The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-07
LITERATURE.


| Coon COMPANY. Springfield, Mass.l M II
of THE ,.-.".;..o opens wluI Notes OF Travel by
Cbas. Dudley Warner, in which the notable fea.
ture is an account Of the immense Chicago stock
yards Mrs. Helen c. Campbell, in detailing
some personal experiences at the south, gives a
narrowing account Of the prevailing diet in that
region and Of the obstacles in the way of intro.
ducing improved methods of cookcry-Mr +. s.
Gilbert gives some attractive nature studies I'M
der the head of "Mdsummer;" Dora Read con.
tributes q wildly descriptive poem, "a Summer
Storm" and another gracefully descriptive bit of
verse, "Sunshinc;" aud Mrs Celeste NJ. A. Wins.
low sings Of "Border.lands. :" In the way of tic.
ton, Octave Thanct has the Romance of Medi.
cine Bottle" and there is IA full allowance of stor-
les by Ellen w. Olney l.. X. Black, Mabel s.
Emery and David Kerr also contributions from
b. F. DeCosta, Mrs. Edward Ashley Walker and
| j. b. T. Marsh; and several shorter sketc hes.
LITTELL's LIVING AGE (Lithll Il Co., Boston.
IS year, The Nos. for the weeks ending July
sith and 3lst respectively contain the following
articles:
| The Slavonic Menace to Europe Quarterly; A
Few Weeks upon the Continent, Contemporary;
Atheism and Repentance, IL Familiar Cooquy,
by W; II. Mallock, Nineteenth Century; Fishing
and Fishing Literature, Blackwood Victor HUI.
go, Temple Bar; Sterne, Cornhill; Scientific Re.
suits of the iIowgate Expeditions lS77.7S Sir
John Lubbock on the Habits of Ants, and Sign
Language among the American Indians, Nature;
lleresy in Science, Pail Mall Gazette; The Ma.
ture of an Oath, Spectator; with instruments of
Mrs. ELEPHANTS Story, ale that will not when
he may" and the usual amount Of poetry.
new volume began with July LIST.
Books
A SELECTION OF SPIRITUAL SoNGs, with music.
For the sunday School. BY Rev. Chas. S. Rob
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While the Sunday school, in which singing Is
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exercise, has given birth to vast number of
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commended as meeting the real want of the in
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nauscating cant. The very handsome little vol.
ume before us, of some 200 pages, is certainly
free from those faults as to the poetry while the
music though lively and spirited is not like so
much we hear in the Sunday schools, Of that
boisterous, rohcking character so unsecmly in
the house of God. The book is very Handsomely
bound In ambost, and sample copies will be sent
W puSuls ana CHOTlottTs Tor
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LEE or GEN. HANCOCK. BY John W. Forney
Hubbard Bros, Chicago.
There have already been dozen of "lives"
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volume Of permanent value, and
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