The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-11-29
titled Farmer Worralls Case" Hugh

titled Farmer Worralrs Case Hugh
Conway, IN" author OF Called Back" tells
ghost story with the oiood curdling cap
ton of "A Dead Mans Face John E>ten
| Cooke contributes a characteristic sketrh
of life on Chncoteugue Island, illustrated
by Howard Pyle. George ii. Boughton
use, very entertainingly both pen and pen
ell in his outdoor sketch of William Groh
byns" +. d. Millct tells "A very powerlu Il.
story, entitled "A Capillary Crime" which
he also illustrates, and W, ID. lIowells isn't
his very best in his delightful farce, The
Elevator" illustrated by G, 5. Reinhart
L. p. Roe's universally popular novel, Ma,
lures Serial Story is concluded in this
number. There are dozen of new poems,
delightfully."- illustrated, and the Depart
ments" are unusually well filled.
The CENTURY for December gives for
frontispiece profile portrait of Gen. Grant,
from photograph taken IN 1852, to accom-
pany the second of the papers on the Civll
War, "The Capture of Fort Donelson,
contributed by General Lew Wallace. A
score of illustrations present views on the
field, portraits of officers, maps, and (not
the least interesting an autograph copy,
recently made by Gen Grant, OF his Ia
nous unconditional Surrender" dispatch
10 Gen. Buckner The "Recollections of
Private" are continued, with illustrations
In both papers the drawings are nearly all
from photographs. The fiction consists OF
An ADVENTURE of Huckleberry Finn,
with an account of the famous Granger
ford Stephenson Feud," by Mark Twain,
some of the types being represented in the
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novelette,, in three parts, "The Knight
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Litchfield-a story of American girls in
Europe, which is illustrated by Mrs Mary
Hallock Foote and the second part OF Mr..
Howellss new novel, The Rise of Silas
Lapham" Other illustrated papers are
Dublin City" of which Mr.. Joseph Pen
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morous and instructive paper by Prof. Ed
ward Dowden, the Shakespeare commenta,
tor; Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat"
narrative of personal experience, by
William A. Baltic Grohmnn, with illustra-
tons; third paper in the New Astrono-
my" series by Prof. s. p. Langley, and a
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House drainage" Miss Emma Lazarus
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which contains translations by herself, and
John Burroughs piece OF poetic natural
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iginal poems, &c, fill out an exceptionally
attractive number.
PHRENoLOaICAL JOURNAL. The DeCem.
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