The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-03-27
LITERATURE.


Magazines.
SCRIBNrR's Monthly. (Scribner & Co,
New York. - year. The April number
closes the 10Th volume OF .Scrt6nc,, II maya
zine commenced nearly ten years ago with
many msgIvings, but the success OF which
has been without precedent in the history OF
publications of its class Mr.. Roe's excellent
series of illustrated papers on small fruits
comes to an end in the number, in season to
third installment of Mr. Schuylcr's Peter the
Great" is given, and both in matter and wealth
of illustration TIE series is thus far the crown
ing magazine hit of the year. Then follow
various single papers, all more or less illus,
lratcd, the leading one among which is that
on the Growth of Wood cut Printing by Mr..
Theodore L. De Winnie, the printer of Serb
ners, whose wonderful success in the art Ger
tainly entities him to speak on the subject by
authority Mr. Sidney Lanier, himself an &C
complshcG musician as well as littcratcur,
contributes an excellent article on the organl.
zatlon and magcment Of the orchestra. Mr..
ii. c. lIovey gives Us some marvellous relations
about the wonders of the subtcrranean world
IN an account of explorations 30 miles under
ground IN Sbcrts and Wyandot caves in In
diana Mr. Ernest Ingcrsoll has an illustrated
paper full of fun and wisdom on that most
stubborn of themes, The Rocky Mountain
Mule; and J. d. Osborne contribute an inter
csting anecdotal biography of Jules Michelet,
the French historian,--In fiction the present
ins,allmcnt OF the "Grandissimes" is unusual.
ly attractive, and there is an excellent short
story-"A Summer Diversion" The poetry of
the number is above the average.-The most
notable feature of the departments is the offer,
by the conductors of Scribner's, of prizes for
the best wood-engravings to be made by pu-
pill during 1880 the judges TO be Mr.. Timothy
Cole, the engravcr Mr.. De Winnie, the printer
(above mentioncd) and Mr.. Drake, the artedi.
tor OF the magazine. II is SAID that while ar
lists are complaining that the good times have
not reached them, the engravers have more
work, at lucrative prices, than they can do.
INTENTIONAL REVIEW. "a. S. Barnes &
Co., New York. s. ayear) Besides coplous
criticisms of Contemporary Literature" the
April International contains eight formal ar
tces. Clement Hugh HILL ex.assistant at
tsrney general Of the t. s., devotes dozen of
pages to the great English statesman Glad.
stone, who, IN his 10th year, exhibits greater
political and intellectual activity today than
any other man in the United Kingdom, and of
whom almost alone it can be said THAI "he has
no vices to apologize for or conceal and whose
life il without y stain Carl Blind discusses
the revolutionary movement in Russia, con
ceiving that, in the present condition Of that
empire, he disccrns the beginning of the end. ,"
Sarah Whitman indites q touching tribute
to the artist, William Morris Hunt, whose
death under such painful circumstances At the
Isles of Shoals in September last caused such
general sorrow in the art world.-The Goth.
enburg Liquor License System IL explained in
an admirable paper by C, G, Andrews, late u.
8. Minister Mt Stockholm and Its excellent
working in Sweden pointed to ~ rendering i'll
worthy Of consideration herc--Ihe motion"
that spots on the san have controlling intlu.
cnce IN causing iamlnes epldcmics, hurricanes,
cyclones, &c, on our earth is maintained in
an elaborate paper by Ernest W. Gushing,
NJ d., Of Boston. Van Buren, Denslow, a well
known Chicago lawyer, entertains the readers
of the Reoien with moderately well construct.
ed history of Tammany Hall, that renowned
political society in New York winch is at pres.
pnt troubling the democracy so much under
The malign leadership OF Boss Kelly; and we
have an article by f. S. Holden on the Urano-
netrla Argentina Of DR.. Gould, referring toI
he fixed stars, as seen from the Argentine Re
publicJ
The International as well AZ Scribner's and
III the popular magazines of the day may bel
'cen at the bookstore of Osman 4 Hapeman,
where subscriptions are received and single
,opirs for sale