The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-03
LITERATURE.
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cravings for which the Century Company hau
offered prize tor the year appear in the pres
ent number yhe irst prize (SlOO) being award
ed to Floreace W. Richardson, of Concord,
Mass The gaving appears, with five 9th.
ers among The illustrations of Mrs schuyler
Van Ronsse'8ey's review of the work done by
American engravers in connection with this
magazine portrait OF Cardinal Newman
graces the number as trontlspiece, and Is &C.
companiel by Biographical study of the Car
dlral by lie well known London publisher,
Mr.. Kegau Paula very spirited and reada
BILE pape The other illustrated articles IN the
number l,e the concluding paper of Richard
Grant White on Opera in New York." with
portraits of Mario, Grisi, Brignol, Gerster
&c; the paper Of John Muir on "The Bee Pas
lures OF California;" and a short article by
Robert W. Welch on Marble Mining in Car
rara," from which sculptors have been sup
piled with their best material for two thousand
years.-1hc second part of Carlyle's posthu-
nous "Reminiscences of My Irish Journey"
is given, and the paper justlies the better judg-
ment of Carlyle himself that it was not worth
printing Mr.. Godkn, editor of the "Natlon,"
contributes an article on civil service reform,
in which he combats successfully the argu-
ment Of the advocates of the spoils system that
the proposed reform would give us an Office
holding aristocracy. J. A. Johnson, at one
time consul at Beirut, in Syria, writes against
the practicabllity of the colonization of Pales-
serials, Mr.. Howell's Modern Instance
and Mrs. Burnett's Through One
Administration" are continued, and Miss
Woolson's Roman story, 1.-THE Street of Hya-
cinth, is concluded. The short story of the
number is a sketch of New England sea
faring life, by Mary Hallock Foote. Among
the poetry in the number is plea IN verse by
Joaquin Miller for the prosecuted Hebrews in
Russia; with couple of tributes to Longfel-
low, poems by Clifford Lanier, John Albee,
&c. The departments afford their usual enter.
tanning variety.
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. New York
So year, In the June number Senator w
B. Allison has q paper on "The Currency of
ures that will have to be taken by Congress for
insuring a stable currency after the national
debt Aas yeen extlngulshed. "a Memorandum
at venture" by Walt Whitman, is an eXplana-
tion Of his purpose and point of view in trench
ing upon topics not usually regarded as amen
able to literary treatment "Andover and
Greed Subscription" by Rev. DR.. Leonard
Woolsey Bacon, Is philosophical review of
the present state OF dogmatic belief in the
churches Hon. George F. Seward, late min
lister to China, in an article entitled "Mongo-
Liam immigration" makes an argument against
The proposed anti Chinese legislation. DR.. John
W. bowling, Dean of the New York IIomeo
pathic Medical College, comes to the defence
OF the Hahnemannic School of medicine,
against Il recent attack upon its principles and
methods. o. b, rockingham has sympa-
ghetto article on Swedenborg. Not the least
important paper is one entitled HAS Land a
Value" by Isaac H. Rice, it being a criticism
OF one of the fundamental postulates of Henry
Georges political economy Finally, Charles
F. Lydecker essays to prove that National
Militia" is a constitutional impossibility.
The Penn MONTHLY Edward Stearn e.
Co., Philadelphia. SO year, In the June
number Mr.. John Durand contributes fine
paper Oh Balzac, the French dramatist as a
moralist, concluding, after a skillful anaiza
ton Of some of his plays, that like Shakes.
poale, iii his exposition of human emotion, he
aHh IA prnI lou. / |
second paper on "Art Education in the United
States y. ), Bolles proposes in series of
papers, the first OF which appears IN this num-
Der, to recount the history of the first United
States Bank J. r. Rothrock, who has contrib
uted pleasant sketches of the kind heretofore
gives Another Vacation" and Mans Origin |
and Destiny''ls the ponderous Conundrum with |
which j, Andrews Harris undertakes to Crap
pie. The Scientific department treats of pro.
gress III Aniline Chemistry, and OF Darwin
and his Critics And there are the usual
university Items New Books, &c.
ST. NICHOLAS. Century Company, n. y. |
$3.50 year, The June number is made at.
tractve at once by charming trontispiece,
entitled MI Longfelow and His Boy yisl.
tors, accompanying al account of a visit to |
Lohgtellow shortly before his death by some
boys from Boston school. "reminiscences of
Longfello" are also contributed by Lucy Lar.
com. The most deliberately illustrated paper
IN tue number is the one by Ernest Ingersoll
on 'Seals and Seal Hunting III the North At |
lantic.' Not less attractive Is quantity illus
uated i've page poem by Jessie McDermott,
detailing the subsequent history of the maid
whose nose was nipped off by the blackblrd
in the nursery legend. The best stories IN the |
number are DR.. Oswald's witch Trap and |
WHO Mhirligig Cluhu the latter a hicucln