The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-27
LITERATURE.
Magnxines,

srst chapters of a serial novel by Constance
Fennimors Cooper, relative OF the ere"'
author of the Leather Stocking" tales Inc
onen,nc scenes are laid IN an island OF one ol
our great western lakes-a military post anu
fur.tradng station-whose peculiar society
affords abundant opportunities for novel ana
picturesque treatment The story Is lliustra'
cd by Rcinhart The number opens win a
dozen of Christmas carillons by Annie u
Ketchum, with four illustrations e. f, Mil
Ter contributes a profusely illustrated paper on
P,ttsburr Moncure D. Conway contributes
the first OF series Of papers on "Engllsh
lakes and their Genii," the "genii," or cele'
brated English people whose names are con-
nected with the lakes, cutting more inquire
than the lakes themselves, as England really
has few lakes worthy the name. page Is
given to an engraving by Wolf of one OF Ab'
beys illustrations of Herrick's poem ITO be
Merry" and Is the finest picture IN the mum
Der. Rose Terry Cooke excoriates New Eng
land puritanism In a story detailing the mar
riage experience of Mrs. Flint. Catharine
Baldwin gives an account Of New ears
celebration in Chinatown, San Franclsco--the
pictures being the main feature Charles r.
Thwing discourses Intelligently on the results
of "Recent Movements 10 Woman's Educa.
tion." W.T.. Davis discourscs on the struc-
ture OF the English governmental system I'M
der the head of "The Queen, Ministers, Lords
and Parliament; and Mr.. Edward Rowland
writes suggestively about "a Great City,
There are poems by Sarah o. Jewett, James
r. Fields II. r. Hudson, John b. Tabb and
others. Washington Square" the novel oil
Henry James, Jr., Is completed in the number,
and is to be followed by another serial "A
Laodicean," by Thomas Hardy The Editors
Easy Chair treats Of the Newspaper and Ora
tor, the influence OF Byron, the Rugby Colony
in Tennessee and the Irish Agita.ion and
contains communication from Wendell
Phillips, correcting a very common error IN
the use OF De as prefix to French family
names. The other editorial departments are
well sustained.
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Aexandrian Obellsk Types OF Mentality
VIM, A, Hallock, ID, ID, with portrait; PEG.
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