Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1881 — George Eliot’s Romola. [ARTICLE]

George Eliot’s Romola.

A timely interest is given, by the death ] of the author, tu the new edition of her | masterpiece, “Romola,” just issued by the I American Book Exchange, New York. | It shows her work at its best and strong- i /•-! and at the same time gives the reader ! I

the opportunity to acquire a lasting famili irity with the scenes and society of ;u< di;eval Italy* It is one of the few really great historical novels of the world. It is issued in handy and beautiful form, extra cloth binding, simple but rare elei gaiiee and taste in design, and like the other issues of the “Literary Revolution its cost is almost nominal, viz., 35 cents. It is one ol ** st lies intended to form a librarv of classic fiction, whigh will include one represenlativc and characterI istic work of each of the great authors who have won lasting fame in the realm ■of fiction. Life is too short and too full ■ of work to permit the reading of all that is beautiful and valuable in these creations of the imagination, but even ve y bmy people can find time to read one book by ■ each <>l the score of authors who have won immortal lame and place in the a flee i tions of the people. Not to be acquuini t;l with them is to be ignorant of much , i ’hat is mo.-t inip'«r*-’s!if and most interest- | [ i,r-.r it>. the history of mit.mns mid of men. Vol to possess them is to be deprived] of •iiost fruitful and profitable sources of cri- ■ iovinent. Among those issued or nearly - I arc : S •ott’s • fvanlioe,” Bulwer's > ••1 •• ,mnfii, ' Irving’s “Knickerbocker, i ■’< p. i'- ’■Mohicans.” “Tom Brown at 'tir. ’i’V. ' “Adventures of Don Quixote” ~j 1 in/,-, a.l a.imu.ee of Ancient I iitnpt. Fuji catalogue or standard i i übiieations will be sent on request, by i 1,-.- American Book Exchange, Tribune i Building New York. Tho New York Times pti’dlshes an article written by Dr. Kerr, of Pittab irg, concerning the true nature of ■ liplilheria. Tim pith of tho paper is i condensed in a Tinies editorial, from . Abiclitbef Lowing is taken: Whatever i*hy be tho nature of the i lisease ti Uoating germ in the air, or , von a tendency toward the formation of a false membrane in the throatin its early’ stage the disease Is purely local. The membrane, which is usually spoken <>f as a fungus, can be removed by local applications. Dr. Kerr suggests a rather powerful lotion >f hydrochloric acid and glycerinie But the moment tlie membrane forms the patient’ is threatened with another iiod far mort dangerous malady. While this 'process in the tonsilsis . oing un ;i virulent poison Is distilled lii the neighborhood. /This secretion, i .in iusiguiticant amount es wqich is [ mill ■iciit to impregnate the system, passes froyi the throat into the stomach, producing acute gastritis, and thence into the ciiculation. The system becomes much Repressed; the action of t lit eart and brain is lowered, ordinarily, to the verge, and sometimes to the worst condition, of paralysis, and the patient dies, not, as 1 is supposed, from asphyxia, caused by stoppage of the air passages, but from '.he presence of a virulent poison in he blood, which impedes the bodily functions and vuonches the activity of the vital organs. The patient is in this additional plight that his system can not with proper treatment receive reinforcement in the way of new tissue, for the stomach, being greatly inflamed, is unable to assimilate-food for the replenishment of the waste that has taken place or restoie energy to throw oil the poison-. But, the morbid conditions once thoroughly understood,' treatment to correspond should not be hard to find, and Dr. Ken meets the symptoms with appropriate remedies. He dotochesthe false membrane by using the wash above named, pu.ts into the stomace a simple chemical preparation, calcined magnesia, to combine with and neutralize the diphtheritic poison, and gently removes it thro’ the natural channels. This prevents it prssing Into the circulation. Meantime he BUpborts the patient upon nutritious and uon-irritanlfood until tho crisis of tho disorder is reached, when wine, or, iiNnecessary, whisky and brandy are copiously administer ed to aid in eliminating the impuri ties and throwing ofi the c:ut«h that threatens to choke the life out of heart and brain, and with care and attention the tone returns, the poison is eliminated, the functions are naturally discharged, the membrane ceases to form, and the poisonous secretion is no longer provided.