The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-16
LITERATURE.


PENN MONTHLY. penn Monthly Association,
Philadelphia. $500 Year, The July number
opens with some very readable uanslations from
the poems OF the famous Finnish bard, Johan
Ludwig Runeberg, whom the translator justly
regards as zone Of the greatest poets OF the 10Th
century" William de Beauvor Fryer contrib.
utes second and concluding paper on the we'll
known German Had, "The Nibelungenlied. "
The Hon. Dorman b. Eaton, whose labors in be-
half of civil service reform, especially his eabo.
rate work on civil service in Great Britain, have
brought his name into honorable prominence,
has a splendid article on "The Need of a Broader
Political Education" the dominant idea OF which
is that under our present spells system the most
competent men for position are almost invaria.
bly, rejected 'to make place for the Ignorant and
seryile favorte OF a great politician" tren-
chant article on "Bosssm," by John Andrews
Harris, is in the same direction OF needed reform
in our political system. The con including article,
byJ g. r. McEroy, gives some account of the
famous old Scotch poet William Dunbar, held by
some to be the peer OF Burns, and ends with an
anglicsed version Of his famous poem "rhe
Thistle ard the Rose
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