many stirring
adventures. ne DOCK 10 SUN ilcc W thO pun
fishers to sl subscribers Of The Lice Patron, IL
page Agricultural and Family Weekly, published
at 81. o5 a year by X. s. Thompson, Springfield
Ohio.
| ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY or THE
| INTERIOR. 1880.
Secretary Schurz does us the favor to send us
in very neatly printed form, copy OF his an
nual report for 1880 We find 1t quite interest
ing reading for mere Pub Doc, and shall
take occasion TO say something about it cdito
rally.
| Magazines.
The PENN MONTHLY, penn Monthly Com
pany, Philadelphia. IS year, The opening
paper In the December number 10 q lecture en-