The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-03-11
LITERATURE.


"a Modern Instance, Is Plo''"S ''
month after manth its successive chapters ap
near in the Century, is honored IN the MATCH
number with frontispiece portrait and an sp'
preciatiye review of his literary work in paper
NV Thomas Sargent Perry Among the leading
paners in the number which may be called sea
sonable," is that of Mr.. John Burroughs, on
.Brokeu Banks and Tax Directors;" one by MI
A.G. Campbell, HAS Utah Republican form
of Governments? and one by Mr.. A. IT, eeug'
wick on THE Copyright Negotiations Inc
leading papers for illustration are Mrs Mary
Hallock Foote'S third paper on life In Mexico;
ga Ramble in Old Philadelphia" by Miss Eliza'
beth Robbins: beautiful ballad in Romany and
in English, entitled ITO Trinali," by Chas. IL
Leland; fine paper on Opera IN Ne" iorH'
by Richard Grant White; two papers on winter
sports: ''ihe Black Bear" by Chas. I. ward,
and 1.-THE Danish skate Sail" by 7. +. Hammer;
paper on Leigh Hunt, by Mary Cowden.C Clark;
and some excellent drawings Of the Union
League Club Decorations. The unillusrated
papers include scholarly and bipartisan study
of Lord Beaconsdeld, by Prof James Bryce;
''Brother Sesostris," vigorous sketch OF New
England farm life, by Julia d. Whiting; and the
serials.-Mrs. Burnetts Through One Admin
istration." ard Mr. Howelrs Modern Instance"
In "Topics of the Times" the able editor dis
courses on our Foreign Policy, on Authors
Rights, Oscar Wide, &c. And then come book
notices Home and Society" The Worlds
Work. and "Bric .Brac" with their accustomed
well seasoned variety.
BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. Leonard Scott
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10 maturity; "The Cudees and Their Later His.
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industrial Resources OF Ireland" maintaining
that ireland is naturally the richest country
north OF the Alps but is suffering from lack of
human industry and skill to develop It's resources;
Count Campello"-his reasons for withdraw
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and Hort's Greek Testament" Richard Cob
den'-dealing less with personal narrative than
with the workings Of the mind and influence on
politics OF this remarkable man. The remainder
of the number is filed with notices of cotempor.
airy literature.
The Westminster RVicr for January, reprinted
by the same establishment, contains as follows:
!. The Early Progress OF Christianity; ?. The
Basis OF England's Power in India: 8. The Stoics;
a. George Elliott as a Moral Teacher; s. Work.
ing Glass Insurance; 6. Richard Cobden-an eX.
tended account of his career and opinions; l.
Town Smoke and Town Fog 5. The Coronation
Gath no Bar to Legislation; g. India and Our
Colonial Empire; 10. Contemporary Literature.
The remarkable cheapness Of these periodicals,
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PENN MONTHLY. Edward Stern d Co., Phia-
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topic OF Civil Service Reform receives attention
in two able articles in the March Penn .Nontl,iy,
the first being No. III of Dorman b. Eaton's Sc.
res on "Term and Tenure Of Office" and the
other an inquiry by Henry C. Lea, GLOW Shall
the Spells System be Abollshed!' In "A Prchs.
toric Epic" Mr.. Henry Phillips, with mock gravi.
ty and very amusingly, extols the merits OF that
lannon's juvenile poem Little Bo- Peep" In his
series of Legal Biographies, Mr.. Christopher
Stuart Patterson, in tho present number, sketch.
es the career Of that greatest Of English advo.
Gates" Lord Ablnger. "Morleys Life of Golden"
Is the subject OF brief crtiquc by j. &. r., who
hnds fault with II as cvincing too much zeal
making the biography panegyric rather than n
sober history. And then we havc-what Is uuu.
sual in the Peaa-a couple of poems-Thc "Are.
ma" by Edwin \. Benson, and "Exprcssions,"
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University Topics" brief Mention" and "Ncw
Books serve to round up an exceptionally read.
able number,
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Century "rho Man with the Red Hair" Bit
Of Loot, and How the Stars got their Names
Cornhill; inside Kairwan, Blackwood An
English Slave in Madagascar, Temple Bar
The Lille Of Richard CobdcH, by James Morley,
Macmillan Youth and Age, and The Chinese
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Gazette The Persecution Of the Jews in Russia |
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Character Sketch, Chambers journal: and the |
usual amount Of poetry.
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. New York. S. n
year, The March number contains a striking
array OF articles, every one Of which possesses
The Characteristic of contemporancous interest. |
First we have a contribution from Senator George
F. Bdmunds, on THE Conduct OF the Guiteau
Trial" Ex-Minster Edward +. Noyes communi.
Gates the results Of his observations of political
affairs in France under the title, "Thc Progress
OF the French Republic" In "Tral by jury
Judge Edward A. Thomas describes the social
conditions under which our jury system had ITS |
origin, and notes its defects in view Of the alter
ed relations of modern life Mr. John Flske
makes an able and ingeDius analysis of that great
intellectual movement, the Reformation educing
therefrom the True Lesson of Professionalism. ~
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