The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-25

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finest sea stories ever written, will know tina
1t is a good one. The second by Miss brao
: don, though of a very different cast, Is al
equally readable story, though, OF course, TIT
Q story has already been so long before the pup
0 lie, and the genus of Miss Braddon is so wei
D recognized, that criticism at this day woulo
D be absurd These novels, in the popular
y Franklin Square" form, can be bought abou
as cheaply as they can be borrowed from an
ordinary circulating library.
Magazines.
SCRIBNER Among other notable articles
in the January Scribner will be one by Rev
Charles s. Robinson, ID. d., on The Bible So
clety and the New Revision" in which the
record of the Society on the whole subject is
traced with great care; also one by Prof Geo
P. Fisher, of Yale College showing "lIow the
New Testament Has Come Down to Us" and
third reviewing the revision itself, pointing
out the excellence and thoroughness Of the
work The same number will contain a re-
markable anonymous article on "The London
Theatres" being discriminating criticism OF
Irving, Miss Terry, the Bancrofts, kendals
Moljeska and others, also an account of the
Thermomctrical Bureau recently established
by the Winchester Observatory OF Yale Col
lege. 1t is also promised, as delightful fea-
tare of Scrbner for the current year, that it
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condensed novels, instead of the long serial
story.
| ST. NICHOLAS. This "most perfect of juven-
| lie magazines" as the Detroit Free Press just.
ly calls it, in the wonderful Christmas mum
Der" just issued, really gives us grandly il
Illustrated holiday book of one hundred pages,
containing, besides its capital Christmas and
fairy storics and original pictures by the best
American artists, the first chapter of two splen.
did serias-onc, story Of adventures, in the
American tropics, of party engaged in the
capture of Wild animals for menagerle, and
humorous serial by Rossiter Johnson.
"Brighteyes, the young Ponca Indian maid,
en- whose sketch of Indian life appears in
the January ST. Nicholas, writes as follows to
the editor of that magazine;
ut seems so hard to make white people be.
lleve that We Indians are human beings Of like
passions and affections with themselves; that
ii is as hard for US to be good as it is for them
harder, for we are Ignorant,--aDd we feel as
badly when we fail as they do. That IS the
reason have written my story as | have.
1t would DC so much better for my peo
pie If the white people had more thorough
knowledge OF them, because we have felt deep
ly the results of their ignorance Of u.s."
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. In the Janu
airy number Prof John Fiske controverts
Buckles explanation of the decline of the spir.
it of religious persecution that men can no
longer bring themselves to prosecute others for
not believing that whereof themselves are
skcptical," and assigns number of other
causes that have been at least equally nfluen.
tial. Other articles in the January number
are: Controlling Forces in American Poll.
tics" by Senator Geo F. Edmunds; atheism
in Colleges" by President John Bascom; "The
Ruins of Central America" by Desire Charm.
ay: partisan Government" by William ID.
LIE Sueur; popular Authorization" by Prof
John f. Weir; "The Limitations of Sex" by
Nina Morals; "The Mission of the Democratic
Party" by Senator William A. Wallace and
finally ,arevlew OF Recent Pathological Works,
by Prof. F. A. March.
COOP COMPANY, Springfield, Mass. $500
a year, Number fifteen, just received, leads
off with an account of steamboat trip to the
head of the Missouri river by Mr.. Herbert
Hull Winslow, who happily combines Infor.
nation and incident with a description of
graphic scenery in that little known region of
our vast Northwest. In another article the
story of Dora d'lstria is given apropos of her
recent visit to the United States. Mrs NJ. s.
Bull writes of the noble philanthropist, Gerrit
Smith. A paper Is devoted to the origin and
growth Of the United States life.saving service !;
another to Eskimo traditions; another to the
Chinese professor and his family at Cam.
bridge, and another to Autumn leaves" For
fiction there is an lnstallment Of Ellen w. OF.
ney's serial, and several complete stories; and
one or two shorter articles, with poems and the
department of discussion and Suggestion"
fill out the number.
OUR LITTLE ONES. CThe Russell Publish
ing CO., Boston. $3.50 a year, The January
number, beng the third OF this new candidate
for the favor of the youngest readers" and the
holiday number, is already an advance on its
predecessors IN the beauty Of its engravings
and the excellence of its reading matter In