The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-10-23
LITERATURE.
Magaxinss.

HARpRRs MAGAZINE Harper Il Bros
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which is an exquisite ideal portrait of iona
than Edwards's betrothed, drawn by Mary Hal
lock Foote and engraved by Cole. NJ ID. Con
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an Rabeais, beautifully illustrated. E. Mason
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tiers, with portraits and illustrations of paint
Sticking in India" furnishes the text for an en-
tertaining illustrated article by VIM. l.. Alden
but perhaps the article that will prove the
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Fay's on Saline Types" full of humorous
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characteristic illustrations Among the poems,
several OF which are illustrated, is Il new one
by Alfred Tennyson. Two excellent unlllus
,rated papers are scientific Common School
Education by Charles Francis Adams, and
Securing Competence" by Titus Munson
Coon. white Wings" is concluded; Wash
ington Square" is continued and there are
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Hawthorne, and gossip about Newport. The
other editorial departments are well sustained
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fusely illustrated life of Peter the Great. also
new short serial, Tiger Lily" by Mrs. julia
Schayer. The authorship of the sketch ac
companylng the portrait of Gladstone is moi
divulged, but the writer has evidently bad ex
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theme, and gives profound and satisfaction,
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Artemus Ward is the subject of a somevba
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the Bonapartes;" an article on "Tableaux
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