The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-26
in Miss Hupk mss amusing little sketch


George N. Grant does full justice to "Canada, "
Ernest Ingersoll writes Interestingly OF Den
YER Colorado, and Charles F. Thwing gives
an account of the experience OF the Japanese
and Chinese Students in America" while Mrs.
Laura Winthrop Johnson travels all over Eu-
rope in LA Sonnambula,"
ST. NICHOLAS (Scribner & Co, New York,
81 year, The July number, mindful OF the
great American holiday on the 4th has appro-
prately patriotic flavor Mr.. Daniel Beard
tells the boys and girls how to celebrate the
day with paper balloons, and how to make
them and send them up with safety both 10
the balloons and the sendcrs. The fronts
piece brings to mind the gallant conduct OF
the maid Elizabeth Zane, who faced 500 hos
tile rifles to fetch powder for dozen OF be-
leaguered patriots during the revolution There
is picture of the heroic deed of young dra
goon-one of Phil Kearneys famous twenty
IN the Mexican war. The career of the brave
and noble Montgomery is told by George D..
Varney, who writes of HIM and the Canadian
Patriots of l175 and Mary Wager Fishers
story of Toms Anti Fire Cracker League sug-
gests pleasant way for boys and girls to cele-
bratc the fourth without resort to the fire crack
or nuisance
Miss Lucretia p Hale contributes another
paper about the famous Peterkins; Frank X.
Stockton gives short story of Southern Life ;
another OF life IN Australia; and another OF
life in England; and the Major Big Talk
stories tell of See-saw in an Elephant pit
all being accompanied with appropriate pic
lures. OF the two serials, Jack and Jill' has
this month an Installment Of tender interest,
and in "The Fairport Nine" the boys organize
military company and have banner pre-
sented to them by the ladies of Fairport. 20
ems, seasonable and humorous, and pictures
of fun and frolic appear here and there in the
number, and the pages devoted to very young
readers, Jack in.the-Pulplt," the "Letter-box'
and the "Riddle-box" are filled with varied
and amusing items, stories, &c.
PENN MONTHLY penn Monthly Associa
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and has not on its records single scandal III
that regard such as marked so many OF Its
predecessors There are four notable articles
in the June number. The first is friendly
review of the recently published Cornell lee.
lures of Bayard Taylor on German Literature
The next, under the head of Spiritualism in
Art, gives an intelligent, critical view OF
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of Geology" solving the problem by attribut
| ing the vast changes the temperature of the
earth has undergone in the illimitable ages OF
its existence to the relative perpendicularlty OF
its axis IN different eras and the relative super
abundance and scarcity of carbonicacid gas in
the atmosphere. The last article in the mum
Der Is a review of Mr. Morgan's recent paper
| in Vol. XVII of Smithsonian Contributions tC
Knowledge on the formation of primitive so
cietv. The number closes with reviews OF
half dozen of noteworthy new books.
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