The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-05-05
The Magazines.

The Magazines.
The May Magazjae IF Amertcdn History
is filed with good things. Its frontispiece
is an elegant and lifelike portrait Of the
late Alfred s Barnes, and Its opening
paper a sketch of his interesting career by
the editor, who gives graphic account OF
the way in which he founded his great
school book publishing house in 1888,
bridging the whole half century since, with
gimpses here and there of his work and
Its character, his progress and his success,
attended with admirably executed illustra-
tions of his several beautiful homes, II Is
a story with moral which every young
man In America might read and consider
70 advantage. A scholarly study follows
of Ancient Society In Tennessee" In
which General G. Z. Thruston shows very
conciusively that the mound builders were
on the much discussed subject ever pre-
sented to the reading public In popular
form, and It is destined to be an authority
in all the future. The third paper Of the
number is the continuation of Prof. Hop
kins' charming series of papers, between
Albany and Buffalo" in which the views
of Mrs. Trollope, Miss Martineau, Fanny
Wright aud others on our early methods OF
TRANSFORMATION and travel, are deity Intro
duced. Hon. Charles X. Tuckerman con-
tributes an entertaining paper, Personal
Recollections or Abraham Lincoln" Geo
Stewart, jr., Del, writes on "Ihe Fisher
les Treaty-a Canadian View" Hon. VIM
l.. Scruggs introduces criticism called
"Are We Nation Without Citizens p
There are other articles and the usual de-
partments, NC.
The Forum for May, larger edition OF
which, 1t Is said, was called for In advance
than had ever been Issued Of any previous
number, contains articles on the following
wide range of public questions The Ju-
dietary, Municipal Government, River and
Harbor Bills, The Liquor Traffic, The Rail
roads, The Public Schools, The Admission
of Utah; and of foreign questions, The
Irish Problem, and The Temporal Power
of the Pope. Judge Barrett, Of the Su
preme Court, New York, before whom the
Doodle" Aldermen and Jacob Sharp were
tried, writes of "Miscarriages Of Justice,
,l tnku - al Inn fnrr oil Iafn ,tt
in our judicial system-an article of es-
pecial interest to the judiciary and TO law
yers, Senator Cullom, of Illinois, points
out the unfairness and the scandals 81
River and Harbor Bills, and proposes the
creation Of National Commission on Pub
lie Works as a preventive. An Insight |,
given into the Mormon communities out
SIDE Salt Lake City, and Of the practica
workings Of the hierarchy, by Capt. T., &
Dutton, of the IT, s. Geological Survey
who spent several years in Utah. Michae
Davitt has a strong article on Irish Land
lordism, In which he maintains that the
Irish question Is the landlord question, anC
shows what home rule would do for the
development of the country. Other arti
cles are COLLECTIONS TO High License" by
the Rev. DR.. Leonard w. Bacon; "Wha
shall the Public Schools Teach? =" by
Judge r. G. Pltman; Steam and II.
Rivals" by Prof. Il. ii. Thurston; ant
THE Pains Of Fear" by Eliza Lynn Lin
ton, &c.
In the May number Of Woman common
ces series Of remarkable articles, by
Helen Campbell, on the wretched condi
ton Of the working classes of London
This series will be one Of great interest
and will protray the miseries of the
poverty. stricken workers Of Berlin, Pari
and Rome. The illustrations, by Hugh
Eaton and Edgar j. Taylor, are of tn,
highest class Of pictorial art. Olive Shorr
Miller begins In this number her articles
on Representative Womens Clubs, tn,
Sorosis and Meridian Clubs Of New Yorl
being the subjects Of the first paper, ant
Julia Ward Howe has thoughtful pape
on How TO Extend the Sympathies o
Women" In which she shows how tru,
education enlarges the natural limits o
feminine character, and urges women 4
emancipate themselves from intellectual
narrowness. Price $275 year Womel
Publishing Co., N. Y.
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