The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-03-03

Prot, g. Stanley Hall, Prof. Felix Adler,
President Thomas Hunter, and Dr. Mary
Putnam jacob. "%1
THE ART AMATEUR. Montague Marks
No. % Union Square, New YORK. The
/ March number contains admirable full
sized working designs Of clover, azaleas
and water.lilIes for china painters; South
Kcnsington chair seat, and u ckalice veil
for cmbroideries; score of delicious Gu
pids, ant page of fresh and excellent
mouograms. The leading article in this
Issue is . capital notice Of the Water'Color
Exhibition, 10y Edward S,rahan, with Illus
ItratIons OF over thirty OF the noteworthy
pirtures. Boughtons beautiful painting,
"snow IN Sprng," Is finely reproduced,
and there is good portrai. of Dore, With
some wcIllchosen ex&rnples OF his work.
:; Flower, painters, fan painters, china paint
!, ers and photograph perlraitisss are remem'
4 bcred in the practical articles, and there ID
I much pleasant and copiousiy illustrated
talk about French frrniture, Japanese art,
inow houses, old fashions, and variety of
othea ART topics. On the whole. the March
number il ao excellent specimen III this
always attractive magazine,
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English banker naturalist; or William f.
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of Leon anbe,.a, the great popular lead
Ter of France. The numbeG contains its
usuxi well assorted variety, including ar
ItIcles On Language The Four Windows of
Character; Brain Weight and Brain Pow
Ter; Tue Olive Tree; A Sensible Preacher;
I Alexander che Great; March and ltS
l lessons; Education sae Health Hygiene
OF Walking; shoud~Mcn Cut Their Hair;
Kitchen Leaflets, &c, &c.
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men have 10 say in the March number to
"Our Business Boys" in the article en-
titled "Rocks of Danger" after which
they will probably turn to Fred Ober's
Yucatan serial, THE Silver City" or to
Rev. Irving l.. Beman's story Of Evan
|Cogswells Ice Fort" or 10 Edward Ever.
EFT Hale's To-Day Talk about the dead
French statesman, Gambetta, or to "A
Boys Workshop or to Prof Sargen.'s
Health and Strength Paper" or to Mrs,
Cheever's jolly out.ofdoors story, Camp
fHamperford'' all these contributions,
interesting 10 everybody, are of peculiar
interest to the boys. Then we have Act ii
of the White Mountain Comedy. more
Than They BargaIned For;" "Old Cara.
van Days. The John splcer Lecture on
CLOTHES IA Winter Garden" &c, &c.
The number, in short, Is strewed ali over
with beautiful pictures, sweet poems and
other attractions altogether too numerous
70 mention"
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was Vllllers," by Archibald Forbes, the IA.
NOUS war correspondent of tho london
Daily Ne,cs. Then comes capital story
of the Michigan iire. of 1881 entitled,
"Thc Wrong Coat" Lucretia Hale contin.
ue's to follow the rambles of the Peter
kins; Prot Gnilis, the eminent orieniallst,
writes about IIo Kusai, famous Japanese
Iconim artist; w. O. Stoddard tells char. |
acteristic American boy story, That Sly
Old Woodchuck;" and Miss Anna Eich-
berg has delightful tale from the Ger
man of Leander; L. s. Brooks finishes his
story OF "The Field Of the Cloth of ,Gold;"
FranlS II. Stockton contributes an install.
mcnt OF "lhe Story OF Viteau;' and j. 4.
Tpwbridge continues his interesting MIR
ratiye pi the Tinkham Brothers OF
course there Is the usual abundance of fine
pictures, with numerous other stories, Po.
ems, sc. W &
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hriobt pOnular illustrated monthly of 30