The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-12-15
LITERATURE.


Chicago; Jansen NcClurg ~ Co. ottawa:
for sale by Hapeman Il Graham. 500.
We mentioned several weeks ago that
the publishing house OF Jansen, McClurg
e. CO.. Chicago, had In pressan interesting
work on Brazilian travels by Frank ID.
Carpenter, II graduate of Cornell Cnlver-
sity, who held for several years the posi-
ton O, gcographer Of the geological sur
vey Of Brazil OF course no position could
have been more favorable for the acquire
ment Of material for such book, and now
that il has appeared, the reader is delight.
| ed to find how admirably he has turned
his opportunities to account. His studies
of Brazilian nfc and manners are acute
and discriminating anu are presented in
manner no less unique than agreeable, ana
| the same remark applies with equal force
to his studies OF the fora and fauna and
interesting geological features of that
strange country. Under the thin veil Of q
party of tourists, the reader, in the agree
able gulse of fiction, has presented to him
picture no less vivid than truthful OF life
and scenes in the great metropolis of the
Southern IemispherC-Rio dc Janciro--
at the same time that he is made acquain-
ted, almost unconsclously, with the inter
estlng fora and fauna of that weird trop
ical country under the guidance Of n thor
oughly skilled naturalist. The writer's
style Is singularly pleasing and vivacious
and in his observations and descriptions
he has the rare faculty of being minute
and yet avoiding dry and wcarsomc de
tails. The average reader Will find few
books more enjoyable and at the same
time so profitable. Mr.. Carpenter has hlth.
erto been known Only as popular maya
zine writer. The volume before us must
/ give him front place among our success.
/ full makers of books.
! POLITICAL RECoILECTIoNS. 1910 10 1872.
BY George w. Julian. Chicago, Jansen,
! MCClurg Il Co. Ottawa: for sale by
! Hapeman Il Graham. Price, $50
The six lustrums, as Tom Benton would
have called them, OF American history
from 1910 to 1870, may justly be said to
cover our country's heroic era. While II,
is no doubt true that the crusade against
slavery IN this country commenced some
years before the earlier date, il was not I'm.
til after the "hard cider trolic" of 1910 that
abolitionism obtained foothold in Amer
/ ION and ~ IA nrl
though often fitful and precarious, was
upon the whole real, until it swellcd into
that irresistible, bloody torrent which bore
down all opposition, and eliminated in the
ratification of its triumph by the adoption
OF the constitutional amendments, The Ell
reimbursement OF the negro, and the pas
sage by congress of the supplementary
civil rights bill of 1870. To tell the inside
story of that struggle and triumph there Is
perhaps no man living more competent
than George W. Julian. Making his debut
on the political stage In 1910 rs a whig,
he emerged from that debauch sickened
and disguised. Was there nothing more
worthy of a sane mans attention in Amer
lean politics than this? 1t was in this cru.
clal hour that an abolition pamphlet fell
into his hands, and from that instant his
mind was made up and his political des-
tiny fixed. How the ball was put in mo-
ton by that small but stalwart band of
original abolitionists and how It was kept
steadily rolling on Is the story that fills
Mr.. Jullan's book and though there are
In it many fine sketches of the members OF
that swelling band of heroes, it Is credit
able to MIR. Jullan-9uj magma pGrS fuit-
that the part borne by himself in the strug
gle, though equal to that OF any other, i:
seldom referred to, except III TINS OF eX
treme modcsty. The history covers every
notable movement and cDnventlCle of tn,
abolitionlsis from 1910 to the nomination
Of Lincoln at Chicago in 1860 as well as
every important movement "In behalf oi
freedom" IN congress, with lis secret
springs, and sketches of the great actors
pre- and c0a. Considering who the author
Is, one is struck by nothing more than the
singular absence OF all bitterness or sem.
blance Of party rancor or prejudice. The
narretive Is apparently that of one who
has wearied OF the fight, thaukins God 1t
Is over, and is as ready to forgive as To bt
forgiven.
HARrERs louNG PEOPLE. 1888 Har
per Il Brothers, New York Jansen, Nc
Curg u Co, Chicago. For sale by lIape
man n Graham, Ottawa. Price, $500
a bound volume OF Jumpers Youa,
People tor one year makes book of near
ly 1000 pages-as large as an average vol
ume of the Congressional Record Tn,
reading Is of the highest order OF its class,
the print perfect, and the illustrations
which cannot be less than thousand, IL
the highest style of the wood engraver's art
How such volume, IN beautiful embossed
binding, can he got up ana sold tor So. i,
one OF the mysteries. AS no present i.
more appropriate for Christmas than