The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-03-13
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Magazines,
INTERNArloNA1. REVIEW. a. 5. Barnes x
Co., New York. s. year, The leading pa
per in the March number Is sharp criticism
by William A. Hammond D. d., OF New York
on the treatment of the insane in these enllght
encd days, Though better than compare
lively short period ago our insane are still
treated more like criminals than invalids, and
a radical overhaulng and thorough reform of
the system Is stoutly contended for. In the
second article F. W. Whitridge depicts in
startling colOrs the evils of the present ma
chine system in our politics, and calls tor
brake on the machine,' a very good pattern
for which he finds in the organization in New
York of the "Independent Scratchcrs.' Au
gusta Laugel, of Paris, in the next article be
gins an exceedingly readable sketch, which is
to run through several numbers, of Chateau
BRAND, the great French author and states
man, whose flight to this country from the
horrors of the French revolution, and roman
tic adventures among the Indians, give his
history an especial interest here. The recent
volumes of Charles Dickenss Letters, which
a more Jealous than judclous friend gave to
the public, are severely criticised by John
Morse, IT., IN another article; and in the 9th
and last article John Jay continues his trump
of alarm against the spread of Jesuitism in
this country The number closes with the
usual notices OF Recent English Books and
Contemporary Literature
PENN MONTHLY Penn Monthly Associa.
ton, Philadelphia. So year, All are con.
sclous of good deal of poverty IN the world
and few who have risen above the evil are so
hardened as not to be willing to contribute to
the amelloration of the rest. The problem is
how to do so effectively. The opening article
of the March Penn NOatIy gives an account
of society in Philadelphia organized for the
administration of charity on correct philo-
sophcal principles. Starting with the postu-
late that the rich are responsible for the pow
erty of the poor, the attempt aimed at is to
discover how so to administer charity as not
to nurture pauperism, and how TO make the
relief permanent. When the society reaches
a satisfactory solution of these conundrums it
will be entitled to take rank among the worlds
benetactors. In the next article +. G. Sighler,
apropos of the recent curious works of Stair
of Berlin and Edward Spencer Beesly of Eng
land on the subject gives us modern esti-
mate and defense of that much illuminated
character in history, Tiberias Cesar, second
emperor of Rome. John Murdoch, IN the
next article continues his discussion, started
in previous number, of the Land Question
in the Highlands of Scotland; Lady Blanche
Murray, IN another article, treats somewhat
prosilv Of The Sedative Value of Education"
and IN the closing article Henry Wlnsor ven
lures to approach the subject of the decline OF
the American Merchant Marine from a pro
tectionist standpoint, and of course can see no
other way of improvement than by taxing the
people to build up steamship lines by the rob
Der system of subsidies" New Books re
ceive attention, and there is the usual well
prepared editorial resume Of the leading top
les of the month.
THE Practical AMERICAN. P. II. Wander
Weyde, New York. $3.50 year, The cele-
brated New York scientist, DR.. =. III. Wander
Weyde, has commenced the publication of a
small monthly of 10 large quarto pages to be
devoted to practical matters generally, espe-
cally such as relate TO manufacturing and
building. The Doctor is one of the active
thinkers of the age, and we have no doubt his
monthly will soon become widely known as
an authority on the subjects to which it is in
tended 10 We especially devoted.